They just can't call it terrorism
Lee Smith isn't buying the argument that those UPS packages were supposed to blow up in midair. After all, argues Smith, if they were supposed to blow up in midair, how did one of them fly from Yemen to Dubai via Qatar without blowing up?Smith argues that the packages were supposed to end up at Jewish community institutions in Chicago. But isn't it strange that when the packages were only directed at Jews, every church and mosque in Chicago was checked - even Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam?
No, there's something else going on here. That something else can be summarized as political correctness (with some racism and anti-Semitism mixed in), and the failure to confront it has allowed terrorists to thrive for the last 40 years.
Americans believe that the worst thing you can be accused of is racism, our “original sin,” as the former senator from Illinois once phrased it before he was elected the 44th president of the United States. We assume that other people must feel exactly the same way, even if it is clear they do not, as the Arabs do not. The common word in Arabic for a dark-skinned black person is abed, slave. In Egypt, the butt of almost every joke are the Saidis, those reputedly shiftless, not-too-bright, and dark-skinned inhabitants of Upper Egypt.Read the whole thing.The Arabs are not particularly embarrassed by their racist feelings about Jews. Rather than detail the anti-Semitic offerings available all day and night on Arab TV, where wild fantasies about Jews drinking blood and stealing the organs of gentiles occupy the same place that hardcore pornography does on your average hotel pay-per-view menu, suffice it to say that the father of the UAE’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayid, who was thanked on Sunday by White House counterterrorism czar John Brennan for his help in foiling the Yemen package bomb attack, gave his name and financial support to a think tank in Abu Dhabi notorious for its hatred of Jews. The Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow Up hosted Holocaust deniers, promoters of the protocols of the Elders of Zion, and other assorted Arab and Western anti-Semitic intellectuals before it closed in 2003.
The Arabs recognize that we’re very sensitive about racism and anti-Semitism, which is why they know their calling Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman a racist resonates with us—even as the Palestinian Authority’s ambassador to Washington openly calls for the transfer of all Jews from any future Palestinian state. We are the ones who quiver at the accusation of racism—not them. We would not dream of calling the Arabs anti-Semitic or racist because we fear that we have subjected them to our Western colonial racism, and we feel guilty about it. Indeed, many in the West have even gone so far as to ignore the evidence of 1,300 years of Muslim anti-Jewish polemics to claim that anti-Semitism is a Western import. To call the Arabs anti-Semitic would be shaming a people we have already hurt too much.
All of our noble sentiments toward the Muslim world would be fine, if it weren’t for the fact that our political correctness has created a context where it’s OK to dehumanize, terrorize, and murder Jews.
Labels: anti-Semitism, political correctness, racism, synagogues, Yemen
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:50 PM
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Note to Lee Smith... I have your Strong Horse in my reading line-up. To date, the most enlightening book, from the view of understanding Sudan, the entire region, what was happening before the modern state of Israel was even a glimmer (Balfor Declaration 1917), and the strength of Winston Churchill's direction in WWII (not letting N. Africa, etc. fall) is W.C.'s River War, which he wrote after deploying to Sudan in 1898. If people are racing around and need a multi-tasking method of reading it (big book), here's a free way - download and then listen as an unshuffled playlist on your iPod):
http://www.archive.org/details/riverwar_1003_librivox
I would love to hear Lee do a "review" of this book (and maybe get more and more people to read it!).
This is an interesting interview with a Muslim who speaks out against Muslim anti-semitism (from his home in Canada). Near the end, the interviewer asks him about "islamaphobia". He says he doesn't see evidence of it in our society, but she keeps hammering about it anyways, essentially telling him he's wrong.
http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2010/10/oct-1910---pt-2-the-jew-is-not-my-enemy.html
Typical leftist reflex - when confronted with the ugliness of Islamic society, start crying about how islamaphobic everyone is.
Islam is, and has always been, high on anti-Semitism. Mohamed [YS"V] was a MAJOR anti-Semite [read the Koran! And if you can stomach it, the Hadiths and Siras from the Islamic Schools of Jurisprudence; at least read some Robert Spencer's Jihadwatch online!!]. There is NO argument saying Islam is not a Judenhasser religion... name one group of people in the Koran more chastised!
Reading some Dr. Andrew Bostom is also a good idea. He chronicles the Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism quite well. Citing Maimonides 'Epistle to Yemen', it is indeed educational to learn RAMBAM was not so PC about his feelings for Arabs and Mohamed, based upon the way Jews were treated by them.
It is absolutely prudent to drop the "politically correct" view of Islam. In reality all of the extra checks and things like an enormous Homeland Security are "the cost for the privilege of living with Muslims"... security would be much cheaper if we could simply focus on the Muslims; look what wonders it does for the Israeli airlines.
Why are we surprised?
In the current climate, the hatred of Jews is the only form of bigotry countenanced by policy society.
And that's not going to change in the foreseeable future.
What could go wrong indeed
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