The news has been chock full of stories on Denver's Najibullah Zazi, 24, an Afghanistan-born Colorado man who allegedly handwrote bomb-making instructions. Court appearances are due today, Monday, September 21, 2009, for Zazi and others on charges of lying to authorities in an ongoing terror investigation.
I believe there is a widespread reluctance to believe that folks living in the U.S., both born here and elsewhere, are capable or willing to plan and conduct a domestic terror attack. We only have to look back at American history to see that there have always been people interested in doing just that. Terror attacks and plots in Great Britain amply demonstrate that home-grown citizens are capable of turning their backs on their mother country.
So, why the uproar in some circles about these guys being another bunch of entrapped, ignorant, bumblers? In my opinion it has a lot to do with the religion--they happen to be Muslim--of the suspects. Like the Jews did in the early 20th century in the United States, Muslims have created so-called defense organizations, such as CAIR, to defend the civil interests of their co-religionists. Unlike the Jews who perceived the need for organizations to speak up for them after they were lynched, beaten and excluded from schools and society and had no one to turn to, Islamic groups spend most of their time explaining away the actions of people seen as supporters of terror and mayhem. And the roots of some of these groups are questionable.
Be that as it may, it will interesting to see further developments this week.
Monday, September 21, 2009
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"In my opinion it has a lot to do with the religion--they happen to be Muslim--of the suspects. Like the Jews did in the early 20th century in the United States, Muslims have created so-called defense organizations, such as CAIR, to defend the civil interests of their co-religionists. Unlike the Jews who perceived the need for organizations to speak up for them after they were lynched, beaten and excluded from schools and society and had no one to turn to, Islamic groups spend most of their time explaining away the actions of people seen as supporters of terror and mayhem. And the roots of some of these groups are questionable."
In other words, kind of like the way many Jewish advocacy groups and leaders such as Abraham Foxman rush to defend every Israeli action, no matter how violent or brutal it is.
Reading that section of your post brought to mind three words. Pot. Kettle. Black.
Wheh Ex-man,
A whiff of Anti-Semitism? So the Jews control the media, control the government, control Congress, yes? And now you’re going to compare the creation of CAIR the likes of which has Hamas dollars running through it and it’s mission to defend Muslims which our government contends planned terrorist activities within our borders..(open today’s paper) to the birth of the ADL a “defense" organization to halt defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all. Yes it’s all true the Anti-Defamation League, offers “anti-bias education and diversity training” through its World of Difference Institute; monitors a vast array of extremist activity; publishes curricula on the Holocaust and on tolerance. And yes Abe Foxman is a domineering character but “Pot, Kettle Black”..I think not.
Excuse me?!?
Where in my last two comments did I say that Jews control the government? I said nothing about the government in my last post, or the influence of any Jewish organization upon said government. I can't find any mention of the media either.
Cheap use of the term anti-semitism to defend oneself against any objection to your ideas weakens the meaning of the term, and brands you as a coward.
The only thing I said about the ADL and Foxman was that they were uncritical in their support of Israel. That hardly amounts to an endorsement of some idiotic conspiracy theory. Indeed, Foxman and the ADL have been criticized by the more liberal elements of the Jewish community.
Since we're in childish name-calling mode, may I call you an Islamophobe?
...perhaps the air felt a bit heavy, but I do firmly believe that when it's called for, Israel's government as well as the Jewish defense groups can and will criticize her actions. I think the western countries, the media and all others set standards for Israel far above all others and rightfully so they have a conscience. They are not the terrorist they are you know the defenders of their people. Between April 2001 and November 2008, 4,246 rockets and 4,180 mortar shells were fired into Israel from Gaza, and for what? Who has the right to decide what country can exist among the nations of the world. Where were the human rights activists then? Things are tough all over Ex-man, I'm no coward, just an activist. and no, I'm not an Islamophobe, just cautious.
Shana,
With activists like you representing it, Israel doesn't need people to criticize it.
I've put a post on my blog that sums you up, and your incoherent responses to me, rather well.
Beam me up, Scotty, there is no intelligent life on this blog.
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