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Last edited Sun Jul 26, 2015, 11:14 AM - Edit history (2)
Roughly 10 hours after another white, apparently racist Christian senselessly opened fire in a public place in the American South, Politico (7/23/15) published what has to be one of the worst pieces of Islamophobic pseudo-journalism this side of Pam Geller.
In his piece Tennessee Is the Capital of American Jihad, author and War on Terror think-tanker James Kitfield sets out to draw a connection between the the recent Chattanooga shooter Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez and the case of Carlos Bledsoe, who shot up a recruiting station in Arkansas in 2009. The fact that both attacked recruiting stations, both lived in Tennessee and both were Muslim is apparently enough to make Tennessee the Capital of American Jihad.
Yes. There is no other evidence provided. That is all.
https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/624606134310039552
https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/624693733083230208/photo/1
http://fair.org/home/politico-finds-capital-of-american-jihad-based-on-2-cases-6-years-and-268-miles-apart/
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& Why was THIS not your cover????????????
Do we still need to ask if the media is complicit?
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)Kitfield is an idiot and whoever designed that second image is pushing the mistaken belief that the South is the only place in this country where there is bigotry.
kpete
(72,012 posts)is a photoshopped image
meant ONLY to show the Hypocrisy
peace,
kp
Response to Fawke Em (Reply #1)
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noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)confided to the south.
Euphoria
(448 posts)consequences, deadly ones, for all of us.
marble falls
(57,157 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,032 posts)Careful about stepping on your main point, which is an important one, the racism of that right wing site Politico.
kpete
(72,012 posts)thank you Bernardo de La Paz
for providing me with a "teaching moment"
even the media shouldn't be stereotyped
i sometimes too get blind to the grey spots
peace,
kp
JayhawkSD
(3,163 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)carla
(553 posts)is the emptyhead of racist profiling and absurd bullshit. The KKK of websites?