Reza Aslan rebuts Bill Maher about Islam

[Broke Wave]

Issued my challenge about FGM a few pages ago


Guess I'm still a Muslim

 

[88m3]

Issued my challenge about FGM a few pages ago


Guess I'm still a Muslim

I think it's great you can take a stand and support something like that.

 

[thekingsmen]

Isn't that a mainstream media source, brother?

Sorry am I suppose to use something else that you would bytch about being non-credible, brother?

 

[thekingsmen]

No responses to my post from the New York article...yet.

 

[Shogun]

No responses to my post from the New York article...yet.

Some have criticized Hersh's use of anonymous sources in his reporting, implying that some of these sources are unreliable or even made up. In a review of Hersh's book, Chain of Command, commentator Amir Taheri wrote, "As soon as he has made an assertion he cites a 'source' to back it. In every case this is either an un-named former official or an unidentified secret document passed to Hersh in unknown circumstances... By my count Hersh has anonymous 'sources' inside 30 foreign governments and virtually every department of the U.S. government."[49]

David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, maintains that he is aware of the identity of all of Hersh's unnamed sources, telling the Columbia Journalism Review that "I know every single source that is in his pieces.... Every 'retired intelligence officer,' every general with reason to know, and all those phrases that one has to use, alas, by necessity, I say, 'Who is it? What's his interest?' We talk it through."[50]

Nevertheless, in response to an article in The New Yorker in which Hersh alleged that the U.S. government was planning a strike on Iran, U.S. Defense Department spokesman Bryan G. Whitman said, "This reporter has a solid and well-earned reputation for making dramatic assertions based on thinly sourced, unverifiable anonymous sources."[51]

 

[Family Man]

Until these so called "moderate" muslims pick up arms and fight the extremists then I aint trying to hear shyt none of them have to say.

 

[thekingsmen]

@Shogun ...you cited Amir Tahari who is known for his made up story-lines, lies and fabrications. The 2nd piece doesn't disagree with Hersh. The 3rd part with Defense Department spokesman is laughable. They won't admit to anything with truth in it.

Nothing in that New York Piece has been debunked....period. All has come true. Now you might want to come better with your point. It's weak.

 

[Type Username Here]

Can we stop this myth? Yea, most Muslims are not ISIS or violent extremists, but how many of them are like Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson? How many agree that a Muslim woman shouldn't be allowed to marry a non-Muslim man for example? Or pre-marital sex should be outlawed? Questions like the preceding one have nothing to do with ISIS or violence but it's still a valid question to ask of any religious group. Non-violent conservative religious people still yield dangerous power, as evident by the Christian Right in the United States. Or in Ireland, where women have died because they couldn't get an abortion to save their lives. Or Orthodox Jewish communities where women get treated like property.

Can someone out there provide a rational counter argument to this? I'm interested in hearing one.

 

[thekingsmen]

Can someone out there provide a rational counter argument to this? I'm interested in hearing one.

Why should their be a counter argument to what is truth? I agreed with you but you didn't respond to what I said.

 

[Shogun]

@Shogun ...you cited Amir Tahari who is known for his made up story-lines, lies and fabrications. The 2nd piece doesn't disagree with Hersh. The 3rd part with Defense Department spokesman is laughable. They won't admit to anything with truth in it.

Nothing in that New York Piece has been debunked....period. All has come true. Now you might want to come better with your point. It's weak.

Convenient that you can pick and choose when the mainstream media is credible to fit your narrative.

 

[thekingsmen]

Convenient that you can pick and choose when the mainstream media is credible to fit your narrative.

Convenient that you didn't read the article and can't debunk it and now crying like a bytch to me for using sources you claim credible. Yawn.

 

[Shogun]

Convenient that you didn't read the article and can't debunk it and now crying like a bytch to me for using sources you claim credible. Yawn.

You seem mad, friend.

 

[thekingsmen]

You seem mad, friend.

No not mad, just right.

 

[Shogun]

No not mad, just right.

No, mad.

 

[thekingsmen]

No, mad.

Your argument was flawed from the start plus you didn't debunk the article and you claim I'm mad?