The recent slaughter in Amman enacted by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has raised pertinent questions among Jordan’s population, who may support Zarqawi’s violence against Americans but fail to see how he can justify the slaughter of dozens of Jordanian Muslims. Predictably, those unwilling to honestly address the inherent hypocrisy of mass-murdering terrorists have turned to a familiar target for their blame: Israel. From The New York Times:
The Maktoum Mosque was crowded with worshipers for Friday Prayer as the imam sharply criticized the suicide attacks on three hotels in Amman, saying those who committed the crimes were not Muslims, no matter what they called themselves.The scene Friday night in Zarqa near a family home and former residence, left, of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, chief of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia.
Afterward, on the street, people agreed that whoever committed such an act could not be a Muslim. But many meant this literally, that the attack must have been carried out by outsiders, namely Israeli agents."Who said it is them?" asked Ahmed al-Zawahrah, referring to claims that members of a radical Islamic group were behind the blasts. "It could be Israel."
Zarqa is the birthplace of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia. His relatives and neighbors prayed in the mosque, so one could imagine that it might be especially hard for them to accept that Mr. Zarqawi had taken responsibility for killing so many civilians. But the sentiment heard here is echoed across this country and region.
While most Arabs have long viewed Israel as their enemy, the extent to which Israel weighs on the regional psyche and diverts attention away from social, political, religious and economic issues that cannot be ignored, many social and political analysts say. Blaming Israel is not just a knee jerk, they say; for many Arabs, it is their reality.
"People don't blame Israel out of a vacuum," said Rami Khoury, a Jordanian political commentator and writer based in Lebanon. "There is a very strong historical reason, because Israel has caused a lot of grief for Arab people one way or another."
As Raskolnikov is climbing the stairs to kill Lizeveta and the old lady he realizes he didn't bring a weapon. He looks in the corner and spies an axe. "When Reason fails, the Devil helps," he thinks.
There's a lesson to learn from that, if only I could recall it. Maybe that with the abandonment of Reason one turns blindly to idiot chance and the devil take the hindmost and blame the Jews. Or is it that with the abandonment of Reason and the abandonment of clear moral instruction based on humane rational religious inquiry one is left to live like a mad dog who "feels" there is a higher purpose simply because one "believes" it to be so and can justify any irrational and hateful and murderous whim and fancy simply because it seems right at the moment.
Yes, the axe is there because the universe spins particularly just for me and my desires to fulfill my version of what Allah wants from me, and death to those who get in the way of my higher calling and trip to the Islamic whore-house in the sky.
We reach an impossible to breach impasse when the rational man meets the irrational. When a man lives his life and tries to take mine because he hears voices from the Mothership or from the imam or from years of howler monkeys in the minaret, then I say use whatever reason you will and then deal with him on his own terms, terms he understands.
According to the Pew Research Center in the published reportIslamic Extremism: Common Concern for Muslim and Western Publics, those polled in Jordan were unanimous (100%) in their unfavorable view of Jews acoording to this Table.
Only Lebanon with 99% those polled having a negative view of Jews came close. Also note in this chart how Jordanians are the most overwhelmingly opposed to bans on the headscarf. Despite the relative appearance of the moderation of the royals, the populace from these and other responses throughout the report appears to be among the most fundamental in the Muslim world.
Even so called moderate Muslims got nuts when you ask them about Jews. They are so blind, that they cannot beleive their own people are turning on them. when all you have is hate, you become your own victim.
"People don't blame Israel out of a vacuum," said Rami Khoury, a Jordanian political commentator and writer based in Lebanon. "There is a very strong historical reason, because Israel has caused a lot of grief for Arab people one way or another."
Yeah. 4 wars and 2 intifadahs later, uncounted numbers of terrorist attacks on Jews and Israelis, a whole culture and 2 generations raised on venom and hatred, and "Israel has caused a lot of grief to Arab people one way or another..."
What say you Corny?
This the kind of "balanced view" you are trying to sell?
"There is a very strong historical reason, because Israel has caused a lot of grief for Arab people one way or another."
Oh so it's STILL the Jews fault even if they didn't actually blow themselves up, give them the tools to do so, or provide the ideaology that convinces young men to kill for whoris. It's their fault because The People need someone to blame, and since Islam is blameless...
I hate hearing this stuff, but it's pretty much par for the course. Most Muslims blame Israel for 9/11. Of course it IS in their Koran and Hadith; Jews are always the villain - which is scary.
I never tell people I'm Jewish anymore. You never know if your neighbor might be one of those Religion of Peace types who might want to slit your throat.
When will the world learn that every dastardly deed done in the world ,in all of history, has a joo behind it.(Muslim theology 101)
Long ago joo's discovered the secret of 'dastardly deeds'. Joo's would rather get along without 'dastardly deeds', but because Allah and his muslims hate joo's and want to erradicate them, 'dastardly deeds' became necessary. It all started when Cain, a muslim, killed Able, a Christian. Then he lied about it to Allah, he said the the 'joo's' made him do it. Since Allah likes muslims a whole lot better than he likes joo's,(or Christians), he believed Cain. Allah has been out to get joo's ever since...he calls them 'apes and pigs'. He sends his bomber sons against them. He wrecks/loots their greenhouses, he sends rockets into jooish cities...in other words, Allah hates jooish guts.
Allah also hates the guts of all you non believers...it may be necessary soon to take lessons from the joo's in the tactical use of 'dastardly deeds'. An ugly weapon, but necessary...
In light of this perpetually insane, festering cesspool of a psyche that is the collective muslim mind, explain to me just exactly how there is ANY way we won't end up fighting house to house and door to door EVERYWHERE before the deadly threat is beaten back, broken, ground into the mud, and suppressed forever?
If you don't know how to defend yourself and your family, start learning.
This is sheer, malignant, sociopathic, and feral
insanity.
I know what you do when a rabid dog threatens your neighborhood. You don't relish it, you take no joy in it, you don't celebrate "winning" over the dog, you just calmly remove the threat. You just take the course of action that best protects your family.
dam jooos
From Al-Bukhari
Volume 4, Book 52, Number 176:
Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Umar:
Allah's Apostle said, "You (i.e. Muslims) will fight with the Jews till some of them will hide behind stones. The stones will (betray them) saying, 'O 'Abdullah (i.e. slave of Allah)! There is a Jew hiding behind me; so kill him.' "
Volume 4, Book 52, Number 177:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. "O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him."
what i meant to say was i think the Jews are the
bravest bunch of peeps on the planet..
i think the jews are about the nobleist folks on the planet to absorb so much bullshit....
honestly, it is hard not to be consumed by hatred for these mother f@#$ers. Israel should attack these pigs again. Then, these illiterate bastards will see what a first-world army can do.
Rafael
Do not be afraid of your jewish heritage!!! The Jews survived Alexander, Antiocos, Cesear,the Persians, the SS, and will survive the arabs.And don't forget, the jews annhilated the combined forces of the arab world in under a week. Buy and Wear Hagana and Tzahal shirts. Especially in front of muslims. Yes, it can be exhilarating. But, we are fighting world war three here.
Honestly , if you are truly not secure being jewish, perhaps it is time to make aliyaa.
This is real bizarre. Here we go again. Muslim madness. Another unbelievable conspiracy theory by Muslims. Will it ever end? Blame the Jews for the evil done in the name of Islam. I am truly surprised that Christians weren't thrown in the list of collaborators with those Jewish terrorists who like to blow up American targets.
I just have one simple question is Robert Spencer Jewish? Please someone awnse my question
I must admit . . . in recent years when asked about my last name, I reply, "it's of German extraction." I got that from Driving Miss Daisy. You never know when you'll meet a blue-eyed white Bosnian Jihadist. Off topic, in Comp USA in Little Rock it looked like a Jihadist convention with at least five arabic guys kibitzing together in their native tongue. I gave one of the guys a once over and the talking ceased. A running joke in my family is to take a vacation in Karachi and walk into a mosque and ask, "excuse me, could you tell me where the looker synagogue is.
I live in a town of 50 thousand Christians and I'm one of four Jews. I've never encountered a whiff of anti-semitic talk over the last five years. But seriously, I'd think twice about going to Paris or any other parts in Europe is. Sadly, I think that Americans may turn into targets in Europe. Innocents Abroad my friends. We're bigger, taller and smile alot . . . we definately stand out.
Weird, how the zionist bug-a-boo could engender so much hatred. I think it boils down not to hatred, but envy. The Russians had their side and the US had a few million Jews. Despite overwhelming odds, the Israelis always won in the wars. This is the core issue, not the Palestinians. For a few million Jews to thrive in a time of war, in a sea of Arabs, means some evil power must be at play with devlish smarts. The problem with the Arabs in my view is simple. It's too painful to look inward, but SO easy to blame somebody else.
Abdullah:
"...Allah's Apostle said, "You (i.e. Muslims) will fight with the Jews till some of them will hide behind stones. The stones will (betray them) saying, 'O 'Abdullah (i.e. slave of Allah)! There is a Jew hiding behind me; so kill him.' "
You believe that, Abdullah, 'slave of Allah?'
Do you really believe the stones and the trees will talk to you and if they do, have you got your scimitar ready to kill him?
I used to watch Jordanian TV in English from time to time. Rami Khoury is one of those extremely oily yet clever Arab commentators. He is one of the smoothest of the smoothies. Moreover, he has been a kind of court news commentator King Hussein and now for Plucky Young King no. 2, Abdullah II. He is quite capable of speaking in a quite friendly, Judeophilic tone --which he did when he came to Israel a few times-- if that is what royal policy requires. He is usually not as crude and explicitly hate-ridden as Hanan Ashrawi, for example.
please correct the above post:
". . . a kind of court commentator FOR King Hussein. . ."
Biorabbi said: I think it boils down not to hatred, but envy.
I couldn't agree more. and, perhaps it has it roots in the bible... I'm not a biblical scholar, but wasn't Ishmael the bastard son of Abraham? And, weren't Haggar, Izzys mom, and Ishmael himself, cast out of Abrahams house because of a jealous wife. SO, the muslims have been jealous of the jews from the beginning. Add to that the humiliation of modern Israel, a nation who in less than 50 years became a modern, first world country, with a per capital GDP of approximately 20,000 a year, while surrounding Arab countries are so much poorer.Add to that the humiliation by Israel of the Arab military forces.ANd, the creation of refugees, it is too much to bear. But ultimately, the Arabs are victims of their own inferior culture. I have not an ounce of sympathy for the bastards.