Friday, May 20, 2011

The Muslim World's True Nemesis Isn't Israel, Zionists, or Jews

I'm tired of ignorance and inflammatory rhetoric.  It's time to separate fact from fiction.  

Without a doubt, Muslims around the world have been the target of political repression, ethnic cleansing, state-sponsored terrorism, extrajudicial killings, and genocide.  But the human rights violations they've suffered have been almost entirely at the hands of their own people.  http://www.islamicpluralism.eu/WP/?p=1123.

If you need a few not-so-subtle reminders - think Muammar Gadhafi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Idi Amin Dada, Hassan al-Banna, Sayyid Qutb.  And postscript for those pontificating pinheads who want to blame Jews, Zionists, and Israel for all Middle East turmoil - neither Gadhafi, Khomeini, Hussein, Bin Laden, al-Bashir, Amin, al-Banna, or Qutb ever had a Brit Milah (a Jewish circumcision), became a barmitzvah (a “son of the commandment”), or recited the Shema (Deuteronomy 6:4). 

Sayyid Qutb, however, did advance a jihad against secular Muslim leaders - since they were, like Christians and Jews, “infidels.” And Qaddaffi, well shoot.  All he did was fund a little worldwide terror, including “widespread and systematic attacks” on Muslim civilians. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13408931And let’s not forget Khomeini, who overthrew Iran’s secular government and excuted 30,000 of his own people - political activists. Gem of a guy.  http://listverse.com/2007/09/05/top-10-most-evil-men/ But heck, its easier to blame the world's oldest scapegoat, so why not continue to point fingers at Jews, Israel, and Zionists? 

Yes, the Judeo-Christian world has its share of monsters - Yigal Amir and David Duke come to mind, respectively Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin and the former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the KKK.  But protestations of collegiate critics to the contrary, neither the West nor the Jewish State is an enemy of Islam.  Neither is responsible for the deaths of 300,000 Ugandans during Idi Amin’s reign of terror - or the slaughter of 300,000 Darfur civilians at the behest of a nefarious Sudanese government - or the loss of 20,000 lives during the Croatian War of Independence - or the annihilation of 1,000,000 people during the Iran-Iraq War. 

Fact:  Israel’s War of independence (in 1948), the Sinai Campaign (in 1956), the Six Day War (in 1967), and the Yom Kippur War (in 1973) cumulatively resulted in the loss of approximately 50,000 Arab and Israeli lives. But in the six plus decades since Israel’s birth, 11 million Muslims have been obliterated, 90% of them murdered by fellow Muslims, including militant Islamist groups like al Qaeda.  ARTID=28394http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/14/al-qaeda-hurts-muslims-most/?page=1; http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?

Fact:  Approximately 85,000,000 people have died in conflicts since 1950.  One person out of every 1,700 killed in those conflicts died due to Arab-Israeli fighting. More aptly said, 1,699 of every 1,700 deaths that occurred in those 60 years of fighting had nothing to do with the existence of a Jewish State.  http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=28394

Fact: Within the Jewish State reside 1,587,000 Arabs (comprising 20.5% of Israel’s population), who vote, study, worship freely, participate in parliament, are members of the IDF, and who – men and women alike - enjoy equal rights under the law.  In fact, 77% percent of Israeli Arabs report that they would rather live in Israel than anywhere else in the world. http://www1.cbs.gov.il/www/hodaot2011n/11_11_101e.pdf

Fact:  Between 1948 and 1967, the West Bank and Gaza were under Arab rule.  There were no Jewish settlements, and neither the Jordanians (who occupied the West Bank) nor the Egyptians (who occupied Gaza) made any demand for an independent state - not until Israel took control of these lands in the Six-Day War. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths/mf22.html#d

Fact:  The Palestinian Authority Chairman, Mahmoud Abbas (aka Abu Mazen) wrote a doctoral dissertation denying that 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust and suggesting some conspiratorial relationship between Nazis and Zionists.  He denies that for which even Germany has apologized.  His dissertation forms the basis for Holocaust studies in the PA. This is the man with whom Israel is expected to negotiate a lasting and meaningful peace. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/143752

Fact:  If the Arabs had not gone to war in 1948 in opposition to the United Nations Partition Plan, "a Palestinian state...would be celebrating its 54th anniversary." http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths/mf22.html#d

So, for those bombastic, bloviating elitists who want to blame all Middle East unrest on the Jews, Zionists, and Israel, time to set the scapegoat free. If you enjoy hearing your own voice, do your homework first.  Your rabble-rousing rhetoric serves no one.