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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-25-06 04:37 PM
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185. OK, you have not watched the channel, and you proved it with that
woefully uninformed post.

One more time:

They show martyrdom videos of kids who say things like "I saw Hassan's video on al-Manar, and his brave example motivated me to give my life as well" before they trot off to die. Each kid who straps on the vest becomes a BACK STREET BOY or a NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK type hero. Others emulate them, and they say so in their grand farewells.

They show music videos, over and over, all day, every day, entitled KILL THE JEWS, DIE ALL JEWS, JEWS MUST DIE...it's all a variation on that theme. Over and over.

You are naive. And you don't know what they broadcast. Because if you did, you wouldn't say what you are saying. But most importantly: You are NOT the target audience here.

Are you telling me that YOU would race out and spend thirty or forty bucks a month to get the al-Manar feed if it were available here? Bullshit. But ya know who would? That disaffected young kid living hand-to-mouth in a marginal job at a tea shop in Dearborn, the undocumented kid of that guy driving a cab in NYC. That illegal working in the internet cafe in some blighted neighborhood in New Jersey. That rich little Saudi shit at the lousy college in East Bumfuck, here to learn English, get laid, and trash a few cars, who has no meaning in his life and no sense of excitement or purpose. That's where this stuff is aimed, not at you. It isn't about YOU.

It's not a question of "faith in the common man" it's a question of rule of law. Americans don't go for broadcasts exhorting the murder of an entire religion.

How you can excuse or apologize for that sort of thing is beyond me.
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