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2010-01-25 Home Front: WoT

Ed Koch: What I said about terrorism supporters and what Newsweek published

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Posted by logi_cal 2010-01-25 07:41|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Mr. Koch describes Newsweek's caption as "somewhat misleading." I would describe Mr. Koch's statement as "somewhat charitable."

The difference between 200K terrorism supporters/enablers/apologists versus 200K terrorists is so vast that Newsweek's caption cannot be dismissed as stupidity or carelessness.

Posted by Free Radical 2010-01-25 09:17|| 2010-01-25 09:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Koch erred only in one respect. You cannot win a fight by being purely defensive, in this case, just defending against the slander without challenging the attacker.

Instead, a few inquiries would have led to the discovery of the individuals, the people, at Newsweek who were personally responsible for the slander.

By personally implicating them, the dual purpose is made that to maintain its credibility (what little if any it retains), Newsweek needs to downsize such individuals; and as fair warning to others that Newsweek tolerates such slander, *and* that it must be assumed that the named persons will do so in the future, so should not be trusted.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-01-25 09:22|| 2010-01-25 09:22|| Front Page Top

#3 "...I have often said that there are about 1 billion 200 million Muslims worldwide, and that the vast majority are peace-loving and decry terrorism...."

Sadly, Ed Koch doesn't realize that for a lot of Muslims 'terrorism' does not include infidels being killed by muslims. For a significant number, the very existence of Israel is an act of terrorism, the fact that US troops are in Afghanistan is terrorism, the fact that the Caliphate was overthrown is terrorism, the fact that Spain is not islamic is terrorism, etc.

Posted by lord garth 2010-01-25 11:39|| 2010-01-25 11:39|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't read Newsweek, I can already access DNC press releases on-line.

Posted by DMFD 2010-01-25 18:09|| 2010-01-25 18:09|| Front Page Top

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