CNN Moral Equivalence Marathon, Part 1
Charles Johnson
Tue Aug 21, 2007 at 5:28 pm PDT • Views: 521
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour is inflicting another extended exercise in moral equivalence on the TV viewers of the world, with the series “God’s Warriors.” Man, does that ever set off warning bells. Tonight’s episode, starting at 6 pm Pacific, is titled “God’s Jewish Warriors.” Uh oh.
To promote the series, CNN has published the following article telling us (yes, again) that repressive Islamic attitudes toward women are really a sort of different kind of wonderful reverse freedom: Muslim women: My headscarf is not a threat.
Starting with a lovely apocryphal tale of knuckle-dragging Islamophobic bigotry, to set the mood just right.
(CNN) — Last year at Christmastime, Rehan Seyam, a Muslim living in New Jersey, went to pick up some things at a local Wal-Mart. Seeing her distinctive traditional Muslim head covering called a “hijab,” a man in the store, addressing her directly, sang “The 12 Days of Christmas” using insulting lyrics about terrorism and Osama bin Laden.
She was stunned.
“Do I look like a terrorist to you?” Seyam said she asked the man.
According to Seyam, the man replied, “What else does a terrorist look like?”
Such stories are not altogether uncommon for Muslim Americans.
Frank says: