Oprah: Daytime Talk’s Jihadi Sister

DebbieSchlussel.com ^ | May 25, 2005 | Debbie Schlussel

[Cool Chick]

Oprah: Daytime Talk’s Jihadi Sister

May 25, 2005

By Debbie Schlussel

Ann Coulter says Katie Couric is “the affable Ava Braun” of daytime TV.

But Couric’s got nothing on Oprah Winfrey.

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Cheating husbands don’t get off as easy as Islamic terrorists, murderers, and torturers in Winfrey’s world.

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Last month, Oprah’s “O” asked readers to understand “The Heart of a Destroyer,” Mohammed Atta. You remember him—the Al-Qaeda ringleader of the 9/11 hijackers who murdered 3,000 Americans.

But that’s not exactly the way “O”’s “reading room” wants you to remember him.

Beneath a picture of young Mohammed and his smiling sister on the Egyptian beach, “O” exhorts you to read a book that “sets out to understand the hearts and minds of the men behind the photos” of the 9/11 hijackers, a group of “lonely, exiled young men.”

But the fatherless and motherless children who lost their parents to Atta—hey aren’t lonely, are they?

The book, “O” tells us, “is a simultaneously passionate, compassionate, and dispassionate book that [doesn’t] indict Islam.” Just what we need—the CEO of the Oprah Book Club urging America’s women to have compassion for Mohammed Atta. On the next Oprah, “Stupid Talk Show Hosts and the Terrorists Who Love Them.” (Or is that, “Brave Terrorists and the Stupid Talk Show Hosts Who Love Them”?)

I think Stedman’s starting to get jealous.

To add insult to injury, the latest issue, “O”'s June 2005 edition, demands that we understand the pain and turmoil of Yusra Abdu, a teen-age Palestinian would-be homicide bomber, fiancée of Hani Akad, leader of Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist group.

[Cool Chick]

Why were you on? She's gotten cheap--unless U R a celeb, no 1st-class flights for guests anymore.

[AppyPappy]

Isn't Stedman gay?

Is a bullfrog waterproof?

[Pat79thST]

Oprah - The Life of the Pantry!

[FeliciaCat]

I dont know about Steadman, but Star Jones' hubby HAS GOT to be...

[Xenalyte]

(Pssst, Debbie, Ms. Braun's first name was Eva, not Ava.)

[Xenalyte]

Or blind, one.

[fortunecookie]

“lonely, exiled young men.”

Aaahhhh, tugs at your heartstrings, doesn't it? In a way, they are lonely and exiled. Sent to Madrassas at a very young age, separated from family and mother, told all women are evil, of the devil, told that (despite any sensical thoughts to the contrary that may enter their heads) they can achieve glory and honor by suicide and killing the infidel, taught that everyone is to be distrusted and then sent to live among the 'enemy' and hit with the conflicting images of infidel and happy American enjoying a pleasant lifestyle. Yes, they are lonely and exiled by choice and taunted by that choice. No wonder they have a fail safe in case one of their suicide group chickens out. But any exile and loneliness was imposed on them and brainwashed into them in a cultlike fashion by those who took custody of them and their education at a young age. And they are hoping we do pity them, so much the better for them to continue to try to deceive us, as they themselves admit to attempting. And shame on Oprah for aiding and abetting the terrorists who wish to do us harm.

[Born Conservative]

With a name like that, he's GOT to be!

[goldstategop]

Amen. That's the difference between liberals and conservatives. The latter - us - believe the world is divided into those who love God and those who hate Him. And those who hate God, those who do evil, we are commanded to hate them utterly and destroy them. I'm glad the ringleader of 9/11 is dead. Oprah's words make me want to dance over his grave at Ground Zero. May the loathsome insufferable bastard rot in hell. My compassion is extended entirely to every American whose loved ones on that dark day. Good people who loved God and who loved life (and whose families miss more than we can know) above all dear friends - need to be remembered in our thoughts.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)