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January 29, 2009
The Third Jihad
This is a must see video, a 30-minute digest of a longer film.
A few observations:
1. There is a libel popular among the chattering classes that goes something like this: mid-east terrorism is caused by the Arab-Israeli conflict. Resolve the Palestinian conflict and all troubles will vanish. This is false. Israel is, and has always been, the central front against radical Islam. The Islamists use the conflict to justify their aggression.
2. Feeding off this meme is the notion that because America supports Israel, a transparent democracy, the Islamic world hates America. This is also false. The Islamists hate America for who we are, a freedom-loving republic opposed to totalitarian regimes.
3. Prisons are feeding grounds for Islamist recruiters. I know, I spent a good deal of time in various prisons doing research for films and I can testify that violent Islamist gangs rule the yard. Radical Islam appeals to the sociopath. That's why closing Gitmo is so dangerous. Putting hard-core jihadists in American prisons is exactly what the terrorists desire. It makes recruitment and operations-planning so much easier.
4. Like a disease, terrorists must be isolated or the ideology spreads in prisons—and in the halls of academia.
5. Europeans took a short break from their in-bred Jew-hatred out of nothing more than mild embarrassment at Auschwitz. But they have now regained their Jew-hating chops, calling it, what else? Human Rights These oh-so-civilized creatures enable and encourage the Islamists at most every turn. For instance, Spain has revived The Inquisition.
6. The cultural fall-out of Holocaust denial and Holocaust justification are making their way into the mainstream. The world of fashion is now pushing Nazi Chic.
7. Finally: Only Muslims can fix what is gravely broken in the Muslim world, that's why this video is so significant.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at January 29, 2009 10:20 AM
Comments
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Well said Robert. That is why it is absurd that we are now adding costs to the situation in Afgahnistan. That is not a country but a collection of gangs who supply most of the worlds heroin base.
Israel initially threatened the Arab rulers with the idea of Democracy that is one reason they hated us. Another is of course that their religion dictates to oppress the infidel.
The problem is that there are not enough non radical Islamists in the fold.
Posted by: Adam at January 29, 2009 01:56 PM
Powerful video -- well worth watching. Terrific in combination with The 18.
Thanks so much
Posted by: Katherine at January 29, 2009 08:35 PM
Dear Robert: I don't like it when people toss around references to the Inquisition. Nobody is putting anybody on a rack. Shabbat Shalom.
Does Judge Fernando Andrue REALLY want the precedent set, IN SPAIN, that assassinating a terrorist leader in a densly populated civilian area is a crime against humanity? Doesn't he know that while the "Palestinians," who are historically and culturally and linguistically ARABS, CLAIM to have been expelled from their ancestral homeland in "Palestine," actually, SOME Arabs were expelled after five-or was it seven-Arab states attacked Israel and others left voluntarily, figuring that Israel would be defeated in a week and they could come back and
loot Jewish property, the Moors really WERE expelled from Spain, and they think they're entitled to it back? Does the date "March 7" ring a bell, Your Excellency? WHEN the Spanish have to fight off the Arabs, does he want them to fight with handcuffs on?
Did it occur to the British, when they threatened to arrest and try Dichter as a war criminal, that there must be plenty of British soldiers, who had done unboyscoutly things in Northern Ireland or in Kenya, innocently vacationing all over the world, and that arresting Dichter would make the soldiers subject to arrest?
Posted by: Miranda Rose Smith at January 29, 2009 11:35 PM
I would say "time to make Aliyah?", but really, this problem is everywhere. One can't escape this, unless they want to live on the moon. The truth will set everyone free.
That video was just amazing. That doctor is so well spoken and I hope that many others have the opportunity to see it. Thank you for sharing it. Have a good Shabbos.
Posted by: Rachel at January 30, 2009 11:18 AM