Conservative Media: Norway Shooter Is Muslim-ish

[Truthseeker420]

When word first broke of the deadly bombing and mass shooting in Norway, there was little information available to suggest what party or parties were responsible. Much of the right-wing commentariat filled that information vacuum with their own prejudices, declaring that this was clearly an act of Islamic terrorism. It was later reported that the suspect in custody, Anders Behring Breivik, is a native Norwegian with extreme right-wing politics and ties to fundamentalist Christianity.

Among the conservative to rush to judgment were Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post, CNN contributor Erick Erickson, and Andrew Breitbart's BigPeace.com. The Breitbart website surmised that the attacks could have meant that Norway's "big Muslim problem" had "just blown up in its face." Erickson wrote via Twitter: "Terrorist bombing in Oslo. I bet you it was not Lutherans who did it."

Now that their uninformed and ideologically motivated guesswork has been proven wrong, these same conservatives are adopting the "No True Scotsman" fallacy and claiming that Breivik's abhorrent behavior was not that of a Christian, but more akin to that of a Muslim.

Conservative Media: Norway Shooter Is Muslim-ish | Media Matters for America

 

[Trajan]

we have discussed this, it appears Rubin et al took the initial report of some Muslim grp.'s claims to have been behind it and they ran with it.....they should have waited for more information, they have egg on their face......

next?

 

[Truthseeker420]

we have discussed this, it appears Rubin et al took the initial report of some Muslim grp.'s claims to have been behind it and they ran with it.....they should have waited for more information, they have egg on their face......

next?

There are so many thread abot this shooting it is hard to read them all. I can empathize with Rubin.

 

[Trajan]

Fox News and all those folks will do ANYTHING to push their agenda's.

They have the worst record for journalistic integrity in America, they also can boast the LEAST INFORMED listeners when given simple tests of the facts.

Deplorable that this is a major money maker for Rupert Murdoch.

Fox wasn't mentioned in the link, but by all means do go on....

 

[waltky]

Anybody smell an apology and suspension comin'?...

Glenn Beck: Young Norway victims like 'Hitler Youth'
26 July`11 - Conservative commentator's remarks on his radio show draw sharp criticism

Conservative commentator Glenn Beck compared the victims of the shooting spree at a Norway summer camp to Nazi's youth movement, drawing international ire. "There was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like the Hitler Youth, or whatever," Beck said on his radio show Monday, which is broadcast on more than 400 stations. "I mean, who does a camp for kids that's all about politics? Disturbing," Beck said about the Labour Party youth camp on the island of Utoya where 68 people, mostly teens, were killed.

Later in the same show, Beck described Anders Behring Breivik — the Norwegian suspect charged with last week's double massacres — as a "madmen." Former press secretary to Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, Torbjorn Eriksen, swiftly condemned the U.S. broadcaster for his remarks about the Utoya camp. "Young political activists have gathered at Utoya for over 60 years to learn about and be part of democracy, the very opposite of what the Hitler Youth was about," Eriksen told the Daily Telegraph. "Glenn Beck's comments are ignorant, incorrect and extremely hurtful."

The massacre on Utoya came hours after a bombing on a government building in central Oslo on Friday. The twin attacks killed at least 76 people, shocking a nation so unaccustomed to violence that police officers there are rarely armed. Eriksen told the Daily Telegraph Beck's remarks were a "new low" for the former Fox News pundit, who left the network earlier this year after sagging ratings and a litany of controversial quotes.

The Hitler Youth was a division of the Nazi Party, made up of teens and and children as young as 10, that existed from 1922 to 1945. Washington-based activist group The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence called Beck's comparison "absolutely disgusting."

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Yo Glen, how two-faced ya wanna get here?