Phyllis Chesler zeroes in on the dhimmi double standard of the Western media at JewishPress.com:
Leftists and "politically correct" progressives insist that Americans and Israelis are the real barbarians -- that we purposely and sadistically shoot innocent Arab civilian demonstrators from gunships and tanks and drop bombs on wedding parties, hospitals, and children.I strongly disagree. Americans and Israelis only kill civilians by accident; Islamist terrorists kill civilians on purpose. The vast majority of American and Israeli soldiers have ethical standards that are far different from those of their Islamist opponents. The world, accordingly, holds them to a different, higher standard.
The world media are also quick to accuse the Israeli and American armies of crimes that they have not committed -- and slow to print retractions. ...
More recently, we have seen the international media gasp in horror -- but not in response to the videotaped beheading of Nicholas Berg, and not in response to the pitiless slaughter of the pregnant Tali Hatuel and her four young children. Some journalists blamed Berg for having been there at all; others spread rumors that he was a Zionist agent. And some blamed Hatuel for having lived in Gaza.
What the world media focused on instead were the photos of the psychologically humiliated and abused Iraqi prisoners in American captivity. They did not focus on the sight of Palestinian terrorists in Gaza as they exhibited the "trophy" body parts of Israeli corpses and held the body parts aloft for ransom. ...
May we have the strength of purpose to do whatever it takes to stop our
jihadic enemies for at least another 1000 years. If we don`t, they will annihilate
us.
OT, but I found this funny Islamic mirror of JihadWatch:
http://www.kafirwatch.org/
Who can explain the the double standard of the media in the light of the crisis that we all are facing today, a danger that they are creating by giving Islam and violent jihad a pass.
They are so blinded and brainwshed by the "Left" and "Political Correctness" that they can't see the pattern of Islamic world expansion. They choose to practically ignore a hideously graphic beheading and other blatant atrocities by Muslim extremists. Instead they amplify the mistakes of the West. Don't they realize that in doing so they are sealing their own doom? Don't they realize that freedom of the press is a Western concept that doesn't exist under Islam?
For some reason journalists seem to think that they will be held apart, immune from the the deprecations of dhimmitude, the nasty surprise that awaits all non-Muslims that fall under Sharia once Islamization of their society takes place. The Left and the politically correct should now be held accountable and their actions labeled treason and sedition.
as long as there is a breath in my body i will not allow the islamic muslim to take over my country nor my faith as a christian. i will fight to the end to defend my rights against this muslim menace and islam.
I checked out kafirwatch.org. There couldn't be a better example of a fascist islamic organization using the freedom of the press, etc to promote its theocratic agenda. Just like the Nazis did in the Weimar Republic. Once they had the power they shut down the free press and jailed the opposition.
Well, at least they're showing their hand more and more so we can all see what they're up to.
I am reading up on Middle Eastern history and culture in order to be more informed. We all need to be careful to avoid excess emotional reaction to their nonsense. Just stick to the facts and avoid ad hominem attacks.
Mike H
michael,
i agree with what you say. the problem occurs when one does not attack and instead bows out, out of respect for oneself of course, that the muslim view it as weakness and increase their arrogant speeches and/or attacks. I am sure that you have seen examples in your studies of history and current events.
She forgot that these were porno pictures. We should not forget that also. I'm not saying there was some "real" abuse, but we don't know what the reality is with the pictures we have now. The abuse could've been to known terries and therefore didn't matter what was done to them since they did it before.
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I told the Columbus Dispatch that if they didn't want to have to learn to report and write their paper in Arabic, that they'd better wake up an realize what's standing right in front of them. I doubt it will do any good.
Has anyone else noticed that more and more people get their news and information from internet sources rather than traditional media. (e.g. television, papers, etc.) If this is the case and I believe it is, then the news media will have to change their ways or go out of business. Places like Jihadwatch.org go a long ways to getting out the message and we owe Mr. Spencer a lot for his work.
“Your grandchildren will be wondering what to do when the oil money runs out.”
Kafir Watch also has a yahoo group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kafirwatch. I am right now arguing with one of their automatons at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/phantomtruth about the hypocrisy of their site.
D.C.
I said almost the same thing to the Cincinnati Enquier.
I think the LEFT hates America and the West so much that they are willing to let ISLAM destroy America and the West even if it meant their own destruction.They really hate it that much.
Susan, they all need to hear it. Over and over, because they seem to think that if they're nice to these cavemen, they'll be spared. Dummies the lot of them.
You miss the point here people.The media,left and eurabia is not confused they're just choosing sides.They are betting on the winning horse.It doesn't matter what is right or what is wrong here --what metters is who is going to win this fight and for people like that how to get on their good side.It doesn't look like american goverment is willing to stand up and fight.People who are still caipable to think and fight for their beliefs are few and far in between here and getting fewer day by day.
Plus ,The left,media and eurotrash 's values were always real close to the islam point of view--group mentality,socialism,anti-individualism and a hatered of the jews were always the defining characteristics of these groups.It just took them some time to figure out how close their goals are.
Anyone try FOXNEWS?
I used to be a CNN buff, but FoxNews seems more truthful than CNN anyday! The only thing FoxNews doesn't do is say "It's Islam stupid! DUH!" But the way they do cover jihad activities and the religion of "peace", anyone with a half a brain know they really are saying Islam is the problem that must be tackled.
God bless Bill O' Reilly!
The western media is so twisted, they don't understand that they could never make these sort of comments about arabs/moslems in arab/moslem land.
This is why I say to hell with political correctness.
please visit this pro israeli site, nothing PC about it these guys tell it like it is:
www.masada2000.org
Also please visit the link below especially if you like wine, this vineyard is in Israel.
In fact if you drink wine drink Israeli wine because..EVERY BOTTLE BUYS A BULLET TO KILL A BEAST !
http://www.yardenwines.com/index.htm
Good article.
won't be published in Al Gaurdian or Independent though.
http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Stadium/5142/negislamindia.html
Yeah, the "leftists" and "political correctors" over at www.nukeisrael.com, www.nationalist.com, and www.davidduke.com sure are blaming Israel and supporting the Arabs.
The complex conspiracy of silence to the attrocities of Muslims has been well examined by bat ye'or.
The duplicity of the press to ignore these attrocitites is historical.
One of the reasons for the indifference concerning the Eastern Christians was that in Europe their tragedy was replaced by that of the "Palestinian cause" - thanks to Christian mobilization for it. For the past thirty years and more, the "Palestinian cause", strongly backed by the Vatican, by various Churches, and by influential politians in Europe became the daily preoccupation of the media, and of governments. This cause served as a screen to hide the permanent deterioration of the situation of the Christians themselves in the Middle East and elsewhere: that of the Copts in Egypt; the jihad against Christians and Animists in Sudan; the tragic clashes between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria, the Philippines, East Timor, and other regions. This strange silence was integrated into a deliberate obfuscation of Eastern Christianity's dhimmi history. This history was replaced by the myth of a marvellous Islamic-Christian symbiosis that had existed for centuries before the advent of Zionism. And - it was suggested - since Israel was the cause of such evils, its demise would revive that Middle East "Golden Age".
The obssesion with Israel has created a smoke screen through which the Islamic Jihad can perpeptrate its attrocities unoticed by the press and western governments.
In respect to eastern Christianity which has been virtually reduced to nothing, with hardly a word from the western press or the western churches themselves bat yeor writes.
I think that Israel has much to learn from the sad experience of Eastern Christianity, because for centuries Jews shared with Christians the dehumanizing condition of dhimmis. Secondly, Israelis should reflect on Europe's conscious abandonment of the Lebanese Christians, and of its cynical choice between moral principles, on the one hand, and oil and Arab markets on the other. Israelis might reflect on how easily foreign states can provoke internecine strife when wishing to destroy a country. And moderate Muslims, who rarely bother to fight for the defence of the "rights" of their Jewish and Christian persecuted countrymen, are now being aggressed by the same forces of extremist obscurantism that previously targeted the dhimmis - as in Egypt, Algeria, and other Islamic lands.
The virtual extermination of these dhimified Eastern Christian communities was to be also the fate that awaited israeli Jews at the hand of Islam.
But the dhimmification that eventually brought the downfall of the churches was not present in the jews. who had not belonged to a long dhimified race but to europeans who valued their human rights and had survived persecution in europe.
It is precisely this western sense of human rights which has sustained Israeli Jews in their fight against Islam.
these rights are not endowed by islam as in the case of dhimmies under the Umma but are the undeniable right of existence and freedom of a human being under western democracy.
P A T H E T I C, Keithjoy. You share the same willfull blindness as the Muslim and use the same diversionary tactics that they do. When confronted with the lack of coverage by big media, you point out sites which nobody here goes to, have virtually no impact and then say that this proves that major media are reacting. *laughs* How transparent! You must inhabit a strange world, if you think that David Duke is "major media"!
Western media is disgusting. Their political correctness has twisted objective media into hypocritical journalism.
AI
thank you for the link on the Islamic revisionism and negationism in relation to the historic massacre of Hindus.
Interesting how the west has collaborated in this in the same way that it has in the genocide of eastern christian communities.
One of the most horrible things was the occupation of the Church of the Nativity by Muslim thugs, and not a single editorial condemnation by our major media; not a single protestation to Yasir Hairy-fat, who was elected "leader" of the "Palestinians" not by the people of Gaza and Ramallah, but by the Communists and Third World Hyena Pack that dominated the UN in the 1970's.
the reaction to the church of the nativity occupation in the press was in france.
this is the only place the poor pals can hide from the brutal IDF !the jews would not dare ti harm a holy christian site.
No kidding i heard this said to me by good catholic church goers at a dinner party.
I got up and stormed out. It took me 2 days to get over it.
Such is the dhimification of the Roman Catholic church.