Posted on 02/14/2006 3:24:30 PM PST by SJackson
As a Ph.D. Islamologist and Arabist I really hate to say this, but I'll say it anyway: 9/11 had nothing to do with Islam. The war on terror is as phony as the latest Osama bin Laden tape.
It's a tough thing to admit because I know on which side my bread is buttered and dropping Islam from the 9/11 equation is dropping my slice of bread butter-side-down. The myth that 9/11 had something to do with Muslims has poured millions, if not billions, into Arabic and Islamic studies. I finished my Ph.D. last year, so all I have to do is keep my eyes in my pocket and my nose on the ground, parrot the party line, and I'll be on the fast track to tenure track.
The trouble is, it's all based on a Big Lie. Take the recent "bin Laden" tape please! That voice was no more bin Laden than it was Rodney Dangerfield channeling my late Aunt Corinne from Peoria. I recently helped translate a previously unknown bin Laden tape, a real one from the early '90s, back when he was still alive. I know the guy's flowery religious rhetoric. The recent tape wasn't him.
The top American bin Laden expert agrees. Professor Bruce Lawrence, head of Duke University's religious studies department, has just published a book of translations of bin Laden's speeches. He says that the recent tape is a fake and that it is possible bin Laden is not even alive.
Fake bin Laden tapes, "verified" by the CIA, are nothing new. Every supposed bin Laden statement since 2001 has been blatantly bogus. The last we heard from the real bin Laden came in his post-9/11 statements to Pakistani journalists: "I stress that I have not carried out this act, which appears to have been carried out by individuals with their own motivation. ... I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. ... I had no knowledge of these attacks."
Then on Dec. 13, 2001, as George Bush was whining about the "outrageous conspiracy theories" that were spreading like wildfire, the first and shoddiest of the "bin Laden speaks from beyond the grave" tapes appeared. The video's sound and picture quality were horrible. It showed a big guy with a black beard, doing a passable imitation of bin Laden's voice, claiming foreknowledge, if not responsibility, for the 9/11 attacks, and chortling over their success. The trouble was, the big guy clearly was not bin Laden. He was at least 40 or 50 pounds heavier, and his facial features were obviously different.
The "Fatty bin Laden" tape was widely ridiculed, and I have yet to meet an informed observer who considers it authentic. (If you haven't figured this out yet, go back and look at the images from the tape and compare them to other images of bin Laden.) But the media let the fraud pass without asking the hard questions: Why was the U.S. government waving this blatantly fake "confession" video in our faces?
Perhaps due to the widespread hilarity evoked by "Fatty bin Laden," the next Osama from beyond the grave message had no images it was an audiotape delivered to al-Jazeera in fall 2002. The CIA verified it as authentic and then got a rotten egg in the face when the world's foremost voice identification experts in Switzerland reported that "the message was recorded by an impostor."
Every bin Laden message since then has been equally phony. They are released at moments when the Bush regime needs a boost and the American media go along with the fraud. Remember the bogus bin Laden tape that made headlines right before the 2004 presidential election? If you didn't figure out that it was a CIA-produced commercial for George Bush, I have some great bridges to sell you. Walter Cronkite, bless his heart, opined that Karl Rove was behind that tape. But the rest of the media just kept pretending that the emperor was clothed.
And the fraud continues. The most recent alleged bin Laden tape has been ridiculed by America's top bin Laden expert, yet the U.S. media keep right on holding a transparent fig leaf in front of the emperor! Professor Lawrence believes that this phony tape was designed to distract world opinion from the horrific massacre of Pakistani civilians by an errant CIA drone. But it may have another, more sinister purpose: to prepare public opinion for another false 9/11-style attack designed to trigger a U.S.-Israeli nuclear attack on Iran.
The real bin Laden, who insisted that he had nothing to do with 9/11, has been dead since late 2001 or early 2002. The fake messages have been fabricated by "al-CIA-duh" to support the Bush regime and its phony "war on terror." It is time for Americans to rise up in revolt against the fake terror masters who are looting U.S. taxpayers, torching our Constitution, destroying our economy, and threatening nuclear Armageddon.
Kevin Barrett holds a Ph.D. in Arabic, with a focus on Islamic studies, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a co-founder of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth: http://mujca.com. E-mail: kevin@mujca.com
The source speaks for itself.
By the way SJackson, what of at least 2 videotapes of Bin Laden where he is seen and heard claiming credit for 9-11? In October 2001 before the attack on Afghanistan Bin Laden will still disclaiming any involvement in the 9-11 attacks. That came to an end in the Spring of 2002 when a videotape was released showing Bin Laden claiming credit for the 9-11 attacks, as well as at least 2 others after that including the videotape released before the November 2004 election. Those came through Al Jazeera and were translated by independent Arabic translators. Are ALL these people on George W's payroll INCLUDING Al Jazeera?
Hit the road you troll phony. You're exposed for what you are, a DUmmy. You moronic posts from the far left, far lunatic "Capital Times" are a joke and if you actually buy into the drivel they peddle, then you're a simple-minded dupe.
/sarcasm
Partly right. It is not OBL.
I apologize if I misjudged you. That's why I gave you an opportunity to explain yesterday. When you did not I could only conclude you had something to hide. My apologies.
Little high strung today? Chill out!
I can't figure out where courtesy has gone on this forum, and why you think anyone should answer you when you're so rude? I don't want to get in a flame war with you - but you're very wrong in your little tantrum.
It's good to know what's being said outside of our own little corners of the world.
Please tell me this is the Onion or Scrappleface.
Mad-i-son! How did I know it was going to be either that or Berkeley?
Though Northwestern is running strong these days!
The following is from this nutcases website:
an exciting new rebirth of thought called "Planetization." Like Dr Griffin, the author of Planetization, The Other Kind of Globalization, Bottom Up an Healthy , believes that we are moving into an age of planetary unity, and that this unity must be based on something better than the big lies and brute force deployed by the atheist-Machievellian "globalists" of the Kissinger-Brezhinski-neocon axis. But whereas David Griffin posits process-oriented "global democracy" based on ethically-informed dialogue, Planetization draws on the underlying spiritual traditions of humanity, especially Islam in its universal sense, to propose that the unity of humanity can only be achieved in light of the unity and Law of the Creator (a Oneness and Wholeness of all life)—and that achieving this kind of non-violent unity is a spiritual as much as a political project in a practical, translatable sense. Is there a better global vision being offered here than the one we have? Would it be viable or doable? Could deep unity counter deep deceit? The answer we find, would be in the affirmative. We await more!
I can't figure out where courtesy has gone on this forum, and why you think anyone should answer you when you're so rude? I don't want to get in a flame war with you - but you're very wrong in your little tantrum.
It's good to know what's being said outside of our own little corners of the world.
A) I was very polite in asking this person what their motivations were in posting this tripe. They refused to respond. I could only conclude from that they had something to hide.
B) You don't already know what's being said "outside of our own little corners of the world" by these left wing nutbags? It's all the same boilerplate my friend and has been for the last 5 years. Nothing ever changes. You can mouth the words right along with them even as it comes out of their mouths. I don't need to have dung flung in my face over and over to know it stinks.
C) If this person doesn't want to be misjudged they might do well to post a disclaimer that they do not buy into what they are posting. And when asked why they're doing so, they might actually try to respond rather than ignoring what was a very polite request to do so.
"While in office, they ordered their soldiers to allow the Israeli Mossad to operate in Iraq under the name of Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi, killing, and assassinating Iraqi clerics of both sects."
There it is, Zarqawi is a Jew!!
What is it about Islam that turns people into raving murderous lunatics?
And batsh*t stupid ones, at that?
It appears the author is willingly lying and knows Islam is behind 9-11. He's just happy about it and wants the US to fall to the Islamists. "Planetization" complete.
Well, The Onion began in Madison, but no, this is the mainstream media. And lots of people believe it.
He isnt a troll by any means.
LOL!
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