{"id":369,"date":"2015-03-27T15:46:11","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T20:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=369"},"modified":"2015-03-27T15:46:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T20:46:11","slug":"conspiracy-theories-are-not-a-western-phenomenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/03\/27\/conspiracy-theories-are-not-a-western-phenomenon\/","title":{"rendered":"Conspiracy Theories are not a Western Phenomenon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nour Youssef<\/span><\/span> covers an incoherent scene<\/a> centering around ISIS.\u00a0 Here are two examples, one centering on a sort of faux denial, the other injecting personality (and presumably a desire for notoriety) into the mix:<\/p>\n

\n

Hoping to stand out, the Lebanese Tony\u00a0Khalifa\u00a0<\/a>decided to fake a beheading on air just to prove that it can be done. Personally, Khalifa believes that ISIS brutally kills people all the time, but he finds the most recent videos, especially James Foley and other Westerners\u2019, to have been tampered with. Strengthening his doubts were the interviews with the families of the victims, who appeared too calm, \u201clike their children were still alive.\u201d<\/p>\n

El-Mehwar TV, on the other hand, got itself a\u00a0hacker\u00a0<\/a>with a soul patch, wearing a jacket over bare skin. He claimed to have hacked a jihadi forum (which they pretended was ISIS\u2019s official website) and server, and to have watched the unedited version of the 21 beheadings, where the victims were screaming despite their mouths being mostly\u00a0closed\u00a0<\/a>and that there was an un-ISIS-like woman on a crane and an American-looking film crew. \u201cI can tell the nationality (of a person) from their appearance\u201d he explained.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not really too different from the conspiracy theories we see in the West, from Lunar Landing denial to the personalities often seen in the UFO \/ Roswell conspiracies.\u00a0 People will see what aligns best with their ideologies, their psychological needs, and the occasional psychosis, especially when the incident is difficult to personally research and\/or understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nour Youssef covers an incoherent scene centering around ISIS.\u00a0 Here are two examples, one centering on a sort of faux denial, the other injecting personality (and presumably a desire for notoriety) into the mix: Hoping to stand out, the Lebanese Tony\u00a0Khalifa\u00a0decided to fake a beheading on air just to prove \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}