Comments on: Un-habashed support for terror

By: Soccerdad

Soccerdad — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:56:48 +0000

Alex - if the world had reacted with horror, it may have well dampened the effect of terror. At least I'd like to think that, but it's pretty unknowable. (Though I suppose you could argue that terror was lower during Netanyahu's term because he wouldn't put up with it.) Joanne and Michael - You might be interested in another sick example of this glamorization. Herschel - Your question is best addressed to Seraphic Secret. As a conservative working in Hollywood he's likely to have insights to that question.

By: Herschel

Herschel — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:47:10 +0000

I do not know if this is related, but there seems to be a fascination with the Hollywood elite decision makers with movies that depict violence and horror. The same acts that we find despicable in real life, seem to be portrayed more and more on the screen.
Why do these left wing “peace loving” individuals promote such horrific degradation in their movies?

By: Michael Lonie

Michael Lonie — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:33:48 +0000

A good demonstration of the old saying that “Beauty is only skin-deep.”

Two of the contributions to the world’s media and elites being pretty cool with Arab terrorism are fear and fascinatin. The media, politicians, and other elites are easily cowed, and rush to appease those who threaten violence against them. This is in distinction to the typical American redneck’s reaction, which is to fight back.

The fascination part is more subtle. Elites, especially intellectuals, swoon over those who advocate and use violence, the more mindless the better. That was one of the attractions of the Nazis and the Commies, and the Arab/Muslim terrorists benefit from the same attitude. The elites get a pleasurable frisson from attaching themselves to violent criminals, especially political criminals, and the violent always seem to them more authentic (an important consideration in their eyes) than peaceful and law-abiding people.

By: Joanne

Joanne — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:17:46 +0000

Geez, I remember Leila Khaled. I was a teenager then, but I remember her photo in Life magazine. She is a beautiful woman, and the photo emphasized her beauty. So the same article that spoke of the depredations of the hijacking also subliminally glamorized her.

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:53:50 +0000

Multiculturalists often talk about the Arab contributions to world civilization. Such there may have been but Habash’s career is indicative of the most salient contribution of the Arabs to the world today: increasingly grotesque and savage forms of violence.

And the world’s response, of course, showed that there were advantages to that. I can only wonder how the world would be different today if the world had reacted with distaste and horror to these depredations rather than at most…not condoning, actually, but understanding.