Nina Shea's Newsweek Comments Anti-Muslim Propaganda to Justify Attacks on Muslims Everywhere By Timothy Stinson

Nina Shea's Newsweek Comments:

Anti-Muslim Propaganda to Justify Attacks on Muslims Everywhere

By Timothy Stinson

ccun.org, September 15, 2008

Nina Shea's comments concerning Saudi Arabia and Muslims in general come off as yet more of the same Anti-Muslim commentary that she and other Right-Wing American Christians and Christian organizations continue to use in order to justify American atrocities committed against Muslims such as Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, extraordinary rendition (kidnapping), U.S backed sanctions on Iraq which resulted in the deaths of over one-million Iraqis, the 1953 overthrow of Iran's democratically elected government, the current war in Iraq, war with Iran, and direct support of actions by Israel against Palestinians described by former President Carter as modern day Apartheid and condemned by human rights agencies world wide.

In addition, Ms. Shea and the organizations that she has been involved with (The Center for Religious Freedom and Freedom House) have and continue work directly with neo Conservatives such as Elliott Abrams, Daniel Pipes, Michael Horowitz, Irwin Stelzer, Richard Perle and Hillel Fradkin for the purpose of shaping U.S foreign policy in the Middle East and elsewhere, using religion to justify their goals.

Her projects have included attempts to highlight the world wide persecution of Christians by Muslims and often times, with right wing Jewish groups worked to demonize Muslims world wide (including American Muslims) in order to influence American public opinion and Middle East foreign policy, more specifically with regard to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

However, what I found most remarkable is that this article has been in circulation on the internet for at least two years despite the fact that it has long been discredited because of inadequate data used in her article, as well as her open anti-Muslim bias recognized by those who researched her work.

Did Mr. Fairweather publish this long discredited article (or establish his blog on Islam) in order to facilitate a discussion on religion based upon logic and reason or was this yet another of many incidents of a Western journalist taking a cheap shot at Islam?

Timothy Stinson

Boca Raton, Florida

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