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2005-03-21 Arabia

Anti-Western sentiments on the rise in Qatar

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-03-21 12:35:08 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 AlQ, the only "human" animal stupid enough to shit where it eats. Brilliant.

We appreciate your inbreeding, it makes things easier.

Posted by .com 2005-03-21 12:54:17 AM|| 2005-03-21 12:54:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 By a strange coincidence anti-islamic sentiment is on the rise in the United States.

Posted by Mark Z. 2005-03-21 6:39:13 AM|| 2005-03-21 6:39:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 "Qatar and other energy-rich countries of the Persian Gulf are some of the most crime-free places on Earth..."

Robbing, raping, or killing infidels is not a crime.

Posted by Jackal 2005-03-21 9:35:54 AM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-03-21 9:35:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Another case of lazy cliched distortion journalism. There is not one shred of evidence to support the headline about 'Rising anti-Western Sentiments.' It's just a stupid piece of media boilerplate. Anti-Western sentiments have existed there for a long time and the reasons are a lot more complicated than simple reaction to U.S. Foreign Policy and nothing more. But the Associated Press and others keep trying to lead the public into believing that they wouldn't hate us if only we altered our policy.

Notice that the story says little about general sentiments but rather talks about miltant activities. Rising militant activities doesn't equal rising sentiments. Notice also that this piece describes an incident about an attack on the U.S. Base as far back as Nov. 2001. So it can't even prove that the bombing is part of some new, disturbing trend.

Also note the man-in-the-street who they select for quotes. You know they selected him because he would give them the quote about how the majority of Qataris sympathize with the fundamentalists and how his sons boycott McDonalds - the AP just loves that $h1t and gobbled it right up.

But even Mr. al-Nauimi condemned the car-bombing of the theater. So maybe the trend in "Rising Sentiments" is actually that the terrorists are losing the sympathy of regular Qataris. But you can't expect the AP to report any that breaks with their pre-packaged script about gloom, doom and catastrophe and why-do-they-hate-us hand-wringing.

Posted by John in Tokyo 2005-03-21 6:24:54 PM|| 2005-03-21 6:24:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 The MSM trend. I could post 20 stories a day that refer to a spurious or unsubstantiated trend. It must be something they teach them in journalism school as a device for demonstrating their deep knowledge of a subject.

Posted by phil_b 2005-03-21 7:09:50 PM|| 2005-03-21 7:09:50 PM|| Front Page Top

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