RadioBanter - View Single Post - Newsweek report on Quran desecration inaccurate

May 16th 05, 04:46 PM

wrote:

running dogg wrote:
I'm sure many people here have been following the riots in the Muslim
world that occurred when the US newsmagazine Newsweek reported that
American interrogators at Gitmo had flushed a Quran down a toilet in
order to "rattle" the prisoners. Turns out that the "Pentagon
confirmed"
report was untrue. Their source was wrong. All a spokesman for
Newsweek
could say was the equivalent of "oops". "Words have consequences", he
told the American TV network ABC. 16 people have died in the riots
and
Muslim clerics are now calling for a holy war against modern
civilization. The problem is, Bush really believes that it IS a holy
war, Christianity vs Islam, may the best God win...
{snippage}

As far as abrupt, disconnected seques go, that one was a doozy! You
acknowledge that Newsweek irresponsibly reported a story they did not
try to confirm based on an anonymous source that could be Pentagon
based... or could be based out of their own editorial dept! Heck as
long as they were making it up, I don't see why they didn't attribute
the information to a "White House Source"!

It could almost be argued that their erroneous reporting was criminal
in nature since it sparked a reaction leading to multiple deaths. You
acknowledge that unidentified Muslim Clerics are now calling for a holy
war against modern civilization, yet you are demonstrably gullible
enough to believe this is a recent occurrence. Are you truly unaware
that "Muslim Clerics" have been calling for Jihad against
modern/western society for decades? You are either laughably gullible
-OR- you have a blind hatred for Bush that precludes your ability to
understand the full extent of the islamic extremist opinion of infidels
such as yourself. What's even *more* humorous is that you appear to
think those same islamic extremists would behave, believe and/or treat
you any differently based on who was leading the U.S., or any other
modern western govt.

So in an effort to reduce your post to its core point, correct me if
the following is not spot-on: "Newsweek irresponsibly published a
made-up a story and people were killed; ergo, Bush is bad".

That's pretty much spot-on. The whackos at work yet again.

dxAce
Michigan
USA