Posted on 08/12/2016 10:17:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Olympics are only the latest event where our elites mistake diversity for "history." One breakout star across the TV networks is Ibtihaj Muhammad, a 30-year-old fencer from New Jersey. While a traditional Catholic woman from Maryland would register a collective yawn, a black Muslim woman in a hijab gets a perfect 10 from the diversity judges.
ABC reporter Matt Gutman gushed: "(She is) set to become the first U.S. woman ever to compete at the Olympics wearing a hijab. And she wasn't at all en garde, sorry for the pun, for breaking barriers and slashing her way into history."
NBC found Muhammad's mentor, Peter Westbrook, to praise her: "She is an absolute role model for the children, for our organization, for Islamic people, for all Americans all over the world." On CBS, Charlie Rose said, "Sounds like she's a superachiever."
Well, no. Actually, Muhammad lost in her second-round sabre match and didn't move beyond the round of 16.
Prior to the opening ceremony, CNN host/"sociopolitical comedian" W. Kamau Bell penned a column for CNN online, insisting that Michael Phelps, America's greatest Olympian, offer the "noble gesture" of letting Muhammad carry the American flag at the opening ceremonies. He wrote that Phelps didn't "need the honor" and should bow to the "one-stop inclusion shop." He told Phelps to step aside, saying, "No offense, but right now America has enough tall, successful, rich white guys hogging the spotlight trying to make America great...again."
If the mission is to find an American who does not support American greatness, Muhammad is an excellent choice. To say she's not a fan of the United States is to put it mildly. Part of her "role model" behavior is denouncing this country. The Daily Beast headlined her claim: "I'm Not Safe In The U.S." She denounced a "climate of anti-Islamic sentiment in the United States" and said she "had someone follow me home from practice and try to report me to police ... right on 28th and 7th in New York City."
That kind of blame-America thinking resonates with the elites.
Like other journalists, NBC's Morgan Radford played up the Islamophobia angle, saying, "But while she suits up for the red, white and blue, she's faced with the painful reminder that some don't think those stars and stripes belong to her."
On CBS, reporter Elaine Quijano explained, "Muhammad says she owes it to her community to use her platform as an Olympic athlete to speak out against hate." Muhammad claimed, "I had a man encounter me on the street and told me that I looked suspicious, and that I looked like I was (going to) blow something up."
Here's what all these glowing stories omitted: Columnist Pamela Geller displayed a 2008 social media post in which Muhammad posted a picture of another Muslim woman, Leila Khaled, who made history as the first female hijacker of an airplane, working with the terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. In the photo, Khaled is holding a gun and smiling. Next to the photo, Muhammad wrote in a comment, "me with a gun."
In that same spirit, Muhammad's Twitter page carried a series of #FreePalestine hashtags and nasty headlines against Israel, including "Israel accused of war crimes by UK Parliament," "Bolivia declares Israel a terrorist state" and "Israel Guilty of Ethnic Cleansing and Apartheid, Says UN Rapporteur."
She's also a big Black Lives Matter fan. When a police officer wasn't indicted for the death of Eric Garner in 2014, Muhammad tweeted, "Don't forget to set your clocks back 100 years tonight" with the hashtag #NewJimCrow. In the same time period, she tweeted out a story headlined, "The UN Just Issued a Scathing Critique of America's Justice System."
But the left thinks she was the perfect candidate to proudly bear the American flag at the Olympic parade.
Hey, nothing stopping you from moving to one of the paradisical location in the middle east. Don’t let the rapier hit you on the butt on the way out.
I thought Kameu was a woman, but then realized I must be confusing Kameu with Jemeu.....Sometimes I just want to give up.
Giving her the flag to carry would be as silly as giving obama a nobel peace prize before day one of his presidency
Whoopsie! That would be Kamau and Jehmu......same thing.
More like she would parade around with an ISIS flag....
Is he even a female?
But for Lefties it was a perfect choice....she feels ‘unsafe’ living in America. And they have made EVERYONE feel unsafe, living in America.
Should of entered her in the infidel beheading competition, although I heard that there’s a lot of competition out of the UK, Germany, and the JV squad out of the middle east.
Sounds like bull$hit to mee.
The effect of this constant media battering, questioning, nit-picking, and attacking traditional American culture and the pride of (mostly white) Americans will be to turn the citizenry into unsure, insecure, self-doubting sheep. We are already a few decades into the project.
the average journalist isn’t very smart, and simply repeats the cliches and propaganda they have heard elsewhere, but at some level, this is a directed program.
“I had a man encounter me on the street and told me that I looked suspicious, and that I looked like I was (going to) blow something up.”
If it’s a true story...how did someone come up with that crazy notion?
Next thing you know they will accuse muslim of chopping people’s heads off.
Jill Stein 2016!
Since she doesn’t feel safe in the USA, she should move to Craplackistan and be happy.
Yeah, it's gotta be bullchit.
Isn't there some kind of rule that if a man talks to a muzzie chick and she isn't one of his wives, her uncle or brother or somebody has to kill her?
It was... interesting. Her true feelings showing throug, maybe?
You are supporting Jill STEIN??? REALLY?
You are supporting Jill STEIN??? REALLY?
Yes, absolutely...on every site that has a comment section. and every nitwit internet poll their is.
The more folks who will vote for Jill Stein the less votes hilderbeast will get.:)
Otherwise, support Jill Stain ..who else will protect the cute fuzzy animals or the environment or whatever!
Ironic that she doesn’t feel safe in the US. Based on her ability, she had no demonstrable reason to feel safe in the fencing venue.
She’d be just another nobody if not for the bitching about the US. For comparison, how much gushing attention has Katie Ledecky gotten for saying that her Catholic faith is paramount in her success?
Something about muslims and swords unsettles me.
Oh boy, another media-manufactured ‘hero’ broad who trashes America during her 15 minutes of fame. Embrace the suck, bitch.
The left and the media are all excited about muzzards, since they are rapidly replacing the nominal Christians in this country, and are becoming the latest solid democrat voting block.
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