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Why Does the West Tolerate Evil?

Henshaw — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:35:40 +0000

I am not a Zionist. I really don’t care about the nation of Israel. However, I believe that as a sovereign state it should have a right to protect its interests, but I’m not one of those Christians who believes they’re living on Holy Ground. The city of Jerusalem is no more important than Phenix City, Alabama.

Despite my level of disinterest in the state of Israel I’m appalled at the world’s treatment of the small nation. For example, ever notice that Israel isn’t in the World Cup? Israel’s neighbors are committed to Jewish annihilation so they refuse to play against the national team. Instead of FIFA penalizing those nations, Israel is forced to qualify in Europe. In other words, it’s never going to happen. Meanwhile, nations like Iran and Saudi Arabia (who aren’t good at soccer) have a much easier path to qualification. No one in the world seems to care.

The world seems content to live and tolerate anti-Israeli extremism. For anyone who thinks the Holocaust is a terrible evil that can’t happen again look at the cavalier attitude of the West toward antisemitism. It seems like someone on the left is always making antisemitic statements. Gore Vidal has a checkered past and Helen Thomas’ recent outburst is another great example. That’s not to say that antisemitism exists purely on the Left. That’s certainly not the case, but the Left doesn’t recognize that they’re ignoring extremists.

Muslim extremists are planting bombs, stabbing people, and making threats all over the world. Yet, the world seems more concerned about the well being of a boat full of thugs trying to break a blockade and choosing Orwellian labels for them, like “humanitarians” and “peace activists.” What’s wrong with this picture?

Progressive Foundations: Useful Idiocy

club soda — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:12:38 +0000

Humanitarian peace activists welcome Israeli commandoes to their peace-loving party.

In case you’re not aware, “human” “rights” “activists” have been purposely trying to run Israel’s blockade of Gaza for propaganda… er… humanitarian purposes. Israeli commandos attempting to board one of the floating love barges were met with violent resistance and nine of the peaceful iron bar-wielding humanitarians were killed.

On board one of the other boats running the blockade was a former U.S. diplomat who worked in the Carter and Reagan administrations, where he apparently did nothing of consequence except take up space. Edward L. Peck was involved in the flotilla as a representative of the Free Palestine Movement, which is dedicated to bringing “justice” to Palestine.

Progressives have a funny notion of “justice,” which in this case is to support homicidal fanatics in the destruction of Israel. In their defense, they have been taught that Western civilization is evil, imperialistic and intolerant, so in the name of tolerance anyone who opposes the U.S. or Israel must be supported in their “struggle”.

People like Peck and the late Rachel Corrie are continuing the left’s time-honored tradition of being useful idiots for murderous thugs. From Stalin to Hamas – with a sprinkling of Castro, Ho Chi Mihn and the Sandinistas in between – the left has consistently collaborated with tyrants and terrorists against America and Israel.

While the Hamas charter openly calls for the destruction of Israel, these leftist pawns continue to do the bidding of Hamas in an ongoing battle meant to make Israel as defenseless as possible against a jihadist onslaught. It’s strange to me that these supposedly enlightened people either can’t or won’t see the backwards and barbaric culture with which they’re collaborating for what it really is.

If these “humanitarians” were so concerned about getting food and medicine to Gaza, why not peacefully submit to inspections? Because that’s not the point; the point is to stick it to the Jews and end the blockade through international pressure so that arms can be shipped freely into Gaza and turned against the “oppressor” state, Israel.

I suppose that’s what passes for “peace” and “justice” in the left’s relativistic, topsy-turvy world of rainbows and unicorns. Imagine all the people, destroying Israel. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will live as one!

Update: All we are saying… is give genocide a chance!

Big Satan, Little Satan and the Left

club soda — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:27:01 +0000

A growing meme amongst the progressive crowd, and closely related to the Truther movement (Truthers being those who believe 911 was an inside job by the American government), is the audacious accusation that America brought 911 on itself. This Blame America First trope is the direct result of left-wing politics being force-fed to youngsters through America’s “educational” system.
A growing number of academic programs in the university system across this great country are thinly veiled ACORN-like recruiting centers for budding progressive, social-justice activists from a pool of blissfully ignorant, beer-guzzling, medical marijuana-smoking young whippersnappers.
These precocious youngsters are taught by seemingly scholarly academic types that America (sometimes spelled with a K, as in Amerika, or the KKK of Amerika) is an imperialist, racist nation bent on subjugating people of color the world over, and that anyone to the right of Michael Moore is a fascist. The mass media relentlessly reinforce this message with constant propaganda that Joseph Goebbels would be proud of (see also: Cameron, James. Avatar, et al).
Ironically, many progressives reared in such a system find themselves in common cause with global Jihad. Of course global Jihadists, if they reach their goal of a world caliphate, are likely to frown upon the myriad of causes most dear to progressives, such as a homosexual marriage free-for-all and abortion. By “frowning” I mean “putting the infidels to death by stoning.” Mark Steyn put it as only Mark Steyn can: “A little girl born today will be unlikely, at the age of 40, to be free to prance around demonstrations in Eurabian Paris or Amsterdam chanting ‘Hands off my bush!’”
So very true, yet progressives seek to undermine any attempt to squelch this particularly virulent strain of the peaceful religion, Islam. I suppose they’re too busy re-hashing America’s shoddy treatment of Native Americans and blacks (can we move on, please?) to realize that justifying Jihad – in effect, collaborating with Jihad – may very well lead to some dire circumstances.
Still, I’m struggling with this concept; that is, how America is ultimately to blame for 911. Usually, the response to the question of how America brought 911 on itself is, “America’s global policy.” Okay. What about America’s global policy?
What is it, exactly, about America’s policies in the past 100 years that ultimately led a bunch of Islamic fanatics to fly airplanes into buildings with hundreds of terrified passengers on board with them? And, regardless of America’s policies, this is justified? Put yourself in the airplane with Mohamed Atta, amigo, and then tell me if that deranged idiot was justified in his actions.
It’s easy to sit safely in Middletown, USA and pontificate in abstract about how Muslim countries have been subjugated by Europeans and Americans and quite another to come face to face with someone who’s preparing to put the infidel (you) to death. And I tell you what, if I had lost a loved one on 911 and some hipster dufus made a crack about blaming America for 911, there would be hell to pay.
But I digress, as usual… Typically, our progressive friend cannot answer the follow-up question. Sure, they may rattle on about the division of Muslim countries after both World Wars or America’s policy during the Iraq-Iran war, and so on and so forth. But there’s one particular piece of land that’s the sticking point here, and which has driven U.S. policy since 1948. That’s right. It’s all the Jews’ fault!
Why, ultimately, do the Islamic radicals hate us? Primarily, it’s our association with Israel. Secondarily, yet related, is the fact that most of us are infidels of one stripe or another. Progressives don’t care to delve very far into the actual messages coming out of the madrassas and media in Muslim countries.
Instead, parroting the popular progressive line about poverty, they simply close eyes and ears to the truth being shouted from the rooftops… er minarets. The message is not, “We’re desperately poor, so we’re going to strap explosives to ourselves and blow up amongst the infidels!” No, it’s: “We hate the Jews and the Christians! In fact, we hate the Buddhists, the Hindus, the atheists, the agnostics… Heck, anyone who’s not Muslim, especially those who ally themselves with the Jews!”
(I suppose the usual PC disclaimer should be inserted here. Yes, most Muslims are peace-loving, law-abiding folks, depending on the law to which they’re subject. Still, the volume of officially-sanctioned anti-Jewish, anti-infidel material coming out of Muslim countries with nary a peep in dissent is disconcerting, to say the least. Plus, if you’re not Muslim in a Muslim country you’re a second-class citizen. You can’t even own a Bible in most Muslim countries.)
This Jew-hating thing has been going on for a long time, at least since the Jews were identified as Jews. It’s the oldest trick in the book, and progressives buy it hook, line and sinker. My guess is that progressives, since they believe in the goodness and ultimate perfectibility of human beings, figure the Muslim world will come around once they recognize the esprit de corps they shared with Jihad. My other guess is that they will be sorely disappointed in the outcome.
There were a lot of people back in the 1930s who figured Hitler was someone they could deal with. The problem was they never bothered to read Mein Kampf, or if they did they skipped the parts about world domination and getting rid of the Jews.
So, while the Jihadists and Iran’s Ahmadinejad and his ilk lay out their plans plainly for all the world to see (destroy Israel, kill and subjugate the infidel), progressives rattle on meaninglessly about America’s complicity for global terrorism. Oh well, at least Howard Zinn would be proud that progressives reared in our university system will continue to mindlessly regurgitate his Marxist nonsense masquerading as scholarship.