Suicide Bomber Attack On Pakistan Church

Headlines Of The Day

When I started the day today (9/22/2013) this headline or similar headlines were shown prominently in my web browser. The headlines did not say a Christian church and they did not say a temple or a mosque or other house of worship.

Hiding Christianity

You had to read at least two or three lines into these articles to get the confirmation that it was indeed a Christian church that was brutally attacked. Why is it that Western media dare not say a Christian church? This would have nothing to do with stirring up emotions.

Hiding The Taliban

From reading into the USA Today article, one quickly learns that the Taliban claimed responsibility for this event. Why is this not mentioned in the headline. There was not enough space?

Further Decline Of Professionalism

I thought it was a professional standard to capture in the headline the essence of what the article is about. These headlines are more about concealment or cowardness.

Expression Of Moral Relativism?

Are these headlines a sign of moral relativism? USA Today also reported in the same article in the first and second paragraph (emphasis added):

“A wing of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombing in the city of Peshawar, saying it would continue to target non-Muslims until the United States stopped drone attacks in the country's remote tribal region.

The latest drone strike came Sunday, when missiles hit a pair of compounds in the North Waziristan tribal area, killing six suspected militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said.”

OK, I get it! We bombed them, so they understandably bomb us in return. 

Unfortunately, there are huge differences in using suicide killers to deliberately and indiscriminately bomb an innocent minority (incl. children, elders, women) living in a hostile environment coming out of church and targeted drone attacks.