“That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of life.” –Nietzsche
I couldn’t help but notice how the major media outlets avoided articulating into print what much of thinking humanity suspected after hearing the horrible news of Germanwings pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately flying his plane into the side of a mountain, killing himself and all others on board. I read two pieces in the New York Times where the subject of Islam and jihad and the most chilling phrase, “new convert to Islam,” was noticeably absent. Yahoo News posted an article with the reassurance that “Düsseldorf prosecutors said on Friday they had not found a suicide note, confession or anything pointing to a ‘political or religious’ motive.” As it turns out, Mr. Lubitz was not a “new convert to Islam” and his tragic behaviour, without any proof, cannot be attributed to terrorism and the commonplace Islamic stratagem of killing as many infidels as possible while simultaneously taking leave of this world.
Of course, certain blogs boldly and blindly attempted to make a connection between Islam and the Germanwings tragedy. In retrospect, considering what is now known of the impulsive behaviour of the jihadist terrorist, I understand such zealous assumptions. But zealous assumptions can never serve as solid fact. And without any proof, with only empty accusations to string a line between “a new convert to Islam” and the pieces of an Airbus scattered all over the French Alps, these blogs do more harm than good to those whose sole and noble intention is to bring to light the danger the religion of Islam and its inherent ideology of jihad pose to the Western world.
When our suspicions are disproved by lack of evidence, it is our moral duty to repudiate those suspicions. Josh Billings wrote way back in 1865, “As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.” We cannot feign truth where no truth exists. We are not apologists for Islam—this is their way, not ours. There are enough ugly truths to tell about Islam without inventing angry falsehoods to take their place. Robert Spencer is not hated because he tells lies about Islam and its jihadist proponents; he is hated because he tells the truth about Islam and its jihadist proponents. These bloggers I speak of above would do well to follow his example.
Balzac wrote, “Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into truth.” And this is the truth we tell, that all religions are not equal, and more to the point, that Islam has failed mankind, will continue to fail mankind, because, as its history poignantly proves, it has always been prone to turning good Muslims into bad imperialists. Conversely, the innumerable lies that apologists for Islam tell is that the religion of Islam is not to blame, that anti-Jewish hatred is tangential of Islam proper (or an “infection”, as Neil Kessel puts it), that jihad is a defensive ideology and the Western world’s “colonialism” only is at fault for the concomitant evils of Hamas and al-Qaeda and ISIS and Boko Harem and the Taliban (the list is growing).
For the Muslim apologist, lies, especially when addressing the observations of Western critics, are become “part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of life.” Daily these apologists are faced with the insuperable task of removing the stamp of Islam from countless acts of terrorism and mind-numbing atrocities, from egregious anti-Jewish pronouncements and from extremely calumnious references to the non-Muslim. And these lies are by now sounding tediously repetitious in the ears of the Western critic. More than that, the fact that they are being repeated, again and again, speaks volumes about what surely is the lack of objectivity in their camp. One is reminded of Elias Canetti’s words, “One keeps saying the same thing, but the fact that one has to say it is eerie.” Faced with such an overabundance of unavoidable truths, the Muslim apologist has no other choice but to invent necessary lies.
livingengine says
Nice.
Margaret says
Well said! Ask why Britain chooses to keep Anjem Choudhary on the streets of Britain and the shutters come down. Silence! Fear of telling the truth is giving cradical extremists power to manipulate and control our Western communities.
bob says
Well spoken.
Akritas says
splendit
citycat says
A liar is an enemy.
Lies can be omissions
Lies are useful in war, fooling the enemy, diverting danger, guarding secrets etc
Lies are theft of your consciousness,
possibly leading to physical illness without knowing why,
which reminds of the state of a lot of the infidel peoples,
who seem to not recognize the disintegrating of each’s respective culture, society, country, whathaveyou
The cancer of lies is spreading
Stop holding them dear
Irradiate this cancer to the core with penetrating truth
Blaspheme against this creeping imitation of holiness,
against your own fear of anything Islamic
Then again, i suppose it all depends on which side you’re on.
Spot On says
The government and the MSM are now clairvoyant. They told us it was not a Muslim terrorist before they knew anything about the cause of the crash.
Stevan says
When was the last time we heard the Truth?
Jesus was and is the Truth! His Words will stand the tests of time and can be measured by the fruit it has born.
Thanks be to our Lord Jesus Christ!
citycat says
The fruit?
Is not that the devotees of Jesus?
boakai ngombu says
citycat, you’re blind. Christian faith and life in practice involves repentance and faith and the desire to continue on in repentance (which involves contrition and resolve to try better again and not offend God) and faith that there is forgiveness. I daresay, the world is made the better for it, should one just look about.
citycat says
I’m not blind. Is it not faith that is blind?
I see the disciples.
I don’t see God.
I see the holy light sometimes in a Christian gathering.
That is from the disciples, it’s quality in sync with the hearts and minds of the disciples, the scriptures may be involved, i don’t know, i think so.
I see sincerity of disciples abused and wasted by the leaders.
I don’t see God.
Eric says
to boakai ngombu and citycat.
Faith is based upon fact. God has shown himself through His word to be faithful and true, one who knows the end from the beginning, and is mighty to save.
Believing the words that God says and putting your trust in them is faith. Yes, a walk with God involves forgiveness and repentance, but continues as a set-apart life by the power of the set-apart Spirit of God whom God himself gives to us who chose to believe in Him.
You see God through His character. When the set-apart Spirit in a person has a first response of generosity, kindness, being slow to anger, etc you see a glimpse of God himself. Indeed God is Truth. It’s not what we interpret, or refine to suit our sensabilities. He simply is and will be. Constant exposure to the truth puts us all in direct conflect with our own desires. We either develop our own truth, ignore the truth, settle for lies, or we live radically set-apart from the world constantly in tune with God’s set-apart Spirit and the inateness of His truth. Truth is life to the soul, but death to our selfish rebellious nature.
May the reason we choose God be that He is both life and Truth. As a bonus we enjoy the benefits that come with a life lived this way, rather than simply for the benefits. Once we become disconected from the Truth, the benefits start to fall away.
citycat says
So what are these direct words from God, then?
Nimrod says
The key concept is that beliefs have consequences because they affect how people act. The historical Buddha said the same thing, but stated it more explicitly (see the Pali Tripitaka). Christian beliefs have lead to prosperity and the ability to adapt, as have Jewish beliefs. The fruit spoken of is the actual consequence of belief and corresponding action, as opposed to what someone claims the consequences will be.
Both Islam and Communism are both sets of beliefs, and we have seen how both have lead to disasters under real world testing. In scientific terms, these have proven to be full of false hypotheses that failed to bring about predicted results. Therefore you can “know them by their fruits”, not by whether they just sound good or have some logical etiology to support them in argument.
Kepha says
Numrod, could you give a more specific reference to the Pali Tripitake? It is, after all, a very extensive collection of Buddhist writings–and I, for one, know that the Buddhist Scriptures are a far more extensive collection than the Christian one.
Spot On says
Amen Bro.
TC says
I saw a Youtube video. Daniel Greenfield. He talked about the Reality Gap.That is, for example, Stalin says the harvest has been a 92% success but there is no bread. The Reality Gap for Islam is that it is a religion of peace and also that (from the leftist, multi-culti, dhimmi appeasers) all religions are equal. Reality will catch up with all them all eventually and it will become impossible to explain away the hatred and supremacist ideology of the death cult.
Will says
Quote: “When our suspicions are disproved by lack of evidence”
Ummm…Sorry, but lack of evidence does NOT disprove suspicions it merely fails to validate them and in the absence of another likely reason still remains valid as a possible reason and that is without taking the expected media/EU whitewash into consideration.
I am NOT saying that it was due to Islam. But you simply cannot say that it was not in the absence of proof to the contrary.
Keith Jordan says
Will, you are the first person I’ve heard of who has the same opinion as I have.
voegelinian says
A similar problem occurred with the Virginia Tech mass-murder in 2007 and the murders of the Coptic Christian family in New Jersey in 2005 — an apparent lack of investigation into the Muslim angle. One thing is for sure: assuming the best of intentions, if our law enforcement and journalists never investigate any Muslim angle, they probably won’t find it if it’s there.
Brian Hoff says
In the Tech school shooting he was than Buddhisdt. The one far rightwing blogger was think in the UK code word for muslim make to make than mistake that than muslim did it. They do investrate than muslim angle. Some Islamoprobia went cary saying that Islam was behind the air crash of that jet plane.
quotha raven says
Will – Exactly my reaction to this very sentence. Lack of evidence proves absolutely nothing. While bloggers spreading venom is counterproductive, one might still entertain the possibility that certain evidence has been suppressed or destroyed. Case in point: Hillary has scrubbed and destroyed her server covering “personal” emails during her tenure in State Dept. So now there’s no evidence of wrongdoing! Does the lack of evidence “prove” she is innocent of any wrongdoing? It is prudent to keep an open mind.
citycat says
Repudiate- refuse to accept or be associated with
From latin meaning divorce
it is not saying that it is not Islamic
it is divorcing from the idea that it is Islamic
it is saying that it can’t be said to be Islamic
The future may say different, but till then we don’t know
although i know where wor’re coming from
harbidoll says
or jihad is airborne & now can be “caught” without touching or converting. (sarc/)
duh_swami says
Good article….The necessity to tell the truth should be measured by the benefit it will do the receiver.
quotha raven says
“The necessity to tell the truth should be measured by the benefit it will do the receiver.”
Um, NON! I don’t think so. Just who, exactly, decides this, duh swami? You have, perhaps inadvertantly, articulated the very essence of totalitarianism. qr
vlparker says
Good article. When you falsely attribute a heinous act to islam you only hurt your own cause. Islam indicts itself day after day in a myriad of despicable actions. There is no need to attribute anything to it that had nothing to do with it.
However, the fact that many people, myself included, initially thought that this may have been islamic terrorism is very telling. No one thought it was Buddhist, Hindi or Voodoo terrorism. No one thought, there go those crazy Sikhs again. No, everyone thought about muslims, which tells you all you need to know about islam.
voegelinian says
Even before I woke up to the problem of Islam, back in 1995, I knew just barely enough, and my mind was already showing the incipient signs of openness and rationality, such that, when I heard of the Oklahoma City bombing, my first thought was that it must have been Muslim terrorists. The principle for the Counter-Jihad should be precisely to leap to that conclusion as the most rational tentative conclusion pending disculpatory evidence.
This is closely related to the other principle which the Counter-Jihad movement should cultivate: prejudice against all Muslims (I’m sure to discomfit the Jihad Watch Softies on that, for it cuts a bit too close to their still latent PC MC nerve centers…).
Brian Hoff says
That woman who report to see middle eastern looking men running by her when the bombing took place in Ok city in 1995. Well the FBI investrate an talked to these men where member of than gynn and where running as part of the fitting plan. When the FBI talk to owner of the gynn the stroy of the middle eastern men where proven correct they have nothing to do with the bombing.
AJ Liberphile says
Truth is our weapon, and it will bring down this mafia-like death cult like a house of cards in a hurricane.
Blitz2b says
Citycat says “….Blaspheme against this creeping imitation of holiness,
against your own fear of anything Islamic….”
I’m sorry to say that you are an idiot citycat. What is there not to fear this terrible ideology of hate called Islam I ask you?
Islam proves itself time and time again, almost everyday in some corner of the globe as a genuine threat to people’s lives. Those who will not submit to this madness truly are in danger of this deceitful cult disguised as a religion.
Islam is the cancer you speak of, and it must be eradicated if we wish to live in peace and harmony. There of no other way..
Richard C Brown says
I will too err but on the side of caution.
It took me quiet some time to acknowledge that God & Allah are two different Thoughts.
When All the Proof is in we may know part of the Truth.
gravenimage says
Excellent, excellent piece.
This kind of integrity is exactly the reason I trust Jihad Watch so greatly.
Will says
I agree with the idealistic view that proof is required but that ideal assumes honesty and integrity on the part of those involved, the governments and the media. Now you can all take the high moral ground here and rightly so but do not kid yourselves that the case for or against Islam has been proven or disproven. We can suspect them and rightly so but we cannot yet accuse them and I expect we never will. Like the blatant ignoring of western jihad by our supposed leaders,, this will be washed and ignored and forgotten.
quotha raven says
Will – too true. I am of like mind. qr
Scott says
Well said Michael….
I especially would like to quote what you wrote below….
“There are enough ugly truths to tell about Islam without inventing angry falsehoods to take their place. Robert Spencer is not hated because he tells lies about Islam and its jihadist proponents; he is hated because he tells the truth about Islam and its jihadist proponents. These bloggers I speak of above would do well to follow his example.”
Will says
My!! we all wear our hair shirts of virtue today: I will admit that there is NO proof that Islam is involved . But there IS a cover up of something here and I refuse point blank to wipe the slate clear of possible motives as you all seem to be doing. Certainly we wish no lies but do you really think that we will be allowed to know the truth? This elusive wonderful asymptote of reality information. I doubt it.
mariam rove says
They will do and say anything to smear our cause. M
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.” We cannot feign truth where no truth exists.
But the news entertainment industry does just that in several important areas, with the tacit complicity of the ruling elites in Washington and on Wall Street. Global warming, the War on Women, unchecked racism against black Americans, the famous 11 million undocumented workers, six IRS execs lost their hard drives and the chances of such a coincidences is maybe 10 million to one…
There are so many fictive realities nowadays. Some are major long term efforts (global warming) others are tactical lies (IRS), but they all advance the same agenda of globo-socialism.
How the elites think Moslems will fit into their happy happy joy joy fictions is beyond me. Wishful thinking to not feel justified and well reasoned terror of them.
Will says
Sorry to disagree with you APF but from what I know of statistics and incidents in the US the war between Blacks and Whites is definitely not waged by whites on blacks. The KKK days are well past. Now it has been payback time for whitey since the early 70s. Go and find out how many attacks are made by one group upon the other. Then look at youths who refuse to be educated and compare them to Muslim youths in the EU. There may be many parts of Paris no white man goes but the same applies to LA
As for global warming? Tell it to the Indians and the Chinese who will laugh in your face at the stupidity of the west.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
I was being sarcastic on all counts, Will, and thus we agree totally. Speaking of fictive realities, a key to the racism fictive reality is that the news entertainers or academics *never* mention the fact that, yes, there *is* widespread discrimination based on race in America: Affirmative Action, which requires by law discrimination against whites. Also, it is true that there is not a proven single scientific fact in the anthropogenic global warming hubub. That’s never mentioned, nor is that of the 300 or so speculative computer weather models funded largely by the U.S. taxpayer, 95% failed to predict the future correctly.
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Militia Chief Mohammad Reza Naqdi of the Basij militia of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said that “erasing Israel off the map” is “nonnegotiable.”
Another fake fact that doesn’t hold up is that there are Unicorns, that we can negotiate peace with Dar al-Islam. It is the fundamental right of the Persians to blow Israel away, not because the Jews have wronged the Bedouin Arabs by taking their land (most of it was purchased in real estate closing offices), but because the Holy Ko-Ran commands them to do so. It is fair to assume that the Supreme Leader knows what’s in that book.
We are afloat is a weave of fictions, a fabric designed to be torn apart.
Henry says
Nail on the head!
Dave J says
Well spoken article, we must have ultimate respect for the truth in our fight against the lies and evil fantasies of Mo.
That said, it was a very Islamic thing to do and when I saw the picture of the copilot with his scruffy beard I felt suspicion, a suspicion that still exists but awaits possible confirmation (or not).
The often repeated almost immediate ruling out of terrorism by the “authorities” is itself suspicious and does not give you much faith in their objectivity.
As someone else pointed out, the immediate thought tells a lot about the death cult compared to any other “religion”.
Keil says
I fell in the pitch Germanwings’ co-pilot downing his own plane was too eerie. A German blogger spread the news “new convert to Islam” and I followed suit, sorry. – Tell the truth and nothing but the truth about Islam will do. Already the truth is too much so much that many people have got Islam-nausea.
Rev. Bill Romansky says
Disingenuous editorial, absolutely.
This pilot is only the exception to the rule that purposeful airline crashes are the modus operandi of Islamic extremists.
Leo Dave says
Desensitized to mass murder of innocents demonstrated by 9-11 and other recent
and ongoing jihadi mass killing events, taking the lives of so many innocents
along with your own, at the very least resembles copy-cat psychology and
hijacker mindset, if not direct influence.
The anomaly of taking so many
innocent lives, sans jihadi religious justification for doing so, leaves only
selfish motives tainted by jihadi influence, as witnessed and ingrained pro and con in the
psyche of the whole world suddenly exposed to a foreign lens of morality, as
the co-pilot demonstrated in parallel elements of 9-11. Hard to dispute those
elements of collateral truth.
Will says
My Oh My!! The neo Christian breast thumping here over possible distortions of “official facts” and false accusations against the “most likely” perpetrator on the block has amazed me. I guess these are the same people who would not shoot a child or a woman trying to kill you or your family. this whole open mind bleeding heart, high round morality is what has placed us here.
Islam ONLY understands ONE response and that id far greater violence.
All of North Africa and most of the Middle East held the high moral ground when Islam approached and look at them now.
Time that some of you realised this
If you lot are at the forefront of the fight vs Islam then you all scare me
Keil says
If it weren’t for all the atrocities during the 70s, 80s, 90, and 00s, starting with the PLO hijackers, one could assume lone wolf syndrome in spectacular incidents as downing of Germanwings. After 9/11, the Gaza fraud, the lying and deception from all strata of Moslem segments, to assume a jihadi hand in mass murdering is not farfetched. Islam is our days’ imp slipping out of the bottle. To sum up, not all Moslems are terrorists but all terrorists are Moslems! With rare exemptions.