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?
Question: What’s the difference between Veronica and a commercial airliner?
Answer: The airliner stops whining when it gets to Miami.
Don't give up your day job. If you have one.
Genesis 21:12
Genesis 22:2
Genesis 22:16
Matthew 22:31-32
Galations 3:26-4:31
The Jews told them.
Bingo.
Just as the British and French in 1938 were pursuaded that the price of supporting Czechoslovakia had become too high.
That's a good question.
The Pope has condemmned all kinds of religious bigotry, ad nauseum. What the author wants is for the Pope to define the problem exactly as the author did, and then condemn that. Maybe the Pope does not define the problem with the same spin as the author does.
However, one of the reasons they are so focused on Israel/Jews is because there is a very active conflict with Jews going on in Israel, and the Muslims have been pretty much losing that one for 50 years, so there is pride and humiliation to fuel the flames of their hatred.
In that regard, the author is attributing to psychosis what is partially some pretty basic cause and effect and human nature.
No, my point was more subtle than that and you both missed it. His statement was stated in black and white. To the effect," I'm not religious therefore I somehow stand in a more superior position than all these because they are religious (Jews, Christians, Muslims)." I simply contrasted his position to the equally extreme position of atheistic socialism. If being religious means you're a fanatic (out to convert (and this is bad) or out to Jihad or if a Jew glibly accusing people of anti-Semitism) then being non-religious means your an atheist and a killer. In other words, being religious was presented as an extreme position. It was a completely gratuitous assertion - and I'm not above gratuitous assertions when I see them being made by others.
By your definition, EVERYONE who DISAGREES with you is a Nazi, an Arab, or an Arab sympathizer. Sorry bub, but that propaganda won’t work on me, and it won’t work on most Americans.
This is not the famous Rabbi Scheerson. His name was Menachem. I have no idea who this guy is.
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