Monday, January 21, 2008

Robert Spencer is an Anti Semite

The continued replication of old world anti Semitism ( this time focused on Muslims) is the expected outcome of Jihadwatch and the associated propaganda instruments like Front page mag. It is also dangerous to any true campaign against terrorism.

The line that "Muslims are hate machines who hate freedom" and so on is a dangerous misreading of those who want to harm Americans. In any war on terrorism we should look at who they are, who funds them, and what their motivation is. The fact that US policy in the Mideast provokes various reactions is covered up by the lie that Islam inherently produces maniacally virgin obsessed machines who hate pop music and therefore want to attack the US.

Jihadwatch takes every conflict or incident where there is or may be some semblance of Islamic involvement and tries to paint a coherent, global Jihad based solely on religion. In truth, violence in Kashmir is territorial, Mujahadeen in the 80s (Reagan's 'freedom fighters')were resisting occupation, Darfur is about secession - as is Chechnya and Dagestan, the Philippines' Abu Sayaff are pirates and profiteers, Palestine is about occupation and annexation, Kurdish doctors in the UK were clearly reacting to the invasion of Iraq.

In truth the only glue which binds these various groups together is that provided by Bush co who make every conceivable effort to promote Bin Laden corp beyond logic and reality. This is a smokescreen to permit preordained policies like Israeli annexation, Pakistani tyranny, and "friendly" Mid East plutocracies as dictated by elite planners for decades.

Like ordinary Americans, I worry about counter terror, rights, and safety. I refuse to believe that Bush puts my interests over those long running elite interests or puts terrorism over hegemony and power.

After all, he has marshaled our resources to brutally invade and occupy Iraq and Afghanistan and facilitate heinous wars on Lebanon and Palestine : all guaranteed to lead us away from the 9-11 attackers and , in fact, increase the standing and support for the Bin Laden gang.

Jihad Watch and the local radio folks who promote it are pushing a propaganda device to ignore this.