Melanie Phillips on Obsession Radical Islam's War Against the West

melaniephillips.com ^ | November 7, 2006 | melanie phillips

[PajamaTruthMafia]

Obsession
I have just viewed the film ‘Obsession’, the documentary about radical Islam’s war on the west, extracts from which were shown on Fox News in the US at the weekend and which you can read about on this website. It should be made compulsory viewing for every politician and pundit who clings to the misguided belief that all we face is terrorism rooted in various grievances around the world. It is the single most powerful and terrifying public exposition of the fact that a global Islamic jihad is now being waged from Bali to Istanbul, from Chechnya to Madrid, from Morocco to Manhattan, from Thailand to Bloomsbury – and that the world that is under attack is deeply in denial about what it is facing. More than that, this film shows in graphic and undeniable detail that this jihad is a direct descendant of Nazism. It has clear historical links – it was to the Nazi-supporting Mufti of Jerusalem in 1941 that Hitler vouchsafed that he intended first and foremost a war of extermination against world Jewry; it has the same agenda of genocide of the Jews and world domination, and the same techniques (and almost identical motifs and visual imagery) of whipping up a frenzy of murderous rage against America and the Jews through repeated hysterical claims of their purported and infernal intention to destroy the Islamic world, conveyed through truly diabolical imagery straight out of the handbooks of medieval and Nazi blood-lust.

Some of the footage in this film leaves you speechless. The Shatat series on al Manar TV, for example, transmitted into millions of Muslim homes around the world, which purports to show a Jew kidnapping a Christian child and slitting his throat in order to use the blood to make Passover matzahs. This of course was the medieval blood libel against the Jews which caused unspeakable savagery to be meted out against them on the basis of a monstrous lie; and here is this same abominable lie, animated for TV and thus doubtless convincing millions of Muslims of the diabolical nature of the Jews. Just as horrifying are the children seen being indoctrinated to hate Jews and Americans, to kill them and to die. A three year old girl, asked why she doesn’t like the Jews, answers ‘because they are apes and pigs’ (a common depiction) as was said by ‘our God in the Koran’. The images of these young children, with their sweet and innocent faces, being programmed to hate and to kill are unspeakable. As a former member of the Hitler Youth observes, the techniques and iconography are identical to those used by the Nazis — because they were learned from the Nazis.

The similarities to the Nazis are indeed overwhelming. The screaming demagogues, the wholesale indoctrination of children into the cult of hatred and death, the repeated use of diabolical propaganda, the aims of genocide and global domination – and the fact that although such aims are constantly reiterated, although the deeds that follow plumb unimaginable depths of barbarity, although the lies are as transparent as they are systematic, the watching world still refuses to acknowledge that this is indeed a global war that is being waged. Just as in the thirties, it takes refuge in fantasies and excuses and refuses to act; worse than in the thirties, it elevates Islamic fascists to downtrodden martyrs and heroes. There are Muslims in this film who speak the truth plainly and unmistakably: the Palestinian correspondent for the Jerusalem Post Khaled abu Toameh, who says that the Islamic world has hijacked his religion and has declared holy war upon the west in order to destroy its civilisation and Christianity; or Nonie Darwish, born and brought up in Gaza, who relates how as a child she was taught jihad, to wage holy war and conquer the world for Islam, and how her classmates would cry with the emotion of declaring themselves ready to die as martyrs for the cause. And Nonie Darwish is a middle-aged woman. The widespread belief in the west that jihadism, suicide bombers and the rest of it are merely responses to recent actions by Israel or America, or to ‘oppression’ by Israeli occupiers, is demonstrably ridiculous.

This is a film about fanaticism. It does not make easy viewing. It destroys the fiction that Islamic terror is the product of ‘grievances’ about specific conflicts. It demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt that it is instead the product of fanatical, hysterical, paranoid, medieval hatred, bigotry and power-mania. What it shows above all is that we are up against an ideology which turns millions towards madness and savagery – but we are totally failing to combat that ideology. Indeed, we don’t even recognise it for what it is. This film goes a long way towards opening our eyes.

[himno hero]

here you are posting hate literature.

shame,

shame shame

[Chi-Town Lady]

I saw parts of that over the weekend. It was far more scary than any horror film I've ever seen.

[Ben Chad]

Surely you're kidding. Did you forget a smiley?

[alloysteel]

The only "grievance" the Islamic jihadists have with the non-Muslims is that the "dhimmi" have not voluntarily and immediately surrendered to their demands, which wold be recognized for what they are if one were dealing with a totally bad-mannered four-year-old child.

In the greater scheme of things, all Muslims are in vastly greater danger from a "fellow" Muslim, than any would be from any Christian, Jew, Buddhist, Hindu, Wiccan, Zoroastrian, or Taoist. The other religions do not go to war just in the name of their religion, and have not done so for several centuries. Only the world of Islam is totally immature about this business of spreading their religion by the sword, as an ideology of forced conversion, and not as a means to peace and salvation.

Manuel II Paleologus, the emperor of Byzantium from 1391 to 1425, said: "Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."

[2banana]

From my first hand observations and study:

Allah or Jesus?

Muslims believe in something that is the polar opposite of Christianity.

Examples:

Muslim works (good vs. bad deeds on the scale of life) to get to heaven vs. Christian grace to get to heaven.

Muslim conversion by man vs. Christian conversion by spirit (grace).

Muslim "moon god" vs. Christian "Son god."

Muslim "Allah's will" vs. Christian "free choice."

Mohammed himself was a cruel man who committed numerous atrocities and created a religion based not on love, but cruelty to non-believers (as per his own words in the Koran). And, that god will attract all that worship at the altar of depravity, cruelty, torture, and death to others.

Personally, I liked this distinction attributed to John Ashcroft:

Christians believe God sent his only son to die for you.

Allah demands Muslims send their only son to die for him.

It is also important to note the Western-Christian world view dealing with the issues of guilt and salvation, a concept that is completely unimportant in the East and to Muslims.

Instead, for Muslims, great importance is given to "honor." I consider that to be the huge crux of the differences and I believe it is extraordinarily underestimated how many Islamists consciously or unconsciously attempt to restore lost honor through violent methods.

It is critical to remember that in Islam you can’t simply ask Allah for forgiveness, he requires action not remorse. Mohammed was a prophet and not a savior so you can’t ask him for salvation either.

However the Koran does offer a path to salvation and redemption through jihad. Engaging in jihad is the only way to be forgiven for all your past sins and regain "lost honor." And it is also interesting to note that for most women, this is unattainable.

Compare the final words of Jesus to his disciples, on the day of his ascension …

"Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth."

… with the final words of Mohammed to his disciples:

"I was ordered to fight all men until they say, ‘There is no god but Allah.'"

[backhoe]

here you are posting hate literature.

I hope you are joking.

[Running On Empty]

Marking

[Excellence]

You forgot the < /SARCASIM >

[Mugwump]

Three comments, and still silence on hh's part. Do we have a Muzzie troll on our hands?

[Excellence]

It has to be sarcasm. No sane person would write that!

[himno hero]

okay- that does it. i give up, i'm coming out

Everything in Obsession is about hate, hate of all other than themselves, and still even then....what day is it?

I really like posting #11 albeit short, but it points to basically that they are and worship something which is pretty much the opposite of christianity.

Opposite of Christ? = Antichrist

I would suggest that collectively they are one component of the antichrist, personified.


oops

[Dajjal]

Buy the dvd.

But it is up on YouTube. See
http://ronbosoldier.blogspot.com/2006/11/obsession-essential-viewing-for-all.html

[oneolcop]

If you are shocked at what you see in "Obsession" you must be living in a cave. Nevertheless, buy it, give it as a gift for your family, spread the word!

The more "mainstream" people that see this, the better the chance that we will survive long enough to straighten out this sad state of affairs.

It is NOT up to our military/intelligence/law enforcement organizations, it is up to each and every citizen to help in this clash of ideologies.

[attiladhun2]

Since I read Leon Uris' The Haj years ago, I was aware of everything in "Obsession." I've seen parts of it, and I would say as good as it is, the dvd still does not convey entirely the true savagery of these people.

[oneolcop]

I agree, both as to the savagry of that "culture" and the exceptional wisdom of the book.

NOTE TO ALL: Find a copy of The Haj, by Leon Uris and read it. You'll gain a great deal of insight into the Israeli-Palestinian issue as well as to the entire Arab culture.