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Posted on 12/02/2008 5:21:48 AM PST by SJackson
| Mumbai Massacre: Everyone’s Fault? |
The Islamic terrorists keep telling us that their barbaric massacres and homicide bombings are being done in the name of Islam. Muslim organizations keep insisting that Islam is a religion of peace. Even as civilian blood cries out for justice, or for security, the intelligentsia warn us that Muslims and Islam are not the problem, that American foreign policy and Zionism are the real problem. The Western mainstream media refuse to take the barbarians at their word lest they be accused of “racism” or “Islamophobia.” For example, in a recent issue of the New York Times‘ front page coverage of the Mumbai massacre, the reporters do not describe the terrorists as “Islamic terrorists.” Instead, they refer to them as “Pakistani-based militants,” “militants,” “gunmen, (five or six times)” “attackers,” and “suspects.” They quote President Bush who referred to them as “killers.” They quote the head of India’s National Security Guards who called them “terrorists.” Once or twice they mention India’s “vulnerability to terrorism” but they do not join Islam, Islamism, or fundamentalist Islam to terrorism. This mis-use of language, even for an ostensibly noble purpose, will only further confuse us and slow down a collective response to the Islamic terrorist attacks against civilians. Martha Nussbaum, in the Los Angeles Times, writes that Hindus also massacre Muslims and refers to the awful carnage of Muslims in Gujarat. Dorothy Rabinowitz, in the Wall Street Journal, notes that, in a television interview, Deepak Chopra (!) quickly blamed United States foreign policy, not Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism, for the Mumbai massacre; when challenged, he genially conceded that the massacre was really “everyone’s” fault. Everyone’s fault; Muslim fundamentalist terrorists excluded. According to today’s Wall Street Journal, the ten well-prepared terrorists, when asked by several of their captives why they were doing this, answered: “Remember Babri Masjid?” (a sixteenth century mosque built by India’s first Mughal Muslim emperor and destroyed by Hindu radicals in 1992.) And “Remember Godhra?” (a town in the Indian state of Gujarat where religious rioting evolved into an anti-Muslim pogram in 2002. Alright. If this is strictly a Hindu-Muslim fight–then why execute the Jews? Why ask for American and British citizens? And why send young men who are so naive that they actually expect to get out alive and had the sea route pre-mapped for their return voyage? I appreciate the desire to de-escalate what is already a fierce religious war between India and Pakistan and Bangladesh, between Hindus and Muslims. It is true: The majority of India’s Muslim citizens are not terrorists and should not be treated as such; most of Pakistan’s Muslim citizens are not terrorists either. I am sure that many are quite charming, soft-spoken, and personally peaceful. No doubt, they, too, are intimidated by or even held hostage, economically, socially, and psychologically by Islamic terrorist militant attackers and killers who are also gunmen in Pakistan. The problem: If the good Muslims do not stand up to Islamic fundamentalist terrorism, they further endanger not only themselves but the rest of us too. Standing up to it is risky and might include….leaving Islam until it becomes more peaceful, or until all the leading mullahs issue fatwas against Islamic militant attackers who terrify their neighborhood and the rest of the planet. If these savage acts are against historical Islam and against the Qu’ran, then why don’t the mullahs condemn it–and in the name of Islam? Let them demand: No more attacks against Jews and other infidels, no more attacks against Muslims of another sect. If the mullahs of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan do not do so, we had better draw the necessary conclusions and act to defend ourselves and to eradicate the Islamic terrorist much more effectively. NEWSFLASH! The great counter-terrorism expert, Steve Emerson, also published a blog today (”They are Winning,”) at The Daily Beast which is quite on the same wave-length. I urge you to read it.
God! I hope that the New Security Team considers what we are saying. Our lives depend upon that.
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Mecca delenda est.
” had the sea route pre-mapped for their return voyage?”
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First I’ve read that too. I thought their orders were to kill until they’re killed.
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Three reasons, They hate Americans, Brits and Jews as much as they hate Hindus. Second, they want to drive an economic wedge between Israel, America and Britain with India. Finally, they want to elicit just the sort of commentary as that made by Deepak Chopra. Watch for Chopra's reasoning to become "conventional wisdom" in academia, the MSM and Democrat politics.
"Even as civilian blood cries out for justice, or for security, the intelligentsia warn us that Muslims and Islam are not the problem, that American foreign policy and Zionism are the real problem.Martha Nussbaum, in the Los Angeles Times, writes that Hindus also massacre Muslims and refers to the awful carnage of Muslims in Gujarat.
Dorothy Rabinowitz, in the Wall Street Journal, notes that, in a television interview, Deepak Chopra (!) quickly blamed United States foreign policy, not Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism, for the Mumbai massacre; when challenged, he genially conceded that the massacre was really “everyone’s” fault.
Everyone’s fault; Muslim fundamentalist terrorists excluded.
According to today’s Wall Street Journal, the ten well-prepared terrorists, when asked by several of their captives why they were doing this, answered: “Remember Babri Masjid?” (a sixteenth century mosque built by India’s first Mughal Muslim emperor and destroyed by Hindu radicals in 1992.) And “Remember Godhra?” (a town in the Indian state of Gujarat where religious rioting evolved into an anti-Muslim pogram in 2002.
Alright. If this is strictly a Hindu-Muslim fight–then why execute the Jews? Why ask for American and British citizens?
It is the Hind-Jews!
It already has become that...
"The majority of Congress leaders reverted to the total pacifism of Ghandi, who wrote in his newspaper on May 10: 'The presence of the British in India is an invitation to Japan to invade India. Their withdrawal would remove the bait.'"- Winston S. Churchill. The Second World War, The Hinge of Fate, The Riverside Press Cambridge, c. Hougton Mifflin Company, Boston. 1950.
History repeats itself. We will have "peace in our time."
re: The majority of India’s Muslim citizens are not terrorists and should not be treated as such
It’s kinda like treating cancer. Sure, all the cells in the body aren’t cancer cells but you have to do to those that are whatever it takes to kill them off or you lose the whole body. Of course, you look for measures that are deadly to the bad cells but do a little harm to the good cells as possible, but you seldom find a way to kill just the bad guys, the good ones usually suffer too.
Exactly the same way with terrorists. They have to be dealt with effectively and there’s no way to do that without collateral damage.
Perhaps they just wanted a vaguely Indian name combined with Oprah glitz. After all under an Obama Nation we have to pass certain cultural tests. Being loved by the Oprah crowd must fulfill the gravitas requirement.
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