Posted on 09/13/2001 7:03:07 PM PDT by Starmaker
Last May, my family and I attended an Israel Independence Day street festival in the Boston suburb of Brookline, Mass. I discreetly placed myself in the midst of a substantial and vociferous crowd of anti-Israel protesters stationed across the street. The profile of the crowd was a mix of Arab students and the same old left-wing activists I´ve observed over the years in Boston. It´s very likely that the hijackers who took off from Boston´s Logan Airport and crashed their passenger planes into the World Trade Center Towers were there. The conversations, from all quarters, were the usual screed of anti-Israel, anti-American pseudo-Marxist drivel. The atmosphere was anything but religious and, I would contend, quite reflective of a left-wing radical "Islamic" mindset.
I am convinced that the international program of terror, responsible for the irrational planned mass murders in this country and in the world, is, rather than Islamic, more communist in nature. It is a major mistake to point the finger of blame on peoples and nations who profess the Islamic faith. Islam essentially advocates peace and Islamic nations have, historically, been tolerant, albeit condescendingly, toward Christians, Jews, and other minorities living in their lands. What´s happening today, with suicide bombers, is unprecedented in Islamic history because it´s not been a part of Islamic history.
While arguments can be made against Islam, I believe that this is the wrong road to choose. The problem lies with segments of the Marxist Arab leadership who have chosen to radicalize their own people, particularly the young, by turning Islam into a vehicle of propaganda and brainwashing. An analogous movement in the US is the so-called Islamic "Nation of Islam" which also derives its origins from communist activists.
Like the Nation of Islam, groups like the PLO, Hamas, Hizbollah, Habbash´s PFLP, and others, advocate a hybrid, politicized religion that they call Islam. It is a political religion that has been stripped of traditional notions of morality. These have been replaced by radical left-wing politics.
Communists are notorious masters at worming their way into societies by identifying an Achilles heel. For example, in the US, that weakness was identified as early as the time of the Bolsheviks as racism, hence, a dialectic was set up to divide our society by fanning the flames of race conflict. In Britain, the communists observed a tendency toward homosexuality amongst the ruling classes; hence, the homosexual spy rings, which included people, like Philby, Burgess, and Maclean. In the Arab world the door toward communist subversion would be the infiltration of Islam, which they would alter to be used as a vehicle for terror against the capitalist west.
The Bath Socialist movement seized power in Syria, Libya, and Iraq soon after their independence in the 1960´s. Saddam Hussein, like the Egyptian demagogue Abdul Gamel Nasser before him, is a hero of the international left and heads an entirely communistic regime. Arafat was trained in Moscow in 1959 where his sponsors in the Kremlin set him up in an organization called Al Fatah with an open checkbook and carte blanche regarding propaganda support from the left-wing international press. Al Fatah would be the founding group of the PLO, which is an umbrella of Marxist and left-wing militias.
While Hamas, Hizbollah, and other so-called Islamic groups pose as Islamic, an examination of their rhetoric and personnel reveal them as anything but religious. Columnist Daniel Pipes recently wrote an expose on this fact. They are posing as religious to shift attention from their true left-wing nature and sponsorship while, at the same time; they are besmirching the Islamic faith and religion in general. In Israel, they are entirely controlled by Arafat who turns on and off the terrorist spigot when it fits the dialectical strategy. The left media cooks up a conflict between the so-called Islamic groups and the so-called moderate PA. This is one of the many big lies promulgated by international left-wing media stooges. The revolting spectacle of the UN conference on racism was a classic example of the international left on display.
If we turn our anger toward Islam and Muslims, we are playing right into the hands of the radical terrorists who seek to trigger a religious war. These same communist thugs are, to varying degrees, holding the Islamic world hostage as well with their threats and murder tactics. Lets ask all freedom loving peoples of the world, including those living under the left-wing jackboot in the Islamic world, to join us in exorcising this malignant cancer.
I know many of you will think I've gone off the deep end, but I believe that we will be unsuccessful at rooting out terrorism. We will have small successes; but the terrorists will, too, perhaps next time using nuclear-type attacks or biological/chemical weapons. The war will escalate to include more nations, with North Korea, China, and, perhaps, Russia, taking sides against the United States and Israel, with its handful of supporters. We may even be emasculated to where we are left totally ineffective. Then will come the "peacemaker" (also known as the Anti-Christ). I believe it will come to pass in the next few years.
It's my understanding that at Imam (sp?) in Egypt and elsewhere did declare Fatwa on these actions.
The pseudo-marxist ideologies do not want to live in a medieval world. They do not reject all modernism. They are focused primarily on -Arab- nationalism, including resistence to Israel and to western influence in -the Middle East-. These are different from the goals of the Islamic fundamentalists, which -include- all of that but are also -wider-. Especially in central Asia, the Islamicists are at least as hostile to pseudo-marxism as to the west. In Algeria, the pseudo-marxist government is engaged in a bloody civil war with a Islamic fundamentalist resistence.
The pseduo-marxist version does support terrorism. That terrorism is directed at policy, especially in Israel and in the west's support for Israel, and presence in Arab countries.
The Islamicists also support terrorism, but unappeasably so. There is no outside policy change that would "satisfy" them, because they engaged in external terrorism for essentially internal political reasons. They are trying to demonstrate their greater stridency, and to make even the pseudo-marxists look like lackies of external powers. They seek the overthrow of all other types of government in Islamic countries, not just changes of foreign policy in the west.
The pseudo-marxists use Islamic rhetoric to stay in front of this internal opposition. But none of the Islamicists themselves regard them as having any Islamic legitimacy, and would overthrow them in a heartbeat if they could. Including Saddam, the Syrian government, Qaddafi, and Arafat. None of whom are, even remotely, -religious- leaders. None of whom, even remotely, abide by traditional Shariah law.
They are two distinct anti-western ideologies, just as fascists and communists in the Europe of the 30s were both against the democracies of western Europe and the US. Sometimes they have their Ribbentrop-Molotov pacts and connive with each other, as when Arafat winks at Hezbollah bombers operating in the territories. Sometimes they tear each other to pieces, as in Algeria today. They are not the same thing.
And also, THANK YOU for enlarging that connection for me, because you brought it to my attention that all of the radical groups of Islam are being used by communisum.
It CERTAINLY makes sense why HILLARY WOULD WANT TO KISS THE CHEEK OF ARAFAT'S WIFE. I just WISH I could kiss YOUR cheek for being such a true American by looking out for us by looking for the truth. You are so smart!!!! Thank you for all the information!!!!!
My oh my, it looks like those commies are all SO loving. They REALLY do care.
I am sure the Chinese are loving EVERY TIME they drag a woman into a van for instant abortions and sterlizations.
And Hillary, what a WARM woman! I don't understand why ANYONE would EVER want to write a book where Hell and Hillary were one and the same!
You get the drift, don't you? Of course you know I think ALL these rats are EVIL!!!!!
Also, since I believe that HIllary is involved in this whole ordeal, having Barbara Boxer on that committee is like having O.J. Simpson's mother as a member of the jury, (not that he needed his mama's help, but you know what I mean!!!).
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