WASHINGTON (IPS) - A new documentary from a shadowy non-profit, the Clarion Fund, has ties to groups widely accused of Islamophobia.
The Third Jihad purports to educate US citizens about the threat of a "cultural Jihad" by the country's own Muslim-American population. The film goes to great lengths to define itself as an expose of radical Muslim elements, not the faith at large.
But a group called the International Free Press Society (IFPS), which attended the Washington premiere of the film and documented the screening on behalf of the production company on a social media website, has some dubious affiliations.
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; line-height: 120%;"><span style="">"History makes it clear however, that the legend of fanatical Muslims sweeping through the world and forcing Islam at the point of the sword upon conquered races is one of the most fantastically absurd myths</span><span style=""> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">that historians have ever repeated." De Lacy O'Leary, ISLAM AT THE CROSSROADS, London, 1923, p. 8.</span> </span>
ReplyDelete<p style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; line-height: 120%;"><span style="">"It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught and how he lived, to feel anything but reverence for that mighty Prophet, one of the great messengers of the Supreme. And although in what I put to you I shall say many things which may be familiar to many, yet I myself feel whenever I re-read them, a new way of admiration, a new sense of reverence for that mighty Arabian teacher." Annie Besant, THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF MUHAMMAD</span>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; line-height: 120%;"><span style="">"Despite the growth of antagonism, Moslem (Muslim) rulers seldom made their Christian subjects suffer for the Crusades. When the Saracens finally resumed the full control of Palestine the Christians were given their former status as dhimmis. The Coptic Church, too had little cause for complaint under Saladin's (Salahuddin) strong government, and during the time of the earlier Mameluke sultans who succeeded him the Copts experienced more enlightened justice than they had hitherto known. The only effect of the Crusaders upon Egyptian Christians was to keep them for a while from</span><span style=""> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">pilgrimage to Jerusalem, for as long as the Frank were in charge heretics were forbidden access to the shrines. Not until the Moslem victories could they enjoy their rights as Christians."</span> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">James Addison in 'The Christian Approach to the Moslem</span></span>
ReplyDelete<p style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; line-height: 120%;"><span style="">“No other people made as</span><span style=""> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs, if we take this term to mean all those whose mother-tongue was Arabic, and not merely those living in the Arabian peninsula. For centuries, Arabic was the language of learning, culture and intellectual progress for the whole of the civilized world with the exception of the Far East. From the IXth to the XIIth century there were more philosophical, medical, historical, religious, astronomical and geographical works written in Arabic than in any other human tongue."</span> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Phillip Hitti in 'Short History of the Arabs</span></span>
<span><span>"The film itself also contains inconsistencies in terms of differentiating between Islam and radical Islam.
ReplyDeleteFor example, the graphic that the film used to demonstrate the spread of an Islamic state across the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe used a tiled picture of a green crescent with a star between its points. The crescent and star are the symbol of Islam in general."</span></span>
<span><span>"The film disingenuously claims it is only targeting 'radical Islam,' yet a Twitter account of the Washington, DC, screening on Wednesday night stated: "'The 1,400-hundred year war' has been going on since the beginning of Islam..."</span></span>
These idiots never stop, what one has to do is set this in the context specifically regarding the abysmal knowledge of Islam in general in the United States. If all you have is this rabid cry against "radical Islam" with no other media or general knowledge in the population at large, THAT is what you produce as the perceived norm of the religious proclivities of over a billion people. Couple with this a bogus "war on terror" in predominantly Muslim land and it is a clincher that the vilification of the whole is communicated.
However, this is not just something that began with the current "war on terror" and the so-called concern over "radical Islam," the general media as both news source and popular have portrayed the region(s) as backward and radical. Take for instance, the colonial and murderous occupation in Palestine is always portrayed out of context showing the Palestinians reacting to murderous Israeli activity - minus the indicriminate assaults, or the fact that a never ending occupying power is violently acting. All you have to do is translate the microcosm of what is taking place between the Israelis and the Palestinians on US TV screens, and you see how the same process of deception is used by Western hegemony in general.
"...it is a clincher that the vilification of the whole is communicated."
ReplyDeleteOh baloney. There is no villification of the whole by anybody but nuts. You are doing precisely what you accuse others of doing. Using the actions and words of a small group to villify the whole.
The point is not whether others or even you are doing this with a clear "concern" (which I doubt, I think you are just a shill for hegemony). The point is, in the ognorant context WHAT DOES IT PRODUCE. You, if it is mere influence of what has transpired in both news media, education, and popular media are the perfect example. It produces a general demeanor, a perception of the ever present "danger," which gives rise to the anesthetic of no concern when it is supposed being addressed as a subject of "defending the country" - when it is anything but self-defense but merely the excuse to exploit. If you deny that this is the current process you are either one of the dumbest people on earth in regard to statecraft, or totally disingenuous. Just take a look at the horse shit that has taken place because of this, the death and destruction, the broad brush application not in what is said but the RESULTS (millions of innocent people butchered) of how it is "taken care of," what is your god damned major malfunction vza? If you have nothing to say but more of the same to what I just wrote you are a certified imbecile or a reprobate.
ReplyDeleteThe point is not whether others or even you are doing this with a clear "concern" (which I doubt, I think you are just a shill for hegemony). The point is, in the ignorant context WHAT DOES IT PRODUCE. You as an example, if it is mere influence of what has transpired in both news media, education, and popular media are the perfect example. It produces a general demeanor, a perception of the ever present "danger," which gives rise to the anesthetic of no concern when it is supposed being addressed as a subject of "defending the country" - when it is anything but self-defense but merely the excuse to exploit. If you deny that this is the current process you are either one of the dumbest people on earth in regard to statecraft, or totally disingenuous.
ReplyDeleteJust take a look at the horse shit that has taken place because of this (not only presently, but with different excuses for hundreds of years), the death and destruction, the broad brush application not in what is said but the RESULTS (millions of innocent people butchered) of how it is "taken care of," what is your god damned major malfunction vza? If you have nothing to say but more of the same to what I just wrote you are a certified imbecile or a reprobate. If you want to call me a "bully" for saying that I have no reply, if you think any other response is not justified in the face of cold calculated mass murder, you have no morals along with no sense or conscience, whatever the case may be.
The point is not whether others or even you are doing this with a clear "concern" (which I doubt, I think you are just a shill for hegemony). The point is, in the ignorant context WHAT DOES IT PRODUCE. You as an example, if it is mere influence of what has transpired in both news media, education, and popular media are the perfect example. It produces a general demeanor, a perception of the ever present "danger," which gives rise to the anesthetic of no concern when it is supposedly being addressed as the subject of "defending the country" - when it is anything but self-defense but merely the excuse to exploit (as if fucking Iraq could have harmed the USA, when it was not even perceived as a danger by the surrounding countries). If you deny that this is the current process you are either one of the dumbest people on earth in regard to statecraft and raw imperialism, or totally disingenuous.
ReplyDeleteJust take a look at the horse shit that has taken place because of this (not only presently, but with different excuses for hundreds of years), the death and destruction, the broad brush application not in what is merely said but the following RESULTS (millions of innocent people butchered) of how it is "taken care of," what is your god damned major malfunction vza?
If you have nothing to say but more of the same to what I just wrote you are a certified imbecile or a reprobate. If you want to call me a "bully" for saying that I have no reply, if you think this response is not justified in the face of cold calculated mass murder, you have no morals along with no sense or conscience, whatever the combination. Perhaps you do not care, that must be it, a person who does not care and just likes to make silly arguments for mental exercise - when are you going to learn that I am DEAD FUCKING SERIOUS!!
You've lost it.
ReplyDeleteYou never had it
ReplyDeleteCertainly not what ails you!
ReplyDeleteYou have to be alive to ail, and really care for people. In fact, here is what you need -
ReplyDelete"let me say this with the risk of appearing ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by strong feelings of love. It is impossible to think of an authentic revolutionary without this quality."
Che Guevara
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIku1y_effg