Why Is The Young Turks’ Hasan Piker Such a Jerk?
My latest in PJ Media:
America, the Left’s whipping boy for everything it can’t blame on Israel, deserved 9/11, says Hasan Piker, a commentator on the far-Left web series “The Young Turks.” Piker wrote on Twitter:
America deserved 911…Americas [sic] foreign policy decisions has lead [sic] to 911. this would’ve been a controversial thing to say in 2001. stop being a f***ing idiot. We supplied arms to and trained bin laden. we destabilized the region long before 911. and now we’re stuck in perpetual war, which dan crenshaw was trying to justify in that clip. it’s exactly this kind of attitude that has sent thousands of young men and women overseas to die.
His charm offensive didn’t end there. Speaking about Crenshaw, a Republican congressman from Texas and a former Navy SEAL who lost an eye in combat in Afghanistan, Piker said: “This guy has the understanding of foreign policy of, like, a 12-year-old. What the f***. What the f*** is wrong with this dude? Didn’t he go to war and like literally lose his eye because some mujahideen — a brave f***ing soldier — f***ed his eye hole with their d***?”
In reality, Piker’s understanding of foreign policy is far weaker and filled with misinformation than Crenshaw’s. The U.S. did not supply arms to or train bin Laden, but certainly misguided foreign policy “experts” had the U.S. training other mujahedin in Afghanistan in the late 1980s. Does this justify the murder of 3000 innocent civilians? In Hasan Piker’s mind, yes. And of course his Leftist fan base, ecstatic at finding another reason to hate and denigrate America, eats this stuff up as if it were a tub of Ben and Jerry’s.
All this leads to a larger question: why is Hasan Piker such a jerk? Why are so many of allies and friends jerks as well? Piker’s combination of obscenity and hatred is very common among Leftists and their Muslim allies. Islamic supremacist spokesmen in the U.S., including many who claim to be “moderate” and are lauded by the intelligentsia as wise, broad-minded, tolerant people who are busy building bridges of understanding between Muslims and non-Muslims, are all too often immature, arrogant, foul-mouthed creeps whose idea of a discussion is to hurl insults. The hate fairly oozes from their pores. There are many, many examples of this; Reza Aslan and Omid Safistand out.
Hasan Piker, as well the legion of other foul-mouthed, rude, and moronic Islamic supremacist commentators on the scene today, may not realize it, but he is imitating Muhammad, the man he believes to be an “excellent example” of conduct, as the Qur’an calls him (33:21). Consider these hadiths, as quoted and annotated by Sam Shamoun…
There is much more. Read the rest here.
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