Bill Bennett, CNN's new resident wingnut proved why he is, well a wingnut. We all know that many Muslims don't believe in beheading people. Not so wi
February 8, 2006

Bill Bennett, CNN's new resident wingnut proved why he is, well a wingnut. We all know that many Muslims don't believe in beheading people. Not so with Bennett as he lumps every Muslim into a single category like so many wingnuts do which only causes more hate than otherwise possible.
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Bennett lost he cool and started complaining that Zoby was interrupting him. I think he was just trying to get a sentence in occasionally.

AmericaBlog:

BENNETT: Let's go beyond cartoons. The other story out of Iran is the story of two young girls who were raped. The girl defended herself and stabbed her attacker. She is now sentenced to be hanged under Islamic law. This isn't a caricature, this isn't a cartoon, this is a peak into the soul of that faith, when it's run through a government. It's a real story and it deserves to be criticized.

ZOGBY: It's not a peak into Islam, it's a peek into the outrages that take place in contemporary Iran, which is not synonymous with Islam...

BENNETT: It's recognized Islamic theology, it is Islamic theology...

ZOGBY: The policy of the Catholics during the Inquisition is not synonymous with my church, nor is the policy of the Islamic extremists synonymous with the Prophet Mohammed. Let's be fair and use one standard. I agree, we have a double standard and frankly I think the way this story is cast is the wrong double standard.

BENNETT: Here's the standard. Catholicism is as Catholicism does, Judaism is as Judaism does, and by God Islam is as Islam does and what it's doing right now I wouldn't wanted to associated with.

ZOGBY: As President Bush has said correctly, hundreds of millions of believing Muslims do not practice these things, did not burn embassies, do not behead people...

AmericaBlog: CNN wanted to win some of the FOX audience by hiring far-right extremists like Bennett, and by God, by making slanderous comments about one of the world's leading religions...read on

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