I realize that there are many that absolutely hate Muslims……for whatever reason, my guess is 9/11 but I could be mistaken……the other day while I was surfing some sites I ran across the story of the Syria girl that was stoned to death for using Facebook…….it was a horrible story so I Googled the subject and here is what I found…..iCNN, The Daily Mail, Breitbart, Tundra Tabloids, Examiner, India Today, Global Times, Israel Hayom, Daily Bashkar, FrontPageRag and numerous other news sites and blogs reported the story.
I received the following from a friend that I contacted to see how accurate the story had been…..
It is ironic because the still that was used to claim that Syrian rebels were stoning a woman for having a Facebook account was originally about a supposed “true-story” recounting of the stoning of “Soraya M.” in an Iranian village in the 80s.
Iran’s government castigated the movie as false and Orientalist but apparently years later their news agency has no quibbles in pushing their own Orientalist style fear-mongering that eventually played into essentialized characterizations of Islam and Muslims.
The story appears to have originally been reported in English by Iran’s Fars News Agency, which doesn’t always have the best track record for reliability. For example, it reported last month on the “alien/extraterrestrial intelligence agenda” driving U.S. policy, which bizarrely linked President Barack Obama, Adolf Hitler and space aliens.
Fars attributed its report on the alleged Syrian stoning incident to the Arabic-language Al-Rai Al-Youm.
The story is a HOAX and too many people will believe a lie without verifying the information….and that is the tragedy…people too willing to believe a lie to feed their hate…..truly sad.
Reblogged this on AMERICAN LIBERAL TIMES and commented:
The Right Wing Obama-Hating Blogosphere is full of these HOAX stories. I believe they thrive on them because they seem to be everywhere and I have to deal with them on a daily basis as I try to expose their intransigence and their lies.
John, thanx for the re-blog…I appreciate it….chuq
You do some GREAT work, Chuq – – some really insightful and informative stuff and I think absolutely everybody ought to be reading In Saner Thought.
Thank you for the pat my friend….
I fail to see where the “right-wing” Obama haters has anything to do with this. John might try focusing on the topic if that’s possible. I don’t think this particular story, whether real or a “hoax”, does damage to the image projected by Islam. The treatment of women by Islamists is well documented with completely verifiable sources.
Steve, only with the fundamentalists…I worked in the region years ago and did not find the issues that the MSM focuses on….there was a point that you did not mess with women in public but that was a respect thingy…..I have friends in the region aznd I found them anything but extremists….
It is typical of the stuff a lot of Right Wing Conspiracy promoters seem to thrive on seeing as many of them have nothing better to do . . . all the IRS stuff and the Benghazi stuff and the 9/11 stuff and all the rest of the debunked rightie crap that clutters the Internet. A lot of them seem to have it in for Islam irrespective of the fact that only a very miniscule number of Islamists are actually engaged in terrorism.
Go back to sleep John.
Typical response!
There is much on the MSM that needs to be questioned and taken with a grain of salt. Corporate-owned media is going to manage the message they want to.
Exactly what Gramsci predicted in the 1920’s…..but how will we as a country change that?