It’s hard to expect much from YouTube videos: A little bit of copyrighted material here, a little bit of people making fools of themselves to music there.
This first video is a supposedly Muslim perspective on portrayal of Islam in the media, link via Dean Esmay.
I had to stop watching about halfway through when I got too sick of the speaker’s ridiculous assertions. A Muslim Terrorist is an oxymoron in the same category as “loud silence”? Please. This isn’t some parable of the cave where any Islam that you can see is merely a shadow of an ideal Islam. When he got to speaking about construction of stereotypes, as if there’s some kind of malicious conspiracy pushing some sort of racist agenda, I had to stop. Subjecting yourself to such a deranged alternate reality is just going to cause brain damage the more you expose yourself to it.
If the intent of this video was to claim that Muslims are poorly represented in the media, it, quite frankly, did a worse job than what I can see on the BBC.
This video showed up on PopURLs.
The video starts off by being offensive, but seems to have a wry cynical edge created by playing the Apple ad music in the background. Unfortunately, it’s not smart or clever, it’s just tediously pedantic and deceptive. Supporting use of stress techniques that do not cause lasting physical harm is torture? Stress techniques do not provide reliable evidence? If not, why does every police force and military in the world use them in interrogations, for fun? If stress techniques violate the Geneva Convention then jihadis will retaliate by using even harsher tactics than decapitation with knives and corpse desecration?
Sorry to say I actually wasted part of my life listening to this kid.
I was going to leave comments for these videos, but, unfortunately, YouTube limits the length of a response to 500 characters. In other words, I couldn’t even write a proper sentence in the space YouTube allocates for a comment.
In related news, I suppose it’s good that Google bought YouTube, as it means the site’ll be staying around awhile.
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