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Headline Style Rules At The Taipei Times “Newspaper”

Rule #1: The inventor of the Islamic religion is universally-recognized as the final messenger of the One True God™, and must therefore always be referred to as the Prophet Mohammed.

(That's prophet, with a capital "P"!)

Rule #2: Doubt must always be cast upon the possibility that a member of the Religion Of Peace™ can ever engage in terrorism.

A Muslim slays two policewomen by slashing them across their throats, then shooting them in the head with their own guns? He then slays a civilian man passing by with said guns, drenching the victim's own mother with her son's blood? And all the while crying, "Allahu Ackbar"?

At the Taipei Times, that's not terrorism. Why, no, no, no. To the Islamapologists at the Taipei Times, that's merely "terrorism".

 Sneer quotes in such cases are always de rigueur. 

Bye Bye Johnny

While living in Taiwan, I was a big fan of Johnny Neihu in the Taipei Times.  Breezy, well-written stuff.  So I was very saddened to read last week that his weekly column has come to an end.

I'm sort of scratching my head over his final piece for the Times, though.  I know he's saying something beneath the surface, but it's all a bit impenetrable to me.  Whatever it is, my condolences on the death of your mother, Johnny.

Bye bye.

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