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[American_Jihad]

What the New York Daily News Got Wrong About God, Reality
Katrina Trinko / @KatrinaTrinko
December 03, 2015

The New York Daily News’ cover in the aftermath of the tragic San Bernardino, Calif., shootings is being heralded as provocative and challenging.

“God Isn’t Fixing This,” blares the cover, which features tweets from Republicans urging prayer after the shooting, and then launches into a lecture: “As the latest batch of innocent Americans are left lying in pools of blood, cowards who could truly end gun scourge continue to hide behind meaningless platitudes.”

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“’Daily News’ provokes with cover on Calif. shooting: ‘God isn’t fixing this’” is USA Today’s headline, while “The New York Daily News’s very provocative front page on the San Bernardino shooting” is the Washington Post’s.

But is it such a provocative claim?

Talk to a person of faith, particularly someone who believes both in God’s goodness and that human beings have free will, and you’ll find that the “God Isn’t Fixing This” cover is a “dog bites man” kind of story.

Religious people aren’t idiots who have overlooked the fact that despite all the hours they spend on their knees praying for suffering to end, that suffering persists, that evil continues. Heck, the prayer that Jesus gave Christians specifically includes the line “deliver us from evil,” and Christ hardly suggested there was an expiration date on that line’s relevance. (Fun thought experiment: What would the New York Daily News have to change about today’s headline if the paper had a Jerusalem bureau a couple of millennia ago covering the crucifixion?)

Yet some are seeing this cover as a gotcha.

“New York Daily News Skewers Politicians Refusing To Act On Gun Violence,” crows the Huffington Post in a headline, while Business Insider announces that “Hard-hitting Daily News cover blasts Republicans for only offering ‘prayers’ after latest shooting.”

So let’s imagine an alternative cover: “New Laws Can’t Fix This.”

Because they can’t.

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What the New York Daily News Got Wrong About God, Reality

Obongo's thoughts and prayers:
Obama: Thoughts and prayers for victims - Bing video

 

[American_Jihad]

San Bernardino: Another Jihad Attack, Another Cover-Up
Mainstream media reporters don’t even need to show up for work. They can file their stories beforehand.
December 4, 2015
Robert Spencer

The San Bernardino jihad massacre is the latest jihad atrocity, but it’s just like the last one, and just like the next one: it has played out in exactly the same way that the last jihad atrocity did, and in just the same way that the next one will play out as well. Mass killings by “radicalized” Muslims are followed by earnest statements from the President and the mainstream media that we must not rush to judgment, that the motive of the shooters was unclear, that we need gun control, that we need to address the real threat of climate change, that Muslims fear “Islamophobia,” and so on. It’s always a new massacre, but it’s always the same story.

Surely by now mainstream media reporters don’t even need to roll out of bed to file their stories. How much legwork does it take to write, “Syed Farook and Tashfeen Melik murdered 14 people at a Christmas party in San Bernardino; yes, Farook was a devout Muslim, but authorities are searching for a motive; moderate Muslims condemned the attack and said they feared anti-Muslim backlash”? Change the names and date, change the number of victims and the place, and they’ve filed that story dozens of times. They can just take out their last New York Times or CNN piece on the Paris jihad attack, change the details, hit send, and pour a cold one.

A few years ago, a couple of writers for Salon.com showed up at a panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on which I was speaking, and were deservedly ridiculed after they were caught writing their story before the panel had even begun. But you can’t really blame them for trying to save some time: their story was going to be the same “Racist Bigoted Islamophobes Say Egregiously Evil Things” no matter what anyone on the panel really did say, so why not get a head start on the writing?

With San Bernardino, and every jihad attack, it works the same way. The media trims the facts to fit the Procrustean bed of their narrative, such that, in this case, most of the American public will likely never hear that San Bernardino jihad murderer Syed Farook had been “radicalized”; or that he had been in touch with Muslims being investigated for jihad terror activity; or that he spent his free time in the mosque, memorizing the Qur’an.

If they do hear about such things at all from the mainstream media, their significance won’t be explained: no one on CBS or NBC or ABC or PBS or NPR or in the New York Times or the Washington Post will remind his or her audience that the Islamic State and other jihad groups consider themselves to be at war with the United States, and have explicitly and repeatedly called upon Muslims in the U.S. to commit mass murder of American civilians. Would anyone have wondered about the motive of a German national who slaughtered fourteen Americans on U.S. soil in 1943? Of course no one would have, but that was a long time ago. Now we are engaged in a great ignored war, a war that only one side is fighting, a war in which enemy combatants are tried in civilian courts – as if they were criminals, not enemy soldiers -- by a government that desperately wishes to maintain the illusion that there is no war at all.

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San Bernardino: Another Jihad Attack, Another Cover-Up

 

[American_Jihad]

Postpartum Depression, Christmas Rage: CNN Scrambles to Cover Up Muslim Attack
"Hybrid workplace jihad, hybrid workplace jihad, "hybrid workplace jihad."
December 5, 2015
Daniel Greenfield

Even after the revelation that Farook Syed's wife, Tashfeen Malik, posted allegiance to ISIS during the San Bernardino massacre, the media is still frantically scrambling to retain the workplace violence narrative.

ABC News' Brian Ross coined the term "hybrid workplace jihad" and described the Jihadist as an "All-American Boy". Because nothing says All-American like ISIS. CNN's Erin Burnett tried to claim Malik might have had postpartum depression.

So was her husband also suffering from postpartum psychosis? When Nidal Malik Hassan carried out the Fort Hood Massacre, the media tried to suggest he had contracted PTSD from being around soldiers. Did Farook Syed contract postpartum psychosis from his wife?

Initially CNN and other media outlets had tried to pass off the attack as a response to the Christmas party. A CNN guest suggested the holiday party had been somehow offensive to poor Farook.

But the amount of planning and training that went into the attack made the idea that it had been whipped up in 20 minutes ridiculously implausible even for the "Benghazi was a protest" crowd. So they began digging to find some earlier way that the people he killed might have "discriminated" against Syed.

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So CNN got really desperate. It began emphasizing a claim by the Farook family lawyer that someone at the office had made fun of his beard.

The good news then that it's not ISIS. It's not Muslim terrorism. It has nothing to do with Islam. Farook and his wife just killed a bunch of people and pledged allegiance to ISIS because someone, somewhere, made fun of his beard.

Whew. Isn't that better?

It's not Muslim terrorism. It's a man-caused hybrid workplace Jihad.

Postpartum Depression, Christmas Rage: CNN Scrambles to Cover Up Muslim Attack

 

[American_Jihad]

Obama and the Media's Muslim "Fear" Meme
Do you think we need to get serious about fighting Islamic terrorism? Stop being so afraid.
December 7, 2015
Daniel Greenfield

Obama and his media allies have responded to the latest Muslim terror attack in America by condescendingly lecturing Americans about their "fear". Fear is their argument to anyone questioning their policies.

Don't want to bring 1,300 Syrian ISIS supporters to America? It's just fear.

Do you think we need to get serious about fighting Islamic terrorism? Stop being so afraid.

Maybe it's time to talk about Islamic terrorism? Stop with the FEAR already!

The message is that law enforcement (in its current crippled politically correct form) has this covered already and anyone who disagrees is speaking out of fear.

The New York Times headlined its editorial, "Fear Ignorance, Not Muslims".

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There's no equivalence between Muslim terror and the so-called anti-Muslim backlash that the media screeches about to the exclusion of actually addressing the Islamic terror threat.

Attorney General Lynch has announced that she is most worried about anti-Muslim rhetoric. That would explain why the San Bernardino massacre happened. Our top law enforcement figures are too busy trying to censor criticism of Islam to fight Islamic terrorism.

Obama and the Media's Muslim "Fear" Meme

 

[American_Jihad]

Chuck Todd Calls LA Schools Threat 'Successful Terrorist Attack'
12.15.2015
News
Trey Sanchez

Appearing on MSNBC Tuesday, Meet the Press' Chuck Todd called the terror threat against the city-wide Los Angeles Unified School District (which has now been labeled a "hoax") "a successful terrorist attack," but one with "fear" not "blood."

“This was a successful terrorist attack today. It wasn’t blood, it was fear. Okay, and fear shut down the second-largest school system," Todd said.

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Chuck Todd Calls LA Schools Threat 'Successful Terrorist Attack'

 

[American_Jihad]

Dec 23 2015, 1:35 pm ET
Ted Cruz: Cartoon of Daughters 'Has No Place in Politics'
by Hallie Jackson and Henry Austin

Sen. Ted Cruz hammered the Washington Post on Wednesday for publishing an online editorial cartoon depicting his two young daughters as dancing monkeys, telling a crowd in Tulsa that the attack "has no place in politics."

"Not too much ticks me off, but making fun of my girls, that'll do it," Cruz said in response to the cartoon, which has since been taken down.

"It used to be for a long time the rules across the board that kids are off limits," he added. "That should be the rules. Don't mess with our kids. Don't mess with my kids. Don't mess with Marco's kids. Don't mess with Hillary's kid. Don't mess with anybody's kids. Leave kids alone And if the media wants to attack and ridicule every Republican, well that's what they're gonna do. But leave our kids alone."

"Let's argue about marginal tax rates. Let's argue about policy. But don't be attacking five year-old girls. That has no place in politics."

Cruz also tweeted a cartoon of Hillary Clinton walking her "lapdogs," the Washington Post and the New York Times.

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Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz launched an "emergency" fundraising appeal after the Washington Post ran an animation online showing his daughters as monkeys. TedCruz.org
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Cruz accused the "liberal media" of attempting to "attack and destroy me (and my family) by any means necessary."

"This is an emergency — all hands on deck," his fundraising letter added. "Click here to make an instant, emergency contribution and help me fight back."

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz shops for jewelry with his daughters Catherine, left, and Caroline during a campaign stop in Deerfield, N.H., on Oct. 2. Jim Cole / AP

The animation by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes sparked immediate controversy and was later taken down by the Post.

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Ted Cruz: Cartoon of Daughters 'Has No Place in Politics'

 

[American_Jihad]

Palestinian Murderers Shot Dead, Media Label Them Victims
Typical of the anti-Israel mainstream media to paint the terrorists as the victims.
12.23.2015
News
Mark Tapson

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An Associated Press headline about the Palestinian terror attack neglected even to mention the Israeli victims or to make it clear that Palestinians were the attackers. Instead, it conveyed to readers simply that it was Palestinians who were killed in a stabbing attack:

The New York Times website also published the AP story, and ran with the same misleading, anti-Israel headline:

CAMERA contacted both outlets to call for immediate corrections, and shortly thereafter the Associated Press did marginally (and probably grudgingly) revise its headline to read, "2 Palestinian attackers killed, 2 Israelis die in Jerusalem."

Still waiting for a correction from The New York Times.

Palestinian Murderers Shot Dead, Media Label Them Victims

 

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The Media's Lies About the Mullahs’ 'Elections'
The truth about Iran's "reformers."
February 26, 2016
Dr. Majid Rafizadeh

The mainstream liberal media seems to be deliberately misleading the public about the truth of the two upcoming major elections in the Islamic Republic. The media has called these elections "consequential," "significant," and "critical" in defining the next leadership of the Iranian regime and its domestic and foreign policies.

If one had no prior knowledge of Iran and read all the recent analysis about the Islamic Republic he or she could be forgiven is they believed Iran is governed by a democratic, open-minded, civilized and fair political system.

Either the mainstream media is guilty of extreme guile by pursuing an agenda to deliberately mislead the American public or sheer stupidity by failing to grasp the complexities and nuances of Iran’s politics.

Here are the facts about Iran’s political system and the upcoming elections.

The first elections are linked to the Assembly of Experts that consists of 86 clerics. Before a candidate is permitted to run, they are vetted by the hardline organization, the Council of Guardians. The twelve members of the Guardian Council are appointed directly (six members) and also indirectly (6 are nominated by the head of Judiciary, which, in turn, is appointed by the Supreme Leader).

Simply put, the twelve members of the Guardian Council owe their positions to the Supreme Leader (Ayatollah Khamenei) and reject any candidate for the Assembly of Experts whose viewpoints do not align with Khamenei’s.

By law, the sole responsibility of the Assembly of Experts is to appoint Iran’s Supreme Leader. In other words, for the last 28 years this political body has been sitting idly by and getting high salaries while waiting for Khamenei to die. But in practice do they really appoint the next Supreme Leader?

The only time that the Assembly of Experts appointed a Supreme Leader was in 1989 when Khomeini - the founder of the Islamic Republic - died. According to former President Rafsanjani’s writings, it took the 86 members only a couple of hours to appoint Khamenei.

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The Media's Lies About the Mullahs’ 'Elections'

 

[Rambunctious]

The American news media is as corrupt as the day is long. When the hanging begins we start with them.

 

[American_Jihad]

How the Media Exploit — and Omit — Pictures to Islam’s Benefit (WARNING: Graphic)
Why one drowned child was deemed much more “newsworthy” than many murdered children.
May 9, 2016
Raymond Ibrahim

Originally published by PJ Media.

Why did the so-called “mainstream media,” or MSM, widely disseminate the picture of Alan Kurdi—the three-year-old Syrian child who drowned in the Mediterranean—while never publishing pictures of other Mideast children who, worse than accidentally drowning, were intentionally murdered?

Did you, for instance, ever see this more recent picture?

This little boy was murdered a few weeks ago, on March 27 -- Easter Sunday -- when Islamic suicide bombers, targeting Christians, attacked a crowded park, killing dozens of people, mostly women and children.

What about this baby in diaper, lying dead under a church pew?

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He—along with some 60 Christian worshippers—was killed when Islamic jihadis attacked their church service in Baghdad in 2010 (click here to see what happened to the adults—including the Muslim suicide bombers).

Did you see this picture?

It was of the “youngest hostage” captured by ISIS/Freedom Fighters after they took the predominantly Christian town of Kessab, Syria, in 2014. Based on precedent [1], he’s likely dead now.

What about this 12-year-old Coptic Christian girl — also found lying dead on the Mediterranean coast?

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The above pictures of Christian and other “infidel” children mutilated and murdered by Muslims destroy that narrative, so you never got to see them before.

But now you have them, along with access to social media and contact information for mainstream outlets. Let’s see how they respond.

How the Media Exploit — and Omit — Pictures to Islam’s Benefit (WARNING: Graphic)

 

[American_Jihad]

Media's New Muslim Heroine Really Likes Hitler
May 23, 2016
Daniel Greenfield

The media fell in love with Zakia Belkhiri, a Muslim settler in Belgium, took some mocking selfies at an anti-Islam rally. And the media quickly fell in love leading to viral gibberish propaganda headlines like this from all the usual sources.

Young Muslim woman trolls anti-Muslim demo with defiant selfies - Mashable

This young Muslim woman brilliantly countered an anti-Muslim protest - Vox

Muslim woman's cheeky selfie with anti-Islam group goes viral - BBC News

Hijab-Clad Woman Brilliantly Shuts Down Anti-Muslim Protesters - Carbonated.tv

The media painted it as a defiance of bigotry, but Zakia was quite the bigot.

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Well Hitler and anti-Semitism are very popular in the Muslim world. Muslims are not a minority. They're a supremacist majority. So such behavior is only to be expected.

Media's New Muslim Heroine Really Likes Hitler

 

[American_Jihad]

Media Fail: Only 29% of Americans Believe Russians Impacted Election
Epic Fail
12.20.2016
News
Paul Bois

The media so desperately tried to get Americans to believe Russian hacking influenced the outcome of the 2016 election in hopes the Electoral College could be swayed against Trump. A new poll shows they have once again failed epically.

According to a Politico/Morning Consult poll only 29 percent of Americans believe the following statement: "We know with near certainty that Russia is responsible for the hacking and cyber-attacks that impacted the U.S. elections. Numerous U.S. intelligence agencies have used advanced techniques to determine Russia is responsible for these attacks and we are only playing into an unfriendly country’s hand when we deny this."

Unsurprisingly, the numbers were fairly consistent "along party lines," with most Democrats going for broke to believe that a Russian conspiracy handed Trump the election, or as James Carville hilariously put it: an FBI-GOP-KGB Conspiracy!

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Media Fail: Only 29% of Americans Believe Russians Impacted Election

 

[blastoff]

Oh, c'mon. If the Russians and others didn't hack Hillary's unsecured server containing State Dept. classified info, we're supposed to believe they did hack various organizations who had some level/type of security?

Yeah, I guess that makes sense in the loony world of liberaldom.

 

[American_Jihad]

WaPo Reporter Shooting Self in Eye with Toy Gun is ‘Perfect Metaphor for Media in 2016’
Normally, journalists just shoot themselves in the foot.
12.29.2016
News
Trey Sanchez

(This gun looks like something the liberals or islam would want to use...)

A Washington Post reporter admitted in an article published on Thursday that he shot himself in the eye with a toy gun after coming home all pumped up over digging up scoop on Donald Trump.

David Fahrenthold spent a year covering Trump and published a memoir of sorts bragging about how his reporting led to proving that Trump wasn’t the “Teflon candidate” he was touted to be. Specifically, it was Fahrenthold’s pressing of Trump’s charity donations that put him in the spotlight for a brief moment in time during the campaign:

Because my stories had led to this angry moment, I was on “Morning Joe” and CNN and Lawrence O’Donnell. The New York Times and Le Monde referenced my work. My dad wrote to say how proud he was of me. I read pundits predicting that the presidential race itself would change. They said the old trope about Trump — that he was a Teflon candidate, immune to accountability — was now disproved.

Caught up in the excitement of his new-found 15 minutes of fame, or as he put it, “still full of caffeine and do-gooder energy,” Fahrenthold came home and felt like cleaning up the mess his kids left behind. That’s when he saw it:

Among the clutter on the coffee table, I found my 4-year-old’s Party Popper, a bright yellow gun that fired confetti. For some reason, I held the gun up to my eye and looked down the barrel, the way Yosemite Sam always does.

It looked unloaded.

Then, for some reason, I pulled the trigger.

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A BBC Global correspondent read this story and came to an appropriate conclusion in this era of "fake news:"

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But it’s not all Fahrenthold’s fault; he just referenced the handy “Journalist’s Guide to Firearms Identification” and “glitter gun” wasn’t on the list:

WaPo Reporter Shooting Self in Eye with Toy Gun is ‘Perfect Metaphor for Media in 2016’

 

[Media_Truth]

FOX News lies! FOX News lies! FOX News lies! FOX News lies! FOX News lies! FOX News lies!

 

[Abishai100]

The Celebrity Craze


Imagine the following media-sociology dialogue about 'Sophism sarcasm' between Shiva (Hindu god of destruction) and Vishnu (Hindu god of protection).


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SHIVA: I like Don Imus and Rush Limbaugh.
VISHNU: I prefer Howard Stern and Johnny Carson.
SHIVA: Comedy is a convenient tool for sociology critique.
VISHNU: Capitalism and 'indirect democracy' require constant evaluation.
SHIVA: Do you like BBC or CNN?
VISHNU: For election coverage, CNN is better.
SHIVA: For humanitarian news, BBC is better.
VISHNU: Agreed. You know why Ellen DeGeneres is popular?
SHIVA: Why?
VISHNU: She's made it 'cool' to be lesbian.

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Wimbledon (Film)

 

[American_Jihad]

FOX News lies! FOX News lies! FOX News lies! FOX News lies! FOX News lies! FOX News lies!

Another left-wing moron, who's time has ended...

 

[American_Jihad]

Mainstream Media Bellyache Over Trump Calling on Lesser-Known Journalists
Like little babies, they’ve never learned to share.
2.13.2017
News
Trey Sanchez

Video:

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Riddel rightly notes, “The mainstream media – especially CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post – have largely been combative of Mr. Trump’s presidency. Why would they think they would then be given preferential treatment at his press conferences? Because they’re the establishment? There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding here.”

It’s good to see the leftist media lose their grip on the narrative. It’s been a long time coming.

Mainstream Media Bellyache Over Trump Calling on Lesser-Known Journalists

 

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MEDIA MISFEASANCE EXPOSED IN “EYELESS IN GAZA” DOCUMENTARY
Exposing the silent abettors of a terrorist movement.
March 6, 2017

Noah Beck

Reprinted from InvestigativeProject.org.

Hamas operatives burst into the Associated Press (AP) Gaza bureau during the 2014 war with Israel, angered by a picture shot by an AP photographer. Gunmen threatened the AP staff, which never reported the incident.

The incident shows that Hamas can control what journalists report, and what they don’t, former AP Middle East reporter Matti Friedman says in a new documentary, “Eyeless in Gaza.”

Producer Robert Magid’s 50-minute film, which is screening via pay-per-view online, examines the flaws and challenges in reporting on the 50-day war.

Magid said he wanted to “set the record straight and provide context,” after being appalled at news coverage that ignored Hamas practice of launching rockets from civilian areas. That omission allowed the media to push a false narrative that “Israel was callous in their bombing.”

The sullied moral image of Israel that emerged from the media’s biased coverage sparked public outrage and anti-Semitism. “Muslims will crush the Jews as they did in Khyber 14 centuries ago,” protestors in the film shout. Another says: “I see the Jews in Israel as total Nazis.”

Reporters routinely failed to show the history leading up to the conflict or how Hamas instigated it. Magid provides viewers with some brief historical context: Israel expelled 10,000 of its own citizens from the Gaza Strip in 2005 and offered the Palestinians their first chance at self-rule. But Hamas took over the territory and turned it into an Islamist terror state, rather than a model for responsible self-rule and peaceful coexistence with Israel.

Viewers see how attack tunnels exemplify Hamas’ policy of diverting public resources to pursue terrorism. Israel allows high-quality cement into Gaza in response to the humanitarian need to rebuild damaged buildings, only to discover the same cement being used to build massive underground tunnels whose only purpose is to target Israelis. Each tunnel costs about $3 million, and an Israeli military spokesman interviewed in the film estimates $100 million in resources were diverted.

Despite Israel’s unprecedented efforts to minimize Gaza’s civilian casualties, the film shows how Hamas works to maximize them.

“The Israeli army called me, they asked me to leave Al-Sajaeya,” says one Gazan. “We stayed at home because Al Aksa and Al Quds [Hamas] radio stations told us ‘Don’t leave your homes, it’s rumors.’ We remained in our homes, but when we saw the bombs pouring on us, we miraculously got out…Five of my brothers’ sons were killed, and the houses destroyed.”

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) went to great lengths to spare civilians, issuing warnings by leaflets, SMS messages, the “roof knock” technique, and social media. Col. Richard Kemp, the former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, notes in the film “the immense efforts that the IDF took when fighting in this very challenging environment, to minimize the number of civilian deaths [even though] Hamas used human shields virtually constantly. They deliberately site their weapon systems, and their fighters among the civilian population.”

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Media Misfeasance Exposed in “Eyeless in Gaza” Documentary

 

[American_Jihad]

MEDIA FREAKS OUT OVER "RACIST" ISIS LAPTOP BAN
March 22, 2017

Daniel Greenfield

Here's what happened.

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The UK quickly followed with its own ban. And with good reason.

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But to no one's surprise, the social justice media sites began screaming like stuck pigs.

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And of course the pro-terrorist site The Intercept had to come up with a crazy conspiracy theory.

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Glenn Greenwald will be on RT and Al Aqsa to discuss it shortly, I'm sure. And there's the Washington/Amazon post. Once upon a time it was a serious newspaper. Now it's a social justice blog.

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It's a mystery. Since we know Islamic terrorism doesn't exist.

Media Freaks Out Over "Racist" ISIS Laptop Ban