The Enemy Within" a 3 part series on terrorists living in the US now, on FOX news now. Islamic extremists. >SNIP<
Ramadan Shallah, leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, taught at the University of south Florida for four years, and was brought over by Sami Al-Arian, the infamous fired professor from USF. Shallah had co-founded Islamic Jihad with Shikaki years earlier. Shallah left USF suddenly in '95 to become the new leader of Islamic Jihad, after Shikaki was assasinated.
I STRONGLY encourage folks to read this article for background: salon.com
The prime-time smearing of Sami Al-Arian
By pandering to anti-Arab hysteria, NBC, Fox News, Media General and Clear Channel radio disgraced themselves -- and ruined an innocent professor's life.
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Read all 5 pages. And realize that Bubba is the Tampa redneck's version of Howard Stern whose chief preoccupation is lesbians.
After being incarcerated for years under anti-terrorism legislation spawned with the support of such rightwingers as Bill Clinton & Ted Kennedy, Al-Arian gets subjected to the final indignity of being undone by a misogynist shock-jock who makes Stern seem like Einstein by comparison.
As I lived in the Tampa area during the time that the Al-Arian debacle was occurring, I'm pretty familiar with all the players in the Slate article and am now saddened to hear that the St Pete Times - long considered one of the two premiere independent newspapers in the US - finally caved in to the enraged mob.
As for Fox News, well, all I can say is I wish they'd speed up their agenda to become the pre-eminent National Enquirer of the conservative-with-an-IQ-of-12. (Most of my conservative friends are way more reasonable, tolerant and compassionate than the wacknuts populating the Fox tabloid news & op-ed desks.) |
