The execrable Kristof
Terror incidents lead many Westerners to perceive Islam as inherently extremist, but I think that is too glib and simple-minded. […] One of the things I’ve learned in journalism is to beware of perceiving the world through simple narratives, because then new information is mindlessly plugged into those story lines. In my travels from Mauritania to Saudi Arabia, Pakistan to Indonesia, extremist Muslims have shared with me their own deeply held false narratives of America as an oppressive state controlled by Zionists and determined to crush Islam. That’s an absurd caricature, and we should be wary ourselves of caricaturing a religion as diverse as Islam. So let’s avoid religious profiling.
Let’s denounce terrorism, oppression and misogyny in the Islamic world — and everywhere else.
Because those “Jesus Akbar!” and “Moses Akbar” terrorists are, like, everywhere!
That’s Eric Bates blathering — former editor of Rolling Stone and now with First Look — by which we can now gauge the credibility of that “News” media.
On one hand we have the legal filing of a lawsuit over an published attack of a personal nature, on the other an act of brutal murder of twelve in the name of Allah for the offense of published cartoons attacking a non-existent person — yes, they are exactly the same!
Media: Instead of lionizing Charlie Hebdo's racism, support the cartoonists you're exploiting http://t.co/bvzBtnHyOr pic.twitter.com/ZowcUF30wN
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) January 8, 2015
Islam is a race?
Not to be left out of the Idiot Olympics, CNN’s Sally Kohn
Responding to the murder of some 12 people in a terror attack against the French satirical publication Charlie Hebdo, CNN’s Sally Kohn implied that conservatives are worse than Islamic extremists in a message she issued Wednesday on Twitter. The only “evidence” she supplied was a link to a CNN article that claimed so-called “right-wing extremists” killed more Americans than Islamists since the terror attack of September 11, 2001.
“Since 9/11, right-wing extremists (incl anti-abortion, anti-gov) have killed more Americans than Islamic extremists,” she tweeted.
Even Shepard Smith weighs in with one of the most over-used mendacity in the moral equivalency meme.
Fox News anchor Shepard Smith went on an editorial rant against those rushing to judgment and suggesting that the terrorists who massacred twelve people at Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday might be — gasp — Muslims.
“To call the kind of religious extremists who do this sort of thing Muslims seems waaaay out there, anymore than the guy who blew up the federal building in Oklahoma might be considered a Christian,” Smith said on Wednesday.
The two-decade-old Tim McVeigh reference aside (McVeigh was a lapsed Catholic who said “Science is my god”), there is just no way any sentient being could conclude that the terrorists are not Muslims who are motivated by their religious beliefs as they understand them from the Koran.
There is no excuse for such enabling of evil. None.
It’s just occured to me that we’re stilling living in a world governed by the Napier Rule (you do your custom, and then we’ll do ours), only now the ratio of force has been reversed.
We do our custom: Free Speech
They do theirs: kill speakers they disagree with
And multi-culti relativism forces us to accept it.
The seen, you’ve linked, the unseen is the MSM’s main power.
Maybe it’s time our custom was to do the same unto terrorists and their apologists.
“Free speech? If not for me, nor for thee!”
Preamble sentences, blah, blah, blah, — BUT!!! — Now I throw those nice preamble ideas in the trash because I really believe this, rah, rah, rah, me.
Israel, is there nothing they can’t do?
Between them, Bush, and Climate Change the entire universe is explained.
something not right about that Shepard boy
my only real takeaway from this particular terrorism dealio
is that it really obviously just didn’t hit at all close to home for American journalist/media people
but someday something like this will i bet
and that will be kind of interesting
Scrub, scrub, scrub…..
Greetings:
At the risk of abusing your site’s hospitality, I would like to redundantly post this previous comment.
Greetings:
I can understand your sentiment, but I’m afraid that I see these expressions as part of the “grooming” process, (similar to how pedophiles prepare their victims) that is being conducted by our Judas Goat leaders and media types.
After each new atrocity is endured, they set about like busy beavers to establish the lines within which we are cautioned to remain in our reactions. Crowd into some public spaces ??? Mmmm, okay. Make another “Cemetery withour Borders” ??? Mmmm, okay. Release the #Hashtags ??? Mmmm, okay.
But how about publishing some more pedophile prophet cartoons ??? Oh no, not that. Or how about a Kabbaah walk around the biggest mosque in old Paree ??? Oh no, not that.
Remember imperialism, colonialism, Islamophobiaism.
These Judas Goats of the West, whether wittingly or unwittingly,are leading, atrocity by atrocity, us down a path of restricted freedoms.
Moi, je suis avec Charlie Martel aussi.
If I were to shoot up a Broadway theater in retaliation for the “Book of Mormon” musical, NOT ONE of those weasels would condemn Parker & Stone for “offending a great religion” or for “racism” or for anything at all.
NOT ONE would hedge their comments with, “of course I’m against mass murder, but BoM really is awfully offensive.”
I actually don’t have a sore feeling in the world for Parker & Stone, but those evil, enabling freaks have earned some genuine loathing and contempt from me.
Also something I haven’t done for a long time: I’m siding with Hewitt over Beck.
Bill Donohue (Catholic League) wrote (emphases mine):
Hewitt ripped him a new one, and rightly so, for blaming the victim (which Donohue hotly denied).
OTOH, Beck mentioned that Donohue’s words, “Muslims have a right to be angry,” were being distored horribly. He said that Donohue is a friend of his; later today, Donohue appearead on Dana Loesch’s show. (I don’t have the stomach to hear it.)
But Glenn, Donohue is operating from some awful assumptions, the first of which is that being vulgar and offensive is an abuse of the freedom of speech. In the interview with Hewitt, he asserted that freedom of speech is something that underpins the good society or some such, when in fact it’s a tool against power and tyranny.
The second is that Charbonnier’s lack of restraint and decency was a key element in his demise. That’s blaming the victim, and nothing else in that statement vacates or almeliorates it.
The third is that we should not tolerate the type of intolerance that set off the psychopaths.
Hewitt is right: Donohue’s statement is an embarassment on its own, without any kind of misprision, malicious or otherwise.
mormons should hack nyt printing press for fun. a che with a dunce cap.
di,
I heard Hewitt’s broadcast — Hewitt caught Donohue flatfooted and the more Donohue flailed and shrieked the more profoundly stupid he looked.
and now we have the twitter exploits of this CNN nutter Jim Clancy to look upon in disgust.
One might wonder how it is that imbeciles like this fall into such highly paid employment. One ought not, since their employers are no better.
Where Can I Buy Next Week’s Issue of Charlie Hebdo?
bill donohue nigger see i said it like the niggas. eff “the catholic league”
“freedom when taken to extremes” bill donofag
I went ahead and listened to Dana Loesch’s show and she wasn’t sympathetic to that moron at all. She wasn’t as loud as Hewitt, and they didn’t get into a credentials and contacts fight, but she also gave him nowhere to go but of the stupidity cliff.
The Islamists and the radical progressive left are two sides of the same coin.
Crazy things are being done. Expect it to get worse.
That would be because, unlike with Muslims, nobody is afriad of offending Mormons. Yet.
What’s that Glenn Reynold’s says? “Incentives matter”?
Di,
That thought crossed my mind as well. I’m also eagerly [not] awaiting the bien-pensants thoughtful murmurs about how Serrano’s “Piss Christ” really crosses the line.
…well looky here. http://m.christianpost.com/news/piss-christ-photo-removed-by-ap-after-journalist-points-out-double-standard-for-not-publishing-offensive-charlie-hebdo-islam-cartoon–132289/
Notice that they balanced the scales of the double standard by doing that which incurs exactly zero risk.
Brave Sir AP, is what.
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I’m perfectly willing to grant that Muslims have the right to feel offended and angry. What I’m still struggling with is the connection between the right to be angry and the right to murder an office full of cartoonists. I’m offended and angered by 95% of the crap that comes out of Washington; would I get the “yes, but” treatment from everybody if I started gunning down Congressional aides?
Not that I ever would, mind you. Because Capitol Hill is so very respectful of those of us who protest peacefully…
which aides you have in mind?