Posted on 02/14/2006 3:24:30 PM PST by SJackson
As a Ph.D. Islamologist and Arabist I really hate to say this, but I'll say it anyway: 9/11 had nothing to do with Islam. The war on terror is as phony as the latest Osama bin Laden tape.
It's a tough thing to admit because I know on which side my bread is buttered and dropping Islam from the 9/11 equation is dropping my slice of bread butter-side-down. The myth that 9/11 had something to do with Muslims has poured millions, if not billions, into Arabic and Islamic studies. I finished my Ph.D. last year, so all I have to do is keep my eyes in my pocket and my nose on the ground, parrot the party line, and I'll be on the fast track to tenure track.
The trouble is, it's all based on a Big Lie. Take the recent "bin Laden" tape please! That voice was no more bin Laden than it was Rodney Dangerfield channeling my late Aunt Corinne from Peoria. I recently helped translate a previously unknown bin Laden tape, a real one from the early '90s, back when he was still alive. I know the guy's flowery religious rhetoric. The recent tape wasn't him.
The top American bin Laden expert agrees. Professor Bruce Lawrence, head of Duke University's religious studies department, has just published a book of translations of bin Laden's speeches. He says that the recent tape is a fake and that it is possible bin Laden is not even alive.
Fake bin Laden tapes, "verified" by the CIA, are nothing new. Every supposed bin Laden statement since 2001 has been blatantly bogus. The last we heard from the real bin Laden came in his post-9/11 statements to Pakistani journalists: "I stress that I have not carried out this act, which appears to have been carried out by individuals with their own motivation. ... I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. ... I had no knowledge of these attacks."
Then on Dec. 13, 2001, as George Bush was whining about the "outrageous conspiracy theories" that were spreading like wildfire, the first and shoddiest of the "bin Laden speaks from beyond the grave" tapes appeared. The video's sound and picture quality were horrible. It showed a big guy with a black beard, doing a passable imitation of bin Laden's voice, claiming foreknowledge, if not responsibility, for the 9/11 attacks, and chortling over their success. The trouble was, the big guy clearly was not bin Laden. He was at least 40 or 50 pounds heavier, and his facial features were obviously different.
The "Fatty bin Laden" tape was widely ridiculed, and I have yet to meet an informed observer who considers it authentic. (If you haven't figured this out yet, go back and look at the images from the tape and compare them to other images of bin Laden.) But the media let the fraud pass without asking the hard questions: Why was the U.S. government waving this blatantly fake "confession" video in our faces?
Perhaps due to the widespread hilarity evoked by "Fatty bin Laden," the next Osama from beyond the grave message had no images it was an audiotape delivered to al-Jazeera in fall 2002. The CIA verified it as authentic and then got a rotten egg in the face when the world's foremost voice identification experts in Switzerland reported that "the message was recorded by an impostor."
Every bin Laden message since then has been equally phony. They are released at moments when the Bush regime needs a boost and the American media go along with the fraud. Remember the bogus bin Laden tape that made headlines right before the 2004 presidential election? If you didn't figure out that it was a CIA-produced commercial for George Bush, I have some great bridges to sell you. Walter Cronkite, bless his heart, opined that Karl Rove was behind that tape. But the rest of the media just kept pretending that the emperor was clothed.
And the fraud continues. The most recent alleged bin Laden tape has been ridiculed by America's top bin Laden expert, yet the U.S. media keep right on holding a transparent fig leaf in front of the emperor! Professor Lawrence believes that this phony tape was designed to distract world opinion from the horrific massacre of Pakistani civilians by an errant CIA drone. But it may have another, more sinister purpose: to prepare public opinion for another false 9/11-style attack designed to trigger a U.S.-Israeli nuclear attack on Iran.
The real bin Laden, who insisted that he had nothing to do with 9/11, has been dead since late 2001 or early 2002. The fake messages have been fabricated by "al-CIA-duh" to support the Bush regime and its phony "war on terror." It is time for Americans to rise up in revolt against the fake terror masters who are looting U.S. taxpayers, torching our Constitution, destroying our economy, and threatening nuclear Armageddon.
Kevin Barrett holds a Ph.D. in Arabic, with a focus on Islamic studies, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a co-founder of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth: http://mujca.com. E-mail: kevin@mujca.com
So this might be the Minister Farakhan version of Islam, UFO and stuff.
That's probably because in picture E Bin Laden is smiling. In all the other photos he is not. Most people look different when smiling than not. Look at the other stills from that video. It is definitely Bin Laden. I have seen the videotape and it is definitely him. It contains very clear views of Bin Laden and is without a doubt Bin Laden.
Proving once again that even mental defectives can get PHDs
He isnt a troll by any means.
I'm glad to know that. I just wish he had answered me yesterday when I queried him politely as to why these constant postings from the Capital Times.
Hey Mikey,
I think you've had too many cups of espresso laced with angel dust.
SJackson didn't write the article...he just posted it. And I'm glad he did.
And the CIA was able to convince a bunch of Saudi Arabs to committ suicide by flying airplanes into buildings.
Yeah that's it, Rove's cranking out Osama tapes in the White House basement, but he forgot to plant the WMDs in Iraq.
"It contains very clear views of Bin Laden and is without a doubt Bin Laden."
I noticed that as well. It appears as though they took one odd looking frame out of all the footage and said, "See, not him!", while ignoring the rest of the tape.
SJackson didn't write the article...he just posted it. And I'm glad he did.
I didn't say he wrote it now did I? But in posting it without comment he seemed to be endorsing its content. I asked this person yesterday, politely, to explain why he felt the need to constantly post this swill. Maybe you enjoy lunatic rantings, but personally I think this crap takes up space on FR. If I wanted to watch F911 or listen to Cindy Sheehan I'd rent the movie or go to her website respectively. If you think reading leftist ravings are worthwhile, then maybe it is you that's using the angel dust.
Are you a Larouchie? You sure sound like one. C'mon, fess up, you are one of those airport beggars who thinks Queen Elizabeth was a drug dealer.
"Yeah that's it, Rove's cranking out Osama tapes in the White House basement, but he forgot to plant the WMDs in Iraq."
LOL! They go through ALL that trouble and somebody left the WMDs at home.
Yes, it is a long videotape of Bin Laden visiting with some Saudi sheik in Afghanistan not long after 9-11. It goes on for about 20 minutes if I remember right. It has many close up shots of Bin Laden as well as many from a few feet away. There is no denying it's him, and I don't think they'd risk putting out such a long videotape with such close up views if it wasn't.
Give me a break. Humanity is far more deeply broken than to think if we just make nice and circle dance together singing "Cum By Ya" that everyone will love one another and and that we will build a permanent society based on cooperation. It won't happen in my lifetime or anyone else's, pal.
BTW, I simply don't use barf alerts and such.
Just got his PHD last year and knows EEvveerrrythiunnng.
I don't remember yours, but if it was simply a why did you post this, I probably would have passed on it due to time constraints anyway.
BTW, I simply don't use barf alerts and such.
Thanks S, I'm glad to know a little more about you and how you operate. That will certainly help me and others to avoid any misunderstanding or misjudgments in the future. I understand some people like to post the lunacy pieces to keep us all apprised of what the other side is "thinking," but I guess I was accustomed to some sort of disclaimer attached. I appreciate your understanding.
So, you are claiming to be an Arabist? You have a PHD in African languages with a concentration on Arabic. So, my guess is you most likely speak a 5 arabic on a scale of 1 to 10. Furthermore, your claim to be an Arabist is phony. Learning a language does not make you an expert on the culture. You are confusing hating America with being an Arabist. I know for you left wing types those are one and the same, but in fact, they aren't.
Thank you for your post. -Freepers like you do help keep real trolls at bay. :^)
Sjackson posts articles that seem to reflect the arab, Jew hating community of the world so as to show us what is actually "news" to islamo trash, and the arab world in general.
Or so I believe. I'm sure that he will correct me if I am wrong.
There's no "partly" about it. Either you believe this piece or you don't. If it's NOT OBL, then it's a massive conspiracy between Muslims, Al Jazeera, the CIA, the White House, etc., as this piece suggests. How likely is that? NOT LIKELY.
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