FOLKS: You know how I always rail against Fox News? Okay! Previously, my rationale for such disdain against this particular media outlet, was due to their using as a defense in litigation their first amendment right to distort and deceive people with the news. This, especially when they have always said they are fair and balanced. Now, I have a new reason to disdain this network; They have engaged in xenophobia by saying on one of their segments that it is okay and high time we profile Muslims. Never mind that former President Bush made clear that we were NOT at war with Muslims. Never mind that our nation experienced this very thing in the past with the forced internment of over 100,000 Japanese men, women, and children, following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Conservative general of the Armys Western Defense Command justified such action as follows: The Japanese race is an enemy race, and while many second and third generation Japanese born on United States soil, possessed of United States citizenship, have become Americanized, the racial strains are undiluted. Compare that with Fox Contributors, Jonathon Hoenigs statement regarding Muslims in our nation: We should have been profiling on September 12, 2001. Let’s take a trip down memory lane here: The last war this country won, we put Japanese-Americans in internment camps, we dropped nuclear bombs on residential city centers. So, yes, profiling would be at least a good start. It’s not on skin color, however, it’s on ideology: Muslim, Islamists, jihadist. That’s a good start but it’s only a start. We need to stop giving Korans to Gitmo prisoners, we need to stop having Ramadan and Iftar celebrations in the White House. We need to stop saying the enemy is not Islamic. History repeating itself! Way to go Fox News! forwardprogressives/fox-news-finally-loses-uses-success-japanese-internment-camps-advocate-profiling-muslims-video/
Posted on: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 06:52:13 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015