Comments on: US making PR gains in Muslim world — but apparently not in US media

By: Tantor

Tantor — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:51:45 +0000

Unfortunately, Muslim disgust for Al Qaeda murder of fellow Muslims does not make them our allies. Muslims still approve of killing non-Muslims to propagate Islam. To them, a jihad that kills Muslims is misguided. A jihad which kills infidels is still righteous in their eyes, because Islam is a bloodthirsty and belligerent barbarian creed.

And they won’t think differently until we drop the hammer down on them hard to show warfare with us will lead to their utter annihilation, just like we did with the Japanese.

By: Merovign

Merovign — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:32:01 +0000

tom got it right, Ed. The MSM takes it seriously, and given the sheer volume of deception and shilling for terrorists, they pretty much have to be counted as on the other side (at least in large numbers – one would hate to be thought of as unfairly denigrating the handful of honest journalists).

By: tom

tom — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:47:29 +0000

The publi relations front may not be as sexy or as concrete as the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan, but they are critical to our eventual success in defeating radical Islamist terrorism. It would be nice if the American media took it seriously.

Isn’t the problem that, when it comes to the PR War on Terror, the American media are on the other side?

BTW, Ed, I think you mean “public relations” rather than “publi relations.”

Of course, if you’re going to have a typo, better “publi relations” than “pubic relations.”

By: bayam

bayam — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:45:52 +0000

It’s good to see recognition of the fact that not all Muslims are prone to support terrorism. There is a moral war to win and ultimately, the war on terror won’t be won through conventional warfare. US policy-makers need to ask themselves- will a given action create more terrorists or kill more terrorists?

By: LT Nixon

LT Nixon — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:16:55 +0000

Right on, Ed. We see the increasing disgust for terrorism everyday in the Iraqi media out on our end. Possibly because their media has the luxury of not navigating the quagmire of a horrible partisan divide about the Iraq war, and they can actually portray the facts.

By: Maquis

Maquis — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:54:35 +0000

Simply put, AQ is bad publicity for the propagation of Islam.

Connie on April 28, 2008 at 1:00 PM

Yup, when the consequences fall on their own heads, the whole jihadi thing just doesn’t seem so swell after all.

By: Connie

Connie — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:00:47 +0000

Muslims have taken notice of this and begun to get disgusted with the terrorists.

Simply put, AQ is bad publicity for the propagation of Islam.

By: Kafir

Kafir — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:04:28 +0000

BuzzCrutcher on April 28, 2008 at 9:37 AM

Bingo.

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By: BL@KBIRD

BL@KBIRD — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:30:33 +0000

Some Muslims disagree with the barbarity of AQ and this gets translated as American success at the propaganda war?

It would help if America knew what it was fighting first, so it would know how to conduct itself against it’s enemy properly.

This crap reads like a memo from Hesham Islam.

By: Tony737

Tony737 — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:17:22 +0000

In Iraq, AQ saved its most brutal applications of force for fellow Sunnis who refused to cooperate with their drug-fueled enforcement of shari’a.

It’s funny how they claim to be sooooo pious, yet they sell and use drugs, a crime for which ol’ Mo would have them beheaded.

By: moxie_neanderthal

moxie_neanderthal — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:55:09 +0000

PR fiasco indeed!

If AQ would simply stick to mass murdering the unbelievers, no problem.

Time Magazines Winners and Losers:

Syed Qutub: Looser. Apparently muslims don’t like other muslims mass murdering innocents (other muslims).

John Locke: Winner. Liberty and republican rule appeals to non WASPs.

By: BuzzCrutcher

BuzzCrutcher — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:37:16 +0000

Don’t you worry. If the Messiah wins in November, we’ll hear PLENTY about our PR gains in the Muslim world and everywhere else.

By: Limerick

Limerick — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:15:22 +0000

It would be nice if the American media took it seriously.

The Western media are afraid we will win. They can’t right the wrongs until America is humiliated.

By: Neo

Neo — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:14:28 +0000

THe media is, and has largely always been, complicit in undermining American foreign policy that it disagrees with, especially foreign wars that they don’t understand the need for.

Par for the course. Down the memory hole we go.

By: SeniorD

SeniorD — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:10:50 +0000

Well, if the True Believing Socialists and Anarchists amongst us were using high explosives to make their point, maybe the MSM would think differently. Afterall, they would be targets as well as the Unwashed Masses.

By: Rod

Rod — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:09:34 +0000

“No news is good news.”

Wait. Got that wrong.

“Good news is no news.”

By: profitsbeard

profitsbeard — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:09:30 +0000

So all AQ needs to do is aim better?

Then no Muslims will disagree with its basic terroristic and tyannical thrust?

Great. Just great.

How is this a PR victory?