A Modest Proposal For Beheading Journalists

[Dr Ron]

Cross posted from Liberal Values:

http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=1619

AP reports that an Islamic group in the Gaza Strip threatened to behead female TV broadcasters if they don’t wear strict Islamic dress:

The threat to “cut throats from vein to vein” was delivered by the Swords of Truth, a fanatical group that has previously claimed responsibility for bombing Internet cafes and music shops."

Beheading a woman simply for not wearing a headscarf is both wrong and sounds like the waste of a good sword. There are many far better reasons to behead journalists. Offenses for which we might consider beheading journalists include:

Spending a career repeating the claims of government officials as fact without checking on the accuracy. Every journalist covering the run up to the Iraq war is in danger of losing their head here.

Claiming to be “fair and balanced” when you are actually a Pravda-style propagandist.

Limiting coverage of politics to the horse race without discussion of the issues.

Using Matt Drudge as a source. Goodby Mark Halperin.

Equating a yes vote on the IWR as support for the war ultimately waged by George Bush.

Reporting a controversy over global warming without noting that the only significant counter opinion comes from the petrolium industry and their lackeys.

Being Katie Couric (with or without headscarf) when your network has a tradition of real journalism stemming from Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite.

Failing to provide a male heir to the thrown. (Ok, I’ve been watching too much of The Tudors.)

[stellanoir]

1. Well okay

as long as they're modest about it.

Sheesh the fact that we're even contemplating such barbarism in this day and age just totally grates against my soul.

[Nickster]

4. It's satire, a take on a work by Jonathan Swift.

http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/modest.html

[Dr Ron]

5. At least someone is educated in the classics

So far I have two comments from conservatives who really take this seriously. I even gave a pretty strong hint which a moment with Google should been able to figure out.

It shouldn't be long before a conservative blogger somewhere starts ranting about the liberal blog calling for beheading conservative journalists.

[Nickster]

7. Not as well as I should be, but I'm working on it.

[sam sarrha]

2. thinking about the cartoon, 2 formless blobs, one says, 'does this Burka make my butt look big'..

good thing Allah is merciful... who knows what they would do

[Solo_in_MD]

3. Just showing everyone the best side of Islam and the Sharia

[rasputin1952]

6. An observation here, not sure if it merits much attention...

but your post got me to thinking. The vast majority of the people I see or hear of making these threats are a bunch of fools that parade around in ski masks. To me this is the depths of cowardice. However, by denigrating women even more, they have reached a new low.

I am not a violent individual, although I have done what was required of me, and then some, while in the Army. But there are times when I feel that it would be very easy for me to take out a few of these creepy little punks and clean up the gene pool a tad.

I do not like zealots of any stripe. I feel that if only they would disappear, the world would be a better place. Fanatics serve no purpose other than to decree that nothing but horror and the depths of hell await those that don't agree w/them...however, they are always wrong...:grr:

[LoZoccolo]

8. IBTL!!!!1111