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As a parent, what do you fear most? Your
youngster “finding” Jesus, Jehovah, or Allah? Faced with those choices,
would you prefer that she come home one day wearing a
black nose bag, and clutching a Quran and
a prayer mat, or dressed in a long skirt, nose in the
Hebrew or Christian Testament?
Judging by Christiane Amanpour’s documentary, “God’s
Warriors,” there is a lot to be said for the
black nose bag—niqab, hijab, whatever. CNN’s very own Leni
Riefenstahl is at it
again. The khaki clad, butch correspondent wanted badly to “bridge
the gap of understanding about the Muslim world,” as she put it. How
better to propagandize for Islam than to convince the
viewer that the four Jewish and Christian “extremists” she’d
located were every bit as menacing as the estimated 300 million salafi
fundamentalists—that’s
an
approximation of the world’s potential pool of Jihadis.
Taking murder out of suicide bombings was hence
high among Amanpour’s priorities. “Suicide martyrdom,”
the honorific Amanpour conferred on these
murderers, is not only noble, it’s always
reactive. “Suicide martyrs” are pushed to commit their
dastardly deeds by you-know-who (it begins with a “J”). And “religious
historian Bruce Lawrence says suicide martyrdom has become the last
resort for those who feel powerless to fight any other way.” Yada, yada,
yada.
Judging by the
9365 acts
of terrorism they’ve carried out since September 11, Muslims are the
most powerless people in the world. Yet Amanpour implores us to
recognize that “like people everywhere, [Muslims] abhor terrorism. The
small minority who resort to violence is symptomatic of something many
of us have failed to understand.” But as the “Committee for Accuracy in
Middle East Reporting in America” points out, polls have found that a
substantial number of Muslims still believe terrorism is justified.
Hamas has the hearts and minds of Palestinians, and if Bush democratized
Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood, which sanctions “martyrdom” missions
against Israeli Jews, would win a majority.
Soon Amanpour was pressing flesh with members of the
Muslim Brotherhood. The taqiyya-talking Brotherhood—which begat Hamas,
Gama’a al-Islamiya, and Islamic Jihad—managed effortlessly to convey
through Amanpour, uncritical conduit that she is, that theirs is a
peaceful organization. The claim is disputed by many
reliable sources: former U.S. Middle East peace envoy Dennis Ross,
Newsweek reporters Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff, and Kuwaiti
columnist Dr. Ahmad Al-Rabi. While denouncing “violence,” the
Brotherhood officially, and openly, endorses “suicide martyrdom” against
Israeli civilians. By not challenging the Brotherhood—by never once
mentioning the camel in the room—Amanpour conveyed that she doesn’t
count attacks on Israeli civilians as violence.
Naturally, Amanpour made hay of the Stephen Walt and
John Mearsheimer “half-baked
folderol” about the Israeli Lobby. Did she
countervail with the exploits of the mighty Saudi-backed Muslim Lobby,
including “the powerful Oil Lobby operating in America and advocating
for Muslim, Arab and Palestinian perspectives”? To ask is to answer.
Absent from Amanpour’s poor journalistic effort were accounts of “the
numerous activist Muslim/Arab organizations that lobby and propagandize
to influence American public opinion and foreign policy.”
The multiplying madrasas,
the infiltration
of the military and the penitentiaries by Islamic
chaplains, the active attempts to supply American schools with
Saudi-slanted textbooks on the Middle East; ensconcing Islam-friendly
Middle East Studies chairs in departments across the world, and funding
student organizations to propagandize against Israel and the US—this is
the handiwork of the Muslim Lobby.
Although minarets and madrasas are mushrooming across
Europe and America, Amanpour and her experts encouraged Muslims to carp
endlessly about discrimination. Conversely, the travails of twins from
rural Kentucky, who were forbidden by a judge to offer a prayer at their
graduation ceremony, made Amanpour snicker. The “religious right” claims
Christianity is being expunged from the public square, when in reality,
“they are playing the victim,” she snarled.
Conversely, Amanpour hung on Rehan Seyam’s every word,
as the young American Muslim extolled the virtues of her Islamic attire:
it allowed her to avoid being objectified. Karen Armstrong, a former
Roman Catholic nun, now a fulltime apologist for Islam, vouched for how
“very liberating” she found the habit. (Admittedly, Amanpour too was at
her calmest when covered like a parrot in a cage.)
Indeed, Amanpour and her viziers affirmed Muslims who
wanted to embrace a purer life style and get closer to their God. The
youngsters were experiencing “alienation” in a lascivious, libertine
society. However, young Christians seeking to palliate their pain by
turning to God—with them Amanpour was impatient; they were pathological,
not pious. When Ron Luce of the “Teen Mania” evangelical ministries
disclosed that the kids he guides to God are required to dress modestly
and are prohibited from using the Internet unsupervised, Amanpour
shrieked: “Totalitarianism; the Taliban.”
Imagine the disdain our correspondent evinced at the
sound of Christian youngsters, faces beaming, reciting the Lord's Prayer
in public. What next? Executing apostates, unchaste women and gays?
©2007 By Ilana Mercer
WorldNetDaily.com
August 31
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