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2015-04-14 Southeast Asia

Thai police suspect Muslim rebels behind southern killings

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Posted by trailing wife 2015-04-14 || || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
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#1 headline is wrong. Should say "Islamist" rebels instead of "Muslim" rebels.

YNet news simply repeats this error from AP because AP journalists along with AAP reporters and every news house in the free world have not bothered to highlight to staff the importance of understanding the difference between a person of Muslim faith and a follower of fascist Islamism who wants to install the rule of Sharia.

Every day we reap the whirlwind of this original sin first brought in when the intelligence agencies told George Bush not to call the global conflict we are in a "war on fascist Islamism" which it is - instead he was persuaded to declare "war on terrorism", a tactic.

And all news agencies from that time forward were encouraged to pretend that is what it is.

So they didn't bother to educate themselves on the difference between Islamist and Muslim or to ensure their newsrooms produced accurate copy

As a direct result of this our governments have made suspects out of every citizen. They refuse to ideologically profile the enemy in case that is "racist" another stupid conflation of concepts that have nothing in common.

Posted by anon1 2015-04-14 04:25|| 2015-04-14 04:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Well said, anon1.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-04-14 06:34|| 2015-04-14 06:34|| Front Page Top

#3 thanks TW, i've been trying for a year to get the Australian media to understand the importance of accurate reporting. Here we've seen the word "Islamist" hidden entirely from some Charlie Hebdo reports and then "Muslim" deliberately and gratuitously put in the headlines about the police officer who incidentally happened to be Muslim who was killed in the shoot-out with the Charlie Hebdo killers.

I try and try but it's just throwing pebbles in a deep well. You never even hear the splash.

Posted by anon1 2015-04-14 06:50|| 2015-04-14 06:50|| Front Page Top

#4 anon1, I'm afraid that there is little distinction between "Islamist" and Moslem.

From all I've ever read the difference is only a matter of personal action. Islamists kill and Moslems cheer them on.

Can you identify which schools of Islamic thought do not believe in Sharia? Or, do not subscribe to all the tenets in the Koran and Haddith? If you do not believe in Sharia and all the teachings of Mohammed can you really claim to be a Moslem?

From what I've seen coming out of the important mosques, Al-azhar, al-Haram etc. not one major Islamic preacher has denounced any of the vile tenets of their faith. Murder of infedels, jizayah, taqquia all comes from the core text which is infallible and immutable, no?

Posted by AlanC 2015-04-14 15:12|| 2015-04-14 15:12|| Front Page Top

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