SECTION ONE
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COLUMN
SIXTY-EIGHT, FEBRUARY 1, 2002
(Copyright © 2002 Al Aronowitz)
A MESSAGE FROM ALLAH?
TO ALL MY FAITHFUL: STOP SENDING MARTYRS!
PARADISE IS RUNNING OUT OF
VIRGINS FOR THEM!
I suppose it's not politically correct for
Far-Left fundamentalists to crack jokes like that. Which is one reason I don't
consider myself a Far-Left fundamentalist. I refuse to be a fundamentalist
anything
Although I have been a left-wing sympathizer all
my life, I'm beginning to find the orthodoxy
of the extreme left as distasteful as that of the far
right, Well, maybe not quite. But I find all extremes too far
out for anybody's good. The trouble is that on both the right and the left,
the extremists want to impose their orthodoxy on everyone else.
For instance, here's an email exchange I had with
Darlene Fife, whose New Orleans anti-Viet War heroics were partly described
under her byline in in SECTION
FIVE of COLUMN FORTY-SIX and in SECTION
SIX of COLUMN FORTY-NINE of THE BLACKLISTED JOURNALIST.
Subject:
your response to Goff
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 06:37:46 -0400
From: "Darlene Fife" <dfife@citynet.net>
To: <info@blacklistedjournalist.com>
Hello,
I
just wanted to say that I was shocked by the bigotry of your response
which John
Bennett sent out.( I am on his mailing list.)
I expected
better of you.
I don't agree with Goff that the WTC bombings were a project of the govt (but then I think it is not impossible) but I agree with all his comments on how
convenient the bombings were.
You have done much work that I respect. I
think you should get off your
bigoted high horse.
Darlene
Fife
And
then again:
Subject:
Re: your response to Goff
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 09:02:14 -0400 |
From: "Darlene
Fife" <dfife@citynet.net>
To: "al aronowitz" <info@blacklistedjournalist.com>
"These
bastards are raising a whole generation of kids whose greatest ambition is
martyrdom---to die for islam"
The
above is what I consider 'bigotry.' As
Noam Chomsky says in an interview - terror is not new. We (the US govt) have
been practicing it for years. Only the place has changed. Which does not excuse
the hijackers. If you're interested in the Chomsky interview, which actually
John Bennett may have already sent out, it is at www.B92.net.
I think I got it right. It is Belgrade radio.
Darlene
Regretfully,
I must confess that I am a bigot. I'm bigoted against assholes. One
reason I'm regretful is that not a day goes
by that I can't look back and see when I was an asshole myself. But I'm afraid
it's Darlene who's riding a high horse---the high horse of the holier-than-thou
attitude of the fundamentalist far left. It stunned me to
learn that a courageous and independent woman like Darlene had surrendered her consciousness to
the required knee-jerks of far left orthodoxy.
Yes,
I've grown bigoted against the Arabs, who are at the forefront of the Islamist
attempt to force the world back to medievalism. Deformed mullahs---deformed
either physically or mentally---seem to have hijacked their mosques and their
religion by preaching the kind of theocratic fascism that would put the mullahs
in charge. I certainly don't see any mullahs in a hurry to take the martyrdom express
to Paradise, a fairy tale they use to enlist suicide bombers. They persuade dumb
kids with raging hormones that the quickest and easiest way to get laid is to
blow oneself up in the middle of a crowd of infidels.
Now I
know that not all Arabs are extremists. But the moderates among the Arabs
obviously have been less than effective in counteracting the tide of militancy
surging through the Arab world---the tidal wave of hate for the
West and for Western Culture. The Arabs certainly have succeeded in
persuading me that they're against modernity. An eloquent article on Moslem medievalism versus
Moslem modernity can be found on PAGE
NINE of SECTION FOURTEEN of
COLUMN SIXTY-SEVEN. It was written by author Salman Rushdie, himself born
a Muslim, on whose life the Ayatollah Komeini, a typical Islamist
dictator, ordered a holy hit.
I'm not
the only one who's been turned off by the Arabs. I'm told that in Moslem
Afghanistan, where a "foreign legion" of Al Qaeda fighters shored up
the Taliban forces, the people pronounce the word "Arab" as if they're
spitting. The Afghanis found the Arabs to be so offensive that the word appears
to have become a derogatory term. To an asshole like me, the biggest
assholes in the world are the Arabs.
The
Arabs are assholes to let Osama bin Laden brand them as cold-hearted, barbaric
and bloodthirsty people. But most of all, the Arabs are assholes to permit the
growing fervor among them for jihad. Arabs are even naming their sons Jihad.
Jihad means Holy war. The Arabs are permitting extremists among them to
try to provoke a holy war against the West. A holy war in all the many places in
the world where terrorists are murdering people for no other reason than to
provoke such a holy war. Places such as the Middle East. And such as on the
India-Pakistan border, where the jihad to end all jihads threatens
to erupt.
In
other words, the Arabs are assholes to permit the assholes among them to risk
igniting a thermonuclear holocaust.
Is that
what Allah wants? ##
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