Over at PJ Media today I discuss CNN “journalist” Christiane Amanpour’s manifest bias and hypocrisy:
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour believes “we can all afford to be human” regarding the Syrian refugees. Recently, she condemned the U.S. and other countries for not letting them enter the homeland, despite FBI Director James Comey’s testimony explaining that vetting this population is literally impossible.
Apparently, “discerning” does not qualify as a human trait to Amanpour. Because soon after she offered her ill-considered, slanderous logic equating “responsible” with “heartless,” she employed this advice in her own decision-making — and she was taken.
Amanpour demonstrated exactly how Islamic radicals have learned to take advantage of those bearing her viewpoint.
Last Thursday, Amanpour invited Dalil Boubakeur, chairman of the Grand Mosque of Paris, to a sit-down interview. During the interview, Boubakeur strongly denounced the Islamic State (ISIS) and called for military action against it. He then declared that the barbarous terror group behind the Paris attacks had nothing to do with Islam:
Our religion is not one of violence, of jihadism, of terrorism, of women who kill. In what page of Qur’an is that written that a woman must take bombs inside her body to explode and kill other people? In what part of Qur’an is that said? In what page of Qur’an is it said that we shall kill innocent people? Young people?
Boubakeur then lamented that “little by little,” the Islamic State had won over the young Muslims of Europe. He declared that it was a “great error … not only of Muslims, but of the world to accept this.”
Then, Boubakeur called on Muslims in France to assimilate:
[It is] very important [for] French Muslim people to express their French nationality, their French taste, their French values, their French [rejection] of what is the danger for them, France, and for our religion also.
Had Amanpour recognized vetting as rational behavior — and understood her own viewpoint as reckless and irresponsible — then she would have known that Boubakeur’s insistence on “assimilation” could be nothing but a preposterous, exploitative lie considering his past behavior.
Homeland security expert Patrick Poole reported on Boubakeur’s rejection of Islamic “assimilation” with Western values in PJ Media last January. Boubakeur certainly does not oppose ISIS’s — or, in general, Islam’s — embrace of violence when he isn’t on Amanpour’s set:
[I]n 2006 at the height of the Danish Cartoon crisis, Boubakeur had published an article denouncing the cartoons and concluded by issuing a warning to all those — including Charlie Hebdo — who would publish caricatures of Mohammed, saying: “He who sows the whirlwind shall reap the whirlwind.”
Stop drawing Muhammad, and start abiding by Sharia blasphemy laws … or else.
Boubakeur, rather than being the assimilation-supporting, violence-spurning moderate Amanpour wanted him to be, is guilty of fanning the violence that resulted in deadly riots across the globe and ended in the horrific slaughter at Charlie Hebdo’s offices.
Boubakeur’s interview answers were no doubt music to the ears of Amanpour, as they matched the narrative she pushed in her September op-ed published by CNN wherein she castigated the U.S. for not taking more Syrian refugees. In the op-ed, Amanpour described the following as “heartwarming”:
… ordinary citizens, the responsible media, and generous governments all opening their arms to welcome a modern, yet biblical tide of humanity, fleeing war and persecution to safety here in Europe.
She scolded the U.S. and Canada:
… countries with big hearts, deep pockets and a habit of projecting their humanitarian values [are] unwilling to actually help end the war that would stop this exodus.
The U.S., she lamented:
… has only accepted fewer than 1,500 Syrian asylum seekers over the course of the war.
Amanpour did not address in her piece the real reason why many in the U.S. and elsewhere are reluctant to take in large numbers of these refugees: the prospect of Islamic jihadis being among them.
The Islamic State boasted last February that they would soon inundate Europe with 500,000 refugees. The Lebanese education minister recently warned that there were 20,000 active jihadis among the Syrian refugees in camps in his country. An Islamic State operative boasted in September, shortly after the migrant influx into Europe began, that among the flood of refugees, 4,000 terrorists had already entered Europe.
None of that information made it into Amanpour’s piece. She likely is confident that Obama administration officials will be able to “vet” the refugees they admit into the U.S., as they have repeatedly promised to do….
She must understand now that to heed her call, to bring in those refugees in large numbers, might make her temporarily feel good about how tolerant and multicultural she is, but will be cold comfort to the rest of us when the bombs start exploding.
Read the rest here.

ich says
Are muslims mental ?
Or evil ?
I am not sure maybe both,
What happened to thou shall not lie.
What a scary culture.
mortimer says
The Islamic practice of TAQIYYA advocates lying, cheating, deception, hypocrisy, fraud, trickery and many other sins…as long as you don’t do it to a fellow Muslim. It is these acts that make it difficult for us to get along, make a contract with and even have discussions with a Muslim. How do we know when a Muslim is not practicing TAQIYYA? We can never know it.
Muslims are only required to tell the truth when it benefits the prestige of Islam and the opportunism of Islamic supremacism.
Muslims generally trust Christians more than they trust fellow Muslims because of this pernicious, evil doctrine…TAQIYYA.
Shane says
Why should the USA take in any more Muslim refugees or immigrants when they are 100 times more likely to engage in terrorism than immigrants of any other religion are. It makes no sense for any Western nation to continue to take in any more Muslim immigrants. Stop the insanity or Western Civilization will not last until the end of this century.
? says
Islam has to be the only religion that doesn’t abide by the general rules of love and compassion. Christianity teaches Jesus’ example for the church, loving ones neighbor and following the principles of the Ten Commandments, Judaism also follows the principles of the Ten Commandments and general principles of love and peace, Bhudhism teaches to be non violent and about karma (ironically sounding like Bible “reaping what you sow” principle)… Remember none of the aforementioned claim to be a “religion of peace” but yet are peaceful in nature except for Islam which has yet to prove its worth and live up to its title…
This is the reaping 666
Lia Wissing says
The only kind & loving bit in the qur’an is the bit they swiped from the Talmud: 5: 32
Jim Peters says
“Peace” in Islam means all non-believers are dead, have submitted or are paying protection money. It is not our perception of the word “peace”.
Shane says
The great difference between Islam and Christianity is because the founders of those religions could not be more different. Muhammad was a warlord, murderer, rapist, liar, misogynist, pedophiles and a slave trader while Jesus was a man of peace who taught a peaceful message. Both Jesus and Muhammad are said to be the perfect example for them to follow, which is why Islam is so violent and miosgynistic.
madmemere says
Who ever listens to this loony female mouthpiece?
Lia Wissing says
The people who listen to Mrs Merkel?
gravenimage says
Spencer, PJM: CNN’s Amanpour Shames US for Not Taking Unvettable Refugees…Then Fails to Vet Her Muslim Guest
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Well, that headline pretty much sums up the whole situation, doesn’t it?
The appalling Dalil Boubakeur here threatens anyone who dares criticize Islam–in this case, Charlie Hebdo:
Dalil Boubakeur, head of the Grand Mosque in Paris, condemned the cartoons “in the strongest possible terms” and expressed surprise that the magazine was running new Mohammed cartoons after its offices were attacked the last time it did so.
“To repeat the same stupidity, the same idiocy and the same calumnies, the same ignominy seems to us to be nearly psychotic action,” he said.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/19/world/europe/france-mohammed-cartoon/
Notice that he does not consider violently targeting cartoonists to be “psychotic”–just flauting Muslim death threats.
Boubakeur has also demanded that the number of Mosques in France be doubled *in the next two years*–he has also demanded that empty churches be seized and turned into Mosques.
Oh, by the way–the Grand Mosque of Paris decided to cancel its much ballyhooed memorial event for the victims of the Paris attacks, supposedly for “security reasons”.
http://noticias.alianzanews.com/309_hispanic-world/3465024_grand-mosque-of-paris-cancels-memorial-event-for-security-reasons.html
This is slick–it means that these Muslims don’t have to publicly pray for filthy Infidels, and at the same time hope others infer that they themselves are under threat. *Ugh*.
Laurence says
Robert says, “The Lebanese education minister recently warned that there were 20,000 active jihadis among the Syrian refugees in camps in his country.”
Ah have no fear, Canada may be reducing that number of jihadi’s found within those camps. . . of course now you may have to keep a closer eye on your northern borders. Sigh.
mortimer says
PREVALENCE OF RADICAL ISLAMIC CHIC AMONG MUSLIM YOUTH? WHAT?
But the CHIEF MUSLIM OF FRANCE AGREES WITH ME!
“Boubakeur then lamented that “little by little,” the Islamic State had won over the young Muslims of Europe.”
Boubakeur claims that his laid-back, lax Islam is proper Islam, but Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, PhD, agrees with the Islam of Saudi Arabia (taught in their schools) and with the Islam of Al Azhar’s fatwa department.
Boubakeur is a lax, ‘reform’ Muslim and the youth will not follow him.
Confectioner says
ISIS is vetting the refugees for us.
mortimer says
“FBI Director James Comey’s testimony explaining that vetting this population is literally impossible.”
…but will President Obama and liberal politicians listen to him? They are eager to flood the West with terrorist sympathizers.
Angemon says
Why spoil the sob story with facts?
miriamrove says
She is a shameless Iranian reporter, which there is no doubt in my mind on the jihists payroll. m
Jay Boo says
One reason she did not address that is very clear, if we look at recent history.
Cognitive dissonance
Every time Muslims do something horrendous the Amanpours of the world and their ilk can’t bring themselves to hold Muslims accountable, so they find an excuse to project their indignation in such a way to portray Muslims are the victims.
For example
1 — Before the victims in Paris were even buried Obama was enraged that the ‘refugees’ are not welcome.
Benghazi attack — and “the film”
These people have no shame at all.
Suzy says
Off topic: Migrants rape 14-year-old girl in Finland: http://yle.fi/uutiset/pm_sipila_calls_crisis_meeting_over_kempele_rape_case/8478859
Joseph says
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour should show by example. She should invite these so called refugees into her own home, but we get to choose which ones will live there otherwise you know for a fact that she would choose a Christian family.
What a hypocrite.
FactsRule says
This excellent analysis of the demographics of the Syrians should be shared with every federal & state official.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/260880/syrians-are-nation-terrorist-supporters-daniel-greenfield
duh_swami says
what page of Qur’an is it said that we shall kill innocent people? Young people?
Slippery, but not quite slippery enough…Most people posting here know that there is no such thing as a innocent luffar…Only pious Mahoundians are innocent…The rest of you are guilty of all kinds of transgressions against Allah…
The biggest, rejecting it as your god…You are considered to be ‘warring with Allah and will be punished accordingly…See Quran 5:33…9:5 for confirmation…
BC says
I feel nauseous whenever I see this pretentious and condescending woman. I am tired of CNN pushing her forward as their lead interviewer with all the ‘famous’ people she gets to chat with her august prescence.
Then there is that loudmouthed Quest with his pseudo ‘expertise’ on business
Jim Peters says
It’s nice to know we have deep pockets for immigrants, that we somehow “owe” them. Stop this immigration insanity now.
It warms my heart to hear the newsie elites tutoring us. It us or them, get real.
Jim Peters says
We all know the political elites are fools, Lisa. They don’t know, and that is the worst kind of fool. They dig in their heals and double down. They live in elitist circles of friends where there is no dissent and they reinforce their beliefs. They think themselves superior to the rest of us. Same thing Obama does.