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2002-11-29 21:13 | User Profile
RELIGION OF PEACE WATCH II -- CAN'T SEE THE MOSQUE FOR THE CORPSES
By Don Feder November 20, 2002
When it comes to his exaltation of Islam ? based on scholarly study of the Koran, no doubt ? President George W. Bush is starting to sound like Jerry Lewis in one of his ?50s goofball comedies?which at least should increase his popularity in France.
On November 13, after meeting with United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, Bush told reporters, ?Islam, as practiced by the vast majority of people, is a peaceful religion.? This, of course, has been his mantra since 9/11 ? an outrage committed by Lutherans, one assumes. But the president needs must go further. He informed the White House press corps that Islam is also ?a religion that respects others.? Who? When? Where?
Bush criticized Christian leaders who?ve commented on the homicidal tendencies of the religion of peace. ?Some comments that have been uttered about Islam do not reflect the sentiments of my government or the sentiments of most Americans,? the president piously intoned.
Apparently Bush has forgotten that reality isn?t determined by majority vote. And Washington is famous for willfully blinding itself to the truth.
The media knew exactly who the president was referring to ? Pat Robertson, Rev. Jerry Falwell and Franklin Graham, son of America?s most prominent evangelist, Billy Graham.
On a recent broadcast of ?The 700 Club,? Robertson ? who?s support for Israel puts the average Zionist to shame -- warned American Jews to ?wake up and open their eyes and read what is being said about them (by Moslems).? ?This is worse than the Nazis,? Robertson said in a Nov. 11 broadcast.
That Bush is willing to risk alienating his evangelical Christian support base (which handed him the Senate in the last election) is evidence of his dogged determination to push the fantasy that we are not fighting Moslems. The president would have us believe we?re at war with a group of fanatics who?ve somehow developed the misguided notion that their religion of peace encourages the murder and oppression of infidels (Jews and Christians). These poor, misguided souls inexplicably believe that a religion of tolerance sanctions those who strap dynamite to their bodies and turn toddlers and grandmothers into body parts, and others who fly airliners into buildings reducing 3,000 people to rubble.
The president believes Islam is a religion of peace, tolerance and compassion ? so do his aides and advisors, so does the entire State Department, the director of Homeland Security, even the janitor who empties the wastebasket in the Oval Office.
You know who doesn?t believe it (besides yours truly)? Millions of Moslems, including their mullahs, imams and spiritual leaders.
In an exclusive interview with Insight magazine, Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayyeb ? recently appointed grand mufti (supreme religious authority) of Egypt ? stated quite matter-of-factly that Palestinian suicide bombers are doing God?s work, but Jerry Falwell, ?who insulted Islam,? is ?a terrorist.?
Egyptian state television is in the process of airing a 41-part dramatic series, ?Horseman Without a Horse,? based on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,? the czarist forgery which fueled the Holocaust. ?The Protocols? postulate a worldwide Jewish conspiracy to dominate humanity, and have been used to justify everything from pogroms to genocide. Besides Egypt, the series is also being broadcast in Iraq, Yemen and Abu Dhabi.
Mainlining raw religious hatred into the brains of millions of illiterates -- rather an unusual definition of ?tolerance? and ?peace,? wouldn?t you say, Mr. President? And Egypt, where Coptic Christians are murdered with impunity, is considered a moderate Islamic state and a U.S. ally. Perhaps American taxpayers, who are forced to contribute $2 billion annually to Egypt, helped to subsidize this brotherhood project.
So where exactly, in the Moslem world, is Islam practiced in a loving and pluralistic fashion?
In Saudi Arabia, the fountainhead of the faith, which contains Islam?s most sacred sites? Earlier this month, the Bush administration marked the Moslem holy month of Ramadan with an Iftar (fast-breaking) banquet in the White House. (When was the last time this administration had a Passover seder in the White House?)
You know how they?re observing Christmas in Riyadh? With the lighting of a giant tree? By having the House of Saud Family Choir sing ??O Little Town of Bethlehem?? With Christian clergy of various denominations celebrating midnight mass in the city?s main cathedral?
Just kidding. In Saudi Arabia, Christianity is strictly verboten. There are no churches. Conversion from Islam to Christianity is a capital crime. If you conduct a Christian service discreetly, in the privacy of your home, you can be arrested and deported. Christian bibles are contraband. Customs agents have been known to snatch crosses off the necks of businessmen and tourists entering the country and throw them in the trash.
Again, where exactly is this kinder and gentler Islam practiced ? the Islam of 100 points of light?
Iran ? where the ayatollahs make the Dark Ages look like an Enlightenment salon? Earlier this month, university professor Hashem Aghajari was sentenced to death for blasphemy. Reportedly, the professor asked why Moslem clerics have the exclusive authority to interpret Islam. Freedom of expression is as popular in Tehran as the King James Bible is in Mecca.
The Sudan ? where more than one million Christians have been killed by adherents of the religion of peace ? while others were peacefully enslaved?
Pakistan -- where one of Allah?s hit squads killed 7 Christians, execution-style, in Karachi on September 25th ? the fifth such murderous assault on the nation?s Christian minority in the past year?
Kosovo , --where victorious Moslems have ethnically cleansed 200,000 Serbs (90 percent of the province?s pre-war population) and destroyed over 100 Orthodox churches and monasteries, many dating back to the 13th and 14th centuries?
Nigeria -- where a single woman who gave birth ? after she was raped ? is awaiting execution for immorality, and thousands have died in rioting over attempts to impose Islamic law in the nation?s northern states?
The Philippines , -- a predominantly Catholic country where Moslem terrorists killed six and wounded 143 in a bomb blast in the city of Zamboanga on October 17?
Chechny -- which sent 50 of its heavily armed emissaries of peace to Moscow recently to take hostages in a theater, leading to the deaths of 118 innocents?
Indonesia -- (the world?s most populous Moslem state) where, in the breakaway province of East Timor, Christians were slaughtered by Moslem paramilitaries with the support of elements of the Indonesian army, and where the Laskhar Jihad engaged in a campaign of murder and forced conversion among Christians of the Moluccan Islands in 2000?
The West Bank -- where Moslem clerics tell the faithful that Jews are the descendants of apes and pigs and parents rejoice in the deaths of their children in suicide attacks on Israeli families in shopping malls and pizzerias?
Europe -- whose 15 million Moslems have brought the benighted worldview of Tehran, Cairo and Karachi to the heart of what was once known as Christendom, and Jews are subjected to a string of mini-Kristallnachts across the continent?
The United States -- where Moslem convert John Allen Muhammed and his boy companion, also a convert to Islam, brought the peace of the grave to ten victims in what has all the earmarks of a personal jihad against infidel Americans?
This is not to say that all Moslems are terrorists. Some in the West have reinterpreted their religion to make it compatible with such concepts as human rights and democracy. For this, we should be grateful.
But this is the exception. The reality of Islam is written in blood. Throughout the Islamic world ? from East Asia to the Middle East to Africa -- the Moslem masses idolize Osama bin Laden. Even in Kuwait, liberated by the United States from Saddam Hussein in 1991, the overwhelming majority of respondents to an opinion poll said Bin Laden is a hero. Gratitude is another concept alien to Islam.
The Koran, which -- unlike ?The Protocols? -- is real, has no fewer than 123 verses concerning fighting and killing for Allah. Moslem are enjoined to fight the infidels who are their ?inveterate enemies?, to ?arrest them, besiege them and lie in ambush everywhere? for them, to ?seize them and put them to death wherever you find them, kill them wherever you find them,? to ?fight them till Islam reigns supreme,? to ?cut off their heads, and cut off the tips of their fingers.? Does this sound like the Sermon on the Mount or excerpts from The Collected Works of Mother Teresa?
In ?The Muslim Discovery of Europe,? historian Bernard Lewis writes: ?In the Muslim worldview the basic division of mankind is into the House of Islam (Dar al-Islam) and the House of War (Dar al-Harb). Ideally the House of Islam is conceived as a single community. The logic of Islamic law, however, does not recognize the permanent existence of any other polity outside Islam. In time, in the Muslim view, all mankind will accept Islam or submit to Islamic rule. A treaty of peace between the Muslim state and a non-Muslim state was thus in theory impossible.? (Throughout Saudi Arabia there are signs reading ?An Islamic World.?)
These aren?t just the beliefs of some grungy guerrillas hiding in an Afghan cave, nor are they only the ravings of some obscure imam in Gaza. This is normative Islam ? Islam as it?s been preached and practiced for 1400 years. It is the Islam of Cairo?s al-Azhar University (which is to Islam what the University of Paris was to Catholicism in the Middle Ages). It?s the Islam of Saudi Arabia, preached in Mecca?s main mosque. It?s the Islam of madrashs (religious schools) from Indonesia to West Africa. It?s the Islam propagated by mosques in London and New York. It?s the version of Islam embraced by Sunnis and Shiites ? the Wahhabis of Saudi Arabia, the ayatollahs of Iran and the scholars of Al-Azhar.
Long before the age of political correctness and multicultural brainwashing, Winston Churchill ? a historian of note as well as one of the 20th century?s greatest leaders ? described Islam as, ?That religion, which above all others was founded and propagated by the sword ? the tenets and principles of which are?incentives to slaughter and which in three continents had produced fighting breeds of men ? stimulates a wild and merciless fanaticism. ? (Thanks to Prof. John Rossi of La Salle University for unearthing this quote.) Churchill?s observation came long before the age of bin Laden, Khomeini, Arafat, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Army of God, suicide bombers, hostage-takers, holy warriors, suburban snipers, etc, etc., etc.
How can this nation conduct a war on terrorism when it not only refuses to identify the force behind terrorism, but goes out of its way to misrepresent and exonerate that creed?
In World War II, we knew what we were fighting ? Nazism and Japanese militarism ? ideologies with distinctive worldviews. During the Cold War, the enemy was communism. The gulags and torture cells were physical manifestations of the philosophies of Marx and Lenin. Thank God we didn?t then have presidents assuring us that communism was a beneficent economic system which had somehow been corrupted by fanatics.
And today? Well according to our president we?re fighting generic bad guys called ?terrorists.? And we are somehow to combat them while embracing the faith that spawned them.
While Bush extols the virtues of Islam ? propagandists, hate-mongers, holy warriors, medieval clerics, Saudi billionaires and others who daily plot the destruction of the West must be splitting their sides with laughter.
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2002-11-29 21:23 | User Profile
Jew Feder making propaganda, I am shocked.
2002-12-01 19:37 | User Profile
Its not just a Jew propagandizing, Malachi. Its what's in it.
It is poison, metaphorically. Feder's overall ploy in the piece is to excoriate Bush for "exhaltation", and "extoling the virtues", of Islam, when the president called it a peaceful religion. Now, that's a presidential perogative. A president can't declare a religion evil, to "define the enemy", as Feder and Pipes want him to do, and they know it.
But "Bush has forgotten that reality isn't determined by majority vote", whatever that is supposed to mean. "Bush criticized Christian leaders...(saying) Islam, as practiced by the vast majority of people, is a peaceful religion. This, of course, has been his mantra since 9/11 ? an outrage committed by Lutherans one assumes." sic That is how the quote appears -- the question mark is surely a typographical error, standing for a comma. One is stuck for an interpretation of this reference to Lutherans. Is he accusing Lutheans of 9/11? or of not blaming 9/11 on Islam? Or both? Or is there a difference? It could refer to Shroeder, whose religion I do not know, but would fit the profile of a Lutheran Nazi wanting to help Arabs kill Jews and Americans.
Every point he touches becomes pure poinon, Jewish poison: writing as a Jew, being Jewish, and, with Catholics, targetting Protestants. The entire piece should be re-read from the standpoint of "Reagan Reversals" -- one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. Protestants are the freedom fighter here. Then, read this post again.
First, I note that Feder omits mention of the actual poison incident which, above all others, is associated with 9/11 that terrorized Americans -- the anthrax sent to Senators Leahy and Daschle. The enclosed letter unmistakably signs "Allah" as the sender's patron, intending death for America and Israel, linked. If ever there was a smoking gun forensically indictibng Islam followers of intending to poison those so linked -- Americans; plus citizens of the Jewish state of Israel; fighting One enemy, for the sake of the Bible's God -- this should be it. . How odd it should have been omitted. Isn't it. Except one knows why. The anthrax came from inside the US military-industrial system, where Arab, but not Jewish, biowarfare experts are rare as hens teeth, and even the FBI would probably be able to oust one, if they sent poison from Allah. But if the weaponized anthrax didn't come from an Islamic Arab extremist, then it came from someone(s) who definitely intended it to LOOK LIKE it came from Islamic Arab extremists; and that would be someone like Mr. Feder, who thinks their religion is so wantonly depraved in its value of human life as to be capable of random poisoning. Someone so sure of themselves that anyone who disagreed would be no better than is a Nazi Jew killer.
I am not saying Feder, himself, tried to poison liberal Senators Leahy and Daschle, I am saying the way he metaphorically poisons is functionally equivalent, at the level of communication; and part of the same right-wing Republican mentality.
For instance, he says this on Pakistan: "...where one of Allah's hit squads killed 7 Christians, execution-style, in Karachi on September 25, the fifth such murderous assault on the nation's Christian minority in the past year." But he doesn't know it was "Allah's hit squad". The first of the incidents was at Behawalpur, in southern Pak, where 18 Protestants were slaughtered in a Catholic Church, at a time when the usual congregation would have been there. After which Musharraf, under intense pressure from the Bush administration, started "cracking down" on Islamic militants, helping the war on terrur. I'm not saying Bush, througfh the CIA and Catholics had Protestants slaughtered to help the war on terror. No, no proof of that. I'm just saying the overwhelming presumptive evidence is that it may not have been a worhipper of Allah, at all. It could have been the YAHWAY of Israel, or whatever they call it, plus Mr. DEUS, of the foreskin enthusiasts, or whatever they call it. And if it is, I am saying they are not just psychotic. Not just evil. Something wicked to a degee I curse anything they said in the name of whatever it is they call whatever they say they worship -- them and every fusionist Protestant hooked on their slime.
The next atrocity in Pakistan was in Karachi, also an upscale Protestant educational center next to the US embssy. Also, I'll mention that the Catholic country Peru's military, with help from the CIA, shot down a
Baptist missionary plane last year, straffing it after being down in the wagter, with intent to kill all occupants. We're the liberal's everywhere -- free shots in the back offered to followers of all Jews and Catholics. Protestants take the fall; Jews and Catholics make the call.
"The Phillipines," Feder continues, "a predominantly Catholic country where Moslem terrorists killed...". Or, it could have been CIA hires, dressed up like Muslims, getting a few more Protestants offed.
"That Bush is willing to risk alienating his evangelical Christian support..." -- remember "evangelical" is the Catholic media term for non-Catholic Christians. Fusionists go along with that, like "baby boomers" do -- since they have no balls of their own you can call them anything; or, sometimes balls is all they do have making them not worth calling anything -- and Bush is not "alienating" anyone by criticizing fusionists, just making using the presidency for a pathetic foil, the way Clinton used it for a cathouse -- I call them baby-bomber screw-ups.
"....is evidence of his dogged determination to push the fantasy that we are not fighting Moslems. . .."
Feder knows that the entire "war on terrur"thing is going through on a wag-the dog fantasy level; his is a trick with sign-use comparable to criminal's returning to the scene of the crime. If they are there, dishing fantasy talk at Bush, no one will suspect them of being the fantasymeister. LIke that Catholic traitor Hanssen, always talking tough anti-Soviet communism, while betraying America every day.
As if to show it is the mere touch of Islam as a religion that endangers America, and Israel, Feder cites: "The United States -- where Moslem convert John Allen Muhammed and his boy companion, also a convert to Islam, brought the peace of the grave to ten victims in what has all the earmarks of a personal jihad against infidel Americans."
The same earmarks as on the anthrax letters.
"This is not to say that all Moslems are terrorists," he goes on. "Some in the West have reinterpreted their religion to make it compatible.....But this is the exeption.."
The Jew defining acceptable Islamic thinking. Backed by the Catholics. As by divine coincidence today on Drudge, downloaded: "Pope John Paul II lamented that a clash of civilizations at times seems inevitable". Defining everyone's religion for them. "Mi casa, Su casa, Bro! -- its the old civilization war thing, you know?"
Like, he/they will tell us who our blood "brothers" are.
Well, no. Nobody ever heard of a deck of cards with only three suits. So, too, in the deck marked WESTERN WORLD RELIGIONS, there isn't just "Jewish, Christian, and Muslim" suites, with "Christian" divided into "Catholic" and "Evangelical". There are four suits. In order of newness: Protestant, Muslim, Catholic, Jew. The first two have never been at enmity. Now the second want to make that enmity eternal.
I remark, finally, that the essence of unfreedom is being required to live under another's god dispensation, them claiming it is yours. No human, who is aware of the dignity of their species, is obliged to tolerate that. It says so in the U.S. constitution, one of the ideas America was founded on.
2002-12-02 17:47 | User Profile
Pat Buchanan's, in his current article "Is Islam a religion of peace?", says:
"Yet, while all this violence is the daily fare of our front pages, how many Islamic terrorists, guerrillas, assassins and rioters are there, when you consider that if they add up to 1,000,000, it would be less than 0.1 percent of the Muslims on earth? And not all the causes for which Muslims fight -- independence for Chechnya and Palestine, secession from Russia, Indonesia and China -- are inherently unjust or evil."
Only a small percentage of blacks actually murder or sell drugs. Yet, 95% of blacks vote for crime every time they go to the polls. Likewise, there aren't many Moslems who really object to those Islamic terrorists, guerrillas, assasines, and rioters. The majority enable and protect those who are violent.
It is inescapable that Islam gives Moslems standing orders to be very hostile to non-Moslems. Just like it's impossible to find any civil country ran by blacks, it's impossible to find any country ran by Moslems that isn't very hostile to non-Moslems, no matter how many billions of American dollars flow into their countries or how many people try to claim that Islam means peace.
The Moslem violence is often not justified, as in Kosovo or Nigeria (I also doubt most Moslem secessionist efforts justify violence). And, often when it is justified it is unwise. The Palestinians could have taken over Israel by now if they chose a non-violent tactic, simply because they and Arabs have such potential to overwhelm Jews in number. But, Islam's promotion of violence has prevented Palestinians from taking this more productive route.
2002-12-15 18:48 | User Profile
I agree wholeheartedly with the 'righteous Jew' Don Feder, and I am extremely disgusted with Buchanan's comments. I guess ol' Pat, one of the Reaganite stooges, is trying to sell the old neo-con position that some jihads are ok as long they suit geopolitical (or personal conflict) interests. While he refers to a statistic regarding the small percentage of Islamics engaging in terrorism, he overlooks that fact that damn near all the rest of Islamics support and condone it. Furthermore, it is not easy for more Islamics to engage in terrorism given the limited opportunities for targets. The stat that Pat quotes would be exponentially higher if only a fraction more Westerners were in the Arab/Islamic world or extremely tight security on Western interests was lowered just a bit.
He mentions Chechnya as an example. Well piss on this pseudo-Roman Catholic, I will side with Christians over Islamics anytime, without exception. DEUS LO VULT!!!!!!!!
We can't let our vexations over the motives and actions of 95% of Jews cloud our realization that Islam is the Devil's religion, having been founded on the same theological error (outgrowth of the heresy of Arius and Christological subordinationism) that Lucifer was cast into Hell and became Satan.