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by Ari Lieberman
May 5, 2015
Last night, two heavily armed gunmen….were shot and killed by alert police after they opened fire on an unarmed security guard assigned to protect a First Amendment, Free Speech event in Garland Texas…AFDI hosted the event to underscore a core American belief enshrined in the United States Constitution that Americans have a broad, inalienable right to free speech so long as others are not directly endangered by that speech. But the New York Times saw it differently and couldn’t help but take an unfair swipe at the AFDI. On May 4, the paper ran the following headline; “Official Identifies One Suspect in Attack at Texas Anti-Islam Event,”….Last week, the New York Times ran [another] equally deceptive headline that merged and confused cause and effect. The article, written by Diaa Hadid, a virulently anti-Israeli reporter, featured a headline simply noting that Israeli police officers killed two Palestinian men. Absent from the headline was the fact that those Palestinian men were actually terrorists who, armed with hatchet and knives, went on a stabbing rampage with the aim of killing as many Jews as possible. READ MORE