"South Pacific" Lesson about Muslims

Special to FreeRepubloic ^ | 6 August 2005 | John Armor (Congressman Billybob)

[Congressman Billybob]

You’d probably think there’s no connection between the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, “South Pacific” in 1949 and the murdering Muslims of the 21st century. If you thought that, you’d be wrong. That musical explains these events.

The most obscure song from that musical is, “You’ve Got to be Carefully Taught.” It’s low popularity is probably due to its dark subject, the injection of prejudice into the minds of children.

Here are two of its verses, which make the point:

You've got to be taught to hate and fear
You've got to be taught from year to year
It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught before it's too late
Before you are six or seven or eight
To hate all the people your relatives hate
You've got to be carefully taught

I’ve read translations of lessons taught in Islamic schools in Pakistan, England, Indonesia, North Korea, the Palestinian Authority, and in many of the United Nations refugee camps around the world. Children are taught that Jews especially, but infidels in general, are subhuman at worst, expendable lesser humans at most. They are taught it is their “moral” duty to dominate such other people, and to kill them as necessary.

Is this the first time in human history that adults deliberately chose to pour intellectual poison into young minds, year after year, and generation after generation? The Hitler Youth and the Nazi schools taught such hatred, but they survived only one generation. The Young Communist League and the Soviet schools lasted for three generations. Miraculously, when the Soviet Union fell, most citizens somehow had learned the opposite of the prejudices they’d been taught.

For those who want to see pictures of this process, evidence of the success of teaching young children to become suicidal murderers, just Google images for “children” and “bombers.” You will see your choice of dozens of demonstration where adults and parents have dressed children in make-believe suicide belts. The children are showing off their “toys” with pleasure. This is visual evidence of what is going on in the schools. You can also find translated quotations from the schools and the mosques, if you work at it.

So, when you read superficial comments from so-called experts about the “root causes” of the suicide bombers, you will know that most of what you read is false. The 3,000 murders in the US on 9/11 were not caused by the invasion of Iraq, because we didn’t invade Iraq until after that date. But neither were the bombings in England this month caused by the invasion of Iraq.

The terrorists have a steady pool of young men, and some women, who’ve been taught all their lives that murdering other human beings and committing suicide are morally good acts. They have been carefully taught.

An Associated Press article filed from England on 16 July, demonstrates this fact. "You could see how it could turn someone to raw hate," said Ali, recalling his brush last year with the hard-edged marketing of extremism at an Islamic bookstore operated by his brother-in-law. "It even started working on me. Then I said to myself, `Get out. This stuff is poison.'"

The problem is growing. When Pakistan became independent in 1947 it had only 137 madrassahs. Government sources put today's figure at 13,000, with enrolment close to 1.7 million.

Those vicious lessons have been reinforced in these young people by supposed moral leaders in their sermons, preaching the same doctrine to adults. There is a vast gulf between what representatives of some Islamic nations say in English to the US diplomats and to us on TV, and what they say to themselves in their institutions that breed bigotry and murder.

This is the major reasons the low-grade World War IV, which we’re now in, will not tail off and end for up to a generation. Until all of these nations are persuaded by common sense, or force, to shut down their factories for producing murderers, the source of new murderers will remain. And it will also remain in some respects for up to thirty years after the factories close because those minds are already poisoned.

Leadership in those nations can play a decisive, positive role, like the Emperor of Japan did after World War II. He told his people they had a moral duty to cease fighting and to acquiesce to the changes under General MacArthur. But leadership like that is too much to ask. Merely shutting down the murder factories will, in time, be enough.

About the Author: John Armor is a First Amendment attorney and author who lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. John_Armor@aya.yale.edu

[Tokra]

That line was actually used on the Broadway stage? Sounds more like either urban legend or wishing thinking before the show opened.

The line was never used - but was originally written that way.

There was a show on PBS a couple of years ago about the making of West Side Story (both the Broadway show and the movie). They interviewed Stephen Sondheim (who wrote the lyrics) He said he wrote the original lyric as "f**k you", but the financial backers made him change it to "Krup you". The show was interesting because it said the irony was that the 3 main originators - Sondheim, Bernstein & Jerome Robbins were all gay and wrote love songs about a hetrosexual love affair.

I'm sure the show will be rerun - watch for it.