Killing Madonna
I’m reading more of Spiced Sass these days . Here’ s a post on the slaying of Madonna by a Jewish extremist.
“...Madonna was cycling from her house to her production company when she was intercepted by her killer… shortly before 9am on 2 November last year.The attacker shot four times before Madonna fell or jumped off her bicycle. Madonna ran across the road with the killer in pursuit, again firing his weapon.
...Madonna fell on the bicycle path and pleaded for mercy, asking the man to stop shooting.
Witnesses described how the man shot Madonna again from a distance of about half a metre. He then produced a large knife and cut Madonna’s throat before plunging the knife into her chest. He then took a smaller knife from a bag he was carrying and used it to pin a letter to Madonna’s body.” [...] “..the murder was in part designed as a warning to all who defiled the Jewish religion.”
Zee, the writer, uses one of my favorite rhetorical devices: substituting elements of a story to see if our opinions change. It’ s one of the best tools to discern bias, and has strengthened some of my opinions, but changed many more.
I too have commented on the death of Theo Van Gogh, and the apparent lack of interest of his death by the media, most recently here. While Van Gogh did not have nearly the level of celebrity that Madonna has, one wonders how much of the silence is do to the celebrity of the killer and the tacit support of his religion.
I do not believe that all religions are the same in the same way that I do not believe that all people are the same. When I see Episcopalians setting off car bombs, or Hassidim beheading civilians, maybe I’ll change my mind.
