Tsunami Deaths........ Blame the Muslim countries.........

[FM Arouet666]

This is the gist of what I heard on the radio on the way home tonight. I was listening to the Tammy Bruce show on the same station which carries the other hate purveyors. I paraphrase, 'the majority of deaths were in Muslim countries, countries which do not have a free market system, which are not democratic, with governments which are corrupt and do not regard human life as sacred, as we do here in the United States.'

The number of deaths is appalling, and preventable, and Muslim countries are primarily to blame. She also mentioned the 15,000 deaths in France during the last heat wave. Concluding, socialist systems cannot protect their citizens, it is a failed system.

Anyone would agree that the death toll is appalling. The majority of countries affected are poor, third world countries. Yes, the Indian ocean lacks an early warning system like that in place in the pacific. The pacific system was not initiated until after a 9.2 magnitude quake in 1965 spawned deadly Tsunami. Many will die for the price of hind sight.

However, vilifying the victims of this horrendous human tragedy in an attempt to justify the United States position of moral superiority over the Muslim world is simply unconscionable. One republican caller suggested that the U.S. give aid with strings attached, presumably that the Muslim countries suppress popular hostility toward the U.S.

What is next, God caused the earthquake to punish the Muslims for their sins against a Christian nation?

Anyone with an opinion of Tammy Bruce, this was the first I had heard of her show. Her page is listed here.

http://www.tammybruce.com/

Apparently she is openly gay, a feminist and a former NOW president, and a "progressive." She is certainly not a liberal from the tone of her broadcast and the info on her page.

GOP, piling it higher and deeper. :evilfrown:

[Sleepless In NY]

1. Then who do you blame for 4 Florida Hurricanes?

Can't be the muslims.

[WindRavenX]

2. I blame red states for the hurricans

The hurricanes skipped the blue counties.
In all seriousness, I don't get blaming (insert religion or ethnic group) for natural disasters...:shrug:

[NewJeffCT]

21. Don't you know who to blame yet?

It's Bill Clinton's fault, of course!

[justa]

3. I knew it would only be a matter of time.

I was just hoping that just once these hatemongers could show a little compassion.

[jellybelly]

4. some progessives are anti-muslim

especially since some muslim governments persecute homosexuals.

[rooboy]

5. Interesting theory, but India, Thailand and Sri Lanka ain't muslim. n/t

[FM Arouet666]

6. I agree, the host conveniently sweep this aside.

She concentrated on the numbers of dead, emphasizing the Muslim countries losses. She did mention that the largest country affected was India, which is a democracy, but continued on her diatribe against Muslim countries nonetheless.

[billyskank]

28. Large parts of India *are* predominantly Muslim

[rooboy]

36. India is more than 80% Hindu. About 10% muslim...

which does not constitute a 'muslim' country.

[u4ic]

7. Sri Lanka is mostly Buddhist

and also has a good sized Hindu population.

Thailand is predominantly Buddhist as well; India is Hindu.

What, are all 'brown' people Muslims, according to these ill-informed nincompoops?

[FM Arouet666]

8. If a Muslim was involved, lump them all together.....

The host seemed particularly preoccupied with Indonesia. She states that the country harbors terrorists sympathetic to OBL, and the population is very anti-American. The whole thing left me seething by the time I got home.

[u4ic]

10. Hmmm...I wonder if this idgit knows

10% of Indonesia is Christian? (I take it they were the 'saved' ones). Twenty percent of the population are non-Muslims.

I see why she'd be concentrating on Indonesia, as the epicentre was near there...so basically she's saying that all these people of other religions have to pay for the 'evil' Muslims? :grr:

Burma is mostly Buddhist. Sri Lanka, by the way, seems to top the death toll list so far.

Is it possible to write the FCC? Is hate speech protected under US law? I just can't believe any of that crap is on the airwaves.

[FM Arouet666]

11. Loss of the fairness doctrine......

For those that can stomach conservative radio, sporadically listening to the verbal trash as I do, I would have to say it is protected.

Someone called in to the show as I pulled into the house and was talking about the number of Christians in the Muslim counties affected. They stared to discuss persecution of a minority and I just could not listen any longer.

[Oversea Visitor]

14. Sad

Thanks to such rants coming out from USA
The Indonesian Goverments need to deploy thousands of soldiers to guard churches in Indonesia during christmas.

[u4ic]

15. How are you?

Were you near an affected area? (I take it if you were in an affected area, you wouldn't have electricity)

I just can't get my head around the devastation.

[Oversea Visitor]

23. I live in

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ... tsunami didnt affect us much.
Still trying to come to terms on the scale of this insane tsunami
Sad part was many was just standing there and watching the wave come in until too late hence the high casualties

Indonesia is where it is bad no communication
Lastest news is theyn trying to reach a town of 40,000 people photograph from the air dont show much of life

Our country Mercy team in now in the area, more teams and other aid incoming to Indonesia from us.

So far public donation in our country have raise $4 million for emergency aid. Sorry all still unclear but ..... figures of dead expect to be very high in Indonesia.

[KharmaTrain]

29. Thank You For Your Report

As usual, the biased media in this country looks at things through rose-colored glasses with little other than sensational pictures and blanket assesments of what's going on. This tragedy has hit different countries in different ways and Indonesia stands to be the worst hit...sitting right above that 9.0 quake and an infrastructure that can't handle the most basic of government services, yet any warning or any disaster relief.

Those poor people are on their own and you turn on hate radio and hear how this is some "divine" retribution. In fact, I heard someone on C-SPAN just question the Sri Lankan ambassador (a Tamil Hindu by his own definition) and called him a moslem...blissfully ignorant and racist...but that's encouraged in today's USA, Inc.

Hopefully a lot of the wealth that has piled up in that area can be used to assist those people and the recovery will be quick.

The total ignorance many in this country have about other nations and cultures is almost embarassing...except when one considers the source...and another reason I firmly believe ALL Repugnicans are totally morally bankrupt and immoral.

[NewJeffCT]

22. I know a person in Sri Lanka...

I just got an email from him. Luckily, he & his family are okay, but he says he believes that the official count of 12,000 dead is like about 1/3 the actual total, meaning 36,000 dead.

[Paintedlady]

9. If we are going to go way out on a limb

I say it's bush fault!
Just think about all those bombs hitting the earth in Iraq, all that energy has to go somewhere. I think the energy traveled until it found a weak spot and caused the earth quake, and the tsunami.
So there you go, it was the chimps fault. He just killed another 23000 innocent people.

[cire4]

12. Leave it to the Republicans to politicize tsunamis

I was wondering how long it would take for a Freeper/Wingnut to use these natural disasters as a means of advancing their political ideology.

[BikeWriter]

13. Clinton got a hum job! n/t

J/K

[Oversea Visitor]

16. Number of dead

maybe in the region of 50,000
This is really bad

[sandnsea]

17. Tsunamis don't hit that region

I just read an article on it because I wondered why they didn't have an early warning system. It's because tsunamis aren't as common in that part of the world as in the Pacific.

Besides, I live on the Oregon Coast and a 30 minute warning is kind of comical. I did read that you only need to get up 25-50 feet, so I guess I run to the dunes behind my house. Another article said if people were on the beach during tourist season, most of them wouldn't know what the sirens were for anyway and wouldn't know what to do either. If a tsunami hit here, we'd have just as much devastation and death, unless we got a four hour warning from an Alaska quake or something. Of course, if there were a four hour warning for the people overseas, I'm sure we would have figured out how to alert them too.

[Skidmore]

18. I've seen this woman a couple of times on different talking

head shows and she is definitely not a progressive or liberal. The only thing she was progressive about was pushing the RW agenda.

[Elise]

19. Tammy Bruce

used to be an official with NOW.

After a 'falling-out,' she has taken the *right* path.

:wtf:

[JCMach1]

20. India and Sri Lanka?????

idiots!!!

[ulysses]

25. Muslim, Hindu -

They're all the same, aren't they?

:freak:

[Deja Q]

24. As if the US has a free market system? Ours isn't free market. It's

slaughter or be slaughtered.

It's just as cruel or even moreso, just in different ways, than the Muslim countries.

[Oversea Visitor]

26. I live in Malaysia a Muslim country

Christmas is an official holidays here.
Its ok to wish everyone merry christmas here.
I am a chinese and I am not a christian, majority of the people in my office is muslim, however during christmas we decorate the office and put up christmas tree and have a gift exchange programme a lucky draw to see who buy a christmas present for who .... and the MD of the company is a Muslim....
And hey we only have 3 christian out of a total of 15 staffs.
We celebrate 6 different religious holidays
Our goverment pratice religious tolerant and respect...
try condemning another religion and they come down on you like a ton of bricks.

[u4ic]

33. Thanks for that

It sounds like Malaysia is definitely on the right track! This is truly what is needed...more tolerance.

[JHB]

27. Tammy Bruce, professional pseudo-progressive...

...If you ever need a "progressive" to go on Fox and bash "other" progressives, she's your man.

As an aside, the deaths in France were not because of "socialism", they were because areas where the usual summer temperature hovers in the 70's (and thus few people had air conditioning installed) had a sustained heat wave up in the 90's. We have heat-related deaths every summer here too, but since we regularly have these waves people know what to do to get through them. The French weren't really aware of the problem until it was already on them.

But hey, since when have progressives RW fembots like Bruce ever let gacts get in the way of nursing a hate-fest on France.

[FM Arouet666]

34. Just another RW nut, with a different label. n/t

[The Stranger]

30. No, it is real simple.

She is an (allegedly) openly gay, pro-choice, gun owning, pro-death penalty, voted-for-President Reagan Neocon. She believes that the world should be made over and subjugated in the name of the extreme Right Wing and fundamentalist Christianity, with a particular focus on their "Other", the Muslims in the world, a fear dating back to the Christian Crusades and manifesting itself in one form or another since that time.

Suggested reading (although old, it was prophetic even then):

America's Messianic War Cult

[Eugene]

31. A tsunami in the Atlantic could catch Christian America

almost as unprepared as Asia.
Americans are hardly in a position
to lecture.

[LibDemAlways]

32. Wingnuts on c-span this morning all

suggesting that since the affected nations aren't "Christian" we don't have much of an obligation to help. Several callers suggested that Saudi Arabia should be leading the relief efforts.

[DemBones DemBones]

37. Oh, no, I thought the real nutcases had

quit calling C-SPAN since their hero "won."

I quit listening a few weeks ago, couldn't stand to hear one more intellectually-challenged person say "I support pResident Bush 100%." But I've listened a couple of times recently and they were getting intelligent calls.

[Rex]

35. We regard human life as sacred?

SENSE WHEN! I need to get a job as a AM, RW-hate monger, evidently anyone can become one.