Ever since 9/11, I've managed to read many books and watch dozens of
specials, tvmovies, documentaries and movies about islamism, islam, the
M.E. conflict, terrorism and the basic history of world politics in the
past 150 years. Several people on this list have displayed similar interest
and much more erudition on-list and that has also helped me to try and come
to terms with what is going on. I'm always eager to get a new look at things.
Last night, probably just about the time that the Brits were beginning to
prepare to foil their own airplane nightmare, in a mildly synchronous
event, I watched a movie called "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the
West". This was a documentary -- obviously slanted towards the
'anti-islamism' side of things, but not without cause. The speeches of
vitriole that imam upon imam performed {assuming of course that the
subtitles were accurate} were downright disgusting. The things that dozens
of 'shakers' said were almost EXACTLY the same -- all NON-islamic people
were not even people. They were animals, infidels and should be killed so
that Islam can take over the Earth. JUST for being NON-islamic. I have to
stress that. Not for anything else. They never admitted envy, they never
judged our actions, they merely wanted us killed for impeding them doing
the work for allah and taking over the world.
At the same time they were letting nutcases like Nasrallah and Abu Hamza al
Masri prove their own incredible worth of ridicule, they had sympathetic
and 'normal' muslims as narrators who were equally disturbed [as I was] by
the overall anti-islamic sentiment because of the sizeable groups of
fanatics that have, in the words of one man, 'hijacked the religion' The
narrators were Palestinians and other Middle Easterners -- including a few
Jews -- such as Palestinian reporter Khaled Abu Toameh, the daughter of a
"martyr", Nonie Darwish and as they called him {sorry, I had to laugh}
"former PLO terrorist" Walid Shoebat, by all appearances, now, a quite
resonable man. The other usual suspects were Christian Lebanese, Brigitte
Gabriel, Middle East Forum's Daniel Pipes, UWO PolySci prof, Salim Mansur,
professor of religious studies at San Diego State, Khaleel Muhameed and a
few others whom I don't remember at this time.
As we watched, my g/f and I shook our head as we saw droves of people
chanting "Death to America" and we watched Iranian "music videos" which had
cartoonish qualities that basically gave the same message. Their MTV must
be REALLY boring. Then they showed this really disturbing "tv show" that
showed "dirty Jews" preparing for Passover by kidnapping and bleeding a
Christian child for the vital ingredient for Matzos. At the end of the
episode, one offered another a sampling and said something like "tasty eh?"
and almost smirked. It was abominable. To think that this stuff is actually
played on their airwaves explained a lot of things.
The inculcation was the most disturbing. Seeing tens of thousands
chanting "death to america, death to the Uk" and making songs out of it
made me shake my head in disbelief. Seeing an 8 year old girl saying that
she would "personally like to kill george bush" was sickening. This
reminded me of when I saw a KKK family on Jerry Springer 15 years ago and
their little 'offspring' were saying the same thing daddy was teachin' 'em
"niggers are nothing" and sickening things like that.
It's perhaps mildly ironic that just before we put this movie on, I had
watched a couple of the TED videos that {I think} Stan suggested to us the
other day. The last one I watched was a presentation by Dr. Larry
Brilliant, an epidemiologist who helped eradicate Small Pox, and his motto
that he repeated was "early detection, early response".
The dangerous Islamicism that is sweeping the globe now is much like a
virus and must, like Small Pox be eradicated. I would never reach out and
kill an insect for the sake of it. Spiders don't bother me just because
they are spiders. But every spring, I have the local spider control come in
and make sure I don't get thousands because I've had thousands before and
it's very unpleasant and unbearable in the backyard with that many pests.
Am I saying a few radical Islamicists are pests? You bet I am. But there
numbers are reaching epidemic proportions and are bordering on becoming a
deadly disease outbreak, raising equally dangerous clones of themselves to
spread the hatred and envelope the globe in the grips of their insanity --
yes, insanity. "Early detection, early response". It's too bad, we can't
the pre-emptive strikes right. In a way, that's what Bush tried with Iraq,
but he chose the wrong infection.
After watching it, but not just because of it, I am once again reassured
that my initial reaction [since learning about OBL and his ilk] is not one
of a "western bigot" or and 'anti-islamist", I am simply saying that our
only response is to kill every last one of them BECAUSE they want to kill
us and BEFORE they kill us. We ARE the host and the parasites must be
quelled. If only our political correctness could abate long enough for us
to actually do it. It's very unfortunate that the other 900 million muslims
who are reputedly "not like those 300 million fanatics" don't try to
reclaim their good name by doing something 'inhouse' to sort this out. My
greatest fear is that, if left to "therestoftheworld", the job will get
messy and lots of [actually] innocent Muslims will die. Collateral damage?
Yes, but not without necessity.
hopped up on IV Anti-Biotics for a bug bite {seriously}
inflamed,
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