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.
Horowitz wrote this at lunchtime while he was getting a fallafa with extra homus. Inspired by the man behind the cart.
Ahhh, the truth finally comes out. The topic is Horowitz, yet somehow the Anti-Defamation League and Israel are thrown in, mix in the words "sheckels," "fallafa," and "homus," and what do you get? The real reason why you don't care for Horowitz.
You would have been better off if you had just kept quiet. Why you insisted on making such an abominable fool out of yourself here beats the heck out of me.
I agree with you. As for the letter, unless it's verified I would not cut and paste it anywhere even if it does sound plausible.
What's your plan. Spell it out. Break it down.
It's also interesting that the enemies of WWII, after facing horrific devastation, have embraced our culture and have become some of the strongest economic based peoples of the world.
Our weapons of the 21st century, if we are prepared to use them, could rapidly destroy the resolve of our current enemies.
Perhaps, it's unfortunate that we're not prepared to use our strength.
Perhaps BC93 stands for BARTCOP93
The thing that concerns me in this war is that I sometimes think the enemy understands us better than we understand ourselves.
The name is obviously a fake. But that could be for very good reasons.
The message is on the money. I don't know about the rest of the world's Muslims, but the Arabs are a very subtle and wise people of great native intelligence. What they have engineered in the West is a sort of "Mental Judo," which is using our our strengths and traditions (not to mention our money) as the instruments of our own destruction.
The fact that these people cannot engineer a drinking water system, an oil well, or maintain their own Mercedes air conditioning should not be taken as a sign of stupidity. Their intelligence is turned, in great part, toward our conversion and the death of the culture which nurtures us.
If we take the reasoned Western approach and try to solve the problem, mindful of everyone's rights under the Constitution and our laws, there's a damn good chance we'll be thrown into unbearable civil chaos.
If we take expedient, direct methods to solve our Muslim problem (and yes, we have one) and our Border Problem, and our Illegal Immigrant Problems (which are not-so-slowly killing the America we expected to continue as our fathers knew it and which we wanted for our children), there's a damn good chance we will lose the rights that make us Americans in the first place.
A way out? I hope so ... by VIGOROUSLY enforcing existing laws ... we can do a lot to clean up many problems and still be democratic, with a small "d." Our real problem is that the Democrats (with a big "D,") have ironclad control over the functional, non-elective Federal and State units (Government Bureaus, Educational Bureaucracies, Police, Local Governments, etc.)
The 4-term Roosevelt government was actually a coup, which gave the Federal Government Bureaucracies, and the Democrats who ran them then and now, ever-accruing power akin to Mussolini's or Hitler's bureaucracies. Being American, they are of course hopefully much less oppressive. But they have taken on a life of their own which is not goal-oriented, but like any bureaucracy, self-aggrandizing. They are thus hopeless in the face of any real challenge and increasingly inept in solving even minor problems. Somehow, we have to reverse the results of this dictatorial part of Roosevelt legacy. It's just not working any more.
Islam seriously disrupted and then eventually ended the Byzantine Empire. If we don't figure out a way to combat Islam effectively, it literally could be the beginning of our end.
That is what our media presents to these people. The media never projects the good we do.
I think you have just brilliantly illustrated the great knot into which Islam has tied us.
If we take the reasoned Western approach and try to solve the problem, mindful of everyone's rights under the Constitution and our laws, there's a damn good chance we'll be thrown into unbearable civil chaos.
Your comments remind me of several arguments I had with some rather radical libertarians here who insisted on giving those who would be tried in military tribunals full Constitutional rights. I had never heard something so vapid and asinine in my life. They, in their so-called Constitutional zeal, desired to grant the rights afforded to us under our system of government to those who are/were hellbent on killing all of us if they could.
Then I realized something scary.
We have many undocumented illegal aliens in our country who, just by the fact of them being physically within our borders, have full Constitutional rights.
We can't just go bumrush 18-40 year old Middle Eastern men who congregate together without violating the 4th Amendment. We can't shut up their vitriol they spew against America or we'll violate the First Amendment. We can't put an M-16 in their faces and force them to admit to being part of a terrorist organization without violating the 5th Amendment.
Catch the pattern here?
Our precious Constitution, with nothing equal to it in the history of mankind, is now used against us. By enforcing it, we lose power to keep it.
I'm an avid chess player. My main weakness is not to fall into a knight fork, sometimes concentrating so hard on it that I miss moves and end up losing. But that's exactly what we find ourselves in now, the dreaded knight fork. A triple one at that. Immigration, via student visas, is protected by the Constitution. They can peaceably associate among themselves. And they can hide behind the Constitution to carry out their goals. That's three ways we are threatened without a move to get out of the threat UNLESS we violate the Constitution.
This is why, as you've seen here, whenever I hear someone fippantly say "Deport 'em!" I ask, "How?" How do we go about doing it looking at the mess that not only the INS has created, but, protecting Constitutional rights?
So far, no answers. I'm not surprised because it's not an easy scenario to just "fix."
We're in a precarious time. Heaven help us find the solution.
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