CNN raises new arguments with footage of a dying dog

Washington Times ^ | 8/21/02 | Jennifer Harper

[kattracks]

CNN's five-day foray into al Qaeda videos this week yielded some genuine news, troubling insights, odd moments, much speculation and the pathetic gasps of a dying dog

[Shermy]

PETA on the side of terrorists, pushing the moral equivalency angle. What a surprise. How many pics and movies of animal experiments and farms do they push?

http://www.peta.org/feat/military/index.html

PETA site posted about military experimentation to keep their own troops focused against America.

[piasa]

PETA seems to miss the point. The al Qaeda experiments on the dogs were designed to help the terrorists learn how to kill people who are not radical islamicists... IOW, the intention was to learn how to deliberately kill innocent people in order to create an atmosphere of f ear which terrorists can use to eliminate freedoms and impose Sharia law.

In no way is it comparable to people using animals to learn to learn to defend against chemical attacks by people determined to eliminate individual liberty, and in no way is it comparable to using animals in medical research to learn to treat people who have been victims of such attacks.

The 'moral equivalency' folks are incredibly naive.

[piasa]

It hasn't occured to PETA that Shariah Law leaves no room for their sort of activism- they'd be hung on every lamp post in a heartbeat and 'their' animals with them... al-Qaeda has little appreciation for 'pigs and monkeys' and dogs, donkeys, camels, goats, sheep... homo sapiens...

[Diogenesis]

It's a Jihad. Death to the Axis of Evil.

[weegee]

According to Ask The Imam, angels will not visit a home where animals dwell. The Islamists are not big on pets (and domesticated animals can do little to survive on their own).

[weegee]

"There is nothing we don't already know on these tapes," (CNN terrorism analyst ) Mr. Bergen said. "But it is something we can see with our own eyes — the dog dying or evidence of the links between different terrorist groups. Seeing is believing."

The libs are childlike in their naivety. They did not believe it when scores of conservatives quickly saw through Bill Clinton's lies. They had to wait until the waning days of his second term to realize that he had ever lied to them.

Now with these videos "seeing is believing". Yep. Al Quaida is bad. Yep nations are formulating lethal chemical weapons.

[Timesink]

According to Ask The Imam, angels will not visit a home where animals dwell. The Islamists are not big on pets (and domesticated animals can do little to survive on their own).

They are particularly hateful towards dogs; apparently something in the Koran says dogs are the scum of the earth or some such BS. Muslims consider them lower than cockroaches. So to them, gassing Rover is of no more meaning to them then deciding what to have for lunch.

(It's also why you hear them making such typically hyperbolic pronouncements about "killing the infidel running dogs!" and similar silliness.)

[I still care]

I seem to remember reading a while ago that pet dogs were outlawed in Tehran. Quite a few people were quite upset about being ordered to get rid of and destroy their dogs.

I don't know much more about it though, and didn't have the time to check the story more thoroughly. Mohammad supposedly hated dogs.

[lavaroise]

PETA's jihad and demands against people and for dogs. Don't we feel safer.

[jedwardtremlett]

That's damn weird. I seem to remember a Haddith where the Prophet (PBUH) said that part of Islam was loving cats.

Of course, the Haddith are just sayings, and don't have the same force that the Noble Q'uran and Sharia law have, but still.

Odd.

J

[KneelBeforeZod]

those PETA numbskulls don't seem to realize that the last thing CNN would want to do is get anyone on Bush's side.

[Movemout]

"Miss Newkirk questioned the frequency with which the dog video was shown. "Over and over? It's like seeing the Daniel Pearl or Monica Lewinsky imagery too often. It can be too much." "

She seems to be saying that we don't want to upset the proletariat. Presidential blow jobs and throat slicimg of reporters is controversial news that portrays her cause in a bad light. Killing dogs is not a proposition that sells well in the USA. Miss Newkirk is beside herself on this "bad news"-- What could her favorite terrorists be thinkung?

[DWSUWF]

"...According to Ask The Imam, angels will not visit a home where animals dwell..."

Hmmm... Dogs as moslem demon repellent...

I'm glad that the kid's Corgi is an 'inside dog'.

We've got an outside cat as well, so we're covered while relaxing in the yard too.

[Grampa Dave]

One of these days, there will probably be a revelation that PETA/ALF/ELF and all of the eco terrorists in America have been financed for years by the Opecker Princes.

PETA/ALF/ELF are anti America and anti capitalism. Their eco terrorism against corporations, business, individuals, farmers, ranchers and others is pure economic eco terrorism.

[Wyatt's Torch]

Unfortunately, the problem with your logic is that you assume PETA cares about people. They don't. Many of them believe the world would be better off without human beings. To them, there is a moral equivalence. That type of whackjob mentality is why they are very dangerous.

[usmcobra]

"PETA said the Israeli military also had blown up live pigs with Scud missiles"

When Pigs fly....
seriously does anyone at PETA even know what a scud missle is????

[Tijeras_Slim]

Mohammad supposedly hated dogs.

One more reason to despise this scum.

[aristeides]

Of course it was an experiment with a purpose, but it was also symbolic, like the Palestinians' use of rat poison and cyanide in their bombs that kill Jews. Moslems despise dogs, and they despise Christians for doing such an unclearn thing as keeping dogs in their houses (in Moslem countries, the dogs are kept firmly out in the yard, outside the house.) That's why they call us "Christian dogs."

[Physicist]

Notice how PETA is criticizing CNN for showing the footage, but NOT criticizing Al Qaeda for killing the dogs? Who believes anymore that these people have the best interests of animals at heart?