Rupert Murdoch Holds All Muslims Responsible for Charlie Hebdo Attack

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The reactionary bigot who controls way too much of the world’s mainstream news demonstrates why his influence is so corrosively poisonous.

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1 Mattand  Jan 10, 2015 1:31:43pm

So I’m guessing Real Time with Bill Maher is moving to Fox soon.

2 Dark_Falcon  Jan 10, 2015 1:43:04pm

re: #1 Mattand

So I’m guessing Real Time with Bill Maher is moving to Fox soon.

No, because that would make Bill O’Reilly’s head explode.

3 Rightwingconspirator  Jan 10, 2015 1:43:59pm

Sure you all just step right up and whisk away ISIS, A.Q., just a walk in the park. Like the Jews in the ghettos back in the day right? All they needed was a few guns? All we need to do here is walk on over to where the most violent gangs are here in the US and make them go away. Poof. Problem Solved.
/// ∞

4 Usually refered to as anyways  Jan 10, 2015 1:44:13pm

re: #2 Dark_Falcon

No, because that would make Bill O’Reilly’s head explode.

Bonus!

5 BongCrodny  Jan 10, 2015 1:46:25pm

…says the man responsible for turning journalism into a sideshow attraction.

6 Rightwingconspirator  Jan 10, 2015 1:49:10pm

Did the man not even notice Arab Spring? The push back in Egypt against religious based government? Let alone support for fanatical militants? The hellacious fights that have been waged?

7 jaunte  Jan 10, 2015 1:50:08pm
News Corp. increased its stake in Rotana Group, the Arabic music producer and broadcaster owned by Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, to 14.5% from 9.1%, Rotana announced Wednesday. News Corp. spent $35 million (131 million Saudi riyals) on the new stake. The purchase values Rotana at $643 million. In a photo sent out by Rotana, Rupert Murdoch’s son James Murdoch, who was recently promoted by his father, is shown negotiating the deal with Prince Alwaleed and staff from both companies.
forbes.com

“…Rotana owns the leading record label in the Middle East and says it controls the largest Arabic music catalog as well as the largest Arabic film library.”

8 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 10, 2015 1:50:54pm

re: #2 Dark_Falcon

No, because that would make Bill O’Reilly’s head explode.

Between his racism and anti-vaxxism he’d fit right in with O’Reilly.

9 jaunte  Jan 10, 2015 1:53:05pm
10 Dark_Falcon  Jan 10, 2015 1:53:15pm

re: #8 William Barnett-Lewis

Between his racism and anti-vaxxism he’d fit right in with O’Reilly.

Maher’s an anti-religion bigot, but that doesn’t make him racist. Why do you say he is?

11 Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 10, 2015 1:53:47pm

Imagine the rage that would erupt if the head of NBC made similar comments about Christians.

12 Dark_Falcon  Jan 10, 2015 1:57:42pm

re: #9 jaunte

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Sad to say, both men seen in that still capture were Muslims. Its just that the better one of them believed in a mainstream section of the faith while the worse of the two fell in with a hate-filling part of the faith that preaches violence and intolerance.

The real key is to understand that the policeman was the man more loyal to what his faith is truly about, despite what some Islamophobes would have you believe.

13 Jenner7  Jan 10, 2015 1:58:07pm

Watching Real Time and it’s so ironic to hear from Bill and Carly Fiorna, that Muslims should not condone such extreme behavior within their own religion: women subjugation. Carly said it was evil and should be called out. Really?? It’s happening in our own country. GOP wants to legislate from the 1800’s.

14 Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 10, 2015 2:00:27pm

Maybe most white men peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing mass killing cancer they must be held responsible.

15 jaunte  Jan 10, 2015 2:03:34pm

Murdoch won’t even take legal responsibility for the acts of his own corporation.

16 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 10, 2015 2:08:25pm

re: #10 Dark_Falcon

Maher’s an anti-religion bigot, but that doesn’t make him racist. Why do you say he is?

I get the distinct impression from his comments on the subject that religion and ethnicity is bound up all together in his mind and that he’s a halfstep away from calling them “ragh***s”. Perhaps not, but I see nothing in his presentation to make me think otherwise of him.

17 PhillyPretzel  Jan 10, 2015 2:11:48pm

Please excuse me for this: Hey Rupert why don’t you just shut up and head back down under where you belong. And while you are at it give back the Wall Street Journal to the Bancroft family.

18 electrotek  Jan 10, 2015 2:15:13pm

re: #10 Dark_Falcon

Maher’s an anti-religion bigot, but that doesn’t make him racist. Why do you say he is?

Let me know if he has chastised Judaism with the same ferociousness as he has done to Islam and Christianity.

19 electrotek  Jan 10, 2015 2:15:34pm

re: #17 PhillyPretzel

You mean deport him back to Australia?

20 PhillyPretzel  Jan 10, 2015 2:16:02pm

re: #19 electrotek

Yes.

21 electrotek  Jan 10, 2015 2:17:19pm

re: #20 PhillyPretzel

Not even Aussies want him back. Maybe deport him to one of Australia’s former possessions, Papua New Guinea?

22 PhillyPretzel  Jan 10, 2015 2:18:03pm

re: #21 electrotek

That would work.

23 electrotek  Jan 10, 2015 2:18:36pm

re: #22 PhillyPretzel

Island of New Britain would be preferable.

24 Dark_Falcon  Jan 10, 2015 2:22:57pm

re: #16 William Barnett-Lewis

I get the distinct impression from his comments on the subject that religion and ethnicity is bound up all together in his mind and that he’s a halfstep away from calling them “ragh***s”. Perhaps not, but I see nothing in his presentation to make me think otherwise of him.

My own feeling is that its not about people being (for example) Arabs or Pashtuns per se as it is that Maher dislikes what he sees as “backwards practices”, which is not in-and-of-itself a racist perspective. The problem with such a view is it can easily lead to a “White Man’s Burden” type of thinking and degenerate into nastier forms of racism from there.

25 Dark_Falcon  Jan 10, 2015 2:27:54pm

re: #23 electrotek

Island of New Britain would be preferable.

No, there’s over 513,000 people living there now and he’d still be rich. He’d just have himself built a nice house there and live in relative comfort even on New Britain.

26 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 10, 2015 2:28:21pm

ouch:

27 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 10, 2015 2:30:03pm

boom!

28 William Barnett-Lewis  Jan 10, 2015 2:32:59pm

Off to 4 hours of making cheap pizza. Then a 2 hour nap & then 8 hours at the hotel. And I still don’t make enough money to cover all my bills…

29 thedopefishlives  Jan 10, 2015 2:34:12pm

Evening Lizardim. Spent some time buried in iOS code, trying to debug a frustrating random crash - until I realized exactly why it was so random. Encryption is both a blessing and a curse. How go things among the lizardfolk on this bitterly cold, beautifully clear, frost-gilded winter day?

30 Jenner7  Jan 10, 2015 2:37:07pm

re: #28 William Barnett-Lewis

America, baby! ;) Hang in there.

Sorry, assumed you were in the US. I actually don’t know. lol

31 The War TARDIS  Jan 10, 2015 2:37:08pm

re: #18 electrotek

I don’t think so. And I don’t recall him talking about Hinduism or Buddhism. I know Buddhists are currently persecuting Muslims in Sri Lanka and Burma.

And Hindu groups in India persecute Christians and Muslims.

Also, he is really into woo. He supports PETA, and is Anti-Vaccine.

32 HappyWarrior  Jan 10, 2015 2:38:24pm

Old bigot who owns the most bigoted network in the American mainstream media says what.

33 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 10, 2015 2:41:16pm

cuteness:

34 electrotek  Jan 10, 2015 2:43:57pm

re: #31 The War TARDIS

Hindus also are persecuting Christians in India too, but why doesn’t he or the rest of the Islamophobic Right ever pontificate over that?

Anti-vaccine? And he claims to be enlightened? Fuck that guy.

35 HappyWarrior  Jan 10, 2015 2:45:53pm

re: #34 electrotek

Hindus also are persecuting Christians in India too, but why doesn’t he or the rest of the Islamophobic Right ever pontificate over that?

Anti-vaccine? And he claims to be enlightened? Fuck that guy.

He’s got an annoying self-righteous about him.

36 electrotek  Jan 10, 2015 2:46:42pm

And here’s the irony:

The sudden global prominence of Charlie Hebdo, which before typically sold only half of its usual 60,000 printed copies in France, has saved it from imminent bankruptcy.

The newspaper, named after the American comicbook character Charlie Brown (“Hebdo” is French slang for weekly), had only in November made a public appeal for donations to keep going.

Back then, of the one million euros ($1.2 million) it sought, it received only 26,000 euros. Closure seemed inevitable.

But now, French media have rallied around the title to offer whatever help it needs, and the French government is looking at releasing public funds to bail out Charlie Hebdo. Several government agencies have taken out subscriptions. Even banks have become subscribers.

Bravo Salafi crackheads, they have managed to make a publication that no one knew of outside of France into an icon of Western resistance against Islam. Its own demise was already imminent, had it not been for the acts of the two Salafi fuckwits.

37 goddamnedfrank  Jan 10, 2015 2:55:38pm

re: #36 electrotek

And here’s the irony:

Bravo Salafi crackheads, they have managed to make a publication that no one knew of outside of France into an icon of Western resistance against Islam. Its own demise was already imminent, had it not been for the acts of the two Salafi fuckwits.

Also helps explains why CH’s security was so lax. A more well funded magazine with the enemies they had might have been able to afford more security staff and probably more importantly better physical access controls & structural defenses such as safe rooms.

Which, obviously ought not to have been necessary but as a practical matter obviously was.

38 jaunte  Jan 10, 2015 3:00:24pm
39 HappyWarrior  Jan 10, 2015 3:02:35pm

re: #38 jaunte

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What’s that whiny convicted felon complaining about this time? Cry to someone who gives a damn Dinesh the Douche.

40 electrotek  Jan 10, 2015 3:06:04pm

Also, this makes me have to observe this tidbit: the same right-wing crackheads who are now suddenly jumping on the bandwagon, are the same ones who express vitriol and even threaten others if they dare criticize or lampoon the US military or its flag.

41 electrotek  Jan 10, 2015 3:07:23pm

re: #37 goddamnedfrank

Also helps explains why CH’s security was so lax. A more well funded magazine with the enemies they had might have been able to afford more security staff and probably more importantly better physical structural defenses such as safe rooms.

Which, obviously ought not to have been necessary but as a practical matter obviously was.

Yeah given the history of attacks against them. These Salafis are such retards I swear. If their goal was to cease disrespect of the faith, did they not realize that the publication itself was on its last legs of publication? They were about to declare bankruptcy anyways so none of the caricatures would have been made after that.

42 HappyWarrior  Jan 10, 2015 3:08:01pm

re: #40 electrotek

Also, this makes me have to observe this tidbit: the same right-wing crackheads who are now suddenly jumping on the bandwagon, are the same ones who express vitriol and even threaten others if they dare criticize or lampoon the US military or its flag.

Not juts the US military or flag but they get pretty violent if you don’t see their brand of Christianity in the best light. The one Jewish man who has crusaded against proselytizing in the military has gotten all sorts of threats from fundies.

43 Justanotherhuman  Jan 10, 2015 3:08:15pm

re: #37 goddamnedfrank

Also helps explains why CH’s security was so lax. A more well funded magazine with the enemies they had might have been able to afford more security staff and probably more importantly better physical structural defenses such as safe rooms.

Which, obviously ought not to have been necessary but as a practical matter obviously was.

Even the 2 police officers assigned to “protect” CH weren’t “armoured up” enough to defend themselves.

Even so, those religio-political types who pull these kinds of attacks (including 9/11) don’t care what category—religious, political or social—their victims are.

Had to take a tearful neighbor to Wallyworld to buy a tire she blew a few blocks away. Then, her son had to take off work to mount it. All is fairly well now, but that tire was as bald as a baby’s butt. I told her to try not to get emotional over a tire and that only practicality would save the day—including refusing her offer to pay me for gas next Mon—it’s cheap enough now that gas isn’t the big problem anymore. She’s got enough problems without feeling obligated for me running out less than a gallon to help her out.

44 jaunte  Jan 10, 2015 3:09:16pm

re: #40 electrotek

Also, this makes me have to observe this tidbit: the same right-wing crackheads who are now suddenly jumping on the bandwagon, are the same ones who express vitriol and even threaten others if they dare criticize or lampoon the US military or its flag.

They look pretty silly posing as iconoclasts.

45 Justanotherhuman  Jan 10, 2015 3:10:26pm

re: #42 HappyWarrior

Not juts the US military or flag but they get pretty violent if you don’t see their brand of Christianity in the best light. The one Jewish man who has crusaded against proselytizing in the military has gotten all sorts of threats from fundies.

Yes, Mikey Weinstein. militaryreligiousfreedom.org

46 electrotek  Jan 10, 2015 3:12:32pm

I’m just afraid of what the future will hold after this horrific slaughter. We Muslims are our own worst enemy majority of the time.

47 HappyWarrior  Jan 10, 2015 3:14:44pm

re: #45 Justanotherhuman

Yes, Mikey Weinstein. militaryreligiousfreedom.org

Yep he’s a good guy. Very brave for doing what he does given the prominent number of fundies especially in the AF academy.

48 Dark_Falcon  Jan 10, 2015 3:17:05pm

re: #43 Justanotherhuman

Even the 2 police officers assigned to “protect” CH weren’t “armoured up” enough to defend themselves.

Even so, those religio-political types who pull these kinds of attacks (including 9/11) don’t care what category—religious, political or social—their victims are.

Only 1 cop was actually in the building when the attack happened. The officer whose death was caught on film was responding to the incident when he came across the terrorists.

Even in the US police seldom carry longarms unless they are actively expecting danger. The Beretta Model 92G that the French police carried is a good handgun, but in this case it was massively overmatched by the AKM assault rifles the terrorists employed.

49 Justanotherhuman  Jan 10, 2015 3:17:45pm

re: #46 electrotek

I’m just afraid of what the future will hold after this horrific slaughter. We Muslims are our own worst enemy majority of the time.

Don’t paint the entire religion that way, please. (FWIW, I’m an atheist and while I’m not strictly anti-religion, I am against theofascism, ,which is what I think these perps are.)

And, BTW…

Family of slain Paris grocery gunman issue statement on Paris attacks offering their ‘sincere condolences’ victims’ families: ‘We condemn these acts. We absolutely do not share these extreme ideas. We hope there will not be any confusion between these odious acts and the Muslim religion’ - statement via @AFP
read more on yahoo.com

50 Justanotherhuman  Jan 10, 2015 3:19:18pm

re: #48 Dark_Falcon

Only 1 cop was actually in the building when the attack happened. The officer whose death was caught on film was responding to the incident when he came across the terrorists.

Even in the US police seldom carry longarms unless they are actively expecting danger. The Beretta Model 92G that the French police carried is a good handgun, but in this case it was massively overmatched by the AKm assault rifles the terrorists employed.

Except in the case of CH, they had been firebombed in Nov 2011, so extra security should have been warranted. And I picked up the “2” from news reports.

51 Dark_Falcon  Jan 10, 2015 3:23:45pm

re: #50 Justanotherhuman

Except in the case of CH, they had been firebombed in Nov 2011, so extra security should have been warranted. And I picked up the “2” from news reports.

I wasn’t faulting you on where the officers were, I was just explaining how things happened.

52 lostlakehiker  Jan 10, 2015 6:22:03pm

re: #9 jaunte

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Well, actually, they’re both Muslim. The “No True Scotsman” logic is not allowed, here. The Rev. Jim Jones was a Christian. Not a good one, but he was one.

Muslim public opinion and leadership has in fact been increasingly moving against ISIS etc. Murdoch is calling for actions he deems lacking, and ignoring the efforts of the president of Egypt etc.

It’s cheesy to blame a whole faith community for inaction, even as that “inaction” meme is increasingly out of step with the reality.


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