On Tuesday, the radical Islamic group the Islamic State announced that 26-year-old hostage Kayla Mueller was dead, reportedly in a Jordanian bombing raid.
As Talking Points Memo reported, while much of the world reacted with horror and grief at the death, many conservatives took to social media to celebrate the killing and call the young aid worker a terrorist sympathizer and “anti-Israel bitch” because of her work on behalf of the occupied people of Palestine.
In a piece titled “Kayla Mueller: Dead ISIS Hostage Was Jew-Hating, Anti-Israel Bitch,” conservative blogger Debbie Schlussel wrote, “No tears for the newly-departed Kayla Mueller, the ISIS hostage whose parents confirmed today that she is dead.”
“Mueller was a Jew-hating, anti-Israel piece of crap who worked with HAMAS and helped Palestinians harass Israeli soldiers and block them from doing their job of keeping Islamic terrorists out of Israel,” Schlussel wrote.
“I have no sympathy for any of these ‘American’ (in name only!) hostages of ISIS,” she went on. “And my attitude when I hear they’ve been snuffed out is, so sad, too bad.”
One conservative website urged readers to pause before they mourn Mueller’s death and ask whether her support of Palestine was ultimately what killed her.
“People should be asking is why this young American girl was in Syria in the first place,” said Conservative-Headlines.com. “The fact is that Kayla Mueller was a Cultural Marxist who talked about her ‘privilege.’”
Damn you would think that this deeply religious young woman would be somebody who conservatives would identify with, but since there seemed to have been ideological differences concerning the Israel-Palestinian situation they are almost gleeful that she has died.
I think the word for that is "disgusting."
So, just to spell it out here: if she had been a MAN, then they would be outraged. But since she was 'only' a woman, she is disposable.
ReplyDeleteAnother victim of the war on women, IMHO.
R.I.P., Kayla!
There is something seriously wrong with Debbie Schlussel.
ReplyDeleteRIP, I am a father of three daughters. I have a hard time understanding their views and how the feel about life. I just don't understand how many young males and females leave this country to join the struggle of others in war torn areas. I just don't understand. my god I thought going to a club by themselves was nerve wrecking never the less another country..
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DeleteWhat seriously? ISIS recruits young people in the West, people they manipulate in order to make their own war. Then ISIS brainwashed them to blow themselves up in places where there are a lot of people.
DeleteWhat don't you get that it's hard to understand that young people who had their entire life ahead of them decide to leave their family and fight for a religious extremist group and blow themselves up.
I don't understand it either...
Plenty at the pee pond aren't sorry.
ReplyDeleteDo you think Kayla would consider it any consolation that the same missiles that killed her are the same ones that kill Palestinians and are supplied by the Christian Crusader president?
ReplyDelete"This blog is dedicated to finding the truth, exposing the lies, and holding our politicians and leaders accountable..."
Well, that post certainly brought them out.
ReplyDeleteI am not religious but at least this was a Christian who followed the teachings of "the Prince of Peace." I respect that.
How very interesting. My thoughts are these rabid Xian right wing nutjobs is, had they lived 80 years ago in Germany, they would have been the first to turn in their Jewish neighbors and call for the annihilation of the entire race.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I think these self same Xian defenders of Israel would have been the first to condemn the Jews and be against establishing a Jewish state and would have condemned the U.S. for supporting and recognizing Israel.
You'd think as Christians the primary thing they would have wanted is peace and for the relief of suffering for all those involved. How do you condemn someone who is only trying to aid and comfort those in need?
What would Jesus think?
Debbie Schlussel is Jewish. I'm ashamed she belongs to the same "tribe" as I do.
Delete"I think the word for that is "disgusting." "
ReplyDeleteI can think of another word, Gryphen: Typical.
I have read that IS-IS IS ISrael creation. It is possible.
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Deletehttp://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/02/10/kayla-mueller-timeline/23168135/
ReplyDeleteI happen to be a supporter of Israel, but believe their response to Palestinian rocket attacks was brutal....Palestinians are the only people the Arab world hates more than Jews, they were kicked out of Lebanon for, well, google it...I personally believe that if they stop firing rockets we would not be having this conversation..I have been there several times, they are wonderful people and the majority want peace, plain and simple
ReplyDeleteAnd it's obvious the Israeli's don't - all you have to do is look at a map of what they've done over the past few decades while pretending to be interested in finding peace to see that it was nothing more than a pretense.
DeleteThey'll stop firing rockets when Israelis stop stealing their land and treating them like dirt.
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