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Richard,
Why do you insist on posting the comments of deceptive dopplegangers as if they were legitimate? At best, this one’s an over-the-top apologist for islam.
It smells more like takiyya (b.s.) to me.
Let's start by exposing his 3 main arguments:
1. He promulgates the MYTH that poverty is the root cause of terrorism. It's not. Common sense tells a non-academic so. Just this week: Attacks planned for NYC from Denver, attacks planned for Houston and Springfield, IL...ALL of them worshipers of allah. Why don't we see more terrorism in India and other non-muslim, poor countries? Oh, wait, there's terrorism in India...but not by the Hindus - who are under the EXACT same economic conditions as the worshipers of allah. You do the math.
2. Palestine and Israel isn't about Palestine. For the Islamic world, American Diplomacy is only about pressure on Israel. As a frame of reference, you should also read what Reliance of the Traveller (Islamic LAW) says about truces.
But first, a quick refresher on the history of the Six-Day War of 1967:
“Launched by the Egyptians to WIPE ISRAEL OFF THE MAP and push Jewish inhabitants into the sea, it ended instead with Israel in control of the West Bank (formerly occupied by Jordan) and Gaza (which had been controlled by Egypt). This humiliating defeat, however, was eventually turned into a great victory by Islamic propagandists who redefined the ongoing war of the whole Islamic world against the Jewish state as, instead, a struggle merely between the Palestinians and the Israelis. Thus Israel was transformed from David into Goliath! This alienated much of the old sympathy for Israel – especially on the Left – that had previously been enjoyed by the outnumbered and besieged Jewish state.” (See WW IV by Norman Podhoretz, page 66)
* A good point of reference: In al qaeda training camps, recruits in an ideology class were given a list of the main enemies of islam:
- #1 Heretics (the Mubaraks of the world)
- #2 Shiites
- #3 America (the Great Satan)
- #4 Israel (Little Satan)
So wait, the islamic world expects the Great Satan to cure their problem with Little Satan?
Hmmm.
Little cognitive dissonance anyone?
3. His encouragement for "major public diplomacy" is simply a call for us to give more money and concessions to encourage (read APPEASE) the alligator in the hopes it will eat us last.
On one point, I agree. We must define the enemy correctly.
In WWII, the enemy wasn't blitzkreig (a tactic).
It was nazism (an evil, supremicist, racist, totalitarian ideology)
Our enemy now isn't terrorism (a tactic).
It is islamism (an evil, supremicist, racist, totalitarian ideology).
HAT TIP to T.S. - the only clarification or update to the definition of fascism I would make is to footnote that "nation" refers to the ummah in this case (the islamic "nation")
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