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Folks, if you read one interview this year, let it be this one. Many of my liberal friends simply don't "get it," that our values are under attack from radical Islamist extremists. Mired in grossly misguided political correctness and naivete, they are unable to see a real and growing problem, even as the bombs explode in front of their faces. It is time we take off the rose-colored glasses and view the grim reality that confronts us. On July 15, MSNBC's "Connected" program discussed the 7/7 London attacks. One of the guests was Pierre Rehov, a French filmmaker who has filmed six documentaries on the Intifada by going undercover in the Palestinian areas. Pierre's upcoming film, "Suicide Killers," is based on interviews that he conducted with the families of suicide bombers and would-be bombers in an attempt to find out why they do it.
According to the interview:
MSNBC: How can we put an end to the madness of suicide bombings and terrorism in general?
Rehov: Stop being politically correct and stop believing that this culture is a victim of ours. Radical Islamism today is nothing but a new form of Nazism. Nobody was trying to justify or excuse Hitler in the 1930s. We had to defeat him in order to make peace one day with the German people.
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7 Comments:
Are we truly ready to "stop being politically incorrect"?
We're going to have to ask ourselves that again more than once, I'm afraid...
posted by Anonymous, at
2/10/2006 11:15 AM
We are not ready to stop being "politically correct" (a derisive term which conseravtives use to mock people who are sensitive of the need to treat all persons with respect and understanding). What we are ready to do is to stop misapplying that sentiment to murderous thugs who don't deserve any respect in the first place. You have to give respect to get it.
posted by Anonymous, at
2/10/2006 12:00 PM
Hmmm...so the filmmaker didn't know what he was talking about with that phrase? He's the one who used it...
posted by Anonymous, at
2/10/2006 12:30 PM
I've said this many times and I will never be politically correct about it. Islam is NOT a peaceful religion. If that were the case, their societies would not be producing radicals and extremists who have no regard for human life or values aided and abetted by the mullahs. No Islamic government has ever condemned these people, not have any ever condemned the abhorrent treatment of women and gays. I heard no denunciation of the torture and execution of Iranian gays either by any of them. I would like to know why if they're so anti-western values and morals, why do they emigrate to Europe and once there, try to impose their distorted, backward views of the world on the indigenous populations and governments? Freedom of religion is one thing and I have nothing against that, but these people refuse to assimilate because they really don't want to be westernized. My advice is for them to go back from whence they came if they don't like the way we live. Nobody asked them to emigrate. It is our western leaders who are politically correct by extolling the "great religion of Islam" as Bush uttered right after 9/11 to demonstrate that they are not condeming Islam. They talk out of both sides of their mouths, the spineless hypocrites that they are. I'm sick of these people and Islam in general, along with their compatriots in religion, the right wing Christians.
When the Islamic public is loudly and clearly outraged of the murderous and animalistic (yes, it is animalistic to murder in this way) activities of their own, they can be taken more seriously. When they understand that freedom of speech does not give the right to murder, they can be taken more seriously. I know many wonderful Muslims. Many. However the silence of the majority of the Muslim community supports the radicals in their behavior. It pretty much says that many of the quiet ones are living vicariously while pretending to be peace-loving. When they have Imams who preach murder, there is nothing sacred or spiritual about those Imams and little if anything spiritual about those who listen.
What's a real shame is that the US had to wait until the Towers were hit to start to gain some consciousness and Europe has to wait for something like this cartoon incident. You'd think the world would have joined in at a higher level to speak out against the cowardice barbarism of the Islamic Arabs when it was more confined to what the Palestinians were doing to the Jews. No one but the Jews really spoke out when the Christian Arabs were being mass murdered by the Muslim Arabs in Lebanon. Where were the voices. Thank goodness for something now, be it very, very late and rather costly.
I'm sure that many Arabs may miss the beauty in the following, though only if they choose to keep their eyes, ears and minds closed, and focus on punishing people for cartoons they may not like while ignoring the horrible cartooning that's accepted on somewhat daily basis in the Arab press against the Jews. The rest of you will discover or rediscover the beauty in these quotes by Golda Meir. They are so very, very true and so many more in the world are now allowing themselves to recognize it, helped unintentionally of course by Islamic extremists as well as by the silent Muslim world in the face of the extremism, for until the political leaders and the religious leaders in a predominantly Muslim country can rise to a level of consciousness and responsibility to actually tell their people to stop murdering others, and until parents there start to behave as parents and tell their children to stay home and start to instill some real values in them, this will continue. Please enjoy and pass along the following:
"I have given instructions that I be informed every time one of our soldiers is killed, even if it is in the middle of the night. When President Nasser leaves instructions that he is to be awakened in the middle of the night if an Egyptian soldier is killed, there will be peace." -Golda Meir
"Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us." -Golda Meir
"When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons." -Golda Meir
And so I ask, when will they (yes, I used the "they" word) learn to love their children more than they enjoy living in hatred of others? And will we ever be able to forgive them for what they're forcing us to become if we want to remain alive and protect our families?
posted by Anonymous, at
2/11/2006 12:20 AM
