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Russell Brand: Don't blame Muslims
CNN ^ | Fri May 31, 2013 | John Avlon

Posted on 05/31/2013 10:17:11 AM PDT by ThomasMore

Russell Brand is best known as a British comedian and TV/film star, who, in addition to co-starring in the upcoming animated film "Despicable Me 2," is also a Solzhenitzyn-quoting, part-time essayist. In the wake of the barbaric beheading of a soldier in London, Brand wrote an essay in The Sun called "Blame this on madness...not Muslims."

Dean was particularly touched by the effort to defend the Muslim community from the ugly passions stirred by group blame. Brand's perspective is that mental illness is more at fault in the attack than the influence of radical Islam and that root causes must be analyzed, as well.

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KEYWORDS: islam; muslimworld; terrorist
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To: ThomasMore

“It never ceases to amaze me how progressives can rationalize reality into a total lie. Of course Muslims are to blame for the beheading in the UK. Where are the protests from the Islamic community?”

You’re over-analyzing this; the Muslims are breeding the children this traitor sells his movies/entertainment to (sort of like our fast-food chains stocking increasingly Mexican menu items - they are the customers now, since we’ve stopped breeding).


21 posted on 05/31/2013 10:35:07 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Savage Beast

When the US government approached Colombia about collaborating in fighting their drug problem, the Colombian government rightly replied that Americans had the drug problems - Colombians just had problems with providing them.


22 posted on 05/31/2013 10:36:45 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: ThomasMore

Pizz off, Russell Brand. I care for what you have to say, as you care what I have to say.


23 posted on 05/31/2013 10:38:09 AM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: KC_Lion

He makes my skin crawl. I imagine he’s filthy, smelly, never brushes his teeth or washes his hair. With his history of heroin addiction and alcoholism his brain probably looks like swiss cheese.


24 posted on 05/31/2013 10:40:32 AM PDT by lonevoice (Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)
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To: Army Air Corps

I really liked him in that Gladiator movie though.


25 posted on 05/31/2013 10:40:59 AM PDT by McGruff (I can't speak to the law here. The law is irrelevant,)
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To: ThomasMore

Islam is a mental disease.


26 posted on 05/31/2013 10:41:04 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: ThomasMore

Actually all this mooslim’s influences should be scrutinized.


27 posted on 05/31/2013 10:43:07 AM PDT by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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To: ThomasMore

I think there is something to this (not that I bothered to read the article).

I believe that Islamic societies are so brutal to their women that everyone born into the society develops PTSD, which is passed down to the next generation.

Imagine a child born into a family with a tyrannical father who routinely beats and rapes the mother (or at least believes that he may do that at will, even if he chooses not to), and who controls her every action. The mother (and the father) then groom the female children into this role of submission.

The sons repeatedly watch their mother and sisters being threatened, abused controlled and even murdered.

What are the odds that the children in such a family will grow up without severe pathologies (self loathing, misogyny, sociopathy, uncontrollable violent ragefullness and God knows what else)?

Now imagine a society in which such families are the norm and and held up by that society’s religious and legal authorities as desirable, virtuous role models.

There you have the Muslim society, in a nutshell — a generational cycle of mental derangement on a widespread scale viewed as normalcy.

P.S. Any Muslims offended by my analysis? Here’s a quarter — call Eric Holder. P.P.S. Hey Eric Holder — EAT ME.


28 posted on 05/31/2013 10:43:34 AM PDT by Maceman (Just say "NO" to tyranny.)
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29 posted on 05/31/2013 10:43:42 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: tennmountainman

Most of the brave British men got killed off in WW2.
This is the spawn of what got left behind.

**
Can be said for much of Europe. There are few big, tall strapping men over there. Most are skinny, balding metrosexual Euro-weenies.


30 posted on 05/31/2013 10:44:06 AM PDT by LibsRJerks (s)
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To: cherry

That wouldn’t faze them, see Amy Biehl and her parents.


31 posted on 05/31/2013 10:50:01 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: ThomasMore

I don’t blame Muslims. I blame the Globalists who ship them and the ten of millions of other Third worlders into every Western nation. They then use the politicians they own to order the military and police to protect the interlopers, force the taxpayers to pay for their food, medical, housing, cell phones, and everything else and then use their Corporate Media to label any native that objects a “RACIST!”


32 posted on 05/31/2013 10:50:46 AM PDT by Count of Monte Fisto
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To: tennmountainman
Worse than that. WWII simply was a mopping up operation after WWI killed off the majority of them.

The butcher's bill for WWI in the UK was almost a million men dead - 3 percent of the total population. Plus almost 1.5 million wounded. Adult males comprised about 57% of the population of Britain in the 1911 census.

THAT was where the problem started. An article I read years ago in American Heritage Magazine observed, "I knew that all Mum's sweethearts but Dad died in the Great War, and all Auntie's . . . but it didn't hit home until I saw Tyne Cot (the largest British WWI cemetery in Europe)."

33 posted on 05/31/2013 10:59:07 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: ThomasMore

liberals can’t handle the truth.

they hate the people telling them the truth more than the murdering jihadis.


34 posted on 05/31/2013 11:01:22 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: ThomasMore

i am willing to blame the murdering and terrorism on ‘madmen not muslims’ so long as the author is willing to blame islam for producing so many madmen all over the world

the problem is Obviously in the islamicist teachings, based yes -—as they say-— on their koran book and how they understand its teachings apply to them today

until islam gets a genuine Reformation (which many here believe will never occur), the author has to realize that all these ‘madmen’ don’t just spring up out of nowhere..
there is a source...


35 posted on 05/31/2013 11:25:11 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (()
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To: Savage Beast

No we cannot shut our borders.


36 posted on 05/31/2013 11:41:13 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: faithhopecharity

All muslims are guilty by inaction. If they want to be taken as good people then stand up and condemn those in your “religion” that we are fighting.


37 posted on 05/31/2013 11:43:34 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Resolute Conservative

hes, that’s what the whole world is praying for


38 posted on 05/31/2013 12:05:12 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (()
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To: LibsRJerks

There hasn’t been anyone funny out of England since Rowan Atkinson...


39 posted on 05/31/2013 12:14:21 PM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Some people take there grammar way to seriously.)
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To: ThomasMore

I guess Brand is saying (unwittingly...or half-wittedly) that Islam causes mental illness. I can support that theory. Well done, Brand!


40 posted on 05/31/2013 12:47:19 PM PDT by clintonh8r ("Europe was created by history. America was created by a philosophy." Baroness Thatcher)
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