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James Foley Went Looking to Support Terrorists in Syria, Instead They Cut Off His Head
FrontPage Mag ^ | 08/20/2014 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 08/20/2014 7:27:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind


James Foley was one of a new breed of activists calling themselves journalists. He didn’t travel to report on a story, but to promote an agenda. And the agenda was obvious from his Twitter feed.

Any human life lost is tragic, but a moral individual would have much more empathy for the Syrian Christians who suffered at the hands of Foley’s favorite Jihadists than one of their pet propagandists.

Foley came to Syria to support the Sunni Islamist rebels against the Syrian government.

He cheered on the Sunni Muslim terrorists fighting to ethnically cleanse the Christians of Aleppo. In the conflict between Israel and Hamas, his tweets and retweets were chock full of pro-terrorist propaganda.

But Foley ran afoul of at least some of the Sunni Jihadists in Syria. His twitter feed was filled with references to the FSA. And the FSA was going to be eclipsed by the Al Qaeda affiliates. And that was where he ended up.

When Austin Tice, an actual freelance journalist was kidnapped by Jihadists, Foley ridiculed the idea that Jihadists had kidnapped him. Surely Syrian Jihadists wouldn’t do that sort of thing.

Except they did.

When Newsweek’s Muslim Rage cover story came out, Foley mocked it too. Raging Muslims. How silly and Islamophobic.

Foley was fanatically anti-Israel and was even willing to echo Iranian propaganda.

(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 201211; arabspring; austintice; beheading; benghazi; damascus; danielgreenfield; foley; hamas; hostages; iran; iraq; isis; israel; jamesfoley; lebanon; lefties; levant; muslimworld; photojournalism; syria; tice
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1 posted on 08/20/2014 7:27:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
All-in-all, as a happy a tragedy as you could hope for.
2 posted on 08/20/2014 7:29:57 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: SeekAndFind

“What goes around...comes around.”

If you feed the tiger he will eventually eat you!


3 posted on 08/20/2014 7:30:28 AM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: SeekAndFind

I would’ve thought the Grand Kenyan would’ve been even more appalled.


4 posted on 08/20/2014 7:32:05 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: SeekAndFind

This reminds me of what Yuri Besmenov said in 1984 about Communist sympathizers like Jane Fonda in the West. That once Communists actually took over in the U.S, people like her would be the first to be killed. Islam has so many similarities to Stalinism. So it makes perfect sense that a useful stooge for ISIS would end up beheaded by them.


5 posted on 08/20/2014 7:33:05 AM PDT by montag813
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To: SeekAndFind

This reminds me of what Yuri Besmenov said in 1984 about Communist sympathizers like Jane Fonda in the West. That once Communists actually took over in the U.S, people like her would be the first to be killed. Islam has so many similarities to Stalinism. So it makes perfect sense that a useful stooge for ISIS would end up beheaded by them.


6 posted on 08/20/2014 7:33:05 AM PDT by montag813
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>> Raging Muslims. How silly and Islamophobic.

No doubt his confrères still make the same claim.


7 posted on 08/20/2014 7:34:44 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I reserved comment yesterday as the murder of Mr. Foley was still quite fresh and emotions were running very high...

However, in light of his sympathies to such garbage, I say that Mr. Foley has rec’d all the enlightenment that a liberal, islam sympathizer, deserves...

May God have mercy on your soul Mr. Foley and my condolences to your family...


8 posted on 08/20/2014 7:36:10 AM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: montag813

This reminds me of Timothy Treadwell. The guy who went to live with the bears - until they ate him.


9 posted on 08/20/2014 7:37:15 AM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: SeekAndFind

Any sane person does not stick his hand into a nest of vipers.


10 posted on 08/20/2014 7:39:40 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: SeekAndFind

Link to the full-text Free Republic thread.

11 posted on 08/20/2014 7:40:49 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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12 posted on 08/20/2014 7:41:24 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: montag813

Yes, and the reason he gave was that the Soviets believed that if the Jane Fonda-types would betray their country, they would betray the new regime.


13 posted on 08/20/2014 7:42:32 AM PDT by FrdmLvr ("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
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To: Gene Eric
Everyone in America should be forced to watch this beheading.

They should also be forced to witness a late term abortion and examine the "fetal tissue".

Everyone in America should be forced to walk down a dark street at night in Chicago during the summer.

Everyone should be forced to be a checkout clerk at a Walmart in a questionable zip code.

Everyone should be forced to spend a day in the waiting area at a Social Security office.

Everyone should be forced to spend a night in an inner hospital ER.

I could go on...

14 posted on 08/20/2014 7:43:46 AM PDT by Senator_Blutarski
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To: montag813

“Useful idiots” - Yuri Bezmenov

I bet this “journalist” loved the satanists up until his head hit the dirt.


15 posted on 08/20/2014 7:48:29 AM PDT by ryan71 (The Partisans)
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To: SeekAndFind

And this is bad, why?


16 posted on 08/20/2014 7:51:54 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician. Some assembly required.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Any loss of human life is tragic.” Really?


17 posted on 08/20/2014 7:52:51 AM PDT by clintonh8r (It's possible to love your country and hate your government. I'm proof of it.)
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To: DH

Or “he who rides the tiger dare not dismount.”


18 posted on 08/20/2014 7:59:22 AM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: lonevoice

They want all of us dead, period. They will never stop until then.


19 posted on 08/20/2014 8:01:54 AM PDT by Pride in the USA
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To: SeekAndFind

20 posted on 08/20/2014 8:03:23 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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