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A Newsweek report about alleged abuses at Guantánamo Bay triggered deadly unrest in Islamia. Says, Newsweek:
The Pentagon says it has found no credible evidence to support the Newsweek claims. How did Newsweek get its facts wrong, it asks itself? And how did the story feed into serious international unrest?:
Given all that has been reported about the treatment of detainees,…
Although hardly the first to report such allegations,
Newsweek original article author, Michael Isikoff, telephone fishing for "credible sources" since his "Pentagon source" lost his credibility, found other allegations of Koranic “desecration” from Muslim detainees, all of which are cited in this current article. But, to put some reality into this Newsweek-erie,
Publications like Newsweek stumble all over themselves to find reasons to castigate the United States regarding its war with Islam. Abu Ghraib has been blown into a gargantuan melodrama, all by the Left. In all of these introspective, soul-searching, hand-wringings that our Left press engage in, they conspicuously omit the one factor that could save them from embarrassing themselves.
That something is “context.” Objective journalists have it; most journalists do not. “Context” is a great unspoken part of the famed “who-what-when-why-how” five parts of journalism. All five of these parts rest—or should rest—on the bedrock of CONTEXT. Context ties the story to the relevant reality factors. These include unintended consequences and moral factors about objectivity and whom the story will affect, not just the accuracy of the facts cited.
Far too many journalists today regard themselves as objective, contextual, and even moral. Their slant, bias, and prejudice belie their own self-heaped-on self-regard.
To call everything they disagree with as something along the lines of “right wing propaganda” closes their minds just as surely as militant, ultra-right wing, reconstruction theology closes the minds of those who practice that flavor of Christianity. The Left try hard to portray all on the Right as like these Christian Reconstructionists. As for itself, the Left carry a sense of moral superiority about their perspectives, and this sense of moral superiority insulates them from critical self-examination. Such self-examination would take them off their pedestals quickly.
For example, Abu Ghraib, to the journalists of the Left, is worse than: The events of 11 September 2001; Khobar Towers; USS Cole; African Embassy bombings; the Trade Towers attempt of 1993; the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; the British burning the Library of Congress in the War of 1812 ad infinitum, taken all together to the 10th power. Talk about dropping context!
The nature of Islam, the jihadic behavior of Muslims, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria and so on, are also elements of dropped context, because they are ignored by so many journalists.
A little reading, with open minds, and these journalists would learn what an evil philosophy Islam really is. They would learn its evil history, and that its past is truly its prologue, if given a chance. They MIGHT even learn that Islam is as evil as Nazism ever was, for much the same reasons. Islam skates by solely because it masquerades as a religion, which utterly blinds so many on the Right, while its anti-Americanism delights so many on the Left. Journalists might learn how bogus Islam is, that it is based on lies: (1.) On the existence of a non-existent super-being called “Allah,” for which no evidence whatsoever exists now or at any time in the past. (2.) There being no Allah, there can be nothing divine about this book called the Koran or its Hitler-like brigand masquerading as Allah’s personally selected “prophet.” (3.) There being no Allah, except in the wishes, if not the delusions, of its believers, the contents of the Koran can have no divine validity. A billion people who BELIEVE in the abscence of facts do not make something so.
A little reading and these journalists would discover how Islam is a philosophy for human enslavement, not personal improvement. Muslims like it because Islam gives all the power to them. A little reading, and journalists would find that giving the benefit of the doubt to Islamists is like letting cancer grow inside of you because it is "living tissue and has rights also." Journalists could easily discover the truth about Islam, and stop transmitting the propaganda. They would easily learn that Islam--all of Islam, in terms of fundamentals--is profoundly unAmerican, anti-American, anti-Constitution, anti-Declaration of Independence, anti-rights, anti-life, anti-freedom, among its characteristics. Journalists could stop pretending not to see the national and international Muslim statements about wanting to destroy America as we know it, to turn America into a Dark Ages totalitarian theocracy run by shari'a, the "legal" code of Islam. They would realize easily that only enough Americans would be kept alive in a state of dhimmitude to pay the jizya, or head tax, so that the Muslims would not have to lift any fingers and break any sweats to support themselves. If these characteristics do not scream "ENEMY" to these journalists, then they ought to convert to Islam.
Context might have postponed this article from Newsweek because the journalists would have recognized just how loony so many Muslims are and how opportunistic opponents of the USA, Afghan freedom, Musharef, etc., really are. The people at Newsweek could surely have imagined how inflammatory their article would be. Enemies look for every advantage against us.
Even if “desecration” of the Koran has occurred, so what? If it unglues our adversaries, pour pig feces on piles of Korans. Play this weakness of our enemies to our fullest advantage, every single time. And don’t fall for “desecration” being real or of any value, except what we want to make of it. Playing tough with these limbic system dominated humans is OK. Why? We are at war. And, we are at war with Islam. Only a few of us are willing to acknowledge it, but Islam is what is warring against us.
Bigger than PSYOPS in this war should be EPISTEMOLOGY-OPS. Ideally the two should be combined into “psycho-epistemology-ops.” The object is to defeat the enemy and take away the enemy’s capability and will to fight us. That is context. If we can screw with their minds, their emotions, and their entire internal mental systems, we just hasten the end.
What we do not need is for American Lefties out LOOKING FOR DIRT against America to be feeding the enemy’s psy-ops. That is context also.
Newsweek is scrambling to put a spin on its utter screw-up, of publishing dubious “data” internationally to make us look bad so that our enemies can use Newsweek against US. Well, you can fall down face first into a hot, steaming cow-pie and get up with a smile on your face, but the face you save will still be covered with cow s___.
A Newsweek report about alleged abuses at Guantánamo Bay triggered deadly unrest in Islamia. Says, Newsweek:
“The spark was apparently lit at a press conference held on Friday, May 6, by Imran Khan, a Pakistani cricket legend and strident critic of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf. Brandishing a copy of that week's NEWSWEEK (dated May 9), Khan read a report that U.S. interrogators at Guantánamo prison had placed the Qur'an on toilet seats and even flushed one. "This is what the U.S. is doing," exclaimed Khan, "desecrating the Qur'an." His remarks, as well as the outraged comments of Muslim clerics and Pakistani government officials, were picked up on local radio and played throughout neighboring Afghanistan. Radical Islamic foes of the U.S.-friendly regime of Hamid Karzai quickly exploited local discontent with a poor economy and the continued presence of U.S. forces, and riots began breaking out last week.”
The Pentagon says it has found no credible evidence to support the Newsweek claims. How did Newsweek get its facts wrong, it asks itself? And how did the story feed into serious international unrest?:
Given all that has been reported about the treatment of detainees,…
the reports of Qur'an desecration seemed shocking but not incredible. But to Muslims, defacing the Holy Book is especially heinous. "We can understand torturing prisoners, no matter how repulsive," says computer teacher Muhammad Archad, interviewed last week by NEWSWEEK in Peshawar, Pakistan, where one of last week's protests took place. "But insulting the Qur'an is like deliberately torturing all Muslims. This we cannot tolerate."
Although hardly the first to report such allegations,
“the NEWSWEEK report arrived at a particularly delicate moment in Afghan politics. Opponents of the Karzai government, including remnants of the deposed Taliban regime, have been looking for ways to exploit public discontent. The Afghan economy is weak, and the government (pressed by the United States) has alienated farmers by trying to eradicate their poppy crops, used to make heroin in the global drug trade. Afghan men are sometimes rounded up during ongoing U.S. military operations, and innocents can sit in jail for months. When they are released, many complain of abuse. President Karzai is still largely respected, but many Afghans regard him as too dependent on and too obsequious to the United States. With Karzai scheduled to come to Washington next week, this is a good time for his enemies to make trouble.” Extremist agitators are at least partly to blame, but obviously the reports of Qur'anic desecration touch a particular nerve in the Islamic world.
After the rioting began last week, the Pentagon attempted to determine the veracity of the NEWSWEEK story.
Told of what the NEWSWEEK source [anonymous Pentagon leak source for Newsweek who retracted once confronted] said, Pentagon spokesman Lawrence DiRita exploded, "People are dead because of what this son of a bitch said. How could he be credible now?" (emphasis mine)
Newsweek original article author, Michael Isikoff, telephone fishing for "credible sources" since his "Pentagon source" lost his credibility, found other allegations of Koranic “desecration” from Muslim detainees, all of which are cited in this current article. But, to put some reality into this Newsweek-erie,
A U.S. military spokesman, Army Col. Brad Blackner, dismissed the claims as unbelievable. "If you read the Al Qaeda training manual, they are trained to make allegations against the infidels," he said. (emphasis mine)
Publications like Newsweek stumble all over themselves to find reasons to castigate the United States regarding its war with Islam. Abu Ghraib has been blown into a gargantuan melodrama, all by the Left. In all of these introspective, soul-searching, hand-wringings that our Left press engage in, they conspicuously omit the one factor that could save them from embarrassing themselves.
That something is “context.” Objective journalists have it; most journalists do not. “Context” is a great unspoken part of the famed “who-what-when-why-how” five parts of journalism. All five of these parts rest—or should rest—on the bedrock of CONTEXT. Context ties the story to the relevant reality factors. These include unintended consequences and moral factors about objectivity and whom the story will affect, not just the accuracy of the facts cited.
Far too many journalists today regard themselves as objective, contextual, and even moral. Their slant, bias, and prejudice belie their own self-heaped-on self-regard.
To call everything they disagree with as something along the lines of “right wing propaganda” closes their minds just as surely as militant, ultra-right wing, reconstruction theology closes the minds of those who practice that flavor of Christianity. The Left try hard to portray all on the Right as like these Christian Reconstructionists. As for itself, the Left carry a sense of moral superiority about their perspectives, and this sense of moral superiority insulates them from critical self-examination. Such self-examination would take them off their pedestals quickly.
For example, Abu Ghraib, to the journalists of the Left, is worse than: The events of 11 September 2001; Khobar Towers; USS Cole; African Embassy bombings; the Trade Towers attempt of 1993; the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; the British burning the Library of Congress in the War of 1812 ad infinitum, taken all together to the 10th power. Talk about dropping context!
The nature of Islam, the jihadic behavior of Muslims, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria and so on, are also elements of dropped context, because they are ignored by so many journalists.
A little reading, with open minds, and these journalists would learn what an evil philosophy Islam really is. They would learn its evil history, and that its past is truly its prologue, if given a chance. They MIGHT even learn that Islam is as evil as Nazism ever was, for much the same reasons. Islam skates by solely because it masquerades as a religion, which utterly blinds so many on the Right, while its anti-Americanism delights so many on the Left. Journalists might learn how bogus Islam is, that it is based on lies: (1.) On the existence of a non-existent super-being called “Allah,” for which no evidence whatsoever exists now or at any time in the past. (2.) There being no Allah, there can be nothing divine about this book called the Koran or its Hitler-like brigand masquerading as Allah’s personally selected “prophet.” (3.) There being no Allah, except in the wishes, if not the delusions, of its believers, the contents of the Koran can have no divine validity. A billion people who BELIEVE in the abscence of facts do not make something so.
A little reading and these journalists would discover how Islam is a philosophy for human enslavement, not personal improvement. Muslims like it because Islam gives all the power to them. A little reading, and journalists would find that giving the benefit of the doubt to Islamists is like letting cancer grow inside of you because it is "living tissue and has rights also." Journalists could easily discover the truth about Islam, and stop transmitting the propaganda. They would easily learn that Islam--all of Islam, in terms of fundamentals--is profoundly unAmerican, anti-American, anti-Constitution, anti-Declaration of Independence, anti-rights, anti-life, anti-freedom, among its characteristics. Journalists could stop pretending not to see the national and international Muslim statements about wanting to destroy America as we know it, to turn America into a Dark Ages totalitarian theocracy run by shari'a, the "legal" code of Islam. They would realize easily that only enough Americans would be kept alive in a state of dhimmitude to pay the jizya, or head tax, so that the Muslims would not have to lift any fingers and break any sweats to support themselves. If these characteristics do not scream "ENEMY" to these journalists, then they ought to convert to Islam.
Context might have postponed this article from Newsweek because the journalists would have recognized just how loony so many Muslims are and how opportunistic opponents of the USA, Afghan freedom, Musharef, etc., really are. The people at Newsweek could surely have imagined how inflammatory their article would be. Enemies look for every advantage against us.
Even if “desecration” of the Koran has occurred, so what? If it unglues our adversaries, pour pig feces on piles of Korans. Play this weakness of our enemies to our fullest advantage, every single time. And don’t fall for “desecration” being real or of any value, except what we want to make of it. Playing tough with these limbic system dominated humans is OK. Why? We are at war. And, we are at war with Islam. Only a few of us are willing to acknowledge it, but Islam is what is warring against us.
Bigger than PSYOPS in this war should be EPISTEMOLOGY-OPS. Ideally the two should be combined into “psycho-epistemology-ops.” The object is to defeat the enemy and take away the enemy’s capability and will to fight us. That is context. If we can screw with their minds, their emotions, and their entire internal mental systems, we just hasten the end.
What we do not need is for American Lefties out LOOKING FOR DIRT against America to be feeding the enemy’s psy-ops. That is context also.
Newsweek is scrambling to put a spin on its utter screw-up, of publishing dubious “data” internationally to make us look bad so that our enemies can use Newsweek against US. Well, you can fall down face first into a hot, steaming cow-pie and get up with a smile on your face, but the face you save will still be covered with cow s___.
posted by George Mason @ 5/16/2005 07:00:00 AM
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