6 years ago :: Jan 30, 2012 - 11:22PM #1 | |
A topical issue for this board if there was one. Why is there so much willful misinformation being spread about Islam? How is this campaign being funded and who supports it? Disclaimer: The opinions of this member are not primarily informed by western ethnocentric paradigms, stereotypes rooted in anti-Muslim/Islam hysteria, "Israel can do no wrong" intransigence, or the perceived need to protect the Judeo-Christian world from invading foreign religions and legal concepts. By expressing such views, no inherent attempt is being made to derail or hijack threads, but that may be the result. The result is not the responsibility of this member.![]() ![]() |
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6 years ago :: Jan 30, 2012 - 11:45PM #2 | |
Max Blumenthal... He works for the progressive organization Media Matters for America. So he is a left wing, liberal activist. check him out thoroughly at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Blumenthal Bkumenthal is a bright guy who presents his own agenda very well. that's a compliment by the way. I don't have to agree with someone's point of view (and I mostly disagree with Blumenthal on everything) to admire their ability to express themselves. It's a great video, Miraj, and well chosen to support your position. Ken
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6 years ago :: Jan 30, 2012 - 11:58PM #3 | |
From the day of its inception, I was a die-hard, watch all day Fox News fan. A couple of years ago, its anti-Islam trend was becoming too hard to watch. My baby brother, Ki, a hard-line conservative Christian, asked me one day why I tortured myself in that way. Didn't I want to watch networks that had people who looked like me and stood up for my rights instead? He was right. I opened my mind up to aspects of the Left that are more concerned with my interests. They are not perfect, but they are not spreading hate about me either. Disclaimer: The opinions of this member are not primarily informed by western ethnocentric paradigms, stereotypes rooted in anti-Muslim/Islam hysteria, "Israel can do no wrong" intransigence, or the perceived need to protect the Judeo-Christian world from invading foreign religions and legal concepts. By expressing such views, no inherent attempt is being made to derail or hijack threads, but that may be the result. The result is not the responsibility of this member.![]() ![]() |
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6 years ago :: Jan 31, 2012 - 12:29AM #4 | |
This is a trailer from a Current Network production "Islamophobia". I've seen the entire film. It's pretty powerful.
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6 years ago :: Jan 31, 2012 - 12:35AM #5 | |
Now that's a good point, Miraj. As a conservative and libertarian I absoluely cannot watch MSNBC without wanting to shoot the TV. I do prefer FOX, but CNN is OK too, for me. And I don't relate viscerally to things about religion at all, including my own...but then we Episcopalians are very rarely picked on. It's important that we constantly separate Muslims and Islam from those who embarrass Muslims and Islam by actions that are just not Islamic. Too often, that does not happen. Ken
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6 years ago :: Jan 31, 2012 - 12:42AM #6 | |
The Terror Industry and Anti-Jihadism, Who Benefits?Norman Finkelstein coined the phrase the “Holocaust industry” in his book of the same name, to describe the nexus of Jewish groups, lawyers, politicians, and communal leaders who enrich their power and pocketbook by trumpeting the anti-Semitism threat and causing anxiety and paranoia among world Jewry as a result. As a result of Finkelstein’s acute analysis, he’s earned outrage and scorn from those in the Jewish community who he has skewered. For the past decade or more, since the 1990s demise of the Communist “menace” and its accompanying gravy train, neocons have turned to terror as their new bogeyman. A new Terror Industry has sprung up and it is populated with the usual retired generals (William Boykin), former government officials (Bolton, Gaffney), corporate opportunists (Aubrey Chernick), ideologues and intellectual heavy-lifters (Pipes, Horowitz, Podhoretz, Peretz, Kristol). Just as the Jefferson’s tree of liberty needed to be fed with the blood of tyrants, so the Terror apparatus needs to be fed with new political fodder. Such is the effort led by Jewish pro-Israel neocons to turn anti-jihadism into the Terror Industry’s new mantra. Continued at the link. Disclaimer: The opinions of this member are not primarily informed by western ethnocentric paradigms, stereotypes rooted in anti-Muslim/Islam hysteria, "Israel can do no wrong" intransigence, or the perceived need to protect the Judeo-Christian world from invading foreign religions and legal concepts. By expressing such views, no inherent attempt is being made to derail or hijack threads, but that may be the result. The result is not the responsibility of this member.![]() ![]() |
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6 years ago :: Jan 31, 2012 - 12:44AM #7 | |
Disclaimer: The opinions of this member are not primarily informed by western ethnocentric paradigms, stereotypes rooted in anti-Muslim/Islam hysteria, "Israel can do no wrong" intransigence, or the perceived need to protect the Judeo-Christian world from invading foreign religions and legal concepts. By expressing such views, no inherent attempt is being made to derail or hijack threads, but that may be the result. The result is not the responsibility of this member.![]() ![]() |
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6 years ago :: Jan 31, 2012 - 12:55AM #8 | |
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6 years ago :: Jan 31, 2012 - 1:08AM #9 | |
I knew, and I suppose I could still say I know General Boykin. He was a fine soldier. His politics didn't affect things when I was serving. But later on, and well after my retirement in 1992, he got weird, in my opinion. I'm not a West Point graduate, but I don't think given his recent positions he's the kind of speaker who should address the Corps of Cadets. So I'm glad he won't be doing that. Ken
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6 years ago :: Jan 31, 2012 - 1:09AM #10 | |
Until he dropped out under questionable circumstances, Herman Cain was hero of the right in this season's presidential campaign. Nevermind that he has a bit of a problem with the US Constitution. Disclaimer: The opinions of this member are not primarily informed by western ethnocentric paradigms, stereotypes rooted in anti-Muslim/Islam hysteria, "Israel can do no wrong" intransigence, or the perceived need to protect the Judeo-Christian world from invading foreign religions and legal concepts. By expressing such views, no inherent attempt is being made to derail or hijack threads, but that may be the result. The result is not the responsibility of this member.![]() ![]() |
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