And we are to believe that Al Jazeera, with its almost exclusively Muslim audience, would do this if the beheadings were plainly against Islam? From UPI, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:
Imagine a television talk show where the hosts debate the merits and demerits of cannibalism, discussing whether it is good to kill people to eat their flesh, liver and hearts -- seriously, on the air on prime time.This past Tuesday, Feyssal Al Qassem, the infamous anchorman of Al Jazeera's program "Counter Direction," or "Alti jah Al Muaakess," went well beyond.
Al Qassem hosted an Egyptian guest who over an entire hour was allowed to advocate, with sickening insistence, the beheading of hostages in Iraq as a legitimate act of resistance to what he called "these American dogs," regardless of whether the captives -- who are of many different nationalities -- are military personnel, civilians, aid workers, or spies.
They are all mercenaries, the Egyptian man screamed, as Al Qassem of the Al Jazeera network cheered him on. Truly, he who has no shame is not afraid. Arabism and Islam have nothing to do with such people....
All this comes shortly after Al Azhar, the highest authority in Sunni Islam, condemned as a crime the kidnappings and beheadings of anyone being carried out in Iraq in the name of Islam.
Yes, but Al Azhar speaks with forked tongue.
Muslim societies cannot produce the technology that creates the technology which permits Al-Jazeera to broadcast. But an accident of geology gives them the wherewithal to buy the services of Western satellite companies and other technology that allows for the spread of Islamic ideology. That ideology, in its most virulent and contaminating form, has transformed those once-dozy villagers who self-identified as "Muslims" because everyone else told them they were Muslims, and because there was a village mosque, and that was the end of it, and now can be whipped up -- for fanaticism fits so easily with the Muslim manichaenism that divides everything into Believer and Infidel -- through Al Jazeera.
It seems crazy for the West to permit the rental or purchase of its technology, technology that spreads a doctrine dangerous to the wellbeing of all Infidels. Is there no way to shut down Al-Jazeera, or shoot down the satellite that makes it possible? Similarly, is there no technical fix that would permit the Internet, for example, to somehow manage to efface, or otherwise scramble, all messages that, when they appear, turn out to be in, say, Arabic or Urdu? One does not know the technical capabilities of Western science, but are these beings being discussed, because if they are not being discussed, if the attempt is not even made, then really the West, and the non-Western Infidel world, really is making things far more difficult and dangerous and expensive than they otherwise would be, in the continuing, and endless, effort to protect itself.
Isn't that the same Al Jazeera that interviewed Colin Powell, our esteemed Scretary of State, who mouthed homilies about reaching out to the Moslem world?
For the complete Powell-Al Jazeera interview click on:
http://groups.msn.com/IslamicDanger2/general.msnw?action=get_message&mview=1&ID_Message=197
CAIR Canada and a few other Islamic org's are demanding Al-Jazeera be allowed in Canada,this is the same CAIR that agrees with the ban on FoxNews
in Canada.
The Arabic only news channel will only assist
Islamists to watch for coded signals on what's happening in the middleEast,or the level of progress in certain crusades of terrorism.
CAIR is also demanding Shariah Law for Muslims in Canada and backs teaching the Quran in Public schools in the guise of "Racism and Islamophobia".
There are about 14 groups in Canada that claim to speak for the 400,000 professed Muslims,but many groups attack each other as not being "True" Muslims and therefor shouldn't be invited to debates with the Government.
There is no real threat for now,but what happens when the population gets to the point
where the Shia and Sunni sects start believing that their Allah is the real one and those other Muslim are false followers of the "True" Islam taught by Muhammed.
Oh Canada, In my childhood I spent all my summers in your beautiful land. Memories which will always be held dear. I pray for you now that you can retain what you have been blessed with and rid yourself of this foreign menace. While there is still time be brave be alert and don't let anyone take over your country.
A news flash from the Big Allah Global ministry of Infinite Production.
"Under the inifinite wisdom of Big Allah our glorious civilisation (war ridden wastelands), due to our massive industrial complexes (mud huts) has just massively increased its GDP. This year we have overtaken and humilated the evil west by producing a huge surplus of goods (severed heads) and services (head lopping/murders). This has massively improved the quality of life of all islamists such in areas such as in entertainment (snuff movies) and food consumption (eating flies).
Long live Big Allah and his (axe weilding psychopathic) glorious workers!!!
BIG ALLAH IS WATCHING
Al Jazeeera receives tapes from Al Qaeda as well as of the beheadings. How do these tapes get into Al Jazeera's hands? Somebody must hand it to someone at Al Jazeera. Those messengers who bring the tapes come from somewhere.
Backtracking the tapes from Al Jazeera to the producers could locate Al Qaeda principals as well as beheaders.
Placing one or more Arabic speakers (not Moslems) trained in covert ops at Al Jazeera with more similar operatives that can blend into the Arab population on the outside would be a start to accomplish this "going back to the source."
Even if the tapes are dropped off instead of handed off, surveillance can be used to spot the messenger and follow him.
Hugh,
Now, I really do think that islam is being discussed in detail, by western governments , behind closed doors.
It would be foolish of them not to take it seriously and to fob the theory of demographic conquest off as "xenophobic paranoia" would be suicidal.
Even if it was believed by the majority of western diplomats that the threat comming from islam is coming only from a small sect of extreme-muslims who have distorted the words of the koran to fit their goals, surely government officials of such powerful nations must consider all possible angles,and if the minutest possibility exists that the theory that all muslims are working to acheive the same end, on a global scale, by a combination of violence/war/terrorism and population influx/overflow; that goal being the islamic caliphate.
I hope I'm right about that, and think I may be, as Tony Blair surprised me in his Grand Speech the other day, with some of his perceptive comments of islamic terrorism as a whole ( I'm not gonna bore y'all with details but he sempt more clued up about the islamic threat than I ever thought previously.
My theory is that the governments of the west are totally aware of jihad and what most muslims are up to, but are playing dumb, and at the same time allowing their enemy to plot and scheme rather than at the other side of the world where anyhting could be plotted.
Another good theory that my friends and I have been discussing lately is that our governments have allowed so much islamic immigration, so that countries such as Iran would hesitate to nuke a country with so many muslims, but I don't think that is it.
BTW- That comment was OT.
Rikki, once again you and I are on the same wavelength. I Do believe that President Bush is holding back, waiting for this election to pass so he can get down to more serious work. And with a stronger Republican presence in both houses, things will get easier....