Comments on: 22 dead, 245 wounded in Gaza in 48 hours

By: Cynic

Cynic — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 15:26:40 +0000

#5 Alan,
If you want to know more about the Imam who asked for Alah’s help in converting those at the DNC just read Debbie Schlussel’s post:
All About the Democrat’s New Imam, Husham Al-Husainy

Do the Democrats support HAMAS, Hezbollah, and Jaish Al-Mahdi (the Mahdi Army)? Do they think anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about killings in Iraq? Did they mourn for Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Yasser Arafat?

Well, if they don’t, then why did the Democratic National Committee pick Imam Husham Al-Husainy to deliver their invocation, in which he called for an end to “occupation”?

Readers of this site know Imam Al-Husainy, Imam of the Karbalaa Islamic Education Center in Dearbornistan, well.

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 14:34:22 +0000

Now, let’s be fair. The media had an even-handed take on the balloon affair. They reported the Israeli side–that the balloons were advertising that drifted over the border–and the Arab side–that the balloons were filled with poisonous gas, aimed at children and women, cleverly disguised as advertising.

I’m enjoy watching this, even if the msn are making a point of almost ignoring it. It’s like the 2000 World Series–unfortunately someone is going to win but you hope nobody does.

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 14:30:02 +0000

A Fatah-Hamas war is like the Iran-Ira

By: Ben F

Ben F — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 14:27:15 +0000

Meanwhile, in a classic case of “boy who cried wolf,” Palestinian Arabs complain that nobody is taking note of the ethnic cleansing going on in Iraq, where Khaled Abu Tuomeh writes that the Palestinian population has been reduced by 2/3 in the last three years and Shi’ite militiamen slew over 600 Palestinians in Baghdad in the last year alone.

[A] Palestinian who fled Iraq and was recently reunited with his family in the northern West Bank described the campaign against the Palestinians in Iraq as “genocide.” The Shi’ites, particularly the pro-Iranian Mahdi Army, are waging a war to eliminate the entire Palestinian population in Iraq, he told The Jerusalem Post. “This is a real genocide. Why isn’t the international community doing anything to stop this? How come none of the Arab countries has even issued a statement condemning the atrocities?”

Gee, do you think it might have anything to do with the fact that the Palis’ false claims of a Zionist genocide (the Muslim Arab population in the disputed territories is actually rising) have destroyed this people’s credibility?

Truthfully, though, I don’t think that that’s it at all. I think that most people around the world who whine for the Palestinian Arabs don’t really give a hoot about them; they only care about the “Palestinian cause,” which is the destruction of Israel. People don’t denounce the misery inflicted on the “refugees” in the concentration camps located throughout the Arab world, so why would they care about a turkey shoot going on in Iraq?

By: Lil Mamzer

Lil Mamzer — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 13:09:00 +0000

That’s a stock leftist argument these days.
The evangelical Christians are our American jihadis, they’re just as bad, they’re the ones we really have to worry about, forget the Islamic threat.

Oh, yeah, forget about the empirical evidence, Sean. You know, like body counts and severed heads? Why let that get in the way of your head-in-the-sand moral equivalence game?

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 04:04:42 +0000

That’s a load of crap, Sean. While some Jewish organizations worry too much about the Christian right, none of them consider it the number one threat.

Cite it, or I call bullshit.

By: sean

sean — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 03:38:05 +0000

They must have been killed by evangelical Christians. Because every major American Jewish organization will tell you, that is the number one threat to Jews today.

By: Alan Furman

Alan Furman — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 01:19:25 +0000

I imagine the guy who offered the convocation at the Democrat National Committee meeting would blame it all on "occupation."

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 01:08:03 +0000

EricJ: You have learned well, my Apprentice.

By: Oceanguy

Oceanguy — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:40:01 +0000

It’s no different from the way the media treated the “Poison” balloons story. When Arabs are violent, when Arabs lie, when Arabs engage in concocting incredible conspiracies, when Arabs show themselves to care nothing about peace, the media ignore them… it doesn’t fit the “Noble Arab despoiled by America and the Jews” narrative they jam down our throats. If the events show the Arab to be a bit less noble, or the Jews to be a bit too normal, the MSM will give us the Sgt. Schultz treatment.

When it comes right down to it, the media and the left care nothing about the Arabs except how they may use them as a bludgeon on “Conservative” America. Just as the Arab rulers use hatred of America and Israel to deflect criticism of their own rule, the media and the left use hatred of America and Israel to deflect scrutiny of their own bankrupt ideas.

Sorry, a bit angry today…