Posted on 09/06/2002 5:54:52 PM PDT by Gritty
In "The Trust" by Susan E. Tifft and Alex S. Jones, a fawning historical account of the New York Times and the family behind it, the authors describe how the Newspaper of Record conspired to hide information about the Holocaust:
A July 2, 1944, dispatch citing "authoritative information" that 400,000 Hungarian Jews had already been deported to their deaths and an additional 350,000 were to be killed in the next three weeks received only four column inches on Page 12, while that same day a story about Fourth of July holiday crowds ran on the front page.
To find out what the enemy is up to in the current war, you keep having to turn to obscure little boxes at the bottom of Page A-9 of the Newspaper of Record.
In a little-noticed story almost exactly one year after Muslims staged the most horrific terrorist attack the world has ever seen, a Muslim en route from Germany to Kosovo emerged from the airplane bathroom and tried to strangle a stewardess with his shoelaces. (Not that there's anything unpeaceful about that.)
That story was squirreled away in a small box at the very bottom of Page A-9 of the Times. In the entire Lexis-Nexis archives, only three newspapers reported the incident. Not one mentioned that the attacker was a Muslim. It was a rather captivating story, too. Earlier in the flight, the Muslim responded to the stewardess' offer of refreshments by saying, "I'd like to drink your blood." (Not that there's anything unpeaceful about that.)
Also last week, another practitioner of the Religion of Peace, this one with ties to al-Qaida, tried to board a plane in Switzerland with a gun. This story did not merit front-page coverage at the New York Times.
On July 4 this year, an Egyptian living in California – who had complained about his neighbors flying a U.S. flag, had a "Read the Koran" sticker on his front door, and expressed virulent hatred for Jews – walked into an El Al terminal at the Los Angeles airport and started shooting Jews. (Not that there's anything unpeaceful about that.)
The Times casually reported the possibility that his motive was a fare dispute. Four days after the shooting, the story vanished amid an embarrassed recognition of the fact that any Muslim could snap at any moment and start shooting.
Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary (generally found around Page A-12 of the Times), Americans have been cowed into perseverating that Islam is a "religion of peace." Candid conversations about Islam are beyond the pale in a country that deems Screw magazine part of our precious constitutional freedoms.
If the 9-11 terrorists had been Christians, the shoelace strangler a Christian, the gun-toting Swedish Muslim a Christian, the Los Angeles airport killer a Christian and scores of suicide bombers Christians, I assure you we would not be pussyfooting around whether maybe there was something wrong with Christianity.
In a fascinating book written by two Arab Muslims who converted to Christianity, Ergun Mehmet Caner and Emir Fethi Caner give an eye-opening account of Islam's prophet in "Unveiling Islam: An Insider's Look at Muslim Life and Beliefs."
Citing passages from the Hadith, the collected sayings of Muhammad, the Caners note that, by his own account, the founder of Islam was often possessed by Satan. The phrase "Satanic Verses" refers to words that Muhammad first claimed had come from God, but which he later concluded were spoken by Satan.
Muhammad married 11 women, kept two others as concubines and recommended wife-beating (but only as a last resort!). His third wife was 6 years old when he married her and 9 when he consummated the marriage.
To say that Muhammad was a demon-possessed pedophile is not an attack. It's a fact. (And for the record, Timothy McVeigh is not the founder of Christianity. He wasn't even a Christian. He was an atheist who happened to be a gentile.)
Muslims argue against the Caners' book the way liberals argue against all incontrovertible facts. They deny the meaning of words, posit irrelevant counterpoints, and attack the Caners' motives.
Ibrahim Hooper, with the Council on American-Islamic Relations, says that by "6 years old" the Hadith really means "16 years old" and "9" means "19" – numbers as similar in Arabic as they are in English. Hooper also makes the compelling argument that the Caner brothers – who say they wrote their book out of love for Muslims whom they want to see in Heaven – are full of "hate."
Other Islamic scholars concede the facts, but argue that Muhammad's marriage to a 6-year-old girl was an anomaly. Oh, OK, never mind. Still others explain that Muhammad's marriage to a 6-year-old girl was of great benefit to her education and served to reinforce political allegiances.
So was she really 16, or was it terrific that he had sex with a 9-year-old to improve her education? This is like listening to some Muslims' earlier argument-in-the-alternative that the Zionists attacked the World Trade Center, but America brought the attack on itself anyway.
Muhammad makes L. Ron Hubbard look like Jesus Christ. Most people think nothing of assuming every Scientologist is a crackpot. Why should Islam be subject to presumption of respect because it's a religion? Liberals bar the most benign expressions of religion by little America. Only a religion that is highly correlated with fascistic attacks on the U.S. demands their respect and protection.
A gift for laying bare painful truths...
What?Soo many "Ann" threads, so little time!Sixteen replies and NO PICTURES yet!!??
From http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/01/books/bestseller/0901besthardnonfiction.html
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On List1 SLANDER, by Ann Coulter. (Crown, $25.95.) The lawyer and pundit enumerates "liberal lies about the American right." 1 8
Murder for fun and prophet - Ann Coulter
Posted by TLBSHOW
On Sep 4 11:36 PM with 57 comments
worldnetdaily ^ | 9/4/2002 | Ann Coulter
No, she's telling conservatives to wake up to the hateful DNC messages of the last decade, and instructing them to confront them by telling the truth.
Fight fire with fire.
RINOs cannot fathom this, nor can DNC shills such as yourself.
Amazing..Coulter is someone who is selling books by raping the label conservative and turning it into a hateful message which is turning away millions of Americans.
Democracy1154 signed up 2002-08-06.Welcome, Democracy1154!Wow, you're managed to survive a whole MONTH here...
Conspired with whom? Themselves?
And four inches inside the paper isn't
the same as hiding. I fear Anne is
taking herself for another solo ride.
I drop out when the hyperbole starts
in the first paragraph.
Culture Clash...
The stewardess, who was frankly more accustomed to replies that took the form of crude passes by sophomoric business travelers who've slipped the traces of their wive's supervision for a couple of days, made a strange face and Abdul Fazzool Mohammed Rama-dama-ding-dong thought to himself, "Ah Ha!... She wants me!"
Later, as he was attempting to strangle her with his shoelaces, she was calling out, "Someone get this freaking sand goblin off me!"
But her words were muffled, and Abdul (who frankly doesn't have a 'First Language' in the human sense) thought she was saying, "Yeah baby! You're the one for me!" and pulled his improvised garrote around her neck even tighter.
And so it was in this way that Abdul fumbled his one opportunity to get a date with a woman from the deep end of the Homo Sapiens gene pool...
Carville's rabid rants of lies have nothing on this.
Devastating, Merciless, and Persuasive, is the Truth.
What is it?
It is the one useful thing to be learned from the 'Rats in the bid to control the votes of the mindless sheeple of America, necessary to gain and hold elected power. (It's the Economy, STUPID!)
The Power of Ridicule.
Learn it 'Pubbies, or perish.
Never forget that the premier campaign of ridicule, the Freepers' SORE-LOSERMAN, won the day and changed America's future forever.
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