David Warren: Madness in the Middle East and in the West

realclearpolitics.com ^ | February 23, 2006 | David Warren

[Tolik]

On the front of the Arabic index page of the Al-Qassam website, any reader yesterday would have found an animated cartoon. It consists of the Star of David -- the symbol of the Jewish faith -- being obliterated by a mushroom cloud.

Al-Qassam speaks for the “militant wing” of Hamas, the party that recently won the Palestinian election, by a landslide. The distinction between Hamas and its militant wing is meaningless. Western reporters habitually make this distinction, and stress that the “non-militant” branches of Hamas run orphanages and distribute welfare. This is like implying that President Bush is not responsible for the Pentagon, because the U.S. government also has a Department of Health and Human Services. It is a brainless distinction, that can only serve to confuse people.

Hamas, like the PLO before it, is reasonably adept at managing the “useful idiots” in the Western media. It does not take much. If you flip over from their Arabic to their English website, you will find much that is frightening, but couched in a mealy-mouth that is less than candid about the party’s chief purpose. According to its own charter, this is killing Jews. In their defence, I could say of many Western newsmen, that they cannot conceive of an organization so evil, that this would be its principal purpose. They should remember the Holocaust, and wake up.

Hamas is now the duly elected government of “Palestine”. Because it rejects the late Yasser Arafat’s nominal undertakings, in English only, to recognize Israel’s right to exist, and to condemn terrorist violence, Western governments feel obliged to cut the very generous funding with which the Palestinian Authority has been supported.

Enter the Organization of the Islamic Conference, based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The OIC’s members include all 56 of the world’s majority-Muslim states, plus quasi-state Palestine. No other organization of states exists for the purpose of advancing a religion. Most of these states are authoritarian regimes, or absolute monarchies; a few are counted as democracies, with qualifications necessary in every case. The OIC contains a fair selection of the world’s poorest and most desperate countries, but also, six of the world’s 15 largest arms importers (and none of the suppliers). It is rapidly becoming the respectable front for what Salman Rushdie called, "Paranoid Islam, which blames outsiders, ‘infidels’, for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity.”

Pakistan has now called an “emergency meeting” (almost all the OIC’s meetings are such), to deal with the issue of the Danish cartoons. And no sooner called, than many members have put the funding of Hamas on the agenda. Such oil-rich states as Saudi Arabia and Iran already direct money to Palestine, explicitly to encourage violence against Israelis (e.g. bounties to the families of suicide-bombers). And there being no credible opposition to the scheme, we cannot doubt the OIC will officially replace the U.S., the European Union, and Israel, as the financial backers of the Palestinian regime under Hamas. By doing which, they all explicitly condone terrorism.

Some dubious cartoons in a private Danish provincial newspaper -- versus psychopathic graphics on an official website, unambiguously projecting the extermination of the Jews. Or if you want better, listen again to President Ahmadinejad of Iran, member in good standing of the OIC, repeatedly promising to “wipe Israel off the map”, while his country races to produce nuclear missiles.

On the Danish cartoon front, here is what Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the Turk who is the OIC’s current secretary-general, is demanding: “The OIC member states expect from the European Union to identify Islamophobia as a dangerous phenomenon and to observe and combat it like in the cases of xenophobia and anti-Semitism, by creating suitable observance mechanisms and revising its legislation, in order to prevent the recurrence of the recent unfortunate incidents.” (He makes similar demands of the United Nations.)

In other words, Europe must monitor and censor its media, and introduce criminal punishments, to prevent any affront to Islam ever happening again.

What makes this poignant is that, Javier Solana, the EU’s bureaucrat-in-chief, who has already delivered several obsequious apologies, gratuitously on behalf of all Europe, has personally promised Prof. Ihsanoglu that action will be taken. According to one report, he is considering going to Jeddah to make an act of obeisance before the assembled Muslim foreign ministers. Similar, continuing, cringing apologies are coming from politicians in many Western countries -- and contrived gestures of “respect for Islam” from Western media.

This beggars the mind. The West is apologizing for what? And to whom?

Were we crazy to start, or has our bedwetting fear of Muslim fanatics deprived us of our judgement?

The more we apologize, the more we appease, the larger the demands will get. Yet we have not one prominent politician in the West, able to stand before the OIC and say, “How dare you!”

[Tolik]

David Warren:

...This beggars the mind. The West is apologizing for what? And to whom?

Were we crazy to start, or has our bedwetting fear of Muslim fanatics deprived us of our judgment?

The more we apologize, the more we appease, the larger the demands will get. Yet we have not one prominent politician in the West, able to stand before the OIC and say, “How dare you!”

Nailed It!
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[Dark Skies]

The medieval muslim world is colliding with the reality of modern life and, instead of facing facts, they demand that we suspend reality for them. And what is amazing is that some non-muslims are actually trying to do just that.

Earth to muslims (and their apologists)...it ain't gonna work.

We used to think that the west and islam were incompatible. Then we realized that modernity and islam were incompatible.

Now we see that reality and islam are incompatible.

[Egon]

I think of it like this:

If you tell your wife she looks fat in those pants, you're stupid and you should apologize.

If she gets mad, and beats you over the head with a sledge hammer because of your comment-- that's not your problem; it's hers. It's indicative of a pre-existing mental problem that just happened to be set off by your stupid comment.

You shouldn't be evaluated, poked, prodded, and studied to determine what caused your inexcusable comment; she should be committed to the nearest asylum for her inability to control her actions, and the disproportionate response.

It's this simple: we're not crazy-- they are. They're the ones with the problem, not us.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

Excellent observations, DS.

[jan in Colorado]

There are some that would say...if you said that to your wife, YOU are crazy (or have a death wish)! ;o)

[Dark Skies]

Thx.

I am beginning to wonder if the world needs to seek a psychiatric solution to the problem of islam.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

Well, they are psychopaths and sociopaths...

[jan in Colorado]

The more we apologize, the more we appease, the larger the demands will get. Yet we have not one prominent politician in the West, able to stand before the OIC and say, “How dare you!”

Where are the politicians who are looking out for the survival of the United States and the AMERICANS who live here?

THERE AREN'T ANY!

I think it is very clear that, we the people, have to look out for and protect ourselves!

Protect the second amendment at ALL costs. Make sure to be armed and know HOW to use your weapons.

The ENEMEDIA has already willingly given up their right to the freedom of speech. I NEVER thought I would see the day that they would voluntarily do that.

But then again, we shouldn't be surprised... after all... they are nothing but hypocrites and...

COWARDS!

How dare they appease this ideology whose sole objective is to destroy our Country!

[Egon]

There are some that would say...if you said that to your wife, YOU are crazy (or have a death wish)! ;o)

Yeah, probably an unfortunate example.

[George Smiley]

ENEMEDIA

I couldn't decide whether you were combining "enemy" and "media" or "enema" and "media".

[jan in Colorado]

ENEMEDIA

I couldn't decide whether you were combining "enemy" and "media" or "enema" and "media".

Actually...both!

Several months ago on a thread about the MSM, a few of us FReepers decided we needed a new name to replace MSM since there is NOTHING "mainstream" about the media...
this is what we came up with...

Enemy + media = Enemedia
or ... if you prefer ...

Enema + media = Enemedia

or ... if they continue their death spiral ..

End + old media = Endomedia

RandallFlagg came up with ENEMEDIA, and every day the media makes it evident that ENEMEDIA is the perfect name to describe them.

Their willingness to self-censor on these cartoons, yet never once hesitating to print anything that will hurt this Country, exposes where their true allegiance lies.
They are enemies from within...

Why are they afraid to print this?!

[Tolik]

Nothing can't compare to ENEMEDIA, great find!

My own preference was Left Stream Media, and I also liked Bill Bennet's "Alien Media Nation".

[Tolik]

nothing can't = nothing can

oooops

[Lady Jag]

No. Their madness has made us furious. Period.

We're angry because we aren't doing what we want to do. We are angry because what we want to do is right. We are mad because we have to put an end to their misery. It's us or them and we are angry, not mad.

[Cornpone]

Amen! Thanks Jan.

[Fred Nerks]

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[USF]

The more we apologize, the more we appease, the larger the demands will get. Yet we have not one prominent politician in the West, able to stand before the OIC and say, “How dare you!”

Exactly.... they just learn that threats, intimidation and violence work and can help them achieve their goals. Make no mistake... the ultimate goal is islams dominance over all. Each step they take is another small battle towards this ultimate goal, which is why the can never be appeased, or reasoned with.

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THE AGENDA OF ISLAM - A WAR BETWEEN CIVILIZATIONS

The OIC is the largest voting block in the UN and is the political arm of the global jihad, and its function is to serve as cover for their jihadis and protect them:

Terrorism's Silent Partner at the United Nations

Terrorism As a Right

With the Organization of the Islamic Conference defending any act committed on behalf of "national liberation," the United Nations cannot even issue an unequivocal condemnation of terrorism, let alone join the struggle to eliminate it...

The reason for this failure is that the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), which comprises fifty-six of the UN's 191 members, defends terrorism as a right...

Part of their own declared agenda includes:

1. Strengthen:
a) Islamic solidarity among Member States;
b) Cooperation in the political, economic, social, cultural and scientific fields:
c) The struggle of all Muslim people to safeguard their dignity, independence and national rights.

2. Coordinate action to:
a) Safeguard the Holy Places;
b) Support the struggle of the Palestinian people and assist them in recovering their rights and liberating their occupied territories.

No prizes for guessing what that last one means.

What we have here, is their own official to further their jihad by political and financial means, while undermining the kuffar at their own UN by voting as a block. They ignore the UN Declaration of Human rights whenever they see fit, and came up with their own rules, in effect conceding that islam is not compatible with human rights no matter how much lip service they pay to agreements.

...It is clear that Islamic militants are quite aware of the incompatibility of Islam and The 1948 Declaration of Human Rights. For these militants met in Paris in 1981 to draw up an Islamic Declaration of Human Rights which left out all freedoms that contradicted Islamic law...

In 1990 the IDHR became the "Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam," and was backed by the OIC itself. Essentially, the OIC picks up the ball from the terrorists and all those "misunderstanders of Islam" trying an attempt at plausible deniability, but not doing a good job of it.

Their aim of "coordinating action" to "safeguard the Holy Places" is in effect a declaration of acting as the saud/wahhabis international political arm to keep the hijaz under wahhabi control to legitimize their vile message as the custodians of the holy sites.

The only reason they want to unity in the islamic ummah is so they can build the strength to undermine and defeat us "filthy kuffar" once and for all.

Or as they say in the islamic world, "First the Saturday people and then the Sunday people."

[USF]