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Radical Islam, Israel and Agitprop
by Guy Millière
• September 28, 2014 at 5:00 am
Many
Europeans who would laugh at the idea of negotiating with ISIS or al-Qaeda
say that Israel should negotiate with Hamas.
Almost
nobody sees that the invention of the "Palestinian people" has
transformed millions of Arabs into a genocidal weapon to be used against the
Israelis, and even, as in Europe recently, the Jews. Transforming people into
a genocidal weapon is a barbaric act.
Israel
was urged to find ways to coexist peacefully with people who did not want to
co-exist with it. Terrorism against Israel fast became acceptable: a
"good" terrorism.
Hamas's
stated aim is the destruction of Israel. Its stated way to achieve this aim is
terror attacks, called "armed struggle" by Hamas leaders. To this
day the Palestinian Authority has not ceased praising and promoting
terrorism.
If hatred
of Israel is increasing in the U.S., it is largely confined to academics and
other extreme radical circles, many of which are funding or receiving funding
from Soviet-style agitprop organizations. Journalists are recruited to
disseminate descriptions of "facts" as if they were real facts.
Pseudo-historians rewrote the history of the Middle East. The falsified
version of history replaced history.
Understanding radical Islam requires going back to its roots.
The Christian idea of rendering "unto Caesar that which is Caesar's
and unto God that which is God's" never existed in Islam. Its absence
has had consequences, including, possibly, the decline of the Muslim civilization
and the feeling of humiliation that resulted.
During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when Muslim
clerics observed that that the Islamic world was not keeping pace with the
West and was on the verge of collapse, they may have decided they needed
answers.
Some of these clerics turned to the West, where they chose to study
Western political ideas. They spoke of necessary reforms, and created secret
societies and nationalist organizations.
Other clerics chose dogmatic, strict readings of the Quran. They found
inspiration in the writings of Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab and in the
established fundamentalist movements.
Slaying Ever Smaller Dragons
by Douglas Murray
• September 28, 2014 at 4:00 am
Having
slayed, or helped to slay, a dragon, they spend their days stalking the land
and looking for ever more glorious fights — but with a diminishing supply of
dragons. Eventually they may be caught either swiping at thin air,
identifying friends as foes — or mistaking foes for friends.
So
fixated were they on trying to stop the opposition from getting any electoral
support that they used their energies to suppress a film that would have
brought the first-hand testimonies of raped children to wider public
attention at the first possible moment.
Cases such as the gang-rape of 1400 girls in Rotherham, England often
cause a media fuss for a week or so, then the fuss tends to die down. But it
ought not to. Otherwise those responsible are never held to account and few
of the lessons that should to be learned ever are.
Police Commissioner Shaun Wright, who presided over much of that
disgrace, has done an amazing thing and actually resigned. Many of us had
assumed that he would stay in his highly-paid office until his term was up,
just as Joanna Simons of Oxfordshire County Council managed to stay after
presiding over an identical case in her area a year ago (she subsequently
offered a self-pitying "lessons have been learned" apology of her
own). But welcome as it is, one resignation does not address a systemic and
indeed societal, failure.
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