Showing posts with label Terrorism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Terrorism. Show all posts

Monday, May 14, 2012

Fox News Special "Radical Islam: Terror in its Own Words"

Umm...I'm not sure what to think about this documentary(?). What's really throwing me off is the voiced over translations. The vocal tones are just...wonkie--it sounds like a really bad kung-fu movie where the voices don't match the lip movements. There'll be someone speaking passionatley in the background and the translator is a bit mono-tone. I'm also not sure what to think about the accent, either. It just doesn't sound natural.

And...well, they just lost whatever credibility they had with me. Yes, the radicals are nuts and we need to do a lot to educate the masses of people who ignorantly(?) think that American's are imperialistic infidels who want to make the world in their image. But please don't try to tell me that when you condemn them for protesting the cartoon about Muhammed. Or protesting the burning of Korans. There are fundamentalist Christians who get pissed off when you bash the Bible...please read the comments section on just about any religious article on foxnews.com.

Ooh, an interview with he NYC Imam--I generally like him. It is important to look at the role of politics in religion. And remember something. Most women in Islamic countries are forbidden from getting an education. They can't read the Qu'ran for themselves to learn what it really says. And how many men do you think have read the book from cover to cover? Heck, how many American church goers have read the Bible cover to cover? One of my dad's biggest complaints about the Catholic Church is that they tend to use the same passages all the time.

Oh good God. Newt Gingrich is hosting the episode on the Bird Flu...

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Yemen

I'm watching some of the older videos on my hulu account that are about to expire--namely Colbert and Jon Stewart. Of course, the top news for January 4th or so was still the underwear bomber. Here's what I don't understand:

WHY THE HECK IS YEMEN A NEW COUNTRY OF TERROR?!?!? DOESN'T ANYONE REMEMBER 2000 WHEN THAT WAS THE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN OF THE BOMBERS OF THE USS COLE?!?!? Or is that only relevant to one small 12 year old who remembers seeing the faces of the 17 dead on the front page of the paper and reading the stories of their lives. How about walking into a classroom and having a teacher mention that she had taught one of the 5 dead who grew up in and around Norfolk? I'm actually disappointed by Stewart and Colbert to not have picked up on this--it makes me sadder that the 17's deaths were in vain. RIP.