AP linked to this DU post discussing kidnapped Fox journalists’ conversion to Islam, where such comments as this can be found (emphasis added):
I’m not denying there are real muslim fundamentalists, kidnappers and terrorists etc. There’s plenty of them.
And conversely this also means that Karl Rove doesn’t control every little event that happens in the world to spin to his benefit.
However…there are occasionally events where my DU sixth sense tells me there has been some kind of manipulation going on that is beneficial to the neocon PR/fear machine. This is one of them.
Some other comments of interest from that thread -
Well lets hope they were leaning to wards this before
Or we would think that these people are into being cult members. One could hardly believe one could change their beliefs that fast.
(Somebody call this guy’s group home and report him missing, please.)
I can’t help but smell something fishy as well
Fox-terror all the time.
I suspect now Fox will convert their attitude that all Muslims are bad- I mean after the good treatment and release and all. :silly:Fox though will probably play it for all it’s worth.
(Not that it’s newsworthy, or that gunpoint “conversions” to Islam illustrate anything at all about the kind of people we’re fighting…)
Fox News need not have been “in on it”
If this was in reality some kind of deep undercover black ops, they would be just as much in the dark as anyone else. Remember those British soliders who were jailed for shooting Iraqi police and civilians while dressed as Arabs? Their missions was to make it look like the work of “insurgents!”
“musta’ribeen”, i.e., “those who appear to be Arabs”.
it is very likely that the kidnappers are working for the Israeli internal intelligence agency – Shabak – (which would explain why the Fox employees cannot be found in tiny Gaza), but the question remains as to how exactly agents of the state of Israel are able to successfully pass themselves off as Arabs.
(The Joooos did it. Of course.)
OBL is the islamic equivalent to Jerry Falwell, let’s be careful who we defend. On edit, Falwell hasn’t killed anyone. But, the fundi’s are motivated by hate and control, no matter which stripe they choose to acheive their goals of demanding everyone think and act as they do.
(Falwell – OBL. Kind of rhymes, doesn’t it? Obviously another clue that these two are working together, since they have so much in common. There’s probably something in the Da Vinci Code about this.)
I don’t trust Scheuer
but I accept your point that defending bin Laden isn’t exactly the right thing to do.
(Thanks for that much, at least. Perhaps I was wrong to question your patriotism humanity.)
Not everyone who posted in that thread enjoys that “DU sixth sense.” There were some refreshingly sane comments in there. But not nearly as many as I’d hoped to see on what should have been a non-partisan topic.
