{"id":20422,"date":"2014-09-03T15:14:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T22:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=20422"},"modified":"2014-09-03T15:14:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T22:14:30","slug":"convert-or-die-tea-publicans-embrace-the-isis-doctrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=20422","title":{"rendered":"Convert Or Die: Tea-Publicans Embrace The ISIS Doctrine"},"content":{"rendered":"

The American conservative movement has been crystal clear about their devotion to religious intolerance, racial bigotry, and political obstinance. They have honed an ideology of hatred and obstructionism that is unprecedented in our nation’s history. And in the wake of an escalation of brutality by our terrorist enemies, the right-wing only affirms their hard-line views and, even worse, adopts the rhetoric of our foes.<\/p>\n

\"Convert<\/p>\n

The latest whack job to jump on the hayride is Duck Dynasty’s patriarch, Phil Robertson. Sean Hannity brought the Duck Dick onto his program to contribute his expertise in national security matters. However, the segment devolved into a sermon with Robertson spending most of his airtime reading from the bible. In one of the few off-the-cuff analyses of current affairs, Robertson offered this bit of wisdom about how to deal with ISIS:<\/p>\n

“I’m just saying either convert them or kill them. One or the other.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well then, that certainly justified giving him twenty minutes to pontificate on a cable news program. Although it does coincide with previous Fox News pundits like Ann Coulter<\/a> who said about Muslims generally:<\/p>\n

“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If this rhetoric sounds familiar it’s because we’ve heard from none other than ISIS operatives themselves. As Fox’s Megyn Kelly noted, they invaded towns in Iraq telling the residents that they had to “convert, die, or leave.”<\/em> So Coulter, Rpbertson, et al, are now cribbing their speeches from the terrorist set. If you’re going to engage in plagiarism, it might be better to follow the Herman Cain model and stick to ripping off Pokemon movie theme lyrics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Not one to be shut out of the circus, Dr. Ben Carson raised the issue of the “convert-or-die”<\/em> doctrine in an op-ed<\/a> for the uber-rightist National Review. But he took a somewhat unique approach in that he wasn’t explicitly advocating it. No, the doctor was citing it to demonstrate the similarities between other Americans and marauding armies of terror.<\/p>\n

“Their convert-or-die doctrine parallels some of the social philosophies enforced by the political-correctness police in this country. Either you accept their interpretation of what is moral and correct, or the name-calling starts. We despise the Islamic State but do not see the same ugliness in our own tactics.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See there? The PC police in America are just like extremists who behead people. And decapitation is no worse than name-calling. How could we not see these same ugly characteristics of our own tactics without Carson’s visionary guidance? No wonder he is such a darling of the Tea-jadist community. And don’t forget, he’s the same guy who said that “ObamaCare is really, I think, the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery,”<\/em> and that “America is very much like Nazi Germany.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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If you need documented proof of Fox News lies…
\nGet Fox Nation vs. Reality. Available now at Amazon.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So what we have to learn from these folks is that America is already in the same moral cesspool as our terrorist enemies, or that we ought to be. And it is this philosophy that has enraptured so much of the Republican base. If that doesn’t motivate you to vote this November, well, then the terrorists have already won. So there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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