Burn Quran Bad; Burn Bibles and People Good

After all the, Quran tells you so.

By Mike Hernandez

I pray for the day when a reporter will do what they are paid to do; report the news and research before commenting with their mere pretentious rhetoric.

What do I mean? Well, let me break it down for you.

As I sit and ponder the headlines streaming across the main stream media of annoyance with clip after clip of how outrageous it is for one to burn a Quran:

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday called a Florida church’s threat to burn copies of the Muslim holy book to mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks a “disrespectful, disgraceful act.“ ^[5]

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Attorney-General Eric Holder In Step With Muslims…

Are Terrorists’ Motives and Ideology Mysterious? Only to Current U.S. Leaders

by Barry Rubin
of The Rubin Reports
reported Saturday, May 15, 2010

If you haven’t read the exchange between Attorney-General Eric Holder and Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas at the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee you should. It is the authoritative statement of how the Obama Administration views and portrays terrorism.

Briefly, Holder did everything possible to avoid suggesting that recent terrorist attacks on the United States had any connection whatsoever with Islam or Islamism to the point that he looked ridiculous. Of course, you’d have to know what happened before you can understand he looked ridiculous [see AP story, below]

I’ll analyze the dialogue and you can read the full text at the end. [Option 1: Go to the end and read it before reading my analysis. Option 2: Watch it on video HERE]

How should Holder have responded?

First, by acknowledging the basic unity of the terrorist campaign rather than pretending there are many diverse motives. Sure, there is the possibility of right-wing violence, but it doesn’t appear very often. And of course there are individuals who are mentally ill or lose control over something (getting fired at a job; a bad divorce) who shoot people, but that isn’t the systematic problem.

If you don’t acknowledge that there is a conscious, orchestrated campaign against the United States how can one possibly deal with it or educate the public about it? Click here to read the entire article…

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Domestic Aid for Muslims? How about NO!

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Evil Good; Good evil, the world upside down…

Mainstreaming the Extremists;

Marginalizing the Moderates

By Barry Rubin

Simultaneously, in some far-flung places in the world, several smart people have come up with a horrifying conclusion: radicals are being systematically mainstreamed, real moderates are being declared extremists.

For example, the two semi-official lobbyists for Hamas and Hizballah—Alistair Crooke and Mark Perry—and the biggest defenders of the Ahmadinejad regime in America—Flyntt and Hillary Leverett—are getting adoring write-ups. Crooke and the Leveretts have been profiled in the New York Times. These peoples op-eds appear everywhere, including in the FP (Foreign Policy) blog. Criticism of them seems pretty much barred from the mainstream (there’s that word again) media.

In Australia, there’s an attempt to portray anti-Israel Jewish activists as mainstream and moderate while the traditional pro-Israel groups are said to be extremist. And of course this is what J Street is about: a group headed by a former lobbyist for a company working on a Qatari anti-Israel propaganda group and which itself has hardly ever taken a position supportive of Israel. Could J Street’s cover possibly be more transparent, yet no mainstream media organ ever seems to mention this.

When Hussein Fadlallah, who might be called Hizballah’s founding spiritual guide, died recently, CNN’s chief editor for Arab affairs gushed in all a twitter that she had enormous respect for him while the BBC leaned backwards to sanitize his record.

It sounds better to say someone was an implacable foe of Israel or the United States than that he made virulently antisemitic statements and endorsed numerous terrorist attacks against Americans in which more than 240 U.S. servicemen were killed in Beirut. You see, if people knew this sort of thing they might not like him, or Hizballah.

Mainstreaming may seem to be a great solution but it is the gateway to a much worse situation. For example, General David Petraeus declared on taking command in Afghanistan, “We are in this to win.” But how is the U.S.-led international force going to win? Certainly, they cannot wipe out the Taliban, since the rules of engagement restrain them from doing the kind of thing necessary to root it out. Click here to read the entire article…

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No truth allowed in this White House

The Problem Isn’t McChrystal’s Bite

But That McChrystal

(On Administration, not Afghanistan)

IS Right!

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By Barry Rubin

There are two ways of looking at General Stanley McChrystal’s interviews with Rolling Stone magazine: one is to focus on whether he should have said such things, the other is to analyze the important truths he unveiled. Here, I’m going to look at the latter and, following my usual practice, I’ve actually read the article and will base myself on the text.

But first, think about it: the general pointed out the near-disastrous situation with American leadership today. An increasing number of people know that he’s correct in his assessment. Isn’t that what’s really important?

Incidentally, the Obama Administration has been pretty tight about leaks, so there has been less news about infighting and incompetence than usual, not to mention that much of the media has protected it from exposures and criticisms. So McChrystal hasn’t just given us some blunt-worded reactions but a peek into what’s really happening. Click here to read the entire article…

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