Article

2005-05-19 Home Front: Culture Wars

Coulter: 'NEWSWEEK DISSEMBLED, MUSLIMS DISMEMBERED!'

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Steve White 2005-05-19 00:52|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Dhimmi Watch: Palestinians used Bible toilet paper

Posted by 3dc 2005-05-19 01:42|| 2005-05-19 01:42|| Front Page Top

#2 NRO - Andrew C. McCarthy: The Smug Delusion of Base Expectations
...Here's an actual newsflash â and one, yet again, that should be news to no one: The reason for the carnage here was, and is, militant Islam. Nothing more.

Newsweek merely gave the crazies their excuse du jour. But they didn't need a report of Koran desecration to fly jumbo jets into skyscrapers, to blow up embassies, or to behead hostages taken for the great sin of being Americans or Jews. They didn't need a report of Koran desecration to take to the streets and blame the United States while enthusiastically taking innocent lives. This is what they do.

The outpouring of righteous indignation against Newsweek glides past a far more important point. Yes, we're all sick of media bias. But "Newsweek lied and people died" is about as worthy a slogan as the scurrilous "Bush lied and people died" that it parrots. And when we engage in this kind of mindless demagoguery, we become just another opportunistic plaintiff â no better than the people all too ready to blame the CIA because Mohammed Atta steered a hijacked civilian airliner into a big building, and to sue the Port Authority because the building had the audacity to collapse from the blow.

What are we saying here? That the problem lies in the falsity of Newsweek's reporting? What if the report had been true? And, if you're being honest with yourself, you cannot say â based on common sense and even ignoring what we know happened at Abu Ghraib â that you didn't think it was conceivably possible the report could have been true. Flushing the Koran down a toilet (assuming for argument's sake that our environmentally correct, 3.6-liters-per-flush toilets are capable of such a feat) is a bad thing. But rioting? Seventeen people killed? That's a rational response?

Sorry, but I couldn't care less about Newsweek. I'm more worried about the response and our willful avoidance of its examination. Afghanistan has been an American reconstruction project for nearly four years. Pakistan has been a close American "war on terror" ally for just as long. This is what we're getting from the billions spent, the lives lost, and the grand project of exporting nonjudgmental, sharia-friendly democracy? A killing spree? Over this?...

Posted by 3dc 2005-05-19 01:49|| 2005-05-19 01:49|| Front Page Top

#3 I am ready when someone gets the rope Ann.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-05-19 01:57|| 2005-05-19 01:57|| Front Page Top

#4 The sooner Islam experiences its liberal reformation (some f*cking chance) the better for the world. Remember the Bamiyan Buddhas. Bastards.

Posted by Howard UK 2005-05-19 06:36|| 2005-05-19 06:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Here's an actual newsflash â and one, yet again, that should be news to no one: The reason for the carnage here was, and is, militant Islam. Nothing more.

Here's another news flash. I don't give a f*ck about Muslims. What I care about is winning this war and Newsweak isn't helping; they are in fact trying to lose this war for us.

It seems Andy has jumped to the abysmally false and riotously hilarious conclusion that my outrage against Newweak was because of the riots in Afghanistan. What do I care if Moose Limbs want to give the world a demonstration of why they should be eliminated from the face of the earth?

Posted by badanov">badanov 2005-05-19 07:38|| http://www.rkka.org]">[http://www.rkka.org] 2005-05-19 07:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Remember when Coulter was a non touchable for one over-the-top post 9/11 comment. Well 4 years later she is picked up by Yahoo, she is on the cover of Time and best of all, her writing is as sharp as ever.

Posted by mhw 2005-05-19 07:59|| 2005-05-19 07:59|| Front Page Top

#7 What if the report had been true?
Yeah, what if?
It still doesn't rank with cutting heads off, blowing up children, flying planes into buildings and other sundry barbarity Islam visits on the civilized world daily.
A religon that gives legions of pyscho's and sociopaths justification for slaughter.
One of these days I hope we get serious about winning this thing and smack the living shit out of the entire Egyptian/Saudi/Syrian/Iranian cesspit.

Posted by JerseyMike 2005-05-19 08:16|| 2005-05-19 08:16|| Front Page Top

#8 I had to laugh when I saw Ann mention Mapplethorpe's "Piss Christ" exhibit. I was thinking of that same thing last week when this whole "flush the Quran" story came out. Yes, there was an outrage, but it certainly didn't result in riots and one score dead in the streets.

I think Newsweek is pathetic and obviously biased in their reporting, but regardless there are too many Islamofascists ready to kill any innocent in their way in Allah's name, and they're the real enemy.

Posted by Dar">Dar 2005-05-19 08:45|| 2005-05-19 08:45|| Front Page Top

#9 The AP story quoted an Afghan as saying "the Arab told us" upon his return from Gitmo. Real credible source, right out of the jihadi handbook.

Posted by Danielle 2005-05-19 09:50|| 2005-05-19 09:50|| Front Page Top

#10 Serranos "piss Christ" is one of the more plain spoken, confessional items from the Left; It says everything about what the Left thinks of Christianity: Who they are, what they stand for, and what they plan to do. (something you won't otherwise get out of them)
1) the left wants to place everything Christian, our books, our creed, our doctrine, our Houses of worship, in the toilet along with human waste, and flush it away, and obliterate it forevermore.(Think...uh...oh yeah..Recycling!). And it is the hand of Liberalhocks "moderate, centrist, go-military!" Hilery! placing the desecrated symbol of Christs sacrifice and our redemption, into the excrement, or FTM, on the fire with the other books.

2) Remember, the cross is not just a symbol. It is the physical embodiment of THE STATE. A State that murders its perceived opposition. And a religious process based on free will and individual pursuit is incompatable with the the Left, and the cult of personality of apostates such as Hilllery, Billlerie, alGore, et al.

Posted by an dalusian dog">an dalusian dog 2005-05-19 11:01|| 2005-05-19 11:01|| Front Page Top

#11 This is classic Coulter. She clearly illustrates the hypocrisy of the MSM while pointing out where the real atrocities and affront to religion are taking place. It raises the same question that was asked during the Clinton years...where is the outrage?

Posted by remoteman 2005-05-19 12:18|| 2005-05-19 12:18|| Front Page Top

#12 Actually, Steve White, this piece by Ann C isn't "red-meat" at all. It's completely logical, matter-of-fact, calm and with very few snarky touches. In good lawyerly fashion she sets out two diametrically opposed cases of MSM behavior and simply asks, Why the huge discrepancy?

Isn't it f***ing obvious by now that no amount of PR, no amount of bowing and scraping, be it in Bush's "religion of Peace" idiotic mantra or in MSM dhimmitude, will persuade these idiots of our good intentions? There are only two ways to fundamentally alter most muslims' opinions of the US: either

a) withdraw from Iraq immediately and abandon all support for Israel while simultaneously championing Hamas and Hezbullah's cause; or

b) trounce Zarqawi and any other islamist nutter in the only arena that really counts, the battlefield.

This is not a war of ideas. It's a war against primitves, period. The PC/PR effort is a huge waste of time and energy.

Posted by thibaud (aka lex) 2005-05-19 12:46|| 2005-05-19 12:46|| Front Page Top

#13 The title is more provocative than the contents. Lex is quite right: The facts, logic, and common sense are so overwhelmingly on her side that she, rightly, decides to just lay out the facts and trust the american reader to do the right thing.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2005-05-19 15:44|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2005-05-19 15:44|| Front Page Top

#14 The PR effort is shaping up as a typically self-absorbed Beltway exercise, directed mainly for our own consumption and benefit rather than for any muslim's. They couldn't care less-- otherwise, Abu G would have had far more impact than the Piss Koran fable.

Posted by thibaud (aka lex) 2005-05-19 16:15|| 2005-05-19 16:15|| Front Page Top

#15 Carry on the fight for Andrew Sullivan's heart and mind!

Posted by thibaud (aka lex) 2005-05-19 16:16|| 2005-05-19 16:16|| Front Page Top

#16 Al-Jazeera also broadcast a TV miniseries last year based on the "Protocols of the Elders Of Zion." (I didn't see it, but I hear James Brolin was great!)

Now THAT'S classic Ann!

Posted by eLarson 2005-05-19 17:12|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2005-05-19 17:12|| Front Page Top

00:05 trailing wife
23:56 badanov
23:41 Get Real
23:33 3dc
23:30 Frank G
23:27 3dc
23:26 badanov
23:25 3dc
23:22 Get Real
23:21 badanov
23:01 Joe
22:57 3dc
22:53 Frank G
22:50 3dc
22:44 trailing wife
22:42 trailing wife
22:37 Get Real
22:36 Frank G
22:35 phil_b
22:33 GK
22:33 Alaska Paul
22:31 .com
22:26 3dc
22:25 .com