Posted on 07/31/2006 5:48:07 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
First, take a look at mob scenes across the Muslim world this weekend, ostensibly--ostensibly--in response to the civilian deaths in Qana, Lebanon (via Yahoo! News). Angry Muslims from Beirut to Gaza to Lahore are setting fire to American and Israeli flags. Burning effigies of Western leaders. Raising their voices in death chants:
(Tigerhawk has more shots.)
It all seems so...so familiar, doesn't it? Didn't we go through this same routine, the same scripted jihad theatrics, barely sixth months ago over the Mohammed cartoons? From February:
The truth about Muslim outrage over Qana is that it's not really about the tragic deaths at Qana--just like the cartoon jihad was not really about the cartoons.
Remember: Muslim outrage over the Danish cartoons was stoked and manufactured amid attempts to bully Denmark over the International Atomic Energy Agency's decision to report Iran to the UN Security Council for continuing with its nuclear research program. Iran blamed Israel for the cartoons:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is at odds with much of the international community about Iran's disputed nuclear program, launched an anti-Israeli campaign last fall when he said the Holocaust was a "myth" and that Israel should be "wiped off the map."In a speech marking the 27th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution on Saturday, Ahmadinejad linked his public rage with Israel and the cartoons satirizing Islam's most revered figure.
"Now in the West insulting the prophet is allowed, but questioning the Holocaust is considered a crime," he said. "We ask, 'Why do you insult the prophet?' The response is that it is a matter of freedom, while in fact they (who insult the founder of Islam) are hostages of the Zionists. And the people of the U.S. and Europe should pay a heavy price for becoming hostages to Zionists."
Now, the Qana jihad, gleefully stoked by Iran, is unfolding amid mounting U.N. Security Council pressure on Tehran and a looming resolution calling for the country to suspend its nuclear program.
US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton, bless him, isn't falling for the ploy:
U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Bolton said Hezbollah's actions were the ``fundamental cause'' of the conflict, and accused the group of hiding behind civilians.``It says something about the morality and respect for human life of Hezbollah that they would use innocent civilians as shields; that's just something that for civilized people is not acceptable,'' Bolton said.
What better way to distract from Hezbollah's atrocities and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's annihilation plans than to start screaming about Israel's "war crimes" and Western crimes against humanity. John Hinderaker at Power Line points to prefab jihadi banners demonizing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. EU Referendum looks at morbid photo posing. Bob Owens wonders where all the men were.
But never mind all that, right? The Muslim world is united again. And some short-sighted Westerners are allowing themselves to be duped.
Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch has is right:
Western analysts continue to miss the fact that if it weren't Qana, it would be something else, and that Qana is just the latest in a long, long line of similar incidents used by jihadists to stir up a sense of grievance among Muslims and thereby increase support for the jihad du jour.
Exactly.
They're either screaming bloody murder or whining about some insult.
The bldg fell down 8 HOURS after it was hit??? And the roof was intact??? And they didn't even try to rescue the children for 8 hours?? hmmmmmmm
That's enough to warm the cockle's of a liberals heart...if they had hearts.
All roads lead to Iran here. Everyone else in the ME knows this, why don't we.
Getting bored with this crap.
Michelle is, once again, spot-on.
Muslims have little regard for women and children. When they start crying about losing women and children, it's a show.
In America, most see it for what it is.
In the Middle East, it's part of their strategy to scare the world ("see, we don't care about human life and we're mad as hell. Do what we say or you're next!").
The Europeans are so frightened of their unassimilated Muslim populations they go along to prevent becoming targets at home. Mix in a little antisemitism and America-envy for good measure and you begin to understand why they say and do the things they do.
Bottom line is, will America and a handful of other nations have the resolve to stand up to the withering media attacks and political opposition at home to do what needs to be done before it's too late.
Such cliches. They do the same old crap everyday. They have too much time on their hands and NO imagination.
Shows them to be the same great destroyers. What have they ever made better in this world?
Not one survivor??
Maybe they were already dead when they went in?
Most people do not wait for the cameras to show up to start a 'rescue'.
More on the propaganda jihad and this incident can be found here (WARNING graphic, images may be disturbing to some).
Speaking of the boring and ubiquitous burnings of American and Israeli flags -- I truly hope that, someday, some of our more aggressive demonstrators will get out where the cameras are and burn Iranian flags and, more especially, Saudi flags (the ones with the koranic script on them), then watch the slobber fly.
Malkin goes for a scattershot attack but still, she does do a good job of dehumanising the enemy, which is a necessary part of preparing the public for the coming war.
;)
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