Big Media is talking Islam — ABC’s 20/20 Tonight
Diane Sawyer’s Islam: Questions and Answers

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Talk, talk, talking about Islam. Big media is having at it.

I, for one, am glad we are finally having this conversation, a direct result of the national outrage over the Ground Zero mega mosque. It's a dialogue that should have taken place right after 911. But better late than after all is lost. Note to Imam Rauf and Daisy the Con: beware the law of unintended consequences.

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ABC's Diane Sawyer is doing an in-depth piece on Islam tonight on 20/20 at 10 pm Eastern. we saw what naked shills they turned out to be. Irresponsible and reckless.

On Sunday, Christiane Amanpour is following Sawyer's lead. Her propaganda piece for Islamic supremacism is airing this Sunday at 11AM Eastern. We know what we can expect from Amanpour. She will shill for jihad and embarrass non-Muslims, as is her signature narrative, in yet another pathetic and transparent attempt to paint those defending freedom as racistislamophobicantiMuslimbigots.

Robert Spencer was on Amanpour's panel. The bias was plain, I am sure. It will be in servitude to Queen Daisy Con. Amanpour has no moral compass, and the galloping sharia would never have advanced so rapidly without tools like her in key senior media positions. I am holding out more hope for Sawyer's piece tonight. We'll see. I strongly urge you to watch it. The Huff Po has this:

ABC News announced that it will air two episodes on "Islam in America" in the wake of the controversy over the proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero.

An hour-long "20/20" special by Diane Sawyer will air on Friday night. The special, "Diane Sawyer Reporting: Islam — Questions & Answers," will attempt to answer five questions viewers submitted. They are: "what is Islam? Why do radicals feel violence is justified? Is Western culture at odds with Islam? Where is the moderate Muslim voice? How can we all get along?" It will be Sawyer's first primetime special since taking over the "World News" anchor chair.

This Sunday, Christiane Amanpour will host a special episode of "This Week." ABC News said Muslims and non-Muslims will debate issues surrounding Islam in America on the show.

Imam Rauf of the Ground Zero mega mosque understands better than most the pivotal role the media plays to deceive, obfuscate and advance Islam. He said here:

And there are different geographies, different subject areas, so we have designed our Cordoba Initiative to be designed, in order words we have 5 major areas of our program. So we have foreign policy, is one area, you have communications is another area, you have education as the third area, for example, you have intra-Islamic issues is the fourth area, arts and culture is the fifth area. And lets say this Abrahamic pathwalk may be in the arts and culture, a blend of the arts and culture and you know maybe the religious aspect in some respect, but it’s kind of an interfaith type of activity. Now in the area of foreign policy, you have different issues, number one is the Palestinian conflict, cause if you heal that, you will have contributed a lot. If the entertainment media, the news media, was broadcasted in print, describe and speak about the issues in a different way it can help change perceptions profoundly, because it’s the media, which helps shape perceptions to a great degree.

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E H
E H
13 years ago

I’ve been on to this islamo-tool Reza Aslan since he put out his book “No God but God” which regrettably I have to admit I purchased. In that piece of c**p, he paints Medina under Muhammed as some kind of proto-democratic experiment instead of the militaristic dictatorship it really was (based on the Islamic sources).

Egghead
Egghead
13 years ago

I would like Amanpour to describe where SHE would be if she lived in her MUSLIM Iranian homeland today.
If she still lived in MUSLIM Iran, Amanpour would be an unemployed woman whose public dress would be a full body burqa.
Amanpour is such a hypocrite! Amanpour escaped from Iran to the West to have the WESTERN freedom that Amanpour is fully prepared to deny those who enabled her to exercise her own freedom.

juniper
juniper
13 years ago

What on earth is that ugly zero, Anjem Choudry doing there? Is he going to give an expose on how muslims can go on the dole in the UK and stay on it, without EVER having to prove they are looking for work? His whole family is supported by the UK state, even tho’ he gets paid for these appearances!He has government housing too – I mean UK taxpayer jizya. He makes videos spouting race-hate and he never gets arrested!
Anjem Choudry is the UK government’s prostitute!

Brian Schiff
Brian Schiff
13 years ago

Spencer by kayo in one.

Ted
Ted
13 years ago

Shouldn’t “Christiane’ be named “Islame?”

welcomer
welcomer
13 years ago

Will it be 100% lies or only 99% lies?

Frank
Frank
13 years ago

I meant to post (below) here but posted it on an earlier thread because I was distracted by other things I was doing as I wrote it….
Frank said…
Re: Being Muslim on the Football Field. (What’s that have to do with the dogmas of Islam???)
The issue is the dogmas of Islam and the need for a very honest, critical analysis of Muslim dogma. For example: the fact that the later chronological “violent” suras in the Qu’ran abrogate (cancel) the earlier “peaceful” orders from Allah (re Unbelievers) needs to understood by the Western-Centric “tolerance” media. Many Muslims peddle nonsense that “Islam is a religion of peace” or “Islam forbids killing the innocent” (no non-Muslim is “innocent” as per Muslim dogma) etc.-even as they know that they are peddling Taqiyya.
Re abrogation: Ibn Warraq, page 115,Why I am Not a Muslim: “Now we see how useful and convenient the doctrine of abrogation is in bailing scholars out of difficulties. Of course, it does pose a problem for apologists of Islam, since all the passages preaching tolerance are found in the Meccan, i.e., early suras, and all the passages recommending killing, decapitating, and maiming are Median, i.e., later: “tolerance” has been abrogated by “intolerance.” For example, the famous verse at Sura 9.5, “Slay the idolaters wherever you find them,” is said to have canceled 124 verses that dictate tolerance and patience.”
2) Further, to keep comparing the so-called “inspired” books of the “Old Testament” with the alleged dictation of God in the Qu’ran is absurd. We must study Islam, and understand Islam and the Qu’ran for what it actually teaches.
Ibn Warraq, page 11,Why I am Not a Muslim: “The term “Islamic fundenentalist” is in itself inappropriate, for there is a vast difference between Christianity and Islam. Most Christians have moved away from the literal interpertation of the Bible; for most of them, “it ain’t necessaraly so.” Thus we can legitmately distinguish between fundamentalist and nonfundamentalist Christians. But Muslims have not moved away from the literal interpretaion of the Koran; all Muslims-not just a group we have called “fundamentalist”-believe that the Koran is literally the word of God.”
3) The permissions in Islam to deceive the Unbeliever alienate rational Unbelievers. There are four ways in which people lie: omission, commission, embellishment, and transference (claiming somebody else’s work as one’s own e.g.). Muslim apologists constantly lie by way of omission. It’s repugnant to anyone who critically analyses their method (though Insane Rubbish (AKA Hussein Ibbish) directly lied (commission) to Pamela on tv when he denied the Jew-hating suras in the Quran).
But their main way of lying is omission.
In any case, it’s time for the Western-centric “tolerance” people to face the truth and stop the PC bullshit re Islam.

The Watcher
The Watcher
13 years ago

I pray I’m wrong, but I’ve got a feeling in the pit of my stomach that Diane is going to be made to show that the ‘misunderstanders’ of Islam are the folks who really do understand it.

when*pigs*fly
when*pigs*fly
13 years ago

The only thing that keeps going through my mind every time I read another article about muslims,islam and their apologizers, appeasers & abettors is GET THEM OUT OF MY COUNTRY!

Frank
Frank
13 years ago

“Note to Imam Rauf and Daisy the Con: beware the law of unintended consequences.”-Pamela
There is an old saying “God writes straight with crooked lines.” The truth will prevail in time re the actual dogmas of Islam.
In the future, it is the Muslims who are fed-up with Islam’s intolerant, supremacist dogmas who will express the most resentment against the Western-Centric PC of our time. Mark me words on this.
Eventually they (sane Muslims) are going to demand an end to the abrogated peaceful suras, the end eof the Jew-hating suras in the Qu’ran, and a religion that can have them trusted by Unbelievers. It has to be a great burden for those Muslims to watch the Western-Centric “tolerance values” PC fools enable the deception, and the domination ideology of Islam to continue.

Monica
Monica
13 years ago

I don’t expect much from Liberal MSM, they produce nothing but fluff whilst ignoring the Islamic Supremacists Official Muslim Organizations. I’m not sure if Liberal MSM is as stupid as they appear or actually suffering from grey matter oozing out of their progressive heads because they spend so much time licking the boots of Political Islamists?

underzog
underzog
13 years ago

I don’t trust Diane Sawyer and I see no reason that ABC news should not be as bad or almost as bad as NBC and Matt Lauer.
The only network that comes anywhere near giving Pamela a break is Fox News Channel and even there Pam has to contend with that degenerate, Bob Beckel.

Madeleine
Madeleine
13 years ago

I’m going to be painfully honest here. The reason why our country turned down a path of self destruction was because people listened to what Main Stream Media told them. I didn’t vote for Obama, but it was because I thought this: Who the heck is this unknown, he hasn’t earned a damn thing, and now he’s running for the highest office of the land? Most people, as you already know, didn’t care if he was a total nobody, they listened and bought what the MSM was selling them, empty goods. Today, in 2010, the lesson is learned, I believe the American people learned to trust their own instincts and good judgement and I doubt that anything these knuckleheads on 60 mins. or 20/20 will change their minds now. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame of me. Americans are filled to the brim with the PC bull shit!
Those who are cold and indifferent, were cold and indifferent during the 2008 election too, so they won’t change but the rest of the country, they are noticing the lying and the change they didn’t ask for, they can’t believe they are asked to absorb and they aren’t in the least bit impressed. So try as these idiots in “big media” might, they aren’t getting anywhere. I am optimistic because Americans have too much pride to allow themselves to be tricked a second time!

eloivsdiablo
eloivsdiablo
13 years ago

What ever happened to Molly?

eloivsdiablo
eloivsdiablo
13 years ago

Molly who?

eloivsdiablo
eloivsdiablo
13 years ago

N O R R I S!!!!!

WAKE UP
WAKE UP
13 years ago

Problem 1: The USA, a naturally generous nation, is still in denial about Islamic intentions.
Problem 2: getting the USA to accept that fact and take the appropriate actions.
Time to SUIT UP, people.

jane
jane
13 years ago

Amanpour wears the slave cloth over her brain.

Laura L
Laura L
13 years ago

“Sawyer is going to address misconceptions on Islam. I pray she does”.
………………………………………………………………..
I take this to mean Sawyer considers the idea that islam is violent and hateful to be the misconception and that the real islam is peaceful. The typical liberal tripe. I don’t hold out hope that we will get the truth about islam from any msm outlet.

Gub
Gub
13 years ago

I don’t understand the media (including Conservative) who have these Muslim apologists on all the time and they have never made this point. If Islam is a religion of Peace who have been hyjacked by radicals, who is this crowd over in Mo-ville the very seat of the religion who wouldn’t ever allow anything that is not Islam such as a church or synogogue. Saudi Arabia is the face of Islam, not radicals

eloivsdiablo
eloivsdiablo
13 years ago

Why can I not post the name N o rris without using spaces to disguise it..?

Choi
Choi
13 years ago

RAUF SAID:”….the area of foreign policy, you have different issues, number one is the Palestinian conflict, cause if you heal that, you will have contributed a lot. If the entertainment media, the news media, was broadcasted in print, describe and speak about the issues in a different way it can help change perceptions profoundly, because it’s the media, which helps shape perceptions to a great degree.”
THAT EVIL BASTARD:
RAUF intends to USE the GROUND ZERO MOSQUE to SPEARHEAD THE JIHAD AGAINST ISRAEL in America and it plays into their BS TAQYIA re:9/11.

Choi
Choi
13 years ago

Or she KNOWS THE TRUTH and WILLLIE FOR THEM ANYWAY

Jackson Pearson
Jackson Pearson
13 years ago

“you have different issues, number one is the Palestinian conflict, cause if you heal that, you will have contributed a lot.”
It ain’t gonna ever happen folks. Why? Because the so-called Palestinians are sick, beyond repair with deep rooted preached hate. If the Hamas/Pali’s had their way, Israel would not exist as a nation, and all Jews would be bulldozed into the ocean, via en mass genocide!

Lydia
Lydia
13 years ago

I would like to ask everyone to go to Facebook and report/flag this:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/we-can-destroy-israel/101848056536351?ref=ts

ParahSalin
ParahSalin
13 years ago

Watching now – absolute evil bullshit. Diane Sawyer should be fired like Dan Rather and Helen Thomas.

Dagny Taggart
Dagny Taggart
13 years ago

It didn’t even take 5 minutes to reveal this is a propaganda piece. I left the room unable to watch Sawyer shill.

STOP! Islamization Of America
STOP! Islamization Of America
13 years ago

Since some of them claim America as their country too, legal protest seems to be the only route.
Here is one legal protest.
Print out one page each day of a kill the kuffar jihad verse of the quran underneath a picture of Osama bin Laden, or whomever, and burn it.
Accomplish 2 protest actions with 1 match.
Hey, that’s not burning the quran… but it makes the same protest point against the idiotology of supremacist Islam.
Art
STOP! Islamization Of America

Dagny Taggart
Dagny Taggart
13 years ago

Thanks.

dee dee
dee dee
13 years ago

omg that elena (?) lenkovich (?) is on, know who i mean? she got caught in some taqiyya with one of our good guys a couple years ago on video. they’re talking about Jesus a lot, too. i think they’re digging themselves into a hole. Sawyer says 3/4 of Americans dont know a muzlim. imo if you get to know them you only find more to distrust, etc. its hard to watch right now 🙁

Achilles
Achilles
13 years ago

Answers to the five questions:
“What is Islam?” A parasitic, medieval death cult masquerading as a religion.
“Why do radicals feel violence is justified?” Because the koran tells them so.
“Is Western culture at odds with Islam?” They are the antithesis of each other.
“Where is the moderate Muslim voice?” There is none.
“How can we all get along?” We can’t. We either destroy Islam or it will destroy us.
I don’t see how ABC can produce an hour long special based on these questions (and answers), unless they decide that they are going to tell great, big, fat, lies about islam.
To quote Winston Churchill in a 1940 speech to House of Commons:
“Victory at all costs.
Victory in spite of all terror.
Victory however long and hard the road may be;
for without victory, there is no survival.”
Islam delenda est!

dee dee
dee dee
13 years ago

a muzz just said a fatwa can be put out by anyone, it means nothing. then cut to a scene from Hirsi Ali’s submission on screen and talk about van Gogh, Rushdie. then Sawyer’s colleague asks a Arab-looking man why poor Christians in mid East who are not happy with whats going on there, why they dont do terrorism? the man said you cannot dismiss the religious element Pamela was just on the woman’s segment. I missed seeing you hope you come back again!

Laura L
Laura L
13 years ago

I knew it. This was very predictable, which was why I chose not to watch it.

fibrowitch
fibrowitch
13 years ago

It might be because they only have an hour. But just as I think they are going to make a solid point Diane switches to a commercial. The topic changes, and the question does not get answered.
I was waiting during the bit about Jesus and Mary being mentioned in the book for them to actually QUOTE what the book says. Close but no cigar ABC close but not close enough.

Gordon MacDonald
Gordon MacDonald
13 years ago

20/20 – what a huge disappointment – more mainstream media denial.

MARTEL
MARTEL
13 years ago

I hear you man. Ready. OK where do we go? Who do we report to? We are not organized (as far as I know). Would welcome suggestions.

dee dee
dee dee
13 years ago

i thought they were going to talk about how the fb team practices in the middle of the night during ramadamadingdong (you know after breaking fast), but i dont think there was time to go into detail. that part about the little muzlim girl was tragic and touching but was really pretty irrelevant to the main topic, which is islame

AuntieMadder
AuntieMadder
13 years ago

Done. And sent a message to my sisters, who will report it as well.

Choi
Choi
13 years ago

WOW!
As much as I expected them to CONTINUE the TAQYIA Campaign ,they OUT DID THEMSELVES BEYOND EXPECTATIONS.
Only having Pamela on in such a LIMITED Way(after a 2 hr interview) when she should have been allowed to have her views on ALL of their topics tonite aired, is INDICITIVE of just how LITTLE TRUTH they wanted .
Their attempt at the beginning to PORTRAY Muslims as “Christians” was beyond belief.
THIS WAS NOT A NEWS DOCUMENTARY,IT WAS SLICK MEDIA DELIVERED TAQYIA/PROPAGANDA.
We can only imagine what IRANIAN EXILE Amanpour will do on Sunday morning.

dee dee
dee dee
13 years ago

she was head or editor of a college publication in which an article called obl a ‘freedom fighter’ i believe. i lost the link but she got into an argument with Steve E. does Sawyer not check on these people before they’re selected, apparently not. Sawyer looked her age tonight

dee dee
dee dee
13 years ago

‘Their attempt at the beginning to PORTRAY Muslims as “Christians” was beyond belief.
‘ Yes! that’s exactly how it seemed to me. Does anybody have the chapter and verse numbers for when the one with the cross comes back and what he does to the apes and pigs? This point is key to what is wrong

toddmodem@gmail.com
13 years ago

Great job Pam!! I wish there would have been more. I expected it to be biased …..and it was. There were a “few” moments when the truth came out.

Egghead
Egghead
13 years ago

Excellent point!

Egghead
Egghead
13 years ago

By the way, Saudi Arabia also FORBIDS non-Muslims to enter Mecca.

Choi
Choi
13 years ago

“There were a “few” moments when the truth came out”
ONLY when Pamela and Hirsi Ali were on.

Egghead
Egghead
13 years ago

Based on this shameful propaganda about Islam, I vote that Diane Sawyer wins the Dhimmi of the Year Award – so far.
I think that everyone forgot to mention the mandatory clitorectomies, permanent forced child marriages, temporary forced child marriages (amounting to prostitution), forced cousin marriages, forced female submission to polygamy, easy divorce for men and impossible divorce for women, automatic male custody of children in divorce, excessive amount of purposely inbred Muslim children taking vastly more than their fair share of Western health care budgets for the handicapped, gang rape of non-Muslim women by Muslim men in Western countries, harassment of non-Muslims by Muslims EVERYWHERE, etc.
According to Diane Sawyer, non-Muslims are just supposed to “link arms” with our Muslim neighbors – and everything will be ok.
EVIL = DIANE SAWYER
EVIL = ISLAM
MOHAMMED = WORLD HISTORY’S MOST EVIL HUMAN & ADMITTED PEDOPHILE RAPIST

annie
annie
13 years ago

How does one even respond to a friend who is so very uninformed about islam? Saw this on her Facebook comments –
Great 20/20 tonight. Should America fear Islam? Not all Muslims are suicide bombers.If you missed 20/20 you can catch this episode hosted by Diane Sawyer on ABC.com. Eye opening and informative. Check it out
This gal works all the time and really doesn’t keep up on all the islam news. Where does one even begin with a view point like that? I’m at a loss for words. Thing is, not doubt a lot of people are like her, too busy with work and home life and knows nothing other than what the mainstream media tells them.

loo loo
loo loo
13 years ago

I was hopeful that Diane Sawyer would have shed some light on the US citizens who are sleeping, I didn’t know about the show until it was too late. Its sounds to me from the people who did watch it was the same old same old. I personally don’t know that many liberals, except for my dear sister, it seems to me this kind of reporting will only strengthen the politically correct and their stand. Keep on keepin on.
Thank you Pamela Gellar, I love you.

JewishOdysseus
JewishOdysseus
13 years ago

“Is the nakib a symbol of freedom or oppression?” (Dhimmiann Sawyer)
My vote: if you run the risk of having acid thrown in your face for NOT wearing it, I vote “repression.”
Has anyone ever been assaulted for wearing one?
I rest my case.
BTW, it was hilarious how they started the show with all these references to Adam, Eve, Jesus and Mary from the unholy koran, with all these great classic artworks…NONE OF THEM PAINTED BY MUSLIMS, since such representations are forbidden by islame. If Islam is so close to Christianity, why can’t they paint a picture of Jesus?

jane
jane
13 years ago

http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html tell her to watch all the videos before she gets back to you.

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