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.
"Well, personally, I feel no guilt, so let them do their best and they can meet with my constitutional right to bear arms!!" Double ditto!
Okay, let's try this again, in ENGLISH this time.
What are you trying to say?
In the other great wars in American history, we knew the size of our enemy, fairly accurately, from the get go.
In this war, the enemy seems to be a state of mind (er well, of passion) held by perhaps a hundred million Muslims. Because America is in no position to identify them, much less do battle with them, simultaneously and immediately, and because to do so would be unconsionable genocide, not conventional war, we have absolutely no choice but to pick and choose our battles.
But this leads us to the precarious position of not knowing our enemy. Our President's words, and the common understanding of the people is that we are fighting perhaps tens of thousands of terrorists, not hundreds of millions of hearts filled with hatred.
This strikes me as a great, albeit seemingly necessary, deception. However I believe, deeply, that great deceptions come home to roost, sooner or later.
Dark times ahead ...
then I shall set my 'news web scanner' to pick up any BS that anybody receives 'from someone describing himself as a "anybody from anywhere" (see above) and place a disclaimer that I have no way of knowing whether it is authentic, but its particulars seem accurate to me and I invite readers of to comment"
I seriously disagree with that.
"Pre-existing religious prejudices?" How do you think the Muslim views the Christian? The Jew? The Hindu? Or even the atheist? You're barking up the wrong tree here.
Do you remember seeing the Palestinians after the attack? They were rejoicing! I particularly remember this one older woman clapping and jumping up and down at a market.
How many imams came out and vociferously condemned the attacks? The RAT favoring media would have eaten it up had they had done so. But they didn't? Why?
Are you aware that we have Islamic grade schools in Detroit and Washington, D.C. that refuse to recognize Israel on a world map, and also teaches that it is okay for them to steal and/or hurt someone if they are not a Muslim? (Source: FOX News)
I've said it, am saying it, and will continue to say that Islam is NOT a peaceful religion. Period. End of story. Islam is incompatible with a free and open society. It doesn't fit.
America would do well by keeping her eyes carefully focussed on the Muslim population, both at home and abroad. The majority may not be hostile towards us, but, a large and sizeable number of them are.
We need to hurry up and recognize this, and forget all of the touchy/feely PC nonsense.
Graduate degrees or not, this is incomprehensible to me. I'm sorry. I can't make heads or tails out of what you are trying to say. It makes absolutely no sense.
Yeah, especially since Horowitz is a Jew. He has no choice but to be a Nazi, right?
Where do they make 'em like BC93?
Right! But I wonder if you really know just how right you truly are!!!!!!!
They will detonate a nuke here soon, and this country will shudder, threaten, and become more patriotic; but give it a year and all will be forgotten! The terrs believe this!
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