HAPPY RAMADAN!!!
Posted on 12/03/2002 7:35:21 AM PST by boris
U.S. courts disaster by plotting a war. Instead, a strategy of rights and respect is needed.
By Bouthaina Shaaban
DAMASCUS, Syria -- Every morning, people here read their newspapers to find out the latest image that Westerners have carved of them to fit the West's own objectives and agendas. For the last two years, Arabs in the Middle East have never stopped being surprised at what is made of them, their religion, their intentions and their national character.
Now comes the possibility that the United States, with or without the United Nations, will go to war with Iraq. Because of the suppressed anger, frustration and humiliation of Arab people, such a war could open "doors of hell" for the region and for West-East relations.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Sir:
Bouthania Shaaban says the U.S. is "Rattling the 'Doors of Hell'" by threatening Saddam Hussein. I agree. Except the doors of hell were opened on 9/11/2002 by an attack worse than Pearl Harbor (on U.S. soil, against U.S. non-combatants). By this act, islamic radicals proclaimed that 'there are no civilians'. Very well; we now understand the rules.
His piece is replete with loaded rhetoric. For example, he faults western media for "condemning Palestine whenever an Israeli is killed [note the singular] and show[ing] solidarity with Israel every time it commits another massacre." [note the 'massacre']
Palestinians kill single Israelis; the Israelis commit "massacres"--at least so Mr. Shaaban would have us believe.
Shaaban trots out the tired old claim that Israel is "occupying" Palestinian land. There is no occupation. Those lands were annexed by Israel by right of conquest after a massed and unprovoked attack against them by arab nations. There being a finite amount of land on Earth, there are only 2 ways nations acquire or lose territory: by conquest or purchase. Both are perfectly valid, and the arabs are welcome to re-conquer the "territories" at any time. They have proven spectacularly bad at the conquering business. Perhaps they should use some of the trillions of dollars of oil money languishing in Swiss bank accounts to buy the territories from the Israelis. Those funds certainly are not doing anything to help poor arabs on the street--except perhaps to fund terrorist organizations such as Al Quaeda.
The West (Western Civilization) is at war with Islam, a culture which seeks to return to the seventh century A.D. This war is not about Israel, it is about the hatred of Western culture by a culture stuck in the past, and deeply humiliated by our achievements.
• We build jet airliners; they can only use them as terror weapons.
• We perform medical miracles, cures to plagues that have cursed mankind for centuries; they can only think of using germs as devices of terror.
• We send humans to the moon; they cannot---but they can strap explosives to teenage girls to be detonated on busses.
• We invent devices to flash sound and images around the world at the speed of light; they can only use those devices to plan the next terror attack.
• The last significant arab contribution to mankind was the invention of the zero (0).
Where was the condemnation of the "moderate" arab world after 9/11? Where is it now? How much cooperation have we received from Saudi Arabia and the rest of the rotten terror states in tracking down and arresting the monsters that plan and execute terrorism?
There will be more attacks on U.S. soil. They, however, will be our fault, because we refuse to take prudent measures against the terrorist cells and sleepers still among us. Eventually they will bring down the Sears tower with a portable nuke, or release smallpox in St. Louis.
THEN perhaps the doors of hell will swing open fully, and large mushrooms will appear over islamic capitals--including Damascus--and holy cities.
Do not presume to tell us about the doors of hell, Mr. Shaaban; WE have the keys.
Do not presume to tell us about the doors of hell, Mr. Shaaban; WE have the keys.
Melted sand bump!
LOL!!!
You tell 'em, Boris. I'm quite sick and tired of getting MOONED by their MOON god [Kaaba idol!!!].
Sorry, but you'll have to go a bit farther back to find a significant Arab contribution to mankind. The zero that the Arabs passed around was an invention of Hindus in India.
Neither can we anymore. We are spending too much money on welfare for illegal aliens, including some of them. Hmmm..maybe we could envigorate the space program by gearing up to ship the sand dwellars to someplace like Mars. Perfect spot for them, since it's pretty much a big desert anyway. Drier than they are used to, and the air is kind of thin, but those are the breaks when you PO the Big Dog.
They were good pre optics astronomers. If nothing else, we can thank them for naming the stars Altair, Aldebaran, Deneb, Rigel and best of all Betelgeuse. They all have other names, but those are the ones most commonly used especially in science fiction.
• We perform medical miracles, cures to plagues that have cursed mankind for centuries; they can only think of using germs as devices of terror.
• We send humans to the moon; they cannot---but they can strap explosives to teenage girls to be detonated on busses.
• We invent devices to flash sound and images around the world at the speed of light; they can only use those devices to plan the next terror attack."
Destruction is always much easier than construction.
Don't forget history's most destructive religion...give credit where it's due.
Contrast their history to that of the Jew, who, though persecuted and without a homeland for nineteen hundred years, have made significant contributions to virtually every culture they have found themselves in, whether there by choice or force. (No other ethnic group has managed to maintain any identity of their own for more than a few generations without a homeland before disappearing due to absorption or annihilation.)
Interesting observation coming from the LA Times, which regularly practices the same tactics to justify their domestic politcal bias.
I really did. But my letter is too long to be printed as a letter; I asked that it be printed as a guest editorial in response.
--Boris
Oops. My automatic typing got me. I'll send a correction.
Quote of the day material indeed...
The observation comes from me--not the LA Times.
--Boris
I could go on, but you know the rest.
Bump
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