Posted on 10/16/2001 6:17:16 AM PDT by vrwc54
I read today that a Newsweek poll in Pakistan found that 48 percent of Pakistanis believe that Israel was behind the September 11 massacre. Reports from around the Middle East also show this to be a widespread belief among Arabs and Muslims. It is also echoed by the defeatist factions on the far left and the far right in this country.Prince Alaweed responded yesterday to Rudy Giuliani's heroic return of the Saudi prince's blood money in these words: "The whole issue is that I spoke about their position [on the Middle East conflict] and they didn't like it because there are Jewish pressures and they were afraid of them." This quote was to the newspaper Okaz, according to the New York Post. Alaweed knew exactly how to explain the affront to his native audience.
There is only one word for this sickness and it is anti-Semitism. Somehow, we have not yet named the psychosis that affects large numbers of Muslims. It has nothing whatsoever to do with Israel's policies toward the Palestinians, whatever Tony Blair naively believes. The overwhelming majority of Arab Muslims do not want an accommodation with Israel. They want its obliteration and the expulsion or murder of every Jew that lives there.
This anti-Semitism is openly fostered and fomented by many of the "moderate" Arab regimes we are now busy cozying up to. It is widely believed across the Muslim world - from the Philippines to Morocco to the denizens of our own native Muslim, Mr. Farrakhan.
One of our greatest mistakes in the past few years has been to avoid calling this what it is: a sickness that only half a century ago was responsible for the greatest crime in the history of mankind. Why, one wonders, have no Western leaders confronted this ugly truth and condemned it? What hasn't the Pope?
The rhetoric of bin Laden is not simply fundamentalist. In its structure and paranoia, it is not so different from the doctrines propagated by Hitler. These bin Laden-supporting Muslims want non-Muslims expelled from a wide swathe of Arab territory. They want Lebensraum, and the primary victim of such Lebensraum will once again be the Jews. Israel may not be the first cause cited by bin Laden but it surely is a critical one.
It seems to me that our squeamishness in naming and recognizing this phenomenon is blunting our ability to confront it. Once again, we are faced with an expansionist, terrorist ideology that uses the demonization of Jews as one of its major rallying cries. What more do we need to know?
Wife is an American citizen, relatives in the U.S. etc. But hey, the less you shill for the Intifada the longer the U.S. will stand tall. You're wasting your time singing Intifada songs but I likely can't disuade you from your first love.
Why is it that we have to check the border crossing when you guys come down, but you don’t have to check it when we go up? LOL!
Yeah... these two Canadians were giving diretions to several Arabs. The Arabs asked where the tallest buildings in Canada were located. The two Canadians pointed South and said, “Down in our Southern Provence of ‘New York’”.
LOL!
Much better, now that we’ve stopped hiring Canadian immigrant security guards. We're going to start hiring Mexicans.
I thought you were hiring criminals but hey who am I to knock job opportunities for Intifadians like Fred25.
HAHAHA. This is your idea of bad guys. Look out for those shoplifters. In the meantime Fred25 welcomes his Intifada brothers and sisters in by the truckload. Or plane load.
Americans don’t answer trick questions. What do you think we are, Canadians?
Well gee, I never said you were an American. At best you're really an Intifadian in disguise as an American. I'm sorry for that misunderstanding. Glad to clear it up.
Figures. Trying to foment more terrorism and breaking up another sovereign country. Don't you have enough of the Intifada in Israel on your hands?
(No, this is not a Canadian law firm.)
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