Washington Times doctors photo of Obama nominee to put her in turban

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Wednesday, June 23, 2010 15:32 EDT
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The Washington Times doesn’t earn rave reviews from anyone on the left.

But their latest decision to put Obama Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan in a turban beside an editorial claiming she was a big Islam supporter has taken even the Times most vehement critics off guard.

The photograph isn’t real: it was doctored to put a turban on Kagan’s head. The photo and the accompanying editorial were first noted by the liberal blog ThinkProgress on Wednesday.

“In a Washington Times op-ed run alongside a doctored photo of Kagan in a turban (pictured to the right), [the writer] ropes Kagan into a bizarre fantasy involving Shariah law, the Muslim Brotherhood, and, somehow, the beleaguered Troubled Assets Relief Progam,” blogger Ian Millhiser writes.

An excerpt from the Washington Times editorial, which is available here in full, follows.

Dean Kagan had an even more direct connection to the Saudis’ Shariah-recruitment efforts at Harvard. She personally officiated in 2003 over the establishment of an Islamic Finance Project at the law school. The project’s purpose is to promote what is better known as Shariah-compliant finance (SCF) by enlisting in its service some of the nation’s most promising law students. [...]

Shariah-compliant finance dates back to the 1940s, when it was invented by leading figures in the Muslim Brotherhood. This international organization has as its stated mission “destroying Western civilization from within … by its own miserable hand.” [...]

Ms. Kagan’s Islamic Finance Project also has played a prominent role in encouraging the U.S. government to endorse Shariah-compliant finance. Notably, a founding adviser to the project, Harvard professor Samuel Hays III, conducted a “seminar for the policy community” in November 2008. It was sponsored by a former Goldman-Sachs-executive-turned-assistant-treasury-secretary, Neel Kashkari, who at the time was responsible for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). The signal thus sent could not have been clearer, either to Mr. Kashkari’s colleagues in government or to those in the financial sector: At a moment when the very viability of major banks and investing institutions critically depended on this individual’s favor, it would be advisable to embrace Shariah-compliant finance.

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  • Schmice

    It will be touted as true by FOX by this evening.

  • S&P

    Typical Regressive hypocrisy. They are always whining about how private entities should, providing they don’t break the law, be allowed to do as they want. That was their defense of the Boy Scouts and their country clubs restricting membership to only the “right” people. Yet, when Harvard, a private school, does something that has no impact on them, something that is really none of their business, all hell breaks out.

  • Guest34567

    The turban is surprisingly attractive–who knew that Kagan could look this good?

    However, this wasn't done by the staff of the soon-to-be-defunct Moonie rag.

    It was done by one of the snakes in the composing room.

  • ericroded

    I LOVE Islam!

    Why do people hate Islam?

    There's like 2 billion Muslims in the World.

    Hating them and even killing them is just not going to work.

    You have to love your neighbor.

    Even if they believe in a White Guy who rose from the dead, or that your meat spoon can't touch your milk nipple, or that hashish is what Heaven is all about.

    I mean, you're all a buncha conspiracy nuts with all your mystical books and shit but I ain't gonna hate you for it.

    That would be like hating the halfway house for ADD that they got up the block.

    Christians, Jews, Muslims, I LOVE you even though you're full of shit, and I won't mock you in order to achieve a political end.

    End of Story, my crazy brothers and sisters.

  • teslacan

    SHOPPED!!!1!

  • scottmphoto

    Best damn reply ever. Summed up very nicely. Now if only we could all see the “issues” this way, the World would be a much better place!

  • w00t

    I don't love islam. Neither do I love christianity.

    Nor is any of that required to be appalled by this kind of non-journalism hate speech making it to a paper like the Washington Times.

    This shit might be suitable for blog or satire…a political cartoon, but for a newspaper?

  • MothMan

    If your view points have to be accentuated with lies, you may need to seriously talk to a shrink,

    Shows you the total evilness of these people. Have to lie to get a thoroughly evil agenda through

  • Bad Bart

    Just shows what kind of shitheads run that paper.

  • Scott550

    The moonie cult can't stoop any lower. No wonder bush and dick were such big supporters of this anti-American cult.

  • carol h.

    They would. The paper is owned by the moonies. This ultra political group has strong ties to conservatism and the Bush's. In fact several years ago a story with pictures came out regarding a ceremony attended by several GOP republican politicians. In this article these Americans offered up themselves as acolytes of this man. They actually crowned both this man and his wife as their spiritual superiors. They bowed too. Bush senior considers them close friends. Sun Yung Moon or some name like that.

    And this paper religiously, sorry about the pun, continue to interfere with the politics in this country by their newspaper, but also behind the scenes with contact and money with our politicians. This is pretty scary. There is a story online somewhere regarding this crowning and this idiots influence. But there is one more fact, they were invited to leave Korea where they came from and now we are stuck with them. Bush Sr, takes their part when ever criticism comes out.

  • starvapor

    Why do the wackos among Islam hate us so much while at the same time the rest of Islam just never really effectively objects to that hate?

  • http://www.thedonovan.com/swwbo Beth Donovan

    I thought it was a hat much like my grandmother would wear – not a turban. Besides, women don't wear turbans, how lame.

  • wiseturtle

    What do you expect from satanic moonie cultists?

  • Mr_Natural

    “…acolytes of this man.”

    Does 'this man' refer to the moonie leader, Sun Myung Moon? His wackiness, and that of his followers, seems unlimited. What's more, any friend of the Bush Crime Family should be regarded with suspicion.

  • ericroded

    Link me to the never objecting.

  • starvapor

    You have been linked…to accepting the hate.

  • Guest

    Fuck the Washington Times. What? Should we care what the KKK magazine has to say, too?

  • Gloria822

    How low can you go? Real criticism of a Supreme Court nominees ideas is fair game. Doctoring photos and making far-fetched connections to Shariah law? How did American media sink so low?

  • Adam503

    The EXCLUSIVE “BatBoy and Judge Kagan Wedding” headline might have been a bit of a tip-off.

  • Adam503

    It's a newspaper owned by the Moonies. There's no lower to go there.

  • Adam503

    Their right wing ties aren't “the problem.” The whole frakin' cult getting married in one huge ceremony when Rev Moon decides he wants to get laid That's closer.

  • undrgrndgirl

    really bad photo shop job…and besides, anyone who knows anything about turbans knows they are worn in a variety of cultures for a variety of reasons…for those who don't know about the history of turbans see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turban…geeze, i wish americans would grow the fuck up!

  • undrgrndgirl

    well…why do the wackos among christians hate them so much while at the same time the rest of christianity just never really effectively object to that hate?? …just sayin

  • pist

    fuck the moonie times theyre no better than fox

  • pist

    no political group gets tax breaks except far right religious ones no wonder were so fucked up

  • w00t

    Hats off to you sir, would you like like mayonaise with that herring under the windshield of the republic of Tahiti? Nurturing golf balls off the coast of Dingleberry with extra ham! Goo-goo-gah-gah gobbledegook blather blather ding-ding-ding!

  • cessnadriver

    SSDD….this is why the world needs freedom of and freedom from religion.

  • cessnadriver

    I love Islam. It's the hats.

  • wiseturtle

    That's because they are all satanists!

  • markusgarvey

    (verify your account and you wont have to get your comments approved)…thanks..

  • RadicalCaveman

    Even for them…how low can they go?

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/KN55HGYMPKOUILP25LD7P4VFCA John

    Isn't that a Sikh turban?
    Also, it's unfortunate that this article did not go into what Sharia-compliant finance would entail, which is probably the main reason they are preemptively demonizing it before it gets into the public conscious. If my understanding is correct, it places very strict limits on interest (some would say it bans interest entirely) and also very strictly limits how much money an individual or institution can lend as compared to what it actually has. Did you notice that no Muslim countries are having the banking crises that the “Christian” countries have?

    As much as I personally find much of Sharia law to be abominable, their ideas on finance seem very well thought out from the position of providing fairness and equity. This is the main reason that the part of the Arab world that is run by oligarchies (oiligarchies?) is VERY opposed to Sharia Law.

  • progdeprog

    “Did you notice that no Muslim countries are having the banking crises that the “Christian” countries have?”
    Thats cause the “Christian” countries aint so Christian anymore, which is “our” downfall. God's judgment is upon us.

  • H.P. Loathecraft

    “geeze, i wish americans would grow the fuck up!”

    And I wish for peace on earth and everybody have a pony. Which will come first, I wonder?

  • tdoff

    (verify your account and you wont have to get your comments approved)…thanks..

  • TiredOfThePhonies

    Much of the so-called main stream media is no better.

  • TiredOfThePhonies

    The republicans also attended a ceremony in which some typr of oil was rubbed on the seats in the House of Rep.

  • dennycrane

    And the man that is “christ” owns this goebbels fish wrap.

  • davidrvelasquez

    Don't look at the moonies and maybe they'll just fade away.

    Oh well, it was worth a try.

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    What's a comic book without illustrations?

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