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Islam Teaches us How To Beat Your Wife of the DAy

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Islam Teaches us How To Beat Your Wife of the DAy

I am the first to admit I’ve been slacking today. It’s noon and this is my first post of the day, but I have a good reason….I was learning from worldly religions what the holy way to beat my wife is….because up until this point I was just doing it cuz I hated the bitch…but I knew there was I higher purpose, I was just lost and now I am found, enlightened and I hope you are too…. So now I know what Allah wants me to do when my pussy says no to sex and really for whenever she gets out of line and I know not to break bones or hit her in the face and I am a better person for it. I may not be Muslim, but with rules like this, it’s pretty tempting. It just seems so current and with the times you know, all those laws that give women rights is so backwards…and dated…these dudes really get what its about….. That said….this is insane. I can’t believe this in on TV. Who the fuck are these people and if they get their own religion, can I get one that involves all night drunken sex parties and legal prostitution? It’s crazy. They say French is the language of love, but by the sounds of this, I’d say arab is a close second…it’s just so romantic sounding…like a bitch getting throat fucked….

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Hari Raya Haji greetings 2010

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Hari Raya Haji greetings 2010

May you be blessed by God, May you fulfill the pilgrimage, May you become Haji / Hajjah And celebrate Blessings of God the Great !! Hari Raya Haji merupakan perayaan yang dirayakan diseluruh dunia bagi menandakan berakhirnya tempoh mengerjakan ibadat haji di Mekah, yang merupakan rukun Islam kelima yang terakhir bagi mereka yang mampu, dan menandakan bermulanya ibadat korban untuk dibahagi-bahagikan kepada fakir miskin. Hari Raya Haji adalah perayaan yang istimewa kerana ia merupakan hari unt

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Beckel to Geller: You’re a Woman, You Better Be Careful

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Beckel to Geller: You’re a Woman, You Better Be Careful

Eric Bolling’s new show on the Fox Business Channel, Money Rocks , saw a significant display of fireworks this evening.  During a discussion of some already controversial statements made by Democratic strategist, Bob Beckel, a very heated exchange developed involving Beckel and Atlas Shrugs publisher, Pamela Geller. The controversy started when Bolling played a clip of Beckel’s previous appearance on the show in which he stated: “Look, at some point, I know it’s sensitive here in New York and probably New Jersey, but we have to get over 9/11.” What did he mean by ‘we have to get over 9/11′?  According to Beckel, this was simply an expression of frustration for a variety of things, such as extra security at airports and a few other minor inconveniences designed to catch “a bunch of non-existent terrorists.”  The short list of ‘non-existent terrorists’ since 9/11 that Mr. Beckel must be referring to, include the Madrid train bombers, Russian train bombers, Shoe Bomber, the Lackawanna Six, Fort Hood assassin, the Virginia ‘Jihad’ Network, Christmas Day bomber, Fort Dix plotters, and the Times Square bomber. Beckel might have been feeling the stress of trying to defend such a blatantly insensitive statement, by providing a blatantly inaccurate defense, as he experienced a misogynistic meltdown directed at Geller in the middle of the segment in which he said: “You’re a woman, you better be careful about saying who I carry water for.” Clip and partial transcript below… Over at Atlas Shrugs , Geller asserts that Beckel’s sexist rants were not limited to the on-air conversation.  Prior to the show, she claims: “I was the only female on the panel and as we were prepping (getting mic’ed etc) for the show, Beckel was regaling his victims (Bob Hemmer, David Webb and Bolling) with sordid tales of pole dancers and the like.  Grotesque and deliberate.” Geller states that the confrontation continued after the break: “When we cut to break, Beckel chided Bolling for not bringing ‘Jewish slumlords’ on the show (referring to Bolling’s segment on Imam Rauf’s status as a New Jersey slumlord, so named in a lawsuit against Rauf by Union City.)  When I heard Beckel’s Jew hating belch, I said ‘and you’re an anti-Semite.’  He told me to ‘kiss his ass’ to which I responded that he would never get anyone anywhere in the world to get with that.” Beckel’s appearances on FNC have been infuriating at times, but mostly for ideological reasons.  He is, after all, a liberal.  But he clearly crossed a line tonight with his uncharacteristically aggressive attacks on Geller.  Even Arlen Specter knows that you don’t start any argumentative statement with the words ‘you’re a woman.’ For your added nauseating pleasure, please watch the lead-in 11 minutes to this incident, in which the ever-bigoted Ahmad Rehab defends radical Islam by calling everybody else (particularly Geller) a bigot.  That’s what racists do though; they refer to everybody else as the racist. Racists, and bigots, and radicals.  Oh my! Enjoy… Relevant clip at (11:00 – 11:45) Geller:  I would like to address Mr. Beckel’s point.  I don’t know why you’re carrying water for the most radical, intolerant ideology in the world today.  There have been 20,000 documented radical Islamic attacks since 9/11.  Each one with the imprimatur of a Muslim cleric… Beckel:  You better be very careful.  You’re a woman, you better be very careful about who you say I carry water for, because you have no idea what you’re talking about.  (Points emphatically at Geller).  And don’t start putting me in the middle of your crap! Geller:  Don’t you point to me! Beckel:  I’ll point to you all I want! Geller:  Don’t you point to me.  You’re a misogynist. Beckel:  You’re getting yourself fifteen minutes, you get yourself fifteen minutes of fame because you’re (Bolling) picking on a bunch of Muslims. Geller:  You’re picking on a bunch of women.  You’re a woman hater. Beckel:  A woman hater?  A woman hater? Geller:  Look how you’re talking to me.  It’s outrageous. Beckel:  You are nuts. Geller:  Yea, I’m nuts. Please contact Rusty at The Mental Recession , or on Twitter @rustyweiss74

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CNN’s Zakaria Paints Hezbollah as Tolerant of Jews as Lesson for Ground Zero Mosque Opponents

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on CNN’s Zakaria Paints Hezbollah as Tolerant of Jews as Lesson for Ground Zero Mosque Opponents

Catching up on an item from the August 22, Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN, host Zakaria — formerly of Newsweek — ended his show with commentary in which he ridiculously suggested that Americans who oppose construction of a mosque near Ground Zero could learn a lesson about tolerance from the terrorist group Hezbollah, and cited the group as being accepting of diverse religions – including Judaism – in Lebanon in light of the restoration of a synagogue in Beirut. Without informing viewers of the history of viciously anti-Semitic speech from Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and other leading figures within the anti-Israel group, the CNN anchor quoted Hezbollah’s claim that, rather than being anti-Semitic, they are simply opposed to “Israel’s occupation of Arab lands.” Zakaria: The project is said to have found support in many parts of the community, not just from the few remaining Jews there, but also Christians and Muslims and Hezbollah. Yes, Hezbollah, the one that the United States has designated a foreign terrorist organization. Hezbollah’s view on the renovation goes like this: Quote, “We respect divine religions, including the Jewish religion. The problem is with Israel’s occupation of Arab lands, not with the Jews.” Food for thought. But, as recounted by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), Hezbollah members not only desire to take over all of Israel which they consider to be occupied, but the group’s leader Nasrallah has been very direct in his anti-Semitic speech, once even declaring that if the Jewish people “all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.” Below is a transcript of the relevant portion of the Sunday, August 22, Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN: And now for the “Last Look.” With all the talk about places of worship and where they do and don’t belong, I wanted you to see this. This is the Magen Abraham synagogue. It’s not in Miami. It’s not in Tel Aviv. It’s in Beirut. That’s right, Beirut, Lebanon. The synagogue is just now emerging from a painstaking restoration project. When the repairs began over a year ago, the temple was literally a shell of its former self. So why did this nation, often teetering on the brink of religious hostilities and hostilities with Israel, restore a Jewish house of worship? To show that Lebanon is an open and tolerant country. And indeed, the project is said to have found support in many parts of the community, not just from the few remaining Jews there, but also Christians and Muslims and Hezbollah. Yes, Hezbollah, the one that the United States has designated a foreign terrorist organization. Hezbollah’s view on the renovation goes like this: Quote, “We respect divine religions, including the Jewish religion. The problem is with Israel’s occupation of Arab lands, not with the Jews.” Food for thought. Thanks to all of you for being part of my program this week. I will see you next week.

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Wildest Larry O’Donnell Tirades: Romney’s Religion Is Demented! So Is Criticizing Islam

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Wildest Larry O’Donnell Tirades: Romney’s Religion Is Demented! So Is Criticizing Islam

Monday night marks the debut of Lawrence O’Donnell’s very own show, called The Last Word, on MSNBC and if his guest spots on various programs on that network and the syndicated McLaughlin Group over the last few years are any indication, he’s bound to give Keith Olbermann a run for his money for over-the-top loony tirades. O’Donnell reared his bigoted side on the December 8, 2007 edition of the McLaughlin Group . He not only went after former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, but also his faith, seen in the following rants he made after the former Massachusetts governor and presidential candidate delivered a speech defending his “demented, Scientology-like” Mormon faith: Here’s the problem. He dare not discuss his religion. And he fools people like Pat Buchanan who should know better. This was the worst speech, the worst political speech of my lifetime. Because this man stood there and said to you “this is the faith of my fathers.” And you, and none of these commentators who liked this speech realized that the faith of his father is a racist faith. As of 1978 it was an officially racist faith, and for political convenience in 1978 it switched. And it said “Okay, black people can be in this church.” He [Romney] believes, if he believes the faith of his fathers, that black people are black because in heaven they turned away from God, in this demented, Scientology-like notion of what was going on in heaven before the creation of the Earth….I’m saying he’s got to answer, when he was 30 years old and he firmly believed in the faith of his father that black people are inferior, when did he change his mind? Did the religion have to tell him to change his mind? And when he talks about the faith of his father, how about the faith of his great-grandfather, who had five wives?…And his religion is based on the work of a lying, fraudulent, criminal named Joseph Smith who was a racist, who was a, who was  pro-slavery, his religion was completely pro-slavery…He was given an opportunity to distance himself from the evils of his religion, and he didn’t…. Joseph Smith was a slavery champion, the inventor of this ridiculous religion…His religion is full of crazy beliefs. Everyone on this panel thinks his religion is full of crazy beliefs. Everyone of us does. You won’t admit it. Do you think the Garden of Eden was in Missouri?…Look Romney comes from a religion founded by a criminal who was anti-American, pro-slavery and a rapist! And his, and he comes from that lineage and says, “I respect this religion fully.” This is not exactly how O’Donnell talks of Islam — and O’Donnell admitted a few days later that he’s too scared for his physical safety to say anything like that about the birth and theology of Islam. O’DONNELL: Oh, well, I’m afraid of what the…that’s where I’m really afraid. I would like to criticize Islam much more than I do publicly, but I’m afraid for my life if I do. HEWITT: Well, that’s candid. O’DONNELL: Mormons are the nicest people in the world. They’re not going to ever… HEWITT: So you can be bigoted towards Mormons, because they’ll just send you a strudel. O’DONNELL: They’ll never take a shot at me. Those other people, I’m not going to say a word about them. HEWITT: They’ll send you a strudel. The Mormons will bake you a cake and be nice to you. O’DONNELL: I agree. HEWITT: Lawrence O’Donnell, I appreciate your candor.

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ABC’s Walters Disputes Charges of Racism Against Ground Zero Mosque & Illegal Immigration Opponents

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on ABC’s Walters Disputes Charges of Racism Against Ground Zero Mosque & Illegal Immigration Opponents

Catching up on an item from the Thursday, September 9, The View on ABC, Barbara Walters was at odds with her co-hosts over the issue of whether racism was the primary motivation of the Arizona illegal immigration law as well as opposition to the Ground Zero mosque. Whoopi Goldberg raised the question of whether “there may be an undercurrent of racism in the USA that’s building up,” leading co-host Sherri Shepherd to assert that “you certainly hear racism a lot more, I think, than you ever heard it.” Walters soon jumped in to voice dissent: I think that we’re kind of mixing things up. When you say there’s more racism now, oh, there’s so much less racism than 20 years ago or 50 years ago. … There is racism in this country. That’s not new. There is racism against the President. That’s not new. But I disagree with putting the mosque and the Arizona laws. I think the Arizona laws have to do with losing jobs and people coming across the border to get those jobs. After Goldberg responded, “Then why don’t they say that?” Walters continued: Please let me just finish. It is what they say. It is what they say. And the drug wars right across the border. If you had Canadians – and this doesn’t happen – and they were all coming and taking jobs and there were drug wars- She soon added, “I don’t think it’s because they are Mexican or because they’re brown. … And I don’t think the mosque is because Muslims have a darker skin. That’s fear of terrorism. I don’t think we can mix everything up and say it’s all racism.” Walters and Goldberg soon resumed their back-and-forth: WALTERS: But we’ve also had things about learning another language in school and whether languages should be taught in Spanish. What I’m saying is, of course there is racism, but I don’t think you can take everything that’s happening in this country and say, well- GOLDBERG: If you are targeting, if you are talking about Mexicans coming and taking your jobs, say that. Don’t say “illegal immigrants” when that’s not what you mean because people come from Canada and people come from England and people come from Africa, all over, and their- WALTERS: But they’re not coming en masse. GOLDBERG: -visas go away, but you know what. If you are going after illegal immigrants, then you have to go after all illegal immigrants, not just the brown ones. A bit later, they added: WALTERS: All I’m saying is that, we’re agreeing that there is racism. But I’m just saying that there are other things. The mosque has to do with terrorism. It’s not just the, I know, we disagree. It’s not just the color. I don’t think that you can just do a blanket. GOLDBERG: I think it feels that way. It feels that way, and that’s the question I’m posing. It feels that way. Below is a transcript of the relevant portion of the Thursday, September 9, The View on ABC: WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Do you guys think there may be an undercurrent of racism in the USA that’s building up? Because, now, particularly against brown people? Because we have the Arizona immigration law, the Ground Zero mosque controversy, burn-the-Koran day and the hammering that folks seem to be taking. I can’t think of the woman’s name and it’s probably better, but she was screaming the “N” word all over her Web site. SEVERAL PANEL MEMBERS SAY: Dr. Laura Schlessinger. GOLDBERG: Yeah, so does it feel to you that there’s a little tension or am I just being kooky? SHERRI SHEPHERD: You know, I don’t know if it’s that because we now have an African-American President, all of this stuff that has always been simmering underneath the surface, has bubbled up. Because you certainly hear racism a lot more, I think, than you ever heard it. And so, it just seems like it’s now bubbling up, and, I don’t know, it seems like there’s just something going on- JOY BEHAR: Well, it’s disguised, isn’t it? I mean, as far as President Obama is concerned, some people still say he’s a Muslim, that they don’t believe he’s really American. SHEPHERD: They want to see his birth certificate. BEHAR: Those are kind of like code words for, you know, we don’t trust the other. He’s the other. ELISABETH HASSELBECK: Well, there are fringe groups like that regardless of who’s President. But especially now, it does seem ironic because we have our first black President, yet all this stuff is coming up. And so you have to wonder why, especially since Obama did receive a large portion of what they call the white vote, you know, so it seems disheartening that this is happening. And it does seem like, you know, the word “tolerance” gets spread around, you know, you can be tolerant, but- BEHAR: He got a large portion of the white vote. But this is a small group of people that are pushing this type of agenda that is not American. HASSELBECK: It’s no secret that (INAUDIBLE) have prejudice and it’s disgusting and it’s ugly and it’s there. And it’s been and for some reason now it’s maybe just being uncovered again. BARBARA WALTERS: (INAUDIBLE) I just say something? Okay, because I think that we’re kind of mixing things up. When you say there’s more racism now, oh, there’s so much less racism than 20 years ago or 50 years ago. SHEPHERD: I think maybe overt. Yeah, I think it was a lot of overt, I don’t know, you and I disagree on that. WALTERS: Could I say something? There is racism in this country. That’s not new. There is racism against the President. That’s not new. But I disagree with putting the mosque and the Arizona laws. I think the Arizona laws have to do with losing jobs and people coming across the border to get those jobs. GOLDBERG: Then why don’t they say that? SHEPHERD: Barbara, when you- WALTERS: Please let me just finish. It is what they say. It is what they say. And the drug wars right across the border. If you had Canadians – and this doesn’t happen – and they were all coming and taking jobs and there were drug wars- GOLDBERG: What jobs are they taking? WALTERS: -you would find very much- They are taking, if you look, the reason (INAUDIBLE) HASSELBECK: The jobs that, frankly, no one wants. WALTERS: That’s right, but I don’t think it’s because they are Mexican or because they’re brown. I know you differ- (GOLDBERG SAYS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE) WALTERS: But let me just finish. GOLDBERG: Sorry, Barbara. Sorry. WALTERS: And I don’t think the mosque is because Muslims have a darker skin. That’s fear of terrorism. I don’t think we can mix everything up and say it’s all racism. SHEPHERD: When Jan Brewer signed into law, you know, a law that prohibits the children in school from having their ethnic studies, African-American studies, Mexican-American studies, and you’re prohibiting people from learning about their country and it’s targeting minorities, it certainly seems like it’s not because somebody is taking their jobs. WALTERS: But we’ve also had things about learning another language in school and whether languages should be taught in Spanish. What I’m saying is, of course there is racism, but I don’t think you can take everything that’s happening in this country and say, well- GOLDBERG: If you are targeting, if you are talking about Mexicans coming and taking your jobs, say that. Don’t say “illegal immigrants” when that’s not what you mean because people come from Canada and people come from England and people come from Africa, all over, and their- WALTERS: But they’re not coming en masse. GOLDBERG: -visas go away, but you know what. If you are going after illegal immigrants, then you have to go after all illegal immigrants, not just the brown ones. (AUDIENCE APPLAUSE) HASSELBECK: I agree with that. I absolutely think that it’s powerful, and I think, you know, we can’t spend millions and millions of dollars protecting borders in other nations if we cannot even control our own, and I do think that- GOLDBERG: I totally get you. I get you what you’re saying. WALTERS: All I’m saying is that, we’re agreeing that there is racism. But I’m just saying that there are other things. The mosque has to do with terrorism. It’s not just the, I know, we disagree. It’s not just the color. I don’t think that you can just do a blanket. GOLDBERG: I think it feels that way. It feels that way, and that’s the question I’m posing. It feels that way. HASSELBECK: I’d be asking that question if I were brown or black. I mean, I can totally understand how there is that sentiment. I can totally understand how there is that worry, and I think it’s legitimate. BEHAR: Do you lump the mosque in with Mexico? GOLDBERG: I do. Because, you know, I feel very strongly that you cannot take an entire religion and make it responsible for the kooky people because you can’t, because you have, you know, we don’t want to do that with the Catholic religion. We don’t want to take that religion and say, well, everybody is this, or the Christians or anybody else. BEHAR: If the attack on 9/11 was done by Christians, would they not allow a church? GOLDBERG: Well, that is a good question. That’s a very good question. BEHAR: (INAUDIBLE) but it’s a valid question to ask because, if the answer is yes, then you have a point. HASSELBECK: The Catholic Church right now could never afford that property, so that would answer that question.

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Ground Zero Imam’s Group Trained NY Times Mosque Reporter

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

A New York Times reporter, who co-authored two fawning articles on the Ground Zero mosque in 2009 and 2010, previously attended a media training program run by the mosque’s organizer, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, according to the group’s website. The journalist, Sharaf Mowjood, participated in an April, 2009 media training program led by Rauf’s American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA), reported the Investigative Project on Terrorism on Sept. 20. Rauf founded ASMA in 1997, and currently serves as the group’s CEO. Mowjood’s first article on the controversial Ground Zero mosque – a glowing, 1,200-word piece titled ” Muslim Prayers and Renewal Near Ground Zero ” – was co-authored with Ralph Blumenthal in December, 2009. All eight of the sources cited in the piece said they approved of the Ground Zero project or lauded its leader Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. Mowjood was also a contributing reporter to a flattering front-page profile on Rauf that ran in the Times on Aug. 22. ASMA, which ran the “Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow” media training session that Mowjood attended, pointed to the reporter’s work as evidence that its training program was effective. “Media trainings showed immediate results,” claimed a 2009 report on the ASMA website, noting that “Sharaf Mawjood [sic], a journalism student at Columbia University and trained at the [Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow] conference, wrote a compelling story about the Muslim community’s plan to establish a center near Ground Zero. The story was published on the front page of the New York Times with Sharaf as co-author.” According to the ASMA website, the conference “focused specifically on the media. It offered participants a diverse range of intensive media trainings, imparting the [Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow] in attendance with concrete tools to become effective media spokespeople.” The website said that the conference was held in partnership with the Cordoba Initiative, the organization behind the Ground Zero mosque – which is another group led by Rauf. The Times’ Metro editor Joe Sexton denied that Mowjood was trained by ASMA, telling the IPT that the reporter “attended a lecture sponsored by ASMA in 2008. He was not a presenter or participant. He signed the sign-in sheet.” But the IPT noted that a photo from the event, which shows Mowjood seated at a conference table littered with papers while watching another participant speak, “indicates the session was more than a lecture.” In addition to his ties with ASMA, Times’ reporter Mowjood also held a government lobbying position at the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) up until at least March of 2008. CAIR, which calls itself a “grassroots civil rights and advocacy group,” has come under fire in the past for its alleged ties to international terrorist organizations. Excerpts from Mowjood’s work could possibly pass as press releases for groups like CAIR or ASMA. His Times articles were extremely favorable toward Rauf and the Ground Zero mosque. “Those who have worked with [the imam] say if anyone could pull off what many regard to be a delicate project, it would be Imam Feisal [Rauf], whom they described as having built a career preaching tolerance and interfaith understanding,” read Mowjood’s enthusiastically pro-Rauf article written in December, 2009. Mowjood’s story made no mention of legitimate criticisms of the planned mosque. Instead, opponents of the prayer center were sources of potential anti-Muslim violence. “[T]here is anxiety among those involved or familiar with the project that it could very well become a target for anti-Muslim attacks,” wrote Mowjood and his co-author Ralph Blumenthal. “Joan Brown Campbell …who is a supporter of Imam Feisal, acknowledged the possibility of a backlash from those opposed to a Muslim presence at ground zero.” Mowjood was also a contributing reporter to an Aug. 22 Times article on Rauf, in which the imam is described as the leader of “a truly American brand of Islam [that] could modernize and moderate the faith worldwide.” The 1,900-word article quotes no critics of the mosque, featuring mainly friends of Rauf who say things like “[he] is an excellent schmoozer” and “[to] stereotype him as an extremist is just nuts.” Mowjood’s background as a CAIR lobbyist, as well as his attendance at an ASMA media training event, may conflict with the Times’ ethical standards. The paper’s code of ethics says that reporters “should be vigilant in avoiding any activity that might pose an actual or apparent conflict of interest and thus threaten the newspaper’s ethical standing.”

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Survey Shows Arabs More Opposed to GZ Mosque Than American Media

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Here’s a fact you’re not likely to see on tonight’s evening news broadcasts: According to a recent poll, Arabs living abroad are more likely to be opposed to the “Ground Zero Mosque” than the American media are. According to a recent survey by the Arabic online news service Elaph (Arabic version here ), 58 percent of Arabs think the construction should be moved elsewhere. And according to a Media Research Center study released last week, 55 percent of network news coverage of the debate has come down on the pro-Mosque side. The MRC study also found that on the question of whether opposition to the mosque demonstrated a widely held “Islamophobia” among Americans, 93 percent of network news soundbites answered ion the affirmative. In contrast, when asked whether the United States is a “tolerant” or “bigoted” society, 63 percent of Elaph respondents chose the former. So the Arab world has a more favorable view of Americans than our own media elite, and sides with the American people over the network news broadcasters on the hot-button issue of the day. Faoud Ajami highlighted the Elaph poll in his Wall Street Journal column on Monday: From his recent travels to the Persian Gulf-sponsored and paid for by the State Department-Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf returned with a none-too-subtle threat. His project, the Ground Zero Mosque, would have to go on. Its cancellation would risk putting “our soldiers, our troops, our embassies and citizens under attack in the Muslim world.” Leave aside the attempt to make this project a matter of national security. The self-appointed bridge between America and the Arab-Islamic world is a false witness to the sentiments in Islamic lands. Deputy Editorial Page Editor Bret Stephens and Editorial Board member Matthew Kaminski on the plan for a ‘Mosque at Ground Zero,’ and Senior Editorial Writer Joseph Rago reports on the Missouri results. The truth is that the trajectory of Islam in America (and Europe for that matter) is at variance with the play of things in Islam’s main habitat. A survey by Elaph, the most respected electronic daily in the Arab world, gave a decided edge to those who objected to the building of this mosque-58% saw it as a project of folly. Elaph was at it again in the aftermath of Pastor Terry Jones’s threat to burn copies of the Quran: It queried its readers as to whether America was a “tolerant” or a “bigoted” society. The split was 63% to 37% in favor of those who accepted the good faith and pluralism of this country. So a larger proportion of Arabs believe in that notion than American journalists. That is a sad indictment of the press in this country.

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UK Press Finds Possible ‘Muslim,’ ‘Islamic’ Plot to Kill Pope; AP Finds ‘Street Cleaners’

Posted on September 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Check out the following headlines in the British press about the arrest of six men who may have been planning to kill the Pope during his visit to England: “Muslim Plot to Kill Pope” (Daily Express) “Pope visit: Five suspected Islamist terrorists arrested over assassination plot” (Telegraph) “Police question six street cleaners held over plot to attack the Pope” (Daily Mail) (2nd paragraph: “Armed officers detained the men, all believed to be Muslims of North African origin, as they prepared to go on shift at a cleaning depot in Central London.”) Yet in neither of two separate articles by the Associated Press ( Nicole Winfield and David Stringer/Victor L. Simpson ) do the writers mention a possible extremist Muslim/Islamic connection. The writers simply identified the suspects as “London street cleaners.” Why is the mention of at least a possible Muslim connection warranted? Because if these men are indeed Muslims who had a lethal plan, it would not mark the first time that Islamic extremists have sought to kill the Pope. Only by sheer luck did Philippine police thwart a terrorist plot to kill Pope John Paul II during a visit to Manila in 1995 . If Ramzi Yousef did not accidently set some explosives on fire in a Manila apartment, the deadly plan, which was less than a week away , likely would have gone forward undiscovered. In addition, the Daily Express reported that the “alleged plot is believed to be the second planned assassination on the Pope recently . In April, Moroccan students Mohamed Hlal, 26, and Ahmed Errahmouni, 22, were deported from Italy, strengthening fears that Al Qaeda were seeking recruits there.” (This also refutes Stringer’s and Simpson’s claim in their article that “there have been no known plots against Benedict in his five-year papacy.”) Like other media outlets, the AP has downplayed the seriousness of the plot. However, the Daily Express quoted a Vatican source , “Publicly the incident is being played down but privately the arrests verge towards the serious side and came as a result of intelligence work .” The two articles by the AP follow dreadful coverage by the AP’s Nicole Winfield earlier this week. In an error-ridden and slanted piece on Monday (9/13/10), she falsely claimed that Pope Benedict XVI had “broken his own rule” in his plans to beatify 19th century Anglican convert John Henry Newman. (Read more about that here .) — Dave Pierre is the author of the heralded new book, Double Standard: Abuse Scandals and the Attack on the Catholic Church .

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‘Today’ Air-Brushes Muslim Identity Of Possible Anti-Pope Plotters

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Imagine six Israelis had been arrested in the US and charged with possibly plotting against a visiting ayatollah.  Rhetorical question: would Today have mentioned their nationality and/or religion? But when reportedly six Algerian Muslims were arrested in the UK and charged with possibly plotting against visiting Pope Benedict XVI, Today breathed not a word of their identity.  Reporter Nina Dos Santos spoke only of “the specter of terror” having reared its head in London, and of “yesterday’s arrests.”  But Dos Santos never said what form that specter took . . . or who was arrested.  It’s apparently early in the investigation, and possible a prosecution will not be pursued.  But Today could still have indicated the men’s identities without compromising the presumption of innocence. Watch as Dos Santos strides the PC tightrope. NINA DOS SANTOS: It’s day three of the Pope’s historic visit to Britain and so far there’s been no let-up in his busy agenda . . . On Day Two, a more complicated trip, to London, where the specter of terror reared its head. The Pontiff waved aside security concerns to bless the youngest of his flock . . . Well, security has been incredibly tight after yesterday’s arrests.  The challenge for London’s police force will come here at the city’s Hyde Park where later today the Pope is set to host a vigil for 65,000 people. Really, how ineffably odd for Dos Santos to mention “yesterday’s arrests,” without giving viewers any information as to who was arrested and why. 

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