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?
I implore people to read as much as they can of the Koran, the Hadith, and the life of Mohammed. None of them are difficult to understand, or particularly subtle, as Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Christian and other religions have been. Islam is a very simple and crude religion, even tho it has had many many centuries to develope.
Averroes and Avicenna, the alogorithm and the zero, do not cancel out the crudity and the hate of Islam. Scientology itself one day will build a magnificent structure.
Even a non-religious person must feel a deep kinship with true religion. It is nothing more than being a human.
Most comparisons with Nazism in our age are exaggerated and simple-minded and mere epithets. Yet, in Islam, there is the perfect comparison with Nazism. Nazism used the veneer of religious ritual -- the signs, the symbols, the rules, the "submission" -- to convince an ethnic group of the divine justification of their hate and cruelty. So too, Islam.
Those who posit the weakness and humiliation of Germany as factors in the rise of Nazism, anticipate the similar reasons for the rise and continuing hate animating Islam. The Arabs as a culture are no more advanced today than they were in 700 ... they are constantly humiliated by their innate weakness and crudity, and like all those who are in over their heads and feel it painfully, they can only strike out, using violence and intimidation.
Those Moslems who understand that Western values are the values which would most inure to the benefit of their countrymen, also realize they are literally risking death if they ever said so in an explicit way.
That is because Islam is a crude, absolutist "religion," wielding death to all "infidels."
No one converts to Islam, except those who are coerced, or those who embrace the hatred, anger and cruelty Islam offers them.
Is that thread still alive? LOL
Is that thread still alive? LOL
Yeah, the Jebusite thread was a marathon thread.LOL! Looks like it's finished though. I think I have it bookmarked. The Pal apologists like revisionist history. Jebusites, Perrizites, fractites, galactites, goofites all the progenitors of the "Palestinians".
I may be willing to concede Sodomites.
LOL! Let them out sorry. That was PC list.
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