Everyone Shush, Rupert Murdoch Has Some Very Important Thoughts About “Moslems”

Good news, guys! You no longer have to struggle through measured and nuanced commentary and critique of the whole Charlie Hebdo tragedy, Rupert Murdoch has summed it up perfectly for you in the space of 140 characters. Put simply: we should just blame all of the “Moslems”. Complementing his ye oldie times spelling of the word ‘Muslim’ with some embarrassingly outdated and downright dangerous thoughts about race, he posted the following on his constantly entertaining if not completely distressing Twitter account.

Maybe most Moslems peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be held responsible.

— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) January 10, 2015

Because he’d come that far, he then went onto elaborate on the “jihadist cancer” before stopping one step shy of telling us there were people in burqas hiding under our beds.

Big jihadist danger looming everywhere from Philippines to Africa to Europe to US. Political correctness makes for denial and hypocrisy.

— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) January 10, 2015

As terror warnings around the world have indeed been raised since the attack in Paris many on Twitter took his pleas extremely seriously. And, in an effort to expunge political correctness once and for all, they then helpfully adopted his own logic to exterminate other threats that face our society.

Maybe all Australians lovely but until we recognise and destroy the growing pus sore that is @rupertmurdoch we must be held accountable.

— Adam Hills (@adamhillscomedy) January 10, 2015

Maybe not all white men are racist pricks but until they destroy @rupertmurdoch they must be held responsible pic.twitter.com/IVrl9dCcdX

— Pukkah Punjabi (@PukkahPunjabi) January 10, 2015

I am calling on all members of the idiot community to condemn Rupert Murdoch. Otherwise I will hold all idiots responsible for him.

— History Scientist (@historyscientis) January 10, 2015

@hrtbps I'd like to offer an apology on behalf of us all. Murdoch's comments don't represent the views of mainstream Rupert community

— Rupert Franklin (@rupert_franklin) January 10, 2015

Murdoch is yet to comment further on any of these other awful cancers we now face nor offer a scrambling half-apology or change of subject like he gave that time he said Egypt was actually full of white people. From the general “Moslem” reaction over the past few days, it seems like he might have quite a task ahead of him.

As a random Muslim I'll apologise for this Paris incident if random white ppl will apologise for imperialism, drone attacks and Iggy Azalea.

— Aamer Rahman (@aamer_rahman) January 8, 2015

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TL;DR: old white man shares ill-advised thoughts with the world; discomfort ensues.

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Feature image: Monika Flueckiger via Wikicommons.