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Why should the American government be spending, have spent or committed, nearly two trillion dollars to bring "good government" to Iraq? Why should it have spent $65 billion on the malevolent government of Egypt? Why did American taxpayers pay, not only for that Mercedes 600 that so impressed him with its "smooth ride," the one that son-of-plucky-little-king-Hussein King Abdullah of Jordan picked him up in, but also for billions of dollars in aid to Jordan? Jordan’s population is said to be possibly the most fervently anti-American in the world. To take advantage of untariffed textiles it can send to America, Jordan's Arabs -- divided between the "Eastern Palestinians" who are called "Jordanians" and the "Western Palestinian Eastern Palestinians" who are called "Palestinians" -- own factories where non-Arabs are employed and exploited, in what American labor investigators have called the "worst" labor conditions, amounting in many cases to slavery, they have ever seen.
Why does the American government continue to fund the Fatah warlords, those Slow Jihadists who are still, nominally, in control of their fellow Arabs in the Arab-occupied "West Bank"? And why is it that the American government (with a little help from other NATO states) has come to be expected to lavish further tens of billions on the permanently meretricious and malevolent -- generals or rabble-rousing zamindars, it hardly matters -- government of Pakistan?
And why does this money, once it starts to flow -- to Egypt, to Jordan, to "the Palestinians," to Pakistan -- come so quickly to be regarded as received, as by right, and given, as by necessity or duty? All Western or Infidel aid, whenever given, for whatever ostensible purpose, becomes that dutiful tribute that the Infidel donors are afraid -- afraid! -- to cut, for fear of offending those (look at Egypt, look at "the Palestinians") who have come to expect that tribute from the Infidels to be paid. There is not a single example, anywhere, of a serious and permanent diminishment, or still better, ending of such aid -- aid that helps improve the military capacity of the Muslim recipients. Could Pakistan have paid for its nuclear project without Western aid to sustain it? And when it is non-military aid, it merely frees up other money that can be diverted to support whatever local Jihads that recipient-state or regime is most directly involved in furthering.
It is maddening that that Infidel aid --- given by Infidel states even as they must endure paying ever greater sums to the oil-producing Muslims who share, with their fellow Muslims, almost nothing of the trillions they take in (and are quite content to see the Infidels pick up the Infidel Man's Burden) -- becomes routine, unquestioned, a veritable matter of right, something that, once the Infidels start to supply it, they have to keep supplying it. And the Muslims who receive this aid do so not without any felt gratitude, but with the sense that this Infidel aid is in the natural and just order of things, which for them, in the deepest sense, it is.
Historically , the payment of the jizyah was not only to collect revenue on which the Islamic state depended, but had to be made in conditions that would demonstrate to one and all, Muslim and dhimmi alike, the inferior status of the dhimmi. The dhimmi was supposed to appear with the payment, and in many places he would be struck on the side of jaw, or otherwise. Not, that is, merely symbolically. In India, where Hindus had to pay both zakat and jizya, one practice deserves mentioning (this may be in Lal, or on Sarkar, or elsewhere): the Hindu, treated as a kind of dhimmi even though, as a polytheist, he did not actually count as a member of the ahl al-Kitab or "people of the Book" (who, therefore, could be allowed to survive, and not convert, as long as they fully complied with their dhimmi status), would find that a Muslim would spit into his open mouth -- quite a sign of his status.
There is something else. The payment either of jizyah, or the land-tax, kharaj, is only the best-known of the many disabilities, economic, political, and social, which dhimmis had to endure. Examples include the requirement that clothing of Christians and Jews, and their dwelling-places, bear marks indicating that they were either Christians or Jews. The zunnar, or belt, often blue, of the Christians, or the yellow star of the Jews (Hitler borrowed his idea from the "tolerant" court of Abbasid Baghdad), helped to identify people. And why would not need to identify them? Well, suppose one of them did not obey the rules pertaining to dhimmis. For example, dhimmis could not ride on horses, but only on donkeys, and only side-saddle, and they had to dismount whenever they came upon a Muslim. Dhimmis could not repair or build new houses of worship. Dhimmis could not testify against Muslims in court, so if there were any quarrel, the Muslim would always win. And there were of course always the threat that if even a single dhimmi did not fulfill an obligation, or violated some prohibition, not only he, but his entire community could suffer.
Consider the historical data and the present nature of “foreign aid.” Compare and contrast.
Posted by Hugh at September 9, 2008 6:54 AM
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That whole "New World Order" thing gets more plausible every day.
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at September 9, 2008 7:04 AM
Hugh, I think we need new rules to tackle the political malpractice you highlight.
Request for Comments:
Foreign Affairs Ethical Statutes of Conduct for Politicians (Proposal)
1. Foreign aid shall not be given to nations that inarguably threaten your nation by word or deed or that discriminate against or persecute any of its own peoples or those of any nonthreatening nation.
2. Do not use immigration to import people who vote for you, your party or your politics, or who hold religious or cultural values inimical to universal human rights.
3. Never compromise your nation for short-term gain, or for irrational reasons, or that require agreements with hostile nations or nations that do not respect universal human rights.
4. Continuously challenge the right of nations that do not respect universal human rights to participate in international political or cultural organizations that do.
5. Do not harm the general integrity of the natural environment or finance the national budget through dependence on population growth that leads to overpopulation, defined as the point that undermines sustainability and a standard of living that allows all legal residents to have full universal human rights that substantively includes the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness .
6. Respect and defend the inalienable rights of humankind, as enumerated in the national constitution and its amendments, as well as universal human rights, in that order, and not associate with those nations and people who do not.
7. It is not permitted to resettle immigrants in mass as unintegrated foreign communities into your nation, as it is considered an act of autogenocide, worsened further if said communities are actively hostile to universal human rights. Only individuals and nuclear families that pledge to respect universal human rights are permitted to immigrate, with the goal that they strengthen your nation.
8. You must use accurate facts and figures whenever addressing a constituency, and avoid substanceless rhetoric, demagoguery or emotionalism.
9. No subject matter is permitted to be demonized, or turned into a "third rail," but shall always be revisited when circumstances dictate.
10. Policies that create dependent or elite classes of able-bodied citizens who are without economic or cultural value, are not permitted.
11. National borders are to be strengthened until the possibility of them being breached illegally is minimized and rare.
12. Ilegal immigration disrupts economic and environmental planning, community well being, and national as well as local security, therefore, with rare exception, repatriation of unauthorized immigrants shall be carried out immediately upon positive identification, and foreign countries that are violating or neglecting the rights of their citizens or interfering in your nations immigration security shall be vigorously challenged.
13. Do not create of promote an insular culture of beliefs that is separated from realities and that ignore the policies and practices of foreign nations, cultures, religions and ideologies that may threaten ours.
14. Do not violate the national constitution by distorting its language, but instead resolve issues by educating the citizenry or by constitutionally changing the law in order to make it better.
15. Your nation's interests, as well as those of national enemies, shall be fully documented, and policy shall be created based on that knowledge, with the aim of strengthening your nation.
16. Do not make political parties more important than individuals or the good of the nation.
17. Expect any or all of the following, dependent on the severity of political malpractice, for violating the above codes, as well as others not enumerated here, of an elected public representative or political appointee, as determined by a jury: loss of office, public shaming, prison, loss of citizenship.
Posted by: Max Publius at September 9, 2008 9:42 AM
I'm afraid it is the failure to teach history that brought this about. The fact that the universities are full with Juan Coles' and Ward Churchill's is but one example. What the universities produce nowadays is morally, socially and ideologically indoctrinated equivalence and politically correct eggheads, who are just as fragile.
But everybody today pays the jiziyah, one way or another.
Whether it is Italy who builds that coastal highway for the illustrious cretin Gaddafi, or the EU that pays enormous amounts of money to the former Barbary states and Egypt to prevent them from sending thousands of 'immigrants' in leaky boats across the Mediterranean, or the welfare, healthcare and free housing of these fake refugees once they arrive in Europe.
And then there is the billions over billions of Euro's to the so-called 'Palistanians' -, an insult to anyones intelligence and an unacceptable, bottomless pit for taxpayers in Western Europe, which does nothing other than fuel the never ending jihad against Israel and the terror that comes with it.
I'm afraid we lost the plot.
Posted by: sheik yer'mami at September 9, 2008 11:20 AM
I agree, sheik, all the money we send them is jizya.
Posted by: tanstaafl at September 9, 2008 12:00 PM
I've never understood why the U.S. supplies billions of dollars in military and development aid to nations that actively teach its citizens to hate and despise every principle for which America stands. It's nothing less than bribery and the U.S. has never gotten its money's worth. It's long past time for the American people to say: "YANKEE, SPEND IT AT HOME".
Posted by: lilgadfly at September 9, 2008 12:13 PM
There is no authorization for 'foreign aid' in the US Constitution...You know, the founding document that politicians love, unless they choose to ignore it.
In the US, the 'people' are supposed to be the sovereigns, and the money they pay the government, 'taxes', are supposed to be used to support the US government. Not some other government(s).
The people are endowed by their creator, with just so much life energy. This life energy is what we use to move around with, to go here and there and to do this or that. It is ours individually, the government does not own it. Some of that energy is used for working, building, creating. Often with a lot of sweat and a resulting bad back. Working energy is turned into money, much of which is turned over to gov to support itself in 'our' behalf.
When our money/energy is turned over by government to despots, or malignant governments, or any governments or undeserving individuals,
'We has been robbed'. Not only of money, there is always more of that, but of something more important, your life energy which is 'limited'.
'Paying your fair share', should not include jizya or any other kind of pay off.
Why should you work hard so that Abbas in Palestine, or some Ayatollah somewhere can live a plush life?
The politicians who keep giving our 'National Wealth', in the form of 'energy money' to others who did not earn it, and don't deserve it, should be in jail rather than sitting in an office giving dictation.
Posted by: duh_swami at September 9, 2008 12:42 PM
Just think of what good that mind boggling amount of money could have done. Like research on sustained nuclear fusion, cancer cures, alternative fuels, battery research, protecting America's boarders, ports, airports, covert military ops that pit sunnis against shias, shias against kurds, kurds against everyone else. A tear comes to my eye.
Posted by: KrazyKafir at September 9, 2008 5:13 PM
Thanks Sheik Yer'mami. Your site is one of the best.
I think politicians would sign a code of conduct like this if their constituancies demanded it in exchange for their vote.
at September 9, 2008 7:18 PM
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