Just joking.
The Islamic terrorists keep telling us that their barbaric massacres and homicide bombings are being done in the name of Islam. Muslim organizations keep insisting that Islam is a religion of peace. Even as civilian blood cries out for justice, or for security, the intelligentsia warn us that Muslims and Islam are not the problem, that American foreign policy and Zionism are the real problem. The Western mainstream media refuse to take the barbarians at their word lest they be accused of “racism” or “Islamophobia.”
For example, in yesterday’s New York Times‘ front page coverage of the Mumbai massacre, the reporters do not describe the terrorists as “Islamic terrorists.” Instead, they refer to them as “Pakistani-based militants,” “militants,” “gunmen, (five or six times)” “attackers,” and “suspects.” They quote President Bush who referred to them as “killers.” They quote the head of India’s National Security Guards who called them “terrorists.” Once or twice they mention India’s “vulnerability to terrorism” but they do not join Islam, Islamism, or fundamentalist Islam to terrorism.
This mis-use of language, even for an ostensibly noble purpose, will only further confuse us and slow down a collective response to the Islamic terrorist attacks against civilians.
Martha Nussbaum, in the Los Angeles Times, writes that Hindus also massacre Muslims and refers to the awful carnage of Muslims in Gujarat.
Dorothy Rabinowitz, in the Wall Street Journal, notes that, in a television interview, Deepak Chopra (!) quickly blamed United States foreign policy, not Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism, for the Mumbai massacre; when challenged, he genially conceded that the massacre was really “everyone’s” fault.
Everyone’s fault; Muslim fundamentalist terrorists excluded.
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1. Fausta’s Blog » Blog Archive » Deepak who?:[...] Everyone’s fault; Muslim fundamentalist terrorists excluded. [...]
Dec 1, 2008 - 4:29 pm 2. George Jochnowitz:If “peace” means the goal of killing everybody else and surviving alone and unopposed, then Islam is a religion of peace.
Dec 1, 2008 - 8:10 pm 3. Kirk Petersen:Ms. Chesler,
I’ve quoted you and others in a discussion of “What’s the Matter With Islam?”
Dec 2, 2008 - 6:31 am 4. Pajamas Media » Post-Mumbai, War on Terror Takes a New Direction:[...] the Indian massacre has huge implications for U.S. foreign policy. (Also, Phyllis Chesler asks when Islamic clerics will condemn the attack.) December 2, 2008 – by Patrick [...]
Dec 2, 2008 - 7:37 am 5. Jonesy55:‘A Muslim cemetery rejected the corpses of the nine dead gunmen and its officials said “Islam does not permit this sort of barbaric crime.”
“People who committed this heinous crime cannot be called Muslim,” said Hanif Nalkhande, a trustee of the influential Jama Masjid Trust, which runs the Badakabrastan graveyard in downtown Mumbai.
While some Muslim scholars disagreed with the decision _ saying Islam requires a proper burial for every Muslim – the city’s other Muslim graveyards are likely to do the same.
‘
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/12/2/apworld/20081202105222&sec=apworld
I don’t see any of the (presumably) muslim commenters in the Malaysian Star blog praising these scum either.
http://blog.thestar.com.my/permalink.asp?id=19764
Dec 2, 2008 - 8:56 am 6. cfbleachers:While it remains more important to be politically correct than it is to implement strategically correct procedures for the safety and security of our citizens…there will NEVER be a need for anyone else to stand up and be counted.
We have completely lost our ability to know where the line is crossed. We have entered a period in time whereby facts, truth and evidence enter a political correctness black hole and are compressed into a single point. Blame America, Jews and the West…in that order.
Blameholes. It really doesn’t matter, those facts on the ground, not at all. The singularity point in a blamehole is always the same and any matter is no matter.
Blameholes and bend, twist, distort and compress any set of facts, any chain of evidence, any clue in an investigation for the truth into the singularity point and it eliminates the need for critical thought or honesty about every situation that arises.
Therefore, the entrenched tank and tingle media, the pop culture bolo clowns from Chopra to Oprah can simply do their Stepford Wives thing and spit out the preprogrammed pap for their mindless masses.
The clerics and really ANY enemy of the blamehole crowd, simply don’t need to engage any longer. Why apologize, when the blameholes will fix the answer for you? Why stand up to be counted when the blameholes will allow you to sit back and relax while the farce plays out in your favor?
I really don’t fault the clerics any longer. In fact, I don’t fault any foreign despot, any terrorist thug, any enemy of state…for this strategic ploy.
I blame the cowards, liars and traitors who live here and knowingly weaken this country because it is more important to them to be leftist and than it is to confront enemies who wish us harm. Timeshare Americans, they look for and find reasons to trash us and prop up enemies…so that they can look like a “hip world citizen” rather than a jingoistic patriot.
They become little blameholes, join the entrenched media and become big blameholes. They are countrymen in name only.
And the more vociferous ones are flaming blameholes.
Dec 2, 2008 - 9:14 am 7. susan:In my country, muslims behind doors admit that they are playing “nice” up until they are a majority, then the gloves will be off and it will be sharia time like in the TOTALITY of muslim majority country.
I do not believe for a second in the “condemnations” by clerics because it is obvious a convenient facade.
Even the pedo-prophet muhammad played “nice” to the tribes of arabia, up until he was military strong enough and had enough followers to behade anyone.
Actually those loud acts get in the way of the implementation of sharia and muslim supremacy through demographic means.
They plan to re-establish the caliphate when the numbers will be in their favour.
Only a stupid cannot realize this.
Dec 2, 2008 - 11:20 am 8. Norman Simms:Alas, since every victim was tortured and their bodies booby-trapped with handgrenades in Chabad House and 2-3 terrorists went there out of the 10-12 supposedly involved in the Mumbai Outrage, then perhaps all the other attacks in the city were diversions to this: the main aim to kill Jews.
Normaan
Dec 2, 2008 - 11:40 am 9. Raja:To me, these terrorists are :
1. whom the country and their religion will be ashamed of. If anybody out their feels proud of what these people are doing, they should look at themselves in mirror to see if they can see reflection of demon.
2. barbaric, stupid, not worthy to be mentioned of humans.
3. who make their parents feel so ashamed why does not the earth is opening under their feet when they heard news of their kids being involved. If these parents do not feel remorse or ashamed, then religion and god should be. As, they were never taught to know difference between sacrifice and barbarism due to stupidity.
In event of drastic act like this, People should stop complaining that their sect is being picked up or targeted. People should realize that law-enforcing people wont target a certain group or sect for every crime. If theft is occurred, then people pick up the people associated with suspect. Same case would be for murderer, riots, and terrorism. It is always “by association”. Resolving case of this magnitude should not differentiate the nationality, religion, sect, caste, sex or anything. It would be unfortunate if they all happen to belong to a same country or religion. They should cooperate to weed out and improve image of one’s own country, religion, sect and humanity..
Please don’t see which country or religion or sex these barbarians belong to. As, these barbarians don’t bother whom they are inflicting pain upon (like mosquitoes).
And last thing, these people should not be called any more mujaheddens. They should be called as cowards, mosquitoes, and not as or fidayeens but as cockroaches. Like cockroaches, they come out in dark and are afraid of people. But they don’t stop coming out when no one is looking.
Just like cockroaches cannot be completely destroyed, so does these people. However, we need to think of containing them to a smaller and smaller space/region.
Dec 2, 2008 - 12:14 pm 10. ratt:I expect the following responses:
1. Usual hand wringing and woe is me/victim idealogy from the moderate Muslims.
2. Claims of “these acts are so heinous that they could not have been done by Muslims”…..thereby absolvement and any responsibility.
3. Claims of the Mumbai attacks as a case of false flag terror.
As an example of (3), check out this link:
Dec 2, 2008 - 1:20 pm 11. kevin c:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Pak_TV_channel_says_2611_hatched_by_Hindu_Zionists/articleshow/3785654.cms
THE REAL REASON YOU WONT HEAR ANY MOSLEM CLERICS CRITICIZING THIS MASSACRE IS SIMPLE-THEY AGREE WITH IT. ISLAM IS NOT A “RELIGION” ,IT IS A SUPREMACIST IDEOLOGY. THATS WHAT IS TAUGHT IN THE MOSQUES WORLDWIDE, THE KORAN IS NEVER WRONG ABOUT ANYTHING, THE KORAN EXCUSES ANY MOSLEM FOR ANY CRIME AS LONG AS ITS AGAINST AN “INFIDEL” OR A “KAFIR”. IN THE US WE NEED TO GET IT RIGHT. CLOSE THE MOSQUE,DEPORT ALL MOSLEMS. THEY ARE THE ENEMY WITHIN. RESTRICT IMMIGRATION-NO MORE MOSLEMS ALLOWED TO ENTER. STOP DOING BUSINESS WITH MOSLEM COUNTRIES. LETS SEE WHAT THE LAZY SAUDIS CAN DO WITHOUT OUR DRILLING EQUIPMENT. AND GIVE ISRAEL WHATEVER THEY NEED TO CRUSH THESE SCUM,SINCE THEY HAVE THE BALLS TO DO WHAT WE WONT.
Dec 2, 2008 - 2:01 pm 12. kevin c:AND BY THE WAY-WHOS THIS PAKASTANI DRUG RUNNER WHO HELPED THEM-DAEWOOD SOMETHING OR OTHER. IVE HEARD INTERPOL WANTS THIS GUY, BUT THE LOCALS WONT TAKE HIM EVEN THOUGH HE LIVES IN A HUGE MANSION IN KARACHI. IVE EVEN HEARD HES HAD CONTACTS WITH BIN LADEN AND ZAWAHARI. THIS IS YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE PHONIESS OF ISLAM. I THOUGHT THEY HATED DRUGS. EXCPET WHEN THEY CAN PROFIT FROM SELLING THEM OR DISTRIBUTING THEM. THERE HYPOCRISY SOUNDS AN AWFUL LOT LIKE THE COMMUNISTS AND THE NAZIS. I SHOULDNT BE SUPRISED. AFTER ALL, THE COMMIES AND NAZIS ARE SUPREMACISTS ALSO.
Dec 2, 2008 - 2:07 pm 13. Yaakov Watkins:I object to the use of the term “reporter” to refer to New York Times writers. It has not been established that they are bonafide reporters. It is doubtful that they have actually gone out into the field and gathered news. Nor has it been established that they are journalists. It is clear that they have put their work into the computer at the Times so the proper terminology might be “typist.”
Dec 2, 2008 - 7:20 pm 14. Iman Infadel:Just who exactly is the Pope of the Muslims? That clown has some explaining to do.
Dec 3, 2008 - 7:46 am 15. Éamonn:Well done, Phyllis! Call it as it is. Here in Ireland, it’s just the same as you say: don’t mention the Muslims! If one asks the senior Muslims here, as I have done, why they never speak out against the terrorism of their brethren, their response is always the same – “we do”!! I don’t know where they “do”, but it must be in a whisper, down a hole. Until the ordinary citizens awaken from their apathetic slumber, the universal left wing liberal media will continue to ignore the facts and, whilst feeling very free to insult and denigrate Christianity and Judaism, et al, will refuse to say anything even mildly negative about the curse that is militant Islam. And, unless the so-called “moderate” Muslims begin to object to the atrocities committed in their name, perhaps I should even drop the word “militant” from my previous sentence.
Dec 3, 2008 - 1:07 pm