Chris Matthews Thinks Like a Terrorist « NewsReal Blog

Chris Matthews Thinks Like a Terrorist « NewsReal Blog: "Editor’s Note, for Rhonda Robinson’s commentary on a different aspect of this stunning Chris Matthews segment click here.

MSNBC has a nasty habit of giving Muslim Brotherhood front CAIR a forum to apologize for extremism and deflect attention from the issue at hand whenever jihad makes the news. Not only is CAIR’s authority as a mouthpiece for American Muslims never questioned, let alone its background and history, but MSNBC’s commentators rarely take issue with a single point made by CAIR’s representatives.

Nonetheless, MSNBC’s moral vacuity may never have been more apparent than when Chris Matthews interviewed Zuhdi Jasser, an American Muslim who works to combat the violent political ideology promoted by CAIR and its affiliates.

Jasser encourages Muslims to “stop complaining and stop beinging victims,” i.e., to stop committing acts of violence and oppressing others, then citing American foreign policy as a justification. He explains, plainly and succinctly, that jihad’s ideological underpinnings lie in political Islam. He even cites the Muslim Brotherhood, due to its status as America’s foremost promoter and incubator of Sharia, as one of the root causes of domestic violent extremism. Finally, he points out the reddest flag in Nidal Hasan’s background, the clearest indication that he might commit an act of violence: his unconcealed hatred for America.

Matthews briefly pays lip service to the notion that perhaps ideology may have motivated Nidal Hasan to shoot over 50 people before he jaunts off on a diatribe in which he excuses acts of terrorism by blaming American foreign policy, particularly with regard to Israel. Instead of simply agreeing with Jasser’s self-evident point that American foreign policy does not justify acts of terrorism, Matthews reflexively tries to see things from the most extreme point of view — that of the terrorists."