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elfsDear Mainstream Media:
Here we are, three weeks or so into the BurlingtonNorthernCoatFactoryIslamicCommunityCenter controversy, and only now are you learning that Imam Rauf is a Sufi? And only now you're learning that "sufism" is distinct from the Shia'a or Sunni traditions, a mysstical and highly tolerant tradition that the Shia'a and Sunni traditions generally look down upon?
We've been at war in several countries where these are major issues and you still don't understand them? Where the hell is your responsibility to educate the American people?
Here we are, three weeks or so into the BurlingtonNorthernCoatFactoryIslamicCommunityCenter controversy, and only now are you learning that Imam Rauf is a Sufi? And only now you're learning that "sufism" is distinct from the Shia'a or Sunni traditions, a mysstical and highly tolerant tradition that the Shia'a and Sunni traditions generally look down upon?
We've been at war in several countries where these are major issues and you still don't understand them? Where the hell is your responsibility to educate the American people?
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Date: 2010-08-18 03:53 pm (UTC)Elf? Don't you know? A publicly owned company's sole responsibility is to Maximize Shareholder Value. Journalistic ethics goes right out the window the second some CEO gets the idea to IPO... you can't maximize ratings if you actually tell the *truth*! I mean, how controversial is that?
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Date: 2010-08-18 05:39 pm (UTC)Damn, life is weird!
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Date: 2010-08-18 04:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-18 05:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-19 08:01 am (UTC)You have to go to Canada to get real news, with actual journalism.
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Date: 2010-08-21 10:39 pm (UTC)