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One of the commenters on my blog — I seriously wonder, sometimes, whether he might be a liberal trying to make conservatives look silly — responded to my post “Why don’t Muslims in the United Kingdom condemn terrorism?”
“Hahahahahahahaha,” he argued, declaring that the Evening Standard article cited in that post “is pushing a false narrative to serve the commie liberal agenda.” (Everybody with whom he disagrees, or pretends to disagree, is a “commie liberal.”)
“The article is all lies,” he explained, “and the photos have been proven to be a set up, staged by CNN. There is a video showing the whole ‘Muslims praying’ was STAGED! The people who shot the video of the news staging the Muslims was [sic] called names by the news outlet crew members.”
(Honestly, I don’t quite know what that last sentence means. Your guess is as good as mine.)
“The Muslims,” he further declared, “were given the signs, told where to stand, the crew members put down the flowers and stuffed animals after the Muslims were told where to stand, and the Caucasion [sic] police were told to get out of the picture to make room for non Caucasion [sic] police.”
By the way Caucasian is a fairly slippery category, but Arabs are often reckoned Caucasian by people who care about such things (I don’t), and Iranians and Pakistanis quite unquestionably are “Caucasian” under typical definitions of the word. Or, better, “Indo-European.”
The quoted paragraph above may, though, perhaps reveal some sort of racism. I’m very leery of leveling the charge of racism, but I get nervous when anybody irrelevantly begins to differentiate Caucasians from non-Caucasians and seems to be using the term in a sloppy fashion more familiar from a certain prominent European country’s 1930s and 1940s ideology than from modern speech.
“The police were in on the staging,” he continues, hinting at a larger conspiracy to deceive the rest of us.
This was, he says, “The same police force whose officers ran away from the Muslim attackers at the pub, leaving citizens to use chairs against the Muslim stabbers.”
Has anybody else heard about this alleged “running away”?
My understanding is that the perpetrators of the London Bridge attack had been shot by the police within just eight minutes of the start of their murderous spree:
That’s pretty quick.
Anyway, here’s a response to the claim that CNN “staged” the Muslim demonstration against terrorist killing:
Fox News: “CNN denies staging pro-Muslim shot after London terror attack”
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A second item:
Why on earth is the president of the United States of America picking a fight with the Lord Mayor of London?
CNN: “Trump lashes out at London Mayor Sadiq Khan, again”
Is it, perhaps, because Mayor Sadiq Khan is a Muslim?
I find the spectacle more than a bit embarrassing, and entirely inappropriate.
At least, though, he’s elevated his target from tweeting attacks on a former Miss Universe. That’s progress, I guess.
Posted from Richmond, Virginia
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