“In the world today, we’re seeing far too many victims of ethnic and religiously motivated violence and hate,” says Samantha Power. And that is true. She notes, according to AP, that “there’s a huge amount to be done to protect the Muslims still in Bangui who feel very vulnerable.” Great. But she doesn’t mention the thousands of Christians who were displaced and terrorized by Muslims in the Central African Republic. And most glaringly of all, she omits mention of the jihad in Nigeria, where Muslims have murdered untold numbers of Christians, as well as destroyed churches and Christian homes. Nor does she mention the ongoing persecution of the Coptic Christians by Muslim Brotherhood supporters in Egypt, or the jihad in Somalia, or the jihad in Kenya, or the jihad in Zanzibar, or any other jihad. If there had been no violence committed by Christians in the Central African Republic, she might have had no “religiously motivated violence” to refer to at all.
“AP Interview: US envoy to mark Rwanda genocide on Africa, spotlight new violence,” by Edith M. Lederer for the Associated Press, April 4 (thanks to Gary):
UNITED NATIONS — U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power said Friday she’s going to Africa not just to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Rwanda genocide but to spotlight ethnic killings in Central African Republic and the potential for violence in Burundi.
Power, a strong human rights advocate, is leading the U.S. delegation to the commemoration, starting Sunday evening, of the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. More than 500,000 minority Tutsis and moderate members of the Hutu majority — over one million by Rwanda’s count — were killed by Hutu extremists in the 100-day slaughter.
“We’re trying to ensure that our vigil for those killed in Rwanda is also a commitment to remain vigilant and engaged as the potential for atrocities emerges elsewhere,” she said in an interview with The Associated Press.
Power said remembering Rwanda isn’t enough. The international community must act “whenever, wherever and however we can to prevent similar atrocities from happening elsewhere,” she said.
“In the world today, we’re seeing far too many victims of ethnic and religiously motivated violence and hate,” Power said.
The best example today is in the Central African Republic which has been wracked by sectarian killings, “and there’s also the great potential for people in Burundi to become victims in the near future,” Power said….
On Wednesday, Power will head to the Central African Republic, her second trip in less than four months.
The country has been in chaos since a March 2013 coup, and the violence has been splitting the country into Muslim and Christian areas.
Power said the situation “is extremely alarming” with most Muslims in the capital, Bangui, forced to flee their homes and many killed by armed Christian militants.
The United Nations will be taking over peacekeeping duties in the Central African Republic from the African Union but not until Sept. 15, she said.
Until then, Power said, there’s a huge amount to be done to protect the Muslims still in Bangui who feel very vulnerable, to mobilize funding for desperately needed humanitarian aid, and to support transitional President Catherine Samba-Panza’s efforts to get the police and civil service back to work.
She said the 20 years since the Rwanda genocide has changed the way the international community deals with atrocities.
In Rwanda, the international community pulled out U.N. peacekeepers and there was very little high-level engagement with Rwandan authorities who were perpetrating the genocide, Power said.
By contrast, in the Central African Republic there have been visits by many leaders, and the deployment of French and African Union forces with the United States helping to fly in troops and supply equipment, she said.
“The tragedy is that people are still being targeted on the basis of their identity,” in Central African Republic as well as South Sudan, she said….
duh_swami says
Above all, she is a propagandist, an agent of Rasool Obama. If she admits, or mentions specific culprits like Boko Haram, the next question would be, ‘what do you and the administration plan to do about it? Since they are not going to do anything about it, she avoids that subject all together.
Jay Boo says
She might be depending on Al Jazeera puppet NPR for all her news.
NPR has a long history of playing down and sanitizing Muslim violence against other religions.
Then suddenly a few months ago they were in a panic about a pending civil war in Central African Republic. Why all fuss.
Apparently Al Jazeera tells NPR when to make noise and when to obscure.
WVinMN says
No, this filth knows exactly what she’s doing. She is as evil as they come.
EYESOPEN says
EXACTLY. “In the world today, we’re seeing far too many victims of ethnic and religiously motivated violence and hate,” says Samantha Power.
Make no mistake about it, this… creature neglects to mention anything about islamic jihad on helpless Christians or Animists on purpose. It doesn’t fit in with the fiction of “peaceful” islam, so it is ignored – or if it must be mentioned at all it is mentioned in terms of moral equivalency, as in the quote above.
And notice her attack is on “religiously-motivated violence and hate”, not islamic-motivated violence and hate. This accomplishes two things:
1.) It completely fails to mention the true aggressors in ALL of these conflicts – muslims – thereby failing to alert the non-muslims of the world to the true nature of islam. and…
2.) Her moral equivalence about “religiously-motivated violence and hate uses the same sweeping brush of all totalitarian societies (and their mouthpieces) to condemn all religions “that only tend to create conflict in a rapidly shrinking world”. The very tool that totalitarian masters use to attack ALL religions – and, by extension, their practitioners.
Just as there are those who feel that national sovereignty is (or should be) a thing of the past – and their numbers are legion – there are many who feel that all religions do nothing but divide people and cause strife, and that therefore they should also be a remnant of a past, less “humanitarian” world. Don’t believe me? Wait and see…
pongidae rex says
B. Hussein Obama is not only the first African American president. He is the first stealth Muslim president and the first Affirmative Action president. The extent to which he has stacked his administration with Islamist apologists and propagandists at time we are at war with those elements is very close to treasonous.
Tradewinds says
Power? Her surname should be Weak. She is truly despicable.
shosh7154 says
As President Obama would say: “allah hu akhbar”
umbra says
This envoy, as part of team obama, has wrecked the middle east. Now that the middle east is in a mess, she has decided expand on to africa, then perhaps on to Asia and so on and so forth. 2016 could not come soon enough for these unfortunate places where she plans to turn her attention to.
Those who cannot do, teach. Those of cannot even teach (or pretend to), squeal while at the UN, to the UN, at the UN or any combination thereof.
Charli Main says
Oh dear, the poor Muslims feel threatened and persecuted in the CAR and South Sudan.
No worries about the Hindus, Sikhs and Christians that are being attacked and butchered by the Muslims in the rest of the World.
Sorry, just a moment, I´m sobbing bucketfuls for the poor, persecuted and victimised Muslims. My heart just bleeds for them.
G.A.P. says
I’m pretty sure South Sudan’s problem is ethnic conflict among majority-Christian tribes. It doesn’t have much to do with Muslims (or religion).
Thomas says
This is really sick. Our leaders are going to put the world under the sharia, and kill, jail, torture anyone who disagrees. The western world is finished because there is any kind of resistance.
Jay Boo says
Islam is insidious and dangerous yes, but it is also very porous.
Islam is about making ‘friendships’ by finding enemies.
Followers of Islam are in constant need an enemy to hate and many can be coopted to turn on Islam when given the opportunity.
Even without outside intervention Islam has a tendency to cannibalize itself.
Reveal it to defeat it.
Cledun says
“Power said the situation “is extremely alarming” with most Muslims in the capital, Bangui, forced to flee their homes and many killed by armed Christian militants.”
So very typical. Muslims started this conflict, and the Christian violence is reactive, but it’s the only angle they will play up.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Like when Hindus riot in India after a temple is burned to the ground. The networks are too pressed for time and the newspapers for print space to mention the run up to images of a mob of enraged Hindus.
Kreutzberger says
The name the Christian fighters use is very telling; the ‘anti-machetes’. Wonder where they might have come up with that one?
jewdog says
This is selective morality, hatched from the protective bubble of her cozy, moonbat nest, where all the non-Muslims are predators and all the Muslims are victims. Her world is a kind of perverted Lake Woebegone.
Is it just me, or is there something incredibly infuriating about this?
CogitoErgoSum says
No, it’s not just you, jewdog. My blood is boiling from reading this article. What is she thinking when she says, “The tragedy is that people are still being targeted on the basis of their identity,” in Central African Republic as well as South Sudan,….”??? Huh? Why leave out Nigeria and why make it sound as if Christians are the problem and Muslims are the victims? Why leave out the fact that the Quran commands Muslims to subjugate, kill or convert all non-Muslims. Why omit any reference to the violence committed by Muslims and to a foremost goal of Islam….to divide and conquer the world based upon religious identity? Why no acknowledgement of Islam’s institution of religious prejudice, bigotry and hatred for all things non-Muslim….and Islam’s instigation and encouragement of violence in the world today? Why oh why, Samantha Power? Dear Lord, please give me strength!
JAMES says
Islam: misunderstood, peaceful, non violent religion
mortimer says
The Libtards ALWAYS sin by omission. They don’t mention how the enemies of the West and enemies of America persecute the FRIENDS of America and Western values of democracy and pluralism.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
The drivel dripping from the lower lip of Samantha Power is the best argument to shut down Yale and Harvard for massive sanitation violations that substitutes dense feces infected mud for glittering clear water. Either her or ex-Prez Dubya, take your pick. From the Eli to the Crimson, we have dark red results born of ignorance combined with arrogance and pomp.
Alice says
Mission: Destroy the Church
mortimer says
The mission of Cultural Marxists like her is to destroy the West using any and all means.
The Leftards think they can control these forces…when in reality, Islam is like a runaway train with a dead hand on the controls.
Wellington says
When Muslims kill non-Muslims it’s ignored by the vast majority of Western elites. When non-Muslims fight back against Muslim persecution, a la Samantha Power, it’s “religiously motivated violence” or, a la The New York Times, due to “sectarian strife.” It’s a total double standard and as phony as a three-dollar bill. On a positive note, more and more regular folks in one Western nation after another are coming to the realization that Islam is full of it and that most Western elites are too.
Jay Boo says
In time Islam’s phony Quran will be relegated to the back selves of a Dollar-General discount store priced at three for a dollar.
Stephen Poole says
… Toilet paper commands that, JayBoo … Their Book is pretty thin … Just sayin’ … SP OX …
Clearsighted says
Hatred always trumps intelligence or education.
Samantha Power is the author of the “Responsibility to Protect” manifesto which informs much of Obama foreign policy. One of her proposals in her paper was that the United States had a “responsibility to protect” the Palestinians against the Israelis and that the United States should deploy a very large number of US troops to Israel to shield them from the IDF.
This woman is proof that old saying: “You can lead an Jew-hater to Harvard and Yale, but you can’t make her think.”
pdxnag says
“Responsibility to Protect” is nothing more than a blanket authorization to inject oneself into any and all conflicts worldwide, particularly civil war. It is the arrogant abandonment of any self-control or restraint. Those who advocate it must surely believe they are morally superior to all other antagonists.
tpellow says
What a strange, dangerous, inside-out, wrong-end-of-the telescope view of Islamic Africa Ms POWER has!
The Islamic jihad violent and murderous activity comes from Islamic organizations operating is such countries as:- Nigeria, Mali, Central African Republic, Somalia, Algeria, Libya, etc.
Does Ms POWER not study military briefings on Africa, such as?:-
“U.S. general warns of pan-African jihadist network”
[Excerpt]:-
“The rise of any of the current ‘Big 3’ jihadist groups in Africa, Boko Haram, al-Shabaab, and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (or the Apparently-Not-Islamic-Enough Maghreb) is cause for concern, but reports of collaboration between all three groups obviously escalates the threat not only for the African continent, but for its use as a forward operating base for targets across the Mediterranean and beyond.
“All of them were once local groups, pursuing supposedly ‘local’ grievances with local ‘underlying causes,’ but they have found common cause because they share the same aim: the imposition of Sharia law, which is the goal of jihad in all of its forms.”
(2011.)
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/09/us-general-warns-of-pan-african-jihadist-network
tpellow says
“Who Exactly Is Samantha Power — Obama’s New U.N. Ambassador Pick?
Everything You Need to Know” (2013.)
[inc two video clips, one of Glenn Beck]
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/05/who-exactly-is-samantha-power-obamas-new-u-n-ambassador-pick-everything-you-need-to-know/
voegelinian says
Thanks tpellow — very useful posts.
inMAGICn says
Wellington…
Not just here vis-à-vis the media. Years ago, after a straightforward report on CBS News about Filipino farmers and villagers arming themselves to stop being slaughtered by Muslim “insurgents,” they were referred to by Connie Chung (as I recall) as “right-wing militias.”
Plus ca change…
(Sorry…don’t know how to add the cedilla to the c)
Stephen Poole says
… You need ta talk ta Stephanie … Just sayin’ … SP OX …
Wellington says
To Hell with the cedilla, inMAGICn (why this moniker btw?), thanks for that info.
Kepha says
And I understand that Connie Chung’s own father was a Nationalist Chinese general who fought both the Japanese and the Communists! I guess she’s just trying to atone for having been born to a family that was on the wrong side of the Great Goddess Historical Necessity!
Mazo says
Thats because those Filipino settler-colonual militias ARE right wing militias.
Dictator Marcos allowed Filipino settlers on Moro lands in Mindanao to form brutal militia groups like the Ilaga, which attacked, massacred, and cannibalized native Moro Muslim civilians.
Ilaga militiamen also fought against the Communist New People’s Army, and killed the Italian Priest Tullio Favali and ate his brains, accusing Tullio of links to the Communists.
@Kepha
Among (non-mestizo) Chinese people from the Philippines, Filipinos and the Philippine government don’t have a very high approval rating. Read what Amy Chua said about the Flipino maid who brutally murdered her aunt and the Philippine police did nothing about it, since they didn’t care about Chinese. I know Chinese from the Philippines who hate Filipinos and their racism.
The American government supported the Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines and Suharto dictatorship in Indonesia in mass murdering countless innocents in the name of fighting against Communism and Islamists.
The Indonesian government under Suharto was so repugnant, that Islamist Acehnese joined with Leftist Marxist leaning – Animist-Christian East Timorese (led by an Arab Muslim, Mari Alkatiri) and West Papuans to fight the Suharto regime, and in the Philippines, the Moro founder of MNLF was friends with the Philippine Communist Party leader. Gaddafi supported all of them.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/03/philippines-muslims-celebrate-milfs-peace-with-government-christians-at-site-of-jihad-massacre-less-excited/comment-page-1#comment-1029689
gravenimage says
Oh, good grief. Muslims fighting other Muslims is *hardly* proof that they support threatened Infidels or are calling for any sort of equality.
As Mazo would have us believe, every situation in the world is so very ‘complicated’ that we should fail to notice the common thread of oppression and violence against the Kuffar at all.
This is what poster Dumbledore’s Army refers to as “sand throwing”—and that is quite a descriptive phrase. This is obfuscation, and nothing more.
gravenimage says
As for Mari Alkatiri, it is not quite the case that the Christian and Animist East Timorese regard him as their leader:
“Alkatiri, a Muslim in the predominantly Christian country, has been widely blamed for the descent into lawlessness and violence.”
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/hundreds-protest-against-timor-pm/2006/06/20/1150701534338.html
Alkatiri was accused of running his own private hit squad and conspiring to assassinate his political enemies.
Were these charges accurate? I don’t know. But if they were, it would be *exactly* on the model of the “Prophet” of Islam.
In any case, Alkatiri stepped down as Prime Minister.
Mazo says
I love how gravenimage blatantly ignores the fact that the 2006 riots were incited by Australia to unseat Alkatiri because Alkatiri opposed Australia’s grab of East Timor’s gas field, and because Alkatiri was close to China.
http://www.ipsnews.net/2006/06/east-timor-arrest-weapons-handover-move-crisis-management-forward/
http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/183/34178.html
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/stand-up-the-real-mr-alkatiri/2006/05/31/1148956413913.html
http://etan.org/et2006/may/27/01stand.htm
http://tara-foundation.org/East-Timor-III.php
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2006/06/etim-j03.html
https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/38194
Even after Alkatiri is now out of power, at this very moment, East Timor continues to oppose Australia’s resource grab, accusing Australia of espionage and theivery, and the East Timor government is getting even closer to China and building stronger ties.
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Jonathan+Manthorpe+East+Timor+challenges+Australia+control+Timor+field/8437488/story.html
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/program/connect-asia/east-timor-defends-allegations-of-australia-espionage-over-gas-project/1126570
And now gravenimagine is blatantly obfuscating and lying.
The Islamist Acehnese not only fought against Indonesia, they directly supported the East Timorese and Papuans with weapons after getting help from Gaddafi’s Mathaba organization. The East Timorese, Papuans, Acehnese, and Moros were all directly allied to each other.
Gaddafi assigned the Achenese Islamist leader Hassan Di Tiro as Mathaba’s leader, and Hassan spoke out against Indonesian-Javanese colonialism and gave the Papuan and Timorese and Moro seperatists weapons, while America approved of Indonesia’s annexation of East Timor and West Papua and supported Indonesia since it was anti-Communist, and America also approved of Philippines slaughter of Moros.
The Muslim Moro MNLF recommend’s Chomsky’s book on Indonesian atrocities in East Timor and America’s deliberate coverup of it, on the reading section of its website.
Malay Muslims also directly supported animist Dayaks in mass slaughtering Madurese Muslims in 1999, who were settled in Borneo by the Indonesian government.
As gravenimage would have us believe, the Acehnese were only fighting the Indonesian-Javanese while ignoring the East Timorese resistance, contrary to what actually happened.
gravenimage says
More crap from Mazo:
The Islamist Acehnese not only fought against Indonesia, they directly supported the East Timorese and Papuans with weapons after getting help from Gaddafi’s Mathaba organization. The East Timorese, Papuans, Acehnese, and Moros were all directly allied to each other…
As gravenimage would have us believe, the Acehnese were only fighting the Indonesian-Javanese while ignoring the East Timorese resistance, contrary to what actually happened.
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Good God, what rot. I never said the Acehnese “ignored” East Timor—just that this was strictly “enemy of my enemy” stuff.
The idea that the pious Acehnese, who sought to secede from Indonesia because Jakarta was “insufficiently Islamic”, were genuinely concerned over the Muslim oppression of Christians and animists is simply ludicrous.
*This* is how much the pious Mohammedans of Aceh care about the oppression of the “filthy Kuffar”:
“Indonesia: Sharia to apply to non-Muslims in Aceh”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/03/indonesia-sharia-to-apply-to-non-muslims-in-aceh
Kepha says
I lived in Taiwan a good many years and know what most Taiwanese think of the Filipinos (and attitude communicated in the Hoklo language by their relatives in the Philippines–and Taiwan and the Philippines might just have been one big extension of southern Fujian had Zheng Chenggong lived a bit longer). I’ve also observed that about Austronesians living in closer proximity (the Paiwan, Bunun, Tayal, etc.) the words “Shandiren” and “Yuanzhumin” (Mountaineers and Indigenes respectively) have currency only in Mandarin. In Hoklo and Hakka, the common word is almost always the dialect pronunciation of fanzi–barbarian.
Then again, as for the non-Muslim “settlers” in Mindanao, it seems to me I noticed quite a few greenish-blue onion domes rising above slightly larger-than-normal shanties in some parts of Manila. Surely you aren’t implying that while the Moro have the right to colonize Luzon, the Christian Tagalog don’t have a right to move south? This gets pretty uncomfortable for me, since most of my Chinese connections are Hakka (客家人), who after a millennium in Guangdong, Fujian, and Taiwan are still “Guest People”. Other parts of my family heritage were pretty migratory, too.
Didn’t know about Amy Chua’s aunt, but the behavior of the Philippine police doesn’t surprise me. Then again, some of Amy Chua’s writings on “Tiger Mothers” and the like strikes me as getting chauvinistic about the common insecurities of many different kinds of immigrant parents in strange environments, so she really isn’t my favorite writer. Still, it was a horrible thing that happened to her aunt.
Mazo says
Spain was forced to withdraw all its garrisons from Mindanao and the Moluccas because of Zheng’s threatened attack, setting back their fight with the Moros by decades and permanently losing the Moluccas.
Indonesia and the Philippines both engaged in this colonization behavior, and both of them were started by their respective western colonial masters. If you look at Indonesia, this is an ethnic issue and not religious.
The Dutch in Indonesia priveleged the Muslim Javanese majority, and the Muslim Madurese, by settling them on other people’s lands after conquering them, like Muslim Acehnese land, Papuan land, and Muslim Malay land in Borneo.
The Indonesian government continued this transmigration program and settled massive amounts of Javanese Muslims on Acehnese Muslim land, Madurese Muslims on animist Dayak and Malay Muslim land in Borneo, and Javanese and Balinese Hindus on East Timorese land.
The result was violent. Achenese Muslims lashed out and rebelled against the Javanese Muslims, accusing them of being new colonialists, in Sambas in 1999, Malay Muslims helped animist Dayak massacre thousands of Madurese Muslim settlers, in East Timor and West Papua, the locals revolted.
Malay Muslims helped non-Muslim Dayaks cut the Madurese Muslims to pieces.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia-pacific/1186401.stm
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/ourpublications/csq/article/violence-indonesian-borneo-spurs-relocation-ethnic-madurese
The same was started in the Philippines by America, after America conquered Moro lands, it shipped Filipino settlers onto Mindanao (and on animist land in Palawan too).
It would not have made a difference had the Tagalogs still been Muslims like their ancestor Rajah Sulayman before Spain converted them. Look at the historical resistance of the Acehnese and compare it to the Moro.
In Indonesia, the Javanese (and Malays) collaborated with Japan in WW2, accepting their propaganda that they were there to drive the white man out. But the Acehnese refused to collaborate and the same Acehnese Ulama who fought the Dutch, raised the banner of Jihad against Japan. The same in Mindanao and Sulu, where Moro Juramentado commandos launched suicide attacks on the Japanese. The Japanese responded with brutal massacres and torture.
After Indonesua gained indpendence, as I mentioned on here 500 times already, the Muslim Achenese raised the revolt against the Muslim Javanese dominated Indonesian regime.
The Moros would have done the same, if the Tagalogs and Visayans were Muslims like them.
Now on to another topic-
The Moro founder of MNLF, Nur Misuari, was formerly a University of the Philippines professor and was part of the Marxist Kabataang Makabayan (KM) at the university and he was friends with Jose Maria Sison, the founder of the Philippine Communist Party and the Communist insurgent New People’s Army.
The Kabataang Mabayan was the movement which spawned the Communists and New People’s Army.
That was in the 1960s during the big Marxist and leftist wave in pro-western and western countries. Then Nur Misuari took up arms and founded the Moro National Liberation Front, the source of all the current splinter Moro insurgents groups.
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) split off from Misuari’s MNLF. These splits are mainly along ethnic lines, the MNLF is made out of Tausug like Misuari while MILF is made out of Maguindanaons, but also took on an ideological tone when MILF accused Misuari and MNLF of being a bunch of Marxists, because of his previous involvement in Kabataang Mabayan and his Communist friends.
Misuari and the MNLF of course denied being Marxist and make sure to invoke Islam in all their speeches and press releases, but Misuari admitted his relationship with the NPA insurgents.
The East Timorese FRETILIN and their Arab Muslim leader Mari Alkatiri were also leftists, socialists, and accused of being Marxists by Indonesia and the west, and Alkatiri had close connections to China and was considered China’s man.
The Free Papua Movement was also leftist and received training from Gaddafi and the Philippine Communist New People’s Army.
The Acehnese were a purely Islamist movement and their leader Hassan di Tiro was of royal descent, so it came as a suprise when he was appointed by Gaddafi as leader of Al-Mathaba and coordinator of all anti-Indonesia and anti-Philippine insurgency efforts, supplying the pagan and Christian Timorese, pagan Papuans against Indonesia, and Muslim Moros against the Philippines, and writing anti-Indonesian propaganda.
Both Islamists in the Darul Islam (from which the Acehnese seperatists originated from), and the Communists in Indonesia despised the Indonesian regime and fought against it.
Both the Indonesian and Philippine police had the habit of engaging in kidnapping, murder, and extortion of money from their Chinese minorities during the 1990s, besides the fact that both of them were backed by the west and both faced Leftist and Islamist insurgencies funded by Gaddafi.
Indonesia was the only theater in the Cold War where Islamists and leftists both hated the same dictator.
Something tells me that you wouldn’t get along very well with Misuari and co. given the views you expressed on 1960s culture and Marxists.
Mazo says
And for the record, Misuari’s MNLF his ally in Jamalul Kiram III’s Sulu Sultanate faction, are also claiming Sabah from Malaysia in addition to fighting for independence from the Philippines. Misuari openly denounced Malaysia for holding Sabah (it used to belong to the Moro Sulu Sultanate, before the Moros leased it to Britain) and Misuari’s MNLF faction supported Sultan Jamalul Kiram III in attacking Malaysian security forces last year at Lahad Datu.
You must have heard about that whole incident at Lahad Datu last year.
Malaysia is a Muslim country, the Moros would not have stopped fighting the Filipinos even if all the Tagalogs and Visayans were Muslims.
Jay Boo says
“The future must not belong to those who slander the anti-jihad freedom fighters to appease corrupted followers of the prophet of Islam.”
Bezelel says
Now does everyone understand why some people will go to Hell?
Wellington says
I don’t, Bezelel. Hell for me is a fiction to insure that people with fear in their gut (and hope for a continued and better existence after this world) behave properly. Actually, I don’t mind this fiction if accompanied by an enlightened religion like Christianity or Judaism (though it is still a bit pathetic that so much of mankind needs such a crutch to behave properly).
Problem with Islam here is that Muslims are instructed to engage in actions which are inimical to liberty and other good things IN THIS WORLD so they they won’t go to Hell and so that they can lord over other human beings who refuse to become slaves of Allah. Oh yeah, upside-down shit, courtesy of Islam once again.
Ah, getting back to Hell. I remain perplexed and amused how intelligent people can believe in such (dare I say) nonsense. There is ZERO proof for Hell. ZERO. I challenge anyone to refute me here, and may I say as well that quoting any religious literature about eternal Hell fires, yada, yada, yada, does not amount to, equate to at all, proof of any kind.
As I see things, when you’re dead, your dead; that’s it. But it is imperative for all those who think there is an afterlife (once again, a total fiction as I see things) to behave properly in this world. The Judeo-Christian framework in this respect is a positive actually, though once again a bit sad, I would note, that man needs this kind of “support.” The Islamic framework, by comparison, is just a religious cover for establishing totalitarianism on this small planet we inhabit. About no other major faith can this be said.
The main problem with Islam, contra other major faiths, is that it not only portends great harm in the next world to an individual who doesn’t believe this, that or the other thing, but also harm in this world by state authorities for not doing so. Frankly, being the agnostic that I am, I don’t give a damn about the “next existence stuff”——- going to Hell or coming back as a cow or a carrot, et al. What concerns me, only concerns me, is “this world stuff.” And here Islam is a monster and no other major faith is.
Bezelel says
@Wellington, In your case, I hope your right, In Ms. Powers’ case I hope you’re wrong.
EYESOPEN says
I respect your right to believe what and how you wish, Wellington; however, there are those of us who have had a brush with Satan’s minions here on earth. And by Satan’s minions, I’m not talking about the islamic jihadis, but with the demonic itself.
I know it would necessarily be difficult to believe – it is difficult for many “Christians” to believe, and that includes many of the Catholic clergy. Let me just say this: if ever you have the misfortune of experiencing the presence of the demonic, your entire being would react to something so… not just inhuman, but ANTI-human. It may sound fanciful to a committed atheist or agnostic; but I guarantee you, if you experienced it yourself, it would make a “believer” out of you. It did me.
Conversely, some of us have had what one might call unusual “intercessions” from what I can only describe as God’s loyal angels, from which there is no feeling of profound dread, just one of awe.
(And I am very much in control of my faculties in case you were wondering.)
Just thought you might like to know. Take care, Wellington, my JW friend. It’s always good to hear from you.
gravenimage says
Wellington wrote:
Problem with Islam here is that Muslims are instructed to engage in actions which are inimical to liberty and other good things IN THIS WORLD so they they won’t go to Hell and so that they can lord over other human beings who refuse to become slaves of Allah.
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Yes, Wellington—even if I believed the Islamic world-view to be true (which, thank goodness, I *do not*)—I couldn’t bring myself to do the horrific things that would be understood to guarantee me a place in Islamic “paradise”.
Subjecting small girls to FGM and forced child marriage, raising little boys to be “Shahids”, condoning polygamy and wife beating, aiding and abetting “Honor Killings” of ‘disobedient’ female relatives, slaughtering Jews, and waging violent Jihad against the “filthy Kuffar”.
Could the prospect of hell be any worse than having such horrors on one’s conscience?
Assuming that one hasn’t allowed one’s conscience to be excised by years of adhering to the savagery of Islam, of course…
Kepha says
I get your point, Wellington. I was raised among people for whom “a little religion” was OK, but dispensable if it ceased to be “respectable”.
However, as a serious believer whose father was haunted by the Shoah , who saw something of the last fires of Cambodia’s long nightmare, and who had to regurgitate the reporting on Rwanda in 1994, I’m of the mind that if there isn’t a Hell in which the fire isn’t quenched and the worm doesn’t die, then God is not just. The destiny of the wicked (among whom we all would be numbered, if not for Christ’s work) is not my favorite locus of Christian doctrine, but I confess that it is there.
Then again, Hannah Arendt, who was no believer, noted that the modern attempts to build heaven on earth ended up giving a pretty good temporal approximation of Hell.
In any case, Samantha Power is one more reason why I see our current administration as full of knavery tempered by folly.
Stephen Poole says
… I’m a Jehovah’s Witness, Bezelel … … No one goes ta Hell, ’cause there is no such place …
See : http://www.jw.org/en/
… And, I’ll sleep a bit better … TC Bezelel … Your friend, Stephen Poole OX …
Wellington says
Stephen Poole: Sorry, if I read things wrong, but what about your 8:03 P.M. post above?
Stephen Poole says
… My post is what it says, W … I’ll UPS you a sixty … TC MF … SP OX …
Wellington says
Sorry, I don’t understand. Put if forth plainly if you will. Plain English, with no acronyms. Indulge me here.
Stephen Poole says
… I already did, Wellington … We just don’t agree on the same “Program” … TC MF W … SP OX …
Jay Boo says
@Wellington
I admire your patience with Stephen Poole
He has unknowingly shown all his cards
Five Aces with a hidden cache of jokers
Stephen Poole says
… Put the Time/date on any of my posts that ya don’t understand and I’ll give it to you on the chin if you like Wellington … Just sayin’ … Its bedTime here … SP Zzz OX …
Jay Boo says
@Stephen Poole
no it is diversion
Stephen Poole says
… Five aces trumps every other hand, Jay Boo …
citycat says
It’s an atrocity to defend oneself?
“…prevent similar atrocities……”
But not by Islam who are the cause.
The cure, self defence against the invading cancer, is seen as an atrocity that yet pales with respect to Islam’s atrocities that caused the Christians to defend themselves.
Islam, on the news maybe a year ago, did say that they are going to kill all people with red hair.
She should be careful then.
What am I saying? She’s their friend. God, get a life citycat.
rollingthunder says
Money buys power and the Saudis have bought a ton of influence in the Western media. The press in America is no longer unbiased.
Christian A. Beltram says
In 2002, Samantha Power wrote a book titled A Problem from Hell: America in the Age of Genocide which was a best-seller. Even then, she mentioned the atrocities committed by the Serbs committed in Bosnia and Kosovo but not the atrocities committed in those regions by Muslims against Serbs. In other words, what she is doing now should be no surprise to readers of Jihad Watch. If she is in the pay of Al Jazira and other Islamic apologists in the Obama Administration, that would make me feel a little better if that were the case because then she would not be expressing her true views.
If readers of Jihad Watch want to know more about Samantha Power’s life and career, the following article should be useful:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Power
dumbledoresarmy says
What the inimitable ‘Hugh Fitzgerald’, former frequent contributor here in earlier times, had to say about Samantha Power, earlier this year.
http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/52024
“Hellishly shallow, diabolically uncomprehending, a menace to the very people she presumes to, indeed has a duty to, protect, like all those in positions of authority who simply will not examine, do not dare to examine, the texts and teachings of Islam, and to allow themselves to understand that Muslims take this stuff to heart, and act on it — though every day, in every way, the evidence all over the world, in every time zone, piles up and up and up.
“Samantha Power is a problem from hell.
“All those in the political and media elites who keep allowing themselves to believe that what is in the Qur’an and Hadith and Sira don’t really matter — they are all of them, collectively, for those of us who have better informed ourselves and regard with alarm and fury what they think and what they say — A Problem From Hell.”
EYESOPEN says
“Power, a strong human rights advocate, is leading the U.S. delegation to the commemoration, starting Sunday evening, of the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. More than 500,000 minority Tutsis and moderate members of the Hutu majority — over one million by Rwanda’s count — were killed by Hutu extremists in the 100-day slaughter.”
It would be very, very interesting to see the true response of those Tutsi survivors in Rwanda, particularly those upon whom the UN turned their backs and whose loved ones were subsequently slaughtered. However, I’m afraid that if she received a less than stellar welcome anywhere, it would NOT be reported by the Lame Scream Media.
pdxnag says
It seems that when 10 to 15 percent of any community are Muslim that the whole community becomes immobilized to address anything other than whether Islam and Islamists will dominate every aspect of life for every member of the population. Violence is everywhere Muslims are, either private violence or public violence, from the homes to unstunned butchery of animals. And dialog in Islam means violence and body counts.
The world is owed a duty (if anything) to be protected from the Islamic menace, from an Islamic hell on earth. The duty calls for suppression, not support for metastasis.
Robiekop says
Ms Powers should take a little stroll in downtown Abuja or Douala. Unaccompanied of course. Or just in Caïro.
gravenimage says
US envoy Samantha Power decries “religiously motivated violence” in Africa, doesn’t mention jihad in Nigeria
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She seems to have “missed” the slaughter of Christians in Mali, of apostates in Somalia, and the terrible attack by JIhadists on the New Gate Mall in Kenya, as well.
Instead, Power is focusing exclusively on Christians’ *defense* against Jihad.
Dhimmitude of the worst kind…
Over all, she’s considerably worse than her predecessor, Susan Rice—and that’s saying a great deal.
Here’s more on the egregious Samantha Power:
“Obama to Appoint Samantha “Invade Israel” Power as UN Ambassador”
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/obama-to-appoint-samantha-invade-israel-power-as-un-ambassador/
dumbledoresarmy says
I observe that, above, the mohammedan ‘mazo’, in a long screed that attempted to obfuscate any connection between Islam and what happened to East Timor (which is now currently – and a good thing too! – a majority-Infidel state, independent of majority-Muslim Indonesia), incidentally spits out the usual mohammedan conspiracy-and-blame-the-Evil-Infidel thinking: “…the 2006 riots [in East Timor] were incited by Australia to unseat Alkatiri”. He seems unable or unwilling to entertain the idea that a lot of East Timorese *non-Muslims* acted off their own bat – expressing discontent with a Muslim who had inveigled his way into high position and appears to have been misusing his authority – without needing any sort of incitement by other (outside) Infidels. There would have been no problem if those eeeevil Aussie infidels had not interfered to stir people up??? Really???
Methinks mazo is projecting.
Mazo says
Looks like DDA enjoys spilling the same BS over and over in East Timor, can’t get over the fact that the Indonesian Generals who ordered the invasion of East Timor were CHRISTIANS .
(Lets forget a moment, the inconvinient (for DDA) fact that the East Timorese are getting closer to China while its relations with Australia are going downhill)
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/east-timorese-stone-australian-embassy-20131206-hv4ll.html
http://pacific.scoop.co.nz/2014/01/east-timor-takes-on-australia-in-rip-off-spy-case-with-countrys-future-on-line/
http://etan.org/estafeta/04/spring/1austral.htm
DDA could not respond to me and Semeru because she lied so much on Indonesia and East Timor,
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/03/philippines-muslims-celebrate-milfs-peace-with-government-christians-at-site-of-jihad-massacre-less-excited/comment-page-1#comment-1030780
America and Australia sanctioned Indonesian’s invasion of East Timor and West Papua because their buddy-Dictator Suharto was anti-Communist (who happened to slaughter and rape around 600,000 innocent civilians, whom he claimed were “communist” guerilla fighters).
Suharto encouraged and helped animist (non-Muslim) Dayaks to mass murder tens of thousands of Chinese in Kalimantan in the 1960s purge.
It was Libya and China, the Achenese Islamist resistance, and the Communist party of the Philippines who supported East Timor and West Papua against Western backed Indonesia.
The East Timorese FRETILIN resistance movement is a Leftist, Marxist and Communist associated movement backed by China and Gaddafi, so America supported Indonesia against it.
The Moro MNLF, also supported by Gaddafi and the Acehnese (Moro MNLF leader Misuari is friends with the Philippine Communist Party leader) also recommends Noam Chomsky’s book on western backed Indonesian atrocities in East Timor on its website’s reading section.
The Moro MNLF and Philippine Communist New People’s Army both waged insurgency with Libyan supported against Philippine Dictator Marcos, another repulsive western backed dictator like Suharto.
Something the Philippines under Marcos and Indonesia under Suharto have in common is preying on their ethnic Chinese minorities. The Philippine army and police, and Indonesian army, would kidnap and murder Chinese in extortion and for ransom. Amy Chua wrote about the brutal murder of her aunt by a Filipino maid and the Philippine police who did nothing about it.
The Javanese dominated Indonesian government settled ethnic Javanese Muslims of Acehnese Muslim land, Javanese Catholics and Balinese Hindus on East Timor land, and Muslim Madurese on Malay Muslim and Dayak land. Javanese are closely related to Balinese Hindus.
The resulting backlash saw Muslim Acehnese wage insurgency against the Javanese dominated Indonesia along with the East Timorese and West Papuans.
Malay Muslims also helped non-Muslim Dayaks mass murder and rape thousands of Madurese Muslims settlers in Kalimantan, who were brought there by the Indonesian government.
Suharto was both anti-Islamist and anti-Communist, the Darul Islam and Komando Jihad movements both fought against the Indonesian government.
Australia and America sanctioned the Philippines and Indonesia’s murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent Moros, Chinese, Acehnese, East Timorese, West Papuans and now it wants to steal Timorese oil. Why should any people trust the west and its intentions after all the disgusting things you sanction while you claim to support democracy and human rights? Gaddafi never said he supported human rights while he aided the East Timorese, Acehnese, Papuan and Moros against Indonesia and the Philippines, it is you who speak with forked tongues and hypocrisy.
dumbledoresarmy says
Above, a mohammedan defender of Islam tries to push off *all* the blame for the invasion – by majority-Muslim Indonesia, whose culture has been heavily influenced by Islam for centuries – of little majority-non-Muslim East Timor, and the subjugation and mass murder of its inhabitants, upon 1/ infidel Australia (in other threads, he tries to push off all the blame onto infidel America) and 2/ within Indonesia, and within the Indonesian military which invaded and occupied the territory, solely (or so it certainly appears) upon Christian generals.
Sooo – he is asking us to believe that a very large country which is OVERWHELMINGLY Muslim and therefore in which, commonsense would suggest, the culture and attitudes of mind of the majority of its people – which would also, logically, constitute the majority of those enlisted in its *army* – was a mere puppet of America and/ or of Australia? That NO invasion would have occurred, and no occupation, unless pooooor little sweetly-innocent Indonesia had been threatened and bribed and strongarmed into doing it? “The wicked Infidelz made us do it ! Waaah!”
(Typical mohammedan refusal to take responsibility for *anything*.)
Ditto for the mass-murders of East Timorese, not only of their fighters but of their civilians. ALL the Muslim generals had nothing to do with it., Mazo seems to be trying to get us to think. ALL the Muslim politicians in power at that time had nothing to do with it. *Not one* Muslim soldier in the Indonesian army ever killed, tortured, raped or robbed an EAst Timorese? ALL the killing was done by a few wicked Christian generals – whose fellow officers, Muslims or “secular”, disapproved of it totally, and tried desperately to stop it?? really?? – and by the wicked Christians among the soldiers? NO Muslim soldiers participated in the occupation and the murders?
Alternatively: is Mazo asking us to believe that if there had been NO Christian-background generals in the Indonesian army, and NO Christian-background soldiers, that no invasion, occupation or mass murder…of **Timorese Christians** – would have occurred?
Really? Pull the other leg, it’s got bells on.
This is just typical mohammedan blame-shifting.