Posted on 05/18/2005 8:53:44 AM PDT by ParsifalCA
Last week riots broke out in Afghanistan and Pakistan over an unfounded rumor, irresponsibly published by Newsweek magazine, that an American interrogator had flushed a Koran down the toilet. In response, the administration has been anxiously assuring the Muslim world that we indeed respect their religion and begging them to please like us.
Meanwhile, in last Friday's sermon televised on Palestinian Authority television the paid employee of the PA described the Jews as an AIDS-like virus responsible for all the world's evils, blamed their economic sabotage of Germany for the Holocaust, and predicted the future triumph of Islam over America, a time when "everything will be relieved of the Jews, even the stones and trees." Yes, this is the same Palestinian Authority whose elected leader, himself a published Holocaust denier, will soon visit the President of the United States and whose organization will receive millions of taxpayer dollars.
Anyone familiar with the history of Islam and its 14-centuries-long violent jihad against the West and the Jews will not be surprised or shocked by these events. They express perfectly the arrogant intolerance of a religion convinced it has been chosen by God to rule the world, and so is justified in using every means, whether violence or propaganda, to fulfill that divine mandate. As the final and complete revelation of the divine, Islam feels no need to respect or tolerate other religions or secular notions like "human rights," for they are all the detritus of infidel history to be swept away in the final triumph of the one true religion.
Hence, while we in the West anxiously monitor our words and deeds for even the slightest offense against Islamic sensibilities, we receive in exchange no such consideration; indeed, our eager protestations of respect merely excite more contempt...
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Or.. is it the Washington Post who owns NewsWeak?
Thank G-d this is in Breaking News.
The President sets the tone. Unfortunately, he has said that we are to respect the ROP. If a prisoner gets so much as a dirty look from the US soldier guarding him, there may be hell to pay.
looking at the topics it was filed under:
Activism/Chapters; Australia/New Zealand; Breaking News;There's few things it's not filed under.
Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial;
Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; Miscellaneous;
News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: California;
US: New York; US: Texas; US: Virginia; United Kingdom;
War on Terror;
Detest Wells, but the Eloi-comparison is right on.
The Washington Post. Hardly surprising.
He was an atheist, a socialist, a Malthusian, and, among other things, a proponent of euthanasia for "lesser" beings.
Oh ok. I thought you meant his fiction.
No--some of the fiction's pretty good--before he got preachy.
After becoming famous for those early SF novels he felt he had to write something more 'respectable'. So he wrote a bunch of English society novels that no one reads.
The story is that "16 are dead in riots" caused by the NewsWeak story. How do we know this? Because the MSM said so. How do they know? Because the Pakistanis or somebody equally reliable said so.
I figure one of two things is operative here: either the Muslims are lying (our MSMs aren't the only lying news media, you know) or, if true, it wasn't a spontaneous reaction to the "desecration" of the Koran.
Most Muslims will, when the Imam or Mullah or Ayatollah or whoever says "JUMP!" all answer, "How high?" Try this: "The infidels insulted Islam! Now, I want all of you to riot on the count of three, and anyone who doesn't will be killed! One, two..."
This whole "reaction" by the Muslims has a contrived quality to it.
Doncha hate it when they do that?
You must really like the Onerepublic blog. You don't seem to do much else besides share this stuff with us.
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