(10Sept 06) This shouldn't be necessary, but 5 years on there some barking mad types who seriously believe the conspiracy bunk even though Bin Laden has fesssed up…or did they conveniently miss that bit.
“…Wild conspiracy tales are peddled daily on the internet, talk radio and in other media. Blurry photos, quotes taken out of context and sketchy eyewitness accounts have inspired a slew of elaborate theories… Debunking 9/11 myths Popular Mechanics “…To investigate 16 of the most prevalent claims made by conspiracy theorists, Popular Mechanics assembled a team of nine researchers and reporters who, together with PM editors, consulted more than 70 professionals in fields that form the core content of this magazine, including aviation, engineering and the military. In the end, we were able to debunk each of these assertions with hard evidence and a healthy dose of common sense….”
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(9July06) “…The day after tomorrow, Britain commemorates a sombre anniversary that is also ringing the loudest of alarm bells. One year on from last July's London bombings by two groups of British Muslim boys, the mortal threat to Britain from Islamist terror appears to have increased many times over… Many thousands of British Muslims are patriotic, law-abiding citizens. Indeed, last weekend saw the death in action of a British Muslim soldier, Jabron Hashmi, who was killed fighting for his country against the Taliban in Afghanistan . Yet according to the Populous poll, 13 per cent of Britain's 1.6 million Muslims believe the 7/7 bombers should be regarded as martyrs; between seven and 16 per cent per cent think suicide attacks on British targets can be justified; and two per cent would be proud if a family member joined al Qaeda, with a further 16 per cent who would be indifferent….. The disturbing fact is that, even after 7/7, both the political and security establishment and large parts of the Muslim community are in a lethal state of denial. They are refusing to acknowledge the true causes of the terrorist threat and taking refuge instead in various alibis…” State of Denial by Melanie Phillips “…In particular, what needs to be combated with the utmost vigour is the Muslim culture of grievance, the paranoid belief that the west is engaged in a conspiracy to aggressively attack and destroy the Islamic world… the establishment — which, in the name of multiculturalism, has a long record of appeasing minorities — is terrified to identify the cause of this terrorism as religious fanaticism, because it fears this might tar all Muslims with the same brush… It is beyond belief that nothing is being done to stop the recruitment and incitement to violence taking place not just in mosques and madrassahs but on campus, in youth clubs and in prisons... The July bombings were a wake-up call that has not yet been heeded. Only if Britain wakes up from its trance will it avoid even worse tragedies to come…”
The Terrorists' Motivation: Islam
(16 May06) “…The near silence about the true role of Islam in motivating Islamic terrorists has two main causes: multiculturalism and religion. Multiculturalism asserts that all cultures are equal and therefore none may criticize another; intellectuals and politicians are therefore reluctant to declare the obvious superiority of Western culture to Islamic culture….Islam, like all religions, rejects reason as a means of gaining knowledge and guiding action; it holds that all important truths are grasped by faith in supernatural beings and sacred texts. The Koran explicitly states that knowledge comes from revelation, not thinking….Islam advocates the subordination of every sphere of life to religious dogma, including the legal system, politics, economics, and family life; the word "Islam" means literally: submission. The individual is not supposed to think independently but to selflessly subordinate himself to the dictates of his religion and its theocratic representatives…” The Terrorists' Motivation: Islam by Edwin A Locke and Alex Epstein “…The Koran is replete with calls to take up arms in its name…These ideas easily lead to fanaticism and terrorism. In fact, what is often referred to as the "fanaticism" of many Muslims is explicitly endorsed by their religion ….It is true that many Muslims who live in the West (like most Christians) reject religious fanaticism and are law-abiding and even loyal citizens, but this is because they have accepted some Western values, including respect for reason, a belief in individual rights, and the need for a separation between church and state. It is only to the extent that they depart from their religion--and from a society that imposes it--that they achieve prosperity, freedom, and peace….”
Leftist revisionism calls Crusaders 9/11 terrorists
(25Mar06)“…It seems that the historical revisionists and terrorist appeasers are at it again. A recent Victorian textbook has made a comparison between the Crusades and the September 11 terrorist attack. Defenders of the textbook say it is merely being deliberately provocative and designed to spark debate…the Crusades were simply the reaction of the Christian West to more than three centuries of Islamic expansion, mistreatment of Christian populations in the Holy Lands, and harassment of religious pilgrims….Christians in Jerusalem often suffered terribly under the Muslims. So many Christians wanted to reclaim the Holy Lands from Muslim rule. But to equate this with what happened on September 11 is ludicrous… . Leftist revisionism calls Crusaders 9/11 terrorists by Bill Muehlenberg BrookesNews.co “..Indeed, one can argue that September 11 was a continuation of the principle of Islamic expansion, begun 1400 years earlier — the very thing the Crusaders were responding to…. of equal concern with this textbook incident is that this is but another tedious example of how far to the left our teaching establishment has become, and how many of our educational elite simple despise their own heritage and culture. This anti-Christian, anti-Western mindset is characteristic of our Politically Correct education establishment…Will we soon be seeing textbooks comparing the Green movement with the Ku Klux Klan in order to be “deliberately provocative”? Or will we have textbooks drawing parallels between Aboriginal dreamtime spirituality and the Raelian cult in order to help students “tease out ideas”?
(12Mar06) “…In what may presage a broader Russian crackdown against Islamist groups, a regional Federal Security Service, or FSB, head says that Islamic extremists in have moved from the 'first' to the 'second' level of activity, one level short in the Federal Security Service`s classification of the point at which such groups will organize 'mass disorders' and try to 'seize power.'… On March 2, Aleksandr Krivyakov, the chief of the Chelyabinsk oblast FSB, told the Interfax news agency that there now existed 'definite preconditions for the manifestation of extremism on an ethno-confessional basis' among 'persons who profess Islam' in that predominantly Russian region..” Russia's Islamist Fears by Paul Goble “….At the present time,' Krivyakov continued,'the second stage of this so-called expansion is taking place: the formation of missionary groups among the members of which is being disseminated an anti-government ideology….And unless something is done and done quickly, he insisted, these Islamist radicals will move to the final, third stage in which there will be 'a sharpening of inter-ethnic and inter-confessional relations, ‘the activization of national radicals,' and even 'the organization of mass disorders and the seizure of power….Three years ago, FSB analysts first began to talk about what they called the 'three-stage process' of the Islamist threat to the Russian Federation. At that time, these analysts and others close to them in Moscow said that they had learned of this plan from captured Wahhabist documents…”
(7Mar06) “…Only a few terrorists use their own deaths as an integral means of terrorizing others. They seem to be a breed apart, with whom the rest of humanity can have little or nothing in common… Britain has suddenly been forced to acknowledge that it has an unknown number of such people in its midst, some of them home-grown…. I have met a would-be suicide bomber who had not yet had the chance to put his thanatological daydream into practice. What could possibly have produced as embittered a mentality as his—what experience of life, what thoughts, what doctrines? What fathomless depths of self-pity led him to the conclusion that only by killing himself and others could he give a noble and transcendent meaning to his existence?... Those who died in the London bombings were sacrificial victims to the need of four young men to resolve a conflict deep within themselves (and within many young Muslims), and they imagined they could do so only by the most extreme possible interpretation of their ancestral religion..” The Suicide Bombers Among Us by Theordore Dalrymple frontpagemag.com
“…However secular the tastes of the young Muslim men, they strongly wish to maintain the male dominance they have inherited from their parents. A sister who has the temerity to choose a boyfriend for herself, or who even expresses a desire for an independent social life, is likely to suffer a beating, followed by surveillance of Stasi-like thoroughness. The young men instinctively understand that their inherited system of male domination… Such is the fragility of the modern ego—not of Muslims alone, but of countless people brought up in our modern culture of ineffable self-importance, in which an insult is understood not as an inevitable human annoyance, but as a wound that outweighs all the rest of one's experience… According to Islamism, the West can never meet the demands of justice, because it is decadent, materialistic, individualistic, heathen, and democratic rather than theocratic. Only a return to the principles and practices of seventh-century Arabia will resolve all personal and political problems at the same time. This notion is fundamentally no more (and no less) bizarre or stupid than the Marxist notion that captivated so many Western intellectuals throughout the 20th century: that the abolition of private property would lead to final and lasting harmony among men. Both conceptions offer a formula that, rigidly followed, would resolve all human problems….”
(5Mar06) “…Over a decade ago, Steven Emerson identified the enemy as jihadists – fundamentalist Muslims – and set out to understand them. He has concluded that no compromise is possible and that the western world risks submerging its own identity as it bends to intimidation from radical Islam… Today Emerson's occupation – indeed, passionate preoccupation – is born of a world staring such irreconcilable differences in the face… Emerson happened upon the story that would consume him. The degree to which radical Muslims had infiltrated the United States and exploited its liberties in order to undermine it, was for Emerson more than just a story..” Steven Emerson an interview by Jana Wendt, The Bulletin. “…Emerson's reputation in Washington was forged on the basis of testimony before the US Senate's Judiciary Committee in 1998, where he systematically laid out the jihadist threat to the US . He foreshadowed a terrorist strike on US soil. Three years later, when planes like poison arrows, pierced the Twin Towers of Emerson's hometown, he was accorded the status of prophet by many…. you have a critical mass of jihadists on Australian soil ... [who have] sufficient conditions to create jihadist cells that are not connected to external hierarchies like al Qaeda.” He likens Australia 's circumstances to that of the US . Both countries are operating “in this enigmatic environment of not knowing who's really a moderate..”
All praise Prof. Alan Dershowitz
(26Feb06) “…Next week a vastly important book will be published: "Preemption, A Knife That Cuts Both Ways" by Alan Dershowitz….The premise of his book is that in this age of terror, there is a potential need for such devices as profiling, preventive detention, anticipatory mass inoculation, prior restraint of dangerous speech, targeted extrajudicial executions of terrorists and preemptive military action, including full-scale preventive war….It challenges our traditional reliance on a model of human behavior that presupposes a rational person capable of being deterred by the threat of punishment…” All praise Prof. Alan Dershowitz by Tony Blankley The Washington Times “… he argues, to democratically decide now, before the next disaster, this new jurisprudence — the rules by which we will take these necessary actions….Dershowitz updates the maxim thusly: "Is it better for ten possibly preventable terrorist attacks to occur than for one possibly innocent suspect to be preventively detained?"… But as Mr. Dershowitz points out, while the threat itself is not imminent, "the opportunity to prevent the threat will soon pass." Once they have the weapons it is too late…We need new standards for a new age….The new realities of unacceptable risk require new — and lower — standards of certainty before defensive action is permitted…”
(25Feb06) You seriously and specifically have to wonder about the British and the West more generally:
“The British media had a field day with this month's trial of Abu Hamza al-Masri, an Egyptian-born self-styled Islamic "scholar." Charged with a number of violent crimes, he was sentenced to five years imprisonment; he could be out in 21/2 years. ..If Abu Hamza, regarded by many as a buffoon, is such a deadly threat, why is he getting away with such a light sentence? The odd history of 'the hook' by Amir Taheri New York Post “…For 10 years, Britain protected the treasurer of the Islamic Armed Group, the most vicious terrorist organization of recent times — though France, Belgium, Spain and Algeria all wanted him extradited. Abu Hamza must have heard about all that — and that a dozen countries were asking Britain to extradite terrorists who had committed atrocities in their territory, but to no avail…As this month's trial showed, Abu Hamza believed he'd reached a tacit understanding with the British authorities, whereby he was free to plot every crime under the sun against other countries as long as "there is no blood on our streets."(11Feb06) Remember Richard Reid, The Shoe bomber. I guess most people; (only 24 hours in a day) probably may have forgotten about him.
Here's what Judge William Young had to say at Reid's sentencing and about everything Reid and like minded types represent. This has been through the wringer of urban myths eg www.snopes.com and others.
(11Jan06) “..On Sept. 28, 2001, after the attacks on the United States, Osama bin Laden called for financial jihad against the United States, and on Dec. 27, 2001, he called on jihadists "to look for [and strike] the key pillars of the U.S. economy." Although now the Saudis claim bin Laden is their enemy, many of them continue to follow his agenda…..In an interview with Arab News in May 2002, the prince said that if the Arabs "unite through economic interests," they would achieve influence over the U.S. decision-makers…” Saudi Interest in America by Rachel Ehrenfeld, Washington Times “…Since government sources estimate Saudi holdings in the United States at $400 billion to $800 billion, the matter warrants public attention….substantial Saudi and Gulf financial contributions "to bring the proper message to America's brightest minds," are pouring into U.S. educational institutions through Arab and Islamic centers and professorial chairs. Last month the prince gave $20 million each to Georgetown and Harvard universities…”
Saddam Hussein's Philanthropy of Terror
(11Jan06) “..Actually, Saddam Hussein knew plenty about terrorism. In essence, he owned and operated a full-service general store for global terrorists, complete with cash, diplomatic aid, safe haven, training, and even medical attention. Such assistance violated United Nations Security Council Resolution 687. The results not only broke international law, but also were deadly ….The public evidence of Saddam Hussein's cooperation with and support for global terrorists is abundant and clear. The Baathist government's contacts and collaboration with terrorists in general, al-Qaeda in particular, and even the September 11 conspirators should make all Americans highly grateful that President Bush led an international effort to remove Saddam Hussein from power.” Saddam Hussein's Philanthropy of Terror by Deroy Murdock “.. The federal trial judge was Harold Baer, Jr. a Clinton appointee. He took testimony from Clinton-designated CIA director James Woolsey and American Enterprise Institute scholar Laurie Mylroie, an adviser to the 1992 Clinton campaign. Baer learned about the Salman Pak camp, and considered other evidence of Saddam Hussein's ties to al-Qaeda. To be fair, Baer did not hear Hussein's side, as the Iraqi dictator did not respond to the suit. Nevertheless, Baer issued his decision….As the May 8, 2003 New York Post and other news outlets reported, Baer ruled that Saddam Hussein's government was complicit in the September 11 attacks and that the Baathist government owed the plaintiffs a judgment of $104 million…”
(10Jan06) “…The Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes has been trying for a significant amount of time to get released publicly the captured Iraqi documents (only 2.5 % of which have as yet been translated)… some are about to be released. And they should put an end to the preposterous claims that the Baathists would never work with the Jihadis”…... Saddam's Terrorist Ties from the American Thinker “Here is what the soon to be released documents reveal, Hayes says: The secret training took place primarily at three camps-in Samarra, Ramadi, and Salman Pak-and was directed by elite Iraqi military units. Interviews by U.S. government interrogators with Iraqi regime officials and military leaders corroborate the documentary evidence….Some 2,000 terrorists were trained at these Iraqi camps each year from 1999 to 2002, putting the total number at or above 8,000….Taken together, this collection could give U.S. intelligence officials and policymakers an inside look at the activities of the former Iraqi regime in the months and years before the Iraq war…”.
(21Dec05) “..Perhaps now after the revelations last Friday at a bail hearing in Melbourne , those that were railing against the anti-terror laws in recent months finally get it… Put simply, it would seem that there are some living among us who mean us harm… Serious, devastating harm” Jim Ball's Ben Brika Bail Hearing editorial “…Would the high-minded prefer to keep stumbling around in their fog of denial and delusion and wait for a bomb to go off before “bringing them to justice.” Unfortunately terrorism is not quite that neat and tidy…
The Pentagon Breaks the Islam Taboo
(21Dec05)“…Now for the first time, a key Pentagon intelligence agency involved in homeland security is delving into Islam's holy texts to answer whether Islam is being radicalized by the terrorists or is already radical….Are the terrorists really driven by self-serving politics and personal demons? Or are they driven by religion? And if it's religion, are they following a manual of war contained in their scripture?... The Pentagon Breaks the Islam Taboo By Paul Sperry in FrontPageMagazine.com “… Right now political leaders don't understand the true nature of the threat, it says, because the intelligence community has yet to educate them. They still think Muslim terrorists, even suicide bombers, are mindless "criminals" motivated by "hatred of our freedoms," rather than religious zealots motivated by their faith…”
Belgian waitress turned Baghdad bomber
(4Dec05) This is beyond brainwashing…This is an infection, a disease
“..She came from an ordinary family in an industrial Belgian town. She used to sell baguettes in a bakery and worked as a waiter in a cafe…. As a teenager, Muriel was difficult…. As an adolescent, she dabbled in drugs, smoked, drank heavily and ran away from home…. She married and divorced a Turkish man and had a long relationship with an Algerian, who persuaded her to convert to Islam in 2001…” Belgian waitress turned Baghdad bomber by Anthony Browne and Rory Watson, The Australian “… Three years ago she met and married Issam Goris, who was born in Belgium to Moroccan parents, and followed him to Morocco …. She had become "more Muslim than Muslim, The religion was totally ingrained in her. She only lived for that…. According to conflicting reports, Muriel killed either only herself or six people in a suicide bombing in Baghdad on November 9. The same day, in a separate incident, her husband was shot dead by US troops before he could detonate his belt-bomb…."
(17Nov05)“…According to (Samuel) Huntington, Moslems participated in 26 of 50 ethno-political conflicts in 1993 alone. In that year, the New York Times identified 48 locations in which a total of 59 ethnic conflicts occurred. Half of these were Moslems fighting Moslems, and most of the rest were Moslems fighting non-Moslems ( NY Times , 2/7/93 , pp. 1 & 14, per Huntington). Similar independent analysis quoted by Huntington for that same year shows that between two-thirds and three-quarters of all the conflicts in the world were Moslems against Moslems, or Moslems against non-Moslems…. Terrorism: The Root Causes By David Meir-Levi in FrontPageMagazine.co m “…It is important to recall that Moslems make up only about 20 percent of the world's population. Yet we see that Moslem countries contribute to the majority of the violence in the world today. Moreover, Arabs make up only about 5 percent of the world's population, yet we witness the phenomenon of Arabs in leadership roles in many, if not most, of the Moslem conflicts, including conflicts emanating from those Moslem countries that are not Arab. We also witness Arab countries that host, train, fund, shelter, supply, and deploy Moslem terrorists…In sum, “Muslim bellicosity and violence are late 20 th century facts which neither Muslims nor non-Muslims can deny,” as Huntington aptly argues. And the situation has only gotten worse in the early 21 st century. Even Saudi and Pakistani commentators have pointed out that while not all Moslems are terrorists, almost all terrorists are Moslems…and most of these are Arabs…”
(13Nov05)“…The former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has revealed links between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda which have come to light from the archives of Saddam's regime.” That non-existent link again by Melanie Phillips “… Allawi is but the latest to attest to the links between Saddam and al Qaeda, a relationship the existence of which has always been denied with religious fervour by the anti-war crowd who claim furthermore that Saddam posed ‘no terrorist threat' at all to anyone outside his own country.
So now let's all look at how this is reported in the mainstream media...”
(9Nov05)“…Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HT) is not a terrorist organization, but it can usefully be thought of as a conveyor belt for terrorists. It indoctrinates individuals with radical ideology, priming them for recruitment by more extreme organizations where they can take part in actual operations….For the global revolution it seeks, HT does not believe it needs large numbers; hundreds of supporters in critical positions are deemed more important than thousands of foot soldiers.” Non Violent, yet dangerous by Zeyno Baran, International Herald Tribune. “…HT envisions a three-step process. The focus in the first stage is on building the party through recruitment and propaganda. Prospective candidates are brought in through study groups. In the second stage, members are asked to blend in with the population and infiltrate the government. When the second stage is complete, the ground will supposedly be ripe for the third : an Islamic state. HT believes it can carry out the revolution in a nonviolent manner, relying on the penetration of government institutions and the recruitment of key officials…HT aims to overthrow governments, since it sees regimes there as direct obstacles to resurrecting the caliphate. In the West, HT's aim is to unite Muslims on the basis of their Islamic identity and prevent their assimilation into Western culture….”
(9Nov05) “…We get into wars, then, when we think that we will win and our enemies think that they will. We are at war today because the terrorists think that they will win. To end the war, we must convince them that they will lose. We will end it, not by making them hate us less, but by making them fear us more….The war did not begin with 9/11 or even with earlier terrorist attacks. It began 1,383 years ago . It only resumed in recent decades after an intermission of obvious military superiority of the West over the Islamic world. It resumed when enough fact and fantasy accumulated in the minds of the terrorists to lead them to expect victory…The lesson of Blainey's book for us is that we should grind our boot into the neck of our prostrate enemy until every last delusion flees his demented mind, whether that takes three centuries or three millennia. We are going to be hated; let us also be feared…” French Lessons (The American Thinker) by Jonathan David Carson.”…The problem for the London mullah and for Islam in general is that selective application of the idea that everything that happens, happens because it is willed by God is untenable in the long run. If God wills military victory, then God must also will military defeat. If God wills the ascent of Islam, God must also will its descent. Muslims are bound to wonder, “If God wants Islam to prevail, why do its armies keep losing?”…. The mainstream media has been maximizing bad news from Iraq and minimizing good news. United States victory would harm its credibility and terrorist victory enhance it. The ignorant academic world, the corrupt educational establishment, sick Hollywood liberals, freedom-hating civil libertarians, inhuman human rights advocates, corporate sellouts, State Department bureaucrats, CIA shadows: all will lose power from United States victory and gain power from United States defeat….”
(29Oct05)“…Because a war of attrition heavily favors their ultimate goals, Islamist terrorists have so far not been deterred by large numbers of their young men being killed. Life is cheap to them, even their own, and so they remain unmoved by their losses and still lust for power through murder…Our enemies remain free to plan and perpetrate never-ending acts of total war designed to destroy the very fabric of our society. Failure to respond with even greater destructiveness will only serve to prolong this struggle. In any contest, the first rule of victory is to fight on your own terms and not your opponents.” Consequences of Nuking Mecca by Vernon Richards. “…One ‘ terrible price ' currently under debate is an nuclear attack on Mecca should any 9/11 scale attack (or larger) occur on US soil…. the burden of loss needs to be shifted decidedly to fundamental Muslims themselves (and what they value most) if there is to be any hope of ending all this madness…”
The Left brought terror to our door
(25Sept05) “….The seed for al-Qa'eda may have been sown during the twilight of the Cold War, but something in the Nineties allowed this terror group to metamorphose from being one small part of an Afghan-specific guerrilla army into a global, transnational, nihilistic network. What was that?.... In a nutshell, in the 1990s al-Qa'eda became the armed wing of Western liberal opinion..” The Left brought terror to our door (The Weekend Australian Sept 24/25) “…Some of the mujahedin, especially those from Europe, including from Britain, were inspired to fight in Bosnia after watching or reading news reports in the Western media — especially the liberal media — which presented the civil war in Bosnia as a simplistic battle between good (the Muslims) and evil (the Serbs)...Ahmed Omar Sheikh, the Briton convicted in Pakistan of murdering the American journalist Daniel Pearl, was reportedly inspired to join a jihadist movement after watching videos of the Bosnian Muslims' plight at the London School of Economics, of all places… It is time we interrogated the movement of al-Qa'eda in the early to mid-1990s, and explored how that movement was facilitated by liberal politicians and their supporters in the media...”
David Hicks is entitled to, and is likely to receive a Fair Trial
(16Sept05) “..The latest indications are that David Hicks' trial could now be delayed until next year. That trial of course must be fair…. To the public, the system seems to be less about justice and more about technicalities, and excusing behaviour by the sane on sociological and psychological grounds. David Hicks is entitled to, and is likely to receive a Fair Trial by David Flint, emeritus professor of law “..Another bar to such a (civil court) trial may be the Miranda Rule “ …To use any evidence obtained in questioning him, Hicks would have had to been advised before the interrogation, or any informal discussion, of his right to remain silent, that anything he said would be used against him in a court of law, that he was entitled to the presence of counsel, and that if he could not afford this one would be appointed. It is doubtful that the Northern Alliance had a Miranda card to read to him when they apprehended him, nor the American soldiers when they received him…”
The Forces of Decomposition and The War on Terror
(9Sept05)“..It is not just the terrorist threat that we have to deal with now, but the grievance culture under it, that has taken such a strong hold in the West. It may, in fact, prove the greater threat because it takes away our greatest protection against terrorism: moral clarity. The Forces of Decomposition and The War on Terror by William J Bennett “..Where once our law and culture were based on assigning blame on a perpetrator of wrong, and personal responsibility was a commonplace (as well as commonsense), a new psychology has taken hold in Western culture. Where once we punished and fought, we now psychologize and debate the causes of anger and terror…”
So, Tell Me, What's All the Fuss?
I'm sure this echoes the view of most people So, Tell Me, What's All the Fuss?
It Didn't Start with bin Laden
(4Sept05) “…Religiously motivated terrorism against America isn't new — in fact, it dates back hundreds of years…” A bit of History, from Citizen Magazine November 2001. It Didn't Start with bin Laden by Chris Jeub
Peter Jennings' Unfortunate Legacy
(16Aug05) “…While the rest of the world is blindly singing Peter Jennings' praises, here's a reality check: Peter Jennings did more for the cause of Islamic terrorism than any media figure today…..From the beginning of Jennings' career until his death, his biased coverage went beyond the pale, bending over backward in "understanding" the terrorists who hate us” Peter Jennings' Unfortunate Legacy by Debbie Schlussel www.frontpagemag.com “ I always say, pillow talk is the most effective form of political speech. And it apparently had its effect on Jennings early on. When developing and heading up ABC's Beirut headquarters, Jennings "dated" Palestinian Hanan Ashrawi . And it colored his insidious, anti-American, anti-Israel coverage ever since.”
(15 Aug 2005) 'If there is anyone who might possibly have an inkling as to what al-Qaida are up to, it is the Jordanian journalist Fouad Hussein.' What al-Qaida Really Wants By Yassin Musharbash , from Spiegal Online. 'Hussein has not only spent time in prison with al-Zarqawi, but has also managed make contact with many of the network's leaders. Based on correspondence with these sources, he has now brought out a book detailing the organization's master plan. '
Undercover in the academy of hatred
'During a two-month undercover investigation The Sunday Times has amassed hours of taped evidence and pages of transcripts which show how Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed and his acolytes promote hatred of “non-believers” and “egg” their followers on to commit acts of violence, including suicide bombings.' Undercover in the academy of hatred in The Sunday Times by Ali Hussain and Jonathan Calvert. 'The evidence details how his group, “The Saviour Sect” preaches a racist creed of Muslim supremacy which, in the words of Bakri, aims at one day “flying the Islamic flag over Downing Street”….. In his two months with the sect, our reporter witnessed a gang of Bakri's followers brutally beating up a Muslim who challenged their views…. Integration with British society is scorned, as is any form of democratic process . Followers are encouraged to exploit the benefits system . They avoid jobs which could bring them into contact with western women or might lead them to contribute to the economy of a nation they are taught to despise…. Bakri sighed. “So, London under attack,” he said. Then, leaning forward, he added: “Between us, for the past 48 hours I'm very happy.”' (13Aug05)
(30Jul05) “…It is a known fact, normal people perceive what they want to see, as well as what they are accustomed to seeing, and often do not register something incredibly obvious. This same predetermined blindness applies to how people acknowledge subjects, whether they are the environment, politics, gun control, nutrition or terrorism; they begin with a default assumption and proceed to an often-biased confirmation built on unfounded causal associations. Europe's Emerging Mujahideen by Peter B Martin . “ The majority of the public believes the Islamist terrorist must want something; his actions must be due to poverty, mistreatment or a sense of persecution and that we should be more understanding towards them. That misconception is being touted by the media today and has made its way even into governmental circles….Simply put, the ideological grounds on which al Qaeda is founded is so foreign to the average Christian layman's liberal way of thinking, it is no wonder we are having difficulty managing the course of a war against Islamic terrorism….”
CAIR Founded by "Islamic Terrorists"?
(30Jul05) This piece from Daniel Pipes is most revealing. CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations) is a very large, loud, vocal and dangerous Islamist peak body in North America . CAIR Founded by "Islamic Terrorists"?
The following sentence gives the game away totally: ‘Omar Ahmad, CAIR's chairman, announced in July 1998 that "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran . . . should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth…” . CAIR's March 2004 lawsuit is part of what seems to be a policy of using the legal process to silence or chill critics.'
And Then They Came After Us, We're at war. How about acting like it?
(26Jul05) First the terrorists of the Middle East went after the Israelis. From 1967 we witnessed 40 years of bombers, child murdering, airline hijacking, suicide murdering, and gratuitous shooting…. And Then They Came After Us, We're at war. How about acting like it? by Victor Davis Hanson .
“ When it was pointed out that Germans were not blowing up Poles to get back lost parts of East Prussia nor were Tibetans sending suicide bombers into Chinese cities to recover their country, such analogies were caricatured…… Then the Islamists declared war on the United States ….Suddenly, the prior cheap shots at Israel under siege weren't so cheap…But then came Madrid …. Surely Holland would be exempt… After Holland , Madrid , and London , European operatives go to Israel not to harangue Jews about the West Bank , but to receive tips about preventing suicide bombings. And the cowboy Patriot Act to now-panicked European parliaments perhaps seems not so illiberal after all….”.
(19Jul05) “…..The usual alibis for suicide bombings now stand exposed as bogus. These terrorists were not foreign imports from some far distant conflict. They had not been dispossessed of any land; they did not live in the squalour of refugee camps. They were not destitute or despairing” This Lethal Moral Madness by Melanie Phillips “…This moral inversion is the result of the cultural brainwashing that has been going on in Britain for years in the pursuit of the disastrous doctrine of multiculturalism. This has refused to teach Muslims — along with other minorities — the core of British culture and values...The moral bankruptcy of this victim culture is all around us.... Multiculturalism causes the moral paralysis of ‘victim culture', whereby to say an ethnic minority is at fault is to invite immediate accusations of racism.
(16July05)“..The British may react very differently than the Spanish did after Madrid — by doing nothing rather than by retreating from Iraq . In the corrupt West these days, that is something . We all know the score of this war now in the near four years since September 11. The London bombings should remind us how the old tired game works….”
The Same Old, Same Old (An Anatomy of the London Bombing) by Victor Davis Hanson from the National Review.
Inside the mind of a terrorist
(15Jul05) No warning? Caught unawares?
“As fear of terror attacks in Britain rises, it is vital to understand what drives young to men carry out atrocities” This piece, Inside the mind of a terrorist was written in the UK observer and was posted on 9 th March 2003 !
“So, fellow Muslims, Osama bin Laden has called us to arms. With the latest excuse for terrorism being the war against Iraq, the old opportunist tells us to address the crusader thus: 'The only language between you and us is the sword that will strike your necks.'”
Horrific Reminder….With Prelude
(12July05) “….No one should have been surprised because Britain, like the United States, has created a welcoming atmosphere for terrorists and allowed them the fertile soil they need to grow and carry out their murderous acts among us…” Horrific Reminder….With Prelude from the Washington Times by Cal Thomas, a nationally syndicated columnist . “…..Just as a lifelong smoker should not be surprised when diagnosed with lung cancer, neither should Britain and America be surprised when people who refuse to adopt Western notions of pluralism, tolerance and individual liberty kill and maim innocent people they and their religious masters label “Zionists and crusaders.”
(12July05) Please note that the Yusuf al-Qaradawi referred to in this piece by Andrew G Bostom is the same one lauded and feted by Ken Livingstone the Mayor of London.
“Those myriad intellectuals in denial might now, at last, wish to study with care the continuing legacy of jihad war, and pay serious attention to its modern Muslim proponents—including the renowned jihadist cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi recently lionized —with tragic irony—by London's own current mayor as a ‘progressive.' ” Jihad Terrorism in London by Andrew G. Boston “…And Qaradawi stated his ultimate goals explicitly—consistent with orthodox jihad ideology—at a Muslim youth convention in 1995 in Toledo, Ohio: ‘ We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America !'. In light of the London bombings, will the West's intellectuals finally awaken to this threat—the jihad? Will they study with seriousness and urgency the theological-juridical underpinnings of the Islamic jihad, and its 14 centuries of brutal, imperialistic conquests, continuing through the present?”
(12July05) “…Within a day of the horrific multiple bombings in London, the G8 announced a $3B grant to the Palestinian Authority…There were no grants announced to the Tibetans, who have been occupied more brutally and for a longer period of time than the Palestinians…” Why Terrorism Works by Alan M Derhowitz “…The Tibetans, however, have never resorted to terrorism…. The primary cause of terrorism is not occupation, humiliation, or desperation. If it were, the Tibetans would be the greatest terrorists. The primary cause of terrorism is that it works…”
Britain Suddenly Discovers the “T” Word
(12July05) Incredibly, the British press is actually using the "T" word. Yes, they are referring to the London Underground perps as terrorists. Why is this so unusual? Because the British media have been religiously scrupulous in referring to all terrorists and mass murderers who attack Jews as "activists" and "militants" Britain Suddenly Discovers the “T” Word By Steven Plaut from MidEastTruth “…The ‘'activists'' and ‘'militants'' are suddenly referred to as ‘'terrorists.'' Even the Guardian and the BBC have discovered the ‘'T'' word…..The governments of Europe, which ordinarily spend their days insisting that Israel deal with terrorists through capitulation, were suddenly enraged, expressing their disgust..... And the BBC has not demanded that the Brits re-examine their own behavior, to discover which manifestation of their arrogance provoked the Al-Qaida savages. The networks were not full of messages about how Moslems regard Gibraltar as their own holy land and that only their liberation to Moslem control can bring peace…”
(12July05) “….Moments after yesterday's attacks my telephone was buzzing with requests for interviews with one recurring question: but what do they want? That reminded me of Theo van Gogh……According to witnesses, Van Gogh begged for mercy and tried to reason with his assailant. “Surely we can discuss this,” he kept saying as the shots kept coming. “Let us talk it over”…..assuming that the man who was killing him may have some reasonable demands which could be discussed in a calm, democratic atmosphere .” And This is Why They Did It by Amir Taheri from The UK TimesOnline “..Sorry, old chaps, you are dealing with an enemy that does not want anything specific, and cannot be talked back into reason through anger management or round-table discussions. Or, rather, this enemy does want something specific: to take full control of your lives, dictate every single move you make round the clock and, if you dare resist, he will feel it his divine duty to kill you.
(02Feb05) “….To read the techniques requested is to understand how restrained the military has been in its approach to terror detainees—and how utterly false the torture narrative has been….. “So what were these cruel and degrading practices? For one, providing a detainee an incentive for cooperation—such as a cigarette or, especially favored in Cuba, a McDonald's Filet-O-Fish sandwich or a Twinkie unless specifically approved by the secretary of defense….… “…The captives protested every perceived infringement of their rights but, as in Afghanistan , ignored any reciprocal obligation. They hurled excrement and urine at guards, used their blankets as garrotes, and created additional weapons out of anything they could get their hands on—including a sink wrenched off a wall. Guards who responded to the attacks—with pepper spray or a water hose, say—got punished and, in one case, court-martialed…” How to Interrogate Terrorists by Heather Mac Donald
More on Terror and (lets use the phrase) “so called” Torture
(02Feb05) ".....female interrogators wearing tight t-shirts, fondling themselves, brushing their breasts against prisoners' backs, and putting red ink on the face of prisoners.
This is torture? Puh-leeze. We know what real torture is. It goes on in Muslim countries around the globe, every day. In case you forgot what that is, there's a video starring Nick Berg all over the Net."
Sex & The Islamic Terrorist By Debbie Schlussel
(03Dec04)“….For more than 40 years, the idea of mutually assured destruction was enough to prevent the Soviet Union from launching a nuclear attack against the United States . It wasn't an ideal deterrent, but it worked…..The Islamist world and its allies need to know there will be an unprecedented nuclear response to any attack on the United States with weapons of mass destruction…..By making the plans now and making them known to the world – as uncomfortable and unpopular as those plans might be – may be the only way to deter the deaths of thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, maybe millions.” Who is going to die? by Joseph Farah WorldNetDaily.com 1st December 2004
(14Nov04 ) The Arafat Files - a selection of articles
Unholy Alliance: How the Left Supports the Terrorists at Home
(26Oct04 ) From my recommended reading list, Unholy Alliance by David Horowitz. Unholy Alliance: How the Left Supports the Terrorists at Home (This is an overview article by the author about the Unholy Alliance)
(26Oct04 ) There are none so blind as those who will not see- Europeans are in denial about the nature of the threat that present day terrorism presents. The Faces Of Denial By Ralph Peters originally published in The New York Post October 24, 2004
Why al-Qaeda Will Dominate the European Union
(12Oct04 )“The European leaders who still doubt the validity of Huntington 's "clash of civilizations" theory are kidding themselves. The leaders of Islamic radicals are fanatics, but they are intelligent fanatics” Why al-Qaeda Will Dominate the European Union by Pavel Kohout
The War that Dare Not Speak Its Name
(26Sept04 ) 'Terrorism is not an enemy. It is a method. It is the most sinister, brutal, inhumane method of our age. But it is nonetheless just that: a method. You cannot, and you do not, make war on a method. War is made on an identified — and identifiable — enemy'. The War that Dare Not Speak Its Name by Andrew C. McCarthy
(1 June04) The Geneva Conventions are so outdated and are written so broadly that they have become a sword used by terrorists to kill civilians, rather than a shield to protect civilians from terrorists. These international laws have become part of the problem, rather than part of the solution. 'Rules of war enable terror' By Alan M. Dershowitz
Why is the West Losing the War On Terror?
If ever you needed convincing that the criminal, open slather, rose coloured reality of the multiculturalists was nothing more than a “how to” policy on cultural suicide this essay WHY IS THE WEST LOSING THE WAR ON TERROR? by Serge Trifkovic should leave no doubt. Where are the politicians who will admit that there is an 8,000 kilogram gorilla in the lounge room creating havoc and destruction and then be prepared to do something about it???
Terrorists vs. America (Good vs. Evil)
This powerful piece Terrorists vs. America (Good vs. Evil)by Dr Michael S Berliner of the Ayn Rand Institute, draws its inspiration from small town