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| 2006-12-01 |
| "A Crafty Madness" blog (via Relapsed Catholic) . . . The Associated Press, one of the Big Two news sources for the professional media, has apparently become the mechanized mouthpiece for Islamic terrorist propagandists. Well surprise surprise surprise. Our enemies lie and our Betters In the Media find the lies more attractive than the truth, and as well they prefer the glamorous, exotic liars to their dull, stodgy, and familiar countrymen (excepting everyone in their own close circle of “ones who know“). Just read Witness and know this isn’t the first time this sort of thing has gone down. But there is just one thing I don’t understand… What’s the attraction this time? I can get the attraction to Communism and its adherents — it was ostensibly all about the brotherhood of man, and raising the worker from oppression, and freedom from the shackles of conformity and poverty, and so on and so forth. In other words, it talked a great game about giving people more freedom, more progress into a better life in the here and now. Sure, it turned out to be a pack of lies, but they were such pretty lies. But I don’t get for one minute what is the impetus behind the slavish adoration the liberal intelligentsia in the West has decided to give the Muslim terrorist groups. It is beyond me. I can just barely get the attraction to old-style desert-life Arabs, with their flowing robes and pretty writing and the vision of a long train of camels with their riders fading into the distant past… all the Lawrence of Arabia bullshit. But the crass, crude, barbaric reality of the members of these modern terrorist groups smashes those pretty and wispy dreams to pieces. We’re talking urban men, men who wouldn’t know what to do with a camel if it spit on them, men who shave their crotches before going off to fly planes into buildings, men who are so anally retentive that they freak out if their coworker has a ceramic pig figurine on her (her! the infidel whore! she should be home serving her man!) desk, men who — in a final destruction of the vision of a Saracen in his gleaming cuirass wielding a scimitar that shines like the moon and can slice a hair up the middle — murder their captives by sawing at their necks with butcher knives. These are not your glamorous, exotic Arabs of yore. These are the drooling, six-fingered, rusty-pitchfork-carrying rednecks of every progressive liberal’s nightmares, only with brown skin, dark eyes, and Middle Eastern accents. And I say “men” advisedly. Despite the Muslim women the press has been careful to seek out and “give equal voice to” is anyone really fooled about the actual worth a woman’s word is given in current Muslim culture? This is a religion where it takes what — two women, is it, for their word to mean as much as one man’s? Yet liberal women spend most of their breath screeching about how awful the Republican rightwinger Christians are. Speaking of religion — these people even embody every liberal progressive activist’s idea of anathema: they are religious fanatics who insist that not only is the Sky Ghost they worship real, but that everyone in the world must worship this Sky Ghost in the same exact fashion that they do, or be killed! This is a bit harsher than having to endure your Pentecostal aunt’s disapproval of your lesbian lifestyle, but again, guess what is considered much more heinous in the eyes of Western libtards: people who refuse to back gay marriage are worse than people who kill gays buy pushing stone walls on top of them. (Not even the irony of the “stone wall” being used as a method of execution for homosexuals pierces their carapace. Well over here, honey, I noticed for you.) So I have been trying to figure out why the news media seems to have decided to back the enemy horse. Mere hatred of the current American president really doesn’t seem to completely fill the bill. Bush’s term will be up soon, and he can’t run again. They won’t have him to kick around much longer, but the Muslims have promised us that jihad is forever. Maybe that’s it — maybe the progressive, liberal, leftleaning contingent is so tired of all their flimsy ideals being shot to pieces by reality and their equally flimsy relationships with each other falling to bits that they’ve finally found something they can count on not to leave them. Click through and read the comments, too. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #3 See The Intellectual Origins Of America-Bashing by Lee Harris. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-12-01 23:53 |
| #2 Modern Leftists recognize Western civilization, with its industrialization, consumerism, alienation, racism and inequality as a sort of original sin. By romanticizing non-Western cultures, the Left fantisizes of a world of "sustainable" interconnectedness where all haved their needs met and no one is sad or lonely. They rarely ask themselves why millions from the more "authentic" places risk so much to go westward while so few Westerners go the other way. The utopian impulse obscures the reality that if you allow people freedom you might not like all the results. Therefore, freedom is less important than achieving an idyllic neverland of universal well being. The Left conceives of every culture outside the West as tending toward such lofty goals if only the old imperialism would get out of the way. |
| Posted by: Baba Tutu 2006-12-01 16:43 |
| #1 The US destroyed the Left's dream, which was communism. For that it must pay. Whoever resists the US, no matter how loathsome they might be, is their hero. Standing up to the country that defeated the holy grail of the Left washes away all possible sins. Even when the jihadis have burnt their homes and bent them over in order to cut their throats like a hog to the slaughter the Left will heap praise on them, because they were the ones who exacted the final revenge. Never destroy an intellectual's dream: he'll never, ever forgive you for it. |
| Posted by: Jonathan 2006-12-01 15:19 |