Yet another example of an Arab spokesliar. How can you tell an Arab leader is lying? His lips are moving.
Via Charles, MEMRI has video of the Syrian Minister of Culture (and I always love to hear that one, because it is so utterly Orwell), who blames America and Israel (of course) for all of the terrorism that his co-religionists have perpetrated.
Following is an excerpt from a speech delivered by Syrian Minister of Culture Riyadh Na’san Agha, which aired on Al-Kawthar TV on February 28, 2007:
Riyadh Na’san Agha: The so-called Al-Qaeda is in my opinion, an illusion. It is a bunch of organizations which used to be supervised by the CIA, and used to commit crimes in some Arab and Islamic countries. They committed crimes in Luxor, Tunisia, and Jordan. Who knows who committed these crimes? Who can vouch that the prisoners in Guantanamo are really the so-called terrorists? We don’t know, because none of these crimes were investigated. Take, for example, the London bombings, of which Muslims have been accused. Who are they? Has anyone announced their names? Has anyone said who they were? They were forgotten, just like in all the bombings that took place in Europe. The truth is that the people who do this are the agents of the U.S., with its new anti-Islamic policy, and the agents of Zionism and the Mossad. Unfortunately, our media in some Islamic countries follows the Zionist media machine and repeats what it is says.
Why let facts get in the way of your calumny? It’s easy to find the names of the London bombers. Why, yes, someone has “announced their names.” There are even pictures. Yes, someone has “said who they were.” It’s been all over the Western media, but then, I’m sure the minister would tell us that it’s simply Zionist lies. And oh yeah–while he was going on about the London bombing, the trial was in (I think) its third week.
You see how effing crazy these people are? They utterly ignore evidence that convinces rational people of the facts, and continue with their fingers in their ears and their eyes closed and their little fantasy world in which their problems are all, every last one of them, caused by Zionists, Crusaders, and Zionist Crusaders.
And yet, the world vilifies the country that gave us improvements in drip irrigation that literally made the desert bloom, and a thousand other great inventions (including IM technology, which kids today—and businesses—can’t live without).
One gets the impression that Arabs tend to live in fantasyland or bizarroworld, where whatever is convenient for their purposes is what is held to be true. So they can deny, with an apparently straight face, that there was ever any Jewish connection with the Land of Israel before the First Aliyah. The menora carved on the Arch of Titus in Rome that shows the spoils from the Temple, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and innumerable other pieces of evidence just don’t exist.