re: #26 SanFranciscoZionist

Untrue. Not only real-world event influence such things. If someone has been carefully taught to hate, that lady in her headscarf raises the hate, as everything they have been taught about such people plays in their heads. Does she smile? It’s taqiyah. Does she seem pleased to see her husband? Poor woman, she lives in fear of his honor-killing her at any second.

When the Fort Bliss shooting happened this last week, I watched as the hater blogs prepared to be told it was a Muslim and rehearsed their hate of a. Muslims, and b. the media that would conceal the truth. Did they feel better about Muslims when the shooter turned out to be a non-Muslim? Doubt it. They’d had time to stoke up their anger again, and convince themselves of the intense danger in which they live.

Propaganda is dangerous, which is why people go on using it as a weapon. And fighting over what can be said about Islam in textbooks is a BIG part of that.

Propaganda that is contradicted by real-life truth on the ground falls flat. Especially, it falls flat if it’s not on every last channel 7/24. The news did indeed not report that the Ft. Bliss shooter was M-m. They didn’t report it because it wasn’t true. If it had been true, they would have worded the report in the most scrupulously neutral language possible.

The mainstream media are generally careful not to lie, and when they do lie, it’s more likely to be something like the Mavi Marmara photo editing, or the identical smoke plumes over Beirut, or what have you.