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| Denial and the Cult of Death
Israel - Middle East
Friday, July 11, 2014
Alf Cengia
Picture a scene at a swanky cocktail party. There's a reception room full of guests talking happily away while a string quartet performs a gentle sonata somewhere in the background. The table in the centre is filled with sumptuous hors d'oeuvres.Suddenly a six foot six hundred pound gorilla wearing a black tuxedo strolls up to the table and climbs on top. You can hear the grown of the wood straining under the massive weight as the gorilla takes a sip from a cocktail glass, scratches his armpit and samples the food.You look at the other guests for confirmation that your eyes aren't deceiving you. Yet even though many of them see the incident, no one says anything. They continue on as if nothing unusual has taken place. Would you begin to question your sanity?I'd have to ask who the big hairy guy was, even if there was a chance that he was only a figment of my imagination. Some think I'm odd anyway. But if someone told me it was just Harold who forgot to shave that day, I'd question their credibility. I mean, what's Harry doing on the table to begin with? Did he forget his manners as well?Of course, that was just a fantasy...I think.This past week I watched the testimony of a woman who once interviewed a loved and well known (now criminally convicted) entertainer on live television. An incident took place in a small room full of people with the man's wife present. The two were lying on a bed which was being used as a TV prop. As the woman was speaking into the live camera, the celebrity began to molest her.The audacity and surreal nature of what was occurring made the woman question her sanity what was happening. It occurred under everyone's nose and no one seemingly noticed. As it turned out years later it was revealed that he was notoriously known to insiders as the "octopus", but no one ever spoke up.Nobody wants to believe that an avuncular celebrity is a pedophile or a sexual predator. This enabled him to leave a long trail of damage in his wake. Sadly, after the woman bared her soul she received a torrent of online abuse.Sometimes people just don't being forced into tackling an issue head on when they'd rather pretend it doesn't exist.Despite a history of massacres perpetrated by its proponents, Islamic apologists energetically avoid the notion that it is a Cult of Death. We're often told that terrorists are acting out frustrations because of America's foreign policies, or any number of other excuses.U2 front man Bono once suggested to an Australian Prime Minister that increasing aid to third world countries would be a wise investment because terrorism was driven by poverty. That was before Boko Haram told the world that they do what they do for the sake of Allah; and also before hundreds of European Muslims flocked to Syria and Iraq to join the jihad of their choice.In The Beginnings of the angry Muslim, Ramzy Baroud opines that: - Quote :
- "The West has culpability in the state of hopelessness and humiliation felt by a generation of Muslim youth, but Washington's wars were mostly a catalyst for the violence underway in Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere."
It's always someone else's fault. Inevitably Israel is another excuse in a long list: - Quote :
- "As an escape from their immediate woes, many Muslims sought inspiration elsewhere. They saw in Palestine a rally cry, for the ongoing resistance to foreign occupation..."
Notably there were no Israeli riots when three Jewish teens were recently kidnapped and killed. But when a Palestinian teen was tragically murdered (probably in response), Palestinians vented their anger with rioting and fires. Ironically, the mother of one of then men accused of the Israeli teen murders declared she was proud to be the mother of a Palestinian martyr. He is a martyr because he chose to give his life in order to kill the Jews. She said: - Quote :
- "I would like the Italians and the rest of Europe to know that there is nothing more beautiful than to be a mother of martyrs."
In contrast, the Simon Wiesenthal Center openly condemned the murder: - Quote :
- “There is no justification for this horrific crime. We commend Israeli authorities for finding the perpetrators."
The violent Palestinian responses fall in line with the growing bloody internet selfies taken by terrorists as they butcher infidels in Syria and Iraq.I've seen far too many gory beheadings and shootings to the tune of "Allahu akbar!" I've watched Christian children being summarily executed. In one video a Christian girl was buried up to her neck and stoned to death while someone was chanting an Arabic song. That song was reminiscent of the one Barack Obama called, “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”The images will always haunt me. Spare a prayer and thought for those who endure that reality. Make no mistake - these murderers have a lust for blood which they satisfy in the name of Allah.We're told that these extremists aren't representative of Islam. But where is the overwhelming moderate Muslim outcry? Why aren't they taking to streets en masse in protest? If Islam is the religion of peace and tolerance, then why must it be endlessly placated so as not to endure its bloodthirsty rage?Raymond Ibrahim notes that Islam has "reformed." He contrasts Islamic reformation with its Christian counterpart which was a "revolt against tradition in the name of Scripture." The Christian Reformation was assisted by literacy and increased availability of Bibles.Islamists now, also, enjoy a greater awareness of Islam's Twin Pillars - the Koran and Hadiths. Ibrahim explains:'Many of today’s Muslim believers, much better acquainted than their ancestors with the often black and white words of their scriptures, are protesting against earlier traditions, areprotesting against the “medieval synthesis,” in favor of scriptural literalism—just like their Christian Protestant counterparts once did.'In other words they are obeying the edicts as found in the Twin Pillars of Islam.Baroud is ultimately correct regarding the West's culpability. But not for the reasons he's offered. The West has failed to properly identify the root cause of terrorism and has consistently appeased it.What we are seeing in the current conflict between the Palestinians and Israel, and the escalating threat of ISIS, is partly a product of that denial. Islamic rage has turned into a Ravenous Beast that will not be placated.It will get worse. And it won't simply go away.http://www.omegaletter.com/articles/articles.asp?ArticleID=7844
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