printThe malfunctioning Media must have gotten something of a fright at the horrific events unfolding in Paris, where France’s top cartoonists and satirists were taken out by their French compatriots, practitioners of Islam. Living in a parallel reality as the media do has its price. The Fourth Estate (media) has moved the country into the Third Dimension. They lie so much that when shit happens that scares them; they no longer know where to turn for the truth.
But desperate times call for desperate measures. Truth tellers who seldom get a hearing on the idiot’s lantern, Fox News included, have been called upon to shed light where media and their cyphers in skirts have shed only darkness.
Thus, yesterday Megyn Kelly’s “expert” on Islam was Brooke Goldstein; she is generally Kelly’s choice on matters Muslim. Unless good looks qualify one to expatiate on Islam, Goldstein is gormless; she knows next to nothing meaningful about Islam. Yet she and her ilk are fixtures on TV talking about the topic.
Today, however, Megyn Kelly traded Goldstein for Ayaan Hirsi Ali, whom Kelly had only ever interviewed, in the past, about women in Islam and not about Islam.
Ayaan is valuable in what she says about Islam, not in the cures she advocates (intellectual outreach):
“All that violence you can no longer divorce from the religion of Islam,” she told Kelly.
Like Kelly, Anderson Cooper had also decided to quit beating about the bush. He was treated to tougher words from Ayaan:
the most important bit of it is to face the grim reality that this is embedded in the religion that we were brought up in. I happen to have left the religion, … but at some point we have to face the grim fact, it is an ugly fact, it’s a fact we want to turn away from, no one wants to turn away that fact more from than I am.
This is embedded in Islam, and the best way to fix this is to acknowledge that, and when you talk about attitudes and our mindsets, the first thing comes to my mind is it is an attitude toward the Qur’an. These individuals who committed this crime and all of these people who are committing this crime, they treat the Qur’an like a driver’s manual. They look at their Prophet Muhammad as a moral guide for today, and if they look at the Prophet Muhammad as a moral guide on some instances, that would be OK, but in some instances, he cannot be a moral guide.
And that’s … the rest of us who are brought in the house of Islam, we need to stand up and to say in many ways the Prophet Muhammad cannot be a moral guide. That is what Charlie Hebdo was doing. If we want to be a part of civilized society, we have to say that the Prophet Muhammad, especially in his years after Medina, he cannot be a moral guide for good. He was from our 21st century perspective absolutely immoral. We have to satirize that…
Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch would have bested Ayaan Hirsi Ali by far.