Why the double standards?

[anotheoldgit]

http://tinyurl.com/35hvs6k

I recently posted a question asking why the burning of flags outside the US embassy by approx.100 Muslims, none of whom got arrested, got no coverage on the British media.

Yet this report by the Guardian, which reports on on only seven EDL supporters, who travelled to New York to peacefully protest against the proposed building of a mosque near to 'Ground Zero', was not similarly covered up.

One will notice that there are no flag burnings, no offensive banners and no burning of effigies, by these protesters, but the leader of the EDL Tony Robinson was refused entry at JFK airport, taken into custody and flown straight back to the UK,

Their only crime according to Guardian

/// The contingent was pictured holding banners incorporating St George's cross, Israel's flag and the US stars and stripes, as well as the slogans "No Mosque at Ground Zero", "The more Islam, the less freedom", "No Sharia", and "No Surrender". They wore EDL T-shirts sporting the group's crusader shield logo. ///

How dare they, I hear you shout.

Double standards, spring to mind.

[jno]

perhaps the papers think the USA turning back Britons for wearing the wrong T-shirts is a more important story than Muslim extremists carrying out a publicity stunt?

[ludwig]

This doesn't really answer your question Oldgit, but I think the American authorities were right to turn them back.

I mean, what the F business of the EDL is it, to poke their nose into what's essentially an issue for New Yorkers?.
Surely you can appreciate their reasonable desire to keep publicity seeking foreign troublemakers from stirring things up any more than they already have been.

[ludwig]

And to answer the question, the EDL story is just a bit more interesting. Let's face it, there's always some muslim fanatics burning something, somewhere. A flag or an effigy or something. It's just not that newsworthy.

[sandyRoe]

The Americans seem to have enough eejits of their own without importing some of ours.