Mark Steyn lays it out for John Miller
Ryerson University journalism professor John Miller has crossed a line, and Mark Steyn has had enough.
At a recent Halifax Free Speech debate, Prof Miller said that he was unable to locate the source of a quotation from Ayatollah Khomeini that Mr Steyn had cited in a column. The only place Miller mentioned searching for the quotation was on the internet.
That seems bizarre because the Ayatollah went to meet his maker in 1989, before the internet was in general public use. If someone were to quote from a 1989 book or a 1989 newspaper article and Miller wanted to verify the quotation, would he first resort to an internet search? Then, if he failed to locate the reference online, would he immediately throw up his hands and declare the citation unconfirmed? That seems to be how he fact-checked Steyn’s quote from the ayatollah.
Last week on his blog, Miller went further and pronounced the quotation phony: “I suspect it was made up”.
Deborah Gyapong then found the complete text of the ayatollah’s book online. Miller was out-Googled again.
Steyn responds today. Bottom line: He’s going to send Miller a copy of Ayatollah Khomeini’s Blue Book, so he can read the troublesome quotation in its original context.
If I don’t hear from you, I’ll ship it to your employers at Ryerson, together with a polite suggestion that either you might like to apologize or they might be advised to offer refunds to any students who paid good money to be taught journalism “ethics” by your good self.
Will Prof Miller be able to salvage any credibility at all from this debacle?
h/t: Kathy Shaidle
UPDATE (13 Nov.): Prof Miller fires back: He’s not convinced that Ayatollah Khomeini is the source of the words that Mark Steyn and Oriana Fallaci attributed to him. Read my two cents’ worth on that here.
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“The meat of horses, mules, or donkeys is not recommended. It is strictly forbidden if the animal was sodomized while alive by a man. In that case, the animal must be taken outside the city and sold.”
“If one commits an act of sodomy with a cow, a ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed as quickly as possible and burned, and the price of it paid to its owner by him who sodomized it.”
Any homosexual reading that stuff would get upset over these statements as they hits too close to home. Act of sodomy causes infection of abdominal cavity of animal with fecal matter (septic shock). This infection causes that white blood cells move out of animal’s bloodstream into abdominal cavity in order to fight that infection. Low white blood cells count (fully blown AIDS) condition renders that animal unable to fight all common pathogens present in its body and environment. These pathogens start to multiply rapidly and turn that animal into a vector spreading common diseases among livestock and humans that come in contact with it.
This commons sense observation that is as applicable to animals as it is to men was recorded in the Bible and it was basis of Leviticus 18:22 translated: “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.”
It is no small wonder that Mark Steyn pissed whole homosexual community off when he dragged that cat out of the closet. They were doing so well with this HIV virus scam that the last thing they needed was somebody bring up Ayatollah Khomeini, and his more recent teachings on same subject.
John Gordon Miller – The Journalism Doctor is well known for supporting homosexual pedophiles(http://searchingforliberty.blogspot.com/2008/11/apparently-mark-steyn-should-be.html) so it is no small wonder that he took offence to Steyn’s writing.
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