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Fox News host Bill OReilly chose on Tuesday night to slam President Obama for failing to condemn Islam in the immediate aftermath of the Boston bombings and claimed that American Muslims arent doing enough to stand up against jihad.
During his Talking Point Commentary segment, OReilly called the President seriously wrong for urging the country on Friday to not to jump to conclusions about the bombing suspects motivations.
Its all about motivation and its all about a specific group of people, OReilly declared, referring to Muslims. He then went on to say that suspected Dzhokar Tsarnaev and his deceased brother Tamerlan were definitively jihadists, stating that only radical Islam allows terror murder.
What OReilly failed to mention is that Obamas Friday statement was made before anything was known about the brothers or what led them to place explosives at the Boston Marathon. The FBI didnt release the two suspects pictures until Thursday afternoon, kicking off a massive manhunt. While on Friday morning the media learned that the two were ethnic Chechens, that information alone provided no further knowledge of the motivation behind the attack. Only after questioning alleged bomber Dzohkar Tsarnaev in custody did authorities learn that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan provided at least part of the impetus for the bombing.
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http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/04/24/1911791/o039reilly-american-muslims/
Scuba
(53,475 posts)frogmarch
(12,145 posts)condemn teabaggers immediately afterward.
dogknob
(2,431 posts)...he also said something about how Islam is responsible for "the most terrorism in the world history."
That caught my attention because it reminded me that for most 'Mericans, world history begins around 1929.
MattBaggins
(7,894 posts)I think I may have injured myself trying to mimic it.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Funny that he forgets the IRA.
KKK and
MM (Michigan Militia) and
etc and
etc.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)probably not.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,276 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,737 posts). . .asking why the POTUS doesn't operate out of emotion.
Fuck that asshole.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)condemned Catholicism every time a sex abuse charge is leveled against a priest. Abstract concepts, like religion, are not sentient beings. If Islam is to be condemned for the actions of its fringe adherents, then Catholicism needs to suffer the same fate.
rocktivity
(44,555 posts)when an abortion clinic is bombed.
rocktivity
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)nt.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,085 posts)indepat
(20,899 posts)all domestic right-wing extremists who unwittingly or otherwise preach hate and divisiveness.
rucky
(35,211 posts)within 10 minutes of the bombings!
rucky
(35,211 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)I threw up in my mouth listening to that.