Read this:
Of course, not all Muslims are terrorists. But it’s been widely noted that virtually all suicide terrorists today are Muslims. Angry Norwegians aren’t doing this — nor are starving Africans or unemployed Mexicans. Muslims have got to understand that a death cult has taken root in the bosom of their religion, feeding off it like a cancerous tumor.
This cancer is erasing basic norms of civilization. In Iraq, we’ve seen suicide bombers blow up funerals and schools. In England, seven out of the eight people detained in the latest plot are Muslim doctors or medical students. Doctors plotting mass murder? Could that be? If Muslim leaders don’t remove this cancer — and only they can — it will spread, tainting innocent Muslims and poisoning their relations with each other and the world.
How stupid and biased and blind can one man be?
What is it about suicide bombing that seems to blow the reason out of most wingnuts and inside the beltway pundits?
Could it be that all that flash and Hollywood and access to power gives you a generally monolithic view of terrorism? Is terrorism all bombs on belts? Is it the theatre that drives men crazy?
One of my brothers is a wingnut and he told me the same thing in essence that the Freidman Unit said: Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorist are Muslims.
Really? I asked him.
Name one White or Christian terrorist group, he demanded.
The Ku Klux Klan, I responded.
He was literally speechless.
Well, the FBI doesn’t consider them terrorists?
So? I said, The FBI considers PETA terrorists. The FBI is politicized. They are all Jack Bauer wannabees.
The fact here is that the media and the pundits are incapable of giving us a 50,000 foot view of the world or a wholistic context within which to frame terrorism. With the American media it always boils down to style and sellability. There is little logic. No one would consider the US government a terrorist organization although they stay in power by lying, and spreading fear, and then media survives on scandal and racing hearts and fear, and helicopter shots of police surrounding a house with suspect, or paparzzi chasing cars filled with starlets who have only committed crimes.
Our entire media network is worthless. And this sort of thinking: "Muslims better get rid of this cancer or they will be in trouble," mentality is just one sided.
Bush is a cancer.
The Republican Party is a cancer.
The American mainstream media is deeply infected with this cancer as well
Right now, those three are creating more fear and anger and backlash-terrorism than anyone in the rest of the world.
So no Friedman, Norwegians aren't blowing themselves up. No, no White people are terrorists here because terrorism is really tied to suicide bombing that's a Muslim thing. That's what aggravates us here in New York on Park Avenue.
Well Mr. Friedman, look around, there are a myriad ways of spreading terror. And they don't all involved bombs. Sometimes terror comes in the form of ignorance, or legislation, and sometimes it can be spread with words.
By the way, we already have Glenn Beck to make these brilliant observations about who is a terrorist, do we need you too?
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I would have included more text from Friedman but I think it best that his column remain behind the firewall.