"Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases.
Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants . . ." -- Justice Louis Brandeis
"Mother! I've just killed my Jew, I'm going to Paradise!" A French Muslim youth, joyous --- his hands still bloodied after he gouged his Jewish neighbor's eye out, then beheaded him --- informing mama in November 2003 of his rapturous religious act
"Osama bin Laden Hiding Out in the USA Say 51% of Dubai Respondents"
In the Gulf News online survey done on May 7, 30 per cent of the responders [in Dubai]said Pakistan was the terrorist's likely hiding place. Only 12 per cent said Afghanistan, while 51 per cent said it was the United States.
"To double check whether people on the streets are equally paranoid and think on the same lines, Gulf News caught some unwary shoppers and asked them the question. While some people said they would rather not comment on the subject, a large number also believe he is in the United States, as according to them, Bin Laden was once "created" by America. A Dubai resident said people think he is in the United States, "because he was working for them before", said Daniella Paderi. "And now he has gone back home." The expatriate said catching Osama was not important. "There are more important things to worry about, as the war in Iraq," she said.
"Hassan Ali, an Egyptian expatriate in Abu Dhabi, said Bin Laden was most probably in Texas (home of US President George Bush). "That's where he is running his family business now," he said. "All the media fuss is make-believe. He probably has coffee daily with American officials."
"Every time Arab peoples are afflicted with disaster, defeats, or tragedies, it is always blamed
on a Zionist, colonialist, or American imperialist conspiracy." Iraq's Al-Ittihad daily
Number of Fatal Islamist Terror Attacks Since 9/11 and the Date You're Reading This Buggy Article
An Hilarious Holllywood Translation of the Iranian President's Letter to Bush,
Inviting Him To Become a Muslim
INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS
WHY A 3RD ARTICLE IN THIS MINI-SERIES?
Oh oh, prof bug takes it back . . . his fingers crossed behind his back all the time, Scout's honor betrayed in the process twice now.
The Betrayal Clarified
In the previous buggy article, you see, prof bug said that he was going to divide the original article in this mini-series into two articles, and quite simply because that original piece turned out to be too long . . . a mind-stretcher that could be absorbed in one swoop only at the expense of losing an entire night's sleep, and even then only if you were on amphetamines or sado-masochistic.
So voila, starting out to adhere to his publicized intent, prof bug promptly halved the original and published the two-part mini-series . . . only, yes, you've probably guessed it, to continue futzing around with the second article, on a self-induced high full of smirks and snorts in the middle of his own insomnia, with the predictable upshot that the 2nd article in the series had bloated way beyond seemly length too. A good 24 pages, single-spaced, in Word --- plus lots of gory images of Goofy, Mickey, Daffy, King-Kong, and Sylvester that could only frighten pious minds in the Religion-of-Peace --- that new 2nd installment was no less a man-size mind-bender, requiring, it seemed, at least two or three nights of lost sleep by determined buggy visitors or even, apparently, by chronic buggy haters, these venomous types (to judge by his email) a swelling crowd in its own right.
[Oh Oh, better watch it, prof bug! The buggy haters are growing in number and seem all lathered up for a frenzied fight. Oh well, so many death threats have been flowing in the last few years that the FBI --- which has been monitoring the site and my email for a long time now --- will no doubt manage, sooner or later, to follow some links to terrorist groups here, there, and everywhere.]
Where was I?
Oh, here --- talking about the unseemly length of the two initial articles in this mini-series on Islamic lunacies.
And so, out of pity if nothing else, prof bug has now halved the 2nd article and is putting out the last part in this, the 3rd article in the series on bloodthirsty, booby-hatch dementia now at loose in the Islamic world . . . focused in jihadi frenzy on all its numerous enemies. The chief culprits here? Everyone knows that, even the simplest loony: the nefarious, omnipresent world-Jewish conspiracy operating out of the 56th street Delicatessen in Manhattan. What, is that possible? Yep, no two ways about it; and if you're a disbeliever, click here for the proof.
Bughouse Paranoia and Lurid Psycho-Ward Lunacies
Held responsible for all of the Islamic world's teeming troubles --- retarded economic development, a lack of technological innovation, backwardness in science, dictatorial rule, high levels of illiteracy, and unable even in the oil-rich countries (according to former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad just two months ago) to manage their own finances without European, American, or Asian infidel financial firms to take control of them: not to mention any trouble getting it up in the middle of the night, here, there, or everywhere --- this totally evil, pastrami-eating, beer-swigging Jewish cabal, which survived the Nazi Holocaust, has now managed to spread its ape-like grip on the hapless Muslim peoples with cunning porcine savvy right from the heart of Jew York itself. The result? For Muslim pride, power, wealth, and creativity to be restored to their rightful place --- Islamic world-rule over all others, at any rate those not killed off or converted --- the cabal and its 15 million members must be fully destroyed in a new Holocaust!
70 black-eyed virgins awaiting them in Paradise.". . . The Hamas movement educates the children in its schools, beginning in kindergarten, to believe that a martyr is given virgins in Paradise. Jack Kelley of USA Today visited Hamas schools in Gaza City, where he saw an 11-year-old boy speak to his class:
"I will make my body a bomb that will blast the flesh of Zionists, the sons of pigs and monkeys... I will tear their bodies into little pieces and will cause them more pain than they will ever know."
His classmates shouted in response, "Allah Akhbar," and his teacher shouted, "May the virgins give you pleasure." A 16-year-old Hamas youth leader in a Gaza refugee camp told Kelley, "Most boys can't stop thinking about the virgins."
Along with the media, Palestinian Muslim clerics also help instill this belief. In an interview with the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram Al-Arabi, Palestinian Authority Mufti Sheikh 'Ikrima Sabri was asked what he felt when he prayed for the soul of a martyr. He answered: "I feel that the martyr is lucky, because angels bring him to his wedding in Paradise... I spoke with one young man, who told me: 'I want to marry the black-eyed women in Paradise.' The next day, he died a martyr's death. I am certain that his mother was filled with joy over his heavenly wedding. Such a son is worthy of such a mother.'"
But Wait! What to Do with Apostate Muslims and Uppity Islamic Women Who Don't Know Their Place?
The answer: gassing, to be blunt, appears to be too good for them . . . the traitors, the beasts!
Want some evidence? Well, click on this link, but be forewarned!: reading the London Times article about the hideous torture and murder of the poor woman is not for the faint-hearted. And yes, the killing was captured on video --- don't look if you have a weak stomach! --- as the diabolical peace-loving Muslim murderers yelled Allah Akbar! Allah Akbar! Oh what joy, to kill for your God so savagely!
Those who wonder about how the Religion of Peace can produce so many horrifying people like the ones described in the article might also wonder about the depths of evil and crazed callousness let loose in way too many Islamic circles these days. The depicted act (for those who don't want to read the linked article): the psychopathic peace-loving assassins of a decent Arab female journalist in Iraq are shown beheading her brutally, though only after, it seems, drilling over a dozen holes in her legs, arms, navel, and eyes . . . the bloodthirsty murderers more interested, it also seems, in inflicting cruel pain and torture than in the final act of beheading. Damn uppity woman! Ruined no doubt by Western feminism, itself --- as all good people know --- a product of Satanic Jews.
Not that power-drilling itself is unusual in Iraq these days . . . yes, even outside the construction industry.
Rather, in the de-struction industry, and to boot a real booming job-producer in the country --- maybe even the biggest. The trick? Using the drill to open up large, deep bores in a reviled victim --- Shia, Sunni, Kurd, Christian, what have you --- without killing him or her right off seems to be a specialty that even the Nazis and KGB had never fully mastered. Gotta give credit where it's due. Gone-ape Islamists are the pace-setters these days, no two ways about it.
PS: A funeral procession was recently held for the poor tortured woman, only to be attacked twice by other members of the Religion of Peace, with a few fatalities here and there:
On Saturday two attacks targeted the funeral procession for Atwar Bahjat, the well-known Al Arabiya correspondent killed with two crew members Wednesday while reporting on the violence engulfing Samarra, where the Al-Askariya "Golden" Mosque was bombed. Two police officers were killed and five others wounded, as the cortege, led and guarded by Iraqi police and soldiers, entered the western Baghdad neighborhood of Abu Ghraib, Iraqi Emergency Police told CNN. <...> The incident happened near the home of Harith Al-Dari, the head of the Muslim Scholars Association, and along a road that splits, linking Baghdad with Syria and Jordan.When the shots rang out, security officers ordered people in the convoy to abandon their vehicles and hide behind nearby houses. Later, as the procession resumed toward the cemetery, a roadside bomb exploded, causing an unknown number of casualties, including deaths, said al-Nasery
Today's Theme
So where are we? Well, here: the first two articles in this mini-series set out the nature of this crackling screw-loose paranoia and booby-hatch hatred and racist venom that passes for conventional wisdom these days in way too much of the Muslim world --- hardly contradicted, let alone fought actively against, by Muslim moderates, progressive, and reformers, something about which we'll have a lot to say today --- and the current 3rd article looks deeply at the causes of this unpent rage and lunacy in Islam these days. Some of these causes are entangled in a long history of Islam. Others are much more contemporary.
Together, as you'll see today, they explain how what was once a creative civilization --- which was also more tolerant than Christianity of other religions, at any rate in the Middle Ages --- has degenerated into poverty, illiteracy, military impotence, scientific backwardness, technological retardation, and raging racism and hate . . . hardly distinguishable, as you'll see once more today, from the whole litany of crazed hatred and racism that is found everywhere in neo-Nazi circles since 1945.
Will the raving vitriol and race-hatred --- along with all the other unpent lunacies like paranoid scapegoating and endlessly wild conspiratorial theories --- change for the better in the future? Read and see.
PART ONE:
SOME HISTORICAL COMMENTS ABOUT ISLAM AND PERSONAL HOPE FOR ITS FUTURE
The sad thing about all the nutbin, hate-filled dementia, snow-balling like mad, that was set out at length in the previous buggy article is that it didn't always characterize Islam.
At one time, roughly from the 8th to the 14th century --- earlier in some places like Islamic Iberia, a little later elsewhere --- Islamic scholars did think in serious ways about the world, drawing on Greek philosophy, Persian culture, and Indian mathematics. In certain ways, their scholarly work was more advanced than that of the Christian world.
All This Changed After 1300 Or So
Everywhere in the Muslim world, even in the Islamic areas of the Ottoman Empire once it overran the remnants of the Byzantine Empire in the mid-15th century, independent secular speculation and scholarship abruptly ended. In their place, a rigid, intolerant, and puritanical form of Islamic orthodoxy emerged --- exactly the sort that Islamist radicals like the hate-mongering Islamic Thinkers Society yearn to see implanted, first in every Muslim country, then world-wide as the infidels everywhere are either converted, conquered, killed off, or disappear into some black-hole void.
True, despite the swift, ever greater lag of Islamic scholarship, knowledge, and awareness of secular science and philosophy after the 14th century --- the 300 million Arab peoples translating in the last 1000 years fewer books from abroad than Spain with its 40 million people does annually --- there were some glimmerings of progressive Muslim thinkers in the late 19th and early 20th century who, aware of Islam's flagrant backwardness, began urging changes in both Islamic education and knowledge on one side and politics and economics on the other.
A Tiny Band of Progressives
They wanted to bring Islam out of the Dark Ages, scientifically and philosophically, and create modern, democratic societies. Alas, they were never numerous, and their influence had hardly any impact. And since the start of WWII, virtually all important Islamic thinkers, scholars, clerics, and otherwise have been Dark-Age specialists . . . the avant-garde of existing Islamo-Fascist fundamentalism and jihadi-inspired hatred of infidels, democracy, modern capitalism, modern science, and globalizing forces; and, to boot, the leading-edge pioneers of compulsive, paranoid-infested conspiratorial views to account for the Muslim world's startling lags in economic growth, technology, scientific work, education, and power, prestige, and influence.
In short, up to now and by a long shot, the sizzling rage, crackling projected paranoid-infested fantasies, and on-broil, irrepressible urges for revenge --- all the stuff of radical Islamist fundamentalism and its jihadist mentality --- have tended to overshadow these progressive tendencies. Now limited to a few reformers in the Muslim world and in the United States, they are mainly a band of intellectuals who are isolated or alienated from the larger trends at work in the Islamic countries.
Consider, for instance . . .
A Contemporary Islamic Progressive's View: Or "'Why have the Arabs Gone Crazy in Such a Manner?'
Monday, September 20, 2004 MEMRI Arab Progressive: "The Arabs are Still Slaves to a Medieval Mentality "
[IMRA: Earlier reports described Dr. Shaker Al-Nabulsi as a Jordanian intellectual residing in the US.]
In a recent opinion piece, the progressive author and journalist Dr. Shaker Al-Nabulsi condemned the growing support for terrorism and extremism in the Arab world, and the rejection of moderation and reason. The following are excerpts from the article:(1)
'We have become the Most Terrorist Nation and the Greatest Spillers of Blood in the World'
"... If the Arabs had today a well-burnished mirror in which they can see themselves, and if they had the requisite courage to look in it, they would be stricken by fear and panic at the sight of themselves. The image [would be] that we have become the most terrorist nation and the greatest spillers of blood in the world in this [current] stage of history in which nations resolve their problems through dialogue, diplomacy, conventions, and through appeal to the world's better judgment, to public opinion, and to intellectuals, instead of threatening [others] with bloodshed if this or that demand goes unmet... The image is that we have become a nation devoid of reason!"
'Why have the Arabs Gone Crazy in Such a Manner?'
Enter the Jewish 007 Himself