Tuesday, July 1, 2014

CNN's Zakaria Compares Iraqi Islamofascists To U.S. Tea Party --Sigh...

By Connor Williams, Jun. 30, 2014, Newsbusters.org

Hyperbolic claims about the Tea Party are nothing new from the mainstream media, but now admitted plagiarist Fareed Zakaria is comparing the conservative group to a radical Islamist sect, rehashing the same tired comparison other liberal journalists and pundits have made before.

On the June 29 edition of Fareed Zakaria GPS, the host compared the Tea Party to the Mahdi Army, an Iraqi Shiite paramilitary force that is opposed to both the Maliki regime and the radical Sunni group ISIS.




You see, he has his own Tea Party, and this one has an army of its own. Last Saturday, members of the group formally called the Mahdi Army, now called the Peace Brigades, paraded through the streets of Baghdad by the tens of thousands displaying their readiness to supposedly protect holy sites and shrines.

It seemed to escape Zakaria that the comparison of a militant Islamic group to a peaceful and fiscally conservative group makes little sense. Zakaria went on to accurately describe the Mahdi Army in violent terms:

Remember the name Muqtada al-Sadr? He is the radical Shiite cleric who fiercely opposed the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Back then the Mahdi army was responsible for some of the deadliest days of the war.


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