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J.K. Rowling Just Schooled Rupert Murdoch For His Ignorant Anti-Muslim Comments
MTV ^ | Jan. 11, 2015 | by Alicia Lutes

Posted on 01/11/2015 11:08:53 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

Even though Harry Potter has graduated Hogwarts and moved onto bigger and brighter things (with decidedly less peril), J.K. Rowling is still creating magic with her words. As evidenced by her stunning takedown of Rupert Murdoch’s ignorant comments about the recent events in Paris.

On Friday, the News Corp chairman had some stunningly misguided words for the Muslim people of the world in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris, calling for the “Moslems” of the world to take the blame. Terrorism, you see, is their problem and they’ll have to either fix it for the rest of the world, or resign themselves to being held accountable for every single bad thing the extremists do. That doesn’t seem very logical, does it?

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: alicialutes; charliehebdo; deathtoislam; demagogicparty; france; jkrowling; memebuilding; mtv; murdoch; paris; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; rowling; rupertmurdoch
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To: ConservativeStatement

Her books were moderately amusing one-reads, nothing particularly exciting, interesting, or even that original. Yes, I read them all because once I get started in a series, I can’t quit in the middle, but they went downhill pretty steadily from the second or third and the last was barely worth the time it took to read it.


21 posted on 01/12/2015 12:48:00 AM PST by Ronin (Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life - Rep. L. Gohmert, Tex)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Murdoch was right.
Rowling is an idiot.
MTV, owned by CBS, is a shill for morons.


22 posted on 01/12/2015 12:56:30 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: ConservativeStatement

well she might want to go after her own British broadcasters..

SKYNEWS is calling them Islamic terrorists too..

and good for Murdoch...


23 posted on 01/12/2015 1:03:33 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: LibWhacker

This ought to please muslims: The world’s foremost witch, witch expert and witch writer, has come to their defense.”

Once she is fitted for her burka will her witch hat fit over it?

These crazed liberal women who do not understand that Sharia law means they will have to give up short skirts, short-shorts, skinny jeans and boots.

And their daughters will be waxed forehead to toe so that they can be as hairless as Mohammed’s six-year-old bride before they marry.


24 posted on 01/12/2015 1:06:38 AM PST by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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To: naturalman1975

Good points..

when I was a teenager in New Zealand, I “finished” high school..

as you said, we didn’t “graduate” from o9r not..


25 posted on 01/12/2015 1:09:47 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: angry elephant

These crazed liberal women who do not understand that Sharia law means they will have to give up short skirts, short-shorts, skinny jeans and boots.
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and no belly buttons showing with or without a piercing and decoration..


26 posted on 01/12/2015 1:13:26 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: ConservativeStatement

Wouldn’t that technically be Dire Straits?


27 posted on 01/12/2015 1:15:14 AM PST by Blue Highway
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To: ConservativeStatement

Didn’t one of the stars in her movie get kidnapped, beaten, and her own family tried to force her into an arranged marriage back in Pakistan? Of course, once in court, she
“dropped” all the charges - it seemed to me that the last thing she wanted was to hurt her own family. But it happened, nevertheless.

You would think after being that close to it Rowling would realize the dangers in this thing. But like people that live with abusers, they are the most clueless of all.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1340222/Harry-Potter-actress-beaten-branded-prostitute-brother-dating-man-Muslim.html


28 posted on 01/12/2015 1:18:21 AM PST by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
What’s a MTV?
A liberal cable television channel that's been indoctrinating young people since the early 1980's.
29 posted on 01/12/2015 1:22:10 AM PST by Bratch
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To: Ronin

I started twenty pages of one of these, and just came to a quitting point....realizing it was rough two-star material and nothing really of value in terms of literature. Maybe kids like it....for the fantasy stuff, but for literature, it’ll be forgotten in less than twenty years.

As for her comments? If Christians in London were actively raping women, proclaiming this was agreeable with their teachings, torturing people, chopping heads off in appreciation of God’s values, and killing children....yeah, you Christian folks would be responsible and I’d expect you to hunt these nuts...either put them six feet under and render them somewhere outside of civilization where they could do their stuff within their group.

I am reminded of a quote from Spiderman’s dad....”With great power, comes great responsibility”. The same is true of religion and your endorsement or craving for it....if you can’t handle the religion, then it’s not for you.


30 posted on 01/12/2015 1:24:33 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: BwanaNdege; Arthur McGowan

And while we’re at it, what’s with this thing (increasingly prevalent I might add) of leaving out the verb “to be” in expressing infinitives?

For example people will say (and write):

“This food needs cooked.”
“The house needs cleaned.”
“The dogs need walked.”

All of these things need *TO BE* cooked, cleaned or walked.

Or, they might need cooking, cleaning or walking.

< /grammarnazi >


31 posted on 01/12/2015 1:27:56 AM PST by shibumi ("Walk through the fire - Fly through the smoke")
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To: ConservativeStatement
I was born Christian. If that makes Rupert Murdoch my responsibility, I'll auto-excommunicate.

Thus proclaiming moral equivalence between a tweet and the murder of thousands of people around the world.

A number of murders are committed by fundamentalist Christians each year. As by every other group. AFAIK, very, very few of them are claimed by the perpetrators to have been committed in the name of God.

Of that tiny group, few if any of accepted as legitimate by other "Christians."

Compare and contrast with Islam.

32 posted on 01/12/2015 1:29:12 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: ConservativeStatement

Islam as largely practiced today is the Muggle equivalent of the Death Eaters.

And I see no problem at all with Murdoch’s point. The obvious point of reference for me is the aftermath of Nazi Germany, in which all Germans were required to de-Nazify. Millions of perfectly innocent Germans were made to view the concentration camps.


33 posted on 01/12/2015 1:37:58 AM PST by denydenydeny ("World History is not full of good governments, or of good voters either "--P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: shibumi

That started as a Pittsburgh thing. It’s definitely spreading.


34 posted on 01/12/2015 2:03:50 AM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: ConservativeStatement

“I was born Christian.”

One is not ‘born’ Christian. You must accept Jesus Christ as your savior before you become Christian. If she truly was a Christian I don’t think she would be writing satanic books for children.

Useful idiot is correct.


35 posted on 01/12/2015 2:09:56 AM PST by MagnoliaB
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To: fieldmarshaldj

During World War II many people expressed their opposition to the war. Their beliefs were heartfelt. They were wrong.


36 posted on 01/12/2015 2:35:27 AM PST by Former Proud Canadian (Gold and Silver are Real Money, Accept No Substitutes)
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To: shibumi

When I moved to northwestern Pennsylvania the omission of “to be” in conversation was glaring. Just last night I read a classified ad for someone selling something and right there, in print, it said “Needs gone” instead of “needs to be gone”.


37 posted on 01/12/2015 2:40:00 AM PST by Rodamala
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To: ConservativeStatement

I must admit I didn’t even know MTV still existed. Irrelevant asshat fools.


38 posted on 01/12/2015 3:03:32 AM PST by surroundedbyblue (Bitter clinger & creepy-ass cracker)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Hermione Granger would have been sold as a sex slave at 12,if the Muslims rule.


39 posted on 01/12/2015 3:31:56 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: denydenydeny
One wonders did Rowling read about the stunning horrors of the Islamic Boko Haram movement in northern Nigeria, where thousands have been killed and/or enslaved in recent years. Care to explain the 2,000 dead by a major attack on villages in northern Nigeria in the past week by this group, Ms. Rowling?
40 posted on 01/12/2015 3:39:32 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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