{"id":8988,"date":"2013-02-02T14:06:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T22:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8988"},"modified":"2013-02-02T18:18:09","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T02:18:09","slug":"so-fking-what-students-pledge-allegiance-to-the-united-states-in-arabic-fox-freaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8988","title":{"rendered":"So F**king What? Students Pledge Allegiance To The United States In Arabic. Fox Freaks Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Isn’t this a good thing?<\/p>\n

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The rabidly Islamophobic racists at Fox News have found yet another manufactured threat over which to obsess. It seems that a high school in Ft. Collins, Colorado, has taken the radical step of embracing the patriotism of all of its students. The horror of this activity prompted the Fox Nationalists to rush out a story with an alarmist headline saying “School Pledges Allegiance in Arabic, One Nation Under Allah?”<\/em><\/p>\n

So F**king What?<\/h4>\n

What we have here is a group of students with diverse national and cultural backgrounds who are proud to be Americans. They are explicitly articulating that pride by pledging their allegiance to the country they love. Where’s the harm in that? Apparently the bigots at Fox are only comfortable with stereotypes of foreigners who are angry or violent or otherwise cast as enemies of the United States. The Foxies simply cannot comprehend the notion of patriotism unless it is expressed by white Christians.<\/p>\n

One thing we can rely on with certainty is that Fox Nation is either lying<\/a> or they are oozing bigotry on many levels. First of all, The question as to whether these students are making an oath to Allah ignores the fact that there are millions of Christians in the world who speak Arabic, which is a language, not a religion. Fox is making an assumption about the faith of these students that is based on prejudice. Which brings up the second point: What’s wrong with Muslims pledging to their God that they will be loyal to America? Would Fox prefer that anyone who believes in Allah reject this country? Or does Fox think that in order to love America you first have to convert to Christianity? Where would that leave Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Native Americans, atheists, etc.?<\/p>\n

While this is just the latest example of the blatant racism that is frequently expressed on Fox News, it is still unnerving to witness this sort of overt hate speech emanating from a major so-called “news”<\/em> network. And it is more than a little ironic that a man named Al-Waleed bin Talal, a Muslim and a Saudi prince who has not pledged his allegiance to America in any language, is the largest shareholder of Fox’s parent corporation outside of the Murdoch family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Isn’t this a good thing? The rabidly Islamophobic racists at Fox News have found yet another manufactured threat over which to obsess. It seems that a high school in Ft. Collins, Colorado, has taken the radical step of embracing the patriotism of all of its students. 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