When you take a stand, you stir up a dust storm

A number of locales have been in the news the last few days: Paris, Davos, Iowa, to name a few.

Leipzig should be one of them.  Oliver Lane at Breitbart has an in-depth report on the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA) demonstrations occurring there.  Media bias is a major element in the big picture of what's occurring.

A young Eritrean was murdered, and the European press rushed to raise suspicions that bigotry against Muslims was involved.  The actual story is a bit different:

Despite the fact police have now recovered the murder weapon, that Khaled’s former flat-mate, a fellow Eritrean has confessed to the crime, and “significant” amounts of drugs are said to be involved, the story has been dropped like a hot stone by the English-speaking media. Two days after the confession, and you’d hardly know from the mainstream British press: clearly mud sticks in a country which is still apologising for the early 20thcentury.

And the media depiction of PEGIDA as a throng of fire-breathing rabble-rousers is a deliberate clouding of the actual facts:

Outside the central railway station I meet a group of left wing school-age students. They are friendly, polite, and laugh about their journey to Leipzig, one of them carrying a sign that reads “Respect For Negroes”. When I ask them if they are concerned about the possibility of violence during the protest, the mood darkens. With complete sincerity one tells me they are desperate to fight PEGIDA and the police, remarking “we are ready”.

And fight they did:

I witness casualties lain out on the platforms of the tram station, the police searching and arresting dozens of young activists. A particularly large firework explodes outside the station just a dozen yards from where I am standing, and for a few moments the grand façade is shrouded in smoke. Later in the evening I speak to a group of police officers guarding the station and without hesitation one tells me all of the explosives and bottles thrown that evening were by the left-wing counter protesters.

The West's dire dilemma distilled on the streets of one city:  Those alarmed by their culture's rot from without facing the rocks and explosives of the other enemy, the one advancing the rot from within.   And the alarmed party doing its best to carry on with dignity and civilized conviction.

Every town is Ferguson now.