I have spoken about World Net Daily's website a number of times in the past. They are a vile, hate filled mouthpiece for the Christian Right. They're anti-gay, xenophobic and not afraid to make their opinions known. They regularly conduct polls amongst their readers. Often times, the question or the choice of responses are skewed in a way to where people have no choice but to answer in the direction that the website leans.
Today is no exception. In response to yesterday's domestic terrorist attack in Norway, WND asked the following question:
"Islamic terrorism"? Ladies and gentlemen, here is your "Islamic terrorist":
At this time, 92 people are dead from yesterday's dual attacks. At least 86 of those people were shot and killed when Breivik, dressed as a police officer, gathered dozens of people together at a youth camp and methodically opened fire on them, one by one, with an automatic rifle. Crews are still pulling bodies out of the bombed government buildings in Central Oslo.
Does anyone use Google anymore, or are they fine with accepting this bullshit propaganda at face value? I can't wrap my head around this kind of blatant racism.
Today is no exception. In response to yesterday's domestic terrorist attack in Norway, WND asked the following question:
"Islamic terrorism"? Ladies and gentlemen, here is your "Islamic terrorist":
His name is Anders Breivik. Oslo Police are describing him as "right wing and a Christian fundamentalist", exactly the profile of those who read World Net Daily. Hours before the attack took place, Breivik posted a 1500 page manifesto online detailing preparations and calling for a Christian war to defend Europe against the threat of Muslim domination. His neighbors even described him as a gun-loving American Norwegian obsessed with what he saw as the threats of multiculturalism and Muslim immigration. Essentially, he's Norway's version of Timothy McVeigh.
At this time, 92 people are dead from yesterday's dual attacks. At least 86 of those people were shot and killed when Breivik, dressed as a police officer, gathered dozens of people together at a youth camp and methodically opened fire on them, one by one, with an automatic rifle. Crews are still pulling bodies out of the bombed government buildings in Central Oslo.
Does anyone use Google anymore, or are they fine with accepting this bullshit propaganda at face value? I can't wrap my head around this kind of blatant racism.
1 comments:
Reading the comments attributed to him and seeing the forums he visited, I find the air he breathes similar to that Hitler and the various right-wing groups here in Munich breathed in the early 1920s; the similarities are compelling. The same siege mentality. The same fear of foreigners. The same feeling of impotence and desire to return to a golden, mythic past. The same rage against unseen powers seeking to undermine and overthrow the volk, whether Marxism or Islamic fundamentalism, both of which Breivik identified as the enemy. Whilst the Nazis found it hard to square the circle that Jesus was a Jew when appealing to people's traditional values, so using one's Christian beliefs to justify mass-murder seems equally remarkable. However, whereas the turgid, unreadable Mein Kampf published in 1925 (which Hitler claimed had become irrelevant within a decade and Goebbels joked about everyone having a copy and no-one reading) is banned here in Germany, those which directly influence Breivik and his ilk is readily available. Seems that forums have truly become the new beer halls, where people are immersed in their own simplistic formulae and feed each other's paranoia.
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