began a media campaign demonizing Ukraine, to both Russians and Russian-speaking eastern and southern Ukrainians. Ukraine, long considered an inseparable ally for Russia, was portrayed as dangerous, untrustworthy and a puppet that the United States was using to harm Russia.
Newscasts and newspapers painted Kiev as tragically out of control, a place that in the interest of history and even of love needed to be brought back under the safe control of mother Russia. Even entertainment programming added to a new, negative perception of Ukraine. Television police dramas began to feature Ukrainian villains. Today, an evening of Russian television typically features newscasts and talk shows that depict an America eager to destroy Russia, a Europe on the brink of collapse and an inept and chaotic Ukraine.
Paranoia Creation and Its Implications
A Follow-up to Creation of Paranoia (part
1 and
2)
by Karl Ericson
educating the children to Jihad and to hatred of
the Jews, the Christians, and the infidels is what is needed now.
Sermon
of Sheikh Muhammad Saleh Al-Munajjid in Al-Daman, Saudi Arabia
You[r] heart must contain nothing
but HATE to all kafers [infidels]...Not just plain hate it must be the peak
of hate...
Even if the kafer never did anything personal to us even if he
is a mere couch potate[sic] who reads the paper and sleeps and works,
he
is kafer alone makes him an enemy to us and we must hate him for that. The
answer is clear yes Islam was spread by the sword.
Ahmad Jibril in Dearborn Michigan
We have to
understand the depth of the disgrace of the enemy,
until our holy hatred expands continuously and strikes like a wave.
Iranian President Ahmadinejad at Tehran Conference 2005
We must never forget, brothers
, to nurse our children and our grandchildren
on hatred for them:
for Zionists, for Jews,...
Egyptian children must feed on hatred; hatred must continue..
The hatred must go on for Allah and as a form of worshiping him.
Former
President Morsi of Egypt
We must keep our
hatred [against the U.S.] alive and fan it to paroxysm!
Che Guevara
a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by
pure hate.
Che Guevara
the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love.
Che Guevara
We can and must
write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn
toward those who disagree with us.
Vladimir Lenin
"Because the term "racist" is now so debased, I usually shrug such smears
off by pointing to its new definition:
anyone who is winning an argument
with a liberal.
Peter Brimelow in
Alien Nation
You cannot teach people hate and then ask them to
practice peace
British Prime Minister Tony Blair in a speech
at the United States Congress on July
17, 2003
in regard to Muslim indoctrination of
children to hate Jews.
For a Great Song About Paranoia Click below
For a very disturbing example of Islamic creation of Paranoia click below.
An enemy is required by every would-be
totalitarian
Frank Gaffney, Putins
Ploy, The Washington Times, 6/15/2007
All militaries
need a straw man, a perceived enemy, for solidarity,
And as a young officer or soldier,
you always take the strongest of straw men to maximize the effect.
Chinese military men, from the soldiers and platoon captains all the way up to
the army commanders,
were always taught that America would be their enemy.
Huang Jing, a scholar of Chinas military and leadership at the National
University of Singapore.
When the
Debate is Lost Slander Becomes the Tool of the Loser
Socrates
The whole aim of
practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
and hence clamorous to be led to safety
by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
Henry Louis Mencken
Veritas Odium Parit (Truth begets hate)
I hope that I will live long enough to see American
politics return to vigorous debates
where we argue who's right and who's wrong, not who's good and who's bad.
Former President Bill Clinton at the unveiling of his and his wife's portrait at the
Whitehouse (6/15/04).
Unfortunately in politics each side generally tries
to create as much paranoia as possible to the opposing side.
It is ironic that President Clinton made this very praiseworthy statement
in the presence of his wife Hillary who, when accusations
were made that he was philandering announced that a (bad) vast right wing conspiracy
was making
false accusations in order to discredit her husband. Bill Clinton also accused
critics of Obama of being part of a right wing conspiracy.
Self
Defense is Racist
Tucker Carlson after whites accused of being racist for defending themselves
I Introduction: Why Understanding Paranoia Creation is Important
IB2 Hatred of the non-Believer
II Reasons for Religious Anti-Semitism
2)
Desire to keep believers from being led away from the religion by nonbelievers.
3) Finding a scapegoat for the failures of the religion. (Protecting self esteem by blaming others)
IIIA2 Religion's Creation of an External Enemy for Internal
Stability
6) Islams Need to Create Paranoia to Sustain Jihad
4) Creating Paranoia to Create Pride
Creation of Paranoia to Gain Influence
IIb Religion's Creation of Oppressors
IIB Use of Religion to Create Paranoia
IIC Creation of Paranoia to Reduce Shame
IID Creation of Paranoia to Avoid Facing a Threatening Reality
IID2 Creation of Paranoia to Prevent Hate
IIE Creation of Paranoia to Prevent Terror
IIF Creation of Paranoia to Prevent War
IIFa Creation of Paranoia to be Loved
IIG Creation of Paranoia To Feel in Control
IIIm1 Creation of Paranoia to Gain Power and Control
III Creation of Self-Humiliation and Paranoia to Gain Power and Control
IIIA Creation of Paranoia to
Maintain Power and Control
IIIb Creation of Paranoia to Make Money
IIIc Assumption that if a Group is Persecuted they must be Guilty
IIId Creation of Paranoia to Silence Dissent
IIIe Creation of Paranoia Against Obstacles to One's Ambitions.
IV) Assumption that Others are Evil Leads to the Assumption they are Guilty
V) Creation of Paranoia to View the Side One Identifies With as Good
VB) Creation of Paranoia to Obviate Guilt
VI Terrorists View those they
are Fighting as Terrorists and Justify their Terrorism that Way
VIb Creation of Paranoia Because of Boredom
VIc Creation of Paranoia Because of Desire to Go to Heaven
VII Creation of Paranoia
because of Greed
VIIa Creation of Paranoia Because of Hate
VIIb Creation of Paranoia by Academia
VIIc Creation of Paranoia by the Media
VIII Techniques of Paranoia Creation
4 Misplacing the Source in the Cycle of Violence
4a Reporting Unsubstantiated Allegations as Truth
4b Creation of Paranoia by the Islamic Media in America
5 Impact of Creation of Paranoia by the Media
IX Creation of Paranoia To Justify Aggression and Terrorism
IXA Creation of Paranoia and Delusion to Encourage Aggression and Terrorism
IXAA Creation of Paranoia to Hide Motives of Conquest
IXAB Creation of Paranoia to Avert Catastrophe
IXB Creation of Paranoia To Prevent Conflict and Violence
IXC Creation of Paranoia to Protect Civil Liberties
IXD Creation of Paranoia to Stay Out of Jail
X Denial of Contradictory Evidence
XB Creation of Paranoia to Explain Away Contradictory Evidence
XC Creation of Paranoia to Gain Status
XI Creation of Paranoia to
Overcome Opposition
Xib Creation of Paranoia to Overcome Competition
XII Creation of Paranoia to get Revenge
XIII Creation of Paranoia to Divert Hostility and Shift Blame
XIIIa Creation of Paranoia to Shift Blame to Protect Self Image
XIIIb Creation of Paranoia for Unknown Reasons
XIV Self Feeding Nature of Paranoia Creation
XVI Creation of Paranoia By the Jewish Left
XVII Funding Paranoia Creation
XVIII The Cause of Secular Anti-Semitism
XVIIIA Cross-Infection of Other Religions with Anti-Semitism.
XVIIIB Creation of a Power Myth
XIX Who are the Greedy Conniving Jews That Everyone Hates so Much?
XX Creation of Paranoia by the Chinese
XXI Creation of Paranoia in America
XXIB Creation of Paranoia in Latin America
XXIII Creation of Paranoia as a result of seeing oneself as entitled when one is not:
XXIIIB Eco-extremist Creation of Paranoia
XXVI The Desire to Feel Oppressed
XXVII Indoctrination in the West
XXVIII Creation of Paranoia to get Others to Hate Those You hate
XXVIV False Accusations of Abuse
XXVV Identity Politics and the Creation of Paranoia Based on Identity
XXVVI Creation of Paranoia to Tear Down the System
I Introduction: Why Understanding Paranoia Creation is Important
There is vicious creation of paranoia during American elections and I presume elections elsewhere as well. Each side demonizes the other side. It is funny and tragic when the left that claims to be tolerant is so intolerant to the right. Here is a condensed appeal by a recent college graduate that points this out.
The consequence of this paranoia creation is that each side becomes unwilling to work together with the opposing side to make the world a better place and fails to listen to legitimate constructive criticism from the other side.
The consequences of paranoia creation can be genocide. Itamar Marcus wrote in the Jerusalem Post (4/26/2009):
Survivors of the genocides in Rwanda and Darfur spoke in Geneva this week at the parallel conference on human rights to counter the UN Durban II event. Listening to them describe how they were systematically demonized by the killers made it clear that genocide does not happen in a vacuum. The hate condition of a population willing and anxious to commit genocide needs nurturing. Genocide must be framed positively to get the necessary broad public support.
Common to the framing of all genocide is a very specific kind of demonization. In Rwanda, the Hutus taught that the Tutsis were cockroaches and snakes. Tutsi women were portrayed as cunning seductresses who used beauty and sexual power to conquer the Hutus. In Bosnia, a fictitious news report said Muslims were feeding Serb children to animals at the Sarajevo zoo. Radio Rwanda repeatedly broadcast a warning that Hutus were about to be attacked by Tutsis, to convince the Hutus that they needed to attack first to protect themselves.
This demonization included two specific components. First, the victims had to be perceived as a clear and present threat, so that the killers were convinced they were acting in self-defense. Second, the victims were dehumanized, so that the killers convinced themselves that they were not destroying real human beings.
This web page list many different motives for creating paranoia with examples but there are 2 primary motives the desire for power and the desire to protect oneself. A lot of the motives listed on this page are secondary motives. So if a countries leadership blames others that falls under the category of maintaining power for example.
If a political leader wants to conquer another country he is likely to attempt to create paranoia among his countrymen to that country so that they will be motivated to invade it. A current example of creating paranoia for power is Putin's creation of paranoia toward Ukrainians so that he can motivate Russians to invade. This creates a need for the Ukrainians to protect themselves from Russia and alert the world to the threat Russia poses. If the Ukranians do this that's not creation of paranoia since they are telling the truth. If the Ukrainians were to make up atrocities in order to get the West to intervene that would be creation of paranoia for defensive purposes.
In
most conflicts both sides have grievances against the other. Those who wish to resolve those conflicts
attempt to get each side to compromise so that those grievances are met. The Palestinian Arab/ Israel conflict is a
classic example of this. The Palestinian
Arabs claim that the evil Jews violently took away their land and expelled their
people and occupied their land took away their freedom and
forced them to live in misery in refugee camps (There are exceptions to
this, there are Palestinian Arabs who blame the Arabs for forcing them to leave
before the attempt to destroy Israel in 1948). The Israelis have diverse opinions on the conflict. One of these opinions is that the land
historically belonged to the Jewish people long before conquering Arab hordes
invaded and that the Palestinian Arabs, through the corruption of their leaders
and their constant attempts to destroy Israel and to kill Israelis bring
poverty and misery on themselves. According to this argument Arab hatred and
violence make it necessary for the Israelis to control Arab occupied areas of
Biblical Israel in order to prevent terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians.
Those Americans who have attempted to resolve the Middle East conflict
such as Dennis Ross, tend to attempt to
address the grievances of both sides.
The Israeli grievance is terrorist attacks and the Israeli concern is
security so the Bush administration kept talking about the right of Israel to
be secure and the need for the Arabs to stop terror. The grievance the Arabs have is that they are occupied and so the
United States demands that Israel withdraw from lands such as Judea and Samaria
and Jerusalem that the Arabs say are theirs. The
assumption being made here is that both sides grievances are the cause of the
conflict.
What if some of those grievances are created and not the root cause of the conflict? What if the root cause of the Arab/Israel conflict is Arab desire for power and what if allegations made against the Jews by the Arab are simply creation of paranoia to get the aid of the West in their efforts to annihilate Israel? What if Muhammad created paranoia in the Koran toward Jews because of his desire for power over them and what if that paranoia is fueling today's Middle East conflict? What if the Islamic desire for Jerusalem stems not from love of Jerusalem but realization that taking Jerusalem away from the Jews is key to the destruction of the Jewish state? The Koran is full of statements about how evil the non-believing Jew is and how the Muslim must fight the Jew until he is subjugated. Could grievances such as the Evil Jews violently and unjustly took away our land originate from such apparently unrelated statements in the Koran? Ayatollah Khatami of Iran gave a speech in which he said "As long as the enemy exists Jihad will exist too".
Robert Spencer pointed out that Khatami doesnt say, As long as the enemy has a foreign policy to which we object, jihad will exist. Nor does he say, As long as the enemy oppresses us, jihad will exist. He says As long as the enemy exists, jihad will exist i.e., no matter what the enemy does. What makes the enemy, the enemy? His being a free infidel makes him the enemy.
There is evidence that concern for the refugees is not the root of the
Arab Israel conflict but rather that the refugees are seen as useful tools to
perpetuate the conflict. Mizra Khan, in
an article titled The Arab Refugees A Study in Frustration, Midstream,
included some quotes that I include here that demonstrate this:
It is perfectly
clear that the Arab nations do not want to solve the refugee problem. They want
to keep it as an open sore, as an affront against the United Nations, and as a
weapon against Israel. Arab leaders
dont give a damn whether the refugees live or die Mr. Galloway, former UNRWA representative in Jordan
to an American study group meeting in Amman in 1952
We shall be most
insistent in perpetuating the Palestine problem as a life question The Palestine war continues by dint of the
refugees only. Their existence leaves
the problem open. Abdullah Nawass, member of Jordans Parliament
on June 6, 1952
The existence of the
refugee problem is an important harassing factor vis--vis the Jews and the
West. As long as it remains unsolved,
Israels political and economic existence are acutely endangered Member of
Jordanian Parliament quoted in Falastin, June 3, 1952
Those human
beings, whom political ambitions and intrigues turned into cave-dwellers
overnight- what have the Arab rulers done for them these past eight years? Falastin
August 26, 1955
We refugees have
left our homes merely to enter a world of intrigue on the part of those who are
our own flesh and blood Difa of September 10, 1953
Palestinian TV airs shows that make the Jews out to be bloodthirsty sadistic monsters. Is this because the Jews are bloodthirsty sadistic monsters or is this creation of paranoia that has its roots in the paranoia created toward Jews in the Koran? Does this creation of paranoia have roots in a desire to subjugate the Jews in order to score points with Allah? Would the Palestinians hate the Jews even if there was no Israel? Does creating a grievance that the Israelis stole Arab land stem from the desire to fuel hatred among the Arab masses toward the Jew in order to conquer and subjugate him? Andrew Bostom while reading about a Sufi jurist in India came across overwhelming evidence that this is indeed the case.
Moshe Yaalon in a meeting with members of the Israeli Knesset (May 26, 2009) said:
"The Palestinians' extreme violence does not stem from despair over their situation, as the West tends to assume, but rather from hope hope that the State of Israel will disappear"
Palestine for the Palestinian Arabs consists of all of Israel. The following video makes it clear that Palestinian violence arises from the desire to conquer what they consider Palestine.
The key to peace then is to make it very clear to the Arabs that they will not attain their goal.
Obama appears to believe that bad past behavior of the United States has brought about Iranian paranoia toward the United States and that apologies and concessions are the way to win over Iran. What if Iran's leadership deliberately creates paranoia among its population. Michael Rubin wrote:
Iran's economy is in tatters and the regime preserves power through the ever more pervasive Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
To deflect responsibility for failure, it pays to have an enemy to rally masses around the flag. Iran's leadership has determined that the United States -- the "Great Satan" -- is it. Meaningful rapprochement would mean the regime's demise. Rather than work to improve relations with the US, therefore, Iranian authorities, either directly or by proxy, impose ever more obstacles.
The answers to questions about the roots of paranoia are clearly important when it comes to attempting to solve conflicts. If the grievance is only that a region of land is occupied then ending the occupation should resolve the conflict. If on the other hand this is a manufactured grievance to justify conquering the Jew, then addressing this manufactured grievance simply furthers the goals of those who manufactured it and encourage further paranoia creation and violence. This is exactly what occurred when the Israeli government under pressure from the U.S. and Europe as well as its own internal pressure, forcibly removed Jews from Gaza and turned their land over to the Palestinian Arabs. Nonie Darwish explained:
For decades, Arabs had demanded that Israel end the "occupation," and in 2005, Israel did so, disengaging unilaterally from Gaza. With their demands met, there was no cycle of violence to respond to, no further justification for anything other than peace and prosperity. With its central location and beautiful beaches on the East Mediterranean, a peaceful and prosperous Gaza could have become another Hong Kong; a shining trade and commerce center. But instead of choosing peace, the Palestinians chose Islamic jihad. They rolled their rocket launchers to the border and started bombing Israeli civilians.
The creation of
paranoia toward the Jews continued and the Palestinian Arabs fired rockets
towards Israeli cities such as Sderot and Ashkelon from the areas of Gaza from
which the Israelis withdrew.
This is just one example of how the efforts to mediate conflicts without taking into account the role of paranoia creation has led to disastrous foreign policy mistakes by the United States.
XIV Self feeding Nature of Paranoia Creation
This web page is full of examples of how and why one group will create paranoia toward another group. In spite of the existence of all these mechanisms the degree with which groups create paranoia toward is so great that there must be something else at work. The degree of paranoia held by the Nazis toward the Jews or the paranoia of Medieval Christendom toward the Jews or the paranoia of the Islamic world toward the Jews and the United States is of a magnitude of insane proportions. Both Islam and Christianity accuse the Jews of killing their most holy figure, the Christians accuse the Jews of killing Jesus and the Muslims accuse the Jews of killing Muhammmad. How did these religions develop to make the worst possible accusation they could make toward the Jews. It is likely that this insane level of paranoia is reached because paranoia feeds itself.
One obvious way creation of paranoia leads to more paranoia is illustrated in the cycle diagram below.
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Group A believes Group B is hostile |
Group A Becomes hostile to Group B |
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Group B takes defensive action and revenge against Group A |
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Group A takes defensive action and revenge against Group B |
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Group B becomes hostile to Group A |
Group B believes Group A is hostile |
According to the Muslims a Jewess poisoned Muhammad after he and his followers wiped out her fellow Jews in the city of Khaibar. If this is true it is likely that it was done as revenge for the murder of her people. This fits the above cycles description of how paranoia feeds itself. The Hamas charter mentions this murder as a rationale for fighting the Jews as do rabid Muslim clerics.
Hostility provides the motive to slander the enemy so that others will be motivated to attack the enemy. In other words hostility breeds more hostility. This mechanism is a fundamental reason why anti-Semitism has been so virulent and has lasted throughout the centuries. A cycle diagram illustrating this is given below:
| Group A hates Group B for not believing Group A doctrines | ||
| Group B rejects hostile Group A doctrines |
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Group A feels hostile to Group B |
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| Group A becomes more paranoid of Group B |
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Members of Group A slander Group B in order to motivate the group to attack Group B |
A recent example of hostility leading to slander was when a top Shiite cleric urged Kuwait to let Mel Gibson's controversial film "The Passion of the Christ," be shown in this conservative Muslim state because it "reveals crimes committed by Jews against Christ." (Yahoo News 3/28/04)
A less obvious way was described by Daniel Pipes in his book Conspiracy. He writes how nineteenth-century anti-Semites argued that the Jews' unhappy experience (of being tormented by Christians) naturally turned them against their Christian tormentors and that Jews would use their power to exterminate the Christians. The way this leads to more paranoia is shown in the cycle diagram below.
The left creates paranoia and racism any time there is a difference never admitting other factors like economics etc.. Part of their paranoia creation involves calling certain words oppressive. Any time you make the most innocent comments now you can be accused of racism. Victimhood is seen by blacks and the Democrats as a way to gain advantage. In the following video Alexandria Ocasio Cortez charges the New York Post with racism toward progressive women after they responded to an outrageous comment by Ilhan Omar with a picture of the Twin Towers burning. Note that Ilhan Omar in the original video was complaining about Muslim civil liberties being taken away after 9/11 when she as proves the lie by being not only a Muslim in Congress but one on the Foreign Affairs Committee. Rashida Tlaib another Muslim congresswoman who proves the lie also uses the accusation of racism in the below video to her advantage.There is a repeated pattern of Ilhan Omar making outrageous statements about Jews, being criticized for it and then the Democrats and Ilhan accusing her accusers of being Islamophobic racists.
In the embedded video below famous black Americans speak about racism and the lack thereof.
Victimhood indoctrination is a disaster to blacks. It creates black racism toward whites which leads to white racism toward blacks. It also encourages crime since if you believe that the whites are exploiting you than why not strike back at whites. If you believe whites took away from you, why not take away from them. In the following video Brandon Straka talks about the victimhood lie of the left.
One of the comments following the video explains the damage victimhood indoctrination can cause. I've included the comment below:
Brandon's video really nails it at the end when he talks about the leftist propaganda about victimhood. I have young children who started out school oblivious to race. They played with everyone regardless of their race and the other children did as well. However in their school the children are being taught that black children are oppressed by whites. What will that do to children who never thought about race before? The black children will being to hate the white children and strike out at the white children. The white children will start to hate back. Children are also being taught that the war on drugs is a war meant to keep blacks down. If you are a black child you will now believe that you might as well make money by selling drugs and you might as well take drugs. Why not, if the only reason not too is because whites are putting you down. Why try and get a job that helps society if white society won't let you get one anyway?Brandon is gay. As such he was part of a useful oppressed group for the left. Useful in a sense that oppressed groups would ally themselves with the left's goals of shifting power to itself. Then gay marriage was accepted and a law was passed against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Gays had won. Then a strange thing happened. Brandon thought the left should celebrate. Instead the left needed a new oppressed class, that became the transgenders. In addition Brandon found that he became one of the oppressors because he was white. His gayness just made him Queer not one of the virtuous oppressed anymore. It was transgenders and blacks that were the oppressed. The white privilege propaganda guaranteed that white was always the oppressor no matter what they did or didn't do, just because they are white and the only way they can redeem themselves at all is resign their positions of power and turn them and their money over to blacks. Senator Cory Booker suggested the money transfer. Piper Harron the woman who told white men to quit also said that she dedicates her work to everyone who dabbles in misery, trying to find their way in systems that don�t support them, and to "anyone trying to tear it all down". See Racist Professor Tells White Men To Quit Or Be Demoted. White privilege is a way to find fault with whites. The absurdity is obvious in the video below.
One of the goals of many on the left is to "tear it all down". Conservative Americans tend to be patriotic and white men tend to be a more conservative group than black women and that may be the reason for the propaganda against white men. The other reason is more power for one's group. Victimhood however is a two edged sword. In the following video Daisy Cousens talks about the oppression olympics.
Alan Dershowitz mentions the oppression Olympics in his discussion with John Stossel below:
The idea of white privilege can be traced to Peggy McIntosh
who wrote an
article in which she said that since male privilege is real (is it?) it is
reasonable to assume that white privilege is a real phenomenon as well.
She wrote: "I was taught to see myself as an individual whose moral state
depended on her individual moral will. .. I did not see myself as a
racist because I was taught to recognize racism only in individual acts of
meanness by members of my group, never in invisible systems conferring
unsought racial dominance on my group from birth.
Disapproving of
the systems won�t be enough to change them. I was taught to think that
racism could end if white individuals changed their attitudes. But a �white�
skin in the United States opens many doors for whites whether or not we
approve of the way dominance has been conferred on us. Individual acts can
palliate, but cannot end, these problems. " Lets translate
that. She's implying that she and all whites are racists no matter
what they do because of "invisible systems". She continues
"To redesign social systems, we need first to acknowledge their colossal
unseen dimensions." My translation: There is massive racism
against blacks and if we are white we are racist whether we are aware of it
or not and the only way to make amends is to acknowledge this and to
redesign social systems in such a way that we transfer power and money from
whites to blacks.
Peggy's message is being taught to school children. It is very harmful. It teaches blacks to see themselves as victims of whites no matter how nice those whites may be to them. It teaches blacks to resent whites. This is harmful for whites and for blacks. It results in blacks striking out at whites and in so doing to create real racism toward them. It teaches them to give up hope about succeeding through hard work since they are taught to believe that the system is rigged against them.
Peggy inverts the truth. There is a lot more black racism against whites then there is white racism against blacks and the blacks who hate whites are fully aware that they do. Affirmative action creates unfair privileges for blacks. Many white people have to struggle very hard in life. Brandon Tatum talks about the absurdity of white privilege below.
In the video below a black man talks about his accomplishments and is accused of having white privilege by a black woman who doesn't know he's black. The belief she has is that if you are successful and you're white it is because of white privilege. Can't be because of hard work. This belief can only fuel resentment.
Crying victim is seen as a way to gain power and money so one would expect the left and Muslims to fake hate crimes against themselves and they do. Lloyd Billingsley wrote about this in an article titled Fake Noose.
Jussie Smollett is an actor who paid two men to enact a fake racist hate crime against him. Smollett may have done this to get a higher salary than the already very high salary that he already had.
The same day that Jussie Smollett lied about a fabricated hate crime a real hate crime was committed against a Jew in NY . The press reported the false hate crime but not the real one. The first fit the narrative that the left is pushing of the poor oppressed black man the latter did not. Ben Shapiro wrote about this and included a video. The attack happened at night but it appears from the video that the attackers of the Jew were black. One reason the press may not have reported on this is that the mayor of NY is running for president and this would make him look bad. The left likes to say that he has reduced crime in NYand this doesn't fit that propaganda. In addition the perpetrators were black and at least one was Muslim. Blacks and Muslims are supposed to be innocent victims of right wing bigots not the perpetrators in the left wing narrative.
Walter Williams wrote an article called Hate Crimes a Staple of the Diversity Industry: Left wingers can't find actual racist acts so they have to invent them. The left wing politician message is, you are oppressed and if you don't want to be, vote for me. Bernie Sanders said that the United States is a racist society from top to bottom.
The growth of paranoia toward the Jews can be seen in the New Testament. John Dominic Crossan, the author of Who Killed Jesus Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus wrote in a web page on beliefnet.com how in Mark 15:6-15, "the crowd" comes before Pilate to obtain amnesty for Barabbas and only turn against Jesus when Pilate tries to release him instead. But now watch what happens to that Markan source as the story progresses through the later Gospels. Matthew 27:15-26 first copies Mark's "the crowd" but then enlarges it to "the crowds" and finally to "all the people." Luke 23:13-15 changes Mark to "the chief priests, the leaders, and the people." Finally, John 18:37-40 speaks simply of "the Jews." ... "The crowd," in other words, grows exponentially before our eyes.
One way to get a lot of prestige and influence among other Christians was to claim you had visions from God and to tell shocking horrific tales that people were likely to believe because of their pre-existing paranoia. Sister Anne Catherine Emmerich an 18th century nun, claimed to have a vision in which she rescued from purgatory an old Jewish woman who confessed to her that Jews strangled Christian children and used their blood in the observance of their rituals. (Jewish Week 7/4/03) Other visions she claimed to have had included
- Jesus' cross being constructed at the orders of the high priest in the courtyard of the Temple.
- Servants of the high priest bribing fellow Jews to demand Jesus' death and even paying some of his crucifiers.
- Violence far beyond what the gospels present during Jesus' hearing before Caiaphas and Annas.
- Pontius Pilate criticizing the high priests for physically abusing Jesus and suggesting that they are thirsting for both his body and blood (cf. John 6:53).
- Scenes of the brutalizing of Jesus not present in the gospels, such as Jewish figures dragging him around with a bag over his head so that it violently impacts against stone.
Lest we think that mankind is now rational enough to reject such accusations we need only to realize that the visions of the Jews of Sister Emmerich, was incorporated by Mel Gibson in his movie The Passion which was released in 2004 and which has had a huge audience thoughout the world.
Sister Emmerich's vision of an old Jewish women confessing to the use of babies blood for rituals stems from the blood libel" which was first leveled in 1144 in Norwich, England. There, Jews were charged with kidnapping a Christian baby and draining the baby of blood. The charge became so popular it would sweep, in various forms, through Europe and then spread to other parts of the world. Why would someone levy such a charge? People make accusations all the time against other people, for motivations such as revenge etc.. Normally such accusations are judged in a court of law or ignored. In the case of this charge it became widely believed. Why would such a charge become so popular? Paranoia is self feeding. If people are paranoia toward another group to begin with they are more likely to believe paranoid accusations against them. One can think of the blood libel charge, as a match in a forest full of dried up tinder.
One problem the Christians faced was coming up with a reason why Jews would drain the baby with blood. A list of such reasons is given below. (The Passion, A Historical Perspective)
a.
Jews suffered from hemorrhoids as a punishment for killing Jesus and drinking
blood was the best cure for hemorrhoids at the time.
b. All Jewish men menstruate and need a monthly blood transfusion.
c. Jewish men, when they're circumcised, lose so much blood because of that
surgical procedure that they need to drink Christian babies' blood.
d. It's the chief ingredient in matzah, and therefore prior to every Passover
Jews would be requiring a large supply.
These explanations although absurd to any non-paranoid individual are plausible to people if they already are paranoid. It's ironic that Jews, who are prohibited by Jewish law of consuming any blood whatsoever (kosher meat is carefully washed and salted to remove all traces of blood), were precisely the people accused of drinking blood.
In the 13th century the Church adopted the doctrine of transubstantiation. This is a mystical idea which maintains that when the priest says mass over the wafer and wine, these objects mystically change into the body and blood of Jesus. Christians who consume the wafer and drink the wine are said to be mystically eating the flesh of Jesus and drinking his blood. It's ironic that the Christian world, while engaged in the ritual of "drinking the blood of Jesus" would accuse the Jews -- who are forbidden to drink blood -- of this totally fabricated hideous crime. But then the accusations got even wilder.
Starting in Switzerland and Germany in the 13th century, Jews were accused of kidnapping communion wafers from churches -- to torture it. Medieval documents tell stories describing how a Jew (usually called Abraham) would steal a wafer from a church, stick a knife in it, and blood would start pouring out. He would then cut it up into pieces and send it to different Jews who would continue to torture it. Thousands of Jews were slaughtered as a result of such stories. For example, the entire Jewish community of Berlitz, near Berlin in Germany, was all burned alive based on the accusation of torturing a wafer. These accusations became a pretext for other mass exterminations as well (see History of Antisemitism by Poliakov).
For a brief summary of an alternative view of Jesus's life and who was responsible for his death see the "Who was Jesus" and "Who Killed Jesus" web pages.
Morphed forms of the blood libel are reemerging in modern times. Andrea Levin wrote an article about accusations that Israelis plunder and sell Palestinian organs written by Donald Bostrom for the Scandanavian leading daily Aftonbladet. She wrote how his accusations:
quickly metastasized to mainstream Muslim media, spawning cartoons of Jews stealing body parts and drinking Arab blood. These have been published in Syria, Qatar, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman, to name a few.
In early September, Algeria's al-Khabar newspaper echoed Mr. Bostrom in a new fantasy claiming Jewish-directed gangs of Algerians and Moroccans round up Algerian children, spirit them into Morocco and thence to Israel to have their body parts harvested and sold. On Sept. 17, Iran's PressTV breathlessly declared "an international Jewish conspiracy to kidnap children and harvest their organs is gathering momentum."
Hate-filled Web sites have also taken up the theme. Almost invariably, wherever such permutations on the idea of Israeli organ theft appear, Aftonbladet is cited.
One of the classic examples of the self feeding nature of paranoia creation was the Dreyfus case. This is described in the video below.
The French had no evidence that Dreyfus was guilty of espionage but charged him anyway because they wanted him to be guilty because he was Jewish. They wanted to blame Dreyfus to the extent that they manufactured evidence against him. It may also be that they were so sure that he did it that they felt it was OK to manufacture evidence since they knew they didn't have any that would justify punishing him. Their manufactured evidence consisted of a secret document that they could not show anyone because it would lead to war if they did as well as an accusation that the discovered correspondence with the Germans was his handwriting disguised. When an investigator Lt. Col. Picquart found out that Esterhazy and not Dreyfus was not the guilty party they sent him to Tunisia to get him out of the way. Emile Zola explained that the
"Crime (of punishing an innocent man) has been committed and the General Staff could no longer admit to it... acknowledging Dreyfus's innocence would make the War Office collapse under the weight of public contempt. And the astounding outcome of this great situation was that the one decent man involved, Lt Colonel Picquart who, alone, had done his duty, was to become the victim, the one who got ridiculed and punished...It was even claimed that he himself was the forger, that he had fabricated the letter-telegram in order to destroy Esterhazy. But, good God, why? To what end? Find a motive. Was he, too, on the Jews' payroll? The best part of it is that Picquart was himself an anti-Semite.
This is is an example of how the cancer of
paranoia grows by suppressing any evidence in its path. There is hope
though, after Emile Zola wrote j'accuse in defense of Dreyfus, Dreyfus was
pardoned by President mile Loubet in 1899 and released from prison. On July 12,
1906, Dreyfus was officially exonerated by a military commission. The day after
his exoneration, he was readmitted into the army with a promotion to the rank of
Major ("Chef d'Escadron"). A week later, he was made a Knight of the Legion of
Honour.
Paranoia Creation in Society
There are incentives to be and to create paranoia. A conspiracy theorist who believes he is
uncovering a sinister plot feel brilliant and excited, he feels like a great
man who sees what the other fools dont see, he feels he is helping save the world
by uncovering the sinister plot. A
paranoid person in a mental institution may feel the same way. Member of society who want to overcome an
enemy may incite the rest of the population by creating paranoid accusations
toward the enemy. This article
discusses many of the different incentives to be paranoid and to create
paranoia.
Paranoia is considered to be a
symptom of individuals who are suffering from mental illness. Paranoia is
actually pervasive among "normal" people and among groups of people.
Groups can be considered to suffer from mental illness. Dr. Abd Al-Khaleq
Hussein an Iraqi reformist, wrote
an article about the insanity of Arab society called , Arab Society and Schizophrenia
(translated by memri.org June 22, 2006),
which makes this argument.
Richard
Hofstadter wrote an article in 1964 in Harpers Magazine called the Paranoid
Style in American Politics in which he applies the term paranoia to groups
of normal people. He wrote:
In fact, the idea of the
paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance
or historical value if it were applied only to men with profoundly disturbed
minds. It is the use of paranoid modes of expression by more or less normal
people that makes the phenomenon significant
The paranoid style is not
confined to our own country and time; it is an international phenomenon.
Studying the millennial sects of Europe from the eleventh to the sixteenth
century, Norman Cohn believed he found a persistent psychic complex that
corresponds broadly with what I have been consideringa style made up of
certain preoccupations and fantasies: the megalomaniac view of oneself as the
Elect, wholly good, abominably persecuted, yet assured of ultimate triumph; the
attribution of gigantic and demonic powers to the adversary; the refusal to
accept the ineluctable limitations and imperfections of human existence, such
as transience, dissention, conflict, fallibility whether intellectual or moral;
the obsession with inerrable propheciessystematized misinterpretations, always
gross and often grotesque.
Just as we can derive lessons about social madness from the madness of an individual, we can derive lessons about the madness of an individual from the madness of societies. When we study paranoia in society we find that it is deliberately created for a variety of reasons some of which are discussed on this web page. This suggests that perhaps individual may have reasons to create their own paranoia. I have written an article about this called Creation of Paranoia (Part 1, Part 2) which was published by the International Bulletin of Political Psychology. I encourage the reader to read the article before reading the rest of this web page.
Today there is massive creation of paranoia toward the infidel which is funded by the huge oil revenues of Saudi Arabia. Rachel Ehrenfeld wrote that (Jihad on the American Mind, frontpagemag.com 3/11/05):
Saudi Arabia according to various Saudi official publications, has spent somewhere between $70-87 billion on the spread of Wahhabism around the world since the oil boom began in the mid- 1970s.
Lt. Col Gordon Cucullu, wrote about how Saudi Arabia is creating anti-Western hatred in the large immigrant Muslim population of France as follows: (France: A Nuclear Proliferator? FrontPageMagazine.com 3/4/05).
Into this fertile, disaffected immigrant soil came Saudi Arabia with its proselytizing, aggressive Wahabbist ideology. Wahabbism is vitriolic, anti-Western, xenophobic, and jihad-oriented. It encourages hatred of and actions against those defined as "infidels" and "non-believers." The Saudis continue to pour uncounted hundreds of millions of dollars into Europe, including France, to promulgate this offensive ideology. The result is that Muslims in France are highly radicalized, anti-French, anti-Western, and bent on ultimate conquest of their hosts. Texts from mosques in France -- issued by the Saudi public affairs office -- refer to Muslim residents in France as "living behind enemy lines" and "representing a force for the ultimate conquest by Islam of the infidels." Muslims are taught to hate their Christian, Jewish, and secular neighbors and to work assiduously to undermine the government. More than one thousand of these Muslim enclaves exist in France. It is said that French police will not enter 400 such communities.
An outstanding book that discusses Saudi funding of hate was written by Dore Gold and is called Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism. This paranoia is being spread via mosques in the West. The result is the production of radical Islamic terrorists, click here for an article about that in Minnesota. Eighty percent of U.S. mosques preach violence. In July 2004, German authorities raided a mosque in Frankfurt after a nine-year-old girl said that she had been shown graphic videos there calling for a holy war against unbelievers. Modern technology is spreading this paranoia creation into the Western world. One of the example of this was the broadcast of Al-Shatat, a 29-part series, based on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which depicts among other scenes the killing of a Christian child on the orders of a rabbi so the blood can be baked into matzot for Passover. This was broadcast in France through the Paris-based satellite operator Eutelsat (Jerusalem Post 8/5/04). Another example was a disturbing home movie circulated widely on the Internet in June 2004, showing four Muslim children in Sweden playfully reenacting the savage beheading of American contractor Nicholas Berg. An online clip about the creation of paranoia by the Palestinian Authority and its consequences called Seeds of Hate is on the Coalition Against Terrorism Web Site.
The well known consequence of paranoia creation against the infidel West include the suicide attacks against the United States of September 11th 2001. This paranoia is likely to lead to more attacks against the United States some of which may be deadlier than the attacks of 9/11. The most obvious way to fight this is for the Western world to stop giving foreign aid to countries that incite hate. David Bedein in an article titled "An Unquiet Peace" (frontpagemag.com 2/14/05) wrote how after Mahmoud Abbas became leader of the Palestinian Authority the incitement continued yet president Bush requested an additional $350 million dollars for the Palestinian Authority despite the fact that it won't even stop its media calls for killing Israelis.
Another way to fight Islamic incitement is to cut our dependence on foreign oil. One way to achieve this would be to tax oil coming from Saudi Arabia, Iran and other states that create paranoia and/or sponsor terrorism. I think the tax increase on oil could be offset by a tax decrease on other goods especially alternative energy sources such as nuclear power. I subscribe to the theory of true cost economics in which the government should tax items according to their true cost to society when it is very clear that their true cost is higher than their actual cost.
There is vast paranoia creation in the European media against Israel and America. Reasons for this paranoia creation are discussed later in this web page. Often a distorted story with an element of truth is simply repeated in order to maintain the hate. One example of that is the story of the Israeli attack on the U.S.S. Liberty.
IB What Makes a Madman:
Are paranoid people mad mentally ill individuals? What Makes a Madman? This question was asked by Jacob Sullum in a column in the New York Post (7/15/02). Here are excerpts of his column:
It's clear to me that Zacarias Moussaoui (The 20th Hijacker) is a raving lunatic. But then, so are Michael Jackson, Lyndon LaRouche, and a certain percentage of the people who e-mail me each week....
The defense team's consultants are right when they say "there is considerable evidence that Mr. Moussaoui's thinking is dominated by irrational and unrealistic persecutory beliefs." They are also probably right to suggest that he qualifies for a psychiatric diagnosis. He seems to fit the criteria for "paranoid personality disorder," for instance.
But so what? Under this heading psychiatrists have gathered a set of characteristics that would describe just about any conspiracy-minded extremist, especially in hostile surroundings.
Putting these traits on a list and giving them a scientific-sounding name does not make them symptoms of a disease, let alone a disease with the power to dictate someone's legal strategy. If the capacity to believe ridiculous things is a brain defect, it's one shared by the whole human race.
This topic is discussed further on the What is Madness web page.
IB2 Hatred of the non-Believer
A pervasive motive to create paranoia toward someone is to discredit them if they do not share one's viewpoint. This is not only done by religions but also by people with differing ideologies. During the campaign between Kerry and Bush, I saw several signs with Bush and a Hitler Mustache and a swastika painted on it. To some Kerry supporters, Bush the non-believer in progressive Kerry causes, was the equivalent of Hitler. Jeff Jacoby has written about the creation of Paranoia toward president Bush.
The Washington Post repeatedly compared Trump to, or characterized him as, Hitler, the newest extreme position was adopted by Salon, which called Trumps routine changes of staff a Stalinesque purge. At a mountain view high school, Holocaust scholar Frank Navarro compared Trump with Hitler in an attempt to show his students that the 2016 election is a reflection of the past. Navarro was put on paid leave on November 10, but returned to the classroom a week later. In Texas, under the watchful eye of a teacher, two tenth-grade students staged a skit featuring The Assassination of Donald Trump. Parents were outraged by the performance, in which one of the boys made a gunfire sound effect with his cell phone as the other boy, portraying Trump, fell to the ground in mock death. The teacher and his students were reprimanded.
People have been fabricating hate crimes by Trump supporters and Trump supporters have been violently attacked.
Millions of women around the world protested the day after Trump's inauguration. Ashley Judd recited a poem at the Woman's march in Washington D.C. about Trump with the line "I didn't know devil's could be resurrected but I feel Hitler in these Streets"
If any speech is full of creation of paranoia Ashley's speech is it.
After President Bashar el Assad dropped chemical weapons on the town of Khan Sheikhun President Trump ordered that 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles be fired at the Syrian Shayrat airbase from which the chemical attacks had been launched. This increased the popularity of Trump. The left has been painting Trump as being influenced by Russia but Russia reacted in a very hostile way to the missile attacks on its Syrian ally. The consequence of the attack was to throw doubt on the leftist Russian influence propaganda against Trump. Lawrence O'Donnell peddled a conspiracy theory on MSNBC that Putin had orchestrated the attack to make Trump look good. You can view a video of him doing that here.
A year after the 9/11 attack, The New York Times' Frank Rich was carping about Bush's national security plans, saying we could judge Bush's war on terror by whether there was a major al-Qaida attack in 2003, which -- according to Rich -- would have been on al-Qaida's normal schedule.
Rich wrote: "Since major al-Qaida attacks are planned well in advance and have historically been separated by intervals of 12 to 24 months, we will find out how much we've been distracted soon enough." ("Never Forget What?" New York Times, Sept. 14, 2002.)
There wasn't a major al-Qaida attack in 2003. Nor in 2004, 2005, 2006 or 2007. Manifestly, liberals thought there would be: They announced a standard of success that they expected Bush to fail.
As Bush has said, we have to be right 100 percent of the time, the terrorists only have to be right one time. Bush has been right 100 percent of the time for seven years -- so much so that Americans have completely forgotten about the threat of Islamic terrorism.
For his thanks, President Bush has been the target of almost unimaginable calumnies -- the sort of invective liberals usually reserve for seniors who don't separate their recyclables properly. Compared to liberals' anger at Bush, there has always been something vaguely impersonal about their "anger" toward the terrorists.
By my count, roughly one in four books in print in the world at this very moment have the words "Bush" and "Lie" in their title. Barnes & Noble has been forced to add an "I Hate Bush" section. I don't believe there are as many anti-Hitler books...George Bush is Gary Cooper in the classic western "High Noon." The sheriff is about to leave office when a marauding gang is coming to town. He could leave, but he waits to face the killers as all his friends and all the townspeople, who supported him during his years of keeping them safe, slowly abandon him. In the end, he walks alone to meet the killers, because someone has to.
Bernard Goldberg was asked about Bush hating by Bill OReilly.
Do you think its a mental disease or do you think its business? He was actually talking about the general Bush-hating. I immediately said, Its a mental disorder, because dont underestimate the power of insanity. Bush-derangement syndrome is for real. But in the case of MSNBC, its also business. They have made a conscious business decision to corrupt an entire news organization in order to jump on a liberal bandwagon. Thats a journalistic sin. Thats not just the old bias. Thats a kind of corruption that runs very deep and is hurting the NBC news brand.
Blaming Bush for everything had bad consequences as explained in an article titled How Blaming Bush Led to the Ukrainian Crisis. The Obama administration saw bad relations with Putin as Bush's fault. Once Bush was gone they didn't expect Putin to do anything bad like invade the Ukraine.
President Bush wrote about the hatred expressed against him in his book Decision Points. He wrote:
Partisan opponents and commentators questioned my legitimacy, my intelligence, and my sincerity. They mocked my appearance, my accent, and my religious beliefs. I was labeled a Nazi, a war criminal, and Satan himself. That last one came from a foreign leader, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
A standard criticism of Bush was that no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq. "Bush lied, thousands died" was a frequently heard refrain. During Obama's second term the Islamic terrorist army, ISIS seized chemical weapon stockpiles in Iraq. If there were no chemical weapons how did they do that? Iraq is known to have gassed the Kurds while Saddam was in power. If he didn't have chemical weapons how did he do that?
A very good video about why Bush ordered that America go to war with Iraq is embedded below.
Those who hate Bush love Obama. NBC's Chris Matthews said he had a thrill running up his leg when he heard Barack Obama speak. And Matthews said, "Youre not an American if you dont cry when you hear Obama speak." The Washington Post wrote the following about Obama:
The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weight-lifting sessions each week and a body toned by regular treadmill runs and basketball games.
This is in stark contrast to the left wing incitement toward Republican Sarah Palin which was so extensive that I've devoted a special web page toward it. Michelle Malkin wrote an article titled The War Against Conservative Women which included some of the abuse she experienced. Larry Elder wrote an article titled What about Left Wing Misogyny after Rush Limbaugh was attacked in the media for comments he made about Sandra Fluke. She lied and created paranoia against the Church.
Tea party protests were held throughout America to protest the huge escalation of debt by Obama. I believe the increase in debt is estimated to be $20,000 for every man woman and child in the U.S.. If a couple has one child that's the equivalent of charging $60,000 to their credit cards, taking the money and giving some of it as a stimulus package. It's understandable why Americans are alarmed. Supporters of Obama including the liberal media smeared the protesters. Michelle Malkin wrote:
The nightly airwaves turned into a soft-porn cesspool last week as liberal journalists derided and slimed hundreds of thousands of Tea Party protesters across the country who oppose reckless taxing and spending by both major political parties. Award-winning CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, mimicking his bottom-of-the-barrel competitors at MSNBC, smugly indulged in sexual puns about "teabagging." MSNBC devoted the entire week to sophomoric sexual slang and innuendo with references to "nuts," Dick Armey and "full-throated" protesters.
And White House adviser David Axelrod calls the Tea Party folks "unhealthy"?
Speaking of unhealthy, angry white liberal actress Janeane Garofalo venomously played the race card: "It's about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up and is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks." The theme was echoed by Jeffrey Kimball, a professor emeritus of history at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, who castigated the "extreme right" for organizing against Obama because "he's black and he's liberal."
Tell that to the thousands of activists in South Carolina who practically booed and heckled white Republican Rep. Gresham Barrett off the stage at a Tea Party in Greenville last Friday night for supporting the trillion-dollar TARP and embracing the pork-laden stimulus law after voting against it. "Go home!" they shouted.
When people turned out all over the country in the thousands to attend tea parties, Obama followers, especially those in the media, were shocked and bewildered, and it showed. The obvious explanation -- that many average, everyday Americans were not thrilled with the "change" they were getting from the new administration -- was not something those in the media or Obama supporters were willing to accept.
Instead we heard about how the estimated 500,000 or more people attending the 800 or so tea parties did not attend of their own free will as grass roots activists. One explanation from critics was that the protests were from "fake" grassroots. We were to believe those people didn't take time off from work and show up in the rain on their own. No. Fox News did it all. Fox somehow has enough control over those people to cause them, against their otherwise free will, to go to the trouble to interrupt their normal activities, make signs, pack up the kids and their diaper bags and strollers, travel to their nearest tea party site, find a parking space, walk to the protest area and raise their signs and their voices.
Those who opposed Obama were called racists. Black Republicans are called racists. Innocuous statements by Republicans are called Racist. Ann Coulter has an excellent article about this. Is it possible to oppose a black man because of his policies and not because you're a racist? This video helps answer that question.
Prager University put out an excellent video (below) that examines the racism accusations Democrats make against Republicans.
Rush Limbaugh as of this writing has 4 stage cancer. He was awarded the medal of freedom by President Trump at the 2020 state of the union address. Democrats who condemn Trump for everything expressed disapproval that Trump would award such a medal to such a racist. Problem is, Rush is not a racist. Rush wrote an answer to the charges of racism in the Wall Street Journal. One of the things he wrote in response to criticism of his racial views was:
My racial views? You mean, my belief in a colorblind society where every individual is treated as a precious human being without regard to his race? Where football players should earn as much as they can and keep as much as they can, regardless of race? Those controversial racial views?
Larry Elder is a black man who was called a racist. That's because he says things that many blacks and the left don't want to hear. Here he talks about that and explains what's wrong with blacks getting reparations.
The video below is called "10 most absurd things the Left Calls Racist"
Jeff Jacoby wrote that the New York Times's Frank Rich informed his readers that
Tea Party protesters opposing the Obama health-care bill were "goons," so inflamed by "homicidal rhetoric" -- Rich cited the protesters' chant "Kill the bill!" as an example -- that they had turned into latter-day SS troops engaged in a "small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht."
To Washington Post columnist Colbert King, on the other hand, tea partiers bring to mind not the Third Reich but the segregationists of the pre-civil rights South. "Those same jeering faces," King wrote on March 27, "could be seen gathered around the Arkansas National Guard troopers who blocked nine black children from entering Little Rock's Central High School in 1957." He also remembered those faces "exploding with yells of excitement" when David Duke "spewed vitriolic white-power rhetoric" at a rally in 1991.
Then there is Keith Olbermann of MSNBC, who concedes that there might be more to the Tea Party movement than unadulterated racism. There is also, he said in a recent broadcast, "blind hatred, a total disinterest in the welfare of others, and a full-flowered self-rationalizing refusal to accept the outcomes of elections."
Rep. Frederica Wilson of Miami Gardens said:
The real enemy is the tea party - lets remember that... The tea party holds Congress hostageThey have one goal in mind, and thats to make President Obama a one-term president.
And Jesse Jackson decided to play his particular race card:
The tea party opposing Obama, Jackson said, should be called the Fort Sumter Tea Party that sought to maintain states rights and slavery.
The tea party is a new name on an old game, he said. Dr. King fought a tea party in AlabamaHe had no weapons, but he confronted the tea party.
Rep. Maxine Waters of California said:
The tea party can go straight to hell.
Union leaders have attacked the Tea Party. Unions see government spending as a source of jobs for their members and so oppose the tea party's efforts to control that spending. Edward Balukus President UAW Local 677 said:
Our Antietam was the last election. We had a bloodbath and corporations are winning. 96 freshman at the end of which are TEA Party members and theyre against all of you. Theyre against workers. Theyre against retirees. Theyre against the middle class. All they want to is increase the amount of money that the rich and the corporations get.
Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa gave a speech in which he said:
Weve got to keep an eye on the battle that we face a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party. And theres only one way to beat and win that war the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight. . . . President Obama, this is your army, we are ready to march . . . Lets take these son-of-a-bitches out.
Although he blames the Tea Party for being against the workers, unions make companies uncompetitive by making wages too high which leads to unemployed workers.
Rep. Andre Carson of Indiana said that:
[members] in Congress right now of this Tea Party movement would love to see you and me [speaking to a Black audience] hanging on a tree. Some of them in Congress are comfortable with where we were 50 and 60 years ago. (This excerpt of his speech can be viewed below)
Congressman Alan Greyson sent out a fundraiser with the picture of a burning cross with the statement "now you know what the T in Tea Party stands for".
During Obama's negotiations with the Republican party to raise the debt ceiling Tea Partiers opposed it. They were against borrowing more in order to pay the staggering and enormous U.S. debts. Politico reported:
Vice President Joe Biden joined joined House Democrats in lashing tea party Republicans Monday, accusing them of having acted like terrorists in the fight over raising the nations debt limit, according to several sources in the room.
We have negotiated with terrorists, an angry Doyle said, according to sources in the room. This small group of terrorists have made it impossible to spend any money.
The debt ceiling was raised but
then in 2013 Obama spent so much that he reached the raised debt
ceiling. The Republicans wanted cuts in exchange for raising the
debt ceiling yet again. Pfeiffer called the House GOPs list of
items it wants in exchange for raising the countrys borrowing limit
ransom demands and said:
What were not for is negotiating with people with a bomb
strapped to their chest. Were not going to do that.
and that the Republicans threatened to blow up the economy if they
dont get their way. That "blowing up the economy" must be
referring to the threat that the Republicans would not raise the debt
limit.
Makes one wonder why there are debt limits to begin with. If they are a bomb that will blow up the economy why have them or is the economy blowing up and the only way to stop it is to enforce a debt limit?
Biden was agreeing with a line of argument made by Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) at a two-hour, closed-door Democratic Caucus meeting. The same day that Jimmy Hoffa made a speech in which he said
Lets Take These Son of Bitches Out
Senator Joe Biden told the AFL-CIO in Cincinatti that "the other side" is a group of "barbarians" who had "declared war" on unions.
Jeff Jacoby wrote about more creation of paranoia toward the Tea Party Movement:
Listen, for example, to former Obama administration official Steven Rattner, speaking on MSNBC last week: "These Tea Party guys are, like, strapped with dynamite, standing in the middle of Times Square at rush hour and saying, 'Either you do it my way, or we're going to blow you up, ourselves up, and the whole country up with us.'"
Or to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, warning that "if sane Republicans do not stand up to this Hezbollah faction in their midst, the Tea Party will take the GOP on a suicide mission."
To the New York Times's Thomas Friedman, Tea Party conservatives are like Hezbollah terrorists hell-bent on a suicide bombing.
Or to Representative Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the House Minority Whip, talking about "Russian roulette" with loaded chambers, and how House Republicans "want to shoot every bullet they have at the president."
Or to former Ted Kennedy aide William Yeomans, now an American University law professor, who says labeling Tea Party Republicans "hostage-takers" doesn't go far enough, since "they have now become full-blown terrorists."
Click here to see a video of Bernard Goldberg speaking about the terrorist accusations in the media against the Tea Party.
Liberal academia has joined the battle to portray Tea Partiers as racists. According to the Washington Times
Gathering this weekend in Seattle for the annual American Political Science Association convention, several professors argued that tea party Republicans are more likely than other voters and more likely than most others in the GOP to harbor racial hostility, as judged by their answers in a broad pre-election survey administered in October.
Tea Party activists have denied accusations that their movement is racist, and there is nothing intrinsically racist about opposing big government or clean-energy legislation or health care reform. But it is clear that the movement is more appealing to people who are unsympathetic to blacks and who prefer a harder line on illegal immigration than it is to other Americans, Gary C. Jacobson, a professor at the University of California at San Diego, wrote in his paper, The President, the Tea Party, and Voting Behavior in 2010.In another paper, Alan I. Abramowitz, a professor at Emory University, crunched the numbers from the American National Election Studies October 2010 pre-election survey and drew up a portrait of tea party voters that found they are more likely than other Republicans to be registered to vote, to have contacted a public official or to have donated to a campaign. They also are generally older, wealthier and more likely to be evangelical.
Like Mr. Jacobson, Mr. Abramowitz also said they were more likely to harbor racial resentment, which he judged based on their answers to questions such as whether blacks could succeed as well as whites if they would only try harder, and whether they agreed with the statement that Irish, Italians and Jews overcame prejudice and blacks should do the same without any special favors.
Mr. Abramowitz said tea party supporters were substantially more likely than other voters to question how much effort black Americans are making to advance themselves, versus being held back by social factors.
Tea Party supporters displayed high levels of racial resentment and held very negative opinions about President Obama, compared with the rest of the public and even other Republicans, Mr. Abramowitz wrote. In a multivariate analysis, racial resentment and dislike of Barack Obama, along with conservatism, emerged as the most important factors contributing to support for the Tea Party movement.
More than a dozen papers at the conference peered into the tea party, the movements philosophical underpinnings and its role in the 2010 elections. Titles included Civil Rights and LGBTQ Scapegoats in the Tea Party Movement, Passionate Patriotism: Gender and the Discourse of Anger in the Tea Party Movement and Mr. Abramowitzs Partisan Polarization and the Rise of the Tea Party Movement.
One of the professors Alan I. Abramowitz based his conclusion on the answers of Tea Partiers to questions such as whether blacks could succeed as wall as whites if they "would only try harder" and that blacks shouldn't get special favors. Although the left likes to argue that those against reverse discrimination are racists as a way to push their reverse discrimination agenda it is actually racist to push for reverse discrimination since that is discrimination based on race. The argument that blacks can achieve without help is not a racist statement it is actually faith in the ability of blacks. One could argue that the belief that blacks should get special help is a form of racism that believes they are incapable of standing on their own two feet.
Sarah Palin gave a speech at a tea party rally. She wrote some words on the palm of her hand to make sure she discussed certain topics such as energy. The next day am-NY had an article trashing Palin for having a cheat sheet and being a palm reader and acted as if this was a big scandal which they called hand-gate but did not report anything about the content of her speech.
Bobby Eberle posted the following on the media reaction to Sarah's notes on Feb 2010:
As noted by Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters.org, MSNBC's Chris Matthews, the one who got the tingling feeling down his leg when he heard Obama speak, is having a cow over this non-issue:
Chris Matthews: Can a palm reader be president? What do we think of kids in school who write stuff on their hands to get through a test? What do we think of a would-be political leader who does it to look like she's speaking without notes? What do we think of Sarah Palin this weekend answering pre-screened questions from a like-minded audience in Nashville, a tea party convention, and still having to put a cheat sheet on her palm to answer what she calls the basics of her beliefs? How can someone presume to be auditioning for president when they can't even answer questions they know are coming?..
CBS's Nancy Cordes reported, over a helpful graphic showing the words written on Palin's hand, that while Palin "dismissed the President Saturday night as a 'charismatic guy with a Teleprompter,' she may have been relying on some crib notes of her own." Cordes concluded: "Her supporters called it an endearing sign that Palin's a real person, while detractors argue it's proof she doesn't know her facts." On NBC, Brian Williams led the Palin story with how "it happened after a speech where she criticized the President for relying too much on a Teleprompter."
Jeff Jacoby summarized some of the paranoia creating in 2009 in an article.
A friend of mine who was a Republican graduate student told me a personal story which is a classic example of non-religious hatred of the non-believer. He saw a female student friend of his campaigning for Kerry. He went up to her and started to argue with her. He said "Here are the facts" and gave her a long list of facts and she responded "Facts are not important. You and I have two different moralities. We have two different consciences". My friend complained to me that she won't talk to him and that they used to be friends.
I explained to my friend that she is doing what extremist fundamentalist Muslims do, to her he is a non-believer and therefore must be bad. It's interesting that facts are not important to her. She has the truth as far as she's concerned, to hell with facts, and anyone who doesn't believe in what she believes must not be as moral as she is.
This young woman is not an
anomaly. Hatred of the non-believer originating in ancient religious
texts is alive and well today and not just among Islamic terrorists. Turkey is an example of a country that has
been considered moderate but the Milli Gazete, a Turkish daily produced
by Erbakans National Salvation Party since January, 1973, published articles
in February and April of 2005 which were toxic amalgams of ahistorical drivel,
and virulently antisemitic and anti-dhimmi
Quranic motifs: 181 One paragraph of this drivel that clearly demonstrates
modern hatred of the non-believer is:
(Andrew
Bostom, frontpagemag.com)
It is a mistake for so-called professors, writers, thinkers, and famous intellectuals to make sympathetic statements about Christians and Jews. Particularly, to say that they too will go to heaven is an even bigger mistakeChristians and Jews, who have rejected our Prophet and refuse to recite Muhammad is the Messenger of God belong forever in HellIn the eyes of God, there is only one religion, and that is IslamThere is only one book, and that is the QuranFor so-called dignitaries to present Christianity and Judaism as godly religions is terribly wrong.
Andrew
Bostom wrote a book called the Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism which describes
the results of hatred of the Jewish non-believer. The cover of the book is a painting of a Jewish woman who was
martyred because she would not become a Muslim. The tragic story can be read here.
For any event there is more than one explanation. In general the most likely explanation is the one that requires making the fewest assumptions. Lets say Joe was at a party last night during which he imbibed an excessive amount of alcoholic beverages and this morning he woke up with a headache. Joe might explain his headache as being the result of too much to drink. Or Joe might believe that some hostile individual or organization slipped something into his drink to make him have a headache. Or Joe might believe that the mysterious guy in the corner slipped a knockout drug in his drink so that after he passed out the mysterious guy could make a move on Joe's girlfriend. The explanation that requires the least number of assumptions and so is the most likely one is that Joe had a headache because he had too much to drink. Some people however, might chose the paranoid assumptions in spite of this. Why choose a paranoid assumption? One would think that it would be preferable to believe that one's headache is simply the result of overdrinking than believing that someone is out to hurt oneself.
On Christmas of 2003, the United States went on a very expensive code orange alert against terror and suspended some flights from France and Britain to the United States due to fears the planes would be used in terrorist attacks. A journalist in the French weekly, Le Point, did not believe this explanation for the flight suspensions and in a special section entitled France punished by the US. wrote an article called Diktat on Air France, in which he argued that the terrorist threats against Air France flights during Christmas were just an excuse for the US to bankrupt Air France as revenge for France opposing the U.S. war against Iraq (Blame it On America, frontpagemagazine 1/19/04).
Why did the French journalist choose the paranoid explanation? The explanation given by the United States of concern about a terrorist threat was a very reasonable one in light of the September 11 attacks and the expensive code orange alert as well as the stopping of the British flights. The paranoid explanation does not explain why the United States stopped British flights or paid to go to code Orange. The American explanation requires fewer assumptions. Why choose the unpleasant and less likely explanation which makes American an enemy out to get France?
The book, 9/11: The Big Lie, from the French author Thierry Meyssan was a best seller in France for over a year. This book supposedly proves how no plane ever crashed on the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. It also states that Bin Laden was a US agent paid by Bush to destroy secret CIA offices in the World Trade Center. Why believe this explanation instead of the one that Al Qaeda attacked the United States. Thierry's explanation requires believing that the United States murdered thousands of American citizens for some evil reason. Why believe that the United States is evil?
I don't know why the French choose paranoid explanations of American behavior. I do know reasons that people choose paranoid beliefs and can extrapolate those to guess as why the French choose these explanations. If the French were to believe that America was good and that for good reasons they overthrew Saddam Hussein that would require admission that the French were in the wrong and perhaps even cowardly when the opposed the United States. If the French make America out to be bad than they can feel better about opposing America. Also if they acknowledge that French planes were a terrorist threat to the United States that would imply that terrorists have infiltrated France, not a pleasant belief at all and one that shines a very unfavorable light on French policies that allowed this to happen.
America's superpower status may give the French a nagging feeling of inadequacy that they are not a superpower as well. If they regard Americans as bad, then they can view themselves as morally superior and feel better about themselves. This may be one of the reasons why so many French embrace paranoid beliefs toward the United States. Other factors such as their large anti-American Muslim population probably plays a role as well in infecting non-Muslim Frenchmen with anti-American attitudes.
Just as French Paranoia gives rise to French hatred, French hatred may be giving rise to French paranoia. Frontpage Magazine interviewed several prominent Frenchmen about French hatred of the United States(.The death of France? By Jamie Glazov FrontPageMagazine.com | June 9, 2003.) One of the interviewees Milliere ascribed French hostility to envy. He said:
France is a very sick country. Many French still dream about the time when France was the main power in the Western world. It has been over for three centuries now, and so they are full of envy when they think about the countries that became more powerful than France after the death of Louis XIVth. Great Britain first, then the United States. For the French, the United States has no past, no legitimacy, no culture and if they are the first power in the world it's really unfair.
For years, France has searched to create alliances against the United States. Now it's a conscious alliance with Islamists and Arab dictators. The French dream to see the United States defeated. Just by envy. .. The French love leaders that give them the appearance of strength, even if it brings them to disaster, and in front of a strong enemy, they surrender very easily. They surrendered to the Nazis in six days; they have already surrendered to radical Muslims thirty years ago. The people I meet in France are not ready to fight: they say "soon our women will have to wear scarves, that's life"... I am finishing a book in English about this French sickness. I think it has to be fully explained...
Everybody in France knows Chirac and Villepin acted as they did, not because they disagreed with the US, but because France too had a lot to lose if Saddam was toppled. Anti-Americanism is rising in the world because large parts of the world are very sick and full of envy. France acted as the leader of the axis of envy, it's the reason why I think she has to pay the price. France is not an ally of the US anymore.
Jean-Franois Revel another interviewee and the author of L'Obsession Anti-Amricaine (The Anti-American Obsession) also argued that envy was behind French hatred: He said:
France is the prey of an anti-American obsession. For the French, Americans are the enemy they have to hate in every circumstance. They have to hate Americans because Americans are successful, because Americans are powerful, because the French prefer resentment to achievement. They are so obsessed by their hatred of the United States they do not see anymore the real dangers confronting France. It's a very dangerous situation. I do not know how we could go out of this situation. I honestly don't know if it is even still possible.
Frontpagemag interviewed John J Miller (Our Oldest Enemies, 10/18/04, frontpagemag.com) co-author of Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France. who explained:
The French suffer from a very bad case of wounded national pride. Three hundred years ago, they ruled a globe-spanning empire. But ever since their defeat in the final French and Indian War--known in Europe as the Seven Years War--theyve traveled on a downward trajectory. Napoleon provided a brief and bloody interruption to this relentless decline. At the same time, the French have watched the United States grow in power. Our gains mirror their losses. This has resulted in a tremendous sense of jealousy that embodies itself, nowadays, in a distinctly anti-American geopolitical outlook.
John Miller quoted Francois Mitterand as saying shortly before his death:
We are at war with America, he said. A permanent war ... a war without death. They are very hard, the Americans--they are voracious. They want undivided power over the world.
and French Prime Minister, Jean Pierre Raffarin as saying:
The Iraqi insurgents are our best allies.
French hatred may be at the root of the French desire to paint the United States in as black colors as possible and to be paranoid of the United States. Envy may be the root of French hatred and the desire to eliminate low self esteem, which is associated with envy may be a motivating factor in being paranoid.
Philippe Karsenty exposed the al-Dura hoax. An interview with him can be seen by clicking below.
Philippe Karsenty, the founder and president of Media-Ratings, was interviewed by Frontpage
Magazine (5/16/06) about the anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism of
France. He said
Anti-Americanism
is also very present in the French political and intellectual life. Never
forget how our actual prime minister, Villepin, travelled all over the world to
fight American diplomacy before the Iraqi war. Another thing interesting
to think about: not one French newspaper or magazine supported the US
in the war in Iraq. Not even one. And when you asked French diplomats or
intellectuals why America was going at war against Saddam, they answered that
it was because Bush was receiving marching orders from Ariel Sharon
As I
said, the Iraqi war was launched, according to most of the French people, in
the name of Israel. And if you look at the nuclear bomb in preparation in Iran,
you see that the French media only focus on the Israeli supposed interest. They
just forget that if Iran provides terrorists with dirty radioactive material,
its Europe that could be affected very soon. They also forget to recall that
Europe has no missile anti-missile as Israel has with the Hetz. This means
that, objectively, Israel is less endangered by a nuclear Iran than Europe.
But, if you hear French media, the only country is danger is Israel and French
people dont want to fight a billion of Muslims to defend 6 million Israelis.
The
phenomena described by Mr. Karsenty is one in which those who stand up to evil
are considered evil because the world is a less threatening place that
way. Israel is the enemy of Iran. Iran is the country whose nuclear weapons
threaten France yet the French prefer to blame Israel. The United States is the enemy of Iran and
the best chance the world has of militarily disarming Iran yet the French see
the U.S. as making the world a more dangerous place by supporting Israel. The world becomes less threatening when
viewed this way because then that is required is that the United States stop
supporting Israel. If the French were
to view the United States and Israel as doing the right thing and standing up
against the looming Iranian threat then they have to face that the threat wont
just go away by sacrificing Israel and that they have a moral obligation to
help fight Iran a very unpleasant thought.
The desire to sacrifice Israel in order to save France creates a desire
to demonize Israel, otherwise the French would have to face that they are
sacrificing good in order to appease evil.
We have here a motivation to create paranoia toward a target, in order
to feel good about ones own immoral behavior toward that target.
The French and Europeans in general prefer to believe that if theyre
just nice to the Muslims the Muslims will leave them alone. They know that if the United States strikes
at Iran, Iran is likely to strike them and they are afraid. So they are hostile to the U.S. because of
fear that U.S. actions will endanger them.
They are unwilling to face the reality that Islam will strike at them no
matter how nice they are to Muslims and no matter how much they appease the
Muslims and no matter how much of their freedom they sacrifice to the Muslims. They are unwilling to face the threat that
they face because it means that they have to fight.
Bruce Bawer, author of While
Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West from Within was
asked by Jamie Glazov about European anti-Americanism. His answer sheds light on motives to be
paranoid. He said:
Its very strange. I
never get used to it. Its kind of schizophrenic, actually. On one
level theres an enthusiasm for America. America is sexy, exciting.
Europeans love American TV, American pop music. They wear Yankee caps and
t-shirts with Old Glory on them. If youre out someplace for the evening
and somebody hears youre an American, they want to talk to you and hear about
your life. Its thrilling for them. But the very same people will
then turn around and tell you how horrible your country is everybody in
America is overweight, nobody has health insurance, theyre all idiots, and so
forth. This is what theyve been taught in school and heard in the
media. Weirdly, its their very enthusiasm for America, I think, that
feeds their eagerness to believe this nonsense. Theyre so in awe of
America, so drawn to it, that they need to believe that theres something
horrible at the heart of it in order to be content with their own lives in
their own societies.
Besides, buying into the
idea that America is the #1 problem in the world the #1 threat to world peace
and so on is a good way of distracting themselves from the genuine problems
facing their own countries. After all, in Europe, theres a lot of
pressure not to address those problems. To criticize any aspect of immigrant
communities or immigration policies is to risk being called a racist. In
Norway, theres been a rash of cold-blooded murders by rejected asylum seekers,
who, after being rejected, incredible as it sounds, are simply allowed to roam
free in the streets of Oslo. Recently, one of them walked into the
downtown Oslo office of somebody I knew, a wonderful doctor, and stabbed him to
death with a huge knife hed brought with him. On the day it happened, a
mutual friend of ours, who was despondent and in shock, said, Something needs
to be done about these asylum seekers. And as soon as the words were out
of his mouth, he added, Oh, I shouldnt say that, it sounds racist. He
hadnt said anything racist. But this is how people have been trained to
think. Its paralyzing. So it is that the frustration and anger
over the crisis in their own societies is deflected to a safe target
America. You can say anything you want about Americans and nobody will
call you a racist.
FP: What is your perspective on
what we could call European
dhimmitude and the reflexive European appeasement mentality?
Bawer: Americans and Europeans
both learned a lesson from World War II but we learned different
lessons. America learned that evil should never be appeased. If
Britain and France had not caved in to Hitler at Munich, the war and the
Holocaust might never have happened. Europeans, however, have been taught
that the lesson of WWII is the evil of war, pure and simple. War should
be avoided at all costs. Dialogue is always better than armed
conflict. This mentality feeds anti-Americanism instead of admiring
Americas willingness to defend its freedoms in war, which after all is what
made possible the liberation of Western Europe from the Nazis duh!
Europeans see Americans as people who simply love to make war. Were
primitive, bloodthirsty warmongers. They see themselves, by contrast, as
the preachers and guardians of a new, more noble and sophisticated era of
peace. And theyll make any compromise in order to preserve that
peace.
The Europeans fail to realize that if they keep yielding to Islam they
will become Islamicized and part of the army of Islam, if they dont fight
Islam now, they will fight for Islam later.
This web page and the article, Creation of Paranoia (Part 1, Part 2) discusses how low self esteem can give rise to paranoia and other possible reasons why people create paranoia or desire to be paranoid.
The idea that the September 11 attacks were staged by the Pentagon is believed by one in five Germans and is common throughout Europe. (Menace in Europe, frontpagemag.com 4/7/06)
One of the most pervasive examples of mass paranoia is anti-semitism and in order to understand mass paranoia it behooves us to examine anti-semitism.
ID Sources of Antisemitism
We can learn a lot about the cause of the cause of anti-semitism from the history of Gaius Caligula of Rome. Caligula wanted people to erect statues of him and worship him. Every people subject to Rome erected statues of Gaius in their cities along with their gods, except for the Judaeans. The Judaeans declared that they were forbidden to place an image of God, and certainly not that of a human being, not only in their Temple, but anywhere in their country. They would never transgress the laws that they had received from their forefathers, even if that meant all the Judaeans - men women and children - would have to be killed.
This was a recipe for disaster. Solomon Zeitlin wrote about what happened in his book The Rise and Fall of the Judean State.
When Gaius declared himself a god, the heathens were able to accept him as such, and they erected statues of him and worshipped them. The Judaeans, who believed in one God alone, could not do this... When the Judaeans refused to allow the erection of statues in their proseuche, house of prayer, a disastrous progrom took place in Alexandria...
When the heathens of Jabneh (a town in Judaea) learned that Gaius considered himself a god, they erected an altar to the emperor... and the Judaeans promply destroyed it. Gaius became greatly enraged at this sacrilegious act. He decided to destroy the Judaean "superstition" and if necessary, wipe out the entire people. He ordered Petronius, the legate of Syria, to erect an enormous statue of himself in the guise of Zeus, and place it in the Holy of Holies in the Temple of Jerusalem, using force to crush any resistance.
In order to avoid the annihilation of the Jews, Petronius delayed the erection of the statue on the grounds that to create a statue worth of Gaius would take time. Ultimately the assassination of Gaius saved the Jews.
Gaius hated the Jews because they would not worship him. Similarly believers of other religions have throughout history hated Jews because the Jews would not worship their deities and believe their beliefs. This hatred gave rise to creation of paranoia against the Jews including the Christian slander of deicide against the Jews.
II Reasons for Religious Antisemitism
Most of the problems of the world today have their seeds in creation of paranoia that occurred thousands of years ago. About two thousand years ago the Christians blamed the Jews for killing the son of God an accusation that religious historians such as Dr. William Nicholls argue is false. The belief that the Jews killed Jesus leads people today to hate the Jews and to assume they are the guilty party in the Middle East.
One example of this is a statement of Professor Eugenio Chahuan, a member of the University of Chile's Center of Arabic Studies to the daily La Hora,
If the Jews killed, the Messiah, we can expect that they may kill any people.
Jostein Gaarder, the author of Sophies World, in a letter
published in Aftenposten, Norways leading newspaper in the summer of
2006, claimed
that the first Zionist terrorists started operating in the time of Jesus.
Mike Evans a Christian minister in an article titled "Christ Killers" (worldnetdaily.com 2/20/04) wrote:
I am a Christian minister. My father was a Christian, my mother an Orthodox Jew. I was raised as a Christian, but still, I was physically attacked as a child in "Christian America." I was called a "Christ-killer" hundreds of times. I pushed my mother's grocery cart down the street while self-professing Christians threw eggs and tomatoes from their vehicles, and shouted obscenities including "Christ-killer" and "Jew-witch." I remember waking one morning to the words "Christ-killer" spray-painted on the front door.
Mr. Evans asked his mother
Why am I being beat up for killing Christ?
He writes:
my mother sat me down and told me the story of her grandfather. He was a rabbi. Russian Orthodox Christians burned him and his entire congregation to death inside the synagogue. She said to me, "They did it while screaming, 'You crucified Christ, you Christ-killers.'"
I can still see the pain in her eyes as she told me of loved ones who were thrown into the ovens of Auschwitz. "The last words many of them heard," she said, "were 'Christ-killers.'"
Mr. Evans tried to get Mel Gibson to put a pro-Jewish message at the end of his Passion film which he didn't do. Instead he appears to have based his script partly on anti-semitic visions of a German nun by the name of Anne Emmerich and included scenes in which Jewish children transform into demons and Satan walks among the Jewish crowds as they clamour for Jesus's death. Predictably the Passion is leading to anti-Jewish hatred and anti-semitics acts.
For example, in one incident at the Rehoboth Beach area in Delaware (The New Journal 5/2/04) a group of people approached a person at a mall and said, "You're Jewish. We hate you. You killed Christ."
According to My Way News (4/5/04)
Hanan Nsour, a veiled, 21-year-old Muslim in Jordan, came out of "The Passion of the Christ" in tears and pronounced her verdict: Mel Gibson's crucifixion epic "unmasked the Jews' lies and I hope that everybody, everywhere, turns against the Jews.
The Quran, though, says Jesus's crucifixion never happened...
Kuwait bans any movies depicting any of the prophets recognized by Islam, but one of its top Shiite clerics, Ayatollah Mohammed Baqer al-Mehri, has urged an exception for "The Passion" because it "reveals crimes committed by Jews against Christ."...
When the 1998 animated movie "Prince of Egypt" reached Cairo, censors banned it. One reason given: Islam reveres Moses as a prophet, and many Muslims recoil at seeing their prophets portrayed as flesh-and-blood characters.
Jesus is also a prophet to the Muslims, yet "The Passion" was OK'd by Egypt's censors with no changes.
According to a Muslim Hadith a Jewess from Khaybar poisoned Muhammad and
this poison ultimately led to his painful and protracted death.
Michel Gurfinkiel ("Frances Jewish Problem", Commentary July-August 2002, p38) gave two examples of how religion is currently creating antisemitism. He wrote about how Liberation a left of center French newspaper, carried a cartoon published the day after Christmas 2001, showing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon standing next to a cross with a hammer in his hand and nails in his mouth. The caption: "No Christmas for Arafat, But he is welcome on Easter." This was an obvious reference to the crucifixion of Jesus which is blamed on the Jews. Two days earlier, at midnight mass in Montpellier, a Catholic priest had handed out the text for a humn in the Occitan language that read: "He was born in Bethlehem, Palestine. He was born in Bethlehem, poor and innocent. Sharon shot him down." The implication is that Sharon shot Jesus.
In April 02, La Stampa - a liberal Italian newspaper - depicting the infant Jesus in a manger, menaced by an Israeli tank and saying "Don't tell me they want to kill me again."
In 2001, the founder of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center the Anglican Rev. Canon Naim Ateek, wrote that, Jesus is on the Cross again with thousands of crucified Palestinians around himThe Israeli government crucifixion system is operating daily.
Aren't the Jews guilty of oppressing the Palestinians you may ask. How do I know it's not the oppression of the Palestinians that creates anti-semitism? My answer to that question is another question which is "How do you know the Jews are oppressing the Palestinians"? That's absurd you say, "I read it in the newspapers, I see it on on the news, I hear it on the radio." "But how do you know what you hear on the radio and see on the news and read in the newspapers is impartial and objective?" I respond. "If religion creates bias against the Jews and a large number of people with that bias have money to influence the media with than one would expect that bias to distort reporting about the Middle East and the biased reporting to create even more bias against the Jews". I give some examples of how the media distorts the news about the Middle East in the Creation of Paranoia by the Media section of this web page.
One would expect the historical aspect of the bible regarding the Jewish presence in Israel to create support among Christians for Jews in the Middle East and probably it has to some extent. However, there are Christians in the Middle East who promote replacement theology, a revivial of a medieval church doctrine that states that Jews have been replaced by Christians in God's favor and that therefore any promises to the Jews, including their historic links to the holyland, lack any validity. One of the main proponents of "Replacement Theology" is the Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem, Riah abu el-Assal.(Response Spring 2002)
The Friday, January 17 2003, edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that: "Anti-Semitism is widespread among America's young adults, with a fourth believing Jews control the media and Wall Street, according to a survey released this week...Another key finding is that 37 percent of American adults, or 65 million people, continue to believe Jews were responsible for killing Jesus." More: "The Christ-killer charge remains a pervasive belief."
About 1400 years ago Muhammad wrote
into the Koran how the infidel must be killed or pay for protection and live as
a Dhimmi (person with inferior status). He also slandered the Jews
in the Koran to create hatred against them.
According to the hadith, the Jews caused Muhammads protracted, excruciating death from poisoning. (frontpagemag.com 5/15/2006)
Andrew Bostom has summarized some of the creation of Jew Hatred in Islamic texts.
Indeed the Korans overall discussion of the Jews is marked by a litany of their sins and punishments, as if part of a divine indictment, conviction, and punishment process. The Jews wronged themselves (16:118) by losing faith (7:168) and breaking their covenant (5:13). The Jews (echoing an ante-Nicaean, Marcionite polemic) are a nation that has passed away (2:134; repeated in 2:141). Twice Allah sent his instruments (the Assyrians/or Babylonians, and Romans) to punish this perverse people (17:4-5)their dispersal over the earth is proof of Allahs rejection (7:168). The Jews are further warned about both their arrogant claim that they remain Allahs chosen people (62:6), and continued disobedience and corruption (5:32-33) Other sins, some repeated, are enumerated: abuse, even killing of prophets (4:155; 2:91), including Isa [Jesus] (3:55; 4:157), is a consistent theme.
The Jews ridiculed Muhammad as Raina (the evil one, in 2:104; 4:46), and they are also accused of lack of faith, taking words out of context, disobedience, and distortion (4:46). Precious few of them are believers (also 4:46). These perverse creatures also claim that Ezra is the messiah and they worship rabbis who defraud men of their possessions (9:30). Additional sins are described: the Jews are typified as an envious people (2:109), whose hearts are as hardened as rocks (2:74). They are further accused of confounding the truth (2:42), deliberately perverting scripture (2:75), and being liars (2:78). Ill-informed people of little faith (2:89), they pursue vague and wishful fancies (2:111). Other sins have contributed to their being stamped (see 2:61/ 3:112 above) with wretchedness/abasement and humiliation, includingusury (2:275), sorcery (2:102), hedonism (2:96), and idol worship (2:53). More (and repeat) sins, are described still: the Jews idol worship is again mentioned (4:51), then linked and followed by charges of other (often repeat) iniquitiesthe tremendous calumny against Mary (4:156), as well as usury and cheating (4:161). Most Jews are accused of being evil-livers /transgressors /ungodly (3:110), who, deceived by their own lies (3:24), try to turn Muslims from Islam (3:99). Jews are blind and deaf to the truth (5:71), and what they have not forgotten they have pervertedthey mislead (3:69), confound the truth (3:71), twist tongues (3:79), and cheat Gentiles without remorse (3:75). Muslims are advised not to take the Jews as friends (5:51), and to beware of the inveterate hatred that Jews bear towards them (5:82). The Jews ultimate sin and punishment are made clear: they are the devils minions (4:60) cursed by Allah, their faces will be obliterated (4:47), and if they do not accept the true faith of Islamthe Jews who understand their faith become Muslims (3:113)they will be made into apes (2:65/ 7:166), or apes and swine (5:60), and burn in the Hellfires (4:55, 5:29, 98:6, and 58:14-19).
The Koranic curse (verses 2:61/3:112) upon the Jews for (primarily) rejecting, even slaying Allahs prophets, including Isa/Jesus (or at least his body double 4:157-4:158), is updated with perfect archetypal logic in the canonical hadith: following the Muslims initial conquest of the Jewish farming oasis of Khaybar, one of the vanquished Jewesses reportedly served Muhammad poisoned mutton (or goat), which resulted, ultimately, in his protracted, agonizing death. And Ibn Saads sira account maintains that Muhammads poisoning resulted from a well-coordinated Jewish conspiracy...Jews are described as adherents of the Dajjlthe Muslim equivalent of the Anti-Christor according to another tradition, the Dajjl is himself Jewish. At his appearance, other traditions maintain that the Dajjl will be accompanied by 70,000 Jews from Isfahan wrapped in their robes, and armed with polished sabers, their heads covered with a sort of veil. When the Dajjl is defeated, his Jewish companions will be slaughtered everything will deliver them up except for the so-called gharkad tree, as per the canonical hadith included in the 1988 Hamas Charter (in article 7). Another hadith variant, which takes place in Jerusalem, has Isa (the Muslim Jesus) leading the Arabs in a rout of the Dajjl and his company of 70,000 armed Jews. And the notion of jihad ransom extends even into Islamic eschatologyon the day of resurrection the vanquished Jews will be consigned to Hellfire, and this will expiate Muslims who have sinned, sparing them from this fate...
Finally, a profoundly Antisemitic motif occurring after the events recorded in the hadith and sira, put forth in early Muslim historiography (for example, by Tabari), is most assuredly a part of the birth pangs of Islam: the story of Abd Allah b. Saba, an alleged renegade Yemenite Jew, and founder of the heterodox Shiite sect. He is held responsibleidentified as a Jewfor promoting the Shiite heresy and fomenting the rebellion and internal strife associated with this primary breach in Islams political innocence, culminating in the assassination of the third Rightly Guided Caliph Uthman, and the bitter, lasting legacy of Sunni-Shiite sectarian strife.
The anti-semitism that led to the Holocaust occurred in this century partly because of what was written into the Christian Bible and what was written in the Koran. The Grand Mufti, Haj Muhammed Amin al-Husseini encouraged Hitler to annihilate the Jews. The anti-semitism that leads to wars in the Middle East against Israel are largely a result of what was written in the Koran. William Nicholls in his book Christian Antisemitism, A History of Hate, wrote that:
Anti-Judaic hostility, contrary to what is often said by Arabs and their apologists, has deep roots in Islam, going back to the life of the Prophet himself and to the words of the Quran.
An example of Islamic Creation of Paranoia
Toward Jews Through Images.
One of the causes of
anti-semitism and for that matter hatred of another group is the "evil
gene delusion". This is the delusion that if a group of people did
something wrong a thousand years ago, that means their modern day descendents
are evil as well. There is one way that evil can progress through generations and
that is through beliefs. If a group believes a religion such as Islam that
preaches that the non-believer is evil, the evil in that paranoia is
transferred through generations of believers. However, if a tribe 1000
years ago betrayed a treaty with another tribe and that was not part of their
religion, then the modern descendents of that tribe have not culturally
inherited any of the wickedness of their ancestors. To assume that the
modern descendents are wicked would entail the assumption that they inherited
wickedness through their genes. The Nazis assumed that all non-Aryans
were inferior and evil due to their genes. The Moslems hate the Jews
partly because they believe that Jewish tribes betrayed Mohammad and that
therefore the Jewish descendents of those tribes and all other Jews are
treacherous as well. A diatribe against the Jews in the Milli Gazette, a
Turkish newspaper that illustrates this is included below. (Andrew
Bostom, frontpagemag.com)
Judaism is synonymous with treasonThey [the Jews]
even betrayed GodWhen God told them to bow their heads while entering Al-Quds
[Jerusalem], they entered with their heads up. The prophets sent to them, such
as Zachariah and Isaiah, were murdered by the JewsIn fact no amount of pages
or lines would be sufficient to explain the Quranic chapters and our Lord
Prophets [Muhammads] words that tell us of the betrayals of the Jews,
Steven Stalinsky in an article titled Jihad by Satellite (frontpagemag.com 5/20/05) quoted Muslims with the evil gene delusion. He wrote:
In August on Saudi Arabia 's MBC TV, Saudi Sheikh Abd al-Qader Hammad said, "From the day civil strife began in Islam, the Jews were behind it. There is no evil in the world that the Jews are not behind. Search in the depths of history ... and you will find the finger of the Jews behind it."
"Jewish treachery is the nature of this race. It runs in their blood and passes from generation to generation," 'Adnan abu Al-Qattam said in an official Friday sermon that aired on Bahrain TV July 30. "The Jews proved to history ... they are a corrupting people ... History clearly attests to their... despicable behavior," he said. He then cited a Koranic verse calling Muslims "to kill Jews."
That would imply
that there are genes for treachery and that our morality is governed by our
genes and not by choices that we freely make. The truth is that there are good
and bad people of all races and that politics, culture, religion and
personal choice are the predominant factors in determining the morality of a
group toward other groups.
Additional reasons for religious antisemitism include
1) Anger by religious leaders at those who
reject their religion and at who they can't control with religion.
2) Desire to keep believers from being led away from the religion by
nonbelievers.
3) Finding a scapegoat for the failures of the religion. (Protecting self
esteem by blaming others)
1) Anger by religious leaders at those who reject their religion and at who they can't control with religion:
Jews experienced hostility from their neighbors well before Christianity came on the scene. William Nicholls in his book Christian Antisemitism, A History of Hate, writes that:
Pagan hostility toward the Jewish people was aroused, above all, by the refusal of the Jews to join the ecunemical consensus of paganism, that the Gods of one people could be satisfactorily equated with those of another...Pagan calumnies against the Jews seem to be outgrowths of this central rejection. If the Jews would not worship the Gods their customs must have been inhuman and barbaric.
In my article Creation of Paranoia (Part 1, Part 2) I quote Luther condemning the Jews because they rejected Christianity. Julius Streicher, the editor of the Nazi newspaper Der Sturmer, claimed that if he must stand arraigned for his views on Jews, so should Martin Luther. He was right.
The paranoid myth that Jews killed God was born as a result of Christian hatred of Jews for rejecting Christianity and that myth led to further hatred against Jews. This hatred was expressed by the so called "saintly" Christians, two examples of their saintliness are given below:
In 379 A.D. Vicious St. Ambrose in Milan said (Anti-Semitism What is it) :
The Jews are the most worthless of all men. They are lecherous, greedy, rapacious. They are perfidious murderers of Christ. They worship the Devil. Their religion is a sickness. The Jews are the odious assassins of Christ and for killing God there is no expiation possible, no indulgence or pardon. Christians may never cease vengeance, and the Jew must live in servitude forever. God always hated the Jews. It is essential that all Christians hate them.
In 395 A.D. St. Gregory of Nyssa in sermons and writings characterized Jews as assassins of the Prophets, companions of the Devil, a race of vipers, a Sanhedrin of Demons, enemies of all that is beautiful, hogs and goats in their lewd grossness.
I recently experienced paranoia toward me as a result of my rejection of Jesus. I was walking through a subway tunnel when I heard a man preaching about Jesus. I said to him "Jesus does not exist". He said to me:
You have allowed your mind to be infiltrated by the Devil.
Muhammad created paranoia toward those who rejected Islam. In the Koran 62.5 he said:
Evil is the likeness of the people who deny the revelations of Allah.
Initially Muhammad sought to gain the support of, and legitimization from, the Jewish tribes of western Arabia for religious, financial and military power reasons. However, Muhammad was rebuffed by the Jews who refused to see in him a Prophet. Rejection of Islam turned Muhammad against the Jews. According to the Religious Persecution of the Jews by Arabs web page:
It was the Prophet Muhammad himself who attempted to negate the positive image of the Jew that had been prevalent earlier. According to historian Bernard Lewis, the Prophet Muhammad's original plan had been to induce the Jews to adopt Islam When Muhammad began his rule at Medina in A.D. 622 he counted few supporters, so he adopted several Jewish practices-including daily prayer facing toward Jerusalem and the fast of Yom Kippur-in the hope of wooing the Jews. But the Jewish community rejected the Prophet Muhammad's religion, preferring to adhere to its own beliefs, whereupon Muhammad subsequently substituted Mecca for Jerusalem, and dropped many of the Jewish practices.
Three years later, Arab hostility against the Jews commenced, when the Meccan army exterminated the Jewish tribe of Quraiza.2 As a result of the Prophet Muhammad's resentment, the Holy Koran itself contains many of his hostile denunciations of Jews 3 and bitter attacks upon the Jewish tradition, which undoubtedly have colored the beliefs of religious Muslims down to the present.
Muhammad's growing armies prevailed and the struggle for the fate of Arabia ended with the slaughter and defeat of the Jews. The rejection by the Jews may be the reason Muhammad had the following written into the Qu'ran [9:29-30].
Fight against such of those who have been given the Scripture as believe not in Allah nor the Last Day... Allah (Himself) fighteth against them. How perverse they are!"
Robert Spencer when asked why the Muslims regard the Jews as their worst enemies said:
Torah-observant Jews did not and do not accept Muhammad as a prophet, and this enraged the prophet of Islam during his lifetime. Muhammad initially appealed energetically to the Jews, hoping they would accept his prophetic status. He even had the Muslims imitate the Jews by facing Jerusalem for prayers, and he adopted for the Muslims the Jews prohibition of pork. But he was infuriated when the Jews rejected him, and Allah shared his fury in Koranic revelation: they had the Torah, and the Koran confirmed it, and yet they refused to accept the Koran! And when there came to them a messenger from Allah, confirming what was with them, a party of the people of the Book threw away the Book of Allah behind their backs, as if (it had been something) they did not know! (2:101).
Muhammad instructed Moslems to torture nonbelievers. Quotes of his on this are on the Islamic Hell web page. Islam considers belief in any God other than Islam an "insult" to Islam. One illustration of this was the fatwah (religious edict) issued by the Taliban's spiritual leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, on Monday February 26, 2001, calling for all statues to be smashed including two Buddha images that soar 125 feet and 174 feet above the village of Bamiyan. (This was reported in CNN.com March 2, 2001) Mohammad explained:
Only Allah, the Almighty, deserves to be worshipped, not anyone or anything else.
In the Excessive Kindness of Islam web page Muhammad's conquest of Quraiza is described as follows:
In 627 A.D he raided the Jewish tribe of Qurayza. The Jews were defeated in the fight and many prisoners were taken. They were either sold or assassinated in the name of merciful Allah. In one place alone, approximately 800 Jews were beheaded in cold blood. In 629 A.D after the battle of Khaybar, and the defeat of the Jews, the same play was enacted. All the Jews were put to the sword. The raids undertaken by the prophet and methods followed became the guidelines for the Caliphs and other leaders who followed him.
The revenge taken by Muhammad on the non-believer is discussed in more detail in the revenge section of this web page. Before destroying the statues carved into the rock face near the central town of Bamiyan the Taliban explained that the statues were:
Insulting to Islam
They also planned to destroy all statues and religious artifacts in their museums as well. For a fundamentalist Moslem anything and anyone who is not a Moslem is an insult to Islam.
Osama bin Ladin in an interview with John Miller of ABC news in May 1998 explained that Allah's orders are to fight the non-believer. He said:
Allah has ordered us to make holy wars and to fight to see to it that his word is the highest and the uppermost and that of the unbelievers the lowermost.
In an interview with al-Jazira in 1999 Osama bin Laden, boasted that he had created:
The front of the Islamic Nation
to fight the Kufar (non-believers).
Balint Vazsonyi wrote an article in the
Washington Times (9/18/01) called "The People's
Right To Know" in which he wrote the following about the intolerance
of the Saudis to the American non-believers during the Gulf War.
It is Thanksgiving 1990. Hundreds of thousands of
Americans are spending it in Saudi Arabia, invited by its rulers to protect the
country -- not against the infidel, but against a fellow Arab Muslim, Saddam
Hussein of Iraq. Having raped Kuwait, Iraqi forces were poised to storm
Saudi Arabia, a country unable to defend itself.
U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush arrived
to share the Thanksgiving meal with the armed forces whose commander in chief
he was. Upon arrival, the Saudi hosts informed him that the sight of a banquet
connected in any way, shape or form with Christian traditions, giving thanks to
God, was so hateful to Muslims that the president and his lot would have to
repair to the high seas, far from the shores that would be soiled, defaced,
desecrated by their act and presence...
Here then is a question Americans are entitled to
have answered. When Arabs and other Muslims arrive and settle in America, when
and how does the miraculous transformation occur whereby the Christianity -- or
Judaism -- that surrounds them ceases to offend?
Robert Spencer in his book Onward Muslim Soldiers wrote about how many Muslims considered non-Muslims contaminated. He wrote:
Many Muslims believe that the impurity that Christians are considered to have by the standards of Islamic ritual laws "will be passed on by physical contact with them. A young Christian journalist found that a female Muslim typist would not eat with her for this reason. An elderly Christian man who staffed the press lounge at the National Assembly was banned by the National Assembly staff from touching any canteen utensils or even carrying a tray. A Christian student of science at the Islamia College in Karachi was forbidden by his fellow students to drink from a tap. Five Christian schoolgirls from St. Mary's School in Gujrat, who were taking a Home Economics practical examination on February 25, 1997, found that the Muslim examiner would not test or mark the food they had cooked. She ordered the Christian's food to be put into the dustbin, but tested the food of their eight Muslim classmates in the normal way.
In Pakistan two Christian brothers tried to buy ice cream from a vendor who insisted they not use his utensils which were reserved for Muslim customers. They protested and he accused them of "desecrating the Koran and blaspheming the Prophet Mohammed." Both received thirty five year prison sentences and fines of $1,500 (U.S. Dept. of State Bueau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor "Pakistan," Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2000 Feb 23, 2001).
Professor Laurence Loeb in a book titled (Outcaste- Jewish Life in Southern Iran, 1977), wrote that:
Fear of pollution by Jews led to great excesses and peculiar behavior by Muslims.
Water was considered the most common agent of pollution, therefore Jews were not permitted to use the public bathsThe possibility that rain-water might splash off a Jew onto a Muslim led to the prohibition of Jews walking in public during the rain. One informant from Shiraz told the following anecdote:
When I was a boy, I went with my father to the house of a non-Jew on business. When we were on our way, it started to rain. We stopped near a man who had apparently fallen and was bleeding. As we started to help him, a Muslim akhond (theologian) stopped and asked me who I was and what I was doing. Upon discovering that I was a Jew, he reached for a stick to hit me for defiling him by being near him in the rain. My father ran to him and begged the akhond to hit him instead.
Jonathan Foreman in his column "Islam's Cruel Crusaders"(New York Post 10/31/01 p37) wrote the following about the Saudis:
This U.S. "ally" actually banned Christmas carols from Armed Forces Radio during the Gulf War.
2) Desire to keep believers from being led away from the religion by nonbelievers.
The existence of a non-believer is a threat to those promoting belief. Especially if the non-believer is powerful and successful, after all, God is supposed to reward the believer and punish the non-believer. If the believer is convinced the nonbeliever is bad, better yet, if the believer kills the nonbeliever, than the believer is less likely to be influenced by the nonbeliever.
The Iranian Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri further indicated that a non-Muslim (kafirs) impurity was,There is an Islamic belief that the non-believer is unclean. This idea was promoted to create hatred of non-Muslims so that they would not influence Muslims (Bostom, A. The American Thinker 7/22/08). Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran explained that:
Eleven things are unclean: urine, excrement, sperm, blood, a dog, a pig, bones, a non-Muslim man and woman [emphasis added], wine, beer, perspiration of a camel that eats filthThe whole body of a non-Muslim is unclean, even his hair, his nails, and all the secretions of his bodyA child below the age of puberty is unclean if his parents and grandparents are not Muslims; but if he has a Muslim for a forebear, then he is cleanThe body, saliva, nasal secretions, and perspiration of a non-Muslim man or woman who converts to Islam automatically become pure. As for the garments, if they were in contact with the sweat of the body before conversion, they will remain uncleanIt is not strictly prohibited for a Muslim to work in an establishment run by a Muslim who employs Jews, if the products do not aid Israel in one way or another. However it is shameful [for a Muslim] to be under the orders of a Jewish departmental head.
a political order from Islam and must be adhered to by the followers of Islam, and the goal [was] to promote general hatred toward those who are outside Muslim circles. This "hatred" was to assure that Muslims would not succumb to corrupt, i.e., non-Islamic thoughts.
To much of Islam, the United States represents the powerful successful non-believer.
Daniel Pipes when asked why Islamic radicals attacked the United States (CNNfn: Moneyline News Hour August 29, 2002) answered:
You know, it's in the nature of all totalitarian movements, all radical utopian movements, like the Fascists, the Communists, and now the Islamists, that sooner or later they get the United States in their sights as the most dangerous enemy they have. And we're dangerous by virtue of who we are, not necessarily what we do. By our democracy, our individualism, our consumerism, our commercialism. And totalitarians can't abide that because, among other things, it is an enormous temptation for their own people. So they have to get rid of it.
Mosques teach the faithful that the practices of the non-believer are
evil. For example the
Khalid Bin
Al-Walid Mosque of Toronto has a web site in which it is written:
"Allah and his messenger have warned us against following or imitating non-Muslims in things which are characteristic of their religion or beliefs. This is more emphasized in the case of their eids [festivals] or occasions, which always hold some religious or ideological non-Islamic meanings, and on which the kuffaar indulge in many evil practices."
What are these evil holidays in which the Kuffaar (non-believers) engage in many evil practices? Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, Halloween, birthdays, New Years are among them. (National Post 10/4/07)
Volunteers who vaccinate Muslims in countries such as Pakistan are sometimes killed. This may be a result of Muslim suspicion of vaccinations provided by the infidel West.
Christians called those who disagreed with their doctrine heretics and created paranoia toward them. The following paragraphs about this are from the Catholic Encyclopedia.
Heresy, in the sense of falling away from the Faith, became possible only after the Faith had been promulgated by Christ. Its advent is clearly foretold, Matt., xxiv, 11, 23-26: " . . . many false prophets shall rise. and shall seduce many. . . . Then if any man shall say to you: Lo here is Christ, or there, do not believe him. For there shall rise false Christs and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect. Behold I have told it to you, beforehand. If therefore they shall say to you: Behold he is in the desert, go ye not out: Behold he is in the closets, believe it not. "Christ also indicated the marks by which to know the false prophets: "Who is not with me is against me" (Luke, xi, 23); "and if he will not hear the Church let him be to thee as the heathen and the publican" (Matt., xviii, 17); "he that believeth not shall be condemned" (Mark, xvi, 16). The Apostles acted upon their Master's directions. All the weight of their own Divine faith and mission is brought to bear upon innovators. "If any one", says St.Paul, "preach to you a gospel, besides that you have received, let him be anathema" (Gal., i, 9). To St. John the heretic is a seducer, an antichrist, a man who dissolves Christ (I John, iv, 3; II John, 7); "receive him not into the house nor say to him, God speed you" (II John, 10). St. Peter, true to his office and to his impetuous nature, assails them as with a two-edged sword: " . . . lying teachers who shall bring in sects of perdition, and deny the Lord who bought them: bringing upon themselves swift destruction . . . These are fountains without water, and clouds tossed with whirlwinds, to whom the mist of darkness is reserved" (II Pet., ii, 1, 17). St. Jude speaks in a similar strain throughout his whole epistle. St. Paul admonishes the disturbers of the unity of faith at Corinth that "the weapons of our warfare . . . are mighty to God unto the pulling down of fortifications, destroying counsels, and every height that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God . . . and having in readiness to revenge all disobedience" (II Cor., x, 4, 5, 6).
What Paul did at Corinth he enjoins to be done by every bishop in his own church. Thus Timothy is instructed to "war in them a good warfare, having faith and a good conscience, which some rejecting have made shipwreck concerning the faith. Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have delivered up to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme" (I Tim., i, 18-20). He exhorts the ancients of the Church at Ephesus to "take heed to yourselves, and to the whole flock, wherein the Holy Ghost hath placed you bishops, to rule the church of God, . . . I know that, after my departure, ravening wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock . . . Therefore watch, . . ." (Acts, xx. 28, 29, :31). "Beware of dogs", he writes to the Philippians (iii, 2), the dogs being the same false teachers as the "ravening wolves". The Fathers show no more leniency to perverters of the faith. A Protestant writer thus sketches their teaching (Schaff-Herzog, s. v. Heresy): "Polycarp regarded Marcion as the first-born of the Devil. Ignatius sees in heretics poisonous plants, or animals in human form. Justin and Tertullian condemn their errors as inspirations of the Evil One; Theophilus compares them to barren and rocky islands on which ships are wrecked; and Origen says, that as pirates place lights on cliffs to allure and destroy vessels in quest of refuge, so the Prince of this world lights the fires of false knowledge in order to destroy men. [Jerome calls the congregations of the heretics synagogues of Satan (Ep. 123), and says their communion is to be avoided like that of vipers and scorpions (Ep. 130).]" These primitive views on heresy have been faithfully transmitted and acted on by the Church in subsequent ages. There is no break in the tradition from St. Peter to Pius X
The punishment for heretics is described by the Catholic Encyclopedia as follows:
The burning of heretics was first decreed in the eleventh century. The Synod of Verona (1184) imposed on bishops the duty to search out the heretics in their dioceses and to hand them over to the secular power. Other synods, and the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) under Pope Innocent III, repeated and enforced this decree, especially the Synod of Toulouse (1229), which established inquisitors in every parish (one priest and two laymen). Everyone was bound to denounce heretics, the names of the witnesses were kept secret; after 1243, when Innocent IV sanctioned the laws of Emperor Frederick II and of Louis IX against heretics, torture was applied in trials; the guilty persons were delivered up to the civil authorities and actually burnt at the stake. Paul III (1542) established, and Sixtus V organized, the Roman Congregation of the Inquisition, or Holy Office, a regular court of justice for dealing with heresy and heretics (see ROMAN CONGREGATIONS).
It is interesting to note that from the Jewish point of view Jesus was a heretic. Many Christian antisemites hate the Jews because of the belief that the Jewish leaders reported Jesus to the Roman authorities yet the Christians killed and tortured heretics. At least the Jewish leaders had the excuse that they were supposed to report all sedition to the Roman authorities and would have been killed by the Romans if they did not report Jesus. We don't know with certainty if the Jewish leaders reported Jesus to the Romans at all, the Romans must have known about him because of the large following that he had. In fact when the Romans killed him they called him the "King of the Jews".
3) Finding a scapegoat for the failures of the religion. (Protecting self esteem by blaming others)
According to Yossef Bodansky, in his book Islamic Anti-Semitism as a Political Instrument:
The Jewish conspiracy is the most effective excuse and justification of Islamist leaders about the backwardness of the Muslim World-the loss of power and economic failures vis-a-vis the West. All of these calamities, they argue, are because of a Jewish-dominated global conspiracy aimed to eradicate Islam. Being a divine way of life, Islam is expected to have an answer to everything. Therefore, the troubles from which the contemporary Muslim society is suffering must be due to nonbelievers and to plots-primarily by Zionists.
According Andrew Bostom, one of Islam's oldest and most respected Sunni historians, al-Tabari (d. 923), taught that a renegade Yemenite Jew, Abdallah b. Saba, infiltrated the Muslim faith, propagated false teachings (Shia Islam) and launched the split between Sunnis and Shiites.
Ralph Peters in an article called "The Tragedy of the Arabs" (New York Post 3/30/03) wrote:
Without the United States - and, of course, Israel - as excuses for Arab political squalor, Arabs might have to engage in self-examination, to ask themselves, "How have we failed so badly?"
They prefer to blame others, to sleepwalk through history, and to cheer when tyrants and terrorists "avenge" them.
On one level, Arabs know that Saddam Hussein is a monster. They know he has killed more Arabs than Israel ever could do. Saddam has been the worst thing to happen to Mesopotamia since the Mongols razed Baghdad. But Arabs are so jealous and discouraged that they need to inflate even Saddam into a hero. They have no one else.
Many of the Muslim conspiracy theories are downright insane. A collection of these has been posted by Kathy Shaidle. A Muslim cleric is shown below saying that internet porn is a Jewish conspiracy to make war on Muslims.
This may be in part an effort to make excuses for the widespread interest in pornography by Muslims. Here is a comment on this video that appeared on jihadwatch.
Another commenter wrote:
Here are the Muslim countries and how they placed in the top five world ranking of various bestiality-related internet search terms:
Pig Sex: Pakistan (No. 1) Egypt (No. 2) Saudi Arabia (No. 3)
Donkey Sex: Pakistan (No. 1) Iran (No. 3) Saudi Arabia (No. 4)
Dog Sex: Pakistan (No. 1) Saudi Arabia (No. 3)
Cat Sex: Pakistan (No. 1) Iran (No. 2) Egypt (No. 3) Saudi Arabia (No. 4)
Horse Sex: Pakistan (No. 1) Turkey (No. 3)
Cow Sex: Pakistan (No. 1) Iran (No. 2) Saudi Arabia (No. 4)
Goat Sex: Pakistan (No. 1)
Animal Sex: Pakistan (No. 1) Morocco (No. 2) Iran (No. 4) Egypt (No. 5)
Snake Sex: Pakistan (No. 1) Malaysia (No. 3) Indonesia (No. 4) Egypt (No. 5)
Monkey Sex: Pakistan (No. 1) Indonesia (No. 3) Malaysia (No. 4)
Bear Sex: Pakistan (No. 1) Saudi Arabia (No. 2)
Elephant Sex: Pakistan (No. 1) Egypt (No. 3) United Arab Emirates (No. 4) Malaysia (No. 5)
Fox Sex: Saudi Arabia (No. 1) Turkey (No. 4)[2]
Stephen Brown in an article titled The Depraved World of Jihadi Child Porn, pointed out that there is a strong correlation between child sexual exploitation and terrorism.
Many Christians reacted to criticisms of Mel Gibson's Passion movie with paranoia.
Rabbi Benjamin Blech in an article titled "The Passion, The Movie and the Aftermath" (3/9/04?) wrote how after he saw the Passion a woman asked him what he thought of it. He replied that the movie was very violent. She angrily said to him: "You must be Jewish. Jews are always going to find fault, with a story that tells the truth about our Lord!" There have been numerous Christian articles claiming that those who attack the Passion are really against Christianity. Although that may be true in some cases, in some cases the criticisms are out of genuine concern. One case in point is that of Sister Mary Boys, a professor at the Union Theological Seminary in New York, who was part of an ad hoc group that was asked to read an early screenplay, and who publicly warned that it could inflame anti-Semitism. Rabbi Blech wrote about the Christian reaction to her as follows:
The result? Sister Boys said that not only was Gibson furious but since the group made those criticisms, she and other members have been attacked by supporters of the movie as "anti-Christ, the arrogant gang of so-called scholars, dupes of Satan, forces of Satan and other terms that I cannot use in polite company.
Recently created religions show the same disturbing tendencies as Christianity and Islam. For example Scientology calls nonbelievers the "enemy". In addition religions often inculcate a feeling of superiority toward the nonbeliever. Part of Christian doctrine was that God rejected the Jews and chose them instead because the Jews killed Christ. Scientologists derisively term people outside Scientology "Wogs" or as Hubbard defined them, "common, ordinary, run-of-the-mill, garden-variety humanoids." (See, Tom and Nicole Split, a Question of Faith).
The motive to create paranoia to those who challenge the faith extends to those who challenge the faith of others in oneself. For example paranoia was created to Israeli journalists who reported Palestinian criticism of the corruption of a local Fatah leader in Bethlehem (Palestinians: We'll kill Israeli journalists who enter Bethlehem, by Arieh O'Sullivan and Lamia Lahoud Jerusalem Post Feb 13, 2001). Following the report, the Bethlehem Fatah movement published an announcement intended to clear Hamid's name, saying that the corruption charges were planted by "external agents interested in splitting the Palestinian street and the Fatah leadership." The Bethlehem Fatah movement created paranoia to the Israeli journalists in order to discredit them. This also falls under the category of creation of paranoia to remove a threat which is discussed in my article.
A film about the life of Muhammad by an Egyptian copt named Nakoula Basseley Nakoula sparked Muslim protests across the world as well as attacks on the U.S. embassy in Egypt and Libya. The American ambassador as well as other Americans were killed. Nakoula claimed his name was Sam Bacile and that he was an Israeli American real estate developer who raised 5 million dollars for the film from 100 Jewish donors. He didn't want to be attacked for the film and figured why not blame the Jews. Copts are known to be anti-Israel. Long after it was known that a copt made the film muslims protested in Sri Lanka.
"Dear Muslims around the world, stop purchasing Jewish products such as Coca Cola, KFC, McDonald's, Pepsi, Fanta, Pizza Hut, You Tube, D and G etc," said a banner carried by protesters.
"Who is behind the film? Jews," said another anti-Semitic placard carried by the demonstrators.
6) Islams Need to Create
Paranoia to Sustain Jihad
Nonie Darwish in a speech to the Heritage
Foundation which can be viewed
online said:
Jihad is defined by Al Azhar University which is the oldest Islamic University in Cairo over a thousand years old this is the definition of Jihad. It's a permanent war instition against nonbelievers Jews Christians and Pagans. Permanent war institution. To maintain this permanent Jihad a villain must always exist as a reason and motivation. Thus we get a culture dominated by anger hatred pointing fingers and being constantly offended.
Islam promises men the reward of virgin beauties in paradise if the kill the non-believer. In order to provide additional motivation for Muslims to kill they are shown videos depicting tortured and slain Muslims that are now on the internet. Although Muslims are slain in conflicts with non-Muslims I have not heard reports of torture of Muslims other than by other Muslims. Videos of Muslims committing atrocities can be seen here.
Ryan Mauro wrote an article titled Hate Crimes an Islamist Weapon in which he gives examples of Muslims staging phony hate crimes and Islamic groups using them to create paranoia and to convince other Muslims to donate to them. One example he gave was of Musa and Essa Shteiwi, Ohio men who received media attention in 2006 after reporting several attacks on their store, the third being with a Molotov cocktail. A fourth attack then occurred, when an explosion was set off and badly burned the father and son, injuries from which they later died. CAIR highlighted it as a hate crime. However, investigators found that the two had set off the explosion themselves after they poured gasoline in preparation for another staged incident and one of them foolishly lit a cigarette. The pair had hired a former employee to carry out the previous attacks as part of an insurance fraud scheme.
Mr. Mauro included a graph of hate crimes in his article:
Notice how the group with the most hate crimes against them are the Jews the group who the Muslims hate the most. Guess who probably is committing these hate crimes.
Abdul Razak Ali Artan, a student at Ohio State drove a car into a crowd of people, then got out and stabbed several more before he was shot and killed by campus police. In a Facebook post, Artan referenced jihad mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki and declared: I am sick and tired of seeing my fellow Muslim brothers and sisters being killed and tortured EVERYWHERE. I cant take it anymore. America! Stop interfering with other countries [if] you want us Muslims to stop carrying lone wolf attacks. Abdul believed that America is torturing and killing his fellow Muslims. This paranoia coupled with the promise of virgins is key to motivating Muslims to murder people.
MEMRI posted a video creating paranoia toward Jews because a Jew created the comic hero superman. According to the anti-semitic mindset everything the Jews do must be bad. This video is quite instructive how an innocent nice thing can be made to look like sinister manipulation.
4) Creating Paranoia to Create Pride
Mark Juergensmeyer in an interview by the New York Press (Jihad 101 11/28-12/4/01) said how Dr. Abdul Rantisi, the political head of Hamas told him:
Don't think we're fighting for land. We're fighting for pride.
In the same interview Juergensmeyer writes how Mahmud Abouhalima told him the story about a lion who was raised by sheep. One day the lion went to a pond and saw his own reflection and then he suddenly realized he wasn't a sheep he was a lion. He said that is what Islam taught him -- that he wasn't a sheep, he was a lion. This exhilarating sense of empowerment came with feeling he was part of a great struggle. He was a warrior. A fighter.
IIb Religions Creation of Oppressors
Religions such as Islam command their adherents to subjugate or kill the non-believer. The believer needs some explanation for why he is to be so brutal to the non-believer. The fact that they don't believe may not be sufficient. Therefore there is the incentive to find rationalizations to view the non-believer as the oppressor. Here is a clip from MEMRI in which the speaker starts by giving the religious reasons to fight the non-believer and then shifts to the non-believer is the oppressor theme.
The Quran says that Muhammad slaughtered infidels and infidels are evil. If Muhammad slaughtered infidels they must be evil according to the thinking of Muslims who believe that Muhammad was a great prophet. Hence the tendency to believe paranoid theories about infidels. What if you are an Imam, you may feel it's your job to instill hatred of these evil infidels in your Muslim followers. In one example of this Jamaican Sheikh Abdullah Al-Faisal accused infidels of putting cancer in fake zamzam (water drawn from a sacred well in Mecca), which was then bottled and sold to Muslims. Nonie Darwish gave a very good explanation of this kind of thinking in her article "Why Muslims Must Hate Jews".
Another source of paranoia is that non-believers are not going to walk like lambs to the slaughter at least not all of them. Some will fight back with the result that there will be dead Muslims. An unfortunate but very common human trait is to forget one's responsibility for disasters. So Muslims are likely to forget their responsibility for the violence that led to the defensive action of the non-believer that led to the dead Muslims. That would be hard on their self esteem. They are much more likely to view the defensive action as an aggressive action of the non-believers against them. Then they become the heros fighting the evil non-believer oppressor. That much better for the self esteem. This is illustrated in a cycle diagram on this web site.
In Egypt Muslims kidnap Christian girls and
forcibly convert them to Islam. According to CNN, there have been
widespread rumors of Coptic women in Egypt who were allegedly detained by the
church after they converted to Islam, in the hopes of convincing or compelling
them to return to their original faith. This became
a reason
for revenge attacks on Christians. Muslims had made Christians out to be
the oppressors imprisoning innocent Muslim women. The Islamic State of
Iraq avenged itself by attacking a Catholic church during Mass in downtown
Baghdad in the deadliest siege ever recorded against the countrys Christian
population.
The terrorists held dozens of people hostage for hours. By the time the standoff
had ended, 58 were dead and 75 others were wounded, including many women and
children.
They also put Christians across the Middle East on notice that they are now
legitimate targets.
This cycle to a large degree explains the view of many of the Arabs that the Israelis and the Americans are the evil oppressors. The Arab propaganda directed toward the West doesn't argue this of course and instead argues that the Israelis are brutal oppressors and that they are fighting for their freedom. The falsity of these claims is discussed on the Arab Propaganda page of Americans For A Safe Israel.
Muslims have a long history of enslaving other people in fact they enslave blacks today in the Sudan and they sold enslaved blacks to Europeans who shipped them to America. Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, however, accuses Jews of being involved in the slave trade. The majority religion of the ship owners were Christian however there were some Jews who owned some of the ships. There were also some Jewish slave owners. However the paranoid picture painted by Louis Farakhan differs greatly from reality. We get a picture of reality from Oscar Straus who wrote as follows: (We lived there too (Kenneth Libo and Irving How)
In our town, as in all Southern communities, the better families were kind, especially to their household slaves, whom they regarded as members of the family requiring guardianship and protection, in a degree as if they were children. And the slaves addressed their masters by their first names but always preceded by Mr. and their mistresses as miss. My mother, for instance was Miss Sara. I recall one of our servants pleading with my mother: Miss Sara, wont you buy me? I want to stay here. I love you and the white folks here, and I am afraid my master will hire me out and sell me to someone else. At that time we hired our servants from their masters, who we paid an agreed price. But, as the result of such constant pleadings, my father purchased household slaves one by one from their masters, although neither he nor my mother believed in slavery
Creation of Paranoia to Gain Influence
Alan Dershowitz wrote an article about creation of paranoia by the modern Catholic church. He wrote:
An essential aspect of Christian teaching, and especially of Catholic teaching, is the important principle that distingusihes between intentionally killing an innocent person, and unintentionally killing an innocent person in the process of legitimately trying to prevent harm to ones self or others. This concept, known as the principle of double effect, is central to Catholic theology. It traces its roots to Thomas Aquinas and has had enormous influence on moral thinking not only within the Catholic Church, but throughout Christianity and indeed in the secular world as well. Understanding and complying with this principle may literally mean the difference between eternal damnation and eternal salvation. Thats how important it is.
Except, apparently, when it comes to the Jewish state of Israel. Then suddenly moral blindness makes it impossible for church authorities to see, understand or apply this principle. Cardinal Martino is not the first church leader to try to create moral equivalence between the actions of Hamas in willfully and proudly trying to kill as many Jewish children, women and other civilians as possible, and the actions of the Israeli Defense Forces in trying to stop them from killing Jewish children, while inadvertently killing some Palestinian civilians who are used as human shields by Hamas. The Pope himself has been guilty of invoking such moral equivalence between these very different actions. Indeed it is fair to say that the Vaticans entire approach to the Israel-Hamas conflict has been to suggest a false moral equivalence.
Church leaders know better. They understand precisely what they are doing. They are making utilitarian, pragmatic and very anti-Catholic cynical judgments calculated to bolster the influence of The Church in the Middle East.
The odd aspect of this is that Christians are persecuted throughout the Middle East by Muslims. It may be that the church hopes to protect Christians in the Middle East by attacking Jews. Since many Christians view the Jews as evil killers of Christ it is easy to blame the Jews for Muslim attacks on Christians. If we only attack the Jews too, the Church leaders may reason, the Muslims will not associate us with them and treat us well.
IIB Use of Religion to Create Paranoia:
The accusation that the Jews were planning to destroy the Al Aqsa mosque has been used to repeatedly incite Arabs to violence against the Jews. In August 20 such incitement led to assaults by Arab gangs which included massacres in Hebron, Safed and Jaffa where elderly, defenseless people were tortured and murdered. (Years of Wrath, Days of Glory, Yitshaq Ben Ami 1983)
According to the Palestinian Media Watch Bulletin (Aug. 26, 2004):
On
Aug. 21, 1969, a non-Jewish Australian named Michael Rohan set fire to
the podium of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Israel arrested and tried the mentally
deranged arsonist.
For years, the PA has been portraying this as a Zionist attack on the
mosque. This week, a special program dedicated to the issue described the
incident as a premeditated attack by the Israeli government. According to this
broadcast, Israel conspired with the arsonist, then deliberately allowed the
fire to spread by delaying the arrival of fire engines and cutting off water to
the site.
The PA version of events -- this week and in previous years -- also states
that then-Prime Minister Golda Meir referred to the fire as both the
"hardest" and "happiest" day of Israel's history: the
hardest because she feared the incident would lead to an attack by neighboring
Arab countries, and the happiest because such an attack never occurred. One
account from 2001 even claimed that Meir "laughed" when there was no
attack.
Here is an example of the Al Aqsa accusation from a PA sermon in 2010
As is usually in these types of paranoia creation those creating the paranoia are guilty of doing the same thing to their enemies. The Muslims have dug near the Al Aqsa mosque and the dirt from their digging was full of Jewish artifacts. In fact a law suit was filed against the Muslims for damaging Jewish antiquities.
The Saudis post online sermons that incite according to Dore Gold author of Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism. (Response summer 2003 V24 #2)
The sermons advocate ongoing religious conflict with Christianity and Judaism, described as the camp of blasphemy and polytheism.
IIC Creation of Paranoia to Reduce Shame
I read an interesting hypothesis for one of the causes for Nazi anti-semitism on a website called All the Emperor's Men which was that blaming Germany's defeat on a Jewish conspiracy reduced the shame of having lost. Garry Greenwood the author of the web page wrote:
Possibly the most frightening and devastating facet of Adolf Hitler's blueprint for world power had already come into his possession as early as 1919. For it was around then that the supposed records of the proceedings of the World Congress of Jewry, held in Basle, Switzerland, in 1897, had been recently smuggled out of Russia, where they had been secretly kept till then, and published in Germany and other countries. These published proceedings are known as "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion", and purport to be the resolutions and plans of a Jewish conspiracy for world domination....
The recently defeated German nation soaked up the contents of "The Protocols" like a dry sponge, since they explained, to them at least, why their powerful nation had suffered such a bitter defeat in World War I. From "The Protocols" they perceived how they were the victims of a global world conspiracy, and this allowed the Germans to place the blame for every conceivable woe rightly upon the shoulders of the Jews.
The Japanese school system hides from Japanese children the atrocities Japan committed before and during World War II. Garry Greenwood wrote:
Immediately upon their surrender, the Japanese army, which was in charge of the education system, totally erased all reference to and information regarding Japanese aggression, occupation and atrocities committed during the war. All documents and films recording their recent holy war were confiscated or destroyed. Nowhere, particularly today, will you find any Japanese reference to what their army did in the years leading up to 1945. This means most Japanese born after that year, which probably amounts to around 75 percent of the population, are almost totally ignorant of these facts. No Japanese under 50 will have any knowledge of the infamous "Rape of Nanking", the Baatan and Sandakan death marches, and so on. I have asked several Japanese Mahikari members if they are aware of the infamous "Rape of Nanking", and they have all answered in the negative. However, the Japanese have been told of their struggle to halt foreign imperialism, and how this struggle resulted in the fire-bombing of Tokyo in which 200,000 people were incinerated, plus the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from the use of atomic bombs.
Thus the Japanese erase their shame and create paranoia to the rest of the world, paranoia that some day may lead to war.
When the hero of the Arab world, Saddam Hussein was capture in a hole after not firing a shot this was a day of sadness and intolerable shame for the Arab world. As a result they generated conspiracy theories such as Saddam having been drugged before he was captured so that he couldn't resist and so on. Perhaps the most creative conspiracy theory was written about by Robert Spencer in frontpagemag.com as follows:
Have you heard? Saddam Hussein is in Tel Aviv. He has been an agent for the U.S. and Israel since 1980, and followed instructions given him by George W. Bush himself in a phone conversation last winter about how to behave when American troops entered Iraq. The capture of Saddam was an elaborate charade designed to bolster the flagging morale of American troops in Iraq. The bearded, broken man who was captured wasnt Saddam; any keen observer would know that Saddam had a mole or wart on his cheek, but that the crude double in the hands of the Americans has no such mark. Whats more, in the footage of Saddams hideaway, the foliage is from late summer! Clearly the Americans are trying to fool us with months-old archival footage that has nothing to do with Saddam at all!
Saddams sons Uday and Qusay, meanwhile, are in Monte Carlo, continuing to live the high life. American troops spirited them out of the country and staged their deaths in order to demoralize the Iraqi resistance.
There apparently is shame in the
Arab world that Muslims are fighting Muslims and that their heroic role model
Al Qaeda is attacking other Muslims. How does a Muslim rid oneself of
this shame? By blaming the Jews of course. This may explain why the
Palestinian newspaper, Al Quds ran an
article on March 23rd which quoted a Saudi official as saying that "world
Zionism" was behind Al Qaida. Salah Zahrani, chairman of the Saudi
Consultative Council's security committee told a lecture in Riyad that world
Zionism has fueled Al Qaida attacks throughout the world.
The idea being promoted is that the Zionists
sowed confusion among the Al Qaida leadership when they killed Al Qaida's real
leader, Abdullah Azzam. The Mossad killed him because he wanted to bring
Islamic holy war from Afghanistan to Palestine.
Since then, world Zionism has supplied Al Qaida
and deceived its membership into attacking Islamic countries. Zahrani pointed
out that Al Qaida has never conducted a major attack against the Jewish state.
He also said Saudi security forces have found a Mossad link with Al Qaida,
which has received weapons supplies from Israel. (Palestinian
Clan Battles, Frontpage Magazine.com 3/28/2006)
The Islamic faith says that Muslims are to be dominant to infidels. Muslims feel shame when they do not achieve the dominance they are commanded to achieve. Kenneth Levin, a psychiatrist who authored the Oslo Syndrome Delusions of a People Under Siege, said that the impulse to Islamic indoctrination of the Jews:
which is also directed to a lesser degree against Christians and other groups, lies largely in Arab xenophobia and the dominant self-perception - advanced by both Islamist and secular regimes - of being a people whose rightful superior place in the world has been stolen from them by the evil machinations of others. (Purifying Allah's Soil, Frontpage Magazine 1/27/06)
David Gutmann, in an article titled The Arab Lie Whose Time Has Come (frontpagemag.com 4/21/04) wrote that many Palestinian Arabs fled in 1948 and about how they've rewritten history to make it appear that they were brutally driven out of their homes. He wrote:
The Palestinians are still tortured by the residual shame of their flight. Their shame is so great because in their eyes running from Jews was like running from women... To relieve their shame they stridently and continually demand that their unsavory history be rewritten and reversed.
After Al Qaeda bombed Jordanian hotels and killed many Muslims including the fathers of a couple having a wedding many Jordanians blamed Israel even though Al Qaeda took "credit" for the bombing. They didn't want to believe that Muslims would do such a thing. (New York Times, 11/12/05) On Nov 13, an Iraqi woman confessed to being part of the suicide plot on Jordanian TV (Excite News 11/14/05).
The more shame a group has the more it has to defend its honor.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave a speech at Columbia University, in which he assured the audience that there are no gay people in his country. Joseph Masad a professor at Columbia said that:
Queer is an imperialist term. It is part of the Anglo-American gay agenda... queer is an example of cultural imperialism.
IID Creation of Paranoia to Avoid Facing a Threatening Reality
Amy Wax is a professor at the University of
Pennsylvania as of this writing (2018). In an interview with Glen Loury
she said that " I
don�t think I�ve ever seen a black student graduate in the top quarter of the
class, and rarely, rarely, in the top half." This provided students with
ammunition they needed to get her removed from teaching students entering Penn
Law School. She was accused of racism and her opinions condemned.
What she said is probably true. Affirmative action by definition brings
people into school who are less qualified so one would expect them not to
perform as well in a very competitive environment like Penn. A study that
showed that the elimination of race-based admissions policies would lead to a
63% decline in black matriculants at all law schools and a 90% decline at elite
law schools. Heather MacDonald
wrote in the Wall Street Journal that:
�In the early 1990s, the Law
School Admissions Council tracked 27,000 students at nearly 90% of all
accredited law schools. Of the 2,000 students attending the most "elite" law
schools, 52% of blacks were in the bottom tenth of their class, compared with 6%
of whites. Only 8% of blacks were in the top half of their class. Bar failure
rates were also skewed; the LSAC data showed that 19% of blacks graduating from
these elite schools failed the bar, compared with 3.5% of whites.�
Here is an excerpt of the excellent article titled University of Denial Amy Wax wrote in the Wall Street Journal:
Somewhere deep in a file drawer, or on a computer server humming away in a basement, are thousands upon thousands of numbers, with names and identities attached. They're called grades. They represent an objective reality, which exists independent of what people want reality to be. They sit silently, completely indifferent to indignation, angry petitions, irritable gestures, teachers' removal from classrooms�all the furor and clamor of institutional politics. ..
The problem is that students, including law students, go out into the real world. They are hired, paid and expected to perform, and their actions have real consequences for others. Whether we like it or not, grades help predict future performance..
students often expect equality of results and�especially in our identity-conscious world�issue loud demands for equality in group outcomes. When that doesn't happen, frustration and disappointment ensue, followed by charges of racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination...
That belief that political force determines objective reality has characterized totalitarian regimes world-wide and throughout history�regimes that are responsible for untold amounts of human misery. That mindset is dangerously inconsistent with the kind of free society Americans have painstakingly built and defended over many centuries, at the cost of blood and treasure. Perhaps we no longer want such a society. But we relinquish it at our peril.
Global warming believers demonize those who don't believe in Global Warming. Rael Isaac, in her fascinating book, Roosters of the Apocalypse (revised and expanded edition) wrote:
Given the sweeping success of the climate change movement, you might think its roosters would disregard the vastly outnumbered owls, leaving them to naysay, ignored, on the margins. But that's not how apocalyptic movements work. Unanimity is terribly important. As in the story of the emperor's new clothes, one small voice a the right moment can expose the nakedness of the project. So dissenters must be silenced, discredited or worse...
In the global warming apocalypse, every effort is made to banish climate change owls, no matter how distinguished their scientific record, to the outer fringe. The owls are flat-earthers, patsies for big oil, "deniers" (as in Holocaust deniers), analogous to racists (Al Gore's contribution), "people who say that asbestos is as good as talcum powder" (this from Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). James Hansen says CEOs of fossil energy companies should be tried for "high crimes against humanity and nature." Canada's equivalent to Al gore, fruit fly geneticist turned television broadcaster David Suzuki, challenged a McGill University Business Conference to "put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there's a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail for not acting swiftly on environmental issues.
Korea:
South Korea faces a very threatening situation from North Korea. North Korea has enough conventional weapons
trained on Seoul to annihilate it and has exploded a nuclear bomb. The United States is probably the only
barrier preventing war with the North. Many
South Koreans would like to believe that the North really isnt that bad and
that the problem is the United States and if the South just helps out the North
economically and perhaps merges with the North into a single Korea all will be
well. One can speculate that blaming
the United States is desirable because the United States is a lot less
threatening and also because its easier on the self esteem to blame the
Caucasians then their people of their on race.
In an article titled Cracking the Hermit Kingdom, Gordon Cucullu and
Joshua Stanton wrote: (frontpagemagazine.com
10/24/2006)
To their everlasting shame, many in South Korea
choose to live in cognitive dissonance and outright denial about conditions
inside their northern neighbor. Many South Koreans dismiss reports of grave
human rights abuses as U.S. propaganda, and dispute reports of conditions
within North Koreas gulag, to include the reported experimental poison gas chamber at Camp 22.
Britain:
Britain
faces the same Islamic threat as the rest of the western world. The underlying reasons for this are that
Britain is a largely infidel country that is not governed by Sharia and the
support Britain has given the United States which the Muslim world considers
the Great Satan. The Muslims world
considers the United States the great Satan because it supports the little
Satan Israel and because it is a large infidel country not governed by Sharia
and because it overthrew the Taliban in Afghanistan and is fighting a war
against the terrorist Muslims of Iraq.
Muslims hate the little Satan, Israel, because Israel is a free
democracy not governed by Sharia law and because of the hostility written into
the Koran and the Hadiths towards the Jews because they rejected Islam. Unless they submit to Sharia law and fight
for Islam, Britain will always be a target of Islamic terrorists. Israel is an ally in the war against Islamic
terror. This is a very undesirable
reality. It is much more preferable to
believe that the Islamic threat would disappear if Israel would disappear, or
at least if Britain did not ally itself with the Israel supporting United
States. It is much less threatening to
create paranoia toward the United States. To ease the guilt of allowing another
Holocaust of Israel it is much more desirable to see Israel as the Nazi-like
aggressor in the region that deserves whatever happens to it. It feels better to create paranoia toward
Israel. Melanie Phillips in an article
titled Britain
is turning on the U.S. at its Peril (USA Today, 10/24/2006) wrote:
Fury at Prime
Minister Blair for being President Bush's "poodle"
has reached such a pitch that the most successful Labor prime minister in
memory is being forced out of office because of his support for U.S. policy in
Iraq and Israel. Labor's members of Parliament say his refusal to break with
America by calling for an earlier cease-fire in Lebanon was the last straw. The
disturbing fact is that Britain is consumed by a rampant anti-Americanism and
an allied hostility toward Israel, which are driving public debate into irrationality,
prejudice and appeasement.
In a Populus poll last month in The Times of London,
62% said the government should change its policy by distancing itself from the
United States, being more critical of Israel and declaring a timetable for
withdrawing from Iraq. An August YouGov poll in The Spectator magazine
revealed that only 14% supported closer U.S. ties
The
biggest single cause of British anti-Americanism, however, is Israel. Despite
being the target for more than half a century of genocidal Arab and Muslim
aggression, Israel is widely perceived in Britain as the regional bully, and
its acts of self-defense are viewed as the principal motor behind both the
Middle East impasse and Islamic grievance because of its supposed refusal to
allow the Palestinians to have a state of their own.
Thus John
Denham, chairman of the parliamentary Home Affairs Select Committee, wrote that
Israel's policies were making Britain a target for terror. America brought the
9/11 attacks upon itself, goes this type of thinking, because of its support
for Israel and the only reason Britain is now threatened by Islamic terror is
because of Blair's support for the United States
A recent
report by the Parliamentary Committee Against Anti-semitism found that since
2000, anti-Semitism is on the rise in Britain. It is now common to read in the
news media, for example, that the Jews are engaged in a global conspiracy that
has subverted U.S. foreign policy to serve the interests of Israel and put the
rest of the world at risk. In April, for instance, The Independent
newspaper illustrated an interview on the subject of the "Israel lobby"
in America with a picture of the American flag in which the stars of the union
were replaced with the Stars of David. The headline: "The United States of Israel."
Thus the prejudice against America is inextricably conflated with prejudice
against Jews and the Jewish state.
The dismaying
truth is that, even after the suicide bombings in London,
America's defense of the free world against Islamic terror is widely viewed in
Britain as the cause of that terror. The paranoid bigotry that drives the jihad
that the United States and its Jewish puppet masters make up a giant
conspiracy of evil is being increasingly echoed within Britain's non-Muslim
population.
Europe:
Robert Wistrich in an interview (Outpost, Nov 2004) said that:
For now, Europe prefers to single out Israel, to pretend that if only the Israeli Palestinian conflict was resolved on Arab terms, terror would fade away...
The belief that pressuring Israel will end terror is a much more preferable belief to the belief that even if Israel did not exist, Muslims would commit acts of terror against Europe and that as they develop nuclear capability those acts of terror could involve nuclear weapons. The belief that showing hatred to Israel will make Europe popular in the Arab world is certainly less threatening than belief that until Europeans are Muslim, they are part of the Dar al Harb and therefore Moslems are commanded by Islamic law, to fight them whether Israel exists or not. According to Robert Wistrich
European policy toward the Arab world is de-facto appeasement. In some respects it reminds one of the 1930s. European Jews find themselves again caught in a very sensitive and potentially dangerous situation. If they support Israel in this constellation of European appeasement of the Arab world - and Muslims in general - they are increasingly treated as "warmongers" going against the political consensus. These are not only far-Left and far-Right accusations but also mainstream ones. They revive the old, seemingly unresolved question mark about the 'dual loyalties' of Jews.
Dr. Kenneth Levin, in an interview with Jamie Glazov that appeared in frontpagemagazine (The Oslo Syndrome 11/24/05) wrote about American self delusion in the face of the Islamic threat as follows:
Those
who unleashed the carnage of 9/11, as well as their supporters, have conveyed
in word and deed their grievances against America and their goals. They have
declared their deadly hostility not only to Americas military and diplomatic
presence in the Muslim world but to its cultural presence as well. They have
informed us of their determination to pursue a violent path to a recreated
Islamic caliphate cleansed of all Western "pollution" and to fight
for imposition of their Islamic rule worldwide. They have declared this a
religious duty. They have demonstrated there are no limits to the methods and
weapons they are prepared to use in their war.
Yet, while much of the American public quickly recognized the gravity of the
challenge, many have sought to recast the threat, to rationalize it, and to
urge policies aimed at appeasing the terrorists and their supporters in the
delusional hope of thereby rescuing the nation from the dangers it faces. Or
they have preferred to focus on particular, supposedly misguided, American
policies as having caused or intensified the threat. Indeed, blaming America is
the standard line in significant segments of American academia and media.
Among our political leaders, a number have urged us to compromise our answers to
the war against us by yoking our policies to European allies, to those even
more determinedly averting their eyes from the threat in the Middle East.
In the last Presidential election, one candidate, with the support of his
party, advocated subsuming our measures to the collective will of the United
Nations. The UN has routinely pandered to terror-promoting states and has
failed to respond forcefully even to acts of genocide. It has deemed Sudan and
Saudi Arabia fit for membership on its human rights commission, and it chose
Libya to chair that commission. Why political leaders would urge us to follow
the consensus of that body in fashioning our own actions in the war against
Islamofascism is difficult to fathom except as the delusional perspective of people
determined not to look honestly at the threats we face.
Averting our eyes from the actual challenge cannot help but sap our capacity to
fight the war in a manner that might minimize the losses we are yet to suffer.
While the U.N. puts human rights abusers on its human rights commission it condemns Israel. A powerful 5 minute video of the United Nations being condemned for this can be seen here. The following graphic makes clear the bias as well.
The United Nations published the Goldstone Report that accused Israel of crimes against humanity in operation Cast Lead against Hamas in Gaza. The following youtube video by U.N. watch discusses what's wrong with that.
Coptic priest Fr. Zakaria Botros, has been called by al Qaeda "one of the most wanted infidels in the world," issuing a 60 million dollar bounty on his head. Popular Arabic magazines also call him "Islam's public enemy #1". He hosts a television program, Truth Talk, on Life TV. When asked Muslim clerics and imams have such a difficulty discussing what Islam itself teaches and instead just attack you personally? he answered
I think the answer is obvious. The Islamic sources, the texts, speak for themselves. Muslims have no greater enemy than their own scripturesparticularly the Hadith and Sirawhich constantly scandalize and embarrass Muslims. To date, I have done well over 500 different episodes dedicated to various topics regarding Islam. And for every one of these episodes, all my material comes directly from Islams textual sources, particularly usul al-fiqhthe Koran, hadith, and ijma of the ulema as found in their tafsirs.
So what can the sheikhs of Islam do? If they try to address the issue I raise based on Islams texts and sharia, they will have no choice but to agreefor instance that concubinage is legal, or that drinking camel urine is advocated. The only strategy left them, then, is to ignore all that I present and attack my person, instead.
Blaming Others Rather
than Facing the Truth:
Former
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as of 11/15/2006 has been making the effort
to warn the world about how serious the threat of a nuclear Iran is. He said regarding the Wests view of the
situation:
They really
think that this is a Jewish problem.
They think that the Militant Islamists hates the West because of Israel.
They've hated the West for hundreds of years before there was an Israel.
To view Netanyahus speech on video click
here. What much of the Western
world is doing is avoiding facing the reality that they are faced with nuclear
annihilation unless they fight Iran.
The way the West is doing that is by rationalizing that if Israel would
only disappear the threat from Iran would be diminished. They rationalize that if they just show the
Islamic world that they dont like Israel and join the world in ganging up on
Israel the Islamic world will not be angry at them anymore and cease to be a
threat. Israel is one of the Infidel
Bastions against the threat of Islam.
That is a fundamental reason that the Arab world hates Israel. Ironically the world does not appreciate
Israel for this. On the contrary they
turn against Israel to avoid facing reality.
In March 2006, Mearshimer and Walt published an
article entitled "The Israel Lobby" in the London Review of Books
and on the Kennedy School's Web site. The paper asserts that a consortium of
American Jewish groups and individuals has conspired to undermine US national
security by forcing the US to support Israel in contravention of America's
national interest. Caroline Glick
wrote (The Jerusalem Post online 11/6/2006):
Sadly, the popularity of Walt and
Mearshimer's thesis is a consequence of a larger cultural phenomenon. Today
large swathes of people throughout the Western world wish to avoid the harsh
reality of global war at almost any price. This desire induces them to blame
any person or group they feel is forcing them to recognize this reality. And so
over the past five years we have been witness to malignant vituperations of
hatred directed against President George W. Bush, the neoconservatives, and the
Jews for their insistence on recognizing the reality of war.
Indeed, it is Bush's insistence on
recognizing the reality of war far more than the Democrats' refusal to accept
the results of the 2000 presidential elections that has fuelled the widespread,
obsessive and venomous hatred that Democrats heap on the president.
The real power in Washington may be the Saudi lobby as John R. MacArthur pointed out in 2007, in The Vast Power of the Saudi Lobby.
IID2 Creation of Paranoia to Prevent Hate
When a Muslim commits a crime in the West considerable effort is made to avoid calling him a Muslim and if he's Asian he'll be called Asian. This may be done to avoid offending Muslims and creating hatred toward Muslims but the result is the creation of hatred to all Asians. When Muslims preyed on infidel girls in England the press called them Asians. The Network of Sikh Organisations UK, The Hindu Forum of Britain, and The Sikh Media Monitoring Group UK issued a joint statement in which they said:
"We believe that in this case the government itself is sanctioning the use of term Asian as a way of clouding responsibility,.. We believe that political correctness stifles debate and will not facilitate a frank and mature discussion or solutions to get to the root of why the above pattern is emerging in these crimes and how to help find a solution to the problem. We will not be able to do that if we mask the identity of those involved based on misguided views of 'protecting a vulnerable community' of the perpetrators and not looking at the vulnerable community of victims."
The groups say sex gangs have targeted Hindu and Sikh girls but the cases are rarely reported as they seldom reach the courts.
Pamela Geller is a very courageous Jewish woman who responded to ads slandering Israel by posting her own ads telling the truth about Muslim countries and theology. Pamela is attacked for this even by Jews. Some of these Jews are involved with interfaith understanding efforts and don't want anyone to say anything that will antagonize Muslims even if it's true. What's interesting though is that when they attack her they attack her for things she didn't say. They create paranoia toward Pamela Geller in their quest to get along with Muslims. David Wood discusses this in the video below.
The media also avoids calling black gangs that attack white people black perhaps in order to avoid creating racist feelings toward blacks. Colin Flaherty reported on May 19, 2012 that:
On St. Patricks Day. A white tourist was attacked, beaten, robbed and stripped of his clothes by a gang of laughing and violent black people...
The attack was captured on two videos posted to YouTube that are attracting hundreds of thousands of viewers.
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake called the episode a bar brawl. And the Baltimore Sun newspaper suggested that violence at the Inner Harbor was part of an Easter tradition of kids milling around.
After the beating, police commissioner Frederick Bealefeld told reporters that the violence was an isolated incident, not racially motivated and that only about 100 people were involved.
But two months later, reporters from the Baltimore Sun listened to the audio tapes of police dispatchers and discovered there were at least five times more people involved and much more violence, including previously unreported stabbings and beatings.
And according to witnesses and video accounts, all the perpetrators were black.
Pat McDonough, a member of the Maryland legislature and his wife were in the area for a charity fundraising dinner on a Wednesday night. He said:
when I stopped at a traffic light, I saw a hundred young black people in the next block over fighting and walking down the middle of the street. There were no police around. No police reports. And no stories in the paper. Violence and mayhem among young black people in the Inner Harbor is the new norm, and this has to stop.
While the media and government officials go to great lengths to avoid creating hatred toward blacks it has no qualms about creating hatred to whites who speak the truth.
McDonoughs call for state police to protect the Inner Harbor from black youths who are terrorizing the area drew sharp rebuke from local elected officials and the media.
Rawlings-Blake said McDonoughs request was a racially tinged publicity stunt.. A fellow legislator called McDonough a race baiter. The Baltimore Sun called on the Maryland legislature to sanction McDonough.
Pat McDonough, a member of the Maryland legislature had the guts to say the truth. He said:
The Inner Harbor is a dangerous place for residents and visitors, and it does us no good to avoid this hard truth: Black youth are responsible for a sustained and dangerous period of violence in one of Baltimores nicest neighborhoods.
The media will even fabricate evidence to make someone appear racist who is not. George Zimmerman shot a black Trayvon Martin. According to the transcript of his 911 call, Zimmerman first said: "This guy looks like he's up to no good. Or he's on drugs or something. It's raining and he's just walking around, looking about." The dispatcher asked: "O.K., and this guyis he white, black or Hispanic?" Zimmerman responded, "He looks black." NBC edited the tape to say "This guy looks like he's up to no good. He looks black. The producer who edited the tape was fired when the story became public knowledge and there was an uproar.
The back of Zimmerman's head had blood on it from being bashed into the ground. The media edited the pictures. Ann Coulter talks about this below.
One reason she gives for this is that the press wanted there to be support for Obama who is black and believes that showing that whites are racist will increase such support.
Zimmerman was cleared by a jury after which there were black protests and black attacks on white people in revenge for Trayvon. Thee were no protests for Darryl Green a black teenager who was killed because he refused to join a black gang. That's because the Trayvon case was a useful tool to bash whites with.
Joel Gilbert investigated the Trayvon case and made some bombshell discoveries. He made a documentary about his investigation. The trailer can be seen below.
Gilbert said the "Trayvon hoax" refers not only the witness switch but to the hoax he says establishment media play on black Americans: that they must vote Democrat to protect themselves from a racist America in which whites are bent on harming them.
"It's a pretty evil idea to use a troubled black teen's tragic death to put a hispanic man in prison with the goal of controlling black voters," he said.
NBC altered clips.
Michael Brown was a black man killed by a decorated police officer in Ferguson Missouri. The left wing narrative is that the nearly 300-lbs. Brown, who had just robbed a convenience store minutes before encountering decorated policeman Darren Wilson, was an innocent gentle giant trying to surrender. This narrative does not fit the evidence and the testimony of multiple witnesses that Darren Wilson attacked the policeman and tried to get his gun. It doesn't fit the orbital fractures in Darren Wilson's eye. One possible purpose of creating paranoia toward whites in this way is to increase support for the Obama administration. The message is if you vote for Republican whites more of you will get shot. The Democrats leadership tend to side with Michael Brown thus gaining support of blacks. An example of this is Hillary Clinton who said young Michael Brown was a victim of police brutality.
The Grand Jury decided that Darren Wilson was not guilty and riots broke out. Prosecuter McCollough gave a speech after the Grand Jury made it's decision in which he explained what the evidence was and how the testimony that Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown in the back was inconsistent with the evidence. One has to ask oneself why there was false testimony like that? The reason is deliberate creation of paranoia toward whitey. On the other hand there was false propaganda that Darren Wilson's eye socket was broken. The motivation there was to support Mr. Wilson.
Here is an interview with Darren Wilson about happened:
The U.S. "Justice" department issued two reports. According to Thomas Sowell:
The first report, about the shooting death of Michael Brown by Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson ought to be read by every American.
It says in plain English what facts have been established by an autopsy on Michael Browns body by three different pathologists, including one representing the family of Michael Brown by DNA examination of officer Darren Wilsons gun and police vehicle, by examination of the pattern of blood stains on the street where Brown died and by a medical report on officer Wilson, from the hospital where he went for treatment...The other Justice Department report, issued the same day Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department was a complete contrast. Sweeping assumptions take the place of facts, and misleading statistics are thrown around recklessly.
John Lott Jr. wrote:
Data collected by the Ferguson Police Department from 2012 to 2014 shows that African-Americans account for 85 percent of vehicle stops, 90 percent of citations, and 93 percent of arrests made by FPD officers, despite comprising only 67 percent of Fergusons population.
Those statistics dont prove racism, because blacks dont commit traffic offenses at the same rate as other population groups.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics 2011 Police-Public Contact Survey indicate that, nationwide, blacks were 31 percent more likely than whites to be pulled over for a traffic stop.
Ferguson is a black-majority town. If its blacks were pulled over at the same rate as blacks nationally, theyd account for 87.5 percent of traffic stops.
In other words, the numbers actually suggest that Ferguson police may be slightly less likely to pull over black drivers than are their national counterparts...The survey also reveals that men are 42 percent more likely than women to be pulled over for traffic stops. Should we conclude that police are biased against men, or that men drive more recklessly?
In fact, blacks die in car accidents at a rate about twice their share of car owners.
Lloyd Marcus is a conservative black. He wrote that Democrats have an
" insidious tactic of dividing Americans into victimized voting blocs (blacks, women, Hispanics, and so on). After convincing various groups of Americans that they are victims, the Dems request their votes to use as protection money to keep their white racist sexist Republican/conservative enemies at bay. It is disgusting and evil."
Lloyd Marcus wrote how Joe Biden, a Democrat candidate for president said that Trump was a "nigger hating white supremacist". Mr. Marcus wrote:
On the anniversary of the shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, Democrat presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren despicably ran to the microphones to proclaim that black Michael Brown was murdered by a racist white cop. This is a bald-faced lie, proven untrue by evidence presented to a grand jury. Throwing her racist dog biscuit to blacks was Warren's evil cold and calculated campaign trick to win black votes.
Liberals often play the victim while victimizing others. Michael Rectenwald is a professor at NYU who experienced this. He wrote:
As they responded to my criticisms, the social justice idealogues both inside and outside the university demonstrated their authoritarian and fanatical character. With their notoriously vituperative, outrageous attack and pack mentality, they showed they routinely victimize others, all the while playing the victim.
Obama a black president who was elected twice said that racism is in America's DNA. A discussion of this proposition is given in the video below.
The BBC created a drama about a Muslim being beheaded by a Christian (wnd.com 7/12/2008). They may have been trying to prevent hatred toward Muslims by showing that Christians could be guilty of the same things. They may also be hostile to Christianity and trying to create hatred toward Christianity.
The Ohio National Guard had a drill to protect against terrorism but it wasn't Muslim terrorism. The ONG 52nd Civil Support Team training scenario involved a plot from local school district employees to use biological weapons in order to advance their beliefs about protecting Gun Rights and Second Amendment rights.
IIE Creation of Paranoia to Prevent Terror
Bat Ye'or in her book Eurabia wrote that fear of Arab retaliation against America has prompted Eurabians to distance themselves from America. She wrote:
George Bush's June 2004 visit in Ireland provoked hostile demonstrations. According to the Irish Examiner, the mayor of Shannon said that "the town's residents were being made into potential targets for a terrorist attack." Francois Heisbourg, director of the Paris Foundation for Strategic Research announced a future catastrophe with al-Qaeda soon gaining access to weapons of massive destruction, the extensive support it enjoys in the Arab world, and the lack of preparedness in teh targeted countries. He advises that Europe dissociate itself from America.
Of course the same fear prompts Eurabians to distance themselves from Israel. They fear massive terrorist strikes if they support Israel. Daniel Bernard, the French Ambassador to Britain called Israel a "shitty little country" and then asked, "Why should the world be in danger of World War III because of those people?" Israel is not threatening to commit a terrorist attack against France, Arab terrorists are, yet the French are unwilling to blame the Arabs for fear of antagonizing them (Antisemitism, Israel's National Shame, frontpagemag.com 1/10/02).
IIF Creation of Paranoia to Prevent War
In Israel there are those among the Israeli left who believe that demonizing the residents of Judea and Samaria will help bring peace. If those residents are demonized, the reasoning goes, it will be easier to uproot them from their homes and turn the land over to the Arabs who will then no longer wish to fight Israel. One of the ways the residents of Judea and Samaria have been demonized is with accusations that they cut down Arab olive trees. In one case, leftist activist Yoel Marshak was caught in an Arab olive grove holding a saw. (Israel National News 10/12/2008)
Phyllis Chesler in an article about why Progressives blame the victim rather than the perpetrator (frontpagemag.com The Chesler Wars 6/18/04) wrote:
Progressives find it easier to blame the Israeli or American governments for their mistakes than to stare long and hard into the face of radical Islamist evil. People often blame the victim. It's more dangerous to blame the perpetrator. He might come after you too and he can only be stopped by a high-risk rescue mission or prolonged military operation. Finally, because people are also good, they prefer to look away from the matter entirely rather than endure the guilt they would otherwise feel for doing nothing.
IIFa Creation of Paranoia to be Loved
When a group is hated some members of the group turn against it in order to be loved by those outside the group. One of the most hated groups is the Jews and this phenomenon is used by the enemies of the Jews as propaganda. See even the Jews say it is a very convincing argument. David Solway in Frontpage Magazine asked:
Why are Jewsnot all, of course, but a truly disconcerting numberso prone to turn against themselves and make common cause with those who, given the chance, would delight in their extermination?
Regarding anti-Israel Jews Solway wrote:
These are Jews who have used whatever means at their disposal to attack the very country that was founded to provide them with shelter in adversity, believing instead that Israel is the greatest obstacle to their dream of seamless assimilation. It is Israel, they feel, that stands in the way of their desire for acceptance by provoking the worlds undiluted animosity, and it is Israel, therefore, that must be resisted, denounced, contained and defeated. The sequel would then presumably lead to harmony and perfect integration into their host societies.
Jews have been persecuted throughout the world and throughout history, long before the modern rebirth of Israel but this fact does not prevent these Jews from shifting creating paranoia to their own in order to be loved by the rest of the world.
IIG Creation of Paranoia to Feel in Control
In an article titled Allahs
England Daniel Johnson wrote about how many in England blame Israel for the
Islamic terrorism it is a victim of and blame British Jews if they dont
condemn Israel. He wrote:
The
perverted reasoning goes like this: since Israel is at fault for inciting
Islamist terrorism in England, those who refuse to dissociate themselves from
Israel are acting against the British national interest.
Daniel Johnson gave an example of how the Muslims encourage
this line of reasoning. After an
al-Qaeda conspiracy to destroy up to five transatlantic airliners was discovered
Muslim politicians and organizations wrote an open letter to Tony Blair in
full-page newspaper advertisements. Under the heading, Protect Civilians
Wherever They Are, the letter slyly equated victims of Islamist terrorism in
the West with Lebanese or Palestinian casualties in the conflict with Israel.
It was, according to the signers, the debacle of Iraq and now the failure to
do more to secure an immediate end to [Israeli] attacks on civilians in the
Middle East that was putting civilians at increased risk both in the UK and
abroad.
Tom Bethel said in regard to the Europeans:
The
latter hate people with a fighting spirit. Contemporary anti-Semitism in Europe
(at least when coming from native Europeans) is related to anti-Americanism.
People who are not prepared to resist and are eager to submit, hate others who
do not want to submit and are prepared to fight. They hate them because they
are afraid that the latter will endanger their lives as well. In their view
everyone must submit.
This is
why they have come to hate Israel and America so much, and the small band of
European islamophobes who dare to talk about what they see happening around
them. West Europeans have to choose between submission (islam) or death. I fear, like Broder, that they have
chosen submission just like in former days when they preferred to be red
rather than dead.
The Oslo accords were supposedly going to bring peace between the Arabs and the Israelis but were followed by increase terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians. Norman Podhoretz in an article titled Intifada II: Death of an Illusion (Commentary December 2000) wrote:
...any Jew of for that matter any non-Jew (and there was a small brave band of them, an unhappy few) who voiced skepticism about Oslo immediately got stigmatized as an enemy of peace. This made him the moral equivalent, if not the de-facto ally, of Arab opponents of Oslo like the Muslim terrorists of Hamas and Hezbollah. Having been thus morally delegitimized, critics of the non-sacrosanct process were derided as well for their intellectual sins, accused of being too rigid to perceive that new developments had totally transformed the conflict between Israel and the Arab world.
The politicians who promoted the process may have discredited their opposition for various reasons including staying in power but they may have sincerely believed that they were protecting the peace by doing so.
IIG Creation of Paranoia To Feel in Control
Kenneth Levin, the author of The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under Siege was interviewed by frontpagemagazine (The Oslo Syndrome 11/24/05). He was asked by Jamie Glazov:
Tell us how and why people under siege often end up internalizing the hatred against themselves and delude themselves about the malicious intentions of their enemies?
and answered:
They do so because they are eager to feel some control
over a painful situation which is, in reality, out of their control.
Chronically abused children - more specifically those subjected to parental
abuse - typically blame themselves for their victimization because to do so
supports a fantasy that if they reform, if they become "good," their
parents will treat them differently. To look at their predicament more
realistically would force them to accept their helplessness to change their
terrible circumstances, and children, and adults as well, prefer to fend off
acknowledging such bitter realities.
Similarly, within populations under chronic siege -
whether minorities marginalized, demeaned and attacked by surrounding societies
or small nations besieged by their neighbors - some will invariably seek either
to avert their gaze from the severity of the threat or rationalize the threat
and blame themselves or others within their community for the danger. Their
doing so reflects wishful thinking that if only they would reform sufficiently
the danger would be alleviated.
Israel has, at best, a capacity to respond effectively
to attacks by its neighbors; it does not have the capacity to end the Arab
siege, to force peace upon the Arabs. Peace, if and when it comes, will do so
on the Arabs' timetable, not Israel's. Unfortunately, all the evidence indicates
the Arab world is not about to choose genuine peace with Israel in the
foreseeable future. This lack of control over a painful situation led many
Israelis to embrace delusions of control; delusions that the right concessions
could not help but win peace from the Arabs.
In Israel the left blames the lack of peace on the religious and the right wing.
Kenneth Levin spoke about how Jews blamed each other in response to antisemitism as well. He said:
Among
those who have embraced aspects of the anti-Semitic attack but have stayed
within the community, it has been common to blame Jews on the other side of
economic or religious or social divides as the provokers of Jew-hatred. Thus,
in Europe in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it was common for
German Jews to blame eastern European Jews for anti-Semitism, and secular Jews
to blame the hatred on religious Jews, and socialist Jews to blame the Jewish
bourgeoisie.
IIIm1 Creation of Paranoia to Gain Power and Control
Desire for power is a widespread reason for creating paranoia. In politics one party often creates paranoia toward the opposing party in order to get power. Embedded below is a political advertisement by the Trump campaign about the Democrats and power.
George Floyd was murdered by a policeman in Minneapolis. His murder was followed by widespread riots, destruction, looting and murder of policemen. The Democratic leadership staged a photoop in which they kneeled with African scarfs on their necks. This sent the message to blacks, "want power, vote for us." They were kneeling for power. Here is a picture with Democrat leader of the house Nancy Pelosi in front and Senator Schumer to the left.
Here is a video by Terrence commenting on the above.
Whats in it for the rioters who loot? Loot of course. What's in it for Black Lives Matter? Power and money. Already many companies have pledged money to groups like BLM since the murder of George Floyd. According to Allen West BLM is extorting money and had by June 2020 accumulated over 400 million dollars.
White groveling and kneeling and virtue signaling and caving in to BLM demands sends a message of weakness and encourages more and more extortion. Derick Green speaks about that below.
Does Black Lives Matter care about the civil rights of the black man. The looters didn't care as they robbed and destroyed stores owned by black store owners.
Black Lives Matter organizer Devonere Armani Johnson had a simple and straightforward message of racial justice for Madison store owners of all races. "Give me money or we'll break windows," the repeat offender had allegedly told them. The �Free Yeshua� Madison riots began when the police arrested the BLM thug. Notice how he is the guilty one but BLM riots to free him. Justice in their eyes is power for them. They don't want justice they want power and police arresting them interferes with their power.
They want wealth to as we can also see in the paragraph above. Mark McCloskey told KMOV-TV that a mob rushed toward the home as the family was having dinner outside, claiming that the protesters smashed through gates on their private street that are marked with 'No Trespassing' and 'Private Street' signs. 'A mob of at least 100 smashed through the historic wrought iron gates of Portland Place, destroying them, rushed towards my home where my family was having dinner outside and put us in fear of our lives,' he told the outlet. 'This is all private property. There are no public sidewalks or public streets. We were told that we would be killed, our home burned and our dog killed. We were all alone facing an angry mob. 'As soon as I said they were on private property, that enraged the crowd. There was then a hoard of people coming through the broken gate and the gate was broken in pieces,' he added. 'And there were, I don't know how many people there were, a tremendous number of people, all angry, all shouting, all coming towards us.' In another interview with KSDK, Mark said that he announced it was private property before grabbing his rifle. He claims that there were people pulling out pistol magazines.
Black Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner issued a statement later Monday: 'I am alarmed at the events that occurred over the weekend, where peaceful protesters were met by guns and a violent assault. Notice the complete misrepresentation of what happened. She and BLM are against whites defending themselves and their property. That interferes with the BLM quest for white money, and power over whites. 'We must protect the right to peacefully protest, and any attempt to chill it through intimidation or threat of deadly force will not be tolerated.'Police abandoned the East precinct in Seattle. The area around it was taken over by protestors and called the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone or Chaz. The protestors demanded defunding of the police. A black rapper named Solomon "Raz" Simone declared himself the leader and black gunmen became the new police. Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best said Thursday her officers had heard of "armed people" in the zone "demanding payment from business owners in exchange for protection." After visiting the zone, Best told reporters her department's calls for service there had more than tripled. But zone "authorities" won't allow her officers to respond. "These are responses to emergency calls � rapes, robberies, and all sorts of violent acts that have been occurring in the area that we�re not able to get to," she said.
CHAZ made a list of demands on their web site including defunding of police, and having the federal government launch an investigation into Seattle's and Washington's police brutality, especially concerning Iosia Faletogo (armed and resisting arrest), Damarius Butts (armed robbery and shooting at police), Isaiah Obet (armed robbery with knife and carjacking), Tommy Le (terrorizing a neighborhood, Tasers ineffective, thought to be armed with a knife, although it proved to be a pen), Shaun Fuhr (armed, beat his girlfriend for hours before kidnapping her child), and Charleena Lyles (mentally ill woman who came at police with a knife).
The white washing of black criminals and portraying them as innocent martyrs of a racist system is a tactic that has long predated CHAZ and that has resulted in widespread riots in the past. In George Floyds case he wasn't innocent but the policeman who killed him was guilty of excessive force (murder), in the majority of cases however the blacks were not innocent and the supposedly racist police were doing their jobs and acting in self defense. In the case of Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman shot him while Trayvon was bashing his head into the ground. That too was self defense but blacks responded with widespread riots.
A black speaker with a megaphone demanded that whites find a black man and turn $10.00 over to him. The speaker said that if whites had trouble doing that than they weren't in line with the goals of the movement which were the transfer of land, capital and power to black people. The video is embedded below.
Black Lives
Matter organizer Devonere Armani Johnson had a simple and straightforward
message of racial justice for Madison store owners of all races.
"Give me money
or we'll break windows," the repeat offender had allegedly told them.
The �Free
Yeshua� Madison riots began when the police arrested the BLM thug.
Another demonstration that BLM
Ami Horowitz is a very gutsy guy who quoted statistics toward protestors in NY. The hostile reaction of protestors to his information is shown below.
He also made a gutsy video in which he interviewed people about their attitudes toward police. A video of that interview is shown below.
Accusing their opponents of racism and claiming victimhood is a standard approach of left wing politicians in the United States. That creates problems for white politicians who want to be perceived as black victims. This results in bizarre claims as shown in the video below.
Hitler once said 'If the Jews didn't exist, we would have to invent them' . I wondered for a long time why he said that. Then I saw a rally of the American Nazi party in Madison Square Garden. In it the speaker (who had a German accent) said "What we are actively fighting for under our charter, first a socially just white justice ruled United States. Second Gentile controlled labor unions free from Jewish Moscow-directed domination. " I watched the video and saw the absolute discipline and unity of the audience and I realized that inciting hatred of the Jew and was a way of controlling the audience. The way it works is that the people unite to fight the "evil" jew under the leader who spreads propaganda that the Jew is evil and powerful and that together they must fight this evil (under his leadership of course). Hitler used Jew hatred as a way to control Germans. If there hadn't been any he would have invented them in order to gain power. Another way creating paranoia and fear of a group leads to power is that fear leads people to unify behind the leader that they think will protect them from what they are afraid of. In modern times (2019) fear of global warming is a way that Democrat leaders acquire power. They say that they will take action to prevent global warming disaster while their Republican opponents will not. In addition the Democrats convince groups that they are oppressed and that they the Democrats are on the side of the oppressed and against the Republican oppressors.
There was a giant picture of George Washington in the front and a man with a German accent addressed the audience about how they had to stop the evil Jews.
In the following video Candace Owen speaks about how the left creates fear (paranoia) to gain power.
She was attacked afterwards by a Democrat who played a recording of her saying that if Hitler was just a nationalist it would have been OK but that he was a globalist who wanted to conquer the world. Jon Miller gave a great response to that attack below. In his response he makes clear how the Democrats are creating paranoia.
The left likes to present itself as the defender of the little guy, the champion of the poor man, the defender of women and so on. What would happen if the little guy was happy with his lot. What would happen if poor people were getting higher paying jobs and women were as well? People might vote again for the conservatives in power. If a leftist was immoral (I know that's impossible but if he or she was) they might try and convince people that they were victims if they were not. Then he or she could say vote for me and I will defend you against your evil oppressors. Vote for me and I will avert the disaster that threatens us all. Vote for me and I'll defend you against the evil white man. What if you are a white man though who is pandering to left wing votes. What do you do then. Joe Biden's solution before the 2020 election was to attack the white man. Perhaps he thinks that by doing so he will get the black vote and the female vote. Bad approach. A woman commentator suggested that if he wants a non-white man to win he should stop running. A video about this is embedded below.
A classic leftist propaganda tactic is to confront a target and immediately start screaming that the target was being aggressive even though that was not true. hat way the leftist became identified as the victim of the supposedly evil oppressor target. Unsuspecting people in the vicinity would not start recording the incident until there was this commotion. The videographers accompanying the provocateur also would edit the video to start when the provocateur started screaming. That happened to William Jacobson of Legal Insurrection. It also happened to youth from the Covington Catholic School at the March For Life. A video about what happened is embedded below:
One of the ways the left gains power is by indoctrinating children. Part of that indoctrination involves attacking the current system as bad since they are interested in replacing it with what they consider a better system. They attack the most innocent of childrens shows like Thomas the Train and Disney shows and teach children that these are racist and sexist shows.
Thomas Sowell wrote regarding Hillary Clinton that
Her basic pitch to black voters is that they have all sorts of enemies, and that blacks need her to protect them, which she is ready to do if they vote for her. In short, Hillarys political fate depends on spreading fear and, if possible, paranoia.
Tulsi Gabbard was a soldier who was running to be the candidate of the Democratic party for president in 2019. She agreed with Trump's decision to withdraw troops from Syria because of her concern for the safety of her fellow soldiers. The rest of the Democratic candidates condemned Trump for this even though Democrats generally condemn Republicans as warmongers. That's because many voters felt that Trump had betrayed the Kurds by abandoning them to the Turks and the Democrats want those voters to vote for them. Naturally Hillary who may decide to run did not like Ms. Gabbard supporting Trump's decision so she accused Tulsi of being a favorite of the Russians and of being groomed to be a third party candidate. The Associated Press concluded that Hillary meant that the Russians were grooming Tulsi but an aide of Hillary said afterwards said that she meant that the Republicans were grooming Tulsi. Either way Hillary was creating paranoia toward Tulsi.
Portraying one's group as a oppressed group and another group as the oppressor group is a way to transfer power from the other group to your group. The Hijab hoaxes in which Trump supporters were accused of hostility to Muslims was a way to prevent Trump from becoming president and furthering Muslim power.
Similar attempts to get the votes of women are based
on conjuring up enemies who are waging a war on women, with Hillary again
cast in the role of someone ready to come to their rescue, if they will give
her their votes.
One of the propaganda points of the left and feminists is that one in 5 women who attend college in America are raped. This serves the agendas of feminists who see this as a path to power but is not true as is discussed in the video below.
One of the techniques of blacks to gain power over whites is to propagandize about White Privilege. Ami Horowitz interviewed people attending a White Privilege Conference to find out what White Privilege exactly is. His interview is shown below.
Claire Lehmann speaks about Micro-aggressions, critical race theory and whiteness studies in the video below.
White Privilege is a racist way to make whites bend to black power. This article is about how blacks harrassed a professor for refusing to be part of a forced absence of whites from the campus of Evergreen State College.
Here is an excellent talk about White Privilege and Microaggression by Ben Shapiro.
The K-8 school Bank Street School in Manhattan separates whites in classes where theyre made to feel awful about their whiteness, and all the kids of color in other rooms where theyre taught to feel proud about their race and are rewarded with treats and other privileges. Administrators at the Bank Street School for Children on the Upper West Side claim its a novel approach to fighting discrimination, and that several other private New York schools are doing it. What it is, is discrimination against whites and it encourages further discrimination against whites. There is plenty of racism against whites already in fact there is more anti-white racism than there is anti-black racism.
Lori Flaherty wrote:
Not only is this racist rhetoric dangerous for society, it is poison to our youth. Young white people today are exposed almost exclusively to angry black artists and Hollywood stars who encourage them to hate themselves for their whiteness, demoralizing and denigrating them for their skin color and culture. But hating oneself for his race is not a virtue. Telling young white people to �check� their white privilege or to hate themselves for their culture isn't just insanity, it's racist.
The progressive left including leftist white women are making war on white women. This is because of their anger at white women who support conservative causes. Hillary Clinton for example said:
�[Democrats] do not do well with white men, and we don�t do well with married, white women. And part of that is an identification with the Republican Party, and a sort of ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever, believes you should.�
The progressive left was very angry at the white women who came out in support of Judge Kavanaugh. Vox host Liz Plank tweeted, �The way white women accept to be used as pawns by a party that consistently strips their rights and minorities� rights away cannot be overstated.�
Lloyd Marcus wrote an excellent article about how the left demonizes its opposition in order to push it's agendas. He wrote:
For example: If you say no to men using girl's restrooms, Leftists in the media brand you an insane hatemonger who seeks the murder of all homosexuals. If you disagree with the Left's illogical obsession with disarming Americans, repealing the second amendment, Leftist media brands you a racist toothless idiot redneck that wants to shoot all people who do not look like you. The Left used the same take-opposition-to-absurd-extremes tactic to brand the Tea Party racist. The good folks in the Tea Party simply disagreed with Obama's unlawful overreaching and ignoring of the Constitution. The Congressional Black caucus despicably took their opposition to the absurd extreme of claiming that the Tea Party would love to see black Americans hanging on a tree.
In the video below Diamond and Silk speak about how false accusations of racism is used as a weapon by the democratic party.
A classic example of creation of paranoia to gain power and control was that of Tahera Ahmad, a Muslim chaplain at Northwestern University who was denied an unopened Diet Coke while flying United Airlines. Muslims called for a boycott of United Airlines. Daniel Greenfield pointed out that:
The TSA isnt too fond of passengers having closed cans of soda on them. It may have something to do with when a Muslim woman attempted to bring down a China Southern Airlines flight to Beijing using soda cans that she had injected with flammable liquid and dropped in the bathroom trash can.
Muslims fabricate stories of attacks on them. In one case in January 2016 a UK woman fabricated a story of being attacked for wearing a Hijab. Robert Spencer wrote:
This kind of thing frequently happens in the U.S. as well. The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) wants and needs hate crimes against Muslims, because theyre the currency they use to buy power and influence in our victimhood-oriented society, and to deflect attention away from jihad terror and onto Muslims as putative victims. Hamas-linked CAIR, designated a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates, and other Muslims have on many occasions not hesitated to stoop even to fabricating hate crimes, including attacks on mosques. Most notably, in February, a New Jersey Muslim was found guilty of murder that he tried to portray as an Islamophobic attack, and in 2014 in California, a Muslim was found guilty of killing his wife, after first blaming her murder on Islamophobia.
Robert Spencer speaks in the video below about Islamophobia
hoaxes.
An additional list of hoaxes about attacks on Muslims can be found here. In one a muslim student at the University of Indiana alleged that her hijab and wallet were stolen by two white Trump supporters who were shouting racial slurs. She made this up to smear Trump.
Matthew Schofield in an article about the Ukraine wrote that in 2004 Putin:
An additional list of hoaxes about attacks on Muslims can be found here. In one a muslim student at the University of Indiana alleged that her hijab and wallet were stolen by two white Trump supporters who were shouting racial slurs. She made this up to smear Trump.
Matthew Schofield in an article about the Ukraine wrote that in 2004 Putin:
Putin's Russia skillfully created unrest in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine, which forced the Ukrainian police and military to react. He then created paranoia toward them for committing a crime against Russian separatists. An excellent and frightening article about Russian creation of paranoia was written by J.R. Nyquist. Nyquist quoted a film director who said:
"all scripts must go through the FSB/KGB. They will put notes on pages of the script, asking, Where is the portrait of Putin? Where is the Russian flag? Where is the old war veteran? They wanted nave scripts, into which they could insert propaganda. They started doing this from early 2000. Its a huge investment. It is more money than Google and Facebook put together."
Paranoia creation is rampant in the United States. Mobs of blacks who are paranoid of whites attack whites for fun. If a black person attacks a non-black and is killed there are protests and even riots such as the riots in Ferguson Missouri. This black paranoia of whites is fed by Democrats who paint the Republicans as anti-black. Lloyd Marcus wrote:
To get deceived black voters to the polls, a Democrat flier says, If you
want to prevent another Ferguson...
Blacks also create paranoia to support the Democratic
party.
Lloyd Marcus
wrote that "A member of the Congressional Black Caucus actually said
that the Tea Party wants
to see blacks
hanging from a tree."
In Heaven on Earth (Oxford University Press, 2011), author Richard Landes quotes an Islamic intellectual who explains why its important to keep the hatred toward Israel alive.
The role of the Islamic stream is to keep the flame of hatred toward Zionism burning in their souls. This is because we are not ready to fight and use our military power, due to the limitations forced on us. We are not capable of conducting daily confrontations with Israel in the battlefield, because it is not in our hand, but rather in the hands of others (meaning, the Palestinian Authority). Nevertheless, we are capable of cultivating the flame of hatred to this enemy in the souls of our sons, daughters, and grandchildren. We can make hatred burn among the public. If we manage to do so, in our homes and with the help of our schools and media, our efforts will be successful. The fighting will come one of these days and if by that time the ideology of hatred has faded, we will be defeated; on the other hand, if on this day we will still hate [Israel], victory will be ours, with the help of Allah.(Salim Al-Awa, Islamic intellectual close to Sheikh Qaradawi, published in Al-Istiqlal, August 28, 1998, trans. MEMRI, Special Dispatch Series, no. 5, August 31, 1998)
This explanation is not complete because it doesn't explain why victory over Israel is so important. Israel is in the heart of the Arab world. It was controlled by Arabs. According to Islam the Jews must live as humiliated subjugated Dhimmis under the control of Islam. Egypt's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Butrus Ghali, in a symposium sponsored by the periodical Al-Siyassa Al-Dawilla in October 1975 said:
"Palestine is the heart of the Arab homeland before it is the homeland of the Palestinians."
In Arab history, 1948 is the "year of the disaster." The valorous Arabs, masters of the world, were vanquished by a handful of members of the despised community; and the state of these heretics, even if it occupied only part of Palestine, remained strengthened in its place. Never did the Arabs show even the slightest intimation of acceptance. On the contrary, their rejection of Israel and their determination to take revenge and undo what had been done, with the final purpose of annihilating the Jewish state, intensified. For it was inconceivable that the Jews should have defeated the Arab nation.
David Horowitz and Ben Johnson in their book, Party of Defeat wrote that:
General Ion Mihai Pacepa was the highest ranking intelligence official ever to defect from the Soviet bloc during the Cold War... During the Vietnam War, General Pacepa wrote Soviet intelligence "spread vitriolic stories around the world, pretending that America's presidents sent Genghis Khan-style barbarian soldiers to Vietnam who raped at random, taped electrical wires to human genitals, cut off limbs, blew up bodies and razed entire villages. Those weren't facts. They were our tales, but ... as Yuri Andropov, who conceived this dezinformatsiya war against he U.S., used to tell me, people are more willing to believe smut than holiness."
Nor did this Soviet campaign to discredit the United States stop with Vietnam. As Pacepa explains: "The final goal of our anti-American offensive was to discourage the United States from protecting the world against communist terrorism and expansion. Sadly, we succeeded. After U.S. forces precipitously pulled out of Vietnam, the victorious communists massacred some two million people in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
The Soviets also channeled Islamism's Jew Hatred into anti-Americanism. Pacepa wrote (Symposium, the Terror War How We Can Win Frontpagemag.com Nov 15, 2004):
According to KGB theorists, the Islamic world was a petri dish in which we could nurture a virulent strain of America-hate. Islamic cultures had a taste for nationalism, jingoism, and victimology. Their illiterate, oppressed mobs could be whipped up to a fever pitch. Terrorism and violence against America would flow naturally from their religious fervor. We had only to keep repeating, over and over, that the Untied States was a "Zionist country" bankrolled by rich Jews. Islam was obsessed with preventing the infidel's occupation of its territory, and it would be highly receptive to our dogma that American imperialism wanted to transform the rest of the world into a Jewish fiefdom.
Ann Coulter wrote a book titled "Guilty: Liberal 'Victims' and Their Assault on America." She told Worldnetdaily that her book explains how liberal politicians and reporters drag sob stories before the public eye and bemoan how Americans are being "victimized" by trumped-up injustices, all to further their plan to change America's culture, laws and government.
"Most Americans are normal, lovely, decent people, and they hear these wails of a liberal claiming to be 'offended, offended,' and their reaction is to go and provide comfort to the afflicted," Coulter explained to WND. "I want them to start noticing these are crocodile tears. These people pretend to be victims in order to advance, attack, and oppress others."
Katherine Kirsten
wrote an article about the lynching of Gabriel Keith, an editor of the
campus newspaper and ex-marine who made the mistake of making a noose with his
sweatshirt drawstring with a note about missed deadlines. He
was fired and accused of bigotry.
We are angry," Lisa Dean,
president of Association of Black Collegiates, a student group, told the Star
Tribune for an article about the incident. "If we do not nip it in the bud, it
will spread and a lot of students may not want to attend this college because of
racism." At the P.C. circus' surreal climax, Keith unknowingly
walked into a protest rally where a crowd vented outrage at his bigotry.
Meanwhile, administrators scrambled to use the incident as a "chance to educate
our students."
Katherine Kirsten wrote: "Today, a favorite
college pastime is fanning the flames of grievance. Victimhood is a tremendous
source of moral power, and being outraged and oppressed is a sure bet to get
your picture in the paper -- displaying a look of grave concern for all
humanity."
Obama gave a speech in which he said that racism is America's DNA after a white man killed blacks in Charleston Virginia. Daniel Greenfield wrote: Maybe its just me, but it seems like accusing racism of being in someones DNA is itself racist. But the left would insist that making racist comments about white people is really social justice while complaining about them is racist...This is about collective guilt for personal power.
Trayvon Martin was a black teen who was killed by a hispanic man named George Zimmerman who was a volunteer who was told about a suspicious man roaming about in the rain. He followed Martin and called the police who told him to stop. According to one story he did stop and went back to his car at which point Martin confronted him and asked "Do you have a problem... you do now" and started punching him and knocked him down. According to Zimmerman's version he called for help and no one came. Zimmerman pulled his gun and Trayvon grabbed for it at which point Zimmerman shot him. Two voice experts say that the voice of the person calling for help on the 911 tapes was not Zimmerman. Trayvon was found dead and Zimmerman was found with blood on the back of his head, apparently Trayvon was slamming Zimmerman's head to the ground.
NBC aired an edited segment of the 911 call on the March 27 Today Show of Zimmerman saying to the 9/11 dispatcher:
"This guy looks like he's up to no good ... he looks black."
That makes Zimmerman sound like a racist who thought Trayvon was no good because he was black. The edited segment left out the dispatcher asking Zimmerman what Trayvon looked like.
This became an opportunity for black leaders to cry racism which is a way to gain power from guilty white folk and to rally blacks to support you. Obama said "Trayvon could have been my son" which sends a message "vote for me" to other blacks. Al Sharpton who has a long history of crying racism incited rage toward whites at a rally.
The New Black Panther Party made news for offering a $10,000 bounty for Zimmermans death and has circulated a Wanted: Dead Or Alive poster to inspire someone to commit the act. The message is apparently intended in earnest. Mikhail Muhummud, the groups self-identified leader, has warned, God dammit, he should be fearful for his life. Yet another group, calling itself the New Black Liberation Militia, has announced that it will send its members to Orlando attempt a citizens arrest of Zimmerman. A t-shirt has been marketed emblazoned with Zimmermans mugshot and the word Pussy Ass Cracker. Not surprisingly, in light of such threats, Zimmerman and his family went into hiding.
Afterwards there were incidents of black mobs beating white people and mentioning Trayvon's name. In one case that was reported by Worldnetdaily the mainstream media buried the story. If a white man gets beaten up by blacks the media does not want to report it perhaps because that could increase racism against blacks.
There is widespread racism of blacks against whites and many occurrences of black mobs beating whites. Colin Flaherty wrote a book about this topic called White Girl Bleed a Lot. One of the sources of this racism may be political. Here is an excerpt of what Conservative Commentator "Wild Bill" had to say about this.
During Barack Obama's campaign for president the racist comments and victimhood preached by his minister Jeremiah Wright, came to light. Ronald Kessler in an article for Newsmax (3/17/2008) wrote:
Juan Williams, a Fox News commentator and author of Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America, tells Newsmax that Wrights sermons reflect the victim mindset that is so self-defeating in the black community and one that is played on by weak black leadership that chooses to have black people identified as victims rather than inspiring them as people who have overcome. In posing as victims, they say the most prejudiced and vicious things, not only about whites but about America. They call it theology. In fact, its nothing but bigotry.
In an article in the Wall Street Journal Ronald Kessler wrote:
In a sermon delivered at Howard University, Barack Obama's longtime minister, friend and adviser blamed America for starting the AIDS virus, training professional killers, importing drugs and creating a racist society that would never elect a black candidate president.
Kathy Shaidle in an article titled Obama's Church: Gospel of Hate wrote how Wright's preachings are part of Black Liberation Theology. What is Black Liberation Theology? She explained:
The leading theorist of Black Liberation Theology is James Cone. Overtly racist, Cones writings posit a black Jesus who leads African-Americans as the chosen people. In Cones cosmology, whites are the devil, and all white men are responsible for white oppression. Cone makes this point without ambiguity: This country was founded for whites and everything that has happened in it has emerged from the white perspective, Cone has written. What we need is the destruction of whiteness, which is the source of human misery in the world.
If whiteness stands for all that is evil, blackness symbolizes all that is good. Black theology, says Cone, refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community ... Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.
One way Iran gains power in South America is by portraying the United States as causing the poverty there. FoxNews reported how Ahmadinejad did this when he spent much of his time lashing out at the United States on a visit to Nicaragua. According to FoxNews 1/16/2007
During a visit to a trash-strewn neighborhood in the capital of Managua, he told hundreds of Nicaragua's poor: "The imperialists don't like us to help you progress and develop. They don't like us to get rid of poverty and unite people. But the whole world knows that Nicaragua and Iran are together."
In 2006 the Hamas
terrorist group, won Palestinian elections. Abu Nasser a member of the Al
Aqsa's brigade, a terrorist competitor to Hamas, claimed Israel put
Hamas in power, and says his group is preparing a new terror onslaught as a
result (wnd.com
2/14/2007). Accusing Hamas of being a Zionist would be equivalent of
accusing Hitler of being a Jew-lover. It's possible that Abu Nasser
believes this since insanity in the Arab world knows no bounds, and it's also
possible that he makes this accusation because he is jealous of Hamas's victory
and he wants to be the dominant terrorist.
Muslim extremists rally the Muslim world by creating paranoia toward the West. A good from the movie Obsession can be viewed online. Glen Beck had a broadcast on CNN in 2006 that can also be viewed online and that also exposes Islamic incitement.
After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans many on the left jumped on this opportunity to blame Bush's environmental policies for causing the Hurricane as if the changes in green houses emissions during the few years he was in office were enough to cause a hurricane that otherwise would not have happened. It is likely that the left makes these accusations because they see Hurricane Katrina as an opportunity to smear the Republicans and win the Whitehouse after Bush. Ironically it was the environmentalists parties of the left that contributed to the disaster of Katrina since environmentalists sued to stop construction that would have helped reduce the damage of Katrina.
Another accusation about Katrina, was made by Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, who said:
I heard from a very reliable source, who saw a 25-foot deep crater under the levee breach. It may have been blown up to destroy the black part of town and keep the white part dry.
Minister Farrakhan made the charge Monday in Charlotte, North Carolina, where many of the hurricanes evacuees had been taken (at federal expense). (Ben Johnson, White Devils Strike New Orleans, frontpagemag.com 9/15/05) In an official press release, racial separatist Malik Zulu Shabazz, head of the New Black Panther Party, described New Orleans thus:
Wholesale police brutality is being waged against the victims of this natural disaster. The police (sniper units) are using tactics to provoke attacks by Black residents as to substantiate their reasons of opening fire on groups of black males randomly and indiscriminatelyAccording to Shabazz, this is more of a racist occupation of subjugation rather than a relief effort.
The creation of paranoia by Farrakhan and Shabazz appears to have the purpose of creating hatred of Whites and to motivate black people to attack white people. Perhaps the desire for power over white people motivates Farrakhan and Shabbazz. Perhaps another motivating force is power over black people since by making themselves leaders of the fight against a manufactured white enemy, they make themselves leaders of the black people.
Larry Elder in an article titled Democrats to Blacks, Stay Angry Vote Democratic wrote:
Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., once said: George (W.) Bush is our Bull Connor and if that doesnt get to you, nothing will be able to get to you. Its time for us to be able to say that were sick and tired, were fired up and were not going to take it anymore.
Connor was a racist sheriff who sicced dogs and water hoses on civil rights workers in the 60s. Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., says Republicans want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws.
The tactic is as obvious as it is insulting. Tell black voters that they are out to get them and pull that lever for us Democrats so we can resist their racist attempt to undermine your success.
Never mind that this kind of anger wrapped in paranoia assuming that others are out to get you is precisely the formula to undermine your own success.
One of New York City's most prominent Islamic leaders said that "greatest terrorists in the world occupy the White House," Jews control the media, and Muslims are being tortured in Manhattan jails. (New York Post, 3/9/2006).
The Center for Security Policy, produced a 42-page report called "Religious Bias Crimes 2000-2009: Muslim, Jewish and Christian Victims Debunking the Myth of a Growing Trend of Muslim Victimization." According to the study attacks on Muslims do not happen a great deal more than attacks on Christians. And attacks on Jews number up to eight times as many. I suspect that many of those attacks are carried out by Muslims.
Muslims throughout the world have engaged in protests and deadly riots in response to 12 cartoons caricaturing Islam's prophet Muhammad published in September by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten and three much more provocative images distributed by Ahmad Abu Laban, a Danish Imam and pro Al Qaeda leader of the Islamic Society of Denmark .
Muslim leaders have been unable to document where Ahmad got these images. One of those images was allegedly a picture of Muhammad looking like a pig. It turns out that the picture was really a faxed copy of a competitor at the annual French Pig-Squealing Championships in Trie-sur-Baise. ('Muhammad Cartoon' Proved Fake, WorldNetDaily 2/8/2006). This is probably an example of creating humiliation and paranoia in order to incite Muslims against the infidel and ultimately defeat and subjugate the infidel.
Abu Laban took the
images on a tour of the Middle East in December to rally support for his
protest against the newspaper and Danish government.
On October 6, 2007, Worldnetdaily reported
that:
Rampaging Muslims have killed 10 Christians,
injured 61 others, destroyed nine churches and displaced more than 500 people
in northern Nigeria, according to eyewitnesses all because Muslim high school
students claimed a Christian student had drawn a cartoon of Islams prophet,
Muhammad, on the wall of the schools mosque.
The rampage occurred Sept. 28 in the town of Tudun
Wada Dankadai, in Nigeria's northern state of Kano.
The Christian students at the school insist no one
ever saw the alleged cartoon, and furthermore that no one in the tiny minority
group of Christians would have dared such a feat, especially during Ramadan.
"How can we take such a risk when we know
that we are a minority and cannot stand [against] them?" Christian student
Shehu Bawa told Compass. "This is a lie created to have a reason to attack
us."
One of the Christian students, Shehu Bawa, told
Compass his arrival on campus that morning was punctuated by shouts of
"Allahu Akbar" (Allah is Great) "all over the school." In
fact, he said, "The Muslim students were now attacking every Christian
student on sight.
"If you go around villages, you will see
people missing one hand or one foot," explained Rev. Obiora Ike. "Do
you think that's the result of an illness? That is the result of sharia
law."
More than 10,000 Christians have been martyred in
the region since the Islamic law was imposed in the region in 1999,
The Saudis have invested huge sums of money in Western Academia and in the Western Press in order to gain influence so that they appear as good as possible and those they dislike (the Jews) appear as bad as possible (Why is the Press So Anti-Israel)
When the Israelis restored the Hurva synagogue Palestinian Arabs engaged in riots and street violence targeting Jews in Jerusalem. The PA and Hamas claimed Israel's rededication ceremony was a threat to the al-Aqsa Mosque even though the synagogue is not connected to the Mosque.. Hamas called for a "day of rage," prompting Palestinians throughout eastern Jerusalem to hurl stones at police. There were also reports of rocks and Molotov cocktails aimed at Israeli buses.
When Margaret Thatcher died there were some Britishers who celebrated her death. In addition the song of "Ding Dogn the Witch is Dead" topped the UK iTunes chart for online downloads. People protested at her funeral
and several hundred people gathered in Brixton to celebrate her death.
Thatcher's policies turned around the collapsing British economy. "We've lost a great prime minister, a great leader, a great Briton," said U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, who cut short a Europe trip to return to the U.K. on Monday afternoon. "She saved our country and I believe she will go down as the greatest British peacetime prime minister." In the process many miners lost their jobs. She deregulated and took on the unions as part of her revitalization of the British economy and that was a reason for the hostility against her. Her steps were necessary to save the British economy but the unions didn't see it that way.
III) Creation of Self-Humiliation and Paranoia to Gain Power and Control
William Jacobson of Legal Insurrection said that:
A classic leftist/occupy activist tactic, I was
warned, was to confront a target and immediately start screaming that the
target was being aggressive even though that was not true.
Unsuspecting people in the vicinity would not start recording the incident
until there was this commotion. The videographers accompanying the
provocateur also would edit the video to start when the provocateur started
screaming. The target, not knowing what was about to happen, would not be
prepared for it, and might even take the bait, such as in pushing the person
away physically.
This tactic was used against teenagers from a
Catholic High School who got death threats as a result.
Imagine you're a Muslim living in the West who believes that the infidel should serve Muslims. You need a job for income (assuming you didn't get on welfare like many Muslims do) and you have to pretend to like your boss and worse you have to serve an infidel. You might find that humiliating.
Daniel Pipes was asked:
We hear a lot about 'dignity' and 'humiliation.' Why and how much of a role do these play in Muslim and Arab culture?
He answered:
They're very important. Islam imbues Muslims with a profound sense of
superiority to non-Muslims, and an assumption that the natural order has
Muslims ruling non- Muslims. In the modern era, that has hardly been the
case, especially a century ago when so many Muslims fell under European
rule. Even today, whatever index you look at power, wealth, creativity, or
influence non-Muslims are dominant. This is a source of deep discontent
and frustration for Muslims, who see the world as upside down, and who find
this an affront to their dignity as well as a humiliation.
Rory Miller and Ephraim Karsh in an article titled Europes
Persecuted Muslims wrote how Muslims portray themselves as victims to gain
power. In fact they portray themselves
as being targetted by Europeans the way the Jews were targetted by the
Nazis. At the end of the article he
warns:
To
overcome their misplaced faith in multiculturalism and their negligent handling
of its baleful consequences, European leaders might make a start by refusing to
countenance any longer the idea that the experience of Europes Muslims today bears
any similarity to the Jewish experience under the Nazis. Until they are ready
to draw this fundamental and self-evident distinction, and to declare that the
concrete threat to European society stems not from Islamophobia but from the
refusal of substantial numbers of Muslims to integrate and to accept the
legitimacy of non-Islamic values, the Muslim grievance industry in Europe will
go from strength to strength. So too will its dogged struggle, under the cover
of alleged victimhood, to promote an Islamist political platform aimed
ultimately at undoing Europe itself.
Muslims often speak about humiliation by the West. It doesn't take much to get them to feel offended and humiliated. One Muslim decided that he swirling ice cream cone picture on Burger King ice cream resembled the name of Allah and went on a Jihad against Burger King. As a result they had to redesign their logo. One reason Muslims may feel humiliated is the Koran commands them to subjugate the non-believing infidel and the West is not subjugated. The writings of Hasan al-Banna, the founder of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood confirm this theory. He wrote:
Today the Muslims, as you know, are compelled to humble themselves before non-Muslims, and are ruled by unbelievers.
Ahmed Sheikh, granted an interview in
December 2006 with Pierre Heumann, the Middle East correspondent of the Swiss
weekly Die Weltwoche. He told
Heumann
The Palestinian cause is central for Arab thinking.
Heumann asked:
In the end, is it a matter of feelings
of self-esteem?
Sheikh replied:
Exactly. Its because we always lose to Israel. It gnaws at the
people in the Middle East that such a small country as Israel, with only about
7 million inhabitants, can defeat the Arab nation with its 350 million. That
hurts our collective ego. The Palestinian problem is in the genes of every
Arab. The Wests problem is that it does not understand this.
David
Gutmann explained muslim shame as follows:
The Arab response to their recently exposed backwardness is to feel
excruciating shame, and then to project or "export" their shame onto
those who in their eyes have inspired it.
And who better than the Jews? The Jews and particularly a relative handful of
Zionists have been humiliating the Arabs since the onset of modernity. They
have turned Arab deserts into fertile croplands, they have built flourishing
cities where there were once Arab hovels, they have recovered from a great
butchery to create science, industry and literature as well as a working
democratic state with a first-rate army - an army that routinely crushes
"the four corners of the (Arab) world in arms."
Ahmad, a young Egyptian pilgrim who works as a laborer in Qatar said during Hajj to Saudi Arabia (MSNBC 2/9/03)
America is not after Saddam. It is out to humiliate Muslims. It wants to dominate the region and leave Israel free to kill more Palestinians...I hate America. It is the cause of Muslim and Arab disgrace. If I were ever on a plane with an American on it, Id hijack it. If I see them in the street, Id kill them.
Usama bin Ladin spoke about the humiliation of the last 80 years by the West. It was 80 years since the west carved up the Ottoman empire which was the dominant Muslim power in the world up through World War I.
From an Islamic perspective Islam should reign supreme in the world and when that is not the case it is a cause of humiliation and paranoia. The fact that the little country of Israel has been able to exist despite the best efforts of the Muslim world must be very humiliating, first of all there are many more Muslims and Allah is supposed to help them in their jihad against Israel.
Hal Lindsay in his article Impact of Iraqi Defeat on Islam (Worldnetdaily 4/17/03) , explained that there is a religious source of the feeling of humiliation that the Moslems feel when they are defeated in battle:
The Koran teaches him that the Muslim warrior will be invincible when he fights in a holy war or jihad. They believe that it is a sacred duty to fight and recover any Muslim land that is taken by the infidel. This is especially true of territory that contains Muslim holy places like Jerusalem.
They believe that the Middle East is the heart of their world. Any incursion into that territory by Western forces is considered a new invasion of the "Judeo-Christian Crusaders" ...
Islam creates such a 'machismo' type of pride, that Muslims will do all kinds of irrational things to avenge its wounds. There is no way for the Western mind to understand the depths of anguish and humiliation Muslims feel because of Western defeats of their armies.
The humiliation Israel's military victories have inflicted on them is unbearable. And now the two rapid victories the United States has achieved over Afghanistan and Iraq have compounded the sense of humiliation.
Samuel
Anvil wrote an excellent article titled Whats
Behind the Double Standard 5/12/2004 explaining the cause of
Islamic humilation. He wrote:
You
see, in the Islamic view of things, the lives of infidel kafirs like us
(Christians, Jews and everybody else), are "worth" something between a
Moslem woman and a camel. I'll bet you didn't think there was room between those
two lowly categories to wedge a fingernail in, let alone the vast majority of
human beings on this planet, but there is. There's room for each and every one
of
us. It's another of Allah's miracles.
At the top of the heap are Moslem men, Masters of the Universe, the
purpose of all creation, the exclusive custodians of the eternal Truth, and the
people
whose feet we kafirs should all be kissing. Below them are Moslem women,
whose job it is to wash those feet. Below them, us, then camels and other useful
creatures like sheep that don't make too much of a fuss when a Moslem
man whips out his knife.
So when a Moslem man tears out another Moslem's fingernails and rapes
his daughters and slits all their throats, well that's just the way things are
in
Allah's dysfunctional little family. And when a Moslem man shoots dead a
pregnant dhimmi woman and her four daughters as they drive through a
part of the world he thinks belongs to him (and of course every square inch of
this
planet rightfully belongs to Moslems and to nobody else), well, that's his
natural-born right as Master of the Universe. Even the kafirs of Europe
don't dare deny him that right.
But if a kafir, a dhimmi, one of those so-called people whose role in this life
is to be properly submissive to and respectful of his Moslem betters,
should turn around and strike back, well that's completely unthinkable. It's
against
Allah's holy law. It's as though a wife should, perish the thought, hit back
when her husband beats her. It's a shameful humiliation, a travesty of
Allah's creation, it can't be allowed to stand, and it "fuels Islamic rage."
It's shameful and humiliating because what the dhimmi is saying when he
strikes back is that maybe, just maybe, Moslem men are not the pinnacle of all
creation, the reason why the whole universe exists. And when the dhimmi
creates a free society in which people have real hope of better lives, while
Moslem
men use their oil billions to create one hellhole country after another, the
dhimmi is saying: "Don't give me this crap about how wonderful you are, and how
Allah himself has chosen you to rule the world."
And that is a message no Master of the Universe wants to hear. Not from
his wives, not from his slaves (and yes, they do have slaves in this
twenty-first
Christian century), and certainly not from the dhimmis, the sons of pigs
and monkeys.
Emmanuel Winston in his commentary ISRAEL, AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE MIDDLE EAST (Freeman center broadcast 2/27/03) wrote:
In
brief, an Arab Muslim, driven by Pride and Islam, believes himself
superior to all others - no matter how backward and low he may be
economically. Then there is the issue of Shame which, when one is in an
inferior position must be compensated by aggressive behavior. Islam and its
Koranic mandate to expand though any means, especially conquest, fills the
need to overcome Shame.
Al-Qa'ida spokesman Suleiman Abu Gheith wrote an article titled "In the Shadow of the Lances" that was translated by. The Middle East Media Research Institute, see (Special Dispatch Series - No. 388 June 12, 2002 No.388) In the article Suleiman asked:
How can a Muslim accept humiliation and inferiority "when he knows that his nation was created to stand at the center of leadership, at the center of hegemony and rule, at the center of ability and sacrifice? When he knows that the [divine] rule is that the entire earth must be subject to the religion of Allah not to the East, not to the West to no ideology and to no path except the path of Allah?"
In order to gain the control and power that not feeling humiliated demands the Muslims create paranoia that the infidel is trying to gain control over them. One of the masterminds of the bombing in Bali, Amrozi bin Nurhasyim when asked why he didn't feel sorry for the Australian victims of the bombing of a nightclub in Bali, explained that the Australians are brutal. When asked why he considered Australians brutal he explained:
You can see from their attitude ... they come here, people such as Americans, the Jews and their allies. They want to colonize, not just to play. They want to control Muslim people. They make us weak and they take our people to bars. They want to control all of us, not just in Indonesia but all over the world.
Sheik Omar Bakri Muhammed, as of 12/4/01 is the judge of the Shari'ah court for the United Kingdom, the Secretary General of The Islamic World League, the principal lecturer of the London school of Shari'ah, the Leader of Al-Muhajiroun & the Spokesman of The International Islamic Front. He said regarding England:
"Our Muslim brothers from abroad will come one day and conquer here and then we will live under Islam in dignity,"
Notice how he implies that Muslims are not living in England in dignity in the present.(New York Times 4/24/2004)
On his web page The Humiliation of Muslims by America the Sheik says that the United States uses the United Nations to exploit the third world. Like Osama bin Laden he ascribes American intervention in Somalia to imperialist and not humanitarian reasons. He then explains that the United Nations Charter is against Islam. He says that the UN propagates the Kufr (non-believer) ideology of Democracy. He criticizes article 1 of the United Nations Charter "...to bring about by peaceful means and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law:" as follows:
The notion of international law is man-made and undeserving of recognition. Islam should constitute the only source of laws...
He criticizes article 2 of the U.N. charter which is "To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples." by saying that:
Self-determination contradicts Islam because it too is based on nationalism and the supremacy of the people rather than Allah (swt). From another perspective, if there were an Islamic state none of its constituents would be given the option of seceding under the notion of self-determinism. The Khilafah will insure that all those living under it would abide by Islam and would seek to dissolve all artificial borders.
He criticizes article 4 of the U.N. charter 'All members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against territorial integrity or political independence of any state or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations' as follows:
Islamic foreign policy directly collides with this article. Islamic foreign policy is based on carrying the Islamic Dawah to the whole world.
David Gutman in an article titled Saving Arabs From Themselves (frontpagemag.com 8/12/05) argued that humiliation is a motivating force behind suicide bombing. He wrote:
The Arab world is suffering a crisis of humiliation. Their armies are routed not only by Americans, but also by tiny, Jewish Israel; and as Arthur Koestler once remarked, the Arab world has not, in the last 500 years or so, produced much besides rugs, dirty postcards, elaborations on the belly-dance esthetic (and, of course, some innovative terrorist practices). They have no science to speak of, no art, hardly any industry save oil, very little literature, and portentous music which consists largely of lugubrious songs celebrating the slaughter of Jews.
Now that the Arabs have acquired national consciousness, and they compare their
societies to other nations, these deficiencies become painfully evident,
particularly to the upper-class Arab kids who attend foreign universities.
There they learn about the accomplishments of Christians, Jews, (Freud,
Einstein, for starters) and women. And yet, with the exception of Edward
Said, there is scarcely a contemporary Arab name in the bunch. No wonder, then,
that major recruitment to al-Qaeda's ranks takes place among Arab
university students. And no wonder that suicide bombing becomes their tactic of
choice: it is a last-ditch, desperate way of asserting at least one scrap of
superioritya spiritual superiorityover the materialistic, life-hugging, and
ergo shameful West.
Dealing with humiliation may be a reason for suicide bombing but Islam is the reason Muslims feel humiliated. If they are not dominant and do not rule the infidel as their religion commands they feel inadequate and ashamed.
Creation of paranoia and humiliation is a technique used to gain recruits for Jihad. Here is what the respected Islamic scholar and founder of the Islamic American University in Southfield Michigan, Dr. Salah Sultan said at the 1999 IAP conference in Chicago (Terrorist Hunter):
What does "the Cause" mean to you? And what does it mean to your children?...How much do they know about these tragedies? Did we mention to them that the Children of Zion over there cut open the wombs of mothers. As Khalid M. Ihalid mentioned in 1992 when he visited Shamir and saw on his desk a strange ashtray. He asked him, "What strange ashtray is this?" Shamir told him that this was the skull of an embryo. The skull of an embryo? An Israeli soldier opened the womb of a Palestinian mother, took out the embryo, cut off his head, and gave it to him as a present. He gave it to him as a present! This is the method of the Jews. Killing a Muslim or any other non-Jew does not matter to them. Because their motto is, "The gentiles mean nothing to us." This is what the text of the talmud says: "If you come across a non-Jew kill him!"
Dr. Sultan does not give the chapter and verse of the Talmud where this statement is made because it doesn't exist. However many such quotes regarding non-Muslims can be found in Islamic holy books. For example:
I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers, Smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger tips of them. (Koran 8:12)
And
When the end days are near.the stones will talk to
Muslims telling them O'Muslim come ...come....there
is a Jew behind me....come and
slaughter him/her". (Hadith of "Prophet Mohamed" according to
ALBuchkary: ")
The latest article about Sultan as of 3/29/06 is in frontpage magazine.
According to a pamphlet called Secrets of the Talmud, The Talmud teaches Jews how best to demolish the world economy and gives Jews the right to take non-Jewish women as slaves and rape them. Isn't it interesting that the Koran gives Muslims that right!
Dr. Kenneth Levin, a
clinical instructor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and a
Princeton-trained historian, and author of The Oslo
Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under Siege had this to
say about Islamic humiliation:
The imposition of control by European colonial powers over virtually
the entire Muslim world represented, as Peter Raddatz suggests, a severe
narcissistic injury to Muslim self-image. In some respects, the establishment
of Israel, in the middle of the Arab world, represented even more of a
narcissistic injury, at least to the Arabs, in that Jews were perceived as
particularly low beings, given their traditional place within Islamic societies
and their traditional powerlessness, and so it was particularly disconcerting
to see Jews defeating the combined invading armies of surrounding Arab states
and building a viable nation. (Arab spokespeople commonly refer to Arab
humiliation at the hands of Israel, and their sympathizers in the West choose
to interpret this as having to do with security checkpoints set up by Israel
and other such steps. But Israel's very existence is experienced as a
humiliation in the context of Arab and broader Islamic self-image, even more so
as the incessant message in mosques, media, and schools has become that
Israel's existence is a violation of the natural order of things and it is the
obligation of Muslims to annihilate this abomination.)
Avram Hein wrote in frontpagemag.com (A Long
Time Threat 10/19/04)
According to Matthew Epstein, a lawyer and assistant director of the Investigative Project, the largest non-governmental organization devoted to researching the militant Islamic threat, the Islamic political leadership in the United States have parallels with the radicalization of the Islamic leadership worldwide, including a ... conspiratorial belief that Western nations, led by the United States, aim to destroy Islamic culture and an acceptance that violence in the name of Islam is justified in the face of western aggression against the ummah (Islamic community). Epstein points out that the institutional Muslim leadership in the U.S. has become anti-Western and anti-American. Numerous mainstream American Muslim organizations have portrayed U.S. counterterrorism policy as anti-Muslim in an attempt to weaken the legitimate and constitutional search for domestic terrorists.
Daniel Pipes in an article titled Cair's Hate Crime Nonsense, wrote: (frontpagemag.com 5/18/05)
Should you read Unequal Protection: The Status of Muslim Civil Rights in the United States 2005, an annual report issued last week by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), you'll learn how the Muslim experience in America is worsening. Specifically, the number of "anti-Muslim hate crimes in the United States" has gone up dramatically: from 42 cases in 2002, to 93 cases in 2003, to 141 in 2004.
Daniel Pipes investigated 20 examples given by CAIR and found 6 were false and wrote that further research would probably show problems with the others. He wrote:
Nor is this the first unreliable CAIR report; earlier ones were just as bad. Speaking about the 1996 CAIR report, terrorism expert Steven Emerson noted in congressional testimony that a large proportion of the complaints have been found to be fabricated, manufactured, distorted or outside standard definitions of hate crimes. The 1996 report included the arrest of Musa Abu Marzouk, a Hamas leader, and the trial of Omar Abdul-Rahman, the blind sheikh and ringleader of the foiled Day of Terror plot to blow up New York City landmarks.
Daniel Pipe's theory as to why CAIR creates paranoia in this way is
1) to scare its constituency, thereby raising more money; and
2) to put the American public on the defensive, thereby winning more privileges for Islam
Historically there have been situations where Muslims have been subjects to non-Muslims. This often was the result of their jihad against the infidel. European powers occupied Turkey, partly out of greed but also to protect the Armenian Christians from mass slaughter by the Turks. They were slaughtered in the end anyway but the point is that the doctrine of subjugation of the infidel and Jihad against him created subjugation of the Muslim.
There are many Muslims in Afghanistan who do not approve of the new freedom of women bought about by the American liberation of Afghanistan from the Taliban. Women live in fear of what will happen to them if they vote. Farida an Afghan woman who is 23 and unmarried said that:
"My biggest fear is that if something happens election day, the whole town will talk afterward. There is already a general rumor that women who work outside the home are prostitutes to Americans or foreigners, that women who work outside the home lose their honor."
This rumor was probably spread by Muslims who do not approve of woman being free and who want to incite hatred against them so that they are afraid of voting and so that Muslim men can be in control.
An Afghan court on Tuesday sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death for distributing a paper he printed off the Internet that three judges said violated the tenets of Islam, an official said.
IIIA Creation of Paranoia to Maintain Power and Control
When Sheriff Arpaio revealed overwhelming evidence that Obama's birth certificate was a forgery at a press conference he was attacked by the Obama supporting press. Arpaio told them:
Youre trying to go after the messenger,
