Posted on 04/19/2013 12:17:18 PM PDT by drewh
Dave Weigel at Slate reported from an awards dinner Tuesday night for the leftish Arab American Instiute about the crowd's discomfort with the notion that the Boston assailants would turn out to "look like them." (That, I think, would mean Middle Eastern and Muslim, although AAI president James Zogby describes himself as a Maronite Catholic.) They tried not to say it out loud, he said, but then CNN's Christiane Amanpour, there to receive an award, said it for them.
"How many of us feel this burden of association and hope beyond hope that this doesn't turn out to be what it might be?" said Amanpour. "No conclusions yet." Weigel reported she read from a New York Times essay by Haider Javed Warraich, a medical resident in Boston who fretted that he didn't run into the action because as a young Pakistani male with stubble, "I look like Hollywood’s favorite post-Cold-War movie villain."
"There are no conclusions," said Amanpour. "Is it international? Is it domestic? But like all of you—I'm not Pakistani, and I'm not Arab, but I am part Iranian. And I do understand the burden of association. And I know when we know who did this, we will all unite in strong condemnation."
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I haven't got a clue how in the hell you're going to do it, but I'm sure you're hard at work trying to come up with *something*.
lol!
Ding, ding, ding is right. Did the poster mean the rich Saudi who was a suspect and then suddenly whisked off through deportation? That entire scenario with the Saudi is beginning to stink like 2-day old fish.
That screen capture is a riot!
From her point of view why would she even THINK they would be “Middle Eastern Muslims?” There is no such thing as “profiling” to these liberal ash holes - UGH!
I Amampour had sons they’d look a lot like the Tsarnaev boys.
Sucks being you, today.
At least ? she’s being honest, she exposes their true agendas.
That’s about the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while. I suppose I should ask...was he the rapist?
Predict it’s the Muzz and you’ll be right 95% of the time.
Well, Christiane — you got half your wish. They’re not from the Mideast.
But that wasn’t really the problem, was it?
Thanks, I so needed that laugh today! Beyond hilarious!
They also focus on "racial profiling" but it is they who pay far more attention when someone commits various crime and police give out BOLOs (describe the features or other known characteristics) on the perps.
Remove this silly post Mark Brown is a well respected and decent guy out her in Los Angeles Met him on a few occasion for generous with his time
Ever notice how the leftwingers always hope they can pin something like this on conservative Americans? Someone other than themselves to point their crooked little fingers at? On the other hand, rightwingers don’t give a hoot about what the perp’s politics are. They want the pig to be caught, tried and strung up from the highest tree.
LOL POOR LIBERALS..their only concern was that the terrorists weren’t Muslim pieces of filth..that is all they care about because the left hates America just as much as the garbage Muslims do
Yeah, it’s much better to have no sense of who my enemies are. It’s better for anybody and everybody to be crazy nutjobs vs. knowing what ideology drives this. </sarc>
Islam is incompatible with any other religion and it’s time for people to admit it. It must be eradicated or allowed to rule the world. There is no middle ground.
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