{"id":1306,"date":"2015-07-18T19:41:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/07\/why-we-are-not-honest-about-islamic-terrorism.html"},"modified":"2015-07-18T19:41:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T19:41:00","slug":"why-we-are-not-honest-about-islamic-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/07\/why-we-are-not-honest-about-islamic-terrorism.html","title":{"rendered":"Why we are not honest about Islamic Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Because the truth is irrelevant. \u00a0So my sons noticed that when a <a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/12\/24\/usa-police-shooting-idINKBN0K20IN20141224\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">white person is in any way involved in the death of anyone who isn\u2019t white<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/stan-chu-ilo\/being-a-black-male-in-ame_b_7035468.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">motive is immediately race<\/a>. \u00a0Period. \u00a0It takes a mountain of evidence to turn around the verdict that race was involved, and then it may still continue to be the verdict even after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/usnews\/crime\/item\/20814-the-real-racism-in-the-freddie-gray-baltimore-affair\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">evidence has been shown otherwise<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>And yet, try to pin terrorism on Islam, or Islamic anything, and watch the modern media industry and the powers that be, up to and including our political leaders, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/07\/18\/politics\/chattanooga-shootings-department-of-homeland-security\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">call it like it ain\u2019t<\/a>. \u00a0\u2018Why is that?\u2019 my boys wonder. \u00a0It should be obvious to thinking people willing to be honest. \u00a0But if it isn\u2019t, perhaps this little skit, that Rush Limbaugh played on his show, will demonstrate how far we\u2019ve come. \u00a0It was supposed to be over the top. \u00a0And yet by today\u2019s propaganda thought control, it\u2019s almost tame and believable by comparison:<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because the truth is irrelevant. \u00a0So my sons noticed that when a white person is in any way involved in the death of anyone who isn\u2019t white, the motive is immediately race. \u00a0Period. \u00a0It takes a mountain of evidence to turn around the verdict that race was involved, and then it may still 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