The New York Times has run an op-ed entitled, ‘The Overblown Islamist Threat.’ Big surprise: There’s no Islamist threat! They’re all moderates! Just like in 1979 Iran or in Turkey more recently. Do you think we might see an oped in The New York Times entitled, ‘The Islamist Threat is Very Real?’ Of course not.
But the real surprise is the author’s identity. It’s former Jordanian foreign minister Marwan Muasher. Huh? Jordan’s policy on Islamism has been based precisely on the idea that letting them take power would be the end of the regime and a disaster for the country.
Time to wake up to reality. How can Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas believe in peace with Israel when he doesn’t believe that Israel exists as a country? He claims all of Israel as part of his proposed “Palestinian” state:
Every day in the Middle East, terrible things take place. The worst are the material acts of violence and oppression. The second-worst are the lies and distortions of truth that help ensure things don’t get better. Every day in the West, the lies are echoed, amplified, and invented. This also helps ensure things don’t get better in the Middle East and that they do get worse in the West.
Now I’ve found, from the most unexpected place, a single sentence, an ancient proverb, that explains it all. It comes from the Navahos and it goes like this:
You cannot awaken someone who pretends to be sleeping.
Tunisia, where the 2011 Arab uprisings began, remains an ominous model for where these uprisings will end.
The nation’s first round of elections are in, and, as expected, the Islamist party, al-Nahda, won by a landslide, gaining over 40% of the seats in the national constituent assembly. As usual, the mainstream media, interpreting events exclusively through a Western paradigm, portrayed this largely as a positive development.
Kudos to American television comedian David Letterman! On June 5, 2011, Letterman smiled and drew his finger across his own throat on his CBS program “Late Show with David Letterman” to celebrate the U.S. military’s reported killing of Ilyas Kashmiri, an Islamist terrorist who apparently was the head of Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami and a senior al-Qaeda leader. Kashmiri reportedly was one of the leading organizers of the deadly November 2008 Mumbai attacks in India, which killed 164 innocent people and wounded at least 308. He was also recently indicted in U.S. federal court for conspiring with other terrorists to plan a Mumbai-style attack in Denmark, directed at the newspaper Jyllands-Posten, the newspaper that had published the infamous Mohammed cartoons. For good measure, Letterman also insulted Osama bin Laden during the same broadcast.
A young woman, 22 years of age, in her final year at York University (in Toronto, Canada) was looking for a course to fill out her credit requirements at the beginning of the new fall session. Sarah is her name — a quiet and confident woman who just wanted to maintain her good grade average and complete her education. She had never imagined getting involved in any politics or controversies on the way home to the graduation finish line.
Agence France Press reports that the Palestinian bid for UN recognition of unilateral statehood is “causing diplomatic panic” in the United States and Israel.
While Israel is certainly concerned, I think “panic” is totally wrong as a description. After all, Israel’s overwhelming interpretation is that the UN event will change nothing. As for U.S. panic, where has the Obama Administration been for the last year when this outcome was totally predictable?
The Associated Press says that Israel is “increasingly isolated” ahead of the vote. I don’t think that’s how Israelis look at this either. We know that cynicism makes sense — various countries will vote for the resolution or abstain purely to get popularity points with Arab and Muslim-majority states and then do nothing.
On September 16, 2011, the New York Times actually used the word “Islamist” in a front page story — not as often or as prominently as the word “militant” but still, there it was — and in an article titled “At White House, Weighing Limits of Terror Fight.”
For all those who are invested in the Lie that the infidels (i.e. Western civilization} are not under attack, allow me to point out that the anti-Israel and anti-American Paper of Record had, altogether, three articles on the front page about Afghanistan, Bahrain, and about “Islamist militants in Yemen and Somalia” as well as about “Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, based in Yemen, and the Somalia-based Shabab;” “Al Qaeda operating in Afghanistan … and in the tribal regions of Pakistan.”
When reading Western reports dealing with Islam, one must learn to read between the lines. Many of these reports do state the actual facts; but without providing proper context, Western readers are often left to interpret the information according to their own understandings.
One example: the ubiquitous term “sectarian strife” to describe Muslim-Christian clashes in the Middle East is factually correct; yet “sectarian strife” connotes comparable forces fighting one another, when in reality it is often nothing less than a vastly outnumbered Christian minority being grossly oppressed by Muslim majorities, as has happened for centuries.
The American TV network TLC recently announced that it is making a reality series following the lives of Muslims living in America. The program — called “All American Muslim” — will follow five Muslim families in Dearborn, Michigan, hoping to expose the “misconceptions and conflicts” they face “outside and within” their own community… In a statement TLC’s general manager Amy Winter said: …”Through these families and their diverse experiences, we will explore how they blend their values and traditions with everyday life in America.” She added the program would provide: “Insight into their culture with care and compassion.”
In other words, at a time when the need for objective knowledge concerning Islam is at a premium, many Americans are to be subliminally indoctrinated on what Islam is really about — not through Muslim theology or history, nor yet politics and current events — but rather by a “reality” show of a handful of American Muslims.
Despite my own copious critiques, even I must concede that the American mainstream media really does print the bad news about Islamic gender apartheid — but it does so without drawing any “politically incorrect” conclusions, not even on their op-ed pages.
Over the years, the American mainstream media has printed articles about Islamic and African female genital mutilation, the public gang-rapes of innocent young girls in Pakistan (like Mukhtaran Bibi) and the repeated gang-rapes of girls and women in Darfur by ethnic Arab Muslims (the New York Times simply refused to use the word “Muslim”). The media has covered the disfiguring acid attacks on girls and women in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran. Maddeningly, it draws no conclusion.
Scandinavia may look idyllic from a distance, what with royal families and prime ministers almost without security, but it has endured its fair share of violence, from the assassinations of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme and foreign minister Anna Lindh to two school massacres in one year in Finland, one killing eight, the other ten. Anders Behring Breivik’s rampage, in other words, was hardly unprecedented.
The Murdoch newspaper debacle is about more than bad judgment and surreptitious illegal wiretaps being used to uncover news and gossip. It also reveals the lengths leftist media chains (the mainstream media or “MSM”) will go to attack the right in competition for readership and survival and it will determine who dominates the news henceforth. The end result of this scandal will most likely diminish the voice of the right and then usher in the era of unchecked and unchallenged left-wing print media. The leftist newspaper industry is rubbing its hands with glee as they exact their revenge. For example, the Guardian, in a barrage of accusations against Murdoch, was so eager to dump on him that its editors had to make an apology for misinformation because of their overzealous reporting on the scandal.
On a previous occasion the U.N. gave the Israel annihilation file to Richard Goldstone. This time they gave it to Richard Falk, “special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories for the United Nations Human Rights Council.” “Special” is not a word that I would apply to Falk unless it were in the context of a special coward and racist.
Falk’s cartoon shows a mad dog with a yarmulke (inscribed with the Star of David) eating the bones of a baby while pissing on the leg of Lady Justice. Lady Justice has the Jew dog on a leash and the dog has a clearly marked coat with “USA” on it — highlighting U.S. control over Israel as Israel pisses on the leg of the U.S. and devours children, presumably Palestinian children. This blood libel, a specialty of Jew haters over the ages, was pulled from Falk’s blog with an apology to dogs everywhere for comparing them to Jews: “We must … treat animals with as much respect as possible.”
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