The opponents of the proposed Cordoba Initiative Islamic center planned for Lower Manhattan are fond of suggesting, by way of lengthy and often confusing chains of causation and association, that its principal planner, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, is connected to terrorism. "The imam has been tied to some shady characters," Fox Business Channel's Eric Bolling recently said, "so should we worry that terror dollars could be funding the project?" Blogger Pamela Geller, who has become a regular talking head on cable-news channels to denounce the mosque, has noted Rauf's involvement with a Malaysian peace group that funded the group that organized the Gaza flotilla under the headline, "Ground Zero Imam Rauf's 'Charity' Funded Genocide Mission."
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The second largest shareholder in News Corp. -- the parent company of Fox News -- has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to causes linked to the imam planning to build a Muslim community center and mosque near Ground Zero in Manhattan, says a report from Yahoo!News.
According to the report from Yahoo!'s John Cook, Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, who owns seven percent of News Corp., "has directly funded [Imam Feisal Abdul] Rauf's projects to the tune of more than $300,000."
Cook reports that Prince Al-Waleed's personal charity, the Kingdom Foundation, donated $305,000 to Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow, a project sponsored by two of Rauf's initiatives, the American Society for Muslim Advancement and the Cordoba Initiative, which is building the Manhattan mosque.
I see that you watch the Daily Show, Newscorp is a publically traded company, do you know what that means? It means no one has control over who purchases said stock on the open market. Imam Rauf on the other hand is more than capable of denying the money from that Wahhabist POS.
Now is the Daily Show really this ****ing stupid or are they really this ****ing evil? (watch the Daily Show episode in question and you'll get the reference) I think they really are that ****ing evil but their major demographic is really that ****ing stupid.
I see that you watch the Daily Show, Newscorp is a publically traded company, do you know what that means? It means no one has control over who purchases said stock on the open market. Imam Rauf on the other hand is more than capable of denying the money from that Wahhabist POS.
Now is the Daily Show really this ****ing stupid or are they really this ****ing evil? (watch the Daily Show episode in question and you'll get the reference) I think they really are that ****ing evil but their major demographic is really that ****ing stupid.
This was probably one of the funniest things I've seen on The Daily Show in a while. "If there not stupid as I think they are, they are REALLY evil" :lamo
I'm sorry...I don't get my news from comedians on comedy central. :shrug:
I also don't really understand how a shareholder is the responsibility of the organization as it is traded publically.
So you get your news from comedians on Fox News instead? Why don't you just do some research yourself and you would see that they aren't bsing. Fox News is either really stupid or really evil. It's just that simple.
So then Fox never claimed that Kingdom Holding Company had "ties" with terrorist
just so they could create more fear?
You said it was simply a smear to Fox, so facts are smears?
I am sorry to make assumptions.
You point out that because Daily Show caught onto the story (which was somewhere else earlier in the day) and gave Fox News the benefit of the doubt in the first place, but then Fox News essentially started drawing for straws so Daily Show called them out on it was?
I'm saying that:
A) None of the news networks are evil. They all report with their own slants.
B) Fox may or may not have reported as you said (I don't really care whether they did or not except to point out that there's a HUGE difference between whether they reported it or some pundit commented on it).
C) Since News Corp is traded publically, FOX has zero liability for who its shareholders are.
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