CNN: "Star Wars or ISIS: Which is more Islamic?"

don't know if the topic is the star wars/isis connection, cnn's general schenanigans, or the death of journalism.
take your pick, i guess.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/12/opinions/star-wars-isis-islam/index.html

as for topic b, i think CNN has dethroned foxnews as the kings of batshit with this article alone.

Who cares

I heard ISIS took credit for this thread

Originally posted by FinalAnswer
Who cares

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Not sure if CNN necessarily agrees with Dr H.A. Hellyer's points, seems more of a "some guy wrote an article calling Star Wars Islamic" and they published it. Maybe a slow news day and this made the cut?

Cue Admiral Allah Ackbar jokes

Ha, Lucas is totally a secret Muslim.

What a joke that article/video is.

Originally posted by Robtard
Not sure if CNN necessarily agrees with Dr H.A. Hellyer's points, seems more of a "some guy wrote an article calling Star Wars Islamic" and they published it. Maybe a slow news day and this made the cut?

the same escape-hatch excuse exists for any opinion piece but imho cnn is profiting off of baseless propaganda and smearing a movie franchise. there should be standards. i know there are none with cnn, but there should be.

In other news, CNN needs filler articles.

Originally posted by Bashar Teg
the same escape-hatch excuse exists for any opinion piece but imho cnn is profiting off of baseless propaganda and smearing a movie franchise. there should be standards. i know there are none with cnn, but there should be.

So CNN is becoming Fox?

The jackass who wrote the article.

"H.A. Hellyer is a non-resident fellow at the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution's Centre for Middle East Policy, and International Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute in London."

He looks like a cross between Mark Ruffalo and that guy who plays Agent Ward,

He does, LOL!

He looks like an early 90's gay porn star to me.

If Star Wars is like Islam they need to stop publishing comics. You know how they hate drawings and stuff having to do with their religion. Now people are going to get shot in the face for drawing very tasteful pictures of Jabba the Hutt. That is terrible. Like Lex Luthor stealing 40 cakes terrible.

Originally posted by Stringer
So CNN is becoming Fox?

The Pentagon and those in charge of intel, know exactly where and whom ISIS is. The problem is that China and Russia have told the USA and NATO hands off Syria, don't go there or trouble will reign upon us. Add in the Ukraine deal and that China is provoking the Phillipines with island territory disputes, it's problematic to do the right thing.

It is time to clean up the crap in Syria, Ukraine and the South China Sea and kick some major ass and force the cost of the barrel of oil to $25.

This would cripple Russia econonmy as they tax oil to provide social benefits to their citizens.

But yeah staying on topic, it appears that CNN is engaged in some sort of fluff puffery piece of journalism. That is why I go with BBC News and AL Jeerza and The Economist for real journalism. Even the Wall Street Journal and New York Times are just a tad better than CNN.

TURN DOWN FOR WHAT

We should of given him life in prison. Solitary confinement for 23 and a half hours a die.