[Dean's World] Ali Eteraz: My Conversation With Jamal Miftah

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Posted by Ali Eteraz:
My Conversation With Jamal Miftah
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1164903421.shtml


   The rightosphere was all over the news about Jamal Miftah, the guy in
   Oklahoma who wrote an article condemning bin Laden and then
   subsequently got kicked out of his mosque. Good for the rightosphere.

   But once the rightosphere had done their celebratory dance about how
   there are no "moderate" Muslims, it went along on its merry way.
   [1]Meanwhile, I went and talked to Miftah. You think the rightosphere
   would want to follow up on it since they are so serious about
   empowering moderates.

   Not quite. I gave it a day and a half to see if any of the big boys --
   hell, even little boys -- would pick up my conversation with Miftah.
   Plenty of my readers went out and touted it. Nada. Oh look its me,
   having to do it all by my effing self, yet again.

   So let me get this right: the NYT and MSM doesn't empower Muslim
   moderates b/that doesn't suit their agenda; meanwhile the rightosphere
   claims that it does empower the moderates by highlighting them, and
   yet, it doesn't follow up on some of the biggest stories. This isn't
   big?

   A case of "oversight"? I'm not so sure anymore.

   Frankly, I think there's a snow job going on all over the news
   because, at the end of the day, its more fun to bitch about how there
   are no "moderates" (or how they are treated) than to actually spread
   their word far and wide.

   Oh, and if any of you dare to give me a thankful back slap to say
   "keep up the good work Ali" I'm going to get even more pissed, so
   don't even try.

References

   1. http://eteraz.org/story/2006/11/28/81658/525