I haven't posted in months here, so I may be behind on some lingo and inside jokes.
I got busy with other things in life for a while, and got out of the community. On Saturday, I finally decided its time to come back.
I've seen several items of news concerning the cartoon caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, but the things that got my attention were the burning of the Danish embassy and the mass call for violence that have come out of the past few days.
A site I found when looking for the actual cartoons (I wanted to see what the uproar was all about)is
http://www.milblog.org and this site includes some items which may offend DU viewers. I want to warn about this because there are links to LGF and Human Events Online.
At the time of this post, the first article in the blog, simply titled
Blackmail, links to a very good post on what is happening here. The basic synopsis of the associated article is that we are seeing a call to arms as a way of playing the developed and established propaganda strings to unify the Muslim world. Multiculturalism is discussed heavily, and the modern view of respecting subcultures within an encompassing multi-racial/ethnic/religious superculture is brought under scrutiny. Direct link:
http://www.proteinwisdom.com/index.php/weblog/entry/19791/Your thread comments about something more sinister or involved here are quite true. It has been stated that these comics were released in September of 2005. Only now are they coming under jihadist scrutiny. One must raise some questions as to the validity of these accusations.
The Yahoo! News article which discusses the search for the Syrian weekly gossip magazine Shihane editor Jihad Momani and others associated with this chain of events shows some serious political artillery being brought to the front. The sad part of this is the quote made in Shihane:
The cartoons had appeared along an editorial by Momani that read:
"Muslims of the world, be reasonable... what brings more prejudice against Islam, these caricatures or pictures of a hostage-taker slashing the throat of his victim in front of the cameras or a suicide bomber who blows himself up during a wedding ceremony in Amman?"
This entire parade of hate is an attempt to gain control over Muslim populations from within. There are several reasons for this. The U.S. is getting underway with conquering Muslim countries. Palestine has had elections and has made choices leading to a moderation of politics. This comes at the same time that advances in technology are allowing the citizenry of these nations to access foreign media services.
The end result of these factors is simple: the so-called "hard-liners" are losing control. They are getting exposed for what they are: radical, murderous bastards who corrupt religion and society to suit their needs. These people are part of a worldwide campaign to institute religious theocracies aimed at subversion and domination of the world. This sounds like something out of a comic book, but consider the evidence. In the United States, we saw a massive shift to the political right in the early 1980's. The Iranian embassy was taken over in 1979. In recent years, we see radicals elected to political office in Israel. All of these leaders hammer people with a rhetoric of absolutism, sacrifice to the state for common good, violent military action, and a facade of religious justification. These protests could have come out months ago, but they didn't. Every one of these "protests" are spurned by radicals who see their power base collapsing.
The involvement of the United States in Afghanistan and Iraq is our own dirty little version of this maneuvering. The United States became very wealthy during the Clinton years, and a large portion of that wealth was in the hands of average people, not the rich and their chosen enforcers and acolytes. The Internet also was transformed from an obscure communication medium for scientists and researchers into a mass electronic media for the masses. Bush came in to restore some "balance" to this trend, wherein the goals of concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and an all-out war on information ensued. Canada is also moving to the right with political leaders planning on reducing civil rights, which is also a facet of all other leaders in this movement.
There is a time for everything, and this is shown quite clearly. We have some very complex forms of dividing and conquering people in the world of today. Wedge issues, political multicasting, and other forms of tribalizing our society are starting to take their toll. Liberal and conservative are no longer united fronts. Many camps of liberal exists and even fight amongst each other for influence. The GOP is now fracturing under the strain of the new war debts, immigration issues, and mass corruption allegations in the U.S. congress. And these are just the examples in our country. France saw huge riots from angry Muslims over social conditions in France. The Muslims were segregated in French society and were taken advantage of. A breaking point was reached and riots ensued. These Muslim areas were left as festering homogeneous pockets of ethnic and racial background. Other countries have similar areas of geographical caste segregation. In the U.S., we have Spanish speaking neighborhoods that could very well be extensions of other countries in Central and South America. These people are left poor and united in their anger over unfair treatment. Some points in the future will lead to riots or other unrest.
The whole point of these situations is to prevent change. This is the one thing that is a threat to most world leaders, and has been since humans first walked this earth. The significant difference is that we now have a widespread method of distributing information and of collaboration which was not possible even 15 years ago. World leaders in very corrupt areas such as the Middle East and South America are seeing the end for themselves. Either consciously or subconsciously, they are all pushing the armageddon button as fast as they can. Their existence is limited as long as progress holds, and their only collective hope for survival is the destruction of progress. All people that we see have certain moral and social traditions. The cross-comparison of these traditions is forming a melting pot of ethics and a code of conduct. This is replacing old tribal, ethnic, and religious doctrines. The letter of the law is becoming moderated to the least infringing and detrimental set of values to all people involved. Islamic countries have religious fundamentalists who seek to have absolute authority over people and their life decisions. This regional trend is squarely clashing with western and worldwide values. In a desperate attempt to hold their established grounds, these radicals are pushing for war and mass executions to gain the will of the people back.
More and more, the autocratic decrees and edicts are tending toward self-destructive ends. These people would rather see their societies perish than advance. Whether it be George W. Bush, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Osama Bin Laden, Ariel Sharon, Yassir Arafat, or Kim Jong-Il, these people see the end of their reign. They cannot reconcile freedom with existence. They will not give up ground to rationalism. Their existence is rooted in mass deception and corrupt desires.
A discussion of these elements could not be complete without some reference to multinational corporations. These entities are reaching across national boundaries and are doing the bidding and are also having influence on leaders who want oppressive societies. The battle for oil in the Middle East is one front for the current executive branch in the United States to keep control over its population. Common leadership of major oil companies and energy companies and the Office of the President in the U.S. are well-known after key facts have been brought to light. The response of these leaders has been to silence critics rather than openly deny accusations. This is exactly what has happened in the Muslim countries of the world with such things as Salman Rushdie's book "The Satanic Verses" and of any criticism of governments in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, or other countries with similar ruling styles. In many of these same nations, oil, natural gas, and even water are all up for grabs by corporate interests and these same interests act as enforcers for the corruption that goes on in places like this.
As pertains to the matter at hand, radical clerics are trying to spin this into the Islamic version of 9/11. They want this to be the big disaster that gets over a billion Muslims up in arms. They want to drive this to armed conflict because they want to secure their survival. If they cannot destroy social progress sources such as Western Europe and North America, then their political lifetimes will have expired within one to two generations. This goes as much for Middle Eastern Countries as it does for the West.
We have enough on our plates to worry about with radical clerics like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. We have enough to worry about with a president so bent on control that he intentionally sacrificed the city of New Orleans and ALL OF ITS CITIZENS for political gains (breaking strong Democratic voting blocks, routing a city that held free blacks for hundreds of years, etc.) by not allowing federal resources to be put into action and by interfering with local and state disaster agencies all while he could have saved the city, as had happened in Florida only one year previous.
I hope that this can be of some use to people, and I hope I get some comments. I at least hope that I get some people to check out links provided in this post. These are opinions and observations I hold, and I do want clarifications where necessary and further information if people have it. One observation that I have made is that left, center, and right wing blogs all over the place are in agreement that this mass protest is a sham. It is becoming clear that a common thread of worldwide organization exists for this movement. And dare I say that the accusations of all world leaders against other leaders are mostly true and that these accusations are geared at having a real line of propaganda with which to polarize and unite selected groups of potential support. After all, homosexuals are openly and routinely executed in the Middle East, women are routinely raped, tortured, and killed in the name of sexual misconduct, and dissent is a religious sin. But when looks below the surface, in the United States we see that homosexuals are killed and discriminated against (Matthew Shephard) and that women are killed (abortion clinic bombings) as well. The United States wants to conquer Iraq, Afghanistan, and any other country that it can. So does the U.K., France, Germany, China, Russia and Japan. But when we look at the end result of Muslim countries, we see the mass desire for conquest from religious radicals in terms of cultural conquest. The list goes on and on, and we never will get to its totality until we get information shared, cross-analyzed, and distributed to the masses.
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