Comments on: Can you say “Terrorist Training Camp”?

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:27:40 +0000

I’m not aware that anyone regularly interviewed on UK TV news – BBC, Channel 4 etc has killed anyone. If they had, yes that would be news, but they haven’t, so it’s not. Capiche? Also, yes “lazy hacks” have fanned the flames, as have extremists on all sides and those who see political capital to be made from it. Bigots, those with religion and those without, have a lot to answer for over the last few weeks.

By: Temple Stark

Temple Stark — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 23:41:57 +0000

Except Chris – these small minorities KILL people and therefore it seems like news. Capiche?

It wasn’t “lazy hacks” who fanned the cartoon episode, it was muslems, who at first merely protested and then that minority fanned the flames. (Unless by “lazy hack” you count the original Danish editor who previously had banned Christ cartoons in his paper because they could offend Christians. True)

Pastor Mowery himself represents a common public, violent and hypocritical Christian who preaches the word but has never fully understood it. These type of camps are probably more common than people might care to believe, camps that spread hate underthe guise of Christianity.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 14:38:29 +0000

Sounds just the same as the Muslim extremists who keep appearing on UK TV. A small minority, who don’t represent the rest of a society but make good news stories for lazy hacks and end up fanning the flames; as in the cartoons episode.

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 01:15:08 +0000

Yeah, the rest of us find him embarrassing. Heck, even the unreasonably-far-right people I know find him embarrassing.

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 22:02:50 +0000

>>Fred Phelps, for instance, does not represent the general attitude of Kansans

Well, I’m relieved to hear that.

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 21:47:44 +0000

Tiny and largely marginalized fringe. And I say that as someone living in a reasonably-far right state… Fred Phelps, for instance, does not represent the general attitude of Kansans, even Kansans who’re denotatively and/or connotatively fundamentalists. (Interestingly, I’ve noticed a recent trend in the media toward the (more accurate, I gather) label “Phelps family” rather than “Westboro Baptist.”)

It’s just that they’re a very *loud* fringe, and you have to admit they make interesting news stories.