Meet the Stress vs. Bigotmax

Orbusmax - indicted NW cesspool of circle-jerked conservative "info" - has turned it's cards & shown it's true colors. A recent headline reads the following:

RELIGION OF PEACE: Man decapitates nephew in Saudi supermarket...

...but after a click, you'll be sent to the following article in ArabNews:
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&section=0&article=107428&d=3&m=3&y=2008

Give it a read and pay close attention the vital role of Islam in this gruesome act. Finished?

"A police officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Arab News, “The murderer was in a dispute with the boy’s mother and her husband. He chopped off the boy’s head in front of the mother to get back at her.”

So according to an officer on the scene not only makes clear that this was a domestic dispute. He also called the name "murderer" the culprit. No mention of Islam as a motive. Not even an "honor killing" - common to Arabic culture, but an act not permitted under Islamic law.

In fact, there is not one mention to Islam at all in this entire article.

So why the big anti-Islam slam on the headline. What gives? Meet the Stress knew you would ask the same:

From: mercifuln8@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 9:50 AM
To: ORBUSMAX@ORBUSMAX.COM
Subject: "Religion of Peace" headline

Dear Orbusmax editorial board,

You have the following link on your webpage:

"RELIGION OF PEACE: Man decapitates nephew in Saudi supermarket..."

But when I clicked on it and read the story, Islam was not mentioned as the cause of the incident. Here's a police officer's account:

"A police officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Arab News, “The murderer was in a dispute with the boy’s mother and her husband. He chopped off the boy’s head in front of the mother to get back at her.”

In fact, Islam is not mentioned AT ALL in this piece. Is there a reason you linked to this story with such a disingenious and misleading headline?

For someone who decries "liberal" journalistic standards, this seems slightly hypocritical

Orbusmax quickly responds:

From:	"The Orb"
To:	"
Subject:	RE: "Religion of Peace" headline
Date:	Tue, 4 Mar 2008 14:32:02 -0800

Nate, I link hundreds of headlines a week, you found one mistake. I am sure you have made a few here and there.

Note: Despite this quasi-retraction, Orbusmax has yet to remove the deceptive bigoted headline

But the not-so certain Meet the Stress editorial board probed further:

From: mercifuln8@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:00 PM
To: The Orb
Subject: RE: "Religion of Peace" headline

Thanks for the response.

Just curious. Is there a specific reason why you linked this story as "Religion of Peace"?

Seriously, we had houses burning in Woodinville this week. I can google a thousand-and-one atrocities occuring all over the US (esp Florida ). All this despite our country supposedly being founded on "Christian principles".

Any correlation/causation there?

Would you ever run a story about a baby found in a dumpster or ____________ (insert US atrocity here), but preface it with the title: "Moral Christian Nation Alert"?

Just checking.
N

Orbi cries uncle and taps out:

From:	"
To:
Subject:	RE: "Religion of Peace" headline
Date:	Tue, 4 Mar 2008 14:32:02 -0800

Thanks for visiting Orbusmax.