How can the West expect a placid reaction to their own actions when they have massacred more than 1,300,000 Iraqis, let alone the Afghans and the support given to Israel for their vicious savagery in Lebanon and Gaza?
ABC'S Christiane Amanpour
Westerners, especially Americans, often look at violence in the Middle East as a result of the teachings of Islam.
This week’s talk show by Christine Amanpour’s spent the better part of two hours discussing Islam and how people are reacting to Islam as a source of fanaticism publicised in the press.
The Western public has been seduced into believing that reactions of “extremists” have something to do with Islam. Extremist reprisals have nothing to do with religion. They are expressions of revenge. Anti-American reactions have been what Reverend Jeremiah Wright called “bringing the chickens home to roost.”
How can the West expect a placid reaction to their own actions when they have massacred more than 1,300,000 Iraqis, let alone the Afghans and the support given to Israel for their vicious savagery in Lebanon and Gaza?
How can we expect anything but calls for retribution when the agonizing stories of innocent victims of military atrocities get told and retold?
Just this week, the New York Times published the unusual report of a grotesque story from a small village in Kandahar Province in Afghanistan.
A woman told how American military men took her husband, a local mullah in Maiwand, out of their house, forced him to the ground, put a grenade under his body and blew him up.
The mullah was the third victim of soldiers who killed Afghan civilians for no apparent reason. Is this the kind of activity that’s supposed to endear people around the world to America?
According to the New York Times, “Local elders estimate that in the past eight months at least 42 civilians have been killed in Maiwand during American operations.”
Expand that relatively small area to the much larger scope of American military action in the Middle East and the incentives for revenge multiply.
One Afghan elder reportedly said, “The Americans have killed many people who did not support the Taliban, which is painful for us and actually creates hatred toward Americans.”
In another incident reported by the New York Times this week, five soldiers are facing potential courts-martial on charges that they killed Afghan civilians for sport.
The report says they were “planting weapons near them (Afghans) to fake combat situations, collecting their body parts and taking photographs posing with their corpses.”
Also this week, a chicken that came home to roost was tried in New York. Pakistani born Faisal Shahzad, who planted a car bomb in Times Square, New York on May 1st, was sentenced to life in prison.
MSNBC reported that Shahzad came to court to tell Americans he felt no remorse about his May 1 bombing attempt. “Brace yourselves, because the war with Muslims has just begun,” said Shahzad.
It’s a great anomaly that Americans expect the extremists to feel remorse for their acts of revenge when most Americans express no remorse over our mindless murder and maiming of innocents abroad.
Moderate and peace loving, as all but the very few extremists like Shahzad are, Muslims are innocent victims of hate and hate crimes.
Writing in the Princetonian, Adam Bradlow observed “Intolerance toward Muslims has become part of the new norm.”
Anti mosque rallies have broken out in at least four states, including the recent protests against the “ground zero” Community Centre in New York.
Speaking out against the Centre, past speaker of the US Congress Newt Gingrich called it “an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization.”
Elizabeth Madrid, editor of the Tennessee Journal, reminds her readers, and hopefully Gingrich, that “A handful of extremists cannot rightly represent the entire Muslim faith.”
Paul J. Balles is a retired American university professor and freelance writer who has lived in the Middle East for many years. He’s a weekly Op-Ed columnist for the Gulf Daily News. Dr. Balles is also Editorial Consultant for Red House Marketing and a regular contributor to Bahrain This Month.
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It’s people like Christine Amanpour who give bad name to Islam and serve the anti-Islam western imperialism.
Ask her if she has the stomach to lecture Jews and Christians not to bite the very hands which feed them?
On October 7, 2010 – Israeli daily The Jerusalem Post reported that the FBI has arrested a Jew employee of Akamai Technologies Elliot Doxer for providing confidential information over 18-month to a FBI agent he thought worked for Israeli Consulate in Boston…..
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2010/10/10/israel-country-x/
“President Bush and President Obama made a great mistake when they said that Islam is a peaceful religion. There is no evidence in history. It’s a religion of hatred. It’s a religion of war. Islam is wicked and evil,” Rev. Franklin Graham on Christiane Amanpour’s ABC “Holy War: Should Americans Fear Islam?”, October 3, 2010. British-born Christiane Amanpour (born 1958) has British mother and an Iranian Father. She was projected as an ‘expert’ on Islamic world during her career with BBC begining in 1983. In fact, she has never worked outside the Jewish-controlled mainstream media.
Islam is certainly not a “Religion of Peace” as defined by the Zionist facists. To them, a total submission of Muslims to foreign domination would only make their religion “peaceful”. History read from objective sources tells us that it were Muslim countries where the western Jews took refuge to escape centuries-old Christian persecution. It was Israeli professor Israel Shahak who said that Jewish religious literature is the most racist, hateful and war-mongering among the world religions. It were the Judeo-Christian West which wiped-off entire Muslim and Jewish population in Spain (1492 CE) and Palestine (1099 CE). It were they who killed 100-180 million Native Americans between 16th and 18th centuries. It were they who killed 100 million Africans so that they can have 10 million African slaves to run their households and plantations. It were they who killed over 110 million civilians during the two World Wars. It were they who murdered 100 million Christians and Muslims in Russia and Ukraine under Jewish-communist rule.
Another recent religious crap came from Laurie Goodstein, the Jewish ‘religious correspondent’ for the New York Times and the Washington Post. Her guests were Chris Hitchens and Dr. Tariq Ramadan (watch video below). Author and writer for many of pro-Israel printed media outlets, Chris Hitchens, is a known ‘Islamophobe’. He called Muslim World as “fascism with an Islamic face”. He supported Salman Rushdie for writing filth against Islam. He is also part of Israel Hasbara (propaganda) Committee. However, like a coward, Chris Hitchens, like to hide his hatred of Islam behind his so-called being ‘secular humanist’. Tariq Ramadan, who was projected as the Muslim Martin Luther before 2004 – has become Muslim Helen Thomas since his criticism of fellow Jew humanists for not criticizing Israel’s Zionazi policies.
Laurie Goodstein’s problem with Islam is that since there is no Papacy in Islam or any other religious Establishment – some Islamic scholars preach hatred toward Jews and Israel. Chris Hitchens commented: “Islam requires the belief that the Prophet Muhammad was a perfect human being and that Koran is a perfect book. These are categories that do not exist. Yet any challenge to them is heresy. The demands that you believe these imperatives do not lead to peaceful outcomes. If you want diversity, you need a secular state with a godless constitution. Secularism is the only guarantee of religious freedom”.
If some fool believes in Chris Hitchens’ rant – it means there is no ‘secular state’ in the West – where both Christianity and Islam are insulted and vilified while Holocaust has replaced as the ‘State Religion’.
Incidently, it was a western Christian historian, Michael H. Hart, who in his book The 100 chose the Prophet muhammad (pbuh) as the most “perfect human being”.
YES – there is no Papacy in Islam. The Believers are commanded to follow Holy Qur’an, Prophetic traditions and the Islamic Shari’ah. Both Judaism and Christianity are tribal or national religions and their human-written religious doctrines do not cover every aspect of human needs.
YES – unlike the Bible and Talmud, Holy Qur’an project all the Biblical prophets as “perfect human being”. It doesn’t portray some of those prophets as ‘sex-maniac’, ‘cheaters’, ‘racists’, ‘illegitimate’ and disrespectful to their parents – as the Bible and Talmud do.
There was no seperation of religion and State in the early Abrahamic divine messages. Several of the Biblical prophets were state rulers, i.e. Joseph, David, Solomon, etc.
YES – all the evil political/social systems hide themselves behind the “godless constitution”, such as, Nazism, Zionism, Communism, Moaism and Benito Mussolini’s fascism.
There is no ‘Holy War’ in Islam. Like ‘anti-Semitism’ this term was brought to the Muslim world by the Judeo-Christian fascism. In Islamic history, Crusades are considered as a ‘pain in the neck’. Jihad is not a ‘Holy War’. It’s the last alternative to keep the evildoers at a bay. Islam teaches its Believers to apply all peaceful ways to bring enemies to their senses (like the current Islamic Iran vs the US-Israel) – but if every honorable alternative fail – then teach the enemy a lesson it will never forget.
Islam was spread by Muslim traders and preacers in Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Philippines, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Bosnia and several parts of Indian sub-continent and not by Muslim military invasions.
And finally, I would like to give some credit to Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf for tailoring Islam to fit into the ‘Zionist closet’. The ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ fame dude was appointed “US Citizen Ambassador” by Dubya Bush, a position extended by Ben Obama – to modernize Islam in the image of the Zionist-controlled West. Although, Feisal Abdul Rauf has been accused of having ties with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Hamas and Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood – he preferred to go on his knees begging to the powerful Jewish think tank, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), for help to fight the ‘extremists’ among the Muslims. He even got his picture removed from Malaysia’s Perdana Global Peace Organization in protest to the organization’s financial support to Gaza Freedom flotilla. His friends include Zionists like Karen Hughes and millionaire Leslie Deak.
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2010/10/11/is-islam-religion-of-peace/
Why is USA loosing?
The people of America are made addicted to every thing which has no meaningful purpose in life.
They have been made couch potatoes by their home entertainment, which provides a cheap and abyss fat gathering class who are only working like machines doing one job after the other to just keep up with their expenses and the rising taxes and rising responsibilities, that increases with the passage of time.
Every now and then an election is scheduled where in they are made to vote for an individual who has yet to perform and who has been hyped by the media in such a manner that the people have to vote one or the other, out of mostly the two main contenders, and take a back seat for the next four years for that incumbent to either perform as per his/her promise or doom the country if the promise is missed.
The affairs of USA are more or less given on contract and are managed by the Lobbying firms or the Groups that have clouts and the machinery of the State are slaves of these power firms that hold the entire country hostage to their way of thinking or the way of thinking of their paymasters.
The working class is just like the workers of an ant colony. They toil for the queen, here the queen are the Media, the Corporations, the vested and interested groups and those that have foreign or ulterior interest in the slavery of the American people to be kept as slaves.
Americans are made to buy highest costing goods measured in monetary terms, compared to the same goods else where in the world, just because they are “Branded.” Who brands them? What is the purpose of Branding? Why does the cost go so high for the branded goods? No one knows the answers and no one is made responsible for the loot of the hard earned money of the American citizens siphoned off to God knows where and how, and what becomes of their money once they have left their hands?
Americans are the most “used” nation of the world, because their people have toiled to become the greatest nation of the world. However, do they get the fruit of their toil? No. They are made to toil further with the passage of every day. No one knows why and who benefits from their toiling except that they are most certainly not the benefactors.
Americans are the most indebted nation of the world. Can you imagine? The earners of the highest per capita income are the most indebted. Indebted to whom? Indebted to the Federal Reserve. Who is Federal Reserve? They are bunch of Bankers and owners of Financial Institutions who have made the life of the Americans mortgaged for the money they have loaned to the American Government. What the hell did the American Government do with the money they mortgaged their entire life for? The Governments in succession spent to make the Corporations, the Bankers and the ones who lobby for them, to keep these corrupt politicians in power, more resourceful. With whose money? With the money of the Federal Reserve, borrowed for this purpose. Where did the Federal Reserve get this money? They either printed it or credited in the accounts of the Government to be spent, without any collaterals. I am writing this and I am getting hic-up, I don’t know how the general readers will feel about it?
Every American except those that are controlling the Banks, the Financial Institutions, the Corporations and the Politicians are getting rich with the passage of each mili-second, and the general public of America is getting poor in the same ratio and proportion, except, that those who are getting poor, are about 300 million Americans, and those getting rich from their misery are 30,000 ultra rich Americans, and other nationals.
There is inbuilt lava of resentment for the people who are cheating on the vast majority of the Americans. This resentment is deluding and dissolving the American patriotism towards America by the people. The people of America are getting frustrated with the Nationalist concept. The people are increasingly being felt cheated. The isolation of the vast majority of Americans with increasing individual debts and a society which is divided on lines of poverty never seen before in the history of America is wasting the resources of the greatness of America which lies in the wealth of the people that make America great.
The looters have not made America. The people have.
If American people loose their patriotism towards America, America will loose itself and there will be a very big gap felt, just like the vacuum felt when USSR dissolved.
The media controlled by the Jews have made the Americans addicted to the protection of Jews State of Israel, which is consuming bulk of its economic resources, it is a luxury America cannot afford and has to give up, for its own survival.