Conghaileach
29th October 2003, 22:35
Criticizing Zionism
It Is Forbidden to Say Such Things
By KURT NIMMO
It's okay to call Muslims worshippers of Satan.
That's essentially what far right Armageddon happy Lt. Gen. Boykin (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43871-2003Oct17.html) -- newly appointed deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence -- did recently. It seems to be okay with Rumsfeld, Boykin's boss. It's more than okay for the likes of Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and other Islam-hating Christian-Zionists. For them, denigrating Muslims is an industry.
"That's the way we live," Rummy told reporters (http://www.rense.com/general43/dofi.htm) Thursday during a Pentagon news briefing. "We're a free people. And that's the wonderful thing about our country. And I think that for anyone to run around and think that that can be managed and controlled is probably wrong... Saddam Hussein could do it pretty well, because he'd go around killing people if they said things he didn't like."
Of course, it depends who you criticize.
Remarks of Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/10/17/umal.xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/10/17/ixportaltop.html) aside, there is a campaign to portray criticism of Zionist state violence against essentially defenseless Palestinians as creeping anti-Semitism. "Liberals and leftists, traditional champions of the underdog, engage en masse in a form of fashionable, politically correct anti-Semitism by condemning Israel's 'racist,' 'apartheid,' 'Nazi' regime, portraying the tiny Jewish state (with 0.1 percent of the Mideast land mass) as the brutal aggressor Goliath, while casting the Arab world (with 99.9 percent of the land, and all of the oil) as David," writes Whistleblower Magazine (http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35068).
Full Story (http://www.counterpunch.org/nimmo10232003.html)
It Is Forbidden to Say Such Things
By KURT NIMMO
It's okay to call Muslims worshippers of Satan.
That's essentially what far right Armageddon happy Lt. Gen. Boykin (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43871-2003Oct17.html) -- newly appointed deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence -- did recently. It seems to be okay with Rumsfeld, Boykin's boss. It's more than okay for the likes of Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and other Islam-hating Christian-Zionists. For them, denigrating Muslims is an industry.
"That's the way we live," Rummy told reporters (http://www.rense.com/general43/dofi.htm) Thursday during a Pentagon news briefing. "We're a free people. And that's the wonderful thing about our country. And I think that for anyone to run around and think that that can be managed and controlled is probably wrong... Saddam Hussein could do it pretty well, because he'd go around killing people if they said things he didn't like."
Of course, it depends who you criticize.
Remarks of Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/10/17/umal.xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/10/17/ixportaltop.html) aside, there is a campaign to portray criticism of Zionist state violence against essentially defenseless Palestinians as creeping anti-Semitism. "Liberals and leftists, traditional champions of the underdog, engage en masse in a form of fashionable, politically correct anti-Semitism by condemning Israel's 'racist,' 'apartheid,' 'Nazi' regime, portraying the tiny Jewish state (with 0.1 percent of the Mideast land mass) as the brutal aggressor Goliath, while casting the Arab world (with 99.9 percent of the land, and all of the oil) as David," writes Whistleblower Magazine (http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35068).
Full Story (http://www.counterpunch.org/nimmo10232003.html)