Amanpour's Apologia

IBD ^ | August 27, 2007

[Kaslin]

Global Jihad: CNN's chief apologist for Islam, Christiane Amanpour, has gone too far this time. Not content to just whitewash jihad, she says Jews and Christians are terrorists, too.

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According to her new three-part series, "God's Warriors," militant Islamists are really no different than right-wing Christians or Jews. So who are we in the West to judge?

Of course, it's cultural relativism — and journalism — at its worst. What's stunning is the lack of evidence Amanpour provides to support her case.

That CNN would give her six prime-time hours to peddle such tendentious trash to a public still under real threat from Islamic terror speaks volumes about the network's agenda.

The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America slammed the series as "one of the most grossly distorted programs" ever aired on mainstream American TV.

CAMERA was being kind. Amanpour's premise that Christianity and Judaism have spawned just as many terrorists as Islam is absurd on its face.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

I stopped watching CNN the year that FoxNews came into being, except that I do catch Glenn Beck from time-to-time.

[ishabibble]

Not sure, but I do know that she went to URI and was a campus radical for the outrage de jour. I think that ME people have a HUGE problem with self-esteem, and this is where her “ethics” come from, and why she says the things she does. A straight A+ overachiever with a deep loathing of herself as a human being. That is my unprofessional opinion.

[BackInBlack]

If Amanpour had wanted to take her swipes at Christianity and Judaism in the name of balance, she has plenty of history to choose from, from the crusades to 19th century imperialism to, I suppose, biblical stories of genocide against the Canaanites and others. Fine, maybe there are historical cycles to all this, and religions that are peaceful one day may eventually become murderous, and vice-versa. Her problem is that she wants to paint current Christianity as just as bad as Islam (or worse) and there’s simply no evidence. If Christianity ever had a violent phase, we’re not in it anymore.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP

[gathersnomoss]

Start another Fox Network. CNN will never change.

[weegee]

Psst. The CNN offices are a hostile environment to Christian staffers. Remember when Ted Turner used to mock the Catholic staffers with ashes on their foreheads on Ash Wednesday?

[weegee]

She looks like a man in drag.

And that man is Emo Phillips:

[weegee]

I remember when some CNN staffers confessed that they covered up torture and murder under Saddam's regime in order to maintain their Baghdad Bureau.

What are human rights abuses when it means getting a "scoop"?

Their loyalty is to all that is not American, they feel no need to shelve any distastful "facts" about our own efforts even when they are terrorist propaganda with no factual merit.

[Honorary Serb]

Now the major league Serbophobe Amanpour REALLY smells like a crypto-muslim. What's "Christianne's" real name--Fatima?

As for that other Serbophobe and clintonite--James "Jamie" Rubin--he may be of Jewish origin, but he's a gold-plated Dhimmwit!!!!

[freekitty]

Did anyone know her father is Islam and she is from Iran?

Just curious why we weren’t told this; if this is true and I don’t believe she is the right person to be talking about religions given her preference which seems to be Islam.

Sorry, but I am tired of catering to the enemy.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

And Hitler, Mao, and Pol Pot.

In Christianity, the Bible is the ultimate authority short of God.

Christians can do bad things, but those bad things are not emblematic of the religion. Christianity is not run as the court system--or shouldn't be. Precedent that is not in the Bible should not count for how Christians should act unless that precedent is traceable to the Bible.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Personally take up the label and status of Christian before American. God, family, and even individual come before country—opinion.

[Mr. Silverback]

All that is necessary, is a such a fervent belief, that objectivity is lost. In other words, the individual loses the ability to have compassion for others.

The difference is, you were able to list most of the Jews and "Christians" who've committed terrorist acts in seven words. Try that with Islam.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Personally take up the label and status of Christian before American. God, family, and even individual* come before country--opinion.

*Suspect this is going to be taken in such a bad way than was intended.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Bump.

The 'ignore it and it will go away' attitude is not relevant to this opposition to the liberal media.

They can--and do--affect the electorate, which leads to how the laws of the land are.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Guessing that the name Christiane might (might) give a little clue as to the nominal religion of Amanpour's parents more so than Iranian ancestry.

Iranians are by and large Muslims; there are a few Christians, Zoroastrians, and other non-Muslims in Iran, too.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Nineteenth Century Europe is more traceable to a decline in Christianity, and Europeans becoming much more full of themselves, and lauding their own ingenuity for Western Civilization's achievements rather than God using them.

European missionaries did relatively poorly in converting people during that time, probably at least in part to their racist attitudes.

i.e. Hudson Taylor dressed in traditional Chinese garb, ate as Chinese do, and even dyed his hair black to spread the Gospel to the Chinese, while other missionaries insisted that the heathen Chinese should dress in Western clothes, use Western eating utensils, and act Western to be Christian (extremely hypocritical because Jewish Christians used to demand that Gentile Christians (including Europeans) act Jewish and follow Jewish customs to be Christian.... and this was shown to be unnecessary).

Christians should dress modestly, as modestly is defined in the local culture (t-shirt and shorts might be considered scandalous in some other cultures or times). A quipao is no more un-Christian garb than a suit.

Hudson Taylor turned many Chinese to Christ. Other missionaries were not nearly as successful. Wonder why. (not a question).

[dbacks]

[Iranian. She is half British also.]

Geraldo is muy jealous of her moustache!!

[bray]

Christina Ahmawhore hates Christians and Jews. Wasn’t she Peter Jennings’ slut for a while?

Pray for W and Our Troops

[mvpel]

I recall a so-called Christian committing a summary execution of an abortion doctor, or Baruch Goldstein shooting up a mosque, but the fact that I can count such instances on one hand ought to tell us something.