Posted on 01/28/2005 11:17:08 AM PST by Beowulf9
THEY'RE PARANOID, WE'RE BLASE
By Merik Kaylan
According to the Middle Eastern Media Research Institute, the Egyptian nationalist weekly Al Usbu published a piece speculating that Indian-Israeli-American nuclear testing caused the tsunami. These countries had acted "together to test a way to liquidate humanity." A Friday sermon aired on Palestinian Authority TV dwelt on Thai corruption in the form of "tourist paradise" beaches where "Zionist and American investments" triggered divine wrath. An advisor to the Saudi minister of justice claimed on Saudi TV that the people who suffered did so for lying, sinning and being infidels. Another Saudi cleric felt the tsunami's timing was significant: "It happened at Christmas when fornicators from around the world come to commit fornication and sexual perversion. That's when this tragedy took place striking them all.
Dangerous libels should be treated as incitements to terror acts; we should, as the saying goes, find a "return address" for them. Mullah X or Shiekh Y should find himself having to defend his aspersions in a public forum.
Of all the diplomatic bungling in the wider Muslim world, the desultory approach to persuasion ranks as the most egregious. It took Washington almost a year from the onset of hostilities to launch a credible satellite-channel rival to Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya. Meanwhile, Iraqis and other Arabs were inundated with appeals to their religion, nation and tribe, to resist the infidels. Competent propaganda, gives the impression that one cares about what the local people think, and in its absence, the Arabs must have thought that America did not care about their welfare.
As veteran Cold Warriors from Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty will tell you, we won that war through cultural propaganda because we convinced subject populations that we, more than the Soviets, had their well-being in mind.
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LOL........I had a really weird dream last night too but it didn't make the news or any textbooks yet......
Only savages believe the ridiculous rumors that the muslim press generates. It is unfortunate that that's what we're up against here.
Just winning on the battlefield would be much simpler than having to contend with the unfathomable ignorance of the people as well.
O K ;-) WHEW what is that smell ? wacko brain cells....
Look, this is a culture that thinks heaven consists of a bunch of mass murderers boinking virgins. What do you expect?
... and 3000 Jews did not go to the beach that day, he added.
Correction, it's Bush's fault.
Is this really any different than the liberals in this country believing in Diebold voter fraud, Bush will burn black chuches and will bring back Jim Crowe Laws, GOP killed Minnisota Senator whatshisname,etc.
It's not just the Jews, it's not just the Crusaders, the Hindus are in on it too! Oh, woe is Islam.
Damn, they found out everything. Guess it's back to square one. LOL
I wouldn't expect anything less from PA TV.
One of these days then we will have to perfect this technology...
Probably not.
Assuming they are close to the truth (which they're not) it would be American-Israeli-Indian testing.
Earthquake: rumblerumblerumblerumblerumblerumblerumblerumblerumble
Bomb: Bangrumblerumblerumblerumble
What's this-Hollywood billing?
This reads like a tirade from Louis Farrakhan... imaginative, irresponsible, idiotic
They are in insane...pagan and insane...barbaric.
I can't wait till the C.O.C.K. comes online in 2007
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You couldn't descredit that!
Remember seeing one of the photos where people with umbrellas went to the beach to watch the tidal wave. Laughed real hard about the stupidity of the human race. Now this coming from the middle east keeps me laughing even harder.
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