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The Mainstream Media’s Multifarious Mental Junk
Jihad Watch ^ | Dec 7, 2015 | Hugh Fitzgerald

Posted on 12/07/2015 9:39:41 PM PST by Ray76

I have been watching, listening to, and reading all the multifarious mental junk that has been on offer on NPR and on CNN and on Fox, and at The Times and The Post and tutti quanti, and witnessing all these sudden scholars of terrorism, ranging from tough-guy ex-FBI agents to left-wing Democrats alike, offering every conceivable variety of obfuscation, misdirection, incomprehension, sheer nonsense - such as placing blame for the San Bernardino jihad terror attack on the "gun lobby." This is because in this case the Muslim murderers in question used guns, so let's all concentrate on the instrument used for the mass murder, and pay no attention to the ideology that prompted that particular use of that instrument.

I have heard repeatedly how what the heavy-lidded couple did "was a political act and had nothing to do with religion"; heard how they were "radicalized" here or there or possibly over there - though what that word "radicalized" would mean, i.e., following faithfully the dictates of Islam, no one seems interested in discussing.

No one should be embarrassed, much less apologetic, for daring to consider the evidence of his senses.

The West is now imperiled [] mostly from an ideological pressure brought from within, and not by military pressure from without. [] But there are also those who wish to protect it from its present-day most dangerous enemies, those who have not lost their senses, those who refuse to make burnt offerings of themselves or their children on the Altars of the Idols of the Age, Tolerance and Diversity – a limitless and unintelligent and even suicidal "Tolerance," a diseased conception of "Diversity." The latter group must regard with alarm and disgust the irresponsibility of the media coverage that has followed the San Bernardino murders.

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TOPICS: Politics; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: islam
Full title: Hugh Fitzgerald: The Mainstream Media’s Multifarious Mental Junk
1 posted on 12/07/2015 9:39:41 PM PST by Ray76
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To: Ray76

What benefit does Islam provide to Western Civ?


2 posted on 12/07/2015 9:44:28 PM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: Paladin2

The same benefit Islam provides to humanity: nothing.


3 posted on 12/07/2015 9:46:18 PM PST by Ray76
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To: Ray76

I think if you used the term “brain-washed” instead of radicalized....the slanted argument that the intellectual guys use would dissolve right away.


4 posted on 12/07/2015 9:47:22 PM PST by pepsionice
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To: Ray76

5 posted on 12/07/2015 9:52:28 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: pepsionice

Maybe the term ‘activated’ would clarify things for the mental clouds of BS swirling around the obvious. With the idea that any muzzie is capable of going off on the full doctrine of the death cult at any time. Most likely there are more “normal” “families” prepping to hand off the kids and go serve the demon.


6 posted on 12/07/2015 9:56:53 PM PST by bluejean (The lunatics are running the asylum)
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7 posted on 12/07/2015 9:58:33 PM PST by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: Ray76

Thank you. A fabulous article.


8 posted on 12/07/2015 10:06:14 PM PST by Jukeman (God help us for we are deeper in trouble.)
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To: Ray76

My favorite take so far - the fundamentalist Muslim male took his lead from the fundamentalist Muslim female.

What?


9 posted on 12/07/2015 10:22:43 PM PST by volunbeer
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