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Who recently issued statements characterizing their national media in the following manner:
"...for promoting obscenity, irreligiousness, foreign culture and nudity,"
and:
"...an intelligence network opposing our national unity and our religious and national values."?
Was it, a) The Republican Party, or b) Taliban?
Answer: b) The Taliban
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/taliban-claims-responsibility-targeting-tolo-tv-workers-n500971
No one can argue that there is any difference between the Taliban and the current incarnation of the American conservative movement.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)I could have sworn that it was 'c', all the above.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)As devout Muslims, the Taliban pray several times a day. Your average fundie saves it all up for 11 o'clock on Sunday morning.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Many of the churches down here have Sunday evening and esp. Wed. night meetings.
To the extent that one knows not to schedule other activities on Wed. nights.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)December 4, 2015
Marc Belisle
In the space of less than a week, the United States experienced two completely unrelated, yet similar, terrorist attacks. Robert Dear shot up a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs on November 27, killing three and wounding nine. Syed Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, blasted away an office party at a regional center in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 and wounding 21, on December 2.
Both Dear and Farook were American citizens. Both were apparently motivated by an extremist religious ideology. Dear is a radical evangelist who had a history of intimidating people with his extreme Christian views. Malik pledged allegiance to ISIS (DAESH) the morning of their attack.
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Yet, American right wing news used the two attacks to obfuscate the religious motivations of Dear and condemn Islam generally in the case of Farook and Malik. Fox News, the frothy bullhorn of Americas conservative media, provides a perfect example. On Friday, Foxs lead headline was: TERRORISM HITS HOME: FBI finally calls investigation into Southern Cal massacre an act of terrorism; female gunman took online oath to ISIS chief
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Foxs handling of Farooks and Maliks shooting contrasts starkly with its reporting on Dears shooting of a Planned Parenthood. Fox repeatedly referred to Dear as the gunman and did not mention his religion or discuss terrorism as a possibility. It only briefly stated that it was not clear if his motive was related to the organization. This statement was preposterous on its face. The article then speculated about Dears mental health.
The article described the police officer, Garrett Swasey, who was murdered by Dear, as a courageous man and loving father who drew strength and inspiration from his Christian faith. While this is perfectly reasonable coverage of a shooting victim, its juxtaposition with reporting that pretends that no religious motive for the attacks could exist, is a way of obfuscating the radicalism that drove Dear. When a shooter is a Muslim radical, Fox blames Islam. When the shooter is a Christian radical, Fox fawns over Christianity.
read more: http://reverbpress.com/news/us/fox-news-tells-two-radically-different-stories-two-american-extremists/