Posted on 10/20/2018 9:27:11 AM PDT by Starman417
Since the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi Saudi has been offering various accounts of what happened to him. Yesterday they finally admitted that Khashoggi is dead.
Journalist Jamal Khashoggi died after a fight that took place in the Saudi consulate in Turkey, Saudi state media reported on Friday afternoon.They say he was killed in a "fist fight."They announced the arrests of eighteen individuals in connection with Khashoggi’s death, many of whom were the same people caught on camera entering the consulate. Saudi officials also denied the reports that Khashoggi was dismembered, instead blaming his death on a fight that broke out in the consulate.
His murder is a terrible thing but the left wing outrage over it is very curious. Firstly, let no one doubt that Khashoggi was not a guy who loved America. He was a friend of Osama Bin Laden.
The Washington Post asserted that educating people about Khashoggi is a right wing smear
The Washington Post decries what it calls a “whispering campaign” to “smear” Jamal Khashoggi that is “designed to protect President Trump”. The “whisperers” are “hard-line Republicans and conservative commentators.” The latter are writing articles critical of Khashoggi (which means they are not whispering). The former are “privately sharing” the articles (which, I had thought, is how articles typically are shared).But as Paul Mirengoff points out, it's not just the left:
The Post also errs in claiming that resistance to the lionizing of Khashoggi comes exclusively from “the hard right.” My criticism (directed primarily at the Post for hiring Khashoggi) relied on reporting by the New York Times. Here is what that hard-line, Trump-protecting paper said about the Post’s man in an article called “For Khashoggi, a Tangled Mix of Royal Service and Islamist Sympathies”:.Khashoggi supported the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and political Islam.His attraction to political Islam helped him forge a personal bond with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey. . . .
Several of his friends say that early on Mr. Khashoggi also joined the Muslim Brotherhood. Although he later stopped attending meetings of the Brotherhood, he remained conversant in its conservative, Islamist and often anti-Western rhetoric, which he could deploy or hide depending on whom he was seeking to befriend. . . .
Khashoggi probably did a decent job of hiding his anti-Western rhetoric when he sought to befriend the Washington Post. How hard he had to work at this is another question.
In no way does this minimize the crime, but it does bring into question the motivation for all the left wing outrage. Over the last 18 years 138 Mexican journalists have been killed.
One doesn't see left wing outrage over it.
James Foley was beheaded in 2014.
His death never saw this kind of outrage but then Trump wasn't President.
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A horrible murder, and we should disrupt American foreign policy because?
Are any of these liberals concerned with the mass murder being perpetrated by Iran? I didn’t think so.
Who cares? The Middle East is a horrible place to live. Men have been doing evil things to each other since the beginning and that is not going to change.
I guess the most perplexing question is why would a so-called ‘Virginia-based’ Saudi journalist who is at odds with the Saudi regime go into the Saudi embassy in Turkey in the first place? He was fully aware that the Saudi’s considered him persona non grata and that at the very least he was in danger of being kidnapped. Darwin award winner of the week? Almost certainly a contender.
I truck zero with the brutal anti=American, anti-Christian, anti-Jewish Saudi dictatorship. But if they offed Khashoggi I also shed no tears. Yes, he had issues with the Arabian dictators but he was just about as hateful against the West as they are. One down, and hopefully the brutal Saudi “royal family” can be replaced with something far less dangerous, soon.
PEOPLE Don’t GIVE A RAT’S @$$ about this Muslim journalist!!! But do care..lots about...JOBSnotMOBS!! This is a losing subject for the mediaVOMITS!!
If there was a second Door, he could have escaped?
If he didn’t have a fear of flying, he could have gotten out of Turkey?
“Who cares? The Middle East is a horrible place to live. Men have been doing evil things to each other since the beginning and that is not going to change.”
Yeh, agree.
Side note; was watching Laura Ingram show last night. I thought Judith Miller was going to have an emotional meltdown while Laura was interviewing her about this guy.
A dead MB guy is a good MB guy.
I read that he needed an official Saudi divorce certificate to be able to marry his Turkish fiancée.
“A dead MB guy is a good MB guy.”
Khashoggi probably held views very similar to most Saudi adult males.
Apparently not as the Saudi security services don’t kill most Saudi adult males.
If he was a US resident, contributing to the WaPo, why didn’t he go to the Saudi embassy in Washington to request his papers?
Yes I saw that. Ms. Ingrham was in good form last night!
The fight probably broke out when Khashoggi realized that some bad actors meant to do him harm and he tried to leave the building.
I suspect the royal family needs to pick a new leader to replace the Crown Prince, who shouldn’t be allowed out of his favorite privately owned Saudi palace for about 20 years.
They’re Arabs, Jim.
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