{"id":50759,"date":"2016-06-14T05:54:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T05:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=50759"},"modified":"2016-06-14T06:00:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T06:00:59","slug":"orlando-tweets-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=50759","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Tweets Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; on a variety of other perspectives ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, my point is that there&#8217;s a whole lot of going on going on, and it&#8217;s worth getting a wide-angle view.. which means <strong>multiple perspectives, including those not your own<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Good column by @sulliveiw. Before we knew much about <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Orlando?src=hash\">#Orlando<\/a>, every faction was off to the races: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t2qCUgsquD\">https:\/\/t.co\/t2qCUgsquD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jonathan M. Katz (@KatzOnEarth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KatzOnEarth\/status\/742137975765622784\">June 12, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Politicking:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The night-and-day contrast between Trump and Clinton&#39;s reactions to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Orlando?src=hash\">#Orlando<\/a> shooting. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oqVTRVfozc\">https:\/\/t.co\/oqVTRVfozc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; AJ+ (@ajplus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ajplus\/status\/742138308730310656\">June 12, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Joshua Green<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshuaGreen\/status\/742426442659696641\">Trump seems to regard Omar Mateen as &#8220;Afghan&#8221; in the same way Judge Curiel was &#8220;Mexican&#8221;: foreign\/un-American, even though both born in US<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Charlene Deveraturda<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/malasadasbooks\/status\/742535175251230720\">The Atlantic&#8217;s ISIS Expert Graeme Wood Slams Trump For &#8220;Hurt[ing] The Fight Against ISIS&#8221; With Anti-Muslim Rhetoric<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Both <strong>Al-Jazeera<\/strong>&#8216;s and <strong>Joshua Green<\/strong>&#8216;s tweets offer us examples of <strong>DoubleQuotes<\/strong> thinking.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guns:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Vast majority of guns in 16 recent mass shootings, incl 2 suspected in Orlando, bought legally w\/fed bkgrnd check. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hG0HfhYt40\">https:\/\/t.co\/hG0HfhYt40<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Anne Barnard (@ABarnardNYT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABarnardNYT\/status\/742291791802736640\">June 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Program on extremism<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gwupoe\/status\/742113850472947714\">&#8216;Orlando Shooter Legally Bought Guns Despite Previous Flags by FBI&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Rob Crilly<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robcrilly\/status\/742323593212727296\">Orlando shows arc again. Hate-filled young man with access to guns picks his victims and then selects poisonous ideology to add &#8220;meaning&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Bill Maher<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billmaher\/status\/742465416690163712\">#Orlando Conservatives:&#8221;Don&#8217;t say it has anything to do with guns!&#8221; Liberals:&#8221;Don&#8217;t say it has anything to do with Islam!&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Maajid Nawaz<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaajidNawaz\/status\/742087613914468352\">Saying this has nothing to do with Islam (libs) is as ignorant as saying this has nothing to do with guns (cons).Both need reform<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Piers Morgan<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/piersmorgan\/status\/742051402416033796\">Obama&#8217;s about to make the same speech he&#8217;s made about guns 20 times in his presidency. Just more pointless rhetoric, sadly.<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Steven Crowder<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/scrowder\/status\/742014851711684608\">Orlando timeline: Anti-Gay Muslim commits mass terrorism. American gun-owners condemn it. Liberals try to take their guns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Islamic responses:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shadi Hamid<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shadihamid\/status\/742147337011748864\">Muslim organizations in the United States unequivocally condemned the Orlando assault<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Usama Hasan<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drusamahasan\/status\/742261424752340992\">Does #Islam condemn #gays to death?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Saying this has &#39;nothing to do with Islam&#39; is as blinded as saying this *is* Islam. Clearly, this has *something* to do with Islam <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Orlando?src=hash\">#Orlando<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; maajid nawaz (@MaajidNawaz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaajidNawaz\/status\/742085388018323457\">June 12, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>and in ISIS perspective:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cole Bunzel<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colebunzel\/status\/742059514061574145\">ISIS&#8217;s A&#8217;maq news agency claims Florida attack was &#8220;carried out by a soldier of the Islamic State&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Will McCants<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/will_mccants\/status\/742085641442320386\">ISIS uses term &#8220;fighter&#8221; for Orlando attacker rather than &#8220;soldier&#8221; (Paris\/Brussels) or &#8220;supporter&#8221; (San Bernardino) for whatever it&#8217;s worth<\/a><\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>And finally, barely mentioned in the welter of opinions about Orlando &#8212; <strong>the other shoe:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JM Berger<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intelwire\/status\/742114179339943940\">We may have narrowly escaped having two very similar massacres on the same day, apparently unconnected<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>JM Berger<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intelwire\/status\/742115371981897728\">The fact that one was prevented and one was not is largely a trick of fate. We need robust reporting on LA incident as well<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; on a variety of other perspectives ] . Once again, my point is that there&#8217;s a whole lot of going on going on, and it&#8217;s worth getting a wide-angle view.. which means multiple perspectives, including those not your own: Good column by @sulliveiw. Before we knew much about #Orlando, every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[527,526,1314,627,415,1080,864,184,1078,1047,753,573,96,1369,982,187,211,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-charles-cameron","category-donald-trump","category-doublequotes","category-elections","category-gun","category-gun-control","category-hillary-clinton","category-is","category-isis","category-islam","category-mexico","category-new-york-times","category-orlando","category-polarity","category-politics","category-terrorism","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50759"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50793,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50759\/revisions\/50793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}