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The\u00a0title of this blog post is the equivalent of what the Christian Broadcasting Network recently offered<\/a>, when it reported on a radical cleric in Pakistan who managed to get a grand total of 40 people to attend a funeral honoring the terrorists who killed people at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris.<\/p>\n

The headline they chose?<\/p>\n

\u201cPakistani Muslims Celebrate Paris Massacre.\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

I am pretty sure that Westboro Baptist Church alone could provide us with 40 people who rejoiced at an attack on a magazine which has insulted Christianity<\/a> far more often than Islam. But I am sure that there are more than 40 people\u00a0in this country who think that Charlie Hebdo got what it deserved. And far more than 40 Muslims<\/a> have decried the terrorist attacks in Paris.<\/p>\n

And so is my headline to this blog post fair and accurate? If not, then neither is CBN\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Since CBN is Pat Robertson\u2019s organization, this cartoon from Mike Luckovich<\/a> seems the best\u00a0way to sum up the point:<\/p>\n

$\"Pat$ <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"