Four American diplomats murdered, the Ambassador reportedly raped before being slaughtered and dragged through the street.
America comes under widespread siege--and not only in the Middle East.
This time, the excuse was a film which Muslims find offensive. And, amid all of the above, who gets the blame?
Why, of course...who else?
It's the Jews, of course!
That those same Muslims preach, teach, publish, and produce oodles of cartoons, articles, sermons, and films which insult other peoples and faiths does not even enter into the equation...yet, at the slightest hint of opposition to their own beliefs and such, they feel free to massacre, destroy, and so forth at will.
As just one of many examples of this nauseating duplicity, Egypt's President, Mohamed Morsi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, recently lectured the United Nations that "freedom of expression does not allow for attacks on any religion," yet his own country routinely spews anti-Semitic venom in all of its media.
In November 2002, Egypt's state-run television broadcast the series, Horseman Without A Horse, based upon the early 20th century Czarist Russian conspiracy book, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It was shown again during Ramadan this year. The Protocols have been used by other Arabs and despots such as Adolf Hitler to justify attacks against Jews. Closer to home, Henry Ford's The Dearborn Independent ran it in America as well.
In November 2003, Arab television featured another anti-Semitic series, entitled Ash-Shatat. Syrian Defense Minister, Mustafa Tlass's popular book,The Matzoh Of Zion, spread renewed blood libel against Jews, and Iran's feature film, Saturday's Hunter, along with countless other examples of vile anti-Semitica abound in the so-called "Arab"/Muslim world. Indeed, if Jews revolted every time a cartoon or such insulting them appeared in the region, there would not be one mosque left standing in Israel. Contrast this with the murders and riots by Muslims after the publication of the Danish cartoons.
Okay, I've strayed a bit--so let's return to the question this analysis is really all about... Is the rage we frequently witness just about Muslim sensitivities over religion, or is something else--something much deeper--also at work here?
Allow me to explain...
I was listening to Fox News' O'Reilly soon after the renewed September 11th attack. He gave a fairly accurate Talking Points segment but later asked two guests why they thought all of this was happening now. Greg Gutfeld gave a reasonable response. But the other, Bernard McGuirk, injected the Jew factor into the rest of his answer...
"We're there to protect the state of Israel and that's the way it should be..."
And O'Reilly agreed.
Beyond sad...
I mean the violence which erupted on September 11th couldn't (wink, wink) have been related to the 11th anniversary of the Jihadis' murder of some three thousand other Americans, now could it? Oh, I see--that too was due to the Jews...
Still, what a coincidence!
McGuirk sounded like so many others who like to claim that America went to war against Hitler to save the Jews--and other fantasies like it. Forget the fact that Hitler first declared war on the United States--not vice-versa. Or that the Jews' alleged demi-god, FDR, refused to bomb the railroad tracks leading into Auschwitz, gas chambers, or other extermination camp facilities, while American planes were flying within a few miles of them to get to other targets. Or that their same hero turned back almost a thousand German Jewish refugees on board the S.S. Saint Louis pleading for safe haven off the coast of Florida who wound up perishing in the Holocaust. Or that FDR's administration kept the immigration quotas 90% under-filled--meaning it could have saved 190,000 Jews under the existing quotas, without changing the immigration laws. Etcetera...
And now that the stench of Auschwitz has subsided, is denied, and so forth, and another would-be Hitler--this time based in the Middle East--announces his plans to finish the job on what he calls "the one bomb nation," to add insult to injury, we have to deal with the above hallucinations. But, first things first...
Look...while I can't account for O'Reilly and his guests' expertise on the Middle East, I can say that I have done extensive research and doctoral studies in this field. My work can be found in leading institutions all over the world.
Granted, there is room for honest disagreement for those who have poured the time and effort to seek out truth; still, there is no doubt that the violence we are now witnessing only tangentially relates to McQuirk and O'Reilly's alleged Jew factor.
While it may be politically incorrect to state what comes next, the deep-seated hatred vast numbers of Muslims have for the West is simply part of the confrontation that has been going on since Muhammad's armies burst out of the Arabian Peninsula in the 7th century C.E. and conquered lands and peoples north, south, east, and west. This dates back to long before the resurrection of Israel was anything but prophecy and a mere dream.
In those conquests, the Arabs (and later also the willingly Arabized) became the rulers and everyone else the ruled. The ruled fell into two main categories...
If they were "People of the Book" (Ahl al-Kitab--Christians, Jews, and later Zoroastrians), payment of special taxes and acceptance of other degrees of subservience and subjugation could gain such folks "protection." They became dhimmis, and their fate varied with time and place. If, however, the conquered peoples were Hindus, Buddhists, and such, the choice was simply conversion to Islam or death. Countless millions were slaughtered in those Jihads. The experience of the Indian sub-continent was a prime example of this. Regardless, one thing remained--and remains--constant...
The conquered peoples were forever to be subordinate to their Muslim masters. Once a land and its native, pre-Arab and/or pre-Muslim population had been conquered in the name of the Dar ul-Islam, it could never revert to its earlier "inferior" status when it was still part of the Dar al-Harb--the realm of war.
Now please follow carefully this next point...
While religion may be on a downswing elsewhere, it is still very much alive and well in the realm of Islam and in places where scores of millions of Muslims have also now moved to. But there is a complicating factor which also enters the picture...
Since the eclipse of the last great Islamic empire (that of the Ottoman Turks) a few centuries earlier, the world--as many, if not most, Muslims see it--has been completely turned on its head. And the process began even earlier. At the same time that the West was witnessing its Renaissance and later Enlightenment, the realm of Islam was largely left in the former's dust. It has fallen farther and farther behind with each subsequent century, beholden to others for the necessities of the modern world.
This was and is seen as an unacceptable change of fortune...the culture and civilization of the dhimmi ruled now not only demanding equality, but often superiority to supposedly legitimate Islamic rulers. And, to make matters even worse, the dhimmi of all dhimmis (both Islam's kilab yahud "Jew dog" killers of prophets / sons of apes and pigs and Christendom's "Deicide People"), the Jews, in one tiny, resurrected state, came to accentuate this humiliating state of Islamic decline perhaps even the most. Israel is hated because the Jews represent, for a dominant, conquering, subjugating Arab Islamic/Islamist mindset, a world totally turned upside down. When the Arabized Iranian, Ahmadinejad, calls Israel the Little Satan to America's Great Satan, he is merely vocalizing this same concept. America is hated not for Jews nor for their sole, minuscule, reborn nation. America is hated--deep down even in most so-called "moderate" Islamic (especially Arab) countries--because, whether it intends to or not, it represents the light years advance of dhimmi civilization over Muslim societies which still see themselves as the superior, rightful masters.
Lastly, to further burst the McQuirk and O'Reilly balloon, it is Israel which is hated largely due to America--not the reverse.
Representing a bastion of more inclusive, more tolerant, truly democratic values which have come to represent the best of America and the West, the Jewish State is also despised by its would-be Muslim re-conquerors out of sheer envy. America was indeed founded on Judeo-Christian values, and the early Europeans coming here for a new, better life saw themselves coming to the new Zion. And they called America just that.
It is no accident that the inscription on America's Liberty Bell comes right out of Hebrew Scripture...
"Proclaim Liberty Throughout All The Land Unto All The Inhabitants Thereof" (Leviticus 25:10).
Show me where such "liberty" has ever existed in any Arab/Muslim-ruled land. The "democracy" of the so-called Arab Spring will, at best, become the tyranny of the Islamist majority. Sad, but very likely true...and the American State Department is among those who enable this sorry state of affairs.
Of all the conquered peoples, it is thus the sorest of sore points that the very Jews who rejected Muhammad's religio-political claims in the first place (and whom were slaughtered and enslaved for that some fourteen centuries earlier) are now the same folks who, despite their own imperfections, still shine when compared to anything the so-called "Arab"/Muslim world has yet to offer. The murder and desecration of Ambassador Chris Stevens was about this pent up frustration and lust for revenge and dominance--a perpetual longing to put the dhimmis of the world back into their rightful, timid places. The video which mocked Muhammad was just another reminder of this far greater wrong which still needs to be righted.
It's time to confront these realities head-on, to stop kissing a frequently hostile Arab/Islamic world's collective derriere, and to stop blaming the Jews.
Gerald A. Honigman is a Florida educator who has done extensive doctoral studies in Middle Eastern Affairs. He has created and conducted counter-Arab propaganda programs for college youth, has lectured on numerous campuses and other platforms, and has publicly debated many Arab spokesmen. His articles and op-eds have been published in dozens of newspapers, magazines, academic journals and websites all around the world. Visit his website at http://www.geraldahonigman.com/
