{"id":1170,"date":"2013-10-07T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/10\/where-is-the-smoke-the-rhetoric-of-a-riot.html"},"modified":"2013-10-07T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T07:00:00","slug":"where-is-the-smoke-the-rhetoric-of-a-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/10\/where-is-the-smoke-the-rhetoric-of-a-riot.html","title":{"rendered":"Where is the Smoke: The #Rhetoric of a Riot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
by Cedrick Von Jackson<\/a><\/div>\n
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Under federal law, a riot is a public disturbance involving an act of violence by one or more persons assembled in a group of at least three people.\u00a0 Inciting a riot applies to a person who organizes, encourages, or participates in a riot.\u00a0 It can apply to one who urges or instigates others to riot.\u00a0 According to 18 USCS \u00a7 2102 \u201cto incite a riot\u201d, or \u201cto organize, promote, encourage, participate in, or carry on a riot\u201d, includes, but is not limited to, urging or instigating other persons to riot, but shall not be deemed to mean the mere oral or written (1) advocacy of ideas or (2) expression of belief, not involving advocacy of any act or acts of violence or assertion of the rightness of, or the right to commit, any such act or acts.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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Many of us live and die by social media.\u00a0 Unfortunately Facebook and Twitter, for so many, have become the most credible sources of the latest relevant news.\u00a0 So, it comes as no surprise to me that a post by one Mary Burrell is being taken as credible news in light of the recent rhetoric surrounding the Affordable Health Care Act.\u00a0 According to Ms. Burrell, whose Facebook profile identifies her political views as \u201cSarah Palin,\u201d the language of the Affordable Health Care Act, also unfortunately labeled as \u201cObamacare,\u201d contains this curious word, \u201cDhimmitude.\u201d\u00a0 Dhimmitude, according to Ms. Burrell\u2019s post, is defined as \u201cthe Muslim system of controlling non-Muslim populations conquered through jihad (Holy War).\u00a0 Specifically, it is the TAXING of non-Muslims in exchange for tolerating their presence AND as a coercive means of converting conquered remnants to Islam!\u201d\u00a0 Additionally, Burrell states that Muslims are exempted from the government mandate to purchase insurance because Muslims consider insurance to be \u201cgambling, risk-taking, and usury\u201d which are all banned by Islam.\u00a0 <\/span><\/div>\n
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In essence, Burrell is accusing the President of Islamic evangelism and providing governmental perks to those of the Islamic faith.\u00a0 And we, as a Christian nation, should be ashamed of ourselves for allowing such proselytizing and favoritism to not only be running amuck, but to be endorsed from the nation\u2019s highest office.\u00a0 Well, the origin of thought behind this rhetoric is no secret.\u00a0 We are still stuck on, \u201cHis name is Barack Hussein Obama, II, so he must be a Muslim.\u201d\u00a0 We have yet to get beyond, \u201cHis pastor was Jeremiah Wright, who damned America, and he listened to all those sermons for all those years.\u201d\u00a0 We cannot get beyond, \u201cHe can\u2019t be an American citizen, because I still ain\u2019t seen his real birth certificate, yet.\u201d\u00a0 And now, according to Burrell, the latest strike against the President is, \u201cHe\u2019s giving folk like him the hook-up!\u201d\u00a0 It is tearing at the fabric of the American tapestry.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Interesting thing, though.\u00a0 While I have not read the Affordable Health Care Act in its entirety, I have done a little \u201ctechnology-aided, research-based fact checking.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s right.\u00a0 I \u201cGoogled\u201d the Affordable Health Care Act.\u00a0 Several times.\u00a0 And I downloaded actual copies of the act in a pdf format.\u00a0 There is a little function in pdf files called, \u201cFind,\u201d which gives you the ability to search the entire document for certain words or phrases.\u00a0 So, I typed in the word, \u201cDhimmitude,\u201d and set the Adobe program off on its digital fox hunt.\u00a0 You will never guess what message came back every time I conducted a search.\u00a0 \u201cReader has finished searching the document.\u00a0 NO MATCHES WERE FOUND\u201d (emphasis mine).\u00a0 Not only is Dhimmitude not found on page 107 of the document as indicated by Burrell.\u00a0 It is not found ANYWHERE IN THE ENTIRE DOCUMENT!\u00a0 My fox hunt had turned out to be a wild goose chase.\u00a0 On top of that, \u201cdhimmitude\u201d is not even a real word according to The Oxford Dictionary of Islam.\u00a0 <\/i>\u201cDhimmi\u201d is found in The Oxford Dictionary of Islam.\u00a0 <\/i>But it is described as a \u201cnon-Muslim under protection of Muslim law,\u201d which could include anyone of any religious faith or those who do not practice any religious faith in particular.<\/span><\/div>\n
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So, if \u201cDhimmitude\u201d is not to be found in the Affordable Health Care Act, nor is it to be found in Muslim or Islamic usage, what could be the point of promoting such deceitful propaganda?\u00a0 I think it falls under the category of inciting a riot.\u00a0 Not within the scope of shouting \u201cfire\u201d in a crowded movie theater.\u00a0 But this type of language does cause a public disturbance which involves violence and discord of a linguistic nature.\u00a0 This violence is aimed, as so many times before, at the character and persona of our nation\u2019s leader.\u00a0 The intent is to frighten the masses into a frenzy founded on an implied attack on Christian values and the American Way.\u00a0 In the case of shouting \u201cfire\u201d in a crowded public space, the thought behind the strategy is often to get the masses running and looking in one direction while something else is afoot in the other direction.\u00a0 In line with this strategy, shouting \u201cDhimmitude\u201d in this public space seems to be geared toward getting the masses to run and look in the direction of Obamacare, which is now being suddenly painted as pro-Islamic and pro-Muslim, while something else is afoot in the other direction \u2013 a dismantling of what the President stands for and has tried to accomplish, on the whole.<\/span><\/div>\n
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With social media platforms like Facebook available to the masses, it is becoming easier and easier to shout \u201cfire\u201d in this very public manner.\u00a0 The unfortunate truth is that once \u201cfire\u201d is first shouted, most of the time we do not check the validity of the shout.\u00a0 One person shouts, others start shouting.\u00a0 One person runs, others start running.\u00a0 One person posts bogus status updates, others start sharing those bogus status updates.\u00a0 All of this would be quite easy to fix if, every once in a while, someone stopped to take notice of whether or not anyone actually saw any smoke.<\/span><\/div>\n

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