1. They
haven't woken up yet. Certainly not in Australia. Even after the deadly
terrorist attack at a cafe in Sydney, parts of the institutionalized Australian
media are still trying to delude their audience, maintaining that it was a
"lone-wolf" who perpetrated the horrific assault. The Australian
prime minister "took comfort" in the knowledge that the assailant had
a history of mental illness.
A European court decided this week that Hamas is not a
terrorist organization -- it is a charity group with some "lone-wolf"
members. The West's basic instincts have become dull, after decades of
suppressing its own survival mechanism by self-imposing a stern
"politically correct" regime. Most of the leading figures in the West
(and in Israel) are more concerned with how they are perceived by the
community, and that they say the "correct" words that they are
allowed to say, than they are with actually confronting the truth.
Who is responsible for most of the terrorist acts around
the world today? Mother Theresa? What percentage of Muslims support militant
Islamist organizations? These are not "lone-wolves" -- this is a
serious phenomenon with grave implications on the free world. It is something
that needs to be confronted, rather than ganging up on anyone who points it out.
In February 2007, Professor Raphael Israeli -- an
international expert on Islam and professor at Hebrew University -- was
interviewed by an Australian newspaper. In the interview, Israeli warned that
the Muslim minority living in the continent posed a real threat to the
Australians. His studies suggest that life can become unbearable when the
Muslim population of a Western country reaches critical mass (in one study he
even attached a number to this idea of critical mass: 10 percent of the general
population). It is a rule of thumb, he said, and if it applies everywhere, it
certainly applies in Australia.
As an example, he cited the riots in Paris in 2006.
Israeli suggested that the Australians ban the entry of Muslim radicals and
adopt a preventative approach to avoid flooding the continent with immigrants
from Indonesia. Muslim immigrants, he argued, have a reputation of taking
advantage of Western tolerance and hospitality to advance their own ends.
Trains in London and in Madrid were not blown up by Christians or Buddhists.
They were blown up by Muslims. Precautions must be taken, he warned.
Not too far from Australia, in Bali, Islamist
organizations perpetrated two horrifying terrorist attacks in 2002 and in 2005.
Bali bomber Amrozi bin Nurhasin, who was charged with causing the deaths of
more than 200 people, stood up in court in front of the global media and cried
out "Jews! Remember Khaibar. The army of Muhammad is coming back to defeat
you." Not one of the 200 victims was Jewish. The Australians watched, read
the warnings, and went back to what they were doing.
When Israeli was interviewed, the Bali attacks were still
fresh, but the regime political correctness made sure to take the string out.
Israeli became the target of a Bolshevik-style witch hunt. He was accused of
racism, xenophobia, and was called a plethora of derogatory names. He received
death threats. In response, the Middle East expert told the Australians to wait
and see what happens. This week, one would hope that the Australians recalled
Israeli's cautionary words. Maybe some of them wondered why they didn't heed
his warning. Maybe.
2. On Monday, radio personality Tali Lipkin-Shahak
interviewed Professor Israeli. It wasn't the interview that was notable, but
the style in which it was conducted -- a style shared particularly by many
Israeli journalists, and Western journalists in general. "You were ahead
of your time," she said to him. Israeli replied that he had been
investigating the Muslim "diaspora" in Western countries for over a
decade, and that in that time the Muslim population has grown to alarming
proportions
.
"But why do you attribute violent intentions to the
immigration process?" the interviewer asked him. "Joseph also
immigrated to Egypt," she remarked, evoking the Book of Genesis.
True, the professor answered, remarking that he had
written five books on the subject, "but Joseph's family had not proclaimed
that it planned to conquer Egypt or to convert Egypt to become Israelite."
"The Muslims explicitly say that they did not come
to Europe in order to become European, but to Islamize Europe." They have
vowed that a Muslim flag will wave over 10 Downing Street in England and over
Versailles Palace in France within 25 years, he explained.
Lipkin-Shahak then said that "one can always
[always!] talk about those people in terms of a negligible, extremist minority,
including the terrorist attackers." Even ISIS, she said, "has no more
than several thousand members."
Israeli insisted that these atrocities are nothing new.
In the past, Muslims who immigrated to Australia, Scandinavia and Germany, as
well as other places, have perpetrated very serious attacks.
The overly concerned interviewers rushed to protect the
ears of her tender listeners, saying "I have to be the one to tone things
down, or at least present the opposing view," she said. "What you are
saying, it is very serious. You are vilifying an entire population; you are
contributing to the process of hatred and counter-hatred, which only causes
harm and intensifies the violence."
Israeli was not surprised. "That is exactly what
they told me in Australia, until they became the victims of a catastrophe…This
is my job. Anyone who wants to listen can listen. Anyone who doesn't, they can
wait for the next catastrophe."
Lipkin-Shahak stuck to her guns: "We listened, but
we voiced a skeptical opinion. We disagree."
"What are you basing your opinion on?" Israeli
wondered in desperation. "I am basing my opinion on thirty years of
research, studying Islam, and you are basing yours on a trend, on the fact that
it is not nice to say these things. We are talking on two completely different
planes."
Indeed, two completely different worlds. Facts vs.
beliefs. Reality vs. fantasy. Make love not war; imagine there's no countries,
and no religion too. A very special kind of liberal fundamentalism. The moment
the truth comes knocking, they retreat into their politically correct shells
and refuse to recognize the facts. There is no such thing as Muslim terrorism.
The terrorists come from outer space. Islam is a religion of peace and we
mustn't link it to all these terrible acts perpetrated in its name. Sadly, the
people who think this way -- the politically correct -- have the microphone.
The researcher with the facts is only a momentary guest.
3. The
politically correct mechanism that launders the language that we use makes it
very hard to express doubt in these John Lennon-esque fantasies, like the Oslo
Accords for example. It may be hard to believe, but the principles of the Oslo
Accords are still being marketed, under new names, to this day. Case in point:
The recent empty declarations made by newfound partners Tzipi Livni and Isaac
Herzog regarding their ability to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
For our own good, we need to examine the remarks made by the late
Arab-Palestinian minister Ziad Abu Ein, who, in 1979, murdered Boaz Lahav of
Tiberias and David Lankri of Beit Shean and seriously wounded five others when
he detonated an explosive device inside a trash can on a busy Tiberias street.
In July, 2006, Abu Ein told Al-Alam Iranian television
that "the Oslo Accords are not the dream of the Palestinian people.
However, there would never have been resistance in Palestine without Oslo. Oslo
is the effective and potent greenhouse whish embraced the Palestinian
resistance."
"Without Oslo, there would never have been
resistance. In all the occupied territories, we could not move a single pistol
from place to place. Without Oslo, and being armed through Oslo, and without
the Palestinian Authority's A areas, without the training, the camps, the
protection afforded by Oslo, and without the freeing of thousands of
Palestinian prisoners through Oslo -- this Palestinian resistance and we would
not have been able to create this great Palestinian Intifada."
Isn't it time to wake up?
