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The Rest of the Story
Mark Glenn
09/03/03: “Mary, God has chosen thee, and purified thee. He has chosen
thee above all women. ....Mary, God gives thee good tidings from Him
whose name is Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary. High honored shall he be, in
this world and the next, stationed near to God. He shall speak to men in
the cradle and of old age, and righteous shall he be.”
“Blessed has he made me,” said Jesus, “wherever I may
be, and He has enjoined me to give alms, so long as I live, and likewise
to cherish my mother. He has not made me arrogant or unprosperous. Peace
be upon me the day that I was born, and the day that I die, and the day
that I am raised up alive.”
Most Americans reading the above passages would assume that they were
written by a Christian, or that it was to be found in some kind of
Christian literature. The fact is, (surely to the surprise of many) that
it was taken from the Quran, Islam’s most sacred book.
It certainly would be a surprise to most Americans, considering the fact
that they have been fed a smorgasbord of propaganda concerning the
religion of Islam and its adherents for the last 2 years that
conspicuously has made no mention of how Mother and Son are so revered
by those in the Middle East whose culture has now been scheduled for
destruction. To the opposite, the racists who run our media and, by
default, have assumed the power of doing our thinking for us have
painted the religion of Islam as something organically inimical to
Christianity and Christian culture. One in particular, and lately much
discussed is a rabid Zionist and unapologetic racist by the name of
Daniel Pipes (recently appointed by Bush to sit in on the Board of the
United States Institute of Peace) has made his living and his fame over
the period of the last decade with publications whose one and only
purpose was to slur the peoples of the Middle East, all done principally
for the reason of benefiting his co-religionists in the nation of
Israel, whose racist ideology he seems to embrace without any detectable
reserve. Were any other person foolish enough to voice only some of the
opinions that Pipes has been bold enough to put down on paper, they
would have been run out of the business, if not worse. The fact that he
has endured and has in fact been rewarded for such sentiments speaks
volumes about what is the double standard which exists in the United
States today as pertains race and religious issues, particularly when
they are applied to the situation involving Israel and the Middle East.
For those who are still holding out on whether or not to accept the
“conspiracy crackpot theory” that the US government and media have
been captured and are dominated by racist ideologues who worship before
the golden calf of Zionism, consider some of the following quotes which
Pipes has authored, and allow reason to weigh in on the fact that this
man has not endured the standard treatment that others receive when they
voice sentiments that only appear to be racial in nature.
"All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim
customs are more troublesome than most. West European societies are
unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking
strange foods and not exactly maintaining Germanic standards of
hygiene.”
A quick translation of the above statement would read like this: Muslims
are the worst of immigrants, who, smelling bad and having an unusual
palate, are not welcome in white societies.
The Golden Boy of the Zionist establishment has not limited his remarks
to only these mentioned. In other writings he accuses Muslims of being
parasites on society, being disproportionately engaged in criminal
behavior, (most notably the crime of rape) of having unacceptable
customs and seeking to take over the country.
In short, this is the stuff of the infamous Ku Klux Klan. Replace the
word “Muslim” with “black” or “nigger,” and the comparison
is without equal.
How then is it possible for such men to possess the amount of prestige
and influence as he does, without being subject to the same backlash
that would result from someone else engaging in such behavior? Quite
simply, he is an example of the “politically correct” racist,
meaning, a racist in favor of Israel and Judaism, and, unfortunately, he
is only one of many who work diligently in keeping Americans from
hearing the rest of the story.
Only in a nation whose government, media, and culture have been hijacked
by the interests of an ideology such as Zio-naziism could such
statements have been made by an individual without any resulting serious
repercussions. In a nation where someone is attacked in an overtly
coordinated effort for merely speaking out against the verifiable
history of Israeli violence and duplicity (or for that matter, simply
making a film concerning the crucifixion of Jesus Christ) the fact that
individuals such as Daniel Pipes could get away with saying such things
speaks volumes about what is the deplorable state of intellectual
dishonesty in American society. Thus has the ability for intellectual
discourse degraded to such a point that to engage in any discussion
which only slightly whiffs of criticism against the biggest practitioner
of terrorism in the Middle East results in a society of unthinking,
uninterested reactionaries who will, like Pavlov’s dogs, jump up and
start barking the mantra of “anti-Semitism” for the sole purpose of
quieting their opponents. Had he not been a stalwart supporter of Israel
and said the same thing about any other group of people, (and especially
if against his cohorts in Tel Aviv) he would have received a one-way
ticket down the infamous memory hole, never to return, as have all those
who have committed the unforgivable crime of not bowing down before the
Baalam of Zionism.
The recent outrage over Bush’s nomination of Pipes for a seat on the
United States Institute of Peace is quite a telling event as well,
especially when viewed within the context of the now obvious double
standard applied to others not so favored. Consider how the Bush
Administration (and in fact the Republican congress in general) reacted
to the media-managed frenzy swirling around former Senate Majority
Leader Trent Lott for having attended a gathering in honor of a white
segregationist. They wouldn’t touch him with a ten foot pole, for fear
of the obvious tainting they would acquire by association with him. Now
comes forth a man such as Pipes, whose overt bigotry makes the implied
bigotry of Lott look pale by comparison, and yet where are the hourly
news stories? Where are the interviews, wherein Pipes and others like
him are stuttering and stammering for an answer which they hope will
pacify a society nurtured on the religion of anti-racism? Where are all
the individuals from the ADL and other like-minded groups calling for
Pipes’ resignation? Where is the distancing of the Republicans from
such a man? In this light, the favoritism afforded to politically
correct racists as well as the complicity that exists in the outlets of
mass information in the proliferation of such sentiments becomes
clearer. Besides the fact that Pipes did not get the ax (as so many
others have and do to this day) whenever they utter phrases as
outrageously racist as were his, conversely he has been rewarded for
such statements, as evidenced by his recent nomination. But even more
telling is the fact that Bush, who most assuredly was briefed by his
advisors on what was the background of Pipes and his writings, obviously
saw nothing to fear in associating himself politically with such an
unapologetic bigot, and his insistence on putting this man in such a
position speaks loudly not only about his own fearlessness concerning
what would most assuredly be the backlash to such an event, but as well
about his fear of what would happen to him politically if he didn’t.
In short, Bush was assured by his hirelings that there would be no
negative fall out from such an appointment, due to the fact that it
would get little to no media coverage, but as well that there would be
serious consequences to face if such an appointment were not
forthcoming. How else do we view his willingness to nominate such a man
who once agreed with the notion originally espoused by a spokesman for
the KKK that "if we fail to stop the Muslims now, the sixteen
million niggers of America will soon be Muslims, and you will never be
able to stop them."
The nomination of Pipes to sit in on the United States Institute of
Peace, having justifiably caused a firestorm among Arab and Muslim
groups here in the US, nevertheless must be tempered in view of the fact
that Pipes is just one man in an army of like-minded ideologues who
occupy seats of power in the United States. They are individuals who
have gotten away with this very same thing for not just years, but
rather decades, and who in citing the Quran have squandered no
opportunity in fitting whatever text may be used to portray the religion
of Islam in the worst light, even if it means taking passages completely
out of context. They understand their audience well, knowing that here
in the United States few Christians have ever read the Quran and know
only what is alleged to be contained in it from the likes of pseudo
right-wing talk show hosts and fundamentalist Christian Zionists, who on
a daily basis hurl ethnic, religious, and cultural slurs towards a group
of people whom they are paid to demonize. Those individuals in media and
academia who shape America’s thinking (and by default America’s
policy) are capitalizing on the abysmal ignorance of the average
uninformed American as to what comprises not only the religion of Islam,
but Middle Eastern culture in general, hoping as well to utilize the
bitterness that has grown over the last few decades in Christians whose
religion and whose values have been attacked by these same degenerate
elites who now have decided to target the Muslims. Hoping that no one
noticed the slight of hand, the secular atheists who have for decades
worked tirelessly in deconstructing what was the Christian social order
of America were removed from the suspicious role they had justly
occupied, and through their own concerted efforts were replaced with the
same “brown skinned peoples” named by Pipes and others like him,
whom he and his fellow gangsters now seek to marginalize in the interest
of bringing Israel’s enemies to heal.
Besides the fact that these individuals obviously enjoy the protection
of a media which applaud their sentiments and their agenda, they can
also rest well at night knowing that not too many people will hit the
books and check out their facts. This is unfortunate, since the Quran is
not very long, nor is it difficult to read. Equally unfortunate is the
fact that were Americans better readers, they would find a whole
world of information that would prove to be quite a stumbling block for
the arguments offered by those seeking to misinform America about not
only her relationship with Islam, but as well about her relationship
with Israel. And while it is true that there have been liars,
propagandists and slanderers in every age, it is true as well that only
in an age wherein the intellectual capacity (or rather intellectual
willingness) of the people has been reduced to the level of an
unthinking mob of Roman spectators can such a program of mass-hypnotism
take place. After all, had Americans been skeptical about the
information they were fed about the Middle East situation after
September 11, they might have read the passages in the Quran which have
never been mentioned by a Zionist controlled media who have
conspicuously told only 1/4 of the story.
The 1/4 that has been told has been that section dealing with the darker
history of Islam, which, as religions go, has no more skeletons in its
closet than do any of the other religions of the world. It has not been
mentioned, as it was in the commencement of this essay, that Muslims
hold Christ and his mother in such high regard, nor has been mentioned
anything concerning the accomplishments which Islam has been responsible
for bringing to Western Civilization. In effect, the bringers of mass
information have scoured the photo albums of Islamic history for
snapshots of those unfortunate moments which have occurred, and in the
interest of misleading an uncritical public mind have presented these
snapshots to the world as being the entirety of its history. A
discerning people should have suspected this, but, as can be expected in
a civilization which has surrendered its soul and intellect to the idols
of materialism and self-gratification, thinking past these idols proved
to be too expensive.
The rest of the story that has been cleverly been kept out of public
view (and therefore out of public consideration) is the amount of
influence that the interests of Israel (once described by a prominent
Jewish-American reporter as the “elephant in the room which no one
wants to acknowledge”) have played in the whole equation. In the days
and weeks following the tragedies on 9/11, the discussion of the
relationship between the US and Israel and its relevance to the day’s
events were carefully kept out of the media mainstream. Anyone at the
time who (rightfully and logically so) brought it up for discussion was
quieted down in a hurry, for fear that people may begin to question the
propriety of an alliance that has up to that day been kept sacrosanct.
Had Americans began to consider their association with Israel and the
cause and effect circumstances as pertain to that day’s events, they
might also have learned of important events in the history of that
relationship, such as those concerning the attack on the USS Liberty,
Israeli espionage against the US for the benefit of America’s
enemies, and a whole host of other embarrassing tidbits that may have
jeopardized the stability of what has been (at least to Israel) a
fruitful and lucrative situation. But on a more simple level, Americans
who took their Christian faith seriously might have also run into
upsetting items involving religious sentiments, a topic willingly
discussed when it demonizes Muslims, but carefully avoided when it
embarrasses Jews. However, given the willingness of the Ministry of
Truth to discuss religious sentiments so as to better understand the
mindset of America’s “enemies,” by the same standard a similar
discussion should take place when it comes to understanding America’s
“friends,” even at the risk of sacrificing sacred cows.
“Miriam, mother of the Nazarene, was the descendant of princes and
governors who played the harlot with carpenters.” Sanhedron 106a
“Jesus the Nazarene practiced sorcery and black magic, and led Jews
astray into idolatry. He was sexually immoral, worshipped statues of
stone, was cut off from the Jewish people, and refused to repent.”
Sanhedron 107b
“The books of the Christians must not be saved from fire.” Shabat
116a
“The best of the Gentiles should be killed.” Soferim 15, rule 10
For the uninitiated, these few passages are excerpts of the Talmud, a
book considered to be as sacred to Judaism as the Quran is to Islam.
These excerpts are but a few of the many passages which speak with an
unmistakable and undeniable invective against the same Jesus and Mary
who are so honored by the Muslims, but which have suspiciously escaped
being mentioned in the discourse concerning religious hatred and its
relationship to terrorism. In addition to these items mentioned, there
are passages which permit the rape of children, (particularly non-Jews)
as well as a whole host of other religious/racist sentiments which, if
made public to the audiences of Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Limbaugh,
Hannity, et al, may cause quite a bit of trouble for groups such as
AIPAC and others like them who make it their business to promote the lie
that Israel is America’s “lone ally in the Middle East.” In light
of this, it should also be remembered that barely an instance goes by
when in the context of discussing the religion of Islam by major media
outlets in which it isn’t alleged that the adherents of this religion
are pedophiles and enemies of Christians.
This is the other half of the story which Americans have not been and
are not told. From the mouthpieces on the right such as Limbaugh, Liddy
and Hannity, to the mouthpieces on the left who have their hands spread
across all channels of information, this dirty little secret has been
completely left out of the equation when people such as Pipes and his
ilk begin quoting religious texts of Islam, a grandstanding done for the
sole purpose of furthering the cause of murdering, dispossessing, and
robbing the peoples of the Middle East. In defense of the adherents of
Judaism, fairly it can be argued that such racist and abominable
statements cited above do not represent the sentiments of all followers
of Judaism. In fact, it can be justly said that many are not and have
never been acquainted with them at all. In like manner, perhaps this
caveat should be applied to the Muslims as well, who in general harbor
no ill feeling towards Christians or their religion.
One should not be naive enough to think that the bringers of information
are not aware of the rest of the story, and with this in mind, the
American public who will be the ones paying the highest price for the
war against Islam must ask the logical and, considering the high stakes
involved, fair questions of Mr. Pipes and those standing behind him:
“In your discussion of the ugly side of Islam, why did you leave out
the ugly side of Judaism? Why were relevant passages of the Quran cited,
but not of the Talmud? If religiously inspired sentiments such as those
cited by you concerning Islam are relevant towards understanding the war
on terror, then why aren’t those sentiments harbored by the religion
of Judaism relevant as well?”
After, all, the noble mission that men such as he are professing to
realize is the awakening of the average American to the dangers of
religious fundamentalism, and surely that would include everything,
wouldn’t it?
How then, does one account for this obvious duplicity? What is one to
make of those who deliberately refuse to cite those passages of the
Quran which speak well of Christianity, and who at the same time refuse
to reveal those notable sections of the Talmud which speak so hatefully
against not only the personages of the Christian faith, but of its
followers as well?
The answer is not difficult to grasp. In its simplest explanation, its
understanding resides in the fact that the people in charge of
disseminating information to the American public do not have Muslim
names. By and large they are Jewish, and as a result promote information
from a decidedly biased viewpoint in favor of Israel. The obvious
importance of these circumstances should lead the average American to
approach information as pertains the Middle East with a certain amount
of healthy skepticism, but then one must consider the times in which
these events are all taking place; It is the age of a commercial
mindset, where, like the fast food business, everything is prepared
quickly and likewise quickly consumed without much thought as to what is
in it or what it may do to its consumer.
A further explanation of the reason for this duplicity resides in
understanding that there are those whose raison d’être is the state
of Israel and that which benefits her. These individuals portray
themselves as loyal Americans, but who seem not to be bothered by the
long list of ill effects which have resulted from American association
with the Zionist state, an association which, in addition to the
incontestable history of espionage and subterfuge against America and
her interests, has also resulted in the acquisition of new enemies which
threaten her safety in demonstrably new and dangerous ways. Men like
Pipes, Perle, Wolfowitz, Limbaugh, and others who hold fast to the
religion that the welfare of Israel supersedes in relevance and
importance the welfare of the United States are not true Americans, for
if they were, they would put America and her interests (particularly her
national security) first. Being true patriots, (as well as educated and
intelligent men) they would acknowledge the fact that by this dangerous
liason America has signed on to a mortgage whose heavy price will be
American blood, sweat, and tears for the benefit of another entity whose
interests and loyalty are self-serving and one-sided. But it must be
understood that these wolves in sheeps’ clothing already know this all
too well, and as a result, quake in fear of the inevitable domino
effect that would result from Americans being given the whole truth
concerning the Middle East, a domino effect that would lead to the
deconstructing of a dangerous and unprofitable business relationship 50
years in the making.
The day that America discovers that the entire “war on terror” is
and has been from the beginning a concerted, coordinated effort brought
about by individuals whose only concern is that which benefits Israel,
and that it has been waged for the purposes of facilitating murder,
racism, and genocide, thus begins the day that the apocalyptic dream of
Zionism comes tumbling down like the Tower of Babel, and to some, this
is truly a nightmare too horrible to consider. As such, individuals such
as Pipes et al, in the spirit of duplicity and corruption, willingly and
deliberately tell only that part of the story which serves their
interests. They can be likened to the schoolyard bully, who after being
pounced upon by his victims in retribution for the injustices he has
wrought against them over an extended period of time, goes crying to the
principal about his aggrieved status, feigning his innocence and crying
his crocodile tears. They are like the parents of a girl who have
entered their daughter in a beauty pageant, a girl who has neither
talent nor good looks, and in the interest of calculating a victory for
their daughter, bribe the judges while calumniating and intimidating the
other contestants, for fear that a fair contest untainted with
corruption would frustrate their hoped for victory. In like manner,
those whose sole objective is to see the racist ideology of Zionism
triumph to its apocalyptic conclusion will tell only those portions of
the story which will further their mission, even if it means killing
millions of people in the process.
For many years, Americans have been fed half the information,
information which has resulted in momentous policies and incalculable
human suffering, and it is only the beginning.
Perhaps now, in a country which boasts of its hard won freedom and
Christian conscience, as well as in the interest of knowing what kind of
liabilities they face in this process, they should be told the rest of
the story.
Mark Glenn is the author of “Not My Words, But Theirs: A Christian
American’s Defense of Middle Eastern Culture and its People.” The
book may be accessed at www.notmywords.com.
The author may be reached at mglenn@mediamonitors.org
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