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CNN Very Excited about New Film That Clears up Americans' 'Ignorance' of Islam

On Monday, February 28, CNN stopped carrying water for Democrat politicians just long enough to carry a little bit for Islamic extremists instead. This happened when host Don Lemon modeled the Hollywood mentality that explains away America’s distrust of radical Islamists by accusing salt-of-the-earth Americans of being ignorant or un-edgumacated (like Sarah Palin or Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush or Dick Cheney).

This mentality allowed Lemon to provide film director Qasim Basir a platform from which to promote “Mooz-lum” – a movie intended to “clear up some of [the] ignorance” Americans seemingly have about Islam.

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(Don’t you love it when CNN, or any other MSM outlet, begins a story on the relationship between Americans and Muslims by focusing on how ignorant the Americans are?)

In addition mocking Americans’ supposed lack of knowledge pertaining to Islam, the Lemon/Basir segment highlighted the need for tolerance in religion. Not surprisingly, they focused on a lack of tolerance in the U.S. without ever mentioning the modesty police in Muslim countries like Iran: modesty police publicly flog women for wearing skirts that are too short or clothes that are too revealing. Nor did they mention the fact that it’s still illegal to build a Christian church in Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia (where it’s also against the law for women to drive cars). And the list goes on …

(Don’t you love it when CNN, or any other MSM outlet, allows a guest to criticize America’s supposed intolerance, all the while that guest is not even asked about the examples of intolerance coming from the other side?)

How refreshing it would have been had Lemon looked Basir right in the eye and said: “Since you seem fixated on tolerance, can you explain why Saudi Arabia refuses to tolerate U.S. military personnel carrying their Bibles into that country?” or “Why is it that homosexuals in Iran are not tolerated?” and so on and so forth. But instead of doing any real reporting, Lemon just smiled and allowed Basir to leave all these matters for another day, choosing instead to mock the backwoods, hick-town, hayseed mentality of Americans who actually see a link between radical Islam and terrorism.

CNN is bad enough by itself. But when you couple CNN with that haughty attitude so prevalent in liberal Hollywood circles today, it’s simply unbearable.

For the record: I’d much rather be considered ignorant, un-edgumacated, and love this country, than be viewed as cultured and worldly-wise yet be willing to turn a blind eye toward those who wish nothing less than our absolute destruction.


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