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CNN Explores Religious Fundamentalism
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Posted on 08/19/2007 9:39:18 PM PDT by doesnt suffer fools gladly

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1 posted on 08/19/2007 9:39:19 PM PDT by doesnt suffer fools gladly
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"To the West, martyrdom has a really bad connotation because of suicide bombers who call themselves martyrs," she said. "Really, martyrdom is actually something that historically was quite noble

Call me closed-minded, I couldn't take this raving idiot seriously after this point.

2 posted on 08/19/2007 9:42:41 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Any Republicans around here?)
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly

Will she investigate radical liberalism?


3 posted on 08/19/2007 9:43:44 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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If CNN produced a hit piece on Fidel Castro, we'll take back calling them the "Communist News Network." I wouldn't hold my breath though for them to air it.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

4 posted on 08/19/2007 9:46:01 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly; WKB; NYer; wagglebee
In noting how girls at some BattleCry events are encouraged to wear long dresses, Amanpour asks the group's leader how it is different from the Taliban.

One is about modesty, and the other is about oppression.

One is encouraged; the other is inflicted.

I hope she gets that right.

5 posted on 08/19/2007 9:47:43 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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Yeah, wait until the muslims find their Mahdi. Then Amanpour can write a good column about why she shouldn’t be decapitated.


6 posted on 08/19/2007 9:48:37 PM PDT by struggle ((The struggle continues))
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Who has the pictures for:

“Everything I need to know about Islam I learned on 9/11”

?


7 posted on 08/19/2007 9:49:02 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie
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Wasn’t Tokyo Rose put to death? I forget...


8 posted on 08/19/2007 9:49:14 PM PDT by 14themunny
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"Really, martyrdom is actually something that historically was quite noble, because it was about standing up and rejecting tyranny, rejecting injustice and rejecting oppression and, if necessary, dying for that."

Killing innocents is not martyrdom. it's terrorism.

9 posted on 08/19/2007 9:49:59 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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I have no clue, nor have I any idea why that would be relevant.


10 posted on 08/19/2007 9:50:44 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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11 posted on 08/19/2007 9:51:05 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie
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“I hope she gets that right.”

She got it right the first time but was intentionally provocative - it’s a matter of Christian baiting.


12 posted on 08/19/2007 9:51:19 PM PDT by 353FMG
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“In noting how girls at some BattleCry events are encouraged to wear long dresses, Amanpour asks the group’s leader how it is different from the Taliban.”

Christians point you to a Bible to teach modesty.

Muslims point a gun at you guarantee modesty.

Understand, Christianna?


13 posted on 08/19/2007 9:53:25 PM PDT by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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“”I did come away with a sense that we - or those people who don’t want to see religion in politics and culture - if we don’t look into it and see what is going on, we’re in danger of missing it and not be able to react to it properly,” she said. “

No bias there. /sarcasm

Memo to Miss Amanapour — Politics and culture minus religion equals communism. That worked out really well for Russia.


15 posted on 08/19/2007 9:59:40 PM PDT by tdewey10 (Can we please take out iran's nuclear capability before they start using it?)
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The Iranian Amanpour posits moral equivalence between conservative Christians and the Islamic savages who explode car bombs in crowded markets. CNN is dishonest. So is AP.
16 posted on 08/19/2007 10:15:06 PM PDT by Godwin1
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These leftists are so feeble-minded, it’s tough not to pitty them. If they weren’t playing such high stakes poker here, that’s about all I’d do, pitty them. The truth is though, they are playing for keeps, and we better not lose sight of that.

Amanpour’s power of discernment is non-existant. At no time in history has indescriminant killing been noble. It wasn’t noble in 500 BC. It wasn’t noble in 1500 AD. It’s not noble today.

The acts she thinks were noble, are today forbidden by the Geneva Convention, something she and her fellow travelers seem to think is very important when panties appear on heads. But when it comes to mass murder of innocent men, women and children completely unknown to the attacker, it’s just a tactic that has fallen out of favor. Wow!

CNN, in fact the whole leftist Marxist movement in the United States (and outside as well), has contracted an illness. Reasoned productive modern states that follow the rules are bad. Whacked out terrorist orgainizations that kill thousands for little or no reason at all, are good.

Beheadings, dismemberments by detonations in shopping centers, the destroying of religous icons and churches, the call to kill every last man woman and child of one nationality, it’s all okay. Why in olden times, this would have been viewed to be noble.

Amanpour, you’re not just a poor excuse for a reasoned reporter, you’re a disgusting excuse for a human being, and ultimately, you fail the test if this is truly what you believe.

Six hours of this tripe...? Fat chance I’ll be watching it. But then maybe I should. The whole world should know what these traitors are thinking. If they’re brazen enough to present it to the adult populace, you can rest assured they are doing their damndest to shove it down our kids throats at our schools and universities.


17 posted on 08/19/2007 10:18:26 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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No. Tokyo Rose died within the last few months. In one of Chicago’s “ethnically diverse”—Asian—neighborhoods. She lived in Rep Rahm Emmanuel’s district. Was probably a good Democrat.


18 posted on 08/19/2007 10:19:12 PM PDT by Godwin1
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To: Darkwolf377

bttt


19 posted on 08/19/2007 11:31:19 PM PDT by Matchett-PI (The 'RAT Party - Home of our most envious, hypocritical, and greedy citizens.)
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I really couldn't get any deeper into that article. ALL news media seem to be about ONE thing now--making us "see that we're all alike under the skin."

What crap. I would support a news media that tell it like it is, even if the answers make me uncomfortable. Instead, none wants to risk their ad dollars, so they push this pap which might as well be called "The Christians and Jews Are Just As Bad!"

That line about how we silly Westerners have so msunderstood martyrdom is laughable--martyrdom is about killing yourself for a reason, NOT about killing innocents for NO reason other than as a way to get to "Paradise". How is that self-sacrifice, Amanpour, you moron?

20 posted on 08/19/2007 11:37:14 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Any Republicans around here?)
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