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Bill O’Reilly’s Muslim Problem

cheap air jordans Despite his apologies to those who were offended by Bill O’Reilly’s statement on The View,” regarding his comment that opposition to Park 51 is fine and dandy because “Muslims attacked us cheap jordans on sale on 9 11,” Bill O’Reilly still has no problem painting Muslims with a very broad brush. His “apology,” prefixed with “if you cheap jordans for sale were offended,” cheap jordans free shipping suggests that he has no problem with his belief that those who attacked us on 9 11 weren’t Muslims whose views were radicalized but, rather, a reflection of Islam. One suspects that if a liberal talker said that Catholicism was responsible for abortion clinic violence, Bill would not be onboard with that line of cheap air jordan thinking. Since his visit to “The View,” Bill has continued his attack on Islam. When he talked cheap nike shoes about how “political correctness” prevents us from throwing all Muslims into detention camps (I’m being snarky but you know what I mean), Juan Williams agreed that he gets nervous cheap jordans china if he’s on a plane with those he identifies as Muslims. (Course the 9 11 gang looked “Western” and even today, there are those who are get nervous around African Americans; but I digress). O’Reilly, who doesn’t think the First Amendment pertains to the Westboro Baptist Church, is all vaclempt about NPR’s firing of Williams who, like O’Reilly, might prefer a religious litmus test for those with airline cheap adidas tickets. But Bill isn’t backing down. As noted in his column cheap jordan sneakers of 10 21, he maintains that the world has a “Muslim problem” note, not a “radical Muslim problem when the reality is that Bill O’Reilly seems to have a Muslim problem. cheap air jordans

cheap cheap jordans As News Hounds Ellen pointed out, Bill said that “there is no question that there is a Muslim problem in the world.” In his screed on October 15th, he actually said that “the whole world fears Muslim terrorists will murder people in their respective countries. The entire world is concerned about that.” Considering the countries in the world that might face radical Islamic terrorism, it would appear that Bill’s statement contains a cheap jordans sale bit of hyperbole especially considering that “Islamic terrorism,” according to Bill, is actually separatist terrorism, no different than that of the non Cheap jordans Islamic Tamil separatists, by those who happen to be Muslim. (Thailand, Phillipines, Chechnya). If one uses Bill’s “logic,” the IRA were Roman Catholic terrorists. Echoing Huntington’s “clash of civilization” meme, O’Reilly also claimed that there is “bitter conflict” between the Muslim world and the west. In support of this, O’Reilly cited neo con cheap jordans shoes Cliff Mays who opposes Park 51 because of the people cheap jordans online who were killed “in the name of Islam.” That this is a perversion of Islam seems to have eluded Mays and O’Reilly. Bill claims that liberals want to “sever the ties connection between terrorism and Islam” note, not “radical” Islam. Bill actually cheap jordans in china blamed Muslims for terrorism when he said that “if moderate Muslims would ally with the USA, jihad would not exist.” (Bill did his gosh darned best to keep up the anti choice jihad which resulted in the murder of Dr. Tiller!) Obviously Bill doesn’t realize that we are “allied” with a number of moderate Muslim states such as Turkey and Jordan. In his same screed, Bill said that Muslims have a poor impression of America, but he didn’t elaborate on why that might be the case such as the invasion of a sovereign Muslim country that posed no threat to the United States an invasion that resulted in the torture superonsalemall.com and deaths of innocent Iraqis including women and children. But then Bill doesn’t do nuance. His is a world of good and cheap jordans shoes evil with liberals and others whom Bill deems anathema while the conservative “traditionalists” are on cheap yeezys the side of good. It’s a dualistic world that Bill (and I) grew up in a world where “non Cathlics” (and even Italian Catholics!) were considered bad and a world in which the education system featured a Catechism that had both the questions and cheap Air max shoes the answers. But if Bill’s audience skews older and Catholic, it’s not surprising that they just accept, on faith alone, what Father Bill says. cheap cheap jordans

cheap jordans 4 u And lest you think that Bill is motivated by some cheap air force higher power, he did admit, regarding “The View” segment, that “I could milk a number of segments for my TV program.” cheap jordans 4 u.

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