Posted on 07/08/2002 2:51:24 PM PDT by Drew68
July 8, 2002
An Arab, you say?
During the early hours after Thursday's shooting at the El Al ticket counter at L.A. International Airport, we kept waiting for a journalist at the scene to ask one of the obvious questions about the attacker: What's his nationality?
Yet we never heard the subject come up. It's as if Americans are so worried about uttering an ethnic slur or stereotype that even a perfectly reasonable inquiry is considered beyond the pale.
Who has attacked El Al Airlines in the past? Arab terrorists, and yet more Arab terrorists. So who would be likely to attack again? But apparently this line of logic smacks too much of dreaded "ethnic profiling" for some.
It came to pass, of course, that the gunman was indeed an Egyptian national. Don't anyone tell Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, though. He's got trouble enough explaining why it's so important to pull elderly women out of airport security lines.
ISOLATED AND ANGRY
Speaking of Arabs, a U.N. report just out on the state of Arab societies has reached some fairly depressing conclusions - and it was written by Arab intellectuals themselves. According to The New York Times, the report laments the cultural stagnation of Arab lands, pointing out that "In the 1,000 years since the reign of the Caliph Mamoun . . . the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year."
As Andrew Sullivan observes at AndrewSullivan.com, "So we have a new, massive generation of people, largely sealed off from outside cultural forces and fed a steady stream of extremist, anti-Semitic and anti-Western hate literature. I have a feeling that our current war could be just the beginning."
Rocky Mountain News
Indeed it is. There will be more -- as long as we're awash in PC.
Here's a happy thought from Middle East expert Daniel Pipes:
Islamists constitute a small but significant minority of Muslims, perhaps 10 to 15 per cent of the population. Many of them are peaceable in apearance, but they all must be considered potential killers.
How does 400,000 to 800,000 -- in our country -- potential killers sound?
America's Fifth Column ... watch PBS documentary JIHAD! In America
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Yep. When the media *did not* say "suspect was described as a white male" (Howard Stern prank aside) I think we all knew exactly what ethnicity the suspect was.
It is.
And Andrew Sullivan might have added that meanwhile the PC,cultural-diversity "Liberal" dim-wits are parroting the "Liberal" shibboleth that all cultures are equal---blah blah blah!
Are these people really stupid, or do they just function on that level for some reason?
"...at airports across the continent, eighty-seven-year-old grannies waited patiently as their hairpins were confiscated and their bloomers empitied out on the conveyor belt, implicitly accepting this as a ritual of the multicultural society:to demonstrate that we eschew 'racial profiling', we go out of our way to look for people who don't look anything like the people we're looking for."
--Mark Steyn
Screwem...nuckem
I mean it, who cares. They are a culture of death. They are a people living in the 20th century with a 13th century mentality.
I'm not getting the warm-and-fuzzies with how the Federal Government is handling the domestic front in this war. They are much more worried about appearances than they are about neutralizing the enemy.
This makes the FBI look like complete idiots. Everyone in the nation knows damn well this was an act of terrorism and the FBI is going out of their way to do everything in their power to try and spin this in such a fashion that terrorism is not seen as a motive. (Disgrutled customer facing financial difficulties my ass!)
This guy was armed to the teeth and the only reason he did not kill more Jews (yes, Jews) was because he was quickly neutralized.
Who does the FBI think they are trying to fool?!?
Great rant BTW.
Check his webpage www.warroom.com in the archives section to get this. There's a lot more history behind this man than ANYbody out there is reporting.
Now the scramble to determine why the shooter did this thing is on. Most American (and Muslim) spokespersons say that this incident was just life in America much like the actions of bullied highschoolers and disgruntled postal workers. Just move along nothing to see here.
What hasn't been mentioned is this mans religious and social connections. I think that this guy has been identified as a Muslim in very few places.
The best evidence as to the motivation of the shooter was what he himself indicated. One of the last things he did before going out to kill was to leave a note on his apartment door that said "READ THE KORAN".
Gee, if a book conforms with the Koran, it is superfluous, if a book contradicts the Koran - it should be destroyed!
Only because you haven't read "Approaching the koran, The Revelations".
I don't know, but the only ones they are fooling is themselves.
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