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BOOK OF THE MONTH
FROM UTAH TO ETERNITY by Sarah Louise Baker. 488
pages, $15.
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DEFENCE OF THE MUSLIM LANDS by Sheikh Abdullah
Azzam, 93 pages, $11.
Beautifully published. A study on the rulings of
Jihad. Answers critical questions on
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Jihad becomes an obligation
upon all Muslims, fighting in the absence of the
Islamic State, peace treaties
with the enemy.
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[Tongue-in-Cheek]
"A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing."
Media
Coverage of the Attacks in Baghdad and
Jerusalem on August 19
A Brainwashed
American
Looks at
CNN,
MSNBC,
Fox News,
CBS,
ABC,
NBC
by Tunz-o-Mazah
There was a time when I used to read books.
So I have a sense of
reality, though it has receded into the back of
mind, unable to compete with TV in
full color.
I don't have much of a problem with the TV
coverage of the attack on an
Israeli
bus in Jerusalem. I already know that
Jewish
lives are more important
than
Palestinian
lives. The ultimate in evil is
the death of a Jewish child. My
humanity is outraged. The TV coverage is so
effective, followed by numerous
spiels by committed Jewish and
pro-Zionist
commentators. Now I understand issues
which used to puzzle me. Now I know:
1. The ratio of Palestinian children killed to
Jewish children is okay. For
every 93 Palestinian children, 4 Jewish children
are killed. Isn't it
outrageous that 4 Jewish children are killed!
Only the 93 Palestinian children should
have been killed. I can take that much better
because most of those
attacks by Israel
don't make it to my favorite TV channels.
2. Jerusalem is an occupied city. Israel took it
by force. Good! Let's keep
it that way. Let's invite the mayor of the
occupied city to Baltimore's
synagogue so he can tell us how beautiful the
occupation is.
3. Somewhere I read that Israel expelled several
million Palestinians and
took their homeland and calls it Israel. Now I
can forget about that and live a
normal life.
4. I am relieved that the Palestinians have no
tanks, artillery or jet
fighters. [Our government makes sure they don't.]
So when they try to break the
occupation by turning themselves into weapons,
they do a lot of collateral damage,
including killing those lovely Jewish children. I
cry over the children.
Thank goodness the Palestinians have no
sophisticated weapons, otherwise our
[excuse me, I mean Israeli] military forces
might be in danger.
5. I read somewhere that under International Law,
the victims of occupation
have the right to hit back and kill any occupier
they can, regardless of
whether the occupiers travel in buses or in
tanks. That's in some book of law which
was invoked against the Nazis in World War II,
but TV helps me to put aside
that troubling law of retribution.
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NOW I TURN TO A MORE DIFFICULT SUBJECT, the
attack on the UN HQ in BAGHDAD:
How dare "They" attack the United Nations!
I know it's wrong to kill anyone. Why would
anyone attack the UN when its
only interest is in the "reconstruction" of
Iraq?
Here I am so shocked by the attack, with all the
horrors of death and
destruction, that I am willing to forget quite a
bit of what I learned WHEN I USED TO
READ BOOKS.
Isn't it true that the UN DID NOT APPROVE of the
U.S. invasion of Iraq? So,
how shameful it is to attack the UN headquarters
in Baghdad. [Don't tell me
that the UN was part of the U.S. occupation.
Don't tell me that a U.S. military
platoon was guarding the UN HQ. Don't tell me
that a U.S. "diplomat" was in the
building coordinating the "reconstruction" when
the bomb went off. Don't tell
me that the UN cannot set up an HQ in Baghdad
without U.S. approval. ARE YOU
TRYING TO DEPROGRAM ME? Leave me alone. I want to
believe!]
Unfortunately, the reading I did before TV
brainwashed me keeps creeping back
into my mind. My "gawd awful" brain keeps
generating thought. Stop it! I want
to believe!
My pesky brain tells me that though the UN
did not approve the
US-UK invasion:
1. The UN NEVER condemned the invasion of Iraq,
although the US-UK were in
clear violation of the UN Charter.
2. Secretary General Kofi Annan, comfortably
married to a Jewish woman, NEVER
condemned the U.S.-UK invasion. In fact he has
consistently CONDEMNED IRAQ
and its mujahid leader.
3. The UN was IN FULL SUPPORT OF THE EMBARGO and
SANCTIONS on Iraq which left
a MILLION plus Iraqi children dead over a period
of 12 years. In fact those
were UN sanctions which were imposed on Iraq and
had to be respected even by
Muslim countries like
Pakistan.
4.The UN has NEVER implemented its resolutions
against Israel, not one.
5. SANCTIONS HAVE NOT BEEN IMPOSED ON ISRAEL
though Israel has violated just
about every UN resolution.
6. My pesky brain tells me that in fact,
PALESTINE WAS HANDED OVER TO THE
JEWS by the UN.
7. Even those areas of Palestine which are
supposed to be non-Israeli under
the UN's convoluted logic are occupied TODAY by
Israeli tanks. Does the UN
move against Israel? NO.
8. Have the UN resolutions on
KASHMIR
been
implemented? Forget it.
9. Has the UN imposed sanctions on Russia for its
GENOCIDE in
CHECHNIA?
Are you kidding! You think the UN was put together to
help the "bloody Moslems?"
10. [In the fog at the back of my mind I remember
a good book which
documented the fact that the UN is nothing more
than an instrument of U.S.-British
power. Perish the thought! I don't want that
reality to haunt me.]
After shedding the ghosts of reality which
my brain harbors, I go back
to TV. MSNBC shows a Jewish professor from Haifa
University and an American
Jew, Steve Emerson, discussing "terrorism" [a
code word for Islam] on
"Hardball." Now I can stop thinking and enjoy the
show.
Isn't it terrible that someone blew up the
UN. How dare "they" stop the
"reconstruction" of Iraq! We are liberating Iraq
and these terrorists are
trying to stop us. How dare they!
I love President
Bush.
How comforting was
his thought that the attack on
the UN HQ is actually an attack on "the Iraqi
people." What a deep thought!
[Unfortunately US troops in Baghdad did not
believe Bush. The night after the
attack on the UN, they imposed a strict curfew on
Baghdad. What a shame! I was
waiting for all those Iraqis to come out and
support the US and condemn the
attack. How will they come out if there is
curfew?]
I enjoy TV but it is doing something to my
brain which was unexpected. I
was so impressed by "shock and awe" [all that
colorful display of huge
explosions in Baghdad as B-52s and B-1s dropped
their loads on an Islamic
metropolis]. After "shock and awe", that pillar
of smoke coming out of the UN office
looked puny. If it were bigger and more colorful,
it would look better on TV.
[Stop it you pesky brain. That's only the right
of the US Air Force. Learn to
love those beautiful big planes. O I loved those
explosions on the
Afghan
mountains, Tora Bora. What glory! Little
hiroshimas making Afghanistan's mud huts
bounce, making the solemn mountains rattle.]
Stop it and watch TV! Here comes Martin
Indyk, former U.S ambassador to
Israel, explaining the ravages of Islamic
fundamentalism on CNN. Seig Heil,
Seig Heil. I love Bush. I love the U.S. air
force.
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