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After Foley Execution, CNN.com Wonders If ISIS Should Be Called 'Evil'
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/connor-williams/2014/08/23/after-foley-execution-cnncom-wonders-if-isis-should-be-called-evil ^

Posted on 08/23/2014 9:53:30 PM PDT by chessplayer

Is the beheading of an American journalist – along with the genocide of Christians and other religious minorities – enough to label the Islamist terror group ISIS as the consummation of evil? According to CNN.com, the answer is really quite complicated.

In fact, James Dawes, director of the program in Human Rights at Macalester College, argued in a piece for CNN’s online arm that “there are few things more dangerous now than allowing ourselves to think” that ISIS does “evil things for evil ends,”as NRO’s Jonah Goldberg phrased it in a tweet earlier this week. Dawes’s assertion is that Americans need to “do the hard work of understanding the context that made them, so that we can create a context that unmakes them.” He added that“understanding” will “help us see the world through their eyes.”


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To: chessplayer

They are true believers in their god, who is the enemy of God.

This means they see evil as good, and good evil.


21 posted on 08/23/2014 10:44:58 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: chessplayer

Wow - Mr. Dawes is SO far above the rest of us. He’s simply rises above the pettiness of recognizing evil as evil.

Golly gee. Do you think someday that even I can be as enlightened as you Mr. Dawes?


22 posted on 08/23/2014 10:48:38 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: livius

The Founders weren’t afraid to state the obvious.


23 posted on 08/23/2014 10:49:30 PM PDT by Rome2000
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To: chessplayer

Maybe CNN should hire one of their spokes people...just for the ratings you understand.


24 posted on 08/23/2014 10:58:53 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: chessplayer
When fighting monsters you need to call on real warriors who will do what must be done.


26 posted on 08/23/2014 11:09:03 PM PDT by Bobalu (Neutrality helps the oppressor never the victim silence encourages the tormentor never the tormented)
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To: chessplayer

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27 posted on 08/23/2014 11:13:27 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: chessplayer

The media didn’t care when ISIS murdered thousands of Christians, but chop one reporter’s head off, and they panic.


28 posted on 08/23/2014 11:49:13 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: chessplayer
Actually, for all you folks at CNN, the murder by decapitation of Mr. Foley was just a demonstration of Muslim “diversity”. Who are we Western Infidels to judge good or evil? That's, you know, like so judgmental, dude! Diversified people, such as we at CNN are, have no judgments about anyone or anything except: 1) conservatives and 2) anyone else that doesn't agree with our diversity beliefs.
29 posted on 08/24/2014 12:07:23 AM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: MasterGunner01

Lol, very well put. Soon they’ll sell us that beheadings should be accepted as part of ‘multiculturalism’.


31 posted on 08/24/2014 1:37:00 AM PDT by odds
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To: chessplayer

I guess that depends on your definition of the word Evil.
Most on the hard left don’t want to label anything as having a definite unambiguous quality. i.e. It’s not Rape-rape”.


32 posted on 08/24/2014 2:09:57 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: chessplayer

I remember Rush once saying that the liberal mind cannot conceive of good and evil. They think in terms of right and wrong. Thus, if they’re for the “right” cause it doesn’t matter how they achieve it. ISIS is just trying to achieve their cause and this is an instant where one liberal cannot comprehend another’s action because of their thinking. But they certainly can’t call it evil.

Dare I say by definition above, all terrorists are liberals and liberals are terrorists. The only difference is the matter of degree.


33 posted on 08/24/2014 2:49:04 AM PDT by HarleyD ("... letters are weighty, but his .. presence is weak, and his speech of no account.")
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To: HarleyD

‘the liberal mind cannot conceive of good and evil.’ — good & evil are very well defined in Zoroastrianism. In a way GWB Broadly summarized the concept in one sentence long ago ‘you’re either with us or against us’.


34 posted on 08/24/2014 3:16:43 AM PDT by odds
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To: MichaelCorleone
As a jihadi applies the knife to Mr. Dawes throat, Dawes can tell the jihadi that he "understands" him. The jihadi will immediately put down the knife, and he and Dawes will embrace in a mutual "hug of understanding" that will sweep the mideast.

Or maybe not. Maybe the jihadi will cut off Dawes's head and display it for the world to see the severed head of another deluded liberal who thought he could reason with evil.

35 posted on 08/24/2014 5:32:42 AM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: chessplayer

I say that CNN should send their execs and news readers to Iraq to meet with the ISIS rapper who murdered the journalist.
Let’s see what happens... : )


36 posted on 08/24/2014 7:56:55 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: jonascord
"They are 7th century barbarians."

ISIS or CNN?

Why should it be "either/or"?

the infowarrior

37 posted on 08/24/2014 9:59:27 AM PDT by infowarrior
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To: infowarrior
"Why should it be "either/or"?"

A valid point. It is perfectly believable that one is the propaganda arm of the other.

38 posted on 08/24/2014 11:54:47 AM PDT by jonascord (Laeti vescimur nos subacturis)
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To: chessplayer

Understanding the world through their eyes would, by definition, make one insane.


39 posted on 08/24/2014 3:35:08 PM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the Republican Party does not want you.)
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