More than a century ago, Sir Winston Churchil, a man who confronted evil
rather than "wish it away," had some choice words for the "mad dogs,"as he
called muslims: they are "fit only to be treated as such." Could there be a
better time than now to honor the man? -- Allan
COME ON ALONG AND LISTEN TO THE LULLABY OF MUMBAI
By Don Feder * <> 12-01-08 <> WITH THANKS TO RALPH R. (and others who also
sent this)
Come on along and listen to the Lullaby of Mumbai, the hip hooray and
politically correct coverage, and never say the "i" word. That doesn't
rhyme, does it?
In its coverage of a series of coordinated attacks in Mumbai last week that
left 172 dead, The New York Times - America's newspaper that sounds like a
broken record - scrupulously avoided any suggestion of possible sectarian
motivation for the atrocities. The perpetrators were variously referred to
as "terrorists," "gunmen," "militants" and "assailants."
The only time "Islam," "Muslims" or similar expressions were used was in
reporting on statements of the terrorists themselves - as when they railed
against the alleged mistreatment of Muslims in Kashmir and India or demanded
that "mujahedeen" prisoners be released. Sky News reported that the
terrorists called on the Indian government "to return stolen Muslim lands" -
which, in the wide world of Islam, is all of India.
It's not just The New York Times that engages in extreme reality-avoidance
when it comes to the nastier aspects of the Prophet's creed.
At its annual convention in October 2001, [just after 9/11. Remember that
non-muslim event?] the Society of Professional Journalists issued "Diversity
Guidelines," that instructed reporters and editors to, "Avoid using word
combinations such as 'Islamic terrorist' or 'Muslim extremist' that are
misleading because they link whole religions to criminal activity."
Let's see: In the past 30 years, the overwhelming majority of acts of
terrorism [more than 12,000 since 9/11 alone!] were committed by Muslims.
Most terrorist groups have names like jihad-this and Islamic-that.
Terrorists regularly quote the Koran's kill-the-infidels verses. ("O True
Believers, when you encounter the unbeliever, strike off their heads!")
Al-Qaeda and company tell us that their goal is to advance the global jihad
. Those inciting inter-religious violence have titles like sheikh, imam and
mullah. But linking Islam to terrorism is "misleading"?
Since 1993, there have been at least 17 terror-bombings in India - 12 of
them since 2005. In each, the death toll has ranged from a dozen to more
than 200. That the victims were (almost exclusively) Hindus, and the
perpetrators (when identified) Muslims, is happenstance, according to the
mainstream media.
It's also a coincidence that, along with the U.S. and Israel, India is one
of the principal targets of international terrorism, and India has the
second largest Muslim population in the world.
In an op-ed in the November 29, New York Times ("What They Hate About
Mumbai") Suketu Mehta - a professor of journalism at New York University -
insists the terrorists were striking out at city's cosmopolitanism, which
they loath. "Religious extremists" (Mehta indicts Muslims and Hindus) were
enraged because "Mumbai stands for lucre (wealth), profane dreams and
indiscriminate openness."
Well, that explains why the terrorists invaded Mumbai's Chabad House, a
citadel of decadence run by Hasidic Jews. Among those murdered were Rabbi
Gavriel Holtzberg, his wife, Rivka, Rabbi Leibish Teitelbaum and three
Israeli girls, all in their teens.
What debauchery was going on at the Mumbai Chabad House to make it a target
of anti-cosmopolitan extremists? Eating gefilte fish and dancing the Hora?
The Chabad House was targeted because it was Mumbai's center of Jewish
activity. Muslims like killing Jews almost as much as they enjoy killing
Hindus. Their religion commands it. A doctor who performed post-mortems on
the Jewish victims said they were tortured before they were killed and "bore
the maximum torture marks" of all who died in Mumbai (as quoted on the
Indian news website Rediff.com).
There must've been a whole lot of shaking going on in 8th century India,
when the Muslim subjugation of the subcontinent began. Millions were
murdered. In the city of Somnath alone, more than 50,000 were slaughtered.
The slave markets of the Middle East were glutted with Hindu women and
children taken captive. An ancient civilization was nearly destroyed.
(Libraries were leveled and manuscripts burned.)
In his book "The Sword of the Prophet: Islam History, Theology, Impact on
The World," Serge Trifkovic offers the following account: "Muslim invaders
began entering India in the early eighth century, on the orders of Hajjaj,
the governor of Iraq. Starting in 712, the raiders, commanded by Muhammad
Qasim, demolished temples, shattered sculptures, plundered palaces, killed
vast numbers of men - it took them three days to slaughter the inhabitants
of the port city of Debal - and carried off their women and children to
slavery."
Strange how the plunderers of palaces and killers of vast numbers usually
have names like Mahmud or Osama instead of Seymour or Sanjay.
In his multi-volume work, "The Story of Civilization," Will Durant singled
this out as among the bloodiest episodes in history. Durant characterized it
as "a discouraging tale, for it's evident that civilization is a precious
good, whose delicate complex order and freedom can at any moment be
overthrown by barbarians invading from without and multiplying from within.
."
Multiple-choice quiz: The barbarians Durant refers to are: 1. Episcopalians
2. Jehovah's Witnesses 3. Scientologists or 4. Muslims? The correct answer
is -- Muhammad Abu Jihad.
Here's another remarkable coincidence: When Muslim authorities - religious
or secular - open their mouths, what issues there from is frequently
abominable or absurd.
. On September 14, Sheikh Muhammed Al-Munajid told viewers of the Saudi
religious station that Mickey Mouse was an agent of Satan (along with
Zionists, Hindus and Christian missionaries). The former diplomat attached
to the Islamic Affairs Department of the Saudi embassy in Washington
explained that mice are unclean. But the Disney character - like Warner's
Jerry - teaches children to revere rodents. Ergo, "Mickey Mouse has become
an awesome character, even though, according to Islamic law, Mickey Mouse
should be killed in all cases." Just imagine a rabbi putting out a contract
on Porky Pig.
. On October 30, a thoroughly charming Egyptian lawyer, Ms. Nagla Al-Imam,
suggested on the Arab TV channel Al-Arabiya that Palestinian men should
threaten to rape Israeli women and girls as a form of "resistance" against
the so-called occupation. Non-Muslim women in Europe are frequently the
targets of gang-rape by Muslim men - but to link these crimes to Islam would
be misleading.
. On November 28, the Associated Press reported that Al-Zawahiri -
Al-Qaeda's primo capo - released a video urging Americans to convert to
Islam to avoid a financial meltdown. The U.S. economy had been destroyed by
9/11 "and usury (any interest paid on loans)" Zawahiri declared. Americans
should "embrace Islam to live a life free of greed, exploitation and
forbidden wealth." Islam's aversion to what it calls greed (capitalism) is
one reason that, absent oil, Muslim societies' most important products are
fleas, filth, fanaticism and poverty.
The naked emperor is nowhere more evident than in the way the West goes to
absurd lengths to be sensitive to those who decapitate hostages and shoot
13-year-old American girls (one of the victims in the Mumbai massacre).
Jesse Nieto is a 25-year veteran of the Marine Corps whose youngest son was
one of 17 killed in the 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole. Now a civilian
employee of Camp LeJeune, Nieto was ordered to remove from his car decals
with the slogans: "Islam = Terrorism" and "We Died, They Rejoiced!" In fact,
the deaths of 3,000 Americans on 9/11 were celebrated from Indonesia to the
shores of Tripoli.
Marine Corps Base police gave Nieto a ticket for displaying "offensive
material" on his vehicle.
The Corps certainly wouldn't want to offend the fine folks who murdered 241
Marines in the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, or the non-denominational
militants who've been killing leathernecks for the past six years, from
Kabul to Fullujah.
Mumbai is the latest chapter in the millennial bestseller, "Gone With The
Jihad." Since the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, communities in the Negev
have been under continuous bombardment.
On Friday, November 14, Sderot was hit by 11 Qassam rockets. Ashkelon - a
city of 120,000 north of Gaza - got six incoming, courtesy of the Al-Quds
Brigade, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad. If it bothered to report
such attacks at all - which is doesn't - The New York Times would assign
blame to the Militants', Assailants' and Gunmen's Group for Spiritual
Struggle.
Naturally, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and Amnesty International have
condemned not the rocket attacks, but the Israeli response - a partial
blockade of Gaza, which they called "collective punishment." It's irrelevant
that Gazans collectively condone and abet the aggression.
If the U.N. has its way, soon, a commentary like the one you're reading will
be against the law - at least the international law.
Four days before the beginning of the Mumbai massacre, the United Nations
General Assembly passed a measure called "Combating Defamation of Religions"
- which seeks to root out "acts of hatred, discrimination, intimidation and
coercion resulting from defamation of religion."
Enactment of the Orwellian measure has been high on the agenda of the
Organization of the Islamic Conference, which maintains that "Islam is
frequently associated with human rights violations and terrorism."
Imagine the infidel dogs implying that there's a connection between Islam
and: honor killings, floggings for minor infractions of Sharia law, stoning
young girls to death for the "crime" of reporting their rape, flying planes
into buildings, bombings, rocket attacks and the murder of rabbis and their
wives. Infamous!
My friend Robert Spencer - author of "Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam is
Subverting America without Guns or Bombs" and editor of the website Jihad
Watch - warns that the U.N. enactment is "a veiled attempt to restrict
speech that Islamic authorities find offensive or inconvenient, including
honest discussion of the motives and goals of jihad terrorists and how they
make use of Islamic texts to gain recruits and justify their actions."
The measure will not be deployed against the imams who regularly call for
the blood of Christians, Jews and Hindus, or the government of Egypt that
condones church burnings, or the Saudi Religious Police who smash down doors
in search of covert Christian services, or Holocaust-denier Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, or Syrian President-for-life Bashar Assad, who told Pope John
Paul II that Jews "try to kill the principle of religions," or the producers
of the 2002 Egyptian television multi-series, "Horseman Without A Horse," a
dramatization of the anti-Semitic canard "The Protocols of The Elders of
Zion," or the U.N., whose 2001 Anti-Racism Conference in Durban turned into
a hate-Zionism fest.
It will be used to silence the likes of Geert Wilders (the Dutch
parliamentarian who produced "Fitna"), Brigitte Gabriel (the
Lebanese-American journalist and author of "Because They Hate"), Bob
Spencer, Ann Coulter and ex-Muslims who run websites like "Islam Watch."
The United Nations was founded in response to the carnage of World War II.
Considered by many to be the greatest statesman of the 20th century, Winston
Churchill was one of the leaders of West in that titanic struggle.
Were he alive, Churchill would be among the defamers of religion targeted by
the U.N. edict. Having encountered Islam as a young soldier in India and the
Sudan, this is what the future British PM had to say about the followers of
the Prophet over 100 years ago:
"Several generations have elapsed since the nations of the West have drawn
the sword in religious controversy and the evil memories of the gloomy past
have soon faded in the strong, clear light of Rationalism and human
sympathy. . But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the
fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever
since its votaries have been subject, above the people of all other creeds,
to this form of madness. In a moment, the fruits of patient toil, the
prospects of material prosperity, the fear of death itself, are flung aside
. . Seizing their weapons, they become Ghazis (warriors for Islam) - as
dangerous and as sensible as mad dogs: fit only to be treated as such . .
The forces of progress clash with those of reaction. Their religion of blood
and war is face to face with that of peace. Luckily the religion of peace is
usually better armed," (taken from "Churchill By Himself: The Definitive
Collection of Quotations").
Someone forgot to issue the Diversity Guidelines to Winnie. Then too,
Winston Spencer Churchill was part of a generation that confronted evil,
instead of trying to make it go away by refusing to acknowledge its
existence.
* Don Feder is a former Boston Herald writer who is now a
political/communications consultant. He also maintains his own website,
DonFeder.com.
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