News Quiz
Who said what?
“This act of violence shocks the conscience of the world.”
A) Eric Holder, on the Boston Marathon bombing.
B) Reverend Al Sharpton, on the slaying of another unarmed black man by American police.
C) Prime Minister David Cameron, on the downing of Malaysian Air #17.
D) None of the above.
“They are killing innocent, unarmed civilians in cowardly acts of violence. They abduct women and children and subject them to torture and rape and slavery.”
A) Mexico’s President Nieto, on his country’s lawless drug cartels.
B) North Korean defectors, on the desperation in Pyongyang.
C) Benjamin Netanyahu, on Hamas war tactics.
D) None of the above.
“Their victims are overwhelmingly Muslim, and no faith teaches people to massacre innocents. No just God would stand for what they did yesterday and for what they do every single day.”
A) Palestine’s Mahmoud Abbas, on the extrajudicial slaying of a Hamas leader’s wife and children by Israeli soldiers.
B) Pakistani Prime Minister Sharif, on the extrajudicial slaying of a Hamas leader’s wife and children by Israeli soldiers.
C) Egyptian President Sisi, on the extrajudicial slaying of a Hamas leader’s wife and children by Israeli soldiers.
D) None of the above.
The correct answer to all three quotes is “D.” Each is from Barack Obama, on the beheading of an American journalist.