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Fifth Column
Media in Muslim nations guilty of distortion too: American activist
2002-12-18
Malaysiakini
While Muslims around the world complained the American media distorted the image of Islam, an American activist claimed the media in Muslim countries were no better by their biased portrayal of the United States. After speaking at the Inter-Faith Cooperation in Fighting Terrorism forum in Kuala Lumpur yesterday, Jim Kenney told reporters that “thoughtless anti-Americanism” was prevalent in the Muslim world.
Well, I can certainly agree with that! Pray, tell on...
The forum was held in cooperation with the Academy for Civilisational Studies, Malaysia and Islamic Outreach arm of the Malaysian Islamic Youth Movement (Abim).
I think it's wonderful that Islamic countries are studying civilization...
The president of the Inter-religious Engagement Project said he heard numerous complaints about his country from Muslim friends in Malaysia. “The assumption that all Americans are imperialists, that all Americans support the war against Iraq, that all Americans support the administration of (US President) George W Bush, that all Americans know nothing about Islam, that Americans are opposed to Islam and that Americans think all Muslims are terrorists... Every single one of those statements, I have heard for more than once in the three days I have been in Malaysia,” said Kenney, who was also the former global director in the council for a Parliament of the World’s Religion .
Oh! He's damning with such faint praise!
  • We certainly wouldn't want people to think we're imperialists, would we? Y'see, if we were imperialists, then we'd have a real empire, and we'd tax the goobers we've been trying to protect from each other.
  • All Americans don't support war against Iraq, but the majority do, and for reasons that have nothing to do with Islam. Sammy could be a Lutheran, or practice Shinto, and we still wouldn't like him.
  • All Americans don't support the administration of G.W. Bush. Some have honest disagreement with the way he wants to do things, and some don't support him for the most noxious of reasons, to include a hatred of their own country, its institutions and its people.
  • Merkins used to know nothing about Islam. They've learned a lot in the past fifteen months. A lot of what they've learned, they haven't liked. Get used to it; we're not done learning yet.
  • Merkins aren't opposed to Islam, but they're opposed to Islamists. We don't like people who wear turbans, wave automatic weapons, scream "Jihad!" and try to kill people who weren't bothering them. We used to be indulgent of that crap, but then they succeeded in killing 3000 of us — who weren't bothering them. If we're ever indulgent of that crap again, the Islamists will kill another 3000 of us, or more. We're not going to roll over and let that happen. So get bent, turb.
  • We don't think all Muslims are terrorists. We think that most terrorists — with the exeption of the IRA, ETA, FARC and other weed outfits — are Muslim. We also think they're terrorists because they're Muslims. They interpret their holy book as calling for other people's blood.
  • I think Mr Kenney is an anus. But that's just my opinion, and nobody ever listens to me because I'm an old crank. But he's brown, he's puckered, and he has the aroma...
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#1  In the immortal words of Ice Cube:

"Ya done picked the wrong nigga ta FUCK with..."
Posted by: mojo   2002-12-18 14:59:31  

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