Posted on 03/14/2002 9:38:16 PM PST by rdb3
I RECEIVED the following email from someone describing himself as a "Saudi Citizen." I have no way of knowing whether it is authentic, but its particulars seem accurate to me and I invite readers of FrontPage to comment.
--David Horowitz
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Message from a Saudi Citizen
Do not forget that radical Islam is more pervasive in the Arab world than Christianity is in the West. There is no "dissent" or "constructive engagement". The goal of Islam is to destroy anything or anyone that is not Islam. The US is responding, but your intelligence services are still sclerotic and slow. Are you paying attention America? There are two fronts on this war: one military (9/11) and one political.
--DH
Islam is colonizing the US, Europe and Asia. Bush is wrong to say that most American Muslims are anti-Terrorism. If they did not cheer in the streets on 9/11, they cheered in their homes. I was with Hussein Ibish and Hamid Faraoui that day, watching them cheering and singing, then denouncing the attacks on TV later that day. Khatami, Hussein and Assad reach out to US democrats, journalists, etc. Many Arabs loved the remarks of President Carter, joking "we may have to kill him last."
Ordinary Americans are rising to the occasion, showing patriotism, sacrificing husbands and fathers. Your coastal elites are assisting radical Islam. They want America to be tolerant of terrorism and to imagine themselves guilty of previous generations crimes. We watch your news. We know this is true. [Bill] Moyers goes as far as saying Judaism, Christianity and Islam are equally guilty of terrorism. These comments are played on Saudi TV amongst reports of Israelis eating Palestinian children. Susan Sontag and Bobby Fischer got front page billing in the Saudi press for comments supportive of the 9/11 attacks, flanked by a pair of stories detailing US racism against Muslims and the killing of Palestinian babies at Israeli hospitals. Lies, of course, but seem true next to actual comments by Americans.
It surprises us moderate Muslims to see half of American society help radical Islam kill America and the West. Your political left is justifying terrorism in the minds of the "Arab street" as you call it. They forget that Usama bin Laden has higher approval numbers in Saudi Arabia than Bush has in the US. Every bit of self doubt or anti-Americanism helps bin Laden. Every Saudi student that comes home after a US college education repeats the anti-Americanism he hears at university. "You see, they even hate themselves," is a refrain heard from many Saudi graduates of US universities.
I can't tell America what to do, but anyone can see what you are doing to yourselves.
Makkah Al-Mukarramah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
David Horowitz is editor-in-chief of FrontPageMagazine.com and president of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture.
And again, this email is not a warning. It's an opinion. Everybody's got one of those.
What's wrong with FR these days -- is the level of intelligence exhibited on this site taking a rapid nosedive? Hussein Ibish is the director of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination League, kind of the NAACP of the Arab community, and a man whose views are the exact opposite of what this fabrication states. He is an American, and is already consulting with his lawyers, I imagine.
A closed mind is no more the answer than a naive gullible one.
If Horowitz is a "true" anything, it's a True Opportunist out to make a buck.
(Sigh)
Okay. What, exactly, in this email would you like me to "open my mind" to? Since even you agree it doesn't cover any new ground.
First, on what do you base your claim that this is nothing more than propaganda? Is it just your opinion, or, do you have something more substantial.
Two, what is the source of your vitriol against Horowitz?
And, third, why would you wish him back to the Left? Is he not useful for us on the Right? Should those of us who have been on the Left totally abandon coming over to the Right after coming to our senses?
So, tell me please. I'm dying to know.
THEN come back and get at me.
And if the email could be traced to a cafe in the other hemisphere, that would add to its credibility. Not conclusively, of course.
It's still on FrontPage, as of this posting.
And I suppose you do, with your pansy, limp-wristed, panty wearing, sissified, PUNK so-called "AntiWar" site.
Puh-leeze. You bring shame to manhood. Go out and find your pair cuz someone stole them from you.
Seeing with clear (fresh) eyes allows much of the chaff to fall away. Make our voice heard and do whatever we can to not accept the guff ... while realizing the attitudes of Islam regarding America are not the tolerant attitudes with which our press is protraying them. The subtlety is there ... (be discerning) ... it is the crucial part. Individually we can do little; however, we must influence those within our arena and do what we can. Being prepared for further happenings and alert to our surroundings.
Perhaps I misunderstood you ... it seemed you were of the 'chunk it in the trash can' point of view.
No, I am of the "it doesn't pay to think the email is really from a Saudi, just because it says so" and the "doesn't tell me anything I couldn't have learned months ago from other sources and my own experience, therefore it does not matter if the author is or is not a Saudi" schools of thought.
For a guy who engages in hearsay as a fine art you lack even a modicum of respectibility on this issue. Secondly, you're the opportunist since you've been second only to the Arab Islamics and neo-nazis in exploiting 9/11 with that cockeyed Israeli students story.
Opinions (whether from vanities or so called expert commentators) are interpretations of events and motivations ... speculation and hypthesis ... some are substantiated better than others.
Simply a 'fiction' around reality. We project ... we predict ... based on our knowledge of the past and our ability to reason. The possibilities are multiple, some results are more dangerous than others. Passivity, complacency, and the belief the government is handling it is a defeating attitude. IMO
THEN come back and get at me.
Um...OK...calm now. Whatever.
You discount source ...
I am more interested in the content ...
Ideas and thoughts can arise from previously unknown sources; sometimes timely, brilliant, trite, or refutable etc. While source is of note, it does not make or break the content.
We can adjust our knowledge to encompass an enlarged frame of reference or we can maintain a previous set of thinking. What is the worst thing that can happen?
Suffice it to say, we agree to hold different views.
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