Jihad terror films are the real insult, not the Muhammad movie

Something approaching common sense in, of all places, the New York Daily News, which is ordinarily no friend of freedom. "Radical Islamic terror ‘flicks’ insult humanity far more deeply than an idiot film about Muslims by a felonious con man," by Denis Hamill in the New York Daily News, September 18 (thanks to Stewart):

C’mon, who’s obscene?
I’m having a hard time believing that Islamic extremists from more than 20 countries actually hold 300 million Americans responsible for a single amateur film, an incoherent anti-Islamic screed made by a convicted felon on parole for credit-card scams.

Okay, maybe one or two offended people could be that dumb. But no way could tens of thousands of folks in 20 countries believe the same line of nonsense that this film is representative of the entire American people.

And yet in the wake of four Americans murdered in Libya last week, here were fiery images from around the world as outraged Muslims attacked our consulates, embassies and even an American fast-food joint to avenge the twisted vision of one American con man with a camcorder. A film that esteemed Daily News movie critic Joe Neumaier says would have more social significance, as the old Hollywood line goes, if you cut it up and sold it for mandolin picks.

But somehow this obscure film has caused the Arab Spring to bloom into American funeral wreaths.

It got me thinking that we live in New York City, home of the United Nations, host of every one of those Islamic nations now erupting in irrational anti-American violence. Suppose New Yorkers decided to retaliate and storm all their diplomatic outposts, killing ambassadors and other innocents because we were outraged by an Islamist film that we found offensive?

The NYPD riot squad, hate crime unit, FBI and National Guard would be out rounding us up in orange fishing nets.

And, believe me, we have lots more than one dopey fictional film to be offended by.

Go online and you’ll find authentic real-life footage detailing radical Islamist atrocities that any rational person would find far more blasphemous to the human spirit than anything in the YouTube trailer that has set the Muslim world ablaze.

Start with these 10 videos:

1) The beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl on an Al Qaeda website, perhaps one of the most evil videos ever shot.

2) American hostage Eugene Armstrong being beheaded in Iraq.

3) Hooded terrorists killing Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games.

4) The second plane smashing into the South Tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.

5) Human beings leaping to their doom from the Trade Center.

6) The collapse of the twin towers as people are obliterated inside.

7) A woman being stoned to death for adultery in Saudi Arabia.

8) The bodies of four U.S. contractors hanging from a bridge above the Euphrates River in Fallujah, Iraq....

Read it all.

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Softly Bob | September 20, 2012 6:04 AM | Reply

It's time to take the blinkers off. It's time to stop focusing on one stupid Mohammed movie and realize that there are thousands of jihad movies. It's time to stop focusing on our own mistakes and focus on Muslim crimes against humanity.
Cowards, stop burying your heads in the sand, the time for appeasement is over. It's time for us to stand up for what we believe in and that is freedom, truth and justice!

Najis Kafir | September 20, 2012 6:10 AM | Reply

But, don't you know that islamoporn (beheadings, etc.) are "art," while that Mohammad video is "hate speech."

Routier1642 | September 20, 2012 6:42 AM | Reply

These protests aren't really about some dumb film.

Some Muslims were upset by the film, sure. But it's being used as another excuse to riot and express anger towards the USA.

We had Muslim protest which turned into a riot here in Sydney, Australia, last weekend. I don't know if it made world news. It was pretty big thing for us. That sort of thing is not usual here - we're a pretty easy-going, tolerant bunch. The protest was mostly frustration and anger directed against the USA and the non-Muslim world. The film was just an excuse.

Why does the Muslim world hate the USA in particular? Israel is the root of it - decades of humiliation after humiliation over Israel. They'll never let that one go. The past decade or so with US and Western forces in Iraq & Afghanistan hasn't helped.

Where will it all lead? I don't know. But I know whose side I'm on.

duh_swami | September 20, 2012 6:51 AM | Reply

'What evil lurks in the heart of man? The Shadow knows'...

The Shadow says...It's Allah, a false god, Mahound a fake messenger/Prophet, Gabriel an incoherent angel, the Quran a dark and evil fairy tale...and over a billion people willing to do what Allah wants no matter how much it hurts...you...
The psychotic want you to join them in their psychosis, or else...Those evil video's shows you what 'or else' looks like...

salah replied to comment from duh_swami | September 20, 2012 8:58 AM | Reply

"Gabriel an incoherent angel" ???
You are being too kind my friend. Here is what a great muslim scholar wrote about this "incoherent angel".

"Al-Abyad (a demon) is the friend of the prophets and he is the one who went to the Prophet (pbuh) in the form of Gabriel (the angel)"
Al-Qurtubi (arabic) 37/18 / تفسير القرطبي

http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/10/muhammad-and-satan_24.html

Buraq replied to comment from Routier1642 | September 20, 2012 10:18 AM | Reply

You wrote, alarmingly: "Why does the Muslim world hate the USA in particular? Israel is the root of it - decades of humiliation after humiliation over Israel."

You couldn't be more wrong! Muslims hate the USA and the rest of the non-Muslim world equally. And the root of it? Because they are not Muslim. Simple as that. Read Al Qur'an for verification! You don't have to believe me.

If Israel did not exist, the situation as it stands now between the Islam and the USA would not be one whit different.

I think you're a troll! But I'll keep my powder dry until I read a couple more of your posts.

London Jim replied to comment from salah | September 20, 2012 11:43 AM | Reply

Duh_swami & Salah, the 'gabriel' of the koran is not the Archangel Gabriel. . . Rest assured . . . though I can't prove it.
Rumour has it that it was a gerbil.

Larry A. Singleton | September 21, 2012 2:23 AM | Reply

The Daily News Print function sucks. And he didn't list the video of the Christian convert who was recently slaughtered. Of course you can lose track of all these "promotional videos" from these Islamic scum.

Larry A. Singleton

Philo Vaihinger | September 21, 2012 5:44 AM | Reply

While he explodes the myth that Western mockery of Islam is even remotely as "obscene" as Muslim videos of the far more awful Muslim atrocities against Westerneres, Jews, and Christians he accepts the myth that the torture and mistreatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib or elsewhere incited or in some way justified Muslim wrath.

The truth is that Muslim treatment of prisoners is and has been for as long as anyone has paid attention far worse than anything even the French torturers of the Algeria War did.

But people with political agendas lie to us regularly, don't they?

It was and is a lie that the 13:51 film was a disgusting and horrific provocation. It was lame and boring.

It was and is a lie that the Danish cartoons were or the French cartoons are disguting and horrific and provocative.

They are nothing much, actually.

It was and is a lie that American troops' bad treatment of Muslim prisoners or (and it is crazy to even have to mention this) of the Koran so incredibly shocking to the sensitive Muslim conscience as to account for the white hot hate and seemingly endless violence of Muslims against us.

Our troops' abuse of prisoners is as noting compared to what Muslim fighters do, all around the world.

And our troops' occasional un-respectful handling of the Koran is as nothing compared to Muslim fighters' treatment of the Bible, churches, church run schools and hospitals, or the people inside them.

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