ABC Blames Bush, 'Ignorant' Americans for 'Islamophobia'

ABC News/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[Michael Goldsberry]

but extremism is never the solution.

[Obie Wan]

The third woman in the bottom picture isn't covering her face.Find her and cut her head off !!!

[rlmorel]

Great point.

They make it sound like people are afraid of Muslims SIMPLY because they are different and just don't understand them.

As you put it so well, there are many peoples, groups and nationalities we completly do not understand, yet we do not have a smidgen of fear towards them.

Must be that building exploding, airliner crashing, head sawing, pizza parlor bombing, mob-driven corpse dismembering, hostage taking stuff that does it.

Other than that, people don't seem to have any issue at all with Islam.

Liberals are the greatest danger to the well being of our country, even more so than Islamofascists. With Islamofascists, at least you can attempt to defend yourself. With liberals, they attempt to deny you not ony the tools to defend yourself, but the very RIGHT and the WILL to defend yourself.

And then they try to make you hate yourself for wanting to engage in what is an intelligent rational activity, that is, Self Defense.

[gotribe]

islamophobia = caring for my family

[trebb]

Let's imagine, for example, that 19 Jews had flown planes into iconic buildings in, say, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan - or France, for that matter. What do you think would befall any Jews daring to remain in any of those countries, as a matter of official policy and/or public reaction?

I just love the "Let's imagine..." deals. They never understand that not only did Jews not do that, but Jews aren't going around bombing innocent civiians, tossing rockets into civiliand neighborhoods, forcing others to become Jews at the point of a gun, cutting off the heads of "infidels", etc....

[layman]

America really just doesn't understand the religion at all

Actually, I understand the religion quite well. The thing I don't understand is how anyone can believe that the insane rantings of Mohammad were inspired by 'Allah'.

[rlmorel]

Good God. Did that idiot really say that?

It is almost like explaining away fear and loathing of John Wayne Gacy by saying "Let's imagine, for example, that 19 Kindergarten Teachers dressed in clown costumes lured young boys and girls to their houses, captured, dismembered and ate them..."

Comments from idiots like this in the MSM are the main reason why I do not watch television, I do not watch the news and I do not read the newspapers.

And it is also why I feel safer when I hear the NYT or Boston Globe are laying off workers, or that network viewership continues to drop.

[Bahbah]

"...America is not Islamophobic, it really just doesn't understand the religion at all."

Oh yes it does.

[3AngelaD]

You want Islamophobia? Make them all leave the country, ban them from all airline flights, then get back to me.

[jonrick46]

If you want to learn about phobia, listen to the rhetoric coming from the Islamo-fascists and their Muslim leaders. Somebody at ABC had better get real!

[popdonnelly]

I suppose all these violent people committing terrorist acts is not a cause of "Islamophobia".

[IronJack]

The only "Islamophobia" story to be told about 9/11 is the one that DIDN'T happen. Americans being the docile, tolerant creatures they are, no mosques were burned, no towelheads lynched -- no matter how vocal they were in their support of the outrage -- no Caucasian snipers took up position along interstate highways and started picking off anyone of Middle Eastern extraction.

But there HAVE been plenty of additional murders of innocents by Muslim terrorists: the Madrid train bombings, the London commuter bus bombings, the Beslan school massacre, the Beltway snipers, Bali, Lebanon, the daily box score from Baghdad ...

So if any culture has a right to complain about its treatment at the hands of another, wouldn't that right belong to the West, which has been a victim of these vermin for more than half a century now?

[harrowup]

Ha!

We lived in Washington's Crossing many eons ago...

...and that guy doesn't look a bit like Sinjin Terrell !!!

[JOHANNES801]

What happened in the past to black Americans was all wrong but what is about to happen to muslims in this country will be 100% correct.Their heathen religion makes any who beleives in it an animal.

[longtermmemmory]

Imagine what hitler would have done with "Germanophobia"

Imagine what hitler would have done with "civil rights".

[FreeRep]

People need to wake up to the menace, yes, click the picture, good site.

[Doc Savage]

Said it before, say it again. That cuddly lovely little Muslim family down the street will, when the Muslims take over America, come knowcking on your door with the unfortunate information that he has been instructed to decapitate you and f*ck your wife and daughters before disemboweling them, because if he doesn't, his fellow Muslim Islamofascist moron masters will do exactly that to him and his family.

I've said it from the start. Start the deportation of all Muslims in this country. They are the real enemy and can not be entrusted with citizenship. Shut down all Mosques in this country. Pull out all our troops and Nuke Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, North Korea. Mention to Chavez and Castro that they're next!

And defy anyone to do anything about it!

[Eastbound]

Not a fear of, but a hatred for. Don't confuse the two lest you get caught in the crossfire, Finkel fink.

[Dionysius]

Great! Now ABC can explain my equally virulent Libophobia.

[JOHANNES801]

I like the way you think.