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  johnpi 8:55 pm on February 10, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: anti-Muslim fearmongering (41), corporate donations (3), corporations (7), corporatism (2), nativism, saudi arabia (135)

  Conservative activists rebel against Fox News: Saudi ownership Is ‘really dangerous for America.’

  Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal owns a 7 percent stake in News Corp — the parent company of Fox News — making him the largest shareholder outside the family of News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch. Alwaleed has grown close with the Murdoch enterprise, recently endorsing James Murdoch to succeed his father and creating a content-sharing agreement with Fox News for his own media conglomerate, Rotana.

  Last weekend, at the right-wing Constitutional Coalition’s annual conference in St. Louis, Joseph Farah, publisher of the far right WorldNetDaily, blasted Fox News for its relationship with Alwaleed. Farah noted correctly that Alwaleed had boasted in the past about forcing Fox News to change its content relating to its coverage of riots in Paris, and warned that such foreign ownership of American media is “really dangerous.” ThinkProgress was at the speech and observed attendees of the conference murmuring and shaking their heads in disapproval.

  The Saudis get demonized from every point on the US political spectrum. The writer of the above at the liberal Think Progress blog then points out:

  With the Citizens United Supreme Court decision essentially freeing corporations to spend unlimited amounts in campaigns, theoretically Alwaleed can pressure the American corporations he owns stock in to spend millions — or even billions — of dollars attacking candidates he opposes.

  Problem here is that the Saudis sometimes appear in American political discourse as a proxy for ’scary Muslims,’ and so I see these kind of comments as skewing dangerously close to anti-Muslim fearmongering.

   

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  johnpi 10:44 am on January 30, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Area 51, Bantu, Bantus, black helicopters, Cloward-Piven, conspiracy theories (24), Muslim Refugees (9), Muslim refugees in America (4), nativism, New Hampshire, refugees (17), Somali Bantus, somalia (78), Somalis (8), Somalis in America (7), whacked out conspiracy theories (10)

  A federally funded education program for Somali refugees in New Hampshire has been put on hold after accusations by another group of Somali refugees that it was teaching ‘Muslim doctrine.’

  The accusations arise out of a longstanding rift in the Somali community between Somali Bantus, a minority in their homeland, and the majority.

  “There’s been a lot of rumors about bad blood between the different factions, said Dan Calegari of Southern New Hampshire Services. “I work with these people daily. There’s never even been any hint of religious activity. … It really comes down to animosity between different segments of the Somali population.”
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  Somali Bantus, the descendants of African slaves, are a marginalized minority in Somalia that suffered greatly during the country’s civil war. Many were evicted from their farmland by other Somalis and fled to neighboring countries. Thousands of these refugees eventually made their way to the United States.

  There is a language difference between Somalis and Bantu Somalis, said Idhow, which is how the rift all started. Because some Bantu refugees were more fluent in their own tribal language than Somali, the local elders thought it best to have a group that specifically served the Somali Bantu community.

  Hilariously, the folks at this website looked at this story and decided it was the sign of a left-wing conspiracy.

  Last night we heard from reader Thomas in response to the Manchester Somali story I posted yesterday. He confirms for us that the Cloward-Piven strategy* to overload the welfare system with poor and angry people was well-established in radical leftwing circles 40 years ago! Thank goodness we are all catching on, I just hope it’s not too late for us.

  Apparently, Cloward-Piven is to nativists what Area 51 is to the UFO people. Sadly, I’ll have to report this to my overseers back in Moscow. A black helicopter will be sent to mutilate their cattle…

   
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  johnpi 8:40 pm on October 7, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: asylum seekers (3), australia (24), nativism, Sri Lanka (30)

  Australia hires actors to engage in ’street theatre’ to deter potential Sri Lankan asylum seekers.

  Actors hired by an advertising agency will roam the streets of Sri Lanka spreading rumors that travel to Australia is dangerous, that australians don’t want them, and that “efforts to escape from Sri Lanka will end in disappointment.”

  The taxpayer-funded campaign will be shown in Sri Lanka, where street theatre and local actors will help spread the message that coming to Australia illegally is dangerous, according to news.com.au.

  Civil war in northern Sri Lanka has created a massive refugee problem, with more than 250,000 displaced persons in that region alone.
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  Catholic Churches are also being targeted, with literature and pamphlets being distributed around parishes warning asylum seekers they will not be welcome in Australia.

  The push has been dubbed the “Stay the Bloody Hell Away” campaign by media, in reference to Tourism Australia’s much-maligned “Where the Bloody Hell Are You” campaign.

   
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  johnpi 4:46 pm on September 28, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: American Islamophobia (9), immigration (51), islamophobia (228), nativism, Republican party (13), Republicans (61), texas (12), US conservatives (35)

  Texas: 11th Congressional District candidate calls for end to Muslim immigration.

  Big Country congressional hopeful Canyon Clowdus wants no more Muslim immigration to America. But he doesn’t want to stop at the stance he outlined to radical blog “Dr. Bulldog and Ronin,” which endorses him for 11th Congressional District representative.

  “It’s not just them,” the conservative Republican told a reporter Sunday night. “They need to check all immigrants. They used to assimilate.”

  Instead, immigrants retain their beliefs, hurting America, Clowdus, a Marble Falls businessman, said.

  Clowdus wants to halt Muslim immigration to stop what the blog termed a “stealth Jihad” and “creeping sharia” to replace the Constitution with Islamic religious law.

  Clowdus’ motto: “Let’s put God back in government!”

  Clowdus’ campaign website seems to say that George Washington wasn’t very bright, but he was a good man, and it’s the same diff’ for Clowdus.

  George Washington was not elected our first president because he was a “mental giant” as Thomas Jefferson or Ben Franklin were considered to be, but because he was a “moral giant“. Many of our elected officials simply do not want to act on the taxpayers best interest in fear of making enemies, in turn, not getting re-elected. We need leaders in Washington that will fight without concern of re-election or any loss to themselves. Fight for what is right…fight as “moral giants“ for OUR great nation.

   
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  thabet 5:28 am on August 2, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: boko haram (2), cults (5), culture (72), Identity (75), Islam (245), maitatsine, muslims (347), nativism, Nigeria (24), religion (365), violence (161)

  Cameron Duodu notes that the Boko Haram, whose fighting with the Nigerian security forces has left around 600 dead, resembles the Maitatsine sect.

  On the same story, human rights activists in Nigeria say the killing of the Boko Haram leader must be investigated.