MSNBC Panel Jokes About Beheadings

mkIn a segment that was tone-deaf, tasteless, disrespectful to the victims and their families, and inappropriate to the gravity of the situation, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry briefly discussed Muslim-related topics including the recent Moore, Oklahoma beheading with a pair of Muslim panelists on Saturday. As you might expect, their chief concern was not the implications of the crime itself, but the specter of anti-Muslim bigotry.

“I would be remiss not to bring up the story out of Oklahoma,” Harris-Perry began, inadvertently revealing her reluctance to address a news item that might make Muslims look bad. “It is a story I read as a ‘workplace violence’ story.”

Of course she does, because to acknowledge that Islam might have motivated the alleged killer Alton Nolen would deal a blow to the progressive narrative about Muslims. The investigation is ongoing, but there is certainly enough circumstantial evidence to warrant the suspicion of a religious, specifically Islamic, motive.

After considering the crime scene, Dawn Perlmutter, Director of the Symbol Intelligence Group and one of the leading experts in ritualistic crimes, declared that “the Moore Oklahoma murder meets all the criteria of Individual Extremist Religion Homicide.” Perlmutter further noted that, “according to the Crime Classification Manual (CCM) the murder of Colleen Hufford is a textbook case of Individual Extremist Religion Inspired Homicide which describes the motivation for the murder as based on a fervent devotion to a cause or system of beliefs and to further the goals and ideas of the group.”

Harris-Perry was joined by Daily Beast writer Dean Obeidallah, who bills himself as a comedian but keeps busy hyping the mythical threat of the Brotherhood neologism “Islamophobia” in order to shift blame for Islam’s bad reputation onto good Americans who have legitimate concerns about it. He is a friend of CAIR, having performed at a CAIR banquet featuring the Brotherhood-linked, Islamophobia fearmonger Wajahat Ali and radical imam Siraj Wahhaj, who supports violent jihad. I’ve dealt with him before – he’s an intellectually dishonest apologist, preferring to spew accusations of hate speech and bigotry at critics of Islam rather than address their arguments. So he’s a perfect fit for the propagandists at MSNBC, the network rated as the least-trusted TV news source among all Americans.

They were joined in the video segment by writer and comedienne Negin Farsad, featured in Obeidallah’s documentary The Muslims Are Coming! about a troupe of Muslim standup comics touring the country, trying to enlighten all the middle-American bigots who have somehow gotten the crazy impression that there are Muslims who pose a threat. The documentary aims to show people that not all Muslims are terrorists; some of them are funny. It’s unclear how this changes the fact that many of them are terrorists and are an ongoing threat.

Harris-Perry played a snippet of press conference video in which a police official mentioned that Alton Nolen reportedly tried to convert some of his coworkers to Islam. “And then, that’s it,” she said after playing clip, while Farsad laughed. “And now, this is somehow about Islam.” Yes, it is “somehow” about Islam because Nolen himself made it about Islam, from his Facebook page praising Islamic fighters, to his proselytizing, to the Islamic phrases he may have shouted (unconfirmed) during the commission of the crime, to the beheading, which as anyone who watches the news lately knows is a favorite method among Islamic terrorists for dealing with infidels.

Obeidallah jumped in with, “It’s funny,”[emphasis added]. “You know, just so it’s clear for everyone, there is nothing in the Koran that says if you get fired, go back to your workplace and kill people,” he said, grinning while Harris-Perry chuckled – because beheadings are hilarious.

Then he expressed that the moment he learned the killer is a Muslim convert, “I knew instantly, this will be used… We’re seeing the right-wing media continuing the narrative that Muslims are here in America, they’re committing jihad.” If the right-wing media is continuing that narrative, it’s for two reasons: one, the left-wing media won’t touch it because it might expose their own multiculturalist narrative as a lie, and two, there areMuslimshere in America committing violent jihad.

Obeidallah added, “There were over five hundred workplace killings last year. We don’t know about the religion of any of those murderers, but if someone is Muslim, [people think] it’s gotta be a terrorist.” This is more intellectual dishonesty. The reason we don’t know the religion of other workplace murderers is because religion reportedly wasn’t a factor in those incidents, the same way that Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, who did not commit his crime because the Bible told him to, cannot be considered a Christian terrorist.

Obeidallah is also being disingenuous when he claims that Americans leap to bigoted conclusions about Muslims and terrorism. Our news media and government bend over backward to cover up Islam’s central responsibility in acts of homegrown Muslim terrorism, such as deeming the Fort Hood massacre to be workplace violence. But it’s vital for Obeidallah to push the narrative that we’re a nation of Islamophobes.

Harris-Perry went on to complain about the idea that being Muslim is “the relevant piece of information,” when in fact, as the investigation now stands, it is very relevant.

“That’s the biggest problem,” Farsad interjected. No, the biggest problem is that people like the ones on this panel insist on denying that the world has an Islam problem. She continued: “There should be a cultural paradigm shift in which it’s not okay to create that linkage immediately,” said. “We already know that it’s not okay to link all white men with school shootings.” Correct – because the connecting thread among such men tends to be mental illness, not a religious ideology that justifies school shootings. “We have gone on and on and on creating this language between Muslims and violence,” she continued, “and we need to have a counter-narrative, and we don’t. And that’s what we trying to do.”

“Muslims are funny,” Harris-Perry chimed in.

“That’s the new stereotype,” Farsad quipped. “Pass it around: Muslims are hilarious.”

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  • jon

    These people are our greater problem……

    • JacksonPearson

      ^II^II^II^II^II^II^

  • kafir4life

    I find muslims pretty funny too. I laugh at them all the time. Imagine how silly it is to worship a made up moon god (allahahaha) and a pedophilic “prophet” (mohamandcheese). THAT’S funny!! What I don’t do is hire them, shop in their stores, or patronize stores that do hire them, and I explain to management why. If a muslim is working the checkout at a store that sells pork, I fill a basket with lots of items, including pork, place them on the belt at checkout, apologize to the muslim for bringing pork to his/her line, and leaving.
    allahu’s snackbar – Tasty pulled pork…..mohamadelicious!!

    • sundance69

      Love it ……Great ideas.

  • Hard Little Machine

    Has Jon Stewart blamed it on the Jews yet?

    • sundance69

      Give it time……

  • tagalog

    “Muslims are funny.”

    Funny strange, I assume, not funny ha-ha.

    Left-wing commentators seem to be living in a self-constructed world that they don’t share with anyone else.

    • Headed4TheHills

      It’s the rose-colored glasses and kool ade, tagalog. Does funny things to their minds.

  • steve b

    MORONS, EVERY ONE. – ESPECIALLY THE TWO OR THREE PEOPLE WHO STILL WATCH THIS STATION.

  • nomoretraitors

    Was the stupid b***h wearing her tampon earrings?

  • nomoretraitors

    “MSNBC, the network rated as the least-trusted TV news source among all Americans”
    The fact that’s it’s trusted at all should be of grave concern

    • Joy Beum

      And who watches MSNBC? Obama fans. I honestly thought the muslim-in-chief would be defeated (both times) because I gave the American people credit for having intelligence and perception. What a bunch of idiots!

      • apeiron

        Me too Joy…shook my faith in the American people that he was twice elected.

  • nomoretraitors

    Has anyone else noticed they neglected to mention the sc*mbag’s rampage was stopped by a citizen carrying a legal FIREARM?

    • Headed4TheHills

      Neglect? Surely you jest. Twas not neglect that left that fact on the cutting room floor.
      1) Mentioning it would have gone against the party line.
      2) It would never have passed the LibProg Propaganda Minister’s army of censors.
      3) Fearless Leader would have them lined up and summarily terminated with extreme prejudice had they even thought of mentioning it.

  • Gee

    Murder is funny to leftists? Interesting – bet if it was their family members or themselves they would not find it so funny.

    Of the workplace murders that took place exactly how many of them occurred after trying to convert somebody to their particular religion? Bet none. Am willing to go so far as to say none of the murders screamed “I am killing you for Jesus” or “In the name of HaShem” either.

  • mdemetrius

    The Qur’an, afaik, doesn’t mention the workplace, but it certainly DOES mention giving unbelievers (a soft-sounding word that means “infidels”) an opportunity to convert to Islam, and if they refuse, behead them. The Oklahoma case follows that dictum exactly.

    Those who make light of this are furthering the cause. Those who can’t see the connection and/or are leading others into grave danger.

    I don’t think there is anything to smile about.

  • James_IIa

    I wonder whether FrontPageMagazine has a bigger audience than MSNBC. It should, if people care about actual information.

    • apeiron

      MSNBC only exists because of bundled cable packages. Fox news has twice the audience of CNN & MSNBC combined.

  • peanut9244

    Want to be were the shoe on the other foot her attitude would be totally different?

  • PhillipGaley

    In the Proverbs it is written: “And I [Wisdom] will laugh at your calamity.”, . . . here—while knowing that, in the first place, the Koran does speak volumes in favor of killing Jews, apostates or other non-believers—we have Daily Beast writer Dean Obeidallah, scrapbooking, oddly putting together pieces of information to form a simplistic mosaic which he would have us accept as showing something of the truth in his presentation, though in comic relief. He says: “It’s funny, you know, just so it’s clear for everyone, there is nothing in the Koran which says if you get fired, go back to your workplace and kill people.”, the while, offering his audience ignorance of the fact that, Nolen Alton’s Islamic tendencies are so well represented by his own hand, both on facebook, in daily proselytization, in the ritualistic appearance of the murder of Colleen, and on and on.
    But then too, if misery does love company, he’s not alone, for, in scrapbooking for a parallel employment of simplistic logic, in his national appearance for PANDA, one writer–Dan Johnson has Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, to have been killed for jaywalking.
    So, yes, I would say, there is some humor here—though tragically comical, . . . These writers, I’m pretty sure, have matriculated with 4-year degrees, and I read on the net as I do, largely, to gain insight from the benefits of writers’ education and exposure where I may lack; except, again and again, there are so many of these calamitous attempts in use of logic for the purpose of discussion.

    While Obeidallah may feel it vital to push the narrative against the USA as a nation of Islamophobes, to my mind, certainly, his attempts in logic only speed a bum’s rush of his arguments into the fire, . . .

  • glpage

    So, maybe these fools can explain why ISIS is trying to tear through Iraq while acting exactly like their prophet did in Arabia.

  • Ellsworth Toohey

    Would it be possible to provide would be muslim beheader a pamphlet stating precisely the requirements for their crime to be labelled “charia” compliant. I bet they are frustrated to see the obama administration, the media etc… refuse to recognize their act for what it is.

  • William

    A blacklash against Muslims is a very real concern if there’s another act of Islamic terrorism in America, or if there’s more mental cases like this guy who’s pretending to be a jihadi.

  • Fed Up

    “according to the Crime Classification Manual (CCM) the murder of Colleen Hufford is a textbook case of Individual Extremist Religion Inspired Homicide…”

    Right, in the sub-chapter entitled, “Random Acts of Jihad”.

  • wileyvet

    Well Dean Obeidallah, your name says it all. Some variation of “Slave of Allah” like Abdullah. This is what passes for intelligence on MSLSD. Incident after incident pile up and they look the other way. Each time becoming more ridiculous in their denial and cover for Islam. I bet not one of them has taken 5 minutes to look at what constitutes Islamic belief, the history of Muhammad or 14 centuries of Islamic history. Without a shred of information to at least try to credibly counter so called “Islamophobes” they instinctively and reflexively discount anything that contradicts their ignorant mindset. Leftists like them have been consistently wrong on everything for decades yet they persist in their delusional world of pseudo intellectualism. They are all dead wrong, and anyone who follows their advice will end up just plain dead.

  • Colt

    Lowlifes.

  • claspur

    Lowbrow leftist elitist anti-American scum.

  • obamathemarxist

    They sure are funny, I always get a kick out of watching them die when the smart bombs rain down.

  • roger

    I don’t condone violence in any way but I just can’t help feelings of wanting to take Dean Obeidallah out into the desert to spend some “quality time” with him and introduce some topics regarding the head and upper body.

  • roger

    Its a pity the victims family can’t sue MSNBC for their sneering and light hearted dismissal of one possible motive over another at a time when the investigation is ongoing. This could influence judicial proceedings.
    It is offensive, it makes me angry.

  • bill james

    Democrats and Muslims share an affinity for violence:
    -http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/terror/terrorism-2000-2001
    Acts of Terrorism by Group Class: Right Wing 85; Left Wing 130.

  • justagramma

    The big problem is: If they are wrong (and I think they are) it probably won’t be them who suffer from the results of their foolishness.

  • Steve L Hampton

    MSNBC will be calling for “knife control” in order to stop this workplace violence any day now.