Two-edged sword Germans rally Against Islamists, Are Jews to be next

 

The headline on the RT site reads Thousands in Dresden rally against Islamization, call for Western values.

The article led off with the following two paragraphs:

Thousands took to the streets of Dresden, Germany, to protest the Islamization of their country. Their opponents also rallied at the same time warning about spreading xenophobic ideas in Europe.

At least 10,000 people joined the march of Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of Europe, or PEGIDA, a German right-wing organization. The protesters say they want to preserve Germany’s Judeo-Christian Western culture, and curb the spread of Islamic State and Al-Qaeda activities in the EU.

Dresden is not the only city in Germany swept by similar protests. Anti-Islam rallies were held in Cologne, Hanover, Kassel, and Chemnitz.

My problem with the rally is that I fear the German's xenophobia will spread once again to anyone who is "different" from a "good" German, i.e., white and Christian.

I agree that the Islamists are taking over Europe and North America as well, but the Europeans generally know no restrictions on attacking anyone who is not a "pure" national: Islamists today, Jews tomorrow.

It's not just Germany. Hungary embraced the nazis; likewise Poland. Russia, at war with the nazis, didn't allow that to interfere with pogroms. During World War II, the United States, with its own severe case of xenophobia put its Japanese citizens into prison camps and refused entry to Jewish refugees. (Nazi prisoners in Stockton CA faired better than the Issei (immigrants) and Nisei (American-born) Japanese-Americans.)

For information about how America traded its Japanese citizens, go to Japanese American on Wikipedia.

While PEGIDA claims it distances itself from neo-Nazi groups in Germany. it "refuses to allow the spread of activities by groups such as the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda in Europe.

Already opposing PEGIDA, according to the RT article are members of Christian churches, the Islamic center, the Jewish community, the Foreign Residents' Association and students.

The nazis' targets were "Jews and Marxists" (a/k/a Communists). While the Jews, at least, were Germans of long standing, and many decorated for service during World War I, the nazis - like the U.S. government in its view of its Japanese citizens - considered the Jews as anything BUT German citizens. (The nazis also went after Roma (Gypsies), the old and infirm, the mentally weak, and sexual deviants.)

Now we see a movement against Islamists and while I generally support removal of people who would over-throw a more or less democratic government, PEGIDA's stance and the behavior of some of its followers is frightening.

There has to be a well-considered middle ground between the likes of PEGIDA and the liberals of the Christian churches, the Islamic center, the Jewish community, the Foreign Residents' Association and students.

As long as "good" Muslims remain silent when their fellow Muslims commit atrocities non-Muslims will view all Muslims as Islamic terrorists, and THAT is what gives organizations like PEGIDA its reason to exist - unfortunately, who can, who will, limit such groups to terrorists else it , too, becomes a terrorist organization.

Thin line, scary line.

Islamist* dance

 

According to a report in the Global Security Newswire headed Assad Sets Conditions on Relinquishing Chemical Arms, the Syrian president said his nation would give up its chemical arms “only if the United States ends any weapons deliveries to opposition forces and ceases its ‘threatening’ behavior.”

Put conditions on everything and do nothing.

Sounds like Bashar Al Assad’s buddy in Iran, Ruhollah Mostafavi Musavi Khomeini, a/k/a Grand Ayatollah and his nuclear games.

And then there is the terrorist Abu Mazen of the so called Palestinian Authority who demands that Israel make concessions and, when the Israeli prime minister du jour caves under US and leftist pressure, the terrorist adds more demands.

It’s the Islamist dance.

* Iranians are quick to tell us they are not Arabs; Muslims yes, Arabs no, hence “Islamist.”

What is particularly interesting about Assad’s two-step is that while he is pressing for to halt the weapons flow to the insurgents, he will continue to receive weapons from his allies – Iran and Russia. These weapons can be used against both the locals and Israel.

What I fail to understand is what he calls Obungler’s “threatening’ behavior.” The incumbent at 1600 Pennsylvania has emasculated the country and truly made it what the Chinese called it decades ago: a paper tiger of no consequence.

On the other hand, most Israelis – except perhaps Obungler’s alter ego in the prime minister’s office, and the left wing – now understand that they cannot depend on the United States for anything, certainly not as long as the White House and State Department are Islamist sympathizers.

Obungler managed to put his foot in his mouth and embarrassed the United States by making threats he won’t carry out.

Then he comes crawling to the Congress in hopes it will share the blame for his stupidity.

“Well,” he tells the world, “I can’t do anything until Congress gets back from its latest vacation.”

Meanwhile, one on-line poll shows that at least 91 percent of all respondents do NOT think the U.S. should attack Syria.

Is Syria a threat to the U.S.? Not hardly. Certainly it can be a jumping off point for Islamist terrorists, but the U.S. has its own homegrown Islamist terrorists (or is Islamist and terrorist redundant?).

Does Syria have anything the U.S. wants? No.

“Well,” we are told by Obungler & Friends, “the U.S. must act for humanitarian reasons.”

OK. So …

1. Why wait until now? Syria’s civil war is more than 2 years old.
2. Why didn’t Obungler threaten Sudan (see UN Human Rights Council and Darfurian Voices
3. Why doesn’t Obungler press for a Kurdish state? Kurds are victims in Syria, Turkey, and elsewhere.
4. Why doesn’t Obungler point the finger at the Muslims in Aza or in Lebanon/Syria who randomly fire rockets at Israeli civilians and Hamas in Aza who murder Egyptian policemen at their posts.
5. What about North Korea? In September 2011, the Harvard International Review published an article which argued that North Korea was violating the UN Genocide Convention in every possible way, through its systematic killing of half-Chinese babies and religious groups.[
6. And Somalia. The Social Science Research Council (2007) reported genocidal killings committed against Somalia's Bantu population and Jubba Valley dwellers from 1991 onwards noting that "Somalia is a rare case in which genocidal acts were carried out by militias in the utter absence of a governing state structure

Why is it that chemical weapons are bad, but bullets, bombs, missiles, and other killing devices are OK?

Never mind that Obungler allowed the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya go unpunished. Shades of Jimmy (Peanut Brain) Carter.

While North Korea is not an Islamist state, it uses the Islamist delaying tactic to keep the U.S. at bay while the North threatens the South.

I am reminded of the Arpege perfume commercial: Promise her anything, but give her Arpege. Promise the U.S. anything, and like an ingénue, the U.S. will believe and will coninue to believe the promises even after they are broken time and time again.

Obungler has done somethiing right – by accident. So far he has only used his hot air against Syria. At the same time, he has made the U.S. a laughing stocvk among nations that understand only force, a heavy hand.

The Arabs and Persians and Koreans all respect only a heavy hand. Unfortunately, the day when Teddy Roosevelt could “speak softly and carry a big stick” (with the so-called “Great White Fleet”) are long gone.

America’s political fall from power didn’t start with Obungler – it goes back to charmin’ Jack and his “youth in Asia” plan (incorrectly applied to LBJ) – but the current president certainly has exasperated matters.

Turns out there is a post script to this. Since the above was cobbled together he other day, Assad has added more conditions, including that Israel must join in renouncing use of chemical weapons and allow unbiased (that's a joke) UN inspectors to review whatever chemical weapons Israel might possess. Meanwhile, Assad's stockpile gets moved around - likely to Iran.

Syrian conundrum

The Syrians say:

Speaking to an Arabic-language radio station operated by the United States, Syria's Deputy Information Minister Halaf Al-Maftah said that Israel would face not only Syria in the event that the US, Britain and France attempted to unseat Bashar al-Assad. A coalition consisting of Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria would respond to any attack against Assad with a response against Israel. In addition, terrorist groups in Syria and Lebanon would attack Israel with full force. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/171311

"The war effort lead by the United States and their allies will serve the interests of Israel and secondly Al-Nusra Front," an Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group in Syria, said Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/171333

From Iran,

Iran will unleash a barrage of hundreds of missiles against Israel and U.S. targets in Iraq if Iran or Syria are attacked, an Iranian Web site threatened on Monday, in comments linked to an alleged Israeli air strike on a secret Syrian nuclear facility. http://cnsnews.com/news/article/iran-threatens-missile-strike-israel-us-targets-if-syria-attacked#sthash.oddzxr0O.dpuf

It is worth noting that Iran has threatened to attack Israel each of the several times the IDF has hit – usually Russian – military material in Syria. The IDF has not attacked any Russian assets, e.g., ships in port.

And in Russia, Putin warns the U.S. and its “allies” that it will act in Assad’s behalf if its proxy, Syria, is attacked.

On the other side

Several EU countries are rattling their sabers and massing as if they are preparing to attack Syria, but from Iraq experience, Obungler & Company must have to wonder “how much for how long.”

In Washington, between vacations, Obungler and his State Department secretary continue to talk; making threats against Syria and promises to protect Israel “in the event of.”

Hopefully someone in Jerusalem – despite State’s opposition, Jerusalem IS Israel’s capital – has studied U.S. history. If so. They will know not to put a lot of faith in U.S. promises. Consider Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

Afghanistan all over again

Obungler seems determined to align the U.S. with Assad’s enemies.

The U.S., before Obunger’s elevation from community organizer to the White House, aligned itself with the Taliban to oust the Russians – then a world power with which to be reckoned – from the poppy fields of Afghanistan.

The U.S. armed the Muslims. It trained them and it gave them military and financial support.

In return, when the Russians were sent packing, the U.S. proxy Taliban turned on its masters and bit the hands that had fed it while driving Afghanistan back into an Islamic dark ages.

According to a Syrian official (ibid.), the rebel “Al-Nusra Front is an Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group in Syria.” Taliban. Al Qaeda. The connection is patently obvious. Both are Muslim terrorist groups.

My enemy’s friend is my enemy

A number of Muslim states, including Islamist-leaning Turkey, are encouraging the infidels (EU, U.S.) to attack Syria on their behalf; and if Iran should suffer “collateral damage,” for the Muslims – Saudia, the Gulf Corporation – well, so much the better. Infidels are expendable.

In south Florida:

U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-FL 27th Congressional District, has been telling the media that she is confident there will be no U.S. “boots on the ground” in Syria. As Chairman, House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Middle East and South Asia, there is some hope that her prediction is accurate. But she is, after all, a Republican.

Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-FL 24th Congressional District, apparently is concerned only with her own district’s issues. Her committees all are domestic.

Sen. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, D-FL 23rd Senate District, despite being Jewish and the Democratic party’s chair, remains silent on the middle east and all U.S. foreign intrigue.

Final question: Who used the chemicals? Where’s the proof?

The U.S. intelligence operations are often not – intelligent.

The U.S. has time and time again gathered second hand information from sources that have little, if any, direct knowledge of reality. When it does get information, the information has to be filtered by sundry organizations that pick and choose information that meets the organization’s agenda.

The bottom line for the U.S. is that, despite the fact that chemical weapons have been used – by some group against other groups, the U.S. cannot be certain who is to blame. If it targets Assad – and Obungler claims not to want “regime change” – and it was the insurgents who used the chemicals, the U.S. will be blamed for (a) interfering in Syrian domestic affairs and (b) killing innocents; collateral damage cannot be avoided.

No matter what Obungler orders, the U.S. will be excoriated by Muslims of all types.

There was, and there remains, value in the Monroe Doctrine.

Follow Muslims’ lead

The “world,” particularly the left-wing, liberal “world” is in love with Islam.

Never mind that Islamists are cutting off heads of British soldiers IN LONDON!

Never mind that Islamists are implementing Shiria (law) in so-called “Christian” countries.

Never mind that the Palestinian Administration promises to make its areas “Jew free.”

Never mind that a non-Muslim cannot enter Mecca or Medina or other Islamic holy places.

Never mind that civil rights the lefties take for granted in the EU are unknown in most Muslim countries.

The left, liberal world loves Islamists.

That’s fairly obvious since I, for one, never hear anyone criticize Saudia for its treatment of women. I don’t hear any voices calling for Arab troops to step in and stop the murder in Syria. I don’t hear any one calling for the Arab League to protect the Muslims – never mind the Christians – in Lebanon from the Syrian spill-over.

I hear no condemnation of Hamas or Hezbollah for attacks on fellow Muslims.

Where are the cries of horror when Sunnis and Shiites slaughter each other?

Since the left gives tacit approval of all of the above, Israel should take note and do likewise.

All non-Jews are eligible for immediate deportation. Muslims who claim to be “Palestinian” will be deported to Jordan, provided there are no criminal charges against them. If there are, the criminals will be punished according to Shiria law; after all, that’s the law the Islamists want to implement wherever they gain control.

Only Jews will be allowed in Jerusalem, just as only Muslims are allowed into Mecca and Medina.

Christian and Muslim holy books will be confiscated and, after a certain date in the near future, anyone caught with such writings will be jailed and then expelled. When the rules change in Saudia, the rules can change back in Jerusalem.

The bleeding heart liberals can’t complain about how Israel treats non-citizens (for only Jews can be citizens of Israel) since they don’t complain about non-citizen treatment in Muslim-dominated areas.

Let Israel behave as its neighbors and dare the liberals to complain.

After all, fair is fair.

Right?

If you are a liberal, Israel basher, perhaps not.