[ April 19, 2024 ]
The Huffington Post is, once again, shilling for jihad, abridgement of our freedoms and the sanction of the blasphemy laws under the sharia. And yet they never publish pro-freedom, pro-American, pro-individualist voices to counter this vicious propaganda.
HuffPo's 'Jihad' October 8, 2012
That pesky thing known as the First Amendment. MoreMichael Shank is adjunct professor at George Mason University's School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, board member of the National Peace Academy, and senior fellow at the French American Global Forum.
He is also a dhimmi tool (like so many other academics today). In an
attack piece on my American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI)
pro-freedom ad in the Huffington Post,
he says nothing of the horrors of jihad, but feigns outrage when not
everyone refuses to confirm to the left's self-enforcement of sharia
blasphemy laws that forbid any criticism of Islam.Story continues below advertisementMy ad says: "In
any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized
man. Support Israel. Defeat jihad." Shank begins by comparing this ad
to all sorts of odious things: "If someone got physically violent on the
Metro in Washington DC, they would get kicked off the train or bus.
Similarly, if someone indecently exposed him or herself (as noted in the
new Metro ads threatening action against indecent exposure)
or yelled incendiary, racist or bigoted comments at riders, they would
get ushered off." He complains that "the ad makes a sweeping
generalization about all Muslims, referring to them as savages and
contrasting the savages with the civilized."Yet
any war on innocent civilians is savage. Like so many other leftist
tools, Shank is reading into my ad the idea that "all Muslims" are
savages who want to destroy Israel. That is nowhere in my message. They
are the ones who are assuming that to talk about jihadist savages is to
talk about all Muslims, which means that they are the Islamophobes and
racists. The rush to assure the world that the "Palestinian" jihadists
are not savages amazes me. The war on Israel is a war on innocent
civilians. The targeting of civilians is savage. The relentless 60-year
campaign of terror against the Jewish people is savage. The torture of
hostage Gilad Shalit was savage. The bloody hacking to death of the
Fogel family was savage. The Munich Olympic massacre was savage. The
unspeakable torture of Ehud Goldwasser was savage. The tens of thousands
of rockets fired from Gaza into southern Israel (into schools,
homes, etc.) are savage. The vicious Jew-hatred behind this genocide is
savage. The endless demonization of the Jewish people in the
Palestinian and Arab media is savage. The refusal to recognize the state
of Israel as a Jewish state is savage. The list is endless."It
is paradoxical," says Shank. "The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit
Authority (WMATA) can prohibit riders from listening to loud music or consuming food or drink
— the former of which is ostensibly out of respect for others, the
latter is because of health and cleanliness concerns — and yet it
cannot prohibit vitriolic ads, which hurt and harm and are unhealthy."Yes, it cannot prohibit our pro-freedom ads because of that inconvenient thing known as the First Amendment.
Shank
claims that "since the ad makes no distinction between the majority of
Muslims who use jihad nonviolently and the small minority of Muslims who
use violence and cite jihad as their defense, the ad intentionally
creates a hyper-polarized, good-versus-evil frame through which to
understand Islam."Actually,
it is Shank who is making no distinction between peaceful Muslims and
violent ones. My ad doesn't mention Muslims at all. It only mentions
savage jihadists. For him to assume that by referring to them I mean to
refer to all Muslims reveals his own "Islamophobia." And he gets even
worse:Nor does the AFDI ad make any distinction between the greater, internally oriented jihad, known as Akbar jihad, or the lesser externally oriented Asghar jihad.
The former is an internal struggle that instructs a Muslim believer to
be more righteous and pious; the latter is an external struggle that
instructs a Muslim to defend against religious persecution. Neither is
explicitly instructed to be violent and for the AFDI ad to intimate that
anything jihad — and thus anything Muslim — is savage and must be
defeated, the ad categorically calls all Muslims savages.Islamic scholar Robert Spencer sets the record straight here. He explains
what "was pointed out by the 14th-century Islamic scholar Ibn Taymiyya:
that the concept of the 'greater jihad' [Akbar jihad] as interior
spiritual struggle is based on a hadith that 'has no source and nobody
whomsoever in the field of Islamic knowledge has narrated it.' Ibn
Taymiyya insists that 'jihad against the disbelievers is the most noble
of actions and moreover it is the most important action for the sake of
mankind.' Nor is this his view alone. Jihad understood as warfare
against unbelievers in order to establish the hegemony of Islamic law
has much greater support in Islamic scripture, tradition, and historical
practice than does the spiritual jihad — and leading jihad theorists
including Hasan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, and
Abdullah Azzam, Osama bin Laden's friend and intellectual mentor and
co-founder with him of Al-Qaeda, challenge the authenticity of the
'greater jihad' saying in their writings….A Shafi'i manual of Islamic
law that in 1991 was certified by the highest authority in Sunni Islam,
Cairo's Al-Azhar University, as conforming 'to the practice and faith of
the orthodox Sunni community.' This manual, 'Umdat al-Salik (available in English as Reliance of the Traveller),
spends a considerable amount of time explaining jihad as 'war against
non-Muslims.' It spells out the nature of this warfare in quite specific
terms, saying that the Muslims must wage 'war upon Jews, Christians,
and Zoroastrians . . . until they become Muslim or pay the non-Muslim
poll tax.'"After
spreading this nonsense about the greater jihad and the lesser jihad,
Shank then whines that the free speech argument wouldn't have applied
were it not for America's "Islamophobia": "The freedom of speech
argument is spurious. Why? Because if it were a different race or
religion we'd have a whole different conversation and a lot more public
protest. America has a racist and discriminatory political pecking order
that allows some prejudice to continue while prohibiting others."This
is so ridiculous it made me laugh. In fact, authorities going all the
way up to Obama's DoJ bend over backwards to accommodate Muslims.
Insults to no other group have ever occasioned serious discussion in
mainstream American publications about restrictions on the freedom of
speech. And if those restrictions come, Michael Shank will welcome them
— until his Islamic supremacist masters reveal their true face, that
is. But by then it will be too late for Shank. He will have served his
purpose.
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16 Comments
11 years ago
Sometimes the critics make a valid point. In this case, they are being critical of the failure to distinguish harmless and harmful threads within Islam in ads and statements made to the public. It may be wise to consider this as a valid criticism and respond with statements that make the distinction. For example, an ad might read:
“DO NOT RESTRICT RELIGIOUS ISLAM
Religious freedom for all is a 1st amendment right.
OUTLAW POLITICAL ISLAM
A violent supremacist total life system that:
requires the replacement of the US Constitution and laws by the Sharia
requires the conversion, killing, or utter subjugation of all non-believers
reduces women to the status of property for the use and pleasure of men”
Acknowledging up front and protecting the status of religious Isalm may actually be the key to getting people over their perceptions that AFDI et al. are closed-minded … and getting a broader spectrum of folks to actually listen to the issues.
11 years ago
Yes, you are right Pam. 100% right. Skank and other leftist bastards will never concede that. They are brain-washed beyond redemption. Psycho-Leftists that live in some fantasy world. Perhaps the only remedy for Skank and others like him would be to drop them off in downtown Mogadishu.
11 years ago
There are only one or two groups on the planet that you can dress down with full Lefty support. Jihadists are not one of them in their twisted way of thinking. You never said Muslim. They know that.
11 years ago
Pamela’s hate speech is worse than people getting their throats slit. What, you didn’t know t uh at?
11 years ago
oops, should have been, “what, you didn’t know that?”
11 years ago
The argument used by Michael Shank is inaccurate as other faiths including their members are constantly derided in this culture by the media, political parties, and secular organizations. Mr. Shank has not addressed the violent underpinnings of jihadism, yet he cannot denie the existence of this destructive behavior and its tragic consequences for so many innocent victims throughout the world.
11 years ago
Arabs have lost respect for the prophet and are tired of waiting for the mercy of Allah. Modern Arabs want Apple products and designer fashions, not burkas and prayer rugs. Many are starting to eat pork or lobster tails washed down by a dry martini. The Burkas are being used to clean toilet bowls and the prayer rugs for door mats. Mosques are empty and its Imams have opened porno shops.
11 years ago
Hi Pamela. I hope you take what about to tell you seriously because it is the truth, a truth that is hidden from most by our schools and other propaganda outlets. You need to know and understand this truth to really understand reality and the false dialectic that has been created to advance an agenda. A very old and ancient agenda:
Islam is a creation of the Vatican. Rome financed Muhmud (via his Roman Catholic relations), trained him, supplied him with weapons. Rome gave him permission to carry out his genocidal attacks against the Jews and Orthodox Christians, and made sure no Roman army stood in his way. Muhmud’s Jihadi army was the Vatican’s proxy army against the Orthodox Christians and Jews, people the Vatican/Rome termed heretics. But since they were Roman citizens, Muhmud’s proxy army (like Hitler’s & Stalin’s army) was created to carry out the genocidal extermination.
Today, via their banking agents (eg. Rothschilds = Red Shield = Vatican protection) the Vatican controls all the Central Banks and world corporations. They also control the CIA and the shadow government that runs the US and much of the world. Don’t let the Jew managers that they like to hire and focus their propaganda outlets on, fool you as to who is really behinds everything. It is the people who hired these puppets that call the shots. And that is the VATICAN. The ignorant and blind Jew managers were hired to be setup as scapegoats so as to carry forward another wave of genocide against the Jewish people.
People need to make the connection between the VATICAN, the CIA, the Banks, the Fascist Corporations, world history and the NEW WORLD ORDER (the old ROMAN REICH re-establishing itself). Follow the money trail. Ask who is it that owns the Banks, who is it that owns the US, who is it that runs the shadow government?
I did a Google search to ascertain the demographic make-up of the richest of US counties, counties that are primarily fed by the CIA/military complex, and the vast majority in all these counties were ROMAN CATHOLIC. That is not coincidence. (See: Max Keiser: Fat Cats Spy On You (E251) – http://youtu.be/Iu156DguEIE )
READ historians and researchers ANTONY SUTTON and CARROLL QUIGLEY and you will quickly understand that both Hitler (a Jesuit) and Stalin (also a Jesuit) were Vatican agents. The Vatican owned banks and corporations financed and sponsored both Hitler and Stalin so as to facilitate the genocide of European Jews and Orthodox Christians. It is not a coincidence that Nazis were supported by the Vatican and later were smuggled out by the Vatican and CIA, and that many of them were then employed by the CIA. Neither is it a coincidence that stolen Nazi gold ended up with the VATICAN. (Vatican Sued for Looting Nazi Gold Under CIA, MI Permission: http://www.newsinsider.org/editorials/Vatican_CIA.html ). Of-course, you will never hear about this in the CIA controlled propaganda outlets. Which brings us to my next point:
All of the MSM is controlled by the CIA and the Vatican. That is why the Huffington Post behaves as it does. That is why all of the media (big and small) has the same Paliwood theater on all its propaganda outlets. As an Israeli, and knowing things concerning Israel as I do, I couldn’t figure out how it is that all the media was so deliberately blind to the blatant jihadi lies and nazi aggression. But now I understand. They are using the Islamo-nazis, just as they always have, as proxy against the Orthodox Christians, Jews, and other “heretics”. That has been the thread of history. And it is really when you understand this that you will understand history and understand reality.
mika.
11 years ago
M Coffey, “denie?”
Chowching, hahaha sure. Lobster tails.
11 years ago
@John
The problem with your comments are, religious and political Islam are one and the same…both are written in the Qur’an of which Islamic scholars and apologists refuse to change.
These descriptions are very ugly. It is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam, and that’s it.”
— Turkey’s Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
11 years ago
These socialist tossers, especially the wakademics, lack everything that makes a decent human being: they lack morals, ethics, common sense, an understanding of good and bad and truth, but most of all a sense of reality.
The unbearable arrogance of these ideological supremacists manifests itself in their obsession that the outcome of our endeavours has to be equal; so that the eagle flies with the dove and the lion sleeps with the lamb; that gender is just a figment of our imagination and that we can do away with it all if we only wanted it.
These self-hating psychopaths should be put out to pasture. Like pedophiles, they have no business being near our kids. They must no longer be allowed to poison the wells.
11 years ago
@ Missy misfit
Much as followers of Atlas Shrugs may recognize the problem, the challenge is to get it recognized by the general population and thereby pulled into the public discussion. A first step is to make people aware that Islam is intrinsically a political movement – most folks have no idea – ergo posters that state it clearly … and challenge us to figure out how to separate the two. In fact, the issue is a constitutional issue: the 1st Amendment seems to have been written presuming the separability of church and state … but here we have an intrinsically political religion [that is violent, totalitarian, and supremacist]. So, the constitutional question arises as whether the political entity is advantaged by religious status, or the religious status is negated by the political status, if the two are intrinsically inseparable, or some means of separation. It’s a hard question but it’s the constitutional question of our generation and we need the best legal minds of our generation working on it.
A related international legal question is the status of the Umma and the OIC that represent it. You may have realized that the West is being played like a fiddle for our insistence on the Westphalian model of the sovereign nation state. The Umma through the OIC act as a unified governing body to wage jiahd through transnational terrorist groups … who are outside of the nine dots that we define the world by. Hogwash! It’s time for Gov Romney to state boldly that his new Mideast policy will withdraw the individual Ambassadors from all OIC member nations and act through a single Ambassador to the OIC as the representative of the Umma … and that all jiahdi organizations will be considered military forces of the OIC to be met and defeated wherever they stand.
11 years ago
Arianna Huffington is a genuine twit…
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kR87cBjUqRg/S9PsiauyQEI/AAAAAAAAAB0/8hiNXxTKkOw/s1600/Muhammad_Comic_Cartoon_16.jpg
11 years ago
Pam if your add sets off any muslims or any one else more than likely they would have found any other excuse to do it some people can’t stand the truth. right? and if any one does any thing it is because the truth is being told to the AMERICAN people. and that is the problem I would rather know the truth any day than a bunch of lies like what is coming out of the white house. (it is one of those if the shoe fits)
11 years ago
@Mika2k1
“Islam is a creation of the Vatican”?
Delusional much? Or are you merely another lying scuzzlum trying to deflect attention away from the fact that Roman Catholic church is mostly irrelevant and desperately trying to appease islamonazis? Because it sure as hell isn’t taking a stand against islamonazism.
11 years ago
@Sergeant Carter
Relocating our corrupt, lying, amoral, apathetic, leftarded, islamofascist appeasers and collaborators to Mogadishu (or Islambad, or Karachi, or Afghanistan, or Iranistan, or Iraqistan, or Syria, or Egyptistan would certainly be a good way to cure them of their delusional love of pisslam, but maybe it would be sufficient to just relocate the female members of their families to such states.
