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Media 'Cringe' That Mass Killer a Muslim Since It 'Inflames' Right Wing, 'That Makes It Much Worse'
NewsBusters.org ^ | November 7, 2009 - 14:33 ET | Brent Baker

Posted on 11/08/2009 6:23:44 AM PST by TexasCajun

Newsweek's Evan Thomas regretted the Fort Hood mass murderer, Major Nidal Hasan, is a Muslim because of how that reality will be abused by conservatives. On this weekend's Inside Washington, Thomas, now Editor at Large with Newsweek after stints as Assistant Managing Editor and Washington bureau chief, rued:

I cringe that he's a Muslim. I mean, because it inflames all the fears. I think he's probably just a nut case. But with that label attached to him, it will get the right wing going and it just -- I mean these things are tragic, but that makes it much worse.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: islamobama; justanut; nidalmalikhasan; obamabinbiden; sodomhusseinobama; terroist
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1 posted on 11/08/2009 6:23:44 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: TexasCajun
Your Typical Libtard:



2 posted on 11/08/2009 6:26:01 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: TexasCajun
it will get the right wing going

So he's saying all left- wings are terrorists lovers ?

3 posted on 11/08/2009 6:29:12 AM PST by TribalPrincess2U (demonicRATS... taxes, pain and slow death. Is this what you want?)
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To: TexasCajun
Radical Islam is an insane murder cult; moderate Islam is its Trojan Horse in the West.
4 posted on 11/08/2009 6:30:24 AM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

Certainly enablers.


5 posted on 11/08/2009 6:30:39 AM PST by nomad
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To: TexasCajun

Reality is such a bitch for these morons...


6 posted on 11/08/2009 6:31:03 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: TexasCajun

People are dead and wounded, Evan. How exactly can we make that worse?


7 posted on 11/08/2009 6:31:59 AM PST by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?)...R.I.P.)
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To: T-Bird45

Couldnt have said it better.......


8 posted on 11/08/2009 6:33:20 AM PST by texanyankee
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To: TexasCajun
I think he's probably just a nut case.

Not much thinking from Evan Thomas. Head in the sand/up his rear end is so appropriate, TexasCajun.

A propagandist covering for a jihadist or just an ignorant idiot?

9 posted on 11/08/2009 6:33:53 AM PST by PGalt
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To: Travis McGee

Exactly. And the left would stab their eyes with picks to avoid seeing it.


10 posted on 11/08/2009 6:34:29 AM PST by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: nomad
Media 'Cringe' That Mass Killer a Muslim Since It 'Inflames' Right Wing, 'That Makes It Much Worse'

The media should cringe that there's a major world religion that makes the maiming and extermination of Christians and Jews (and other infidels) an article of faith (used in the sense of something commanded by the originator of the religion as well as many other leaders subsequently). Do they think they're safe while sucking down some brewskies with their same sex partner because they've written some articles about the "right wing" is inflamed by mass killings by folks who just happen to be Muslim?
11 posted on 11/08/2009 6:35:28 AM PST by aruanan
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To: TexasCajun

Idiot HATE-Filled liberals will never address this as the truth of their love for islam over that of Christianity takes supremacy.

I bet the lying liberal does not want to remember the ISLAMIC scum who rolled a grenade into the tent of others and MURDERED them. That particular form of human trash got off from the death penalty...bet that gives a warm fuzzy to these liberals.


12 posted on 11/08/2009 6:36:23 AM PST by ICE-FLYER (God bless and keep the United States of America)
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To: TexasCajun

I just bet if some towel head blew up his house he would talk differently


13 posted on 11/08/2009 6:38:04 AM PST by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

C3p0: But nobody minds when Right wingers are inflamed.

Han Solo: Thats because Right wingers dont rip droids arms out of their sockets when they lose, Muslims have been known to do that you know.

c3p0:R2d2 new plan, let the Muslum win.


14 posted on 11/08/2009 6:40:23 AM PST by omega4179
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To: 70th Division
DANIEL PEARL
15 posted on 11/08/2009 6:41:32 AM PST by notaliberal (Right-wing extremist)
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To: TexasCajun

The picture makes it clear the left wing just wants to drink another latte’.


16 posted on 11/08/2009 6:41:59 AM PST by gusopol3
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To: aruanan

What happens if the PC crap that allowed this terrorist to rise to such a position of authority and trust allows another to become an F15 Strike Eagle driver carrying a couple of JDAMs?


17 posted on 11/08/2009 6:42:37 AM PST by nomad
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To: TexasCajun
“I cringe that he's a Muslim... I think he's probably just a nut case.”

Hey Brent if you were a real journalist you know not to be redundant.

I'm sorry us crazy right-wingers know terrorism when we see it. You see Brent, unlike Liberal retards like yourself, we don't have to pretend reality isn't real; or invent names/labels to make our own views palatable to ourselves. Take baby killing for example: we know what is, you Libscum know what its; yet you have to call it abortion so you can sleep at night. Brent do us real Americans a favor, and go play with your toys in the corner like a good wittle libtard. Just stay the f**k out of the adults way.

18 posted on 11/08/2009 6:43:45 AM PST by skully (Sorry I didn't know Marxism was a race!!)
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To: Travis McGee
Radical Islam is an insane murder cult; moderate Islam is its Trojan Horse in the West.

Bingo. That needs to be a tagline.
19 posted on 11/08/2009 6:45:35 AM PST by nhwingut (The media's love affair with Obama reminds me of a dog humping a telephone pole.)
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To: PGalt

Evan Thomas is an ignorant idiot.


20 posted on 11/08/2009 6:45:50 AM PST by abclily
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To: skully
MY bad: In my above I attributed nonsensical liberal rantings to Brent Baker, It really was Evan Thomas. Brent was just reporting what Evan said. Haven't had coffee yet.
21 posted on 11/08/2009 6:47:49 AM PST by skully (Sorry I didn't know Marxism was a race!!)
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To: TexasCajun

FACTS are such an inconvenient thing when one (e.g., the MSM) is first and foremost a liberal apologist for heinous acts.


22 posted on 11/08/2009 6:49:12 AM PST by rod1
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To: skully

Brent is the good guy, he’s reporting on Newsweek’s Evan Thomas. ...the first line of the story.


23 posted on 11/08/2009 6:49:27 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: TexasCajun

What an ignorant fool.
How many ROP TERRORISTS have to murder Americans before the disgusting media wake up.
Ofcourse they may be in mortal FEAR that if they say ANYTHING against the Islamofascist they will be next.


24 posted on 11/08/2009 6:51:55 AM PST by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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To: TexasCajun

Evan Thomas? What does one expect from the grandson of Socalist leader, Norman Thomas.


25 posted on 11/08/2009 6:54:50 AM PST by Stepan12 (Palin & Bolton in 2012)
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To: nomad
People don't remember but the conflict in Kosovo built up over time, with increasingly violent incidents by the muslim minority driving the serbian majority to elect the hard liners. One such event, perhaps the one that broke the camels back, was when a muslim soldier in the army picked up his automatic weapon and strafed his entire barracks.

This isnt an isolated incident, it's part of a long term pattern that our media willfully ignores.

26 posted on 11/08/2009 6:59:07 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Who is John Galt?)
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To: Travis McGee

Exactly:

Sure this guy was a nutcase, but isnt every American who turns to Islam a nutcase?


27 posted on 11/08/2009 7:00:16 AM PST by Venturer
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To: RichInOC
People are dead and wounded, Evan. How exactly can we make that worse?

What Thomas means by worse is that it will make it more difficult for jihadists to stealthily train and prepare for terrorist acts inside this country.

To Thomas, that is worse.

28 posted on 11/08/2009 7:01:48 AM PST by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: pepsi_junkie
Good point,but what if its not a machine gun,what if its something much more powerful.
29 posted on 11/08/2009 7:03:31 AM PST by nomad
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To: TexasCajun

So he was “just” a nut case...motivated by his religion. We can’t be allowed to make any connection.

Political correctness is literally causing death.


30 posted on 11/08/2009 7:04:31 AM PST by kjo
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To: TexasCajun

Wait until a media agency is attacked for being “Western” or saying something the cult doesn’t like. We will get to laugh and shrug.


31 posted on 11/08/2009 7:04:47 AM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: nomad
What happens if the PC crap that allowed this terrorist to rise to such a position of authority and trust allows another to become an F15 Strike Eagle driver carrying a couple of JDAMs?

Ever since the incident at Ft. Hood, I have been concerned about the same thing.
32 posted on 11/08/2009 7:12:11 AM PST by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: TexasCajun
We are expected to remember repeatedly as the Brown SHirt Media tells us it was white m en who dragged Clarence Byrd. We are expected to remember repeatedly as we are told by the Brown Shirt Media that it was white men who killed Matthew Sheperd.

OTOH, we are told not to make too much of the "religion" of muslim murderers around the world.

Let's play "which one of these doesn't fit with the others?

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33 posted on 11/08/2009 7:13:02 AM PST by wastoute (translation of tag "Come and get them (bastards)" or "come get some")
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To: pepsi_junkie
I remember Serbians warning us during the Klinton years...

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34 posted on 11/08/2009 7:14:49 AM PST by wastoute (translation of tag "Come and get them (bastards)" or "come get some")
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To: Marty62
How many ROP TERRORISTS have to murder Americans before the disgusting media wake up.

Millions of "little people" can be killed by terrorists, and the media will blame not the terrorist, but the victims. If terrorists were stupid enough to target the NYTimes, the terrorist's best friend so that's unlikely, now that would be another story. Then you'd see the hammer drop.

35 posted on 11/08/2009 7:32:12 AM PST by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd: ON)
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I have one ?. The guy in Dallas was going to blow up a building.
He didn’t ACTUALLY kill anyone (FBI sting) yet he is being charged as a terrorist.
This islamofascist hasan kills 13 and injures 31. Yet he is a “poor mistreated Muslim”, even though he yelled allahu akbar.
Hello, who is kidding who?


36 posted on 11/08/2009 7:37:31 AM PST by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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To: TexasCajun

Purge or be Purged


37 posted on 11/08/2009 7:40:56 AM PST by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways Guero >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona.....)
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To: TexasCajun
They blame the victims and Americans for being killed - but they will never hold the killer responsible for his conduct.

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

38 posted on 11/08/2009 7:42:22 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: TexasCajun

Tragic he was a Muslim? When I heard the shootings were at an army base, the first thing I wondered was it a terrrorist attack by Muslims. And it was. What these liberal idiots should wonder about is the possibility for more attacks by Muslims. The army better think about arming its soldiers.


39 posted on 11/08/2009 7:46:31 AM PST by driftless2 (for long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: TexasCajun

This was a case of ritualistic genocide, not just murder.There is a significant difference.
God defeated Allah at Fort Hood.He also did not let Hasan die to gain a seat next to his perverted god.

Political Correctness is used to keep America blind to what actually goes on inside a Mujihads heart mind. The left has worked so hard at making sure that America does not see its war against Terror as a religious war, when in fact the enemy sees it as EXACTLY that. A religious war.

This is , as Bush said, a war against evil. And evil came to Fort Hood in the form of a jihadi who was in fact possessed by Allah.For me this incident has shades of the movie “Exorcist.”

And Good has triumphed, even though so many innocents died.
This truth of which we speak needs to me shared with America as much as possible.America needs to know of the evil which it faces, at long last. No matter what the left want to make of it.

The religious practice of the Mujihad needs to be explained to every one. There is an inner prayer designed to connect one with the self righteous energy of Allah, who literally takes over the body and mind of the jihadine.That’s what happened here.A kind of Muslim spiritual possession.Hasan was not insane, or deranged. He was just fired up on his prayers and energized.He was executing a religious ritual which he believed would open the gates of heaven for him.Hasan expected to be killed so that he and his victims would end up basking in the radiance of Allah, which is the spiritual goal of the Mujahid. That is what makes this incident religious genocide. THIS IS A WAR CRIME.No different that the burning of the Jews by Hitler.

The MSM will not properly inform the public about this religious practice of jihadism.It would no longer be a war on terror, It would be a war against Islamofascism and religious genocide.The terrorists could no longer be redefined as “criminals” by Obama , who should be Mirandized with the benefits of due process that Bush had made sure to remove, as deserved. These secret jihadist teachings now flourish on US soil, and within our own military. They must be rooted out and utterly destroyed.


40 posted on 11/08/2009 7:52:24 AM PST by Candor7 (The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (.Member NRA)
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To: TexasCajun

To a Leftist, allowing the Right-wing to become “energised” is a far greater evil than any Islamic mass-murder.


41 posted on 11/08/2009 7:53:56 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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To: TexasCajun

Wightring terrorists pale in the face of real terorists.

Media deeply saddened.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/14/federal-agency-warns-of-radicals-on-right/


42 posted on 11/08/2009 7:57:39 AM PST by RGSpincich
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To: TexasCajun

Yeah, it would have been a LOT easier for the media if it had been Christian who shouted, “Praised be Jesus the Lord!” before he shot everyone.

Then they would have felt free to tell the truth instead of covering up.


43 posted on 11/08/2009 8:17:29 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is fading.)
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To: TexasCajun
Newsweek's Evan Thomas regretted the Fort Hood mass murderer, Major Nidal Hasan, is a Muslim
I cringe that he's a Muslim. I mean, because it inflames all the fears. I think he's probably just a nut case.


Hey Evan, find anything up there?
Like maybe, your BRAIN?

44 posted on 11/08/2009 8:40:05 AM PST by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
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To: TexasCajun

Yes, we all know it only those “right wingers” who get upset when Muslim jihadists kill Americans in the US. Everyone else is with the Liberal and loves it when that happens.


45 posted on 11/08/2009 9:31:18 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: TexasCajun
I cringe that he's a Muslim. I mean, because it inflames all the fears. I think he's probably just a nut case.

Ordinary nut cases don't begin their acts by yelling:

Allahu Akbar!

Muslim terrorists generally do.

46 posted on 11/08/2009 9:41:23 AM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: RichInOC
People are dead and wounded, Evan. How exactly can we make that worse?

When thousands heard the Giant Voice (loudspeaker system at Ft. Hood) say:

"Seek cover immediately...close and cover all windows..close air conditioning vents"

they got a hint about how it could be worse, much much worse.

And will be if things continue as they are.

47 posted on 11/08/2009 9:45:18 AM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: ICE-FLYER
Idiot HATE-Filled liberals will never address this as the truth of their love for islam over that of Christianity takes supremacy.

I think that's the crux of the MSM issue. They hate Christianity so much that they will align themselves with anything and anyone who joins them in their campaign to damage it.

48 posted on 11/08/2009 10:04:46 AM PST by Old_Grouch (62 and AARP-free)
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To: TexasCajun
I cringe that he's a Muslim. I mean, because it inflames all the fears.

One amazing capability that humans have is the ability to generalize. They can take isolated incidents and see the patterns between them and then react to new situations appropriately because they can transfer learning from other experiences. They do not have to be taught about each new situation they encounter. Other mammals can do this also, but nowhere near to the extent of humans.

In this case, the left wants us to suspend our generalizing ability, and treat each incident of Muslim violence as if there were no pattern, as if we should not transfer any past learning when we consider it.

When it comes to pet peeves of the left, generalizing is called "discrimination" or "prejudice." Of course, the ability to discriminate and also the ability to judge a situation ahead of time are also highly useful human abilities.....

49 posted on 11/08/2009 10:04:47 AM PST by Old_Grouch (62 and AARP-free)
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To: El Gato

Oh, absolutely the situation itself can get worse. But whether or not we’re inflamed about it isn’t what will make it worse.


50 posted on 11/08/2009 10:39:46 AM PST by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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