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The Normalization Of Murder, Genocide And Terrorism

Feb 24, 2009
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Perhaps the most serious and most dangerous problem we face is the normalization of evil. That's the title of an essay published on Feb. 3, 2009 in the Wall Street Journal by Judea Pearl, father of Daniel Pearl, the 38-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter who was beheaded by Islamofascist terrorists in Pakistan.

The title of the article, "The Normalization of Terror," and its theme carry a devastating message, showing how the mainstream media, many of our leading universities, and people like Jimmy Carter and Bill Moyers have succeeded in transforming the most despicable, immoral, genocidal degenerates into a respectable category — freedom fighters, part of a resistance movement — even though they are using the most illegitimate, immoral, and illegal ends to achieve their political goals.

These are the real moral degenerates of our time, with the likes of Jimmy Carter and Bill Moyers leading the parade of evil, followed by many in our elite universities and the mainstream media. They speak in Orwellian language, turning evil into good, murder and genocide into resistance, and blowing the brains out of young children into acts of heroism. What is most disturbing about this terrible trend is that barbarism seems to be going mainstream even in America.

This is the story that Judea Pearl tells so well and so powerfully that it is a classic of the English language and a message that should be engraved on the mind and soul of every civilized person.

At the end of his powerful message to establish moral clarity in a world gone mad, Mr. Pearl writes, "Danny's picture is hanging just in front of me, his warm smile as reassuring as ever. But I find it hard to look him straight in the eyes and say: You did not die in vain."

Mr. Pearl says it is now seven years after the murder of his son, and then asks, "Would Danny have believed that today's world emerged after his tragedy?

"The answer does not come easily. Danny was an optimist, a true believer in the goodness of mankind. Yet he was also a realist, and would not let idealism bend the harshness of facts.

"Neither he, nor the millions who were shocked by his murder, could have possibly predicted that seven years later his abductor, Omar Saeed Sheikh, according to several South American reports, would be planning terror acts from the safety of a Pakistani jail. Or that his murderer, Khalid Sheiky Mohammed, now in Guantanamo, would proudly boast of his murder in a military tribunal in March 2007 to the cheers of the sympathetic jihadi supporters. Or that this ideology of barbarism would be celebrated in European and American universities, fueling rally after rally for Hamas, Hezbollah and other heroes of 'the resistance.' Or that another kidnapped young man, Israeli Gilad Shalit, would spend his 950th day of captivity with no Red Cross visitation while world leaders seriously debate whether his kidnapers deserve international recognition."

Judea Pearl would have thought that the murder of his son, Danny, would actually be a turning point in man's inhumanity to man, and that the slaughter of innocents to communicate political messages would once and for all be universally condemned by civilized people and sent to the ashcan of history, where such gross barbarism is no longer tolerated, the place reserved for such atrocities as slavery, human sacrifice, and other shocking and totally discredited practices of an era long gone.

But the moral degenerates mentioned above have given these icons of evil, these most degenerate of moral degenerates, moral standing in our society and acceptance in elite circles of universities, of the media, and of political leadership. Mr. Pearl says we have reached the point where we are no longer disgusted by evil: "Civilized society, so it seems, is so numbed by violence that it has lost its gift to be disgusted by evil."

I am not so sure we have been numbed by violence into acceptance of evil. I don't think people like those moral degenerates Jimmy Carter and Bill Moyers are numbed by anything. That would be an excuse. They are not numbed but have placed themselves in the hands of the devil by dark prejudices of various sorts that are lodged deep in their psyches. The people I associate with have not been numbed and they can still recognize evil, be disgusted by it, and reject it. Mr. Carter and Mr. Moyers can no longer do that, but that is due to dark prejudice, not numbness.

This is the way Mr. Pearl explains the described descent into evil. He reasons that well-meaning analysts in their zeal to find creative solutions to terror decided that terror is not a real enemy but only a tactic. Thus the mechanism that drives terrorism was made to disappear and in its place we now have the more "manageable 'tactical' considerations."

Armed with that kind of reasoning, the former mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, in July 2005 could tell Sky News that suicide bombing is almost man's second nature: "In an unfair balance, that's what people use." So the slaughter of innocents, the blowing the brains out of babies, was suddenly transformed into human nature, an almost reflex-like inevitability with moral neutrality. It's not a choice or a moral decision, but more like breathing out and breathing in. Terrorism is magically transformed into the morally acceptable.

But our former president, Jimmy Carter, the most degenerate of the moral degenerates of our time, makes the clearest argument for terrorism and the slaughter of innocents. In his book, Palestine: Peace not Apartheid, this is the way Mr. Carter slyly justifies terrorism with what is an appeal to suicide bombers: "It is imperative that the general Arab community and all significant Palestinian groups make it clear that they will end the suicide bombings and other acts of terrorism when international laws and the ultimate goals of the Road-map for Peace are accepted by Israel." Translation: Acts of terror are no longer taboo, but are just a legitimate means to a political end. Until you get what you want, terrorism is perfectly acceptable. Jimmy Carter, in effect says, "Keep killing women and children, and blowing up babies; as a former president of the U.S. I find your terrorism and even genocide perfectly acceptable." And a subtext of that translation: The Palestinians should continue the slaughter of innocents until Israel yields to their demands, however reasonable or unreasonable, and without regard to whether the acceptance of those demands would spell the eventual destruction of Israel. Whenever I hear of Mr. Carter's foreign policies misadventures, I wonder if there is a way to impeach an ex-president. If the answer is yes, I recommend starting with Mr. Carter.

Mr. Carter, whose ability to do evil knows no bounds, has put forth the dominant paradigm now widely used to justify, humanize and legitimize terrorism. When Syrian first lady, Asma Al-Assad, was asked what Israel should do to end rocket attacks aimed at innocent civilians, she replied, "They should end the occupation." In other words, terrorists must have their demands met before they agree to stop murdering innocents and blowing the brains out of babies.

Mr. Pearl also notes that the media, in the U.S. and abroad, have played a major role in making terrorism acceptable. Qatari-based al-Jazeera television keeps providing Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi hours of free television time to spew the murderous interpretation of the Quran, authorize suicide bombings, and call for jihad against Americans and Jews.

Don't think it can't get worse, as it always does thanks to the international media and our own mainstream media. In August 2008 came the birthday of Samir Kuntar, an unrepentant killer, who is 1979 smashed the head of a 4-year-old Israeli with his rifle after first killing her father before her eyes. (But remember, Jimmy Carter, in effect, gave him the OK to do that.) al-Jazeera elevated Mr. Kuntar to heroic heights, writes Mr. Pearl, "with orchestras, fireworks and sword dancers, presenting him to 50 million viewers as Arab society's role model. No mainstream Western media outlet dared to expose al-Jazeera efforts to warp its young viewers into the likes of Kuntar. Al Jazeera's management continues to receive royal treatment in all major press clubs."

American pundits like Bill Moyers see the world just like al-Jazeera, so they should not be surprised to find the blood of innocents dripping from their hands. Mr. Moyers, after the war in Gaza, was quick to lend Hamas legitimacy as a "resistance movement." And he resorted to the old cycle of violence, to make moral equivalence between Hamas' deliberate slaughter of innocents and the Israeli attempts at self-defense.

He said, each side greases the "cycle of violence" and one man's terrorism becomes another's resistance to oppression. Thus, whether blowing up innocents or acting in self defense, it's all the same. There is moral equivalence and neutrality; anything goes in this immoral world of Mr. Moyers, Mr. Carter and much of our mainstream media. Mr. Moyers uses this moral equivalence to indict the victims of terrorism as if they are merely actors in the endless cycle of violence.

Then Mr. Pearl turns to the universities, which he says are being manipulated into the support of terrorist and genocidal organizations like Hamas. He uses his own university, UCLA, where he is a professor of computer science, to illustrate the point. At UCLA there was a symposium on human rights, which was turned into a recruiting tool for Hamas. The director of the UCLA Center for Near East Studies selected only Israel bashers for the panel, and every member of the panel concluded Israel is the greatest criminal in human history.

Here is the way this human rights symposium turned out: " The primary purpose of the event was evident the morning after, when unsuspecting uninvolved students read an article in the campus newspaper titled, 'Scholars says: Israel is in violation of human rights in Gaza,' to which the good name of the University of California was attached. This is where Hamas scored its main triumph — another inch of academic respectability, another inroad into Western mind." For more on the sorry state of our colleges and universities read David Horowitz's classic, The Professors, and his second book on the subject, Indoctrination U.

So, as Mr. Pearl's article so artfully documents, we are losing our ability to distinguish between good and evil. We are being brainwashed into thinking that evil is good. Our media, our academics, and some of our political leaders are transforming terrorists and genocidal murdering maniacs into freedom fighters. If we lose our moral clarity, losing everything else we hold dear may not be far behind.

I have often written about the mainstream media, our academic institutions, and some of our political leaders seem to have become pro-terror and even anti-American. The Pearl essay is another classic statement of this theme. If I were editing one of those "Patriot's Handbooks," I would put Pearl's piece in it. I would recommend it for inclusion in the second edition of William Bennett's fine book, The American Patriot's Almanac.

I was struck by something else about the article. I missed it when it originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal on Feb. 3, 2009, the seventh anniversary of the death of Daniel Pearl. In retrospect, I thought it significant that it appeared in the Wall Street Journal, one of the few major American papers that has retained its moral clarity and that is able to distinguish between good and enable. You would not find this article in the New York Times or Philadelphia Inquirer, as they are part of the problem, the part that gives legitimacy to terror, murder and genocide.

And where did I come across the Pearl piece after missing it in the Journal? It is reprinted on Steven Emerson's Investigative Project on Terrorism Web site (www.investigativeproject

.com). It is significant, that one of the most powerful forces in identifying and fighting terrorists and terrorism has the moral clarity to see the importance of Mr. Pearl's message, and consequently pay for the republication of the piece on its Web site. People like Steven Emerson have more moral clarity and common sense than the mainstream media put together. It is also significant that the mainstream media, which did not and probably would not publish the Pearl piece or one like it, are also that segment of America that has lost moral clarity and that has virtually become friends and advocates of terrorists and other enemies of America.

Can we fight and win the war on terror when such powerful opinion makers as the mainstream media and our elite academic institutions often seem to be on the side of terror? Can we fight and win the war on terror when political leaders such as the moral degenerate Jimmy Carter are dedicated to legitimizing terrorism, terrorists and their organizations?

Let me clarify one point, as in the course of this column I may have paid the likes of the Jimmy Carters and Bill Moyers of this land, the mainstream media, and our elite academic institutions an undue compliment. I've done that by implying they are on the same moral level as Hamas, Hezbollah, and the world's other terrorist and genocidal organizations. The compliment is undue because I said they were on the same level as the terrorist and genocidal organizations. I should make it clear they are on a lower level. They have had the advantages of living in the greatest country in the history of the world, reaping all of its limitless advantages, and enjoying its right of citizenship. Yet they turn on their own country in favor of terrorists and the other enemies of America. This puts them on an even lower plain than the terrorist organizations. They, like Jimmy Carter, are indeed among the most morally degenerate of the morally degenerate.

Perhaps this all raises an even more fundamental question: Has America lost its moral bearings? We've seen Europe lose its moral bearings, where even religion is virtually disappearing from the scene. We've seen powerful observers of the scene, such as Mark Steyn in America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, and Bat Ye'or in Eurabia, show us how Europe has pretty much surrendered to Islam and Shariah. Is that one more sign it has lost its moral bearings and doesn't even defend its values? Like Europe, are we too becoming victims of multiculturalism (all cultures are of equal value) and political correctness? When you observe the pathetic moral and verbal gyrations of the mainstream media, our academic elite, and leaders such as the moral degenerate Jimmy Carter, you tend to answer America may be far along on the road traveled by Europe.

Perhaps this suggests we better get back to fundamentals, and have less tolerance for who clearly can't distinguish between good and evil. We better start treating the likes of the mainstream media, those academic elites, and the political leader exemplified by Jimmy Carter for what they are — worse than the terrorists and genocidal maniacs we are at war with. That means no support for such political leaders, media outlets, and academic institutions where these types hold forth (such as Columbia and UCLA). If Americans don't make a stand on this issue, no one else will. If Americans don't make a stand now, America itself may be lost.

Herb Denenberg is a former Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commissioner, and professor at the Wharton School. He is a longtime Philadelphia journalist and consumer advocate. He is also a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of the Sciences. His column appears daily in The Bulletin. You can reach him at advocate@thebulletin.us.

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Lord Ahmed Threatens Parliament into Submission

Jan 29, 2009
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Lord Ahmed Threatens Parliament Into Submission

Dear Mark,

A Member of Congress announces she is inviting Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders to come to Washington to meet with members of Congress and discuss his documentary film “Fitna.”

When Congressman Abdullah hears about this, he threatens the Member and the entire Congress that, unless Mr. Wilders’ visit is cancelled, he will mobilize 10,000 Muslims to prevent the visit from taking place.

As a result, the visit is cancelled and Congressman Abdullah praises Allah for delivering a victory to the Muslim community.

Of course, this couldn’t possibly happen in the United States, right? Read the commentary below, roll the clock back thirty years, and ask yourself how many Brits do you think would have believed it could happen in Great Britain today?

What was unthinkable in Great Britain thirty years ago is reality today. This is “cultural jihad” at work.

Twenty years ago who would have believed that today Harvard would create “women only” gym hours to meet the demands of Muslims. Or a state legislature would allow an imam to open its session with a prayer that calls on “victory over those who disbelieve.”

Or the Fairfax County (Virginia) police department dropping an anti-terrorism training program after complaints from Muslim police officers – one of whom was engaging in the various types of subversion the training program was intended to prevent.

For the British Parliament to abandon its right to free speech by knuckling under to the intimidation tactics by Lord Ahmed will only invite more – and bolder – tactics. To think that we in America can follow the path Great Britain has trod and not end up dealing with the same intimidation tactics is the worst form of wishful thinking.

Lord Ahmed threatens Parliament into submission

http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2009/01/lord-ahmed-threatens-parliament-into.html

Lord Ahmed is a repugnant individual. Not only in appearance, but in association, character and morality. And to hear that he has threatened jihad on the House of Lords if their lordships should fail to meet his demands only serves to intensify Cranmer’s loathing of the man.

It appears that a member of the House of Lords had invited the Dutch politician, Geert Wilders, to a private meeting in the Palace of Westminster. She had intended to invite her colleagues in the Lords to a private viewing of his ‘documentary’ Fitna, followed by discussion and debate in true parliamentary fashion. This is, after all, a liberal democracy, and their lordships enjoy the rights of freedom of expression and freedom of association, not to mention certain parliamentary privileges for the protection of their function in the legislature.

But no sooner had the unsuspecting baroness sent out her invitations, Lord Ahmed raised hell. It is reported that he ‘threatened to mobilise 10,000 Muslims to prevent Mr Wilders from entering the House and threatened to take the colleague who was organising the event to court’.

And so Fitna has been cancelled: it shall not now be screened in the House of Lords on 29th January.

The Pakistani Press is jubliant, and Lord Ahmed is praising Allah for delivering ‘a victory for the Muslim community’.

It is a sorry state of affairs indeed that a parliament whose liberties have been forged through centuries of religious intolerance should succumb to the threats of one intolerant Muslim. Lord Ahmed is manifesting a notion of Divine Right, and one suspects it is precisely the sort of defence of Islam that Prince Charles shall make when he is sworn ‘Defender of Faith’. The blasphemy laws are being re-forged to protect one god, one faith and one prophet; they no longer defend YHWH, Christianity, Jesus Christ or the Church of England. Lord Ahmed is not functioning as a Labour peer; he is the self-appointed khalifa of all things Islamic. He is not concerned to protect freedom of expression or freedom of speech, but to stifle debate and ensure that Parliament submits to the Dar Al-Islam.

It is for moments such as these that one might hope the Lords Spiritual might enter the fray and defend the right of the noble baroness to extend an invitation to a democratically-elected Dutch MP. Their silence is deafening. They no longer believe anything strongly for fear of causing offence; they no longer defend anything for fear of being abolished.

If Lord Ahmed had threatened Cranmer with ‘10,000 Muslims to prevent Mr Wilders from entering the House’, His Grace would have assured his Lordship of 100,000 people of all faiths and none to prevent the Muslims from preventing Mr Wilders from entering the House.

There are occasions when turning the other cheek is sheer folly.

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A post about News Busted! TOO Funny!!

Jan 23, 2009
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Act! Investigation

Jan 22, 2009
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You may recall that in March of last year news reports surfaced containing allegations of improper advancement of Islam at the Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA), a taxpayer-funded charter school in Minnesota. Based on these reports there appeared to be substantial evidence that TIZA was in fact an Islamic school funded with tax dollars.

We sent out several educational and alert emails on this. One of our chapter leaders took action, including contacting elected officials. Guy Rodgers, ACT! for America Executive Director, spoke with an official at the Minnesota Department of Education regarding an investigation of the school.

The investigation led to the Department issuing two citations to the school for impermissible advancement of Islam. At least one subsequent Star Tribune story reported that questions about TIZA’s practices persisted, in spite of contentions by the school that it was meeting state and federal guidelines.

Yesterday a new story appeared in the Star Tribune which reports that the ACLU has announced it will file suit against TIZA, “alleging that it is promoting the Muslim religion…” The ACLU is also including the Minnesota Department of Education in the suit, which, according to the story, “is at fault for failing to uncover and stop the alleged transgressions.”

As we all know, over the past several years the ACLU has actively fought anything that appeared to be an impermissible advancement of either Christianity or Judaism in the public schools. We are pleased to see that the ACLU has finally begun to recognize how aggressively and militantly Islam is being promoted in some public schools across the country.

ACLU to sue TIZA charter school in Twin Cities

RANDY FURST and SARAH LEMAGIE, Star Tribune
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Jan 21, 2009
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Crucifixion OK with Mideast politicos

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 06:25 PM CST

summary: Hamas aka the Taliban of the Middle East, says and does what it wants - 8th Century practices suit them just fine, as do killing and martyrdom - democracy is not just about electionsbut about human rights, rule of law, freedom of the press, and so on, all prohibited in both Gaza and the [...]

The OIC and the Universality of Human Rights

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 06:21 PM CST

summary: the world does not grasp the reality that the OIC and the Muslim nations are bent on their drive for world domination, that only Muslim-espoused ideas are desired and acceptable, that peace in their eyes comes with subjugation of all others The Legal Project January 12, 2009 The OIC and the Universality of Human Rights by Aaron Eitan [...]

Israel Acts Because The World Will Not Defend It

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 10:12 AM CST

summary: those who think peace can come to the Middle East live in a fools’ world of their own making - Hamas and the PLO/Fatah, offshoots of the Muslim Brotherhood, both call for Israel’s destruction and the extermination of all Jews - they have written it, said it, say it still, yet so many refuse [...]

Eradicating the ‘Little Satan’

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 10:08 AM CST

summary: that the vast majority of nations care not for Israel and its Jews has been clear for some time - that they believe the world would be a better place without her borders on total delusion - her contributions to civilization, measured by percentages considering her small size, largely outweigh those of any other [...]

Apologists of Totalitarianism: From Communism to Islam, Part I

Jan 16, 2009
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Apologists of Totalitarianism: From Communism to Islam, Part I

Posted: 15 Jan 2009 06:12 PM CST

summary: that so many ‘apologize’ for the core values of Islam and its inherent hatred of infidels is just so much nonsense, revealing their inability to do proper research and analysis - ignorance of the facts is no excuse! New English Review January 12, 2009 Apologists of Totalitarianism: From Communism to Islam, Part I ISLAM AS TOTALITARIANISM by Ibn Warraq Charles [...]

The Radical Islamic Takeover of America

Jan 8, 2009
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The Radical Islamic Takeover of America: A Speech Every Patriotic American Must Hear

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

People - Brigitte Gabriel 2 On November 18, 2008, Brigitte Gabriel, a leading international terrorism expert, spoke at the Thomas More Law Center’s Annual Fall Event held in Birmingham, Michigan.

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In an hour-long speech, she warned of the successful cultural Jihad being waged against America by cells of radical Islamic terrorists already in the country. She characterized many of America’s leading universities as “occupied territory, ” having been infiltrated by anti-American, anti-Israel professors that dominate Middle East Studies departments funded by Saudi millions.

Ms. Gabriel also explained how young public school students are being indoctrinated into Islam by a double standard that allows for teaching of Islam in schools under the guise of cultural studies, but does not permit Christians or other religions to be recognized in the same way.

Ms. Gabriel spoke of the threat radical Islam poses to our Nation, not just by catastrophic events like 9/11, but by the Saudi money being used to undermine our country’s Christian heritage on all levels.

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