Why this event didn't make the mainstream news?

Question

Alia Ansari, a Muslim mother, was gunned down last week in Fremont, California, as she walked with her 3-year-old. While on her way to the elementary school to pick up her other children, a man stepped out of his car and shot her in the head. Alia Ansari died on the sidewalk still clutching the hand of her daughter.

There appears to be no apparent motive for this crime, except for the fact that she was a Muslim woman wearing the traditional hijab (scarf) on her head.

http://www.americasmuslimfamily.com/AliaAnsari/alia_ansari.html

Answer 1

I dont know,That is terrible.

Answer 2

This was a tragedy. I feel terrible for her family and espescially her children. I ran a google search and found very little official follow up. Why do you think this was motivated by hate of Islam ?

It is an ugly truth that random murders do occur. Until proven otherwise, it is just a call to incite further unrest to label this as a hate crime don't you think ?

Answer 3

On average, 42.5 people are murdered each day in the United States. Sadly, not all of them even make the local news let alone the mainstream news.

An average of 118.4 Americans die each day in car crashes, an average of one a day dies due to weather, and .2 dies due to plane crash (averages based on total for a year divided by days in a year)

So 162.2 Americans die, on average, each day. With only a half hour to report the goings on of the entire world, news producers are going to be selective in what they choose to air.

Answer 4

For the same reason that Muslims killing Christians in Muslim nations doesn't make the news. The news organizations have no interest in religion. (Unless someone is abusing their position.)

Answer 5

Well,guess what.This story wasn't reported in the mainstream news in the West either:

On October 2nd at 2:30 p.m., Lorans Wageah Emeel, a 15-year-old Christian girl, was kidnapped by Muslims in the Egyptian city of El Mahala Al Kobra, about 60 miles north of Cairo. The incident was publicized by El Tareek, the only Arabic Christian newspaper in the Middle East. It is reported that the abductors are trying to force Lorans, a student of Saida Nafesa High School in El Mahalla Al Kobra, to deny Christ and accept Islam.

At approximately 10:30 a.m. Cairo time, on October 3rd, the Emeel family gathered around the El Mahala Al Kobra police station, pleading with the officers to return Lorans to them. Her parents accused a Muslim man of kidnapping their daughter at 2:30 in the afternoon and filed a police report at the station.

Under the cover of night at 10:00 on October 3rd, kidnapped Christian teenager, Lorans, managed to escape from her Muslim captors, who drugged and threatened to rape her if she refused Islam, before abducting her from a public bus, according to Compass Direct. While the terrorists were taking a break from a Ramadan fast, Lorans broke out of her detention room located in Helwan, a suburb just south of Cairo. It is also reported that Lorans’ father received the following text messages during the abduction: “The girl is not accepting easily, but she will embrace Islam for sure,” and “Take the rest of your daughters and leave the city, or you will lose them one by one.” Prior to reuniting with her family, State Security Investigation officials told Lorans that if she did not deny the kidnapping, she would never see her parents again.

The kidnapping of Christian teenage girls in Muslim nations has reached into the thousands. Many are forced through physical violence to convert to Islam. Other girls are often lured into becoming Muslims with promises of material wealth. The Voice of the Martyrs sponsors safe houses in Islamic countries to protect Christian teenage girls who have been threatened with or have escaped from abduction. These Christian refuges are also places where young women learn job skills and receive spiritual training.

Sounds peaceful,doesn't it?And there was also the man who may be executed under Sharia law for converting to Christianity from Islam.Please know that I am not trying to negate what happened to this woman or the persecution Muslims face (it is despicable that anyone would shoot at a woman simply because she was wearing her hijab),but there are many incidents of persecution (like the true story above) that are happening to Christians too.

Answer 6

Things like this don't make the news because they don't want
copycat killings, which would mean more muslims would get
hurt. Use your NUT!

Answer 7

Sure it was not a mainstream news because the dead was a muslim. Had she been a christian, the news would not have left the CNN or FOX for 2 days.

Answer 8

I guess the shooter thought that by eliminating the breeding factory he might eliminate the creation of a few murdering terrorists.

Answer 9

the media picks out what it wants...unless it did not happen the way you say, but i give you the benefit of the doubt....there is also terrorist cell activity in the USA all time, but the media does not report that either....one way or the other, murder is wrong, so you have my condolences...

Answer 10

Because the Government did want us to know....most likely...

Answer 11

I'm not sure, but that's a horrible story. I hope they track down that guy and bring him to justice.