Posted on 02/26/2002 6:59:13 AM PST by Pokey78
Right?
Fisk, that's a Jewish name, isn't it?
"Moderate" islam is the Trojan horse of radical islam.
God knows the entire islamic world needs a modern Ataturk, but I doubt that the man lives who could pull off the job and survive.
That's the truth!
The danger is that they are offering you and me as sacrifices also.
Excerpt:
Daniel Pearl reckoned he could ride the tiger: he was promised a meeting with an Islamofascist bigwig, so he got in a car with intermediaries he thought he knew. George Jonas wrote a brilliant column the other day on the delusions of those who think they can "establish a 'dialogue' with fanatics" or, as some of Pearl's friends put it, "bridge the misconceptions." The "misconception", presumably, is that these men are ruthless, violent, depraved. As surely we know by now, the only misconception is that that's a misconception.
Pearl thought he had won their trust, that they had accepted him as an honest broker, recognized his genuine sympathy for Muslim suffering, were willing to treat with him as one human being to another. But in the end they saw none of that: To them, he was an American, a Jew, a trophy. So they set a trap. According to one witness in a Karachi court, Omar Sheikh boasted two days beforehand that they were about to seize someone who was "anti-Islam and a Jew." By the time Robert Fisk issued his plea for mercy on February 4th, Pearl was already dead.
In Saturday's Independent, Fisk reflected on the death of the man described as his friend: "But why was he killed? Because he was a Westerner, a 'Kaffir'? Because he was an American? Or because he was a journalist?" Anyone spot the missing category? It's the one Omar Sheikh used, and the one acknowledged by Daniel Pearl in his last words: "Yes, I am a Jew ..." Fisk can't bring himself to use the word in the entire column. Full disclosure: After noodling incoherently around possible reasons for the murder, Fisk settles on a "shameful, unethical headline" over an "article by Mark Steyn" in Pearl's own Wall Street Journal. It was about Fisk's bloody beating by an Afghan mob in Pakistan last December, after which he said that, in their shoes, "I would have done just the same to Robert Fisk. Or any other Westerner I could find." It's not their fault, he insisted, their "brutality is entirely the product of others." As Fisk sees it, the mob who attacked him were "truly innocent of any crime except being the victim of the world." In The Wall Street Journal, I called this "Fiskal responsibility -- it's always the Great Satan's fault."
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Really good observation.
However the media coverage the Islamofacist terrorists get may have severe repercussions on muslims and Islam world wide. They may lose their apologists in the media and find out that it is actually possible to have "bad" publicity.
Wow! Mark Steyn sums up in one sentence the entire problem with Islam. This entire article is superb and a must-read.
I wouldn't put it past them to be stuffing his head and mounting it on a board...
And that's only at the WSJ!
It is darker than many of his articles, and
has to be, given the subject. Yet he still
manages to get off some great lines. I think
we have here the successor to H.L. Mencken.
After WII, anti-semitism in France was really hidden under the table. Today it is out in the open and there is an anti-Jewish attack almost daily by their large Muslim population. Look what has happened in Rome during the past week.
Islam is coming out of the closet.
Nobody I know of. Maybe you need some new friends. How
anti-Jewish was the attack on the Pentagon?
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Islam is coming out of the closet.
Putting Jews at the center of this brings something else out of the closet.
He's not eligible, having procreated.
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