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...constitutional issues that she had discussed, did Coulter even broach the subject of her recent controversial remarks. That night, Hasan questioned her directly about the exact quotes from her articles he included in his editorial. Coulter responded that the quotes and assertions were taken out of context and distort her actual claims...
...What can happen is that fundamentalists distort the values they are trying to protect,” she said. “They tend to overemphasize belligerent passages of their faith...
...Islam is convinced that liberal, secular society is determined to wipe out religion. Fighting, as they imagine, a battle for survival, fundamentalists often feel justified in ignoring the more compassionate principles of their faith. But in amplifying the more aggressive passages that exist in all our scriptures, they distort the tradition...
...Deobandis do not like to be called fundamentalists. They say that is a term that can apply to every religion. And they don't like the term "Islamic terrorist" either. "Islam means peace," says Maulana Said Palanpuri, the school's Arabic professor. "There are people who distort God's teaching and we condemn them. But why do people in the West use the term Islamic terrorist and not Christian terrorist or Jewish terrorist when Christian and Jews commit atrocities...
...news can avoid the nagging doubt that one is being duped, that the networks’ influence is being used to promote a hidden agenda. Journalists are human, after all, and have senses, affections, passions—all the things that lead us to dissemble or to distort the truth...