My column in Human Events today:
After enduring hundreds of rocket attacks from Gaza, Israel has struck back, and some of the international reactions have been surprising. The usual suspects lined up with condemnations of Israel, with Egypt, Iran, and the Muslim Brotherhood among the first in line.The Egyptian government declared that it condemned “the Israeli military aggression on the Gaza Strip” and blamed “Israel, as an occupying force, for the victims and the wounded.” Of course, when Israel stopped “occupying” Gaza in September 2005, a new era of peace was supposed to dawn. But those dreams died in a hail of Hamas rockets fired from Gaza at Israeli civilians. The Egyptian statement continued: “Egypt will continue its contacts to prepare an atmosphere conducive to restoring the period of calm and achieving reconciliation between the Palestinian groups.” When was that period of calm again? It didn’t end with Israel’s action in Gaza this week. Hamas fired 126 rockets into Israel in November, and 98 in the first three weeks of December. Is the “calm” that Egypt wishes to restore that blissful early morning quiet, broken only by the occasional Kassam missile arcing into Ashkelon?
That staunch defender of human rights, the Tehran mullahcracy, was not in the mood for calm. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Ghashghavi thundered: “This savage and inhuman act by the Zionist regime (Israel) just adds another chapter to its dark criminal and terrorist record and is the result of the painful silence by relevant international organizations.” Alaeddin Boroujerdi, leader of the foreign policy commission, in the Iranian Parliament, added that “the new crimes by the Zionists reflect their savage nature and that of those countries claiming to be civilized and defend human rights.”
The Iranians then began recruiting suicide bombers to go to Gaza -- and Israel -- on the internet.
The Muslim Brotherhood, the world’s largest Islamic organization, which is dedicated in its own words to “eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion [Islam, natch] is made victorious over all other religions” struck a similarly pious tone. Brotherhood Deputy Chairman Mohamed Habib stated that “the Israeli occupation forces are proving to the entire world their disrespect of all international treaties and accords, let alone the values of humanity and divine religions.”Another human rights beacon, Yemen, denounced “Israeli barbaric aggression and brutal genocides its army carries out against armless Palestinians in Gaza Strip.” Apparently the English English language specialists in the Yemeni government are as adept as its human rights advisers.
Even Iraq condemned Israel’s actions in Gaza. A government spokesman, Ali al-Dabbagh, called upon Israel to cease all operations in Gaza and said that the international community should “take the necessary steps to stop this attack.” That once-renowned “moderate,” Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, called upon Islamic nations to act: “Expressing condemnation and denunciation for what is going on against our brothers in Gaza and expressing solidarity with them by words only doesn’t mean anything in the face of the big tragedy they are facing. Now more than at any other time, both Arab and Islamic nations are required to take a practical stance for the sake of stopping this repeated aggression and to break the unfair besieging of these brave people.”
The intrepid journalist Diana West pointed out that these statements came from “the same Iraq President Bush has long predicted will be (when?) ‘an ally in the worldwide struggle against the terrorists’ and a ‘strong ally in the Middle East.’” And it was the same story in Afghanistan. “The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan,” the Foreign Ministry declared, “is following the recent attacks by Israel on the innocent people of Palestine with great concern and strongly condemns these attacks.”None of these nations, it must be noted, ever took the trouble to condemn Hamas’s constant rocket barrage against Israeli civilians. None of them were striking pious postures and talking in outraged tones about human rights when Hamas was blowing up ordinary Israeli citizens on buses and in restaurants, and celebrating the mass murderers as heroes.
But most striking of all, and most disquieting, has been the reaction from that bastion of Islamic purity known as London, England. Rioters have battled police, besieging the Israeli embassy and trying to get into the embassy compound, throwing smoke bombs and sticks at the police officers guarding the embassy. Has the city that Melanie Phillips indelibly dubbed “Londonistan” become part of the global Islamic umma? No -- at least not yet. But unless the befuddled West regains a sense of its own identity and purpose, it was a harbinger of things to come.
I love how all anti-israeli people use such dramatic and poetic words. "Savages", "Brave", "innocent", "harmless", "armless. I also love how Spencer stays on a "Slaughterhouse-Five" level of writing. Apparently, Anti-Israel is so void they have a strong need of using big words to dramatize the events. Hey! Don't people die in Darfur too? I haven't heard about it in a while. I did hear some conspiracy theories though. I don't buy them. Not even for free.
Go Spencer!
3 years and 3000 rockets mortars suicide attacks later, Israel finally shows some backbone and protects its citizens. The US. then calls for "restraint". Did the US show restraint after 9-11. Israel would be wise to flatten Gaza, bulldoze the rubble in the sea and then start over.
From post above: I also love how Spencer stays on a "Slaughterhouse-Five" level of writing.
What's that? I saw the movie but didn't read the book...
An interesting effect of the Gaza situation is that the kufr world gets to watch the Mohammadan world come unglued...Demonstrations, riots, threats, violence...right out there in public view.
It will soon become clear to even 'Joe the Plumber', that Islam is NOT the religion of peace...
Bob Dylan's song Neighbourhood Bully increases in relevance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ENZZrYe_rg
Well, the neighborhood bully, he's just one man,
His enemies say he's on their land.
They got him outnumbered about a million to one,
He got no place to escape to, no place to run.
He's the neighborhood bully.
The neighborhood bully just lives to survive,
He's criticized and condemned for being alive.
He's not supposed to fight back, he's supposed to have thick skin,
He's supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in.
He's the neighborhood bully.
The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land,
He's wandered the earth an exiled man.
Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn,
He's always on trial for just being born.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized,
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad.
The bombs were meant for him.
He was supposed to feel bad.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, the chances are against it and the odds are slim
That he'll live by the rules that the world makes for him,
'Cause there's a noose at his neck and a gun at his back
And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac.
He's the neighborhood bully.
He got no allies to really speak of.
What he gets he must pay for, he don't get it out of love.
He buys obsolete weapons and he won't be denied
But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, he's surrounded by pacifists who all want peace,
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease.
Now, they wouldn't hurt a fly.
To hurt one they would weep.
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Every empire that's enslaved him is gone,
Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon.
He's made a garden of paradise in the desert sand,
In bed with nobody, under no one's command.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Now his holiest books have been trampled upon,
No contract he signed was worth what it was written on.
He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth,
Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health.
He's the neighborhood bully.
What's anybody indebted to him for?
Nothin', they say.
He just likes to cause war.
Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed,
They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed.
He's the neighborhood bully.
What has he done to wear so many scars?
Does he change the course of rivers?
Does he pollute the moon and stars?
Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill,
Running out the clock, time standing still,
Neighborhood bully
I was reading a leftard blog today, one that can only be described as anti-semetic cloaked in lefty "progressive" ideology and "tolerance". Well, did you know:
Israel was the party to break the truce!
On Israel, from the comments: "They’re terrorists dressed up all pretty in uniforms and shiny boots, and, for the most part, enthusiastically murdering those they’re told to kill,"
and, from comments: the moral inversion:
"Annual odds of an Israeli dying in a Palestinian terrorist attack are 2 in a million! Israelis killed MONTHLY in traffic accidents: about 45. Israeli deaths annually from obesity: 43. Those Palestinian terrorists are SO scary!"
Go figure.
Frere Tariq steps up to the fray:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/02/israel-gaza-palestinians-islam
If the US really was bothered about eliminating Islamic terrorists, they'd send about 500 B52s with full bomb loads to obliterate the Gaza Strip, just as they would have sent hundreds of B52s and B1s to help the Israelis eliminate Hizbollah back in 2006, and they would also wage a total war against the Iranian mullahocracy in Bush's last days, and get even for 1979, 1983 and everything that has happened since, but we know the US has now become half-hearted and paralysed, and that none of that will happen. The events of the last three years or so have shown how the West has become a dead duck without so much as asingle quack to be heard - unless it implies appeasement, and now the Islamist enemies are plucking away at the feathers. The soulmates of the weak non-men of the 1930s are now in charge, up against the Islamic Hitlers, with no Winston Churchill in sight to come to the rescue, whilst the Chinese might well be lurking in the shadows, and waiting for their time to come as the supreme power on earth - perhaps after overwhelming those who we refused to take on and comprehensively defeat.
Spencer is a welcome counterpoint in Human Events to the oft featured anti-Semite, Pat Buchanan.
John Doe, thanks for reprinting the lyrics to Bob Dylan's "Neighborhood Bully". It couldn't be more timely.
These are some of my favorite lines:
He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth,
Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health.
He's the neighborhood bully.
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One of the ironies of Israel's astonishing success--given what she started with, and the hostility of her neighbors, and how rapid the transformation has been--is that she now is considered--somehow, inexplicably, as a given--to be rich, unlike their poor "Paleatinian" neighbors, who are so poverty-stricken.
Very few have contemplated how Israel turned a near-desert with no infrastructure into a vibrant, modern democracy--and has done it while having to build a huge defensive army, and with neighbors who largely refuse to trade with her, and while supplying utilities, and medical care, and humanitarian aid to their murderous neighbors.
And yet, the "Palestinians" seem to have no desire to emulate their neighbor Israel, and build a functioning state. They would rather put their energies into trying to destroy the finest nation in their midst, because it is not a Muslim nation.
Can you imagine what the "Palestinians"--Hamas and Fatah--would do with Israel if they ever succeed in wiping her off the map? Oh, the genocidal violence against Jews goes without saying.
But afterwards--do "Palestinians" imagine, somehow, that they will enjoy the wealth and vitality of Israel? It will be like the Gaza greenhouses--looted for parts and then ruined and destroyed. A "Palestinian" Israel would quickly descend into--well--Gaza. And then the various factions would turn on each other.
And who would be blamed? Probably Israel would still be blamed--somehow, if a Jewish state had never existed, then surely Palestine would be a paradise, a model state. It is an ugly fantasy.
We have to support Israel. To do so is to support a people's right to live free of unprovoked attacks. It is supporting civilization over barbarity.
FYI:
I don't know if this has to do with the internet attack against Jihad Watch.
I followed the link to the article at Human Events, started reading and my Firefox window closed almost immediately.
Up popped a FAKE Firefox anti-virus warning which wouldn't close when I clicked on the little "X" at the top. So I did a "force quit" and shut down Firefox.
But most striking of all, and most disquieting, has been the reaction from that bastion of Islamic purity known as London, England. Rioters have battled police, besieging the Israeli embassy and trying to get into the embassy compound, throwing smoke bombs and sticks at the police officers guarding the embassy.
Now I know why I stopped commenting at this website.
There are no more protests here than they are in America, yet Robert does his usual thing of writing off a whole city as a "bastion of Islamic purity".
Grow up, for goodness sake.
From above: Interested... Now I know why I stopped commenting at this website.
You mean you stopped posting before you knew why you stopped posting, but have now figured out why you stopped posting??
A delayed reaction? How long did it take?...Does this happen to you often?
Sounds confused to me...Good luck getting your jihad information else where...That is if you are really interested in the subject...
Interested (presumably Mary Jackson)
You may recall that 3-4 years ago on this site (where we both used to frequently post), I warned that the UK was on a trajectory towards the introduction and accommodation of Islamic laws and practices at odds with British common law and Western values and that this would inevitably result in an irretrievably fragmented and morally compromised society.
Since that time, with all that we have seen occur in the UK and documented here, e.g. the accommodation of sharia courts, do you still aver that this is not the course the UK has taken?
Duh-swami - I thought the site had changed for the better. Clearly not.
do you still aver that this is not the course the UK has taken?
Yes. There are, of course, matters of concern, in the UK and elsewhere, and they should be documented. It's the gloating and sneering I can't stand.
In an otherwise sensible article, Robert takes a fatuous, ignorant, illogical, and gratuitous swipe at six million people, namely Londoners. Were anyone to do something similar with regard to Minneapolis (footbathsville) it would be condemned outright as idiotic.
Yes, "Interested" is Mary Jackson.
She long ago decided that my opposing and lampooning dhimmitude in Britain somehow meant that I hated England.
That is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard, and after trying to explain it to her once a few years ago, I gave up. Ms. Jackson is free to take her ludicrous swipes at me here, but I am not going to engage her.
I will say, however, that any fair-minded reader of the site (which leaves her out, of course) will not be able to sustain any argument that I direct my sarcasm against dhimmitude in Britain any more vehemently than I direct it against any other place.
You can read Mary Jackson's febrile writings at New English Review, which is otherwise a quality site.
Cordially
Robert Spencer
Q: Do you still aver that this is not the course the UK has taken?
A: Yes. There are, of course, matters of concern, in the UK and elsewhere, and they should be documented.
Can you offer any evidence to refute the mountain of evidence suggesting otherwise?
gravenimage
you wrote:
"A "Palestinian" Israel would quickly descend into--well--Gaza. And then the various factions would turn on each other."
It's already happening, in Judea and Samaria aka 'the west bank'.
Observe the final paragraph of this news report that I found on my national Australian news site, before coming here:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/01/03/2458426.htm?section=justin
"In the West Bank city of Ramallah {tr: in Ramallah in Samaria - dda}, prayers ended with a call to keep up the struggle against Israel.
'Worshippers then marched through Ramallah, chanting that they would sacrifice their souls and blood to protect Gaza.
'Palestinian {tr: Arab Muslim - dda} youths threw rocks at police - who responded with tear gas and rubber coated metal bullets.
{NOW COMES THE FUN PART}.
'But there was also tension among those who rallied today; *with supporters of the rival factions of Hamas and Fatah turning on each other during the march* {my emphasis added - dda}." END QUOTE.
Let's read that final sentence again (it *was* the final sentence of the report):
"with supporters of the rival factions {tr: jihad gangs - dda} of Hamas and Fatah turning on each other during the march".
Where are Monty Python or The Goodies when we need them, to satirise to the hilt this Kilkenny-cat-like behaviour?
It's not just that they can't live with the Jews for neighbours.
They can't live with *each other*!
But what else can you expect? - it seems to me that the Islamic exaltation of the principle of tyranny, the amoral Will to Power/ Will to Dominate, as god, produces in fact millions of little tin gods (Muslim males) each imitating Allah who tolerates 'no partners' [that is: no counterpart, no equal, no rival], each convinced that he and he alone must dominate all, must eliminate *everything* that threatens his right to absolute absorption/ domination-to-the-point-of-destruction of everything Other, every potential rival that he encounters (women, Infidels...and other Muslim males who are also bent on Total Domination and therefore collide directly with himself).
In its pursuit of absolute brute Unity the Islamic world, paradoxically, is driven to divide itself perpetually into warring parts, each of which then attempts to eat up the other parts.
I was Google Earth flying over Gaza and the border with Israel earlier today and the differences on either side of the border are stark. Green and terraformed on Israel's side and the opposite in Gaza. It's really remarkable. These are not new photos, they are before the current situation.
ABS
So Robert declines to justify condemning all of London on the basis of a few rioters?
Fine.
You can read Mary Jackson's febrile writings at New English Review, which is otherwise a quality site.
And at Pajamas Media. Not bad for a "febrile" writer.
Febrile or not, your silence speaks volumes.
your silence speaks volumes.
You can't prove a negative, as you well know.
To see just how "febrile" my writings are, click here. Click here for my writings at Pajamas Media on a variety of topics, which appear to be popular if, at times, controversial.
Febrile is the new cool.
I simply asked if you could provide any evidence that the UK had not chosen a course towards...
the introduction and accommodation of Islamic laws and practices at odds with British common law and Western values and that this would inevitably result in an irretrievably fragmented and morally compromised society.
My assertion is certainly open to refutation without "proving a negative". Assuming you have any evidence.
I'm not interested in your celebrity status as a writer, just a simple answer to an interesting question... "Interested"
Charles Martel:
Read my posts and articles at NER, and at PJM, which contain a great deal of factually based criticism of the UK and its accomodation of Muslims. Then draw your own conclusions.
Dumbledore's Army wrote:
In its pursuit of absolute brute Unity the Islamic world, paradoxically, is driven to divide itself perpetually into warring parts, each of which then attempts to eat up the other parts.
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Yes--you are seeing this in Somalia, where what have described as (I kid you not) "moderate Islamists" are attacking the Shebab for their "un-Islamic" behavior. Of course, there is the ongoing situation in Darfur, and the bizarre incident in Iraq, where a suicide bomber took advantage of the gathering of rival Muslims for an attack. The gathering, of course, was a demonstration *against Israel*.
That Muslims in Ramallah are "chanting that they would sacrifice their souls and blood to protect Gaza" is odd at best, considering how Fatah members were murdered and viciously driven out of Gaza by Hamas. Who did they turn to in their desperation to flee their murderous co-religionists? Well, Israel. Then Israel came under criticism for not being quick enough in saving Fatah, which has sworn to destroy them.
I've read quickly through the handful of articles dealing specifically with Islam in Britain. Other than your feeble (that's "feeble", not "febrile") suggestion that one should "go" to no-go areas in London and your defense of Lord Phillips "sensible presentation" endorsing Sharia where you argue,
No first step has been taken, by Lord Phillips or anyone else in charge of law-making; indeed steps toward Sharia have been explicitly rejected. Nothing has changed [your victory lap here proved premature as just two months later, this was revealed,
you do seem seriously concerned with developments in the UK along the lines that I have suggested.
p.s. I have my own beefs with R. Spencer but given the overwhelming evidence of Britain's Big Problem as evidenced by literally hundreds of articles appearing here and elsewhere as well as statistical data I have posted on the social and economic problems concentrated in the Muslim community, I certainly would not consider Robert unduly alarmist in his assessment of what is occurring in the UK.
premature
Not quite. See here and here and related links. Learn something.
Yes, I am concerned. But I am also concerned about factual accuracy, which, sadly, this site is not - at least where the UK is concerned.
your feeble (that's "feeble", not "febrile") suggestion that one should "go" to no-go areas in London
There are no no-go areas in London. Period. There are areas where you see niqabs and annoying Musims. Big deal. Have you been to Dearborn?
Have you been to London? I live here. I go all over the place. Still, Americans know best.
"In its pursuit of absolute brute Unity the Islamic world, paradoxically, is driven to divide itself perpetually into warring parts, each of which then attempts to eat up the other parts."
DDA:
This may be our saving grace, if all fails. Islam will implode.
Gravenimage, it's because all throughout history Jews have done it themsleves. Jews have never gotten handouts, legs-up (leg-ups?), the benefit of the doubt, or an ounce of help from anyone else. Our history is one of having always been held to a different standard and therefore having to be nearly perfect, or, at least considerably better than the competition just to get just as far. Mediocrity meant death, and it still does in many ways. It's still very real. I get marked off for typos on my homework in grad school, while Arabs who should be in kindergarten learning that the Earth isn't flat and how unitary logic works have their advisors write entire term papers for them.
The inverse has always been true of the Muslim world and look at it. Of course the Left loves affirmative action. Racism, guaranteed decadence, and special, protected classes that are held to lower standards, all rolled-up in expensive policies.
In response to your 7:02 post, the only reason the whole Muslim world isn't permanently in a state of civil war is because of dictators who run police states. In Egypt, for instance, people can't even meet, especially on college campuses, because if any three people are seen talking to each other the cops, who are everywhere, are required to shoot them. That degree of insecurity and its enforcement is the only way to keep the whole Muslim world from being in a perpetual state of civil war. Hamas/Fatah is deomcracy on Islam. One can't be Muslim and accept another's viewpoint, let alone live according to it, unless you're bought off, as in the case of the lack of overt slavery in states the EU and US pay jizya to.
With regard to London, my mother, who is a born-again libtard and thinks I'm crazy and evil for not wanting the free world to become Saudi Arabia and for linking Islam to the child molester who stalked me, said to my aunt on the phone the other day that I am "completely vindicated" for holding the opinion, with which she of course disagrees, that England is an uninhabitable Islamic hellhole (which my libtard sister even predicted it would be by now when she left in 2003 after studying there for a year, given how unsafe she felt, being Jewish). Why was I "completely vindicated?" An Ahmanlittleman Christmas, that's why. That was the straw that broke the camel's back that is her willful ignorance of the UK's dhimmitude. It's hitting home, people. Make sure to email around the Belgian pogrom stories from Islam in Europe. They'll get it.
Sorry, but the articles you post dealing with your upset over Tancredo are utterly devoid of anything which in any way mitigates the danger of creeping Sharia in the UK as endorsed by Williams, Phillips and others.
Have you been to London? I live here. I go all over the place. Still, Americans know best.
I lived in the UK (as a university researcher and lecturer) for 11 years until 2006; I know something about crime rates in predominantly Muslim communities. Spend much time in Newham, do you? How about Bradford up north?
You are in deep denial, my dear.
Spend much time in Newham, do you? How about Bradford up north?
Newham, no. Finsbury Park yes. Bradford, no. Bolton, yes.
Patronisingly saying "my dear" does not alter the reality. London is a fantastic place to live. Perhaps you were too thin-skinned for it.
By the way, you don't actually deal with my arguments in the articles I post. The ones relating to law. Because you can't.
Five hours and some 10 posts (with links to articles which, where relevant, were duly read and commented on above) and you have failed miserably to lay a finger on my original assertion.
Patronisingly saying "my dear" does not alter the reality
Yes, I was trying to be kind. The reality is that you are a complete idiot.
If you say so, dear. Americans know best.
A New York Times reporter on CNN's Anderson Cooper show this evening blamed the "occupation" for the suffering in Gaza. She had a Muslim name, a thick accent and said she was staying with a family there. She sounded just like a typical Palestinian propagandist. This report came immediately following Larry King interviewing Karen Abuzayd of the UN who works in Gaza. The two guests, because one is from the New York Times and the other from the United Nations, could be taken as credible and high minded observers by those with little knowledge of the issues at play. Neither had a shred of sympathy for the Israelis.
Meanwhile, the reporters, anchors and commentators seem to take two themes--both contradictory-- with all their reports.
1) Israel is killing civilians and destroying infrastructure, but the campaign is not weakening Hamas as the rockets continue to fall on Israel and Hamas remains the popular leadership in Gaza.
2) Hamas is a grass roots movement that is located among the people and is of the people, yet you can't attack them without killing "innocent civilians."
One reporter went so far as to say that Hamas is situated in densely populated neighborhoods because all of Gaza is densely populated, so there are no non-civilian areas for it to set up operations. I don't believe this is true. And perhaps if that is the case, then Hamas shouldn't fire rockets from Gaza and the Palestinians shouldn't have voted for a government intent of conflict with its neighbor. But whatever the reality on the ground, it always is spun to make Israel the bad guy.
I read the article concerning Tancredos comments.
Did Tancredo actually call the Inglish Pansy assed?
Hmmm. The delusional Interested seems to have gone away since this headline broke:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024212.php
It's not that Americans know better. It's that people with their heads out of their asses know better, like RtL, a Brit living in reality.
Jdamn - your point being what?
My point was that the rioters, and those criminals do not represent London. Robert Spencer seems to think they do.
Looks like you've got some violent protests of your own to contend with.
However, because I am not ignorant, smug or stupid, I will not claim that these rioters represent America, or make fatuous - febrile even - comments about George Washington turning in his grave.
People
please, let's be prepared to let some things slide.
Maybe Mr Spencer used a turn of phrase or expressed an opinion along the way which annoyed someone...nobody's perfect...let it go.
To quote Tolkien's Gandalf:
"the laughter of Mordor will be our only reward if we quarrel".
Instead of arguing we should be brainstorming.
The current battle in Gaza between the Jews of Israel, and the Arab Jihadis - especially coming so soon after the Pakistani Jihadis raided Mumbai (and by attacking Jews in Mumbai, made intelligent non-Muslim Indians aware of Jews as their comrades in adversity, as fellow-targets of the Global Jihad) - offers a chance to Educate, Educate, Educate; and also to get some Pan-Kafir Solidarity going.
Starting by giving public and vocal support to the Jews of Israel as they go up against the assassins and gang bosses of Hamas. Every inbox of every Israeli embassy across the non-Muslim world should be jammed with *intelligently* complimentary emails and letters. JPost today published a slew of letters that have come in, expressing support for the assault on Jihad Fortress Gaza. Think what that does for Israeli morale.
Those of us who are fortunate enough to live in the large cities across the western world where those horrible antisemitic pro-Jihad ragefest rallies are taking place, are in a position to organise and show the flag of the resistance - and help our Jewish fellow-citizens feel a little safer, a little less alone.
We have to find out where the pro-israel rallies are happening and let each other know; and where they're not, *we* have to work out how to get them happening, or tell each other which organisations to contact that may be doing something.
Right now, Hindus and Sikhs and Copts and Sudanese Christian refugees, and for that matter, Assyrian Christians in the West, for example, should be conspicuously visible at rallies on behalf of Israel's right to self-defence, loudly praying that Israel may achieve a decisive, indeed, a crushing victory over the jihadi assassins. Because every kafir victory in every battle along all the fronts of the global jihad, matters. It matters whether the Filipinos win out against the MILF. It matters that the Thai army keeps hammering away. It matters, that India should keep Kashmir.
Of course, as we swap ideas, we have to remember, this forum is a *very* public place. The walls have ears. The Mohammedan boggarts and dementors lurk in the dark corners of the saloon, eavesdropping - so all really specific plans need to be hived off to 1. face to face meetings and 2. personal one on one email.
However: if they overhear us making plans to get out and face them down, on behalf of Israel (and tomorrow it may be on behalf of India, or on behalf of Thailand, or Serbia, or you-name-it), that doesn't hurt. It lets them know that some kafir are getting quietly, intelligently angry.
And we should not give them the satisfaction of seeing us foolishly quarrelling. It allows them to identify fault lines on which they can press, to split us from one another, unless we are very, very wary.
Dumbledoresarmy - OK, good points.
(Shouldn't be childish - but he started it...)