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.”
They are true believers in their god, who is the enemy of God.
This means they see evil as good, and good evil.
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?
The Founders weren’t afraid to state the obvious.
Maybe CNN should hire one of their spokes people...just for the ratings you understand.
The media didn’t care when ISIS murdered thousands of Christians, but chop one reporter’s head off, and they panic.
Lol, very well put. Soon they’ll sell us that beheadings should be accepted as part of ‘multiculturalism’.
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”.
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.
‘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’.
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.
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... : )
ISIS or CNN?
Why should it be "either/or"?
the infowarrior
A valid point. It is perfectly believable that one is the propaganda arm of the other.
Understanding the world through their eyes would, by definition, make one insane.
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