5 posts tagged “hatred”
Freedom of Speech and the Press is a Liberty and Right enjoyed in America. It so enjoyed that the good, the bad and the ugly are allowed to be publish as long as there is no libelous material in the publication. Thus pressure from the Left has stroked Free Speech and Free Press to allow malevolent publications as porn and racism (KKK stuff for example). Even here a gray line is drawn in the sand. Explicit wicked porn is publishable, yet kiddie porn is illegal.
I personally do not know the where the line is drawn on racism or hate, but I know you can find a copy of Hitler’s Mein Kampf in your Public Library.
Thus Liberty enables both the good and the bad within the confines of the rule of law.
Now let us look at a nation like Egypt. It is a State that is highly influenced by Mohammedanism. At first glance Egypt’s legal system is based “…on English common law, Islamic law and Napoleonic codes.” (Egypt Information and Facts)
I suspect Islamic law (more than likely sharia law) is the dominant legal reference even thought well over 20% of Egypt’s population are Coptic Christians. Egypt is a dictatorship in which one man calls the shots. There is no Liberty or freedom in Egypt. You can go to jail for criticizing the government or Mohammedanism.
Egypt has an International Annual Book Fair toward the end of January running to early February. Apparently all kinds of fiction and non-fiction publications appear at the Book Fair. Undoubtedly there are no books that are critical of the Egyptian regime or Mohammedanism. Yet there are bounteous selections of gross anti-Semitic literature that is available.
Now think of this combination. Egypt has diplomatic relations via treaty with Israel. Egypt and Israel are not kissing cousins but diplomatic channels exist between the one of the most ominous former enemies of Israel. Egypt and America are allegedly allied in the fight against the War on Terror rhetorically (not militarily).
It is understandable that Egypt is on the side of Arabs calling them selves Palestinians to have a sovereign State formed. So realize this, these Arabs of so-called Palestine are schooled in Jewish hatred form the time the education process begins.
And yet Egypt is in a treaty with Israel and is working with the USA against Islamofascist terrorism. Incidentally Egypt is the location and home of one the largest transnational Islamist group on the planet. That group is known in English as the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood along with Wahhabi aligned Islamists like al-Qaeda wish to see an International Caliphate ruling the globe.
The Egyptian dictatorship (ranging from Nasser to the present Mubarak) has off and on had a hostile relationship. The Egyptian government has regarded the Muslim Brotherhood as a Theo-political rival to the regime. The Egyptian government has off and on persecuted the Muslim Brotherhood and allowed their presence depending on end goal situations for the government. To the Egyptian government’s chagrin the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood is quite popular among the Mohammedan Egyptian masses.
The thing that makes Egypt a wary neighbor is the allowance of the forms of extreme anti-Semitism to be published. As I said Egypt is not a land of Liberty and Freedom. The government could squelch the public publishing of anti-Semitic books and publications that continue to incite Arab hatred toward Israel.
Take pause and wonder: what would Egypt do if Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran joined in an attack on Israel?
The Arms deal concluded between the Bush Administration and the Saudi Monarchy is a disaster waiting to happen in the future. I lament that I have not followed the nuts and bolts of the issue and so I do not know if Congress has to okay the deal. If Congress has to okay the deal let us hope this Democratic controlled Congress has enough brains to indeed prevent the deal from following through.
Walid Phares has an idealistic alternative to the Saudi Arms deal. It is extremely idealistic because it boils to down to one essence: The Saudi Monarchy switching up on the Wahhabi teaching that disseminates from the area and setting new agendas to execute Middle Eastern stability by confronting the Shi’ite radicals of Iran with a new ideology that will hopefully destabilize the Mullah controlled government. The Phares idealism is directed to anti-Khomeini revolutionary Shi’ites, Kurds and Arabs living in Iran. Phares admits (at least to himself) that there is no real idea of whom or where to find this element in Iranian society.
Frankly Mohammedan hate is too entrenched for Phares’ vision to be realized at this moment in time. Something catastrophic would have to happen to the Saudi Monarchy to change its paradigm or face an alternative of the Monarchy imminent demise.
I suspect such a catastrophe would be too late to successfully implement the Phares idealism.
However I do think the Phares idealism can be applied to Mohammedans living in the West. It would take courage to evade the Politically Correct and ban Wahhabi and Khomeinist-Shi’ite literature as teaching tools in the West. I am not saying to have a good ol’ fashion Nazi-Communist-Big Brother book burning, rather if it is taught in schools as hate it is time to prohibit the teaching. I am uncertain of have how to prevent teaching hate in American madrassas and Mosques without infringing on Free Speech, but maybe the government bureaucracies can get some ideas from the ACLU who have effectively stopped the teaching of Christian perspectives in public schools.
Shi’ite Iran and Wahhabi Sunni Taliban have been fierce enemies in the past, so much so that Iran did not complain when America invaded Afghanistan to topple the Taliban regime and it Stateless ally al-Qaeda.
Apparently the deep hatred Sunni and Shi’ites have had for centuries has transformed by mutual hatred of the United States. There have been major indicators that Iran has been supplying weapons and supplies to the Taliban hiding in the Afghan mountains enabling them to be a continuous threat to the anti-Taliban government and American/coalition forces trying to secure Afghanistan.
So here is the picture: Iran says that Israel will soon be wiped off the map; Iran trains and supplies terrorists Hamas (Sunnis in the Gaza), Islamic Jihad (Shi’ites in Gaza) and Hezbollah (Shi’ites in Lebanon); Iran has made mutual defense pacts with Syria and Sudan; Iran has trained and anti-American militant Shi’ites in Iraq; Iran as stated above is aiding the Taliban AND I would say it is a pretty good guess that NOW Iran is aiding al-Qaeda in some form or fashion. This is a bleak picture for Middle Eastern peace particularly as it affects the National Interests of America and Israel.
I must note that these Sunni/Shi’ite alliances are tenable. There mutual hatred could blow up into a division followed by unification due to a perceived American threat. It is quite complicated on who are enemies and friends at any given moment. The only thing that seems to be linear is both Wahhabi and Shi’ite schools of thought desiring a return to medieval harsh Sharia Law, it is only the interpretation that separates the sects and an American ideology of democratic Liberty and an American military presence that unites them.
Statistics of a poll carried out in highly populated Mohammedan lands indicates that they view the American agenda as solely to injure and divide the Mohammedan world. That perception of course is the result of the seeds of radical Mohammedan hate propaganda.
The agenda of America in the War on Terror is primarily Security and secondarily the propagation of American National Interests. It is true that the National Interests may react to such policies that might hamper the American economy; thus oil does come into play. Regardless of the propaganda, oil issues are not about control until it threatens the National Interest.
It would be ridiculous for a global hegemon as U.S. the not to flex its muscles when the National Interests are threatened. The reality of the matter is that if the roles were reversed and oil enriched Mohammedan nations had hegemonic power to match their economic oil prowess; they would flex their muscles if their National Interests were threatened as well.
As it stands now, the oil Mohammedan elites play a political game of carrot and the stick with economics to gain American aid (military protection) and dissuade American protection of Israel. That makes the oil rich hypocrites.
The radical Islamist Mohammedans have seen through the hypocrisy of the Mohammedan elites playing Western politics while offering only a hat tip to the culture spawned by their prophet Mohammed. This is where the “radical” enters in the Middle East and the Mohammedan populace listen with extreme sympathy to the radical barking of the present that reminds of a Mohammedan hegemonic past that ultimately ended with the demise of the Ottoman Empire at the hands of the West.
Mohammedans yearn for the cultic power of the Umma to control the globe and reinstate Mohammed’s vision of conquest and forced conversions by hook or by crook.
Radical Mohammedans are some sort of equivalent to a Mohammedan style Robin Hood. Punish the infidel or convert them regardless of government agendas or alliances. Al Qaeda and the other Islamofascists that look back to medieval purity of their cultic faith win or lose will probably become cultural legends. I for one am on the side that prays they lose with extreme prejudice.
James Lewis is so awesomely correct. If the Medieval loving Mohammedans hate the West then let them also fear the West. The time for Politically Correctness to a group of people who only wish to end our democracies and civilized culture because it is neither Mohammedan nor lined up with Sharia Law needs to have a major paradigm shift.
Islamic radicals (which more and more are winning over so-called Moderates) refer to and the coalition of the willing as being Crusaders. They mean it as an epithet praying that the West will forgot the violence, rape, pillaging and forced conversions by Mohammedan invaders building an empire. If the West wishes this entanglement of victimhood and corresponding violence to continue, then by all means let us propose Appeasement options to Mohammedan aggression. Other wise let us become Crusaders to engage the Saracen.
Does not the West have superior fire power? Do not anti-terrorists experts believe it is only a matter of time until Islamofascists unleash chemical or nuclear WMD? I say let the Islamofascists think real hard of what the consequences would be.
Let the West use their superior military infrastructure to strike fear in Middle Eastern communities that support Islamofascism. If an oil rich and savvy nation threatens with decreased oil, then take over the oil fields. If pro-Islamofascist communities protect or promote terrorists, blow them up. Strike fear in the heart of the so-called Umma. Then Mohammedans will deliver the radical Islamists to the West.
So does the West wish to live a half a century with terrorism (as Israel has) or does the West seriously wish to take off some years by switching from the Leftist paradigm of Appeasement to a paradigm Mohammedans understand: striking fear.
