Why can’t the media be bothered to do their job? Maybe it’s because they’re too busy slandering the public.
That Mosqued Man http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/544872/201008241836/That-Mosqued-Man.aspx
Posted 08/24/2010 06:36 PM ET
Rauf: The Ground Zero imam. View Enlarged Image
Media Bias: The campaign to label anyone who opposes the Ground Zero mosque as racist and Islamophobic is in full flight. Of course, this allows the media to avert their gaze from what’s really important.
Last week, MSNBC’s Norah O’Donnell said opponents of a mosque going up just north of where Muslim terrorists massacred thousands are acting “like the people who attacked America and killed 3,000 people.”
Former TV talk-show host Dick Cavett weighed in, saying he was “genuinely ashamed of us” over the mosque issue.
“It doesn’t take much, it seems, to lift the lid and let our home-grown racism and bigotry overflow,” he wrote in a New York Times blog headlined, “Real Americans, Please Stand Up.”
The media effort hasn’t let up. On Monday, Time’s Mark Halperin condescendingly told families of 9/11 victims who don’t want the mosque built that they need to be led “through a discussion.” The magazine itself asks on its Aug. 30 cover “Is America Islamophobic?” The answer, of course, is “yes.”
Katie Couric of CBS also weighed in, saying “we cannot let fear and rage tear down the towers of our core American values.”
As media elitists condemn the 68% of Americans who oppose building a mosque at Ground Zero, they ignore the fact that the man behind the mosque, Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf, is no moderate “bridge-builder” searching for common ground with America.
Moderate? Rauf says the U.S. “has more Muslim blood on its hands than al-Qaida has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.” He also claims U.S. “policies were an accessory to” 9/11 and that “in the most direct sense, Osama bin Laden is made in the USA.”
Rauf’s reputed links to the Muslim Brotherhood are a problem. That group insists members “understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within” and sabotaging “its miserable house.”
A real moderate should at least denounce Hamas, a terrorist group. Rauf won’t. Yet, the mainstream media have been filled with mostly sympathetic profiles of Rauf’s “moderation.”
Why can’t the media be bothered to do their job? Maybe it’s because they’re too busy slandering the public.
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