Benham Twins: We're Just Like ISIS Victims

[Webster]

...you know, its' been a long-held ploy on the Right to compare themselves to whatever persecuted group comes to mind, but these two below - for whatever reason - believe that they're just like victims of the terrorist group ISIS...

We have gotten used to Religious Right activists compare themselves to Jews living under Nazi Germany, but David and Jason Benham took a new approach at the Values Voter Summit last night and compared themselves to victims of the terrorist group ISIS.

The Benham twins, of course, were referring to how they lost their planned HGTV reality show after we reported on their anti-gay, anti-choice and anti-Muslim political activism.

In their speech to the summit, the Benham twins argued that just as ISIS beheads their victim with a sword, progressive groups like Right Wing Watch “silence” conservatives by quoting them verbatim.

Jason Benham kicked it off by likening himself and his brother to Jesus Christ — a theme throughout their speech — and later David said that Christians in America are facing persecution just like Christians in the Mideast who are coming under attack from violent groups such as ISIS.

“There is a radical agenda that has come in our nation,” David explained, “the weapon of choice for the agenda in the Middle East is a sword, but the weapon of choice for the agenda in America is silence. They demand silence.”(Right Wing Watch)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UzympUz1gUM

...is it just me or are these guys just stone hypocrites? Then again, it wouldn't surprise me if we someday see them on a list such as this one...

 

[Bluezone777]

I assume they have a pulse and their head is still attached to the rest of their body so I say they are hardly suffering like a victim of ISIS. I get the use of exaggeration as a manner of getting a point across but it needs to be remotely believable to be of any use. This exaggeration is far beyond anything resembling meaningful as it just makes a mockery out of the real suffering going on in that part of the world.

 

[Webster]

I assume they have a pulse and their head is still attached to the rest of their body so I say they are hardly suffering like a victim of ISIS. I get the use of exaggeration as a manner of getting a point across but it needs to be remotely believable to be of any use. This exaggeration is far beyond anything resembling meaningful as it just makes a mockery out of the real suffering going on in that part of the world.

That's essentially their spiel, Bluezone: in their fevered minds, its' okay to bash women, its' okay to bash gay people, its' okay to bash Muslims, etc.,etc.,etc.,...but God forbid if someone calls them out on it.