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To: jlallen who wrote (72706)	5/23/2012 4:55:21 PM
From: Farmboy	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

I confirm you are a liar, and that you insulted HoneyBee with absolutely no provocation, that's what I confirm. I confirm you respond to your own posts, so you can keep the conversation on your level. I confirm you are too lazy to prove your claims. that enough, little one?

To: jlallen who wrote (72706)	5/23/2012 4:56:32 PM
From: Farmboy	3 Recommendations Respond to of 103300

Gotta take a break. Hold that thought ... unless you're in public, then put it back in your pants. Be back later for round two, you lying dogbreath! :-)

To: jlallen who wrote (72706)	5/23/2012 5:01:52 PM
From: John	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Do you support the media censoring crimes of Blacks and Muslims, jlallen, as related in the following article? MSNBC: Don’t Expose Muslim Atrocities amren.com excerpt: MSNBC’s new golden girl was in a pickle. If someone sees a black person committing rape or domestic violence, should he report it if it makes black people look bad? Or if Muslims see wife-beating, genital mutilation and childhood sexual abuse, should they just keep it to themselves, because saying something gives ammunition to the “Islamophobes”? The questions appear to be simple. But they posed a challenge for the host of the new “Melissa Harris-Perry” show when guest Mona Eltahawy talked about her Foreign Policy magazine cover story about abuse of women by men in the Muslim world. Eltahawy speaks from experience: She had her arms broken in a demonstration in Egypt and was tortured and raped in an Egyptian jail cell. So she seemed surprised to find Harris-Perry questioning her right to draw attention to “traditions” such as involuntary female circumcision, wife-beating and childhood sexual abuse. “I start with a little bit of trepidation in this conversation,” the host said, “in part because I know some of the critiques of this. The very idea that Western press, those that are not from these nations, who are not Muslim ourselves, who are not part of these traditions can look at your article and say ‘ahhh, look at how horrible those men, or those societies, or that religion is.’ “And that is part of the reason why, for example, we have an under-reporting of rape and domestic violence in African American communities,” Harris-Perry continued. “Because we know the violence enacted on black men by police, so we often don’t call. Right?” Then the MSNBC host brought in Harvard professor Leila Ahmed, who questioned whether Eltahawy should have written the article at all. Not because it was false, but because it made Muslims look bad. “You began, Melissa, by noting that some things in the African-American community are not publicized precisely because of the racism,” said Ahmed as Harris-Perry nodded in agreement on a split screen. “Mona, I appreciate what you do,” continued Ahmed. “I would love it if—I understand if you want to get your message across. It’s an important message. But if possible [you should not] give fuel, fodder to people who simply hate Arabs and Muslims in this climate of our day.” Eltahawy seemed taken aback. “That’s the whole point,” she said. “It’s not me that makes Muslims look bad. It’s those atrocities that make Muslims look bad. And as a writer, it’s my job to poke the painful places.”