Why Do 'Christians' Love Jews but Hate Arabs? It's the Propaganda, Stupid!
Demonizing 'the other',
which is a virtual requisite for waging
an unending war against 'evil Muslim extremists',
is easily achieved by
the American media establishment
Tasteful Propaganda?
Does a day pass in Mediaworld without
being reminded of the Holocaust?
From Fox News, MSNBC, or CNN, to Jon Stewart,
South Park, the late night programming
on the Cartoon Network, or spouting politicians,
there's that relentless propaganda again
Due to the general ignorance the average American citizen has of the Muslim peoples of faith around the world, and especially in the Middle East,For example, consider how the notion of an American landscape built upon 'Judeo-Christian' values has been tirelessly promoted throughout the media industry.
Your typical American could probably not even cite a difference between Christianity and Judaism, let alone cite several differences between these respective religious systems of belief.
But rest assured virtually all Americans could say of Islam that it was founded by some Arab dude named Mohammed, and then cite Muslim leaders calling America and Israel 'Great Satan' and 'Little Satan', and there you go...
Verily, if need be Americans could quickly deem Hinduism to be an evil religion that believes in an endless variety of Gods, denies altogether the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has a caste-based economy akin to slavery, mistreats their women, etc.
Oh yeah, ‘our’ media could quickly enough rally Americans around the flag to fight India too.
Lucky for India though they have nothing more to offer us other than cheap corporate labor; but ‘we’ can easily enough deem anybody who is not white ‘sons of Ishmael’ and American minds will know no difference.
If one has ever perused through right-wing web sites or even American armed forces web sites, you may have come across a common epithet for Muslims that is routinely coined — ragheads.
This is akin to calling Native ‘Americans’ godless savages, African ‘Americans’ black as evil slaves, or Jewish ‘Americans’ Christ-killers; it demonizes the other making them readily susceptible targets for the young ignorant masses that comprise our Army and Marine recruits.
And once young minds are imbued with such racism, that is reinforced daily, there is never ever a time when they can be deprogrammed.
It took Hollywood and the general media, and a generation of Scofeld raised Bible-thumpers, generations to deprogram the American masses from anti-Semitic thinking, and outside a couple of extremist right-wing groups, if anyone so much as even questions American support of Israel they are tar and feathered (Mel Gibson), labeled anti-Semitic (John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt), and effectively ostracized (Judith Regan).
Yet with today’s ADD America we must daily be reminded of our unconditional support for Israel and that Jon Stewart lights candles for 8 days instead of going to midnight mass).
So...
You tell me how many 17 and 18 years olds, who have basically been indoctrinated with a negative world-view of the Islamic faith, i.e., the golden lie, ‘not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims,’ are going to be able to distinguish between ‘Islamofascism’ and Islamic fundamentalism?
I venture to anecdotally say, not very many. Indeed, most Americans probably believe lesser jihad is one of the five pillars of Islam..
And of course, since 9/11 Americans are incessantly fed the spiel about how those Islamic terrorists were attacking Americans, and are entirely ignorant of exactly what the targets of the attacks represented, the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, the White House, the U.N. building.
If American idiots understood that the targets of the ‘terrorist’s’ attack were actually the same forces that oppress us (or in the case of the U.N. that distract us), then one day we may actually begin to deliberate upon the concept of ‘peace on earth’; but I wouldn’t hold your breath.
If the ‘terrorists’ were actually attacking us, three Sunday morning football stadiums would have been much better targets, a fact of which I am sure even Osama is aware.
And if you want to rebut with the ‘terrorist’ attacks on U.S. armed forces stationed in the Middle East, well that would be kind of like Donald Trump walking in the streets of Watts (a notoriously poor black gang filled area) and saying, “well I don’t know why they rolled me . . .”) Spain bombing, political, and it worked. London, rogue elements.
Not that any of the above facts are relevant anyway. Our government shall ever increasingly make ‘ours’ a war economy, and more and more a war-like nation.
Indeed, I suspect within 6 months we will probably have another Gulf of Tonkin like event (this time in the Persian Gulf though) that will necessitate ever more money for war, and possibly even the draft.
You see, with a slumping economy, and your average American going hopelessly further into debt, about the only way out is to stimulate the economy with the truest form of economic stimulus known — war!
I hope I am wrong, but I do notice a couple more aircraft carrier strike forces are being deployed in the Persian Gulf, right-wing think-tanks are screaming to high heaven about how dangerous Iran is, and there really is no future for poor young peckerwoods, or blacks, in this nation anymore. But they do fill body bags nicely . . .
The bottom can fall out here, or the rich man can get richer by using them for God, country, and glory.
The corporate giants in the media and entertainment industries are but the devices used to make us think what ‘they’ want us to think, you ever watch any of those ‘glorious’ WWII movies with Audie Murphy or John Wayne . .
Sophie’s Choice, Exodus, Fiddler on the Roof, The Ten Commandments.
I don’t think one needs a PhD from Yale to figure this one out.
An addendum:
I do not think it is so much about not remembering the Holocaust, because one cannot barely even watch any news program (whether it is Fox News, MSNBC, or CNN), Jon Stewart/South Park/or even the late night programming on the Cartoon Network, or listen to a politicians’ speech without being reminded of the Holocaust.
And I can totally understand the battle-cry ‘never again!’; indeed, what the Nazi government, and the ‘patriotic’ people of Germany, did was a horrifying chapter in mankind’s history.
And there is not a ‘but’ that can follow that, yet there is a when. When will American politicians quit saying Israel has our unconditional support?
When will Americans quit turning a blind eye to Jewish settlers taking more land from the Palestinians and saying “G-d said I could”?
When will we have an American presidential candidate say, “I will suspend all economic and military aid to Israel if they do not recognize Palestinian authorities”?
When will Israel cease to be a topic of American politics? When will other people quit paying for the sins of the Huns? I suspect never...
Hmmm, what is going on around here?
Not to cast any malevolent aspersions upon the American government, because we all know they could never be decidedly evil, yet it seems an all too familiar process of pitting differing factions of conquered territories against each other, let them primarily kill each other off, and then to the victors go the spoils of being the invaders puppet government.
Yet, being just an ignorant layman myself, I would never assume that Ivy League educated lawyers and scholars would ever be able to preconceive such a modus operandi, even one that has been practiced for millennia, and that any public debates that occur daily on all the news shows are just so much smoke and mirrors...
Because as we talk countless Iraqis are dying, oil and war revenues are flowing, and the status quo is thriving...
Nah, it couldn’t be, could it? Jacob's Spring
the answer is easy- jews have adapted to american society. they do not blow
up airplanes, etc. as do moslems.
christians do not hate arabs. but they are afraid of the dangers muslims
bring to western society.
wow! interesting americans had to be de-programmed from anti-semetism
Pretty simple, Jews and Christians don't blow up buildings. In Israel,
where I'm from, it's the Palestinian MUSLIM who blows up a pizza parlor or
shoots at Israeli soldiers, not the Palestinian Christian or the Jewish
Israeli. Quite frankly the Christian Arabs are not always supportive of
Israel or the United States, but they are not members of a violent faith,
all Muslims are. Just by the fact that he very nature of the faith is
violent and oppressive. Islam in Arabic means surrender. Judaism is spread
by descent and Gentiles converting of their own free will. Christianity is
spread by word of mouth preaching. Although they may convince you they have
reformed, Islam is still spread mainly at the end of a sword.
@Don, Herschel
first of all your an idiot, if you knew anything about the history of
israel, you would know that palestininans left there homes when Egypt,
Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan told them too so that they could attack israel,
(that was granted by the United Nations that includes over 110 arab
nations). They left their homes because they wanted to kill jews, and they
lost the war. You snooze you lose. Maybe you should leave your house also
because it belongs to the native americans you stole it from you ignorant
dumbass
The Qu'ran, and textbooks used in Islamic countries and even Islamic
schools OUTSIDE Islamic countries describe Christians and Jews as Apes and
Pigs! You think we are going to take this lying down? HECK NO!!! GOT IT?
They STARTED it, brought it on their OWN heads. It is simply that people
are getting SMARTER and exposing themselves to the truth! You stupid
Islamophiles need to wake up!
I would like to point out that the new reporting with regards to the Middle
East is very PRO-Palestine.
Christians don't love Jews. For too many Christians, Jews are a means to
an end. Many Christians believe the return of Christ has to do with
defending Israel & then converting Jews to Christianity upon Christ's
return.
As a Christian and a Jew, I find this Propaganda about propaganda amazingly
illogical, insidious, and revolting.
How do you speak of propaganda against Muslims when a MIckey Mouse like
character is used to teach little children to hate Israelis and Americans?
Is it western propaganda when the smiling faces of people with Israeli
soldiers' blood literally on their hands, was shown to cheering mobs on TV.
Is it propaganda when Palestinian mothers' are proud to say that their son
or daughter blew themselves up along with 10 or 20 Israelis in the market?
Take away the word Israelis or Americans and put the word human being
there, and then
tell me this is all propaganda to teach us to hate Arabs. We don't hate
Arabs.
We keep being told that Islam is a religion of peace. Read your
history. Islam has had its major increases via violence.
In modern times, Christianity continues to grow in places that where people
are not only discriminated against, but are tortured or killed for their
beliefs. Where is the "propaganda"
about Sudan, Indonesia, Pakistan, etc where Islamic governments either
support of turn a blind eye to the murder of Christians.
Are you too blinded by your own propaganda to see the truth?
Larue, your response shows you've been indoctrinated extremely well.
You've lost all objectivity. Considering the behavior of Israel in recent
times in Lebanon and the illegal use of cluster bombs is just one small
indication that there are no good guys in the mix. Only when you take a
look at the brutality of Christian behavior (ex. Slavery in the U.S. and
how it was perpetuated by ministers misusing the Bible) will you be able to
take the log out of your own eye, while seeing the toothpick in the eyes of
others. The pomposity of Christians and Jews while putting down the
violence of some Muslims (ignoring their own) is even more insidious.
Your absolutely correct. Jews for example do not believe in hell, therefore
they believe they are absolved from sin, so basically they are free to do
whatever they want. And it is funny that Christians feel so comfortable
with Jews even though they were the one's who killed Christ. They were the
ones who attacked the U.S. Liberty even though an American flag was
hovering over the vessel. They were the one's who Muslims protected when
they were to pussy to fight back against Christian fundamentalism during
the crusades, when pope Urban the 2nd told Christian crusaders that the
only way to enter the gates of heaven was by killing the "infidels"
Oh wait forgot to shit on rc as well. We all know that 2000 years ago Jews
lived on that land. However, no one gives a fuck about that. You were
kicked off that land 2 separate times. Maybe you should have took that as a
hint that you don't belong thier. Regardless, I don't care if Jews want a
homeland because initially when they were thrown on that land after ww2,
Muslim treated you like brothers. But your zionism made you the beasts
hitler and the third reich was. Israel was created through the bloodshed of
the Palestinian people. In April 10, 1948 terrorists know as the stern
gang, hagannah, and the irgun the village of Dier Yassin. Raping women,
cutting thier babies from thier stomachs, castrating men and boys, raping
14 year old girls. Israel would be created in 1948, and the so was the
Israeli Defense Force, which was made up of who? The Hagganah, stern gang
and the irgun. After this incident, Menacham Began who lead the terrorists
into Dier Yassin said, "we have spread terror among the Arabs, with a
single blow we have changed everything."
Mr. Ahmed's comments and arrogant attitude towards others here only
strenghtens the propaganda against Muslims. It's this sort of attitiude by
Muslims like Ahmed and those shown on TV that make Muslim's despised.
If speaking the truth is arrogance than you are one humble guy. And why
would you name yourself Martin Luther? Don't you know that Luther was
behind the protestant revolution? Protestants who rebelled against the
Catholic church for having images of Jesus with everyone and their mother?
If you were protestant than you would have a better understanding of Islam
seeing as how we both do not feel the need to make images of our Prophets.
Oh and I'm not your fuckin sand nigga marty boy, so don't tell me about
what attitude I should or should not adopt. I have a right to be hostile
cus my people are being persecuted.
If you don't understand that than fine, but respect the knowledge I speak.
Ummm, Farid, people hate Muslims because of two numbers, 9 and 11. Deal
with it.
christianity , islam etc are all useless religions , all these religions
put emphesis on equality. but human genes are determined by a cell division
process called meosis , which works on probability , so someone may get
good genes and someone bad genes . INEQUALITY is intrinsic in nature . at
the time of library of alexandria there was no islam in egypt , there was a
tri god system, they were building pyramids etc . islam destroyed their
prosperity , and converted egyptions into islam by force. they did the same
thing to iranians who where zoratrians , then they invaded india and
started converting us hindus into islam, sikhs are a living proof of the
violent nature of islam. sikhism was created to counter violent islam with
violence .we thank english for saving us hindus from islam , by invading
us. we are also considering hindu terrorist squads to consider islamic
terrorism. i hate islam and all muslims with all my heart
what ever that farid said is totally wrong ,at that time egyptians where
not muslims . islam detroyed all there properity . before islamic invasion
they were making pyramids , now egyptions can even make a safety pin , it
has to import everything. indonesia has the largest muslim population and
its also the most corrupt country in the world. current plight of india is
the result islamic invasion it went thru.
