The growth of paranoia toward the Jews can be seen in the New Testament.   John Dominic Crossan, the author of Who Killed Jesus Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus wrote in a web page on beliefnet.com how in Mark 15:6-15, "the crowd" comes before Pilate to obtain amnesty for Barabbas and only turn against Jesus when Pilate tries to release him instead. But now watch what happens to that Markan source as the story progresses through the later Gospels. Matthew 27:15-26 first copies Mark's "the crowd" but then enlarges it to "the crowds" and finally to "all the people." Luke 23:13-15 changes Mark to "the chief priests, the leaders, and the people." Finally, John 18:37-40 speaks simply of "the Jews." ... "The crowd," in other words, grows exponentially before our eyes. 

   One way to get a lot of prestige and influence among other Christians was to claim you had visions from God and to tell shocking horrific tales that people were likely to believe because of their pre-existing paranoia. Sister Anne Catherine Emmerich an 18th century nun,  claimed to have a vision in which she rescued from purgatory an old Jewish woman who confessed to her that Jews strangled Christian children and used their blood in the observance of their rituals.  (Jewish Week 7/4/03) Other visions she claimed to have had included

• Jesus' cross being constructed at the orders of the high priest in the courtyard of the Temple.
• Servants of the high priest bribing fellow Jews to demand Jesus' death and even paying some of his crucifiers.
• Violence far beyond what the gospels present during Jesus' hearing before Caiaphas and Annas.
• Pontius Pilate criticizing the high priests for physically abusing Jesus and suggesting that they are thirsting for both his body and blood (cf. John 6:53).
• Scenes of the brutalizing of Jesus not present in the gospels, such as Jewish figures dragging him around with a bag over his head so that it violently impacts against stone. 

   Lest we think that mankind is now rational enough to reject such accusations we need only to realize that the visions of the Jews of Sister Emmerich, was incorporated by Mel Gibson in his movie The Passion which was released in 2004 and which has had a huge audience thoughout the world.

   Sister Emmerich's vision of an old Jewish women confessing to the use of babies blood for rituals stems from the blood libel" which was first leveled in 1144 in Norwich, England. There, Jews were charged with kidnapping a Christian baby and draining the baby of blood. The charge became so popular it would sweep, in various forms, through Europe and then spread to other parts of the world.  Why would someone levy such a charge?  People make accusations all the time against other people, for motivations such as revenge etc..  Normally such accusations are judged in a court of law or ignored.  In the case of this charge it became widely believed.  Why would such a charge become so popular?  Paranoia is self feeding.  If people are paranoia toward another group to begin with they are more likely to believe paranoid accusations against them.  One can think of the blood libel charge, as a match in a forest full of dried up tinder.

    One problem the Christians faced was coming up with a reason why Jews would drain the baby with blood.  A list of such reasons is given below. (The Passion, A Historical Perspective)

a. Jews suffered from hemorrhoids as a punishment for killing Jesus and drinking blood was the best cure for hemorrhoids at the time.
b. All Jewish men menstruate and need a monthly blood transfusion.
c. Jewish men, when they're circumcised, lose so much blood because of that surgical procedure that they need to drink Christian babies' blood.
d. It's the chief ingredient in matzah, and therefore prior to every Passover Jews would be requiring a large supply.

   These explanations although absurd to any non-paranoid individual are plausible to people if they already are paranoid.  It's ironic that Jews, who are prohibited by Jewish law of consuming any blood whatsoever (kosher meat is carefully washed and salted to remove all traces of blood), were precisely the people accused of drinking blood.

   In the 13th century the Church adopted the doctrine of transubstantiation. This is a mystical idea which maintains that when the priest says mass over the wafer and wine, these objects mystically change into the body and blood of Jesus. Christians who consume the wafer and drink the wine are said to be mystically eating the flesh of Jesus and drinking his blood. It's ironic that the Christian world, while engaged in the ritual of "drinking the blood of Jesus" would accuse the Jews -- who are forbidden to drink blood -- of this totally fabricated hideous crime. But then the accusations got even wilder.

   Starting in Switzerland and Germany in the 13th century, Jews were accused of kidnapping communion wafers from churches -- to torture it. Medieval documents tell stories describing how a Jew (usually called Abraham) would steal a wafer from a church, stick a knife in it, and blood would start pouring out. He would then cut it up into pieces and send it to different Jews who would continue to torture it. Thousands of Jews were slaughtered as a result of such stories. For example, the entire Jewish community of Berlitz, near Berlin in Germany, was all burned alive based on the accusation of torturing a wafer.  These accusations became a pretext for other mass exterminations as well (see History of Antisemitism by Poliakov). 

   For a brief summary of an alternative view of Jesus's life and who was responsible for his death see the "Who was Jesus" and "Who Killed Jesus" web pages.

   Morphed forms of the blood libel are reemerging in modern times.  Andrea Levin wrote an article about accusations that Israelis plunder and sell Palestinian organs written by Donald Bostrom for the Scandanavian leading daily Aftonbladet.  She wrote how his accusations:

    One of the classic examples of the self feeding nature of paranoia creation was the Dreyfus case.  This is described in the video below.

    The French had no evidence that Dreyfus was guilty of espionage but charged him anyway because they wanted him to be guilty because he was Jewish.  They wanted to blame Dreyfus to the extent that they manufactured evidence against him.  It may also be that they were so sure that he did it that they felt it was OK to manufacture evidence since they knew they didn't have any that would justify punishing him.  Their manufactured evidence consisted of a secret document that they could not show anyone because it would lead to war if they did as well as an accusation that the discovered correspondence with the Germans was his handwriting disguised.  When an investigator Lt. Col. Picquart found out that Esterhazy and not Dreyfus was not the guilty party they sent him to Tunisia to get him out of the way.  Emile Zola explained that the

"Crime (of punishing an innocent man) has been committed and the General Staff could no longer admit to it...  acknowledging Dreyfus's innocence would make the War Office collapse under the weight of public contempt. And the astounding outcome of this great situation was that the one decent man involved, Lt Colonel Picquart who, alone, had done his duty, was to become the victim, the one who got ridiculed and punished...It was even claimed that he himself was the forger, that he had fabricated the letter-telegram in order to destroy Esterhazy.  But, good God, why? To what end? Find a motive. Was he, too, on the Jews' payroll? The best part of it is that Picquart was himself an anti-Semite.

    This is is an example of how the cancer of paranoia grows by suppressing any evidence in its path.  There is hope though, after Emile Zola wrote j'accuse in defense of Dreyfus, Dreyfus was pardoned by President mile Loubet in 1899 and released from prison. On July 12, 1906, Dreyfus was officially exonerated by a military commission. The day after his exoneration, he was readmitted into the army with a promotion to the rank of Major ("Chef d'Escadron"). A week later, he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour. 
 

Paranoia Creation in Society

There are incentives to be and to create paranoia. A conspiracy theorist who believes he is uncovering a sinister plot feel brilliant and excited, he feels like a great man who sees what the other fools dont see, he feels he is helping save the world by uncovering the sinister plot. A paranoid person in a mental institution may feel the same way. Member of society who want to overcome an enemy may incite the rest of the population by creating paranoid accusations toward the enemy. This article discusses many of the different incentives to be paranoid and to create paranoia.

   Paranoia is considered to be a symptom of individuals who are suffering from mental illness.  Paranoia is actually pervasive among "normal" people and among groups of people.  Groups can be considered to suffer from mental illness.  Dr. Abd Al-Khaleq Hussein an Iraqi reformist, wrote an article about the insanity of Arab society called , Arab Society and Schizophrenia (translated by memri.org June 22, 2006),  which makes this argument.

Richard Hofstadter wrote an article in 1964 in Harpers Magazine called the Paranoid Style in American Politics in which he applies the term paranoia to groups of normal people. He wrote:

In fact, the idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to men with profoundly disturbed minds. It is the use of paranoid modes of expression by more or less normal people that makes the phenomenon significant

The paranoid style is not confined to our own country and time; it is an international phenomenon. Studying the millennial sects of Europe from the eleventh to the sixteenth century, Norman Cohn believed he found a persistent psychic complex that corresponds broadly with what I have been consideringa style made up of certain preoccupations and fantasies: the megalomaniac view of oneself as the Elect, wholly good, abominably persecuted, yet assured of ultimate triumph; the attribution of gigantic and demonic powers to the adversary; the refusal to accept the ineluctable limitations and imperfections of human existence, such as transience, dissention, conflict, fallibility whether intellectual or moral; the obsession with inerrable propheciessystematized misinterpretations, always gross and often grotesque.

   Just as we can derive lessons about social madness from the  madness of an individual, we can derive lessons about the madness of an individual from the madness of societies.  When we study paranoia in society we find that it is deliberately created for a variety of reasons some of which are discussed on this web page.  This suggests that perhaps individual may have reasons to create their own paranoia.  I have written an article about this called Creation of Paranoia (Part 1,  Part 2) which was published by the International Bulletin of Political Psychology.  I encourage the reader to read the article before reading the rest of this web page. 

    Today there is massive creation of paranoia toward the infidel which is funded by the huge oil revenues of Saudi Arabia.  Rachel Ehrenfeld wrote that (Jihad on the American Mind, frontpagemag.com 3/11/05):

Saudi Arabia according to various Saudi official publications, has spent somewhere between $70-87 billion on the spread of Wahhabism around the world since the oil boom began in the mid- 1970s.

Lt. Col Gordon Cucullu, wrote about how Saudi Arabia is creating anti-Western hatred in the large immigrant Muslim population of France as follows: (France: A Nuclear Proliferator? FrontPageMagazine.com 3/4/05).  

Into this fertile, disaffected immigrant soil came Saudi Arabia with its proselytizing, aggressive Wahabbist ideology. Wahabbism is vitriolic, anti-Western, xenophobic, and jihad-oriented. It encourages hatred of and actions against those defined as "infidels" and "non-believers." The Saudis continue to pour uncounted hundreds of millions of dollars into Europe, including France, to promulgate this offensive ideology. The result is that Muslims in France are highly radicalized, anti-French, anti-Western, and bent on ultimate conquest of their hosts. Texts from mosques in France -- issued by the Saudi public affairs office -- refer to Muslim residents in France as "living behind enemy lines" and "representing a force for the ultimate conquest by Islam of the infidels." Muslims are taught to hate their Christian, Jewish, and secular neighbors and to work assiduously to undermine the government. More than one thousand of these Muslim enclaves exist in France. It is said that French police will not enter 400 such communities.

An outstanding book that discusses Saudi funding of hate was written by Dore Gold and is called Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism.  This paranoia is being spread via mosques in the West.  The result is the production of radical Islamic terrorists, click here for an article about that in Minnesota.  Eighty percent of U.S. mosques preach violence.  In July 2004, German authorities raided a mosque in Frankfurt after a nine-year-old girl said that she had been shown graphic videos there calling for a holy war against unbelievers. Modern technology is spreading this paranoia creation into the Western world.  One of the example of this was the broadcast of Al-Shatat, a 29-part series, based on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which depicts among other scenes the killing of a Christian child on the orders of a rabbi so the blood can be baked into matzot for Passover.  This was broadcast in France through the Paris-based satellite operator Eutelsat (Jerusalem Post 8/5/04).  Another example was a disturbing home movie circulated widely on the Internet in June 2004, showing four Muslim children in Sweden playfully reenacting the savage beheading of American contractor Nicholas Berg.  An online clip about the creation of paranoia by the Palestinian Authority and its consequences called Seeds of Hate is on the Coalition Against Terrorism Web Site. 

    The well known consequence of paranoia creation against the infidel West include the suicide attacks against the United States of September 11th 2001.  This paranoia is likely to lead to more attacks against the United States some of which may be deadlier than the attacks of 9/11.  The most obvious way to fight this is for the Western world to stop giving foreign aid to countries that incite hate.  David Bedein in an article titled "An Unquiet Peace" (frontpagemag.com 2/14/05) wrote how after Mahmoud Abbas became leader of the Palestinian Authority the incitement continued yet president Bush requested an additional $350 million dollars for the Palestinian Authority despite the fact that it won't even stop its media calls for killing Israelis.

   Another way to fight Islamic incitement is to cut our dependence on foreign oil.  One way to achieve this would be to tax oil coming from Saudi Arabia, Iran and other states that create paranoia and/or sponsor terrorism.  I think the tax increase on oil could be offset by a tax decrease on other goods especially alternative energy sources such as nuclear power.  I subscribe to the theory of true cost economics in which the government should tax items according to their true cost to society when it is very clear that their true cost is higher than their actual cost.  

   There is vast paranoia creation in the European media against Israel and America.  Reasons for this paranoia creation are discussed later in this web page.  Often a distorted story with an element of truth is simply repeated in order to maintain the hate.  One example of that is the story of the Israeli attack on the U.S.S. Liberty.

IB What Makes a Madman:

   Are paranoid people mad mentally ill individuals?   What Makes a Madman?  This question was asked by Jacob Sullum in a column in the New York Post (7/15/02).  Here are excerpts of his column:

It's clear to me that Zacarias Moussaoui (The 20th Hijacker) is a raving lunatic.   But then, so are Michael Jackson, Lyndon LaRouche, and a certain percentage of the people who e-mail me each week....

The defense team's consultants are right when they say "there is considerable evidence that Mr. Moussaoui's thinking is dominated by irrational and unrealistic persecutory beliefs."  They are also probably right to suggest that he qualifies for a psychiatric diagnosis.  He seems to fit the criteria for "paranoid personality disorder," for instance.

But so what?  Under this heading psychiatrists have gathered a set of characteristics that would describe just about any conspiracy-minded extremist, especially in hostile surroundings.

Putting these traits on a list and giving them a scientific-sounding name does not make them symptoms of a disease, let alone a disease with the power to dictate someone's legal strategy.  If the capacity to believe ridiculous things is a brain defect, it's one shared by the whole human race.

   This topic is discussed further on the What is Madness web page. 

IB2 Hatred of the non-Believer

    A pervasive motive to create paranoia toward someone is to discredit them if they do not share one's viewpoint.   This is not only done by religions but also by people with differing ideologies.   During the campaign between Kerry and Bush, I saw several signs with Bush and a Hitler Mustache and a swastika painted on it.  To some Kerry supporters, Bush the non-believer in progressive Kerry causes, was the equivalent of Hitler.  Jeff Jacoby has written about the creation of Paranoia toward president Bush. 

The Washington Post repeatedly compared Trump to, or characterized him as, Hitler, the newest extreme position was adopted by Salon, which called Trumps routine changes of staff a Stalinesque purge. At a mountain view high school, Holocaust scholar Frank Navarro compared Trump with Hitler in an attempt to show his students that the 2016 election is a reflection of the past. Navarro was put on paid leave on November 10, but returned to the classroom a week later. In Texas, under the watchful eye of a teacher, two tenth-grade students staged a skit featuring The Assassination of Donald Trump. Parents were outraged by the performance, in which one of the boys made a gunfire sound effect with his cell phone as the other boy, portraying Trump, fell to the ground in mock death. The teacher and his students were reprimanded.

     People have been fabricating hate crimes by Trump supporters and Trump supporters have been violently attacked.

Millions of women around the world protested the day after Trump's inauguration.  Ashley Judd recited a poem at the Woman's march in Washington D.C. about Trump with the line "I didn't know devil's could be resurrected but I feel Hitler in these Streets"

If any speech is full of creation of paranoia Ashley's speech is it.

     After President Bashar el Assad dropped chemical weapons on the town of Khan Sheikhun President Trump ordered that 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles be fired at the Syrian Shayrat airbase from which the chemical attacks had been launched.  This increased the popularity of Trump.  The left has been painting Trump as being influenced by Russia but Russia reacted in a very hostile way to the missile attacks on its Syrian ally.  The consequence of the attack was to throw doubt on the leftist Russian influence propaganda against Trump.  Lawrence O'Donnell peddled a conspiracy theory on MSNBC that Putin had orchestrated the attack to make Trump look good.  You can view a video of him doing that here.

Ann Coulter wrote that:

A year after the 9/11 attack, The New York Times' Frank Rich was carping about Bush's national security plans, saying we could judge Bush's war on terror by whether there was a major al-Qaida attack in 2003, which -- according to Rich -- would have been on al-Qaida's normal schedule.

Rich wrote: "Since major al-Qaida attacks are planned well in advance and have historically been separated by intervals of 12 to 24 months, we will find out how much we've been distracted soon enough." ("Never Forget What?" New York Times, Sept. 14, 2002.)

There wasn't a major al-Qaida attack in 2003. Nor in 2004, 2005, 2006 or 2007. Manifestly, liberals thought there would be: They announced a standard of success that they expected Bush to fail.

As Bush has said, we have to be right 100 percent of the time, the terrorists only have to be right one time. Bush has been right 100 percent of the time for seven years -- so much so that Americans have completely forgotten about the threat of Islamic terrorism.

For his thanks, President Bush has been the target of almost unimaginable calumnies -- the sort of invective liberals usually reserve for seniors who don't separate their recyclables properly. Compared to liberals' anger at Bush, there has always been something vaguely impersonal about their "anger" toward the terrorists.

By my count, roughly one in four books in print in the world at this very moment have the words "Bush" and "Lie" in their title. Barnes & Noble has been forced to add an "I Hate Bush" section. I don't believe there are as many anti-Hitler books...

George Bush is Gary Cooper in the classic western "High Noon." The sheriff is about to leave office when a marauding gang is coming to town. He could leave, but he waits to face the killers as all his friends and all the townspeople, who supported him during his years of keeping them safe, slowly abandon him. In the end, he walks alone to meet the killers, because someone has to.
 

    Bernard Goldberg was asked about Bush hating by Bill OReilly. 

Do you think its a mental disease or do you think its business? He was actually talking about the general Bush-hating. I immediately said, Its a mental disorder, because dont underestimate the power of insanity. Bush-derangement syndrome is for real. But in the case of MSNBC, its also business. They have made a conscious business decision to corrupt an entire news organization in order to jump on a liberal bandwagon. Thats a journalistic sin. Thats not just the old bias. Thats a kind of corruption that runs very deep and is hurting the NBC news brand.

Blaming Bush for everything had bad consequences as explained in an article titled How Blaming Bush Led to the Ukrainian Crisis.  The Obama administration saw bad relations with Putin as Bush's fault.  Once Bush was gone they didn't expect Putin to do anything bad like invade the Ukraine.   

President Bush wrote about the hatred expressed against him in his book Decision Points.  He wrote:

Partisan opponents and commentators questioned my legitimacy, my intelligence, and my sincerity.  They mocked my appearance, my accent, and my religious beliefs.  I was labeled a Nazi, a war criminal, and Satan himself.  That last one came from a foreign leader, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. 

  A standard criticism of Bush was that no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq.  "Bush lied, thousands died" was a frequently heard refrain.  During Obama's second term the Islamic terrorist army, ISIS seized chemical weapon stockpiles in Iraq.  If there were no chemical weapons how did they do that?  Iraq is known to have gassed the Kurds while Saddam was in power.  If he didn't have chemical weapons how did he do that?

A very good video about why Bush ordered that America go to war with Iraq is embedded below.

 

  Those who hate Bush love Obama.  NBC's Chris Matthews said he had a thrill running up his leg when he heard Barack Obama speak. And Matthews said, "Youre not an American if you dont cry when you hear Obama speak."  The Washington Post wrote the following about Obama:

The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weight-lifting sessions each week and a body toned by regular treadmill runs and basketball games.

This is in stark contrast to the left wing incitement toward Republican Sarah Palin which was so extensive that I've devoted a special web page toward it.  Michelle Malkin wrote an article titled The War Against Conservative Women which included some of the abuse she experienced.  Larry Elder wrote an article titled What about Left Wing Misogyny after Rush Limbaugh was attacked in the media for comments he made about Sandra Fluke.  She lied and created paranoia against the Church.

 Tea party protests were held throughout America to protest the huge escalation of debt by Obama.  I believe the increase in debt is estimated to be $20,000  for every man woman and child in the U.S..  If a couple has one child that's the equivalent of charging $60,000 to their credit cards, taking the money and giving some of it as a stimulus package.  It's understandable why Americans are alarmed.  Supporters of Obama including the liberal media smeared the protesters.  Michelle Malkin wrote:

The nightly airwaves turned into a soft-porn cesspool last week as liberal journalists derided and slimed hundreds of thousands of Tea Party protesters across the country who oppose reckless taxing and spending by both major political parties. Award-winning CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, mimicking his bottom-of-the-barrel competitors at MSNBC, smugly indulged in sexual puns about "teabagging." MSNBC devoted the entire week to sophomoric sexual slang and innuendo with references to "nuts," Dick Armey and "full-throated" protesters.

And White House adviser David Axelrod calls the Tea Party folks "unhealthy"?

Speaking of unhealthy, angry white liberal actress Janeane Garofalo venomously played the race card: "It's about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up and is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks." The theme was echoed by Jeffrey Kimball, a professor emeritus of history at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, who castigated the "extreme right" for organizing against Obama because "he's black and he's liberal."

Tell that to the thousands of activists in South Carolina who practically booed and heckled white Republican Rep. Gresham Barrett off the stage at a Tea Party in Greenville last Friday night for supporting the trillion-dollar TARP and embracing the pork-laden stimulus law after voting against it. "Go home!" they shouted.

 Lorie Byrd wrote:

When people turned out all over the country in the thousands to attend tea parties, Obama followers, especially those in the media, were shocked and bewildered, and it showed. The obvious explanation -- that many average, everyday Americans were not thrilled with the "change" they were getting from the new administration -- was not something those in the media or Obama supporters were willing to accept.

Instead we heard about how the estimated 500,000 or more people attending the 800 or so tea parties did not attend of their own free will as grass roots activists. One explanation from critics was that the protests were from "fake" grassroots. We were to believe those people didn't take time off from work and show up in the rain on their own. No. Fox News did it all. Fox somehow has enough control over those people to cause them, against their otherwise free will, to go to the trouble to interrupt their normal activities, make signs, pack up the kids and their diaper bags and strollers, travel to their nearest tea party site, find a parking space, walk to the protest area and raise their signs and their voices.

     Those who oppose Obama are called racists.  Black Republicans are called racists.  Innocuous statements by Republicans are called Racist.  Ann Coulter has an excellent article about this.   Is it possible to oppose a black man because of his policies and not because you're a racist?  This video helps answer that question.

Jeff Jacoby wrote that the New York Times's Frank Rich informed his readers that

Tea Party protesters opposing the Obama health-care bill were "goons," so inflamed by "homicidal rhetoric" -- Rich cited the protesters' chant "Kill the bill!" as an example -- that they had turned into latter-day SS troops engaged in a "small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht."

To Washington Post columnist Colbert King, on the other hand, tea partiers bring to mind not the Third Reich but the segregationists of the pre-civil rights South. "Those same jeering faces," King wrote on March 27, "could be seen gathered around the Arkansas National Guard troopers who blocked nine black children from entering Little Rock's Central High School in 1957." He also remembered those faces "exploding with yells of excitement" when David Duke "spewed vitriolic white-power rhetoric" at a rally in 1991.

Then there is Keith Olbermann of MSNBC, who concedes that there might be more to the Tea Party movement than unadulterated racism. There is also, he said in a recent broadcast, "blind hatred, a total disinterest in the welfare of others, and a full-flowered self-rationalizing refusal to accept the outcomes of elections."

Rep. Frederica Wilson of Miami Gardens said:

The real enemy is the tea party - lets remember that...  The tea party holds Congress hostageThey have one goal in mind, and thats to make President Obama a one-term president.

And Jesse Jackson decided to play his particular race card:

The tea party opposing Obama, Jackson said, should be called the Fort Sumter Tea Party that sought to maintain states rights and slavery.

The tea party is a new name on an old game, he said. Dr. King fought a tea party in AlabamaHe had no weapons, but he confronted the tea party.

    Rep. Maxine Waters of California said:

The tea party can go straight to hell.

    Union leaders have attacked the Tea Party.  Unions see government spending as a source of jobs for their members and so oppose the tea party's efforts to control that spending.  Edward Balukus President UAW Local 677 said:

Our Antietam was the last election. We had a bloodbath and corporations are winning. 96 freshman at the end of which are TEA Party members and theyre against all of you. Theyre against workers. Theyre against retirees. Theyre against the middle class. All they want to is increase the amount of money that the rich and the corporations get.

     Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa gave a speech in which he said:

Weve got to keep an eye on the battle that we face a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party. And theres only one way to beat and win that war the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight. . . . President Obama, this is your army, we are ready to march . . . Lets take these son-of-a-bitches out.

    Although he blames the Tea Party for being against the workers, unions make companies uncompetitive by making wages too high which leads to unemployed workers.

Rep. Andre Carson of Indiana said that:

[members] in Congress right now of this Tea Party movement would love to see you and me [speaking to a Black audience] hanging on a tree. Some of them in Congress are comfortable with where we were 50 and 60 years ago. (This excerpt of his speech can be viewed below)

   Congressman Alan Greyson sent out a fundraiser with the picture of a burning cross with the statement "now you know what the T in Tea Party stands for".

   During Obama's negotiations with the Republican party to raise the debt ceiling Tea Partiers opposed it.  They were against borrowing more in order to pay the staggering and enormous U.S. debts.  Politico reported:

Vice President Joe Biden joined joined House Democrats in lashing tea party Republicans Monday, accusing them of having acted like terrorists in the fight over raising the nations debt limit, according to several sources in the room.

We have negotiated with terrorists, an angry Doyle said, according to sources in the room. This small group of terrorists have made it impossible to spend any money.

    The debt ceiling was raised but then in 2013 Obama spent so much that he reached the raised debt ceiling.  The Republicans wanted cuts in exchange for raising the debt ceiling yet again.  Pfeiffer called the House GOPs list of items it wants in exchange for raising the countrys borrowing limit ransom demands and said:

    What were not for is negotiating with people with a bomb strapped to their chest. Were not going to do that.

and that the Republicans threatened to blow up the economy if they dont get their way.  That "blowing up the economy" must be referring to the threat that the Republicans would not raise the debt limit.

Makes one wonder why there are debt limits to begin with.  If they are a bomb that will blow up the economy why have them or is the economy blowing up and the only way to stop it is to enforce a debt limit?

Biden was agreeing with a line of argument made by Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) at a two-hour, closed-door Democratic Caucus meeting.  The same day that Jimmy Hoffa made a speech in which he said

Lets Take These Son of Bitches Out

Senator Joe Biden told the AFL-CIO in Cincinatti that "the other side" is a group of "barbarians" who had "declared war" on unions.

Listen, for example, to former Obama administration official Steven Rattner, speaking on MSNBC last week: "These Tea Party guys are, like, strapped with dynamite, standing in the middle of Times Square at rush hour and saying, 'Either you do it my way, or we're going to blow you up, ourselves up, and the whole country up with us.'"

Or to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, warning that "if sane Republicans do not stand up to this Hezbollah faction in their midst, the Tea Party will take the GOP on a suicide mission."

To the New York Times's Thomas Friedman, Tea Party conservatives are like Hezbollah terrorists hell-bent on a suicide bombing.

Or to Representative Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the House Minority Whip, talking about "Russian roulette" with loaded chambers, and how House Republicans "want to shoot every bullet they have at the president."

Or to former Ted Kennedy aide William Yeomans, now an American University law professor, who says labeling Tea Party Republicans "hostage-takers" doesn't go far enough, since "they have now become full-blown terrorists."

    Click here to see a video of Bernard Goldberg speaking about the terrorist accusations in the media against the Tea Party.

    Liberal academia has joined the battle to portray Tea Partiers as racists.  According to the Washington Times

    One of the professors Alan I. Abramowitz based his conclusion on the answers of Tea Partiers to questions such as whether blacks could succeed as wall as whites if they "would only try harder" and that blacks shouldn't get special favors.  Although the left likes to argue that those against reverse discrimination are racists as a way to push their reverse discrimination agenda it is actually racist to push for reverse discrimination since that is discrimination based on race.  The argument that blacks can achieve without help is not a racist statement it is actually faith in the ability of blacks.  One could argue that the belief that blacks should get special help is a form of racism that believes they are incapable of standing on their own two feet.

   Sarah Palin gave a speech at a tea party rally.  She wrote some words on the palm of her hand to make sure she discussed certain topics such as energy.  The next day am-NY had an article trashing Palin for having a cheat sheet and being a palm reader and acted as if this was a big scandal which they called hand-gate but did not report anything about the content of her speech. 

Bobby Eberle posted the following on the media reaction to Sarah's notes on Feb 2010:

As noted by Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters.org, MSNBC's Chris Matthews, the one who got the tingling feeling down his leg when he heard Obama speak, is having a cow over this non-issue:

Chris Matthews: Can a palm reader be president? What do we think of kids in school who write stuff on their hands to get through a test? What do we think of a would-be political leader who does it to look like she's speaking without notes? What do we think of Sarah Palin this weekend answering pre-screened questions from a like-minded audience in Nashville, a tea party convention, and still having to put a cheat sheet on her palm to answer what she calls the basics of her beliefs? How can someone presume to be auditioning for president when they can't even answer questions they know are coming?..

CBS's Nancy Cordes reported, over a helpful graphic showing the words written on Palin's hand, that while Palin "dismissed the President Saturday night as a 'charismatic guy with a Teleprompter,' she may have been relying on some crib notes of her own." Cordes concluded: "Her supporters called it an endearing sign that Palin's a real person, while detractors argue it's proof she doesn't know her facts." On NBC, Brian Williams led the Palin story with how "it happened after a speech where she criticized the President for relying too much on a Teleprompter."

  Jeff Jacoby summarized some of the paranoia creating in 2009 in an article.

  A friend of mine who was a Republican graduate student told me a personal story which is a classic example of non-religious hatred of the non-believer.  He saw a female student friend of his campaigning for Kerry.  He went up to her and started to argue with her.  He said "Here are the facts" and gave her a long list of facts and she responded "Facts are not important.  You and I have two different moralities.  We have two different consciences".  My friend complained to me that she won't talk to him and that they used to be friends.

    I explained to my friend that she is doing what extremist fundamentalist Muslims do, to her he is a non-believer and therefore must be bad.   It's interesting that facts are not important to her.  She has the truth as far as she's concerned, to hell with facts, and anyone who doesn't believe in what she believes must not be as moral as she is.

    This young woman is not an anomaly.   Hatred of the non-believer originating in ancient religious texts is alive and well today and not just among Islamic terrorists. Turkey is an example of a country that has been considered moderate but the Milli Gazete, a Turkish daily produced by Erbakans National Salvation Party since January, 1973, published articles in February and April of 2005 which were toxic amalgams of ahistorical drivel, and virulently antisemitic and anti-dhimmi Quranic motifs: ¹⁸¹ One paragraph of this drivel that clearly demonstrates modern hatred of the non-believer is: (Andrew Bostom, frontpagemag.com)

It is a mistake for so-called professors, writers, thinkers, and famous intellectuals to make sympathetic statements about Christians and Jews. Particularly, to say that they too will go to heaven is an even bigger mistakeChristians and Jews, who have rejected our Prophet and refuse to recite Muhammad is the Messenger of God belong forever in HellIn the eyes of God, there is only one religion, and that is IslamThere is only one book, and that is the QuranFor so-called dignitaries to present Christianity and Judaism as godly religions is terribly wrong.

Andrew Bostom wrote a book called the Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism which describes the results of hatred of the Jewish non-believer. The cover of the book is a painting of a Jewish woman who was martyred because she would not become a Muslim. The tragic story can be read here.

IC The Desire to Be Paranoid

    For any event there is more than one explanation.   In general the most likely explanation is the one that requires making the fewest assumptions.  Lets say Joe was at a party last night during which he imbibed an excessive amount of alcoholic beverages and this morning he woke up with a headache.   Joe might explain his headache as being the result of too much to drink.  Or Joe might believe that some hostile individual or organization slipped something into his drink to make him have a headache.  Or Joe might believe that the mysterious guy in the corner slipped a knockout drug in his drink so that after he passed out the mysterious guy could make a move on Joe's girlfriend.  The explanation that requires the least number of assumptions and so is the most likely one is that Joe had a headache because he had too much to drink.  Some people however, might chose the paranoid assumptions in spite of this.  Why choose a paranoid assumption?  One would think that it would be preferable to believe that one's headache is simply the result of overdrinking than believing that someone is out to hurt oneself.

   On Christmas of 2003, the United States went on a very expensive code orange alert against terror and suspended some flights from France and Britain to the United States due to fears the planes would be used in terrorist attacks.  A journalist in the French weekly, Le Point, did not believe this explanation for the flight suspensions and in a special section entitled France punished by the US. wrote an article called Diktat on Air France, in which he argued that the terrorist threats against Air France flights during Christmas were just an excuse for the US to bankrupt Air France as revenge for France opposing the U.S. war against Iraq (Blame it On America, frontpagemagazine 1/19/04). 

    Why did the French journalist choose the paranoid explanation?  The explanation given by the United States of concern about a terrorist threat was a very reasonable one in light of the September 11 attacks and the expensive code orange alert as well as the stopping of the British flights.  The paranoid explanation does not explain why the United States stopped British flights or paid to go to code Orange.  The American explanation requires fewer assumptions.  Why choose the unpleasant and less likely explanation which makes American an enemy out to get France?

    The book, 9/11: The Big Lie, from the French author Thierry Meyssan was a best seller in France for over a year. This book supposedly proves how no plane ever crashed on the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. It also states that Bin Laden was a US agent paid by Bush to destroy secret CIA offices in the World Trade Center.  Why believe this explanation instead of the one that Al Qaeda attacked the United States.   Thierry's explanation requires believing that the United States murdered thousands of American citizens for some evil reason.  Why believe that the United States is evil?

   I don't know why the French choose paranoid explanations of American behavior.  I do know reasons that people choose paranoid beliefs and can extrapolate those to guess as why the French choose these explanations.  If the French were to believe that America was good and that for good reasons they overthrew Saddam Hussein that would require admission that the French were in the wrong and perhaps even cowardly when the opposed the United States.  If the French make America out to be bad than they can feel better about opposing America.   Also if they acknowledge that French planes were a terrorist threat to the United States that would imply that terrorists have infiltrated France, not a pleasant belief at all and one that shines a very unfavorable light on French policies that allowed this to happen.

    America's superpower status may give the French a nagging feeling of inadequacy that they are not a superpower as well.   If they regard Americans as bad, then they can view themselves as morally superior and feel better about themselves.  This may be one of the reasons why so many French embrace paranoid beliefs toward the United States.  Other factors such as their large anti-American Muslim population probably plays a role as well in infecting non-Muslim Frenchmen with anti-American attitudes.  

    Just as French Paranoia gives rise to French hatred, French hatred may be giving rise to French paranoia.  Frontpage Magazine interviewed several prominent Frenchmen about French hatred of the United States(.The death of France? By Jamie Glazov  FrontPageMagazine.com | June 9, 2003.)  One of the interviewees Milliere ascribed French hostility to envy.   He said:

France is a very sick country. Many French still dream about the time when France was the main power in the Western world. It has been over for three centuries now, and so they are full of envy when they think about the countries that became more powerful than France after the death of Louis XIVth. Great Britain first, then the United States. For the French, the United States has no past, no legitimacy, no culture and if they are the first power in the world it's really unfair.

For years, France has searched to create alliances against the United States. Now it's a conscious alliance with Islamists and Arab dictators. The French dream to see the United States defeated. Just by envy. ..  The French love leaders that give them the appearance of strength, even if it brings them to disaster, and in front of a strong enemy, they surrender very easily. They surrendered to the Nazis in six days; they have already surrendered to radical Muslims thirty years ago.  The people I meet in France are not ready to fight: they say "soon our women will have to wear scarves, that's life"... I am finishing a book in English about this French sickness. I think it has to be fully explained...

Everybody in France knows Chirac and Villepin acted as they did, not because they disagreed with the US, but because France too had a lot to lose if Saddam was toppled. Anti-Americanism is rising in the world because large parts of the world are very sick and full of envy. France acted as the leader of the axis of envy, it's the reason why I think she has to pay the price. France is not an ally of the US anymore.

Jean-Franois Revel another interviewee and the author of L'Obsession Anti-Amricaine (The Anti-American Obsession) also argued that envy was behind French hatred:  He said:

France is the prey of an anti-American obsession. For the French, Americans are the enemy they have to hate in every circumstance. They have to hate Americans because Americans are successful, because Americans are powerful, because the French prefer resentment to achievement. They are so obsessed by their hatred of the United States they do not see anymore the real dangers confronting France. It's a very dangerous situation. I do not know how we could go out of this situation. I honestly don't know if it is even still possible.

Frontpagemag interviewed John J Miller (Our Oldest Enemies, 10/18/04, frontpagemag.com) co-author of Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France. who explained:

The French suffer from a very bad case of wounded national pride. Three hundred years ago, they ruled a globe-spanning empire. But ever since their defeat in the final French and Indian War--known in Europe as the Seven Years War--theyve traveled on a downward trajectory. Napoleon provided a brief and bloody interruption to this relentless decline. At the same time, the French have watched the United States grow in power. Our gains mirror their losses. This has resulted in a tremendous sense of jealousy that embodies itself, nowadays, in a distinctly anti-American geopolitical outlook.

   John Miller quoted Francois Mitterand as saying shortly before his death:

We are at war with America, he said. A permanent war ... a war without death. They are very hard, the Americans--they are voracious. They want undivided power over the world.

and French Prime Minister, Jean Pierre Raffarin as saying:

The Iraqi insurgents are our best allies.

    French hatred may be at the root of the French desire to paint the United States in as black colors as possible and to be paranoid of the United States.  Envy may be the root of French hatred and the desire to eliminate low self esteem, which is associated with envy may be a motivating factor in being paranoid. 

     Philippe Karsenty exposed the al-Dura hoax.  An interview with him can be seen by clicking below.

Philippe Karsenty, the founder and president of Media-Ratings, was interviewed by Frontpage Magazine (5/16/06) about the anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism of France. He said

Anti-Americanism is also very present in the French political and intellectual life. Never forget how our actual prime minister, Villepin, travelled all over the world to fight American diplomacy before the Iraqi war. Another thing interesting to think about: not one French newspaper or magazine supported the US in the war in Iraq. Not even one. And when you asked French diplomats or intellectuals why America was going at war against Saddam, they answered that it was because Bush was receiving marching orders from Ariel Sharon

As I said, the Iraqi war was launched, according to most of the French people, in the name of Israel. And if you look at the nuclear bomb in preparation in Iran, you see that the French media only focus on the Israeli supposed interest. They just forget that if Iran provides terrorists with dirty radioactive material, its Europe that could be affected very soon. They also forget to recall that Europe has no missile anti-missile as Israel has with the Hetz. This means that, objectively, Israel is less endangered by a nuclear Iran than Europe. But, if you hear French media, the only country is danger is Israel and French people dont want to fight a billion of Muslims to defend 6 million Israelis.

The phenomena described by Mr. Karsenty is one in which those who stand up to evil are considered evil because the world is a less threatening place that way. Israel is the enemy of Iran. Iran is the country whose nuclear weapons threaten France yet the French prefer to blame Israel. The United States is the enemy of Iran and the best chance the world has of militarily disarming Iran yet the French see the U.S. as making the world a more dangerous place by supporting Israel. The world becomes less threatening when viewed this way because then that is required is that the United States stop supporting Israel. If the French were to view the United States and Israel as doing the right thing and standing up against the looming Iranian threat then they have to face that the threat wont just go away by sacrificing Israel and that they have a moral obligation to help fight Iran a very unpleasant thought. The desire to sacrifice Israel in order to save France creates a desire to demonize Israel, otherwise the French would have to face that they are sacrificing good in order to appease evil. We have here a motivation to create paranoia toward a target, in order to feel good about ones own immoral behavior toward that target.

The French and Europeans in general prefer to believe that if theyre just nice to the Muslims the Muslims will leave them alone. They know that if the United States strikes at Iran, Iran is likely to strike them and they are afraid. So they are hostile to the U.S. because of fear that U.S. actions will endanger them. They are unwilling to face the reality that Islam will strike at them no matter how nice they are to Muslims and no matter how much they appease the Muslims and no matter how much of their freedom they sacrifice to the Muslims. They are unwilling to face the threat that they face because it means that they have to fight.

Bruce Bawer, author of While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West from Within was asked by Jamie Glazov about European anti-Americanism. His answer sheds light on motives to be paranoid. He said:

Its very strange.  I never get used to it.  Its kind of schizophrenic, actually.  On one level theres an enthusiasm for America.  America is sexy, exciting.  Europeans love American TV, American pop music.  They wear Yankee caps and t-shirts with Old Glory on them.  If youre out someplace for the evening and somebody hears youre an American, they want to talk to you and hear about your life.  Its thrilling for them.  But the very same people will then turn around and tell you how horrible your country is everybody in America is overweight, nobody has health insurance, theyre all idiots, and so forth.  This is what theyve been taught in school and heard in the media.  Weirdly, its their very enthusiasm for America, I think, that feeds their eagerness to believe this nonsense.  Theyre so in awe of America, so drawn to it, that they need to believe that theres something horrible at the heart of it in order to be content with their own lives in their own societies. 

Besides, buying into the idea that America is the #1 problem in the world the #1 threat to world peace and so on is a good way of distracting themselves from the genuine problems facing their own countries.  After all, in Europe, theres a lot of pressure not to address those problems.  To criticize any aspect of immigrant communities or immigration policies is to risk being called a racist.  In Norway, theres been a rash of cold-blooded murders by rejected asylum seekers, who, after being rejected, incredible as it sounds, are simply allowed to roam free in the streets of Oslo.  Recently, one of them walked into the downtown Oslo office of somebody I knew, a wonderful doctor, and stabbed him to death with a huge knife hed brought with him.  On the day it happened, a mutual friend of ours, who was despondent and in shock, said, Something needs to be done about these asylum seekers.  And as soon as the words were out of his mouth, he added, Oh, I shouldnt say that, it sounds racist.  He hadnt said anything racist.  But this is how people have been trained to think.  Its paralyzing.  So it is that the frustration and anger over the crisis in their own societies is deflected to a safe target America.  You can say anything you want about Americans and nobody will call you a racist.

FP: What is your perspective on what we could call European dhimmitude and the reflexive European appeasement mentality?

Bawer: Americans and Europeans both learned a lesson from World War II but we learned different lessons.  America learned that evil should never be appeased.  If Britain and France had not caved in to Hitler at Munich, the war and the Holocaust might never have happened.  Europeans, however, have been taught that the lesson of WWII is the evil of war, pure and simple.  War should be avoided at all costs.  Dialogue is always better than armed conflict.  This mentality feeds anti-Americanism instead of admiring Americas willingness to defend its freedoms in war, which after all is what made possible the liberation of Western Europe from the Nazis duh! Europeans see Americans as people who simply love to make war.  Were primitive, bloodthirsty warmongers.  They see themselves, by contrast, as the preachers and guardians of a new, more noble and sophisticated era of peace.  And theyll make any compromise in order to preserve that peace. 

The Europeans fail to realize that if they keep yielding to Islam they will become Islamicized and part of the army of Islam, if they dont fight Islam now, they will fight for Islam later.

This web page and the article, Creation of Paranoia (Part 1,  Part 2)  discusses how low self esteem can give rise to paranoia and other possible reasons why people create paranoia or desire to be paranoid. 

   The idea that the September 11 attacks were staged by the Pentagon is believed by one in five Germans and is common throughout Europe.  (Menace in Europe, frontpagemag.com 4/7/06)

    One of the most pervasive examples of mass paranoia is anti-semitism and in order to understand mass paranoia it behooves us to examine anti-semitism.

ID Sources of Antisemitism

    We can learn a lot about the cause of the cause of anti-semitism from the history of Gaius Caligula of Rome.  Caligula wanted people to erect statues of him and worship him.  Every people subject to Rome erected statues of Gaius in their cities along with their gods, except for the Judaeans.  The Judaeans declared that they were forbidden to place an image of God, and certainly not that of a human being, not only in their Temple, but anywhere in their country.  They would never transgress the laws that they had received from their forefathers, even if that meant all the Judaeans - men women and children - would have to be killed. 

    This was a recipe for disaster.  Solomon Zeitlin wrote about what happened in his book The Rise and Fall of the Judean State. 

When Gaius declared himself a god, the heathens were able to accept him as such, and they erected statues of him and worshipped them.  The Judaeans, who believed in one God alone, could not do this...  When the Judaeans refused to allow the erection of statues in their proseuche, house of prayer, a disastrous progrom took place in Alexandria...

When the heathens of Jabneh (a town in Judaea) learned that Gaius considered himself a god, they erected an altar to the emperor... and the Judaeans promply destroyed it.  Gaius became greatly enraged at this sacrilegious act.  He decided to destroy the Judaean "superstition" and if necessary, wipe out the entire people.  He ordered Petronius, the legate of Syria, to erect an enormous statue of himself in the guise of Zeus, and place it in the Holy of Holies in the Temple of Jerusalem, using force to crush any resistance. 

    In order to avoid the annihilation of the Jews, Petronius delayed the erection of the statue on the grounds that to create a statue worth of Gaius would take time.  Ultimately the assassination of Gaius saved the Jews.

  Gaius hated the Jews because they would not worship him.  Similarly believers of other religions have throughout history hated Jews because the Jews would not worship their deities and believe their beliefs.  This hatred gave rise to creation of paranoia against the Jews including the Christian slander of deicide against the Jews.

II Reasons for Religious Antisemitism

  Most of the problems of the world today have their seeds in creation of paranoia that occurred thousands of years ago.  About two thousand years ago the Christians blamed the Jews for killing the son of God an accusation that religious historians such as Dr. William Nicholls argue is false.  The belief that the Jews killed Jesus leads people today to hate the Jews and to assume they are the guilty party in the Middle East. 

One example of this is a statement of Professor Eugenio Chahuan, a member of the University of Chile's Center of Arabic Studies to the daily La Hora,

If the Jews killed, the Messiah, we can expect that they may kill any people. 

Jostein Gaarder, the author of Sophies World, in a letter published in Aftenposten, Norways leading newspaper in the summer of 2006, claimed that the first Zionist terrorists started operating in the time of Jesus.

   Mike Evans a Christian minister in an article titled "Christ Killers" (worldnetdaily.com 2/20/04) wrote:

I am a Christian minister. My father was a Christian, my mother an Orthodox Jew. I was raised as a Christian, but still, I was physically attacked as a child in "Christian America." I was called a "Christ-killer" hundreds of times. I pushed my mother's grocery cart down the street while self-professing Christians threw eggs and tomatoes from their vehicles, and shouted obscenities including "Christ-killer" and "Jew-witch." I remember waking one morning to the words "Christ-killer" spray-painted on the front door.

    Mr. Evans asked his mother

Why am I being beat up for killing Christ?

   He writes:

my mother sat me down and told me the story of her grandfather. He was a rabbi. Russian Orthodox Christians burned him and his entire congregation to death inside the synagogue. She said to me, "They did it while screaming, 'You crucified Christ, you Christ-killers.'"

I can still see the pain in her eyes as she told me of loved ones who were thrown into the ovens of Auschwitz. "The last words many of them heard," she said, "were 'Christ-killers.'"

   Mr. Evans tried to get Mel Gibson to put a pro-Jewish message at the end of his Passion film which he didn't do. Instead he appears to have based his script partly on anti-semitic visions of a German nun by the name of Anne Emmerich  and included scenes in which Jewish children transform into demons and Satan walks among the Jewish crowds as they clamour for Jesus's death.  Predictably the Passion is leading to anti-Jewish hatred and anti-semitics acts.

  For example, in one incident at the Rehoboth Beach area in Delaware (The New Journal 5/2/04) a group of people approached a person at a mall and said, "You're Jewish. We hate you. You killed Christ."

  According to My Way News (4/5/04)

Hanan Nsour, a veiled, 21-year-old Muslim in Jordan, came out of "The Passion of the Christ" in tears and pronounced her verdict: Mel Gibson's crucifixion epic "unmasked the Jews' lies and I hope that everybody, everywhere, turns against the Jews.

The Quran, though, says Jesus's crucifixion never happened...

Kuwait bans any movies depicting any of the prophets recognized by Islam, but one of its top Shiite clerics, Ayatollah Mohammed Baqer al-Mehri, has urged an exception for "The Passion" because it "reveals crimes committed by Jews against Christ."...

When the 1998 animated movie "Prince of Egypt" reached Cairo, censors banned it. One reason given: Islam reveres Moses as a prophet, and many Muslims recoil at seeing their prophets portrayed as flesh-and-blood characters.

Jesus is also a prophet to the Muslims, yet "The Passion" was OK'd by Egypt's censors with no changes.

According to a Muslim Hadith a Jewess from Khaybar poisoned Muhammad and this poison ultimately led to his painful and protracted death.

   Michel Gurfinkiel ("Frances Jewish Problem", Commentary July-August 2002, p38) gave two examples of how religion is currently creating antisemitism.  He wrote about how Liberation a left of center French newspaper, carried a cartoon published the day after Christmas 2001, showing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon standing next to a cross with a hammer in his hand and nails in his mouth.   The caption: "No Christmas for Arafat, But he is welcome on Easter."   This was an obvious reference to the crucifixion of Jesus which is blamed on the Jews.  Two days earlier, at midnight mass in Montpellier, a Catholic priest had handed out the text for a humn in the Occitan language that read: "He was born in Bethlehem, Palestine.  He was born in Bethlehem, poor and innocent.  Sharon shot him down."  The implication is that Sharon shot Jesus.

   In April 02, La Stampa - a liberal Italian newspaper - depicting the infant Jesus in a manger, menaced by an Israeli tank and saying "Don't tell me they want to kill me again." 

    In 2001, the founder of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center the Anglican Rev. Canon Naim Ateek, wrote that, Jesus is on the Cross again with thousands of crucified Palestinians around himThe Israeli government crucifixion system is operating daily.

   Aren't the Jews guilty of oppressing the Palestinians you may ask.  How do I know it's not the oppression of the Palestinians that creates anti-semitism?  My answer to that question is another question which is "How do you know the Jews are oppressing the Palestinians"?   That's absurd you say, "I read it in the newspapers, I see it on on the news, I hear it on the radio."  "But how do you know what you hear on the radio and see on the news and read in the newspapers is impartial and objective?" I respond.  "If religion creates bias against the Jews and a large number of people with that bias have money to influence the media with than one would expect that bias to distort reporting about the Middle East and the biased reporting to create even more bias against the Jews".  I give some examples of how the media distorts the news about the Middle East in the Creation of Paranoia by the Media section of this web page.

    One would expect the historical aspect of the bible regarding the Jewish presence in Israel to create support among Christians for Jews in the Middle East and probably it has to some extent.  However, there are Christians in the Middle East who promote replacement theology, a revivial of a medieval church doctrine that states that Jews have been replaced by Christians in God's favor and that therefore any promises to the Jews, including their historic links to the holyland, lack any validity.  One of the main proponents of "Replacement Theology" is the Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem, Riah abu el-Assal.(Response Spring 2002)

   The Friday, January 17 2003, edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that: "Anti-Semitism is widespread among America's young adults, with a fourth believing Jews control the media and Wall Street, according to a survey released this week...Another key finding is that 37 percent of American adults, or 65 million people, continue to believe Jews were responsible for killing Jesus." More: "The Christ-killer charge remains a pervasive belief."

  About 1400 years ago Muhammad wrote into the Koran how the infidel must be killed or pay for protection and live as a Dhimmi (person with inferior status).    He also slandered the Jews in the Koran to create hatred against them. 

According to the hadith, the Jews caused Muhammads protracted, excruciating death from poisoning. (frontpagemag.com 5/15/2006)

Andrew Bostom has summarized some of the creation of Jew Hatred in Islamic texts. 

Indeed the Korans overall discussion of the Jews is marked by a litany of their sins and punishments, as if part of a divine indictment, conviction, and punishment process. The Jews wronged themselves (16:118) by losing faith (7:168) and breaking their covenant (5:13). The Jews (echoing an ante-Nicaean, Marcionite polemic) are a nation that has passed away (2:134; repeated in 2:141). Twice Allah sent his instruments (the Assyrians/or Babylonians, and Romans) to punish this perverse people (17:4-5)their dispersal over the earth is proof of Allahs rejection (7:168). The Jews are further warned about both their arrogant claim that they remain Allahs chosen people (62:6), and continued disobedience and corruption (5:32-33) Other sins, some repeated, are enumerated: abuse, even killing of prophets (4:155; 2:91), including Isa [Jesus] (3:55; 4:157), is a consistent theme.

The Jews ridiculed Muhammad as Raina (the evil one, in 2:104; 4:46), and they are also accused of lack of faith, taking words out of context, disobedience, and distortion (4:46). Precious few of them are believers (also 4:46). These perverse creatures also claim that Ezra is the messiah and they worship rabbis who defraud men of their possessions (9:30). Additional sins are described: the Jews are typified as an envious people (2:109), whose hearts are as hardened as rocks (2:74). They are further accused of confounding the truth (2:42), deliberately perverting scripture (2:75), and being liars (2:78). Ill-informed people of little faith (2:89), they pursue vague and wishful fancies (2:111). Other sins have contributed to their being stamped (see 2:61/ 3:112 above) with wretchedness/abasement and humiliation, includingusury (2:275), sorcery (2:102), hedonism (2:96), and idol worship (2:53). More (and repeat) sins, are described still: the Jews idol worship is again mentioned (4:51), then linked and followed by charges of other (often repeat) iniquitiesthe tremendous calumny against Mary (4:156), as well as usury and cheating (4:161). Most Jews are accused of being evil-livers /transgressors /ungodly (3:110), who, deceived by their own lies (3:24), try to turn Muslims from Islam (3:99). Jews are blind and deaf to the truth (5:71), and what they have not forgotten they have pervertedthey mislead (3:69), confound the truth (3:71), twist tongues (3:79), and cheat Gentiles without remorse (3:75). Muslims are advised not to take the Jews as friends (5:51), and to beware of the inveterate hatred that Jews bear towards them (5:82). The Jews ultimate sin and punishment are made clear: they are the devils minions (4:60) cursed by Allah, their faces will be obliterated (4:47), and if they do not accept the true faith of Islamthe Jews who understand their faith become Muslims (3:113)they will be made into apes (2:65/ 7:166), or apes and swine (5:60), and burn in the Hellfires (4:55, 5:29, 98:6, and 58:14-19).

The Koranic curse (verses 2:61/3:112) upon the Jews for (primarily) rejecting, even slaying Allahs prophets, including Isa/Jesus (or at least his body double 4:157-4:158), is updated with perfect archetypal logic in the canonical hadith: following the Muslims initial conquest of the Jewish farming oasis of Khaybar, one of the vanquished Jewesses reportedly served Muhammad poisoned mutton (or goat), which resulted, ultimately, in his protracted, agonizing death. And Ibn Saads sira account maintains that Muhammads poisoning resulted from a well-coordinated Jewish conspiracy...

Jews are described as adherents of the Dajjlthe Muslim equivalent of the Anti-Christor according to another tradition, the Dajjl is himself Jewish. At his appearance, other traditions maintain that the Dajjl will be accompanied by 70,000 Jews from Isfahan wrapped in their robes, and armed with polished sabers, their heads covered with a sort of veil. When the Dajjl is defeated, his Jewish companions will be slaughtered everything will deliver them up except for the so-called gharkad tree, as per the canonical hadith included in the 1988 Hamas Charter (in article 7). Another hadith variant, which takes place in Jerusalem, has Isa (the Muslim Jesus) leading the Arabs in a rout of the Dajjl and his company of 70,000 armed Jews. And the notion of jihad ransom extends even into Islamic eschatologyon the day of resurrection the vanquished Jews will be consigned to Hellfire, and this will expiate Muslims who have sinned, sparing them from this fate...

Finally, a profoundly Antisemitic motif occurring after the events recorded in the hadith and sira, put forth in early Muslim historiography (for example, by Tabari), is most assuredly a part of the birth pangs of Islam: the story of Abd Allah b. Saba, an alleged renegade Yemenite Jew, and founder of the heterodox Shiite sect. He is held responsibleidentified as a Jewfor promoting the Shiite heresy and fomenting the rebellion and internal strife associated with this primary breach in Islams political innocence, culminating in the assassination of the third Rightly Guided Caliph Uthman, and the bitter, lasting legacy of Sunni-Shiite sectarian strife.


 

The anti-semitism that led to the Holocaust occurred in this century partly because of what was written into the Christian Bible and what was written in the Koran.  The Grand Mufti, Haj Muhammed Amin al-Husseini encouraged Hitler to annihilate the Jews. The anti-semitism that leads to wars in the Middle East against Israel are largely a result of what was written in the Koran.  William Nicholls in his book Christian Antisemitism, A History of Hate, wrote that:

Anti-Judaic hostility, contrary to what is often said by Arabs and their apologists, has deep roots in Islam, going back to the life of the Prophet himself and to the words of the Quran. 

An example of Islamic Creation of Paranoia
Toward Jews Through Images.

   One of the causes of anti-semitism and for that matter hatred of another group is the "evil gene delusion".  This is the delusion that if a group of people did something wrong a thousand years ago, that means their modern day descendents are evil as well. There is one way that evil can progress through generations and that is through beliefs. If a group believes a religion such as Islam that preaches that the non-believer is evil, the evil in that paranoia is transferred through generations of believers.  However, if a tribe 1000 years ago betrayed a treaty with another tribe and that was not part of their religion, then the modern descendents of that tribe have not culturally inherited any of the wickedness of their ancestors.  To assume that the modern descendents are wicked would entail the assumption that they inherited wickedness through their genes.  The Nazis assumed that all non-Aryans were inferior and evil due to their genes.  The Moslems hate the Jews partly because they believe that Jewish tribes betrayed Mohammad and that therefore the Jewish descendents of those tribes and all other Jews are treacherous as well. A diatribe against the Jews in the Milli Gazette, a Turkish newspaper that illustrates this is included below. (Andrew Bostom, frontpagemag.com)

Judaism is synonymous with treasonThey [the Jews] even betrayed GodWhen God told them to bow their heads while entering Al-Quds [Jerusalem], they entered with their heads up. The prophets sent to them, such as Zachariah and Isaiah, were murdered by the JewsIn fact no amount of pages or lines would be sufficient to explain the Quranic chapters and our Lord Prophets [Muhammads] words that tell us of the betrayals of the Jews,

Steven Stalinsky in an article titled Jihad by Satellite (frontpagemag.com 5/20/05) quoted Muslims with the evil gene delusion.  He wrote:

In August on Saudi Arabia 's MBC TV, Saudi Sheikh Abd al-Qader Hammad said, "From the day civil strife began in Islam, the Jews were behind it. There is no evil in the world that the Jews are not behind. Search in the depths of history ... and you will find the finger of the Jews behind it."

"Jewish treachery is the nature of this race. It runs in their blood and passes from generation to generation," 'Adnan abu Al-Qattam said in an official Friday sermon that aired on Bahrain TV July 30. "The Jews proved to history ... they are a corrupting people ... History clearly attests to their... despicable behavior," he said. He then cited a Koranic verse calling Muslims "to kill Jews."

That would imply that there are genes for treachery and that our morality is governed by our genes and not by choices that we freely make. The truth is that there are good and bad people of all races and that politics, culture,  religion and personal choice are the predominant factors in determining the morality of a group toward other groups.

Additional reasons for religious antisemitism include

1) Anger by religious leaders at those who reject their religion and at who they can't control with religion.
2) Desire to keep believers from being led away from the religion by nonbelievers.
3) Finding a scapegoat for the failures of the religion. (Protecting self esteem by blaming others)

1) Anger by religious leaders at those who reject their religion and at who they can't control with religion:

   Jews experienced hostility from their neighbors well before Christianity came on the scene.  William Nicholls in his book Christian Antisemitism, A History of Hate, writes that:

Pagan hostility toward the Jewish people was aroused, above all, by the refusal of the Jews to join the ecunemical consensus of paganism, that the Gods of one people could be satisfactorily equated with those of another...Pagan calumnies against the Jews seem to be outgrowths of this central rejection.  If the Jews would not worship the Gods their customs must have been inhuman and barbaric.

  In my article Creation of Paranoia (Part 1,  Part 2) I quote Luther condemning the Jews because they rejected Christianity.  Julius Streicher, the editor of the Nazi newspaper Der Sturmer, claimed that if he must stand arraigned for his views on Jews, so should Martin Luther.  He was right.

  The paranoid myth that Jews killed God was born as a result of Christian hatred of Jews for rejecting Christianity and that myth led to further hatred against Jews.   This hatred was expressed by the so called "saintly" Christians, two examples of their saintliness are given below:

In 379 A.D. Vicious St. Ambrose in Milan said (Anti-Semitism What is it) :

The Jews are the most worthless of all men. They are lecherous, greedy, rapacious. They are perfidious murderers of Christ. They worship the Devil. Their religion is a sickness. The Jews are the odious assassins of Christ and for killing God there is no expiation possible, no indulgence or pardon. Christians may never cease vengeance, and the Jew must live in servitude forever. God always hated the Jews. It is essential that all Christians hate them.

   In 395 A.D. St. Gregory of Nyssa in sermons and writings characterized Jews as assassins of the Prophets, companions of the Devil, a race of vipers, a Sanhedrin of Demons, enemies of all that is beautiful, hogs and goats in their lewd grossness.

  I recently experienced paranoia toward me as a result of my rejection of Jesus.  I was walking through a subway tunnel when I heard a man preaching about Jesus.  I said to him "Jesus does not exist".  He said to me:

        You have allowed your mind to be infiltrated by the Devil.

   Muhammad created paranoia toward those who rejected Islam.   In the Koran 62.5 he said:

Evil is the likeness of the people who deny the revelations of Allah.

Initially Muhammad sought to gain the support of, and legitimization from, the Jewish tribes of western Arabia for religious, financial and military power reasons.  However, Muhammad was rebuffed by the Jews who refused to see in him a Prophet.  Rejection of Islam turned Muhammad against the Jews.   According to the Religious Persecution of the Jews by Arabs web page:

It was the Prophet Muhammad himself who attempted to negate the positive image of the Jew that had been prevalent earlier. According to historian Bernard Lewis, the Prophet Muhammad's original plan had been to induce the Jews to adopt Islam When Muhammad began his rule at Medina in A.D. 622 he counted few supporters, so he adopted several Jewish practices-including daily prayer facing toward Jerusalem and the fast of Yom Kippur-in the hope of wooing the Jews. But the Jewish community rejected the Prophet Muhammad's religion, preferring to adhere to its own beliefs, whereupon Muhammad subsequently substituted Mecca for Jerusalem, and dropped many of the Jewish practices.

Three years later, Arab hostility against the Jews commenced, when the  Meccan army exterminated the Jewish tribe of Quraiza.2  As a result of the Prophet Muhammad's resentment, the Holy Koran itself contains many of his hostile denunciations of Jews 3   and bitter attacks upon the Jewish tradition, which undoubtedly have colored the beliefs of religious Muslims down to the present.

Muhammad's growing armies prevailed and the struggle for the fate of Arabia ended with the slaughter and defeat of the Jews. The rejection by the Jews may be the reason Muhammad had the following written into the Qu'ran [9:29-30].

Fight against such of those who have been given the Scripture as believe not in Allah nor the Last Day...  Allah (Himself) fighteth against them.   How perverse they are!"

   Robert Spencer when asked why the Muslims regard the Jews as their worst enemies said:

Torah-observant Jews did not and do not accept Muhammad as a prophet, and this enraged the prophet of Islam during his lifetime. Muhammad initially appealed energetically to the Jews, hoping they would accept his prophetic status. He even had the Muslims imitate the Jews by facing Jerusalem for prayers, and he adopted for the Muslims the Jews prohibition of pork. But he was infuriated when the Jews rejected him, and Allah shared his fury in Koranic revelation: they had the Torah, and the Koran confirmed it, and yet they refused to accept the Koran! And when there came to them a messenger from Allah, confirming what was with them, a party of the people of the Book threw away the Book of Allah behind their backs, as if (it had been something) they did not know! (2:101).

   Muhammad instructed Moslems to torture nonbelievers.   Quotes of his on this are on the Islamic Hell web page.   Islam considers belief in any God other than Islam an "insult" to Islam.  One illustration of this was the fatwah (religious edict) issued by the Taliban's spiritual leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, on Monday February 26, 2001, calling for all statues to be smashed including two Buddha images that soar 125 feet and 174 feet above the village of Bamiyan.  (This was reported in CNN.com March 2, 2001)  Mohammad explained: 

Only Allah, the Almighty, deserves to be worshipped, not anyone or anything else.

In the Excessive Kindness of Islam web page Muhammad's conquest of Quraiza is described as follows:

In 627 A.D he raided the Jewish tribe of Qurayza. The Jews were defeated in the fight and many prisoners were taken. They were either sold or assassinated in the name of merciful Allah. In one place alone, approximately 800 Jews were beheaded in cold blood. In 629 A.D after the battle of Khaybar, and the defeat of the Jews, the same play was enacted. All the Jews were put to the sword. The raids undertaken by the prophet and methods followed became the guidelines for the Caliphs and other leaders who followed him.

   The revenge taken by Muhammad on the non-believer is discussed in more detail in the revenge section of this web page.  Before destroying the statues carved into the rock face near the central town of Bamiyan the Taliban explained that the statues were:

Insulting to Islam

    They also planned to destroy all statues and religious artifacts in their museums as well.  For a fundamentalist Moslem anything and anyone who is not a Moslem is an insult to Islam. 

Osama bin Ladin in an interview with John Miller of ABC news in May 1998 explained that Allah's orders are to fight the non-believer.  He said:

Allah has ordered us to make holy wars and to fight to see to it that his word is the highest and the uppermost and that of the unbelievers the lowermost. 

In an interview with al-Jazira in 1999 Osama bin Laden, boasted that he had created:

The front of the Islamic Nation

to fight the Kufar (non-believers). 

Balint Vazsonyi wrote an article in the Washington Times (9/18/01) called "The People's Right To Know" in which he wrote the following about the intolerance of the Saudis to the American non-believers during the Gulf War.

    It is Thanksgiving 1990. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are spending it in Saudi Arabia, invited by its rulers to protect the country -- not against the infidel, but against a fellow Arab Muslim, Saddam Hussein of Iraq.  Having raped Kuwait, Iraqi forces were poised to storm Saudi Arabia, a country unable to defend itself.

     U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush arrived to share the Thanksgiving meal with the armed forces whose commander in chief he was. Upon arrival, the Saudi hosts informed him that the sight of a banquet connected in any way, shape or form with Christian traditions, giving thanks to God, was so hateful to Muslims that the president and his lot would have to repair to the high seas, far from the shores that would be soiled, defaced, desecrated by their act and presence...

     Here then is a question Americans are entitled to have answered. When Arabs and other Muslims arrive and settle in America, when and how does the miraculous transformation occur whereby the Christianity -- or Judaism -- that surrounds them ceases to offend?

   Robert Spencer in his book Onward Muslim Soldiers wrote about how many Muslims considered non-Muslims contaminated.  He wrote:

Many Muslims believe that the impurity that Christians are considered to have by the standards of Islamic ritual laws "will be passed on by physical contact with them.  A young Christian journalist found that a female Muslim typist would not eat with her for this reason.  An elderly Christian man who staffed the press lounge at the National Assembly was banned by the National Assembly staff from touching any canteen utensils or even carrying a tray.  A Christian student of science at the Islamia College in Karachi was forbidden  by his fellow students to drink from a tap.   Five Christian schoolgirls from St. Mary's School in Gujrat, who were taking a Home Economics practical examination on February 25, 1997, found that the Muslim examiner would not test or mark the food they had cooked.  She ordered the Christian's food to be put into the dustbin, but tested the food of their eight Muslim classmates in the normal way.

   In Pakistan two Christian brothers tried to buy ice cream from a vendor who insisted they not use his utensils which were reserved for Muslim customers.   They protested and he accused them of "desecrating the Koran and blaspheming the Prophet Mohammed."  Both received thirty five year prison sentences and fines of $1,500 (U.S. Dept. of State Bueau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor "Pakistan," Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2000 Feb 23, 2001). 

Professor Laurence Loeb in a book titled (Outcaste- Jewish Life in Southern Iran, 1977), wrote that:

Fear of pollution by Jews led to great excesses and peculiar behavior by Muslims.

Water was considered the most common agent of pollution, therefore Jews were not permitted to use the public bathsThe possibility that rain-water might splash off a Jew onto a Muslim led to the prohibition of Jews walking in public during the rain. One informant from Shiraz told the following anecdote:

When I was a boy, I went with my father to the house of a non-Jew on business. When we were on our way, it started to rain. We stopped near a man who had apparently fallen and was bleeding. As we started to help him, a Muslim akhond (theologian) stopped and asked me who I was and what I was doing. Upon discovering that I was a Jew, he reached for a stick to hit me for defiling him by being near him in the rain. My father ran to him and begged the akhond to hit him instead.

Jonathan Foreman in his column "Islam's Cruel Crusaders"(New York Post 10/31/01 p37) wrote the following about the Saudis:

This U.S. "ally" actually banned Christmas carols from Armed Forces Radio during the Gulf War.

2) Desire to keep believers from being led away from the religion by nonbelievers.

   The existence of a non-believer is a threat to those promoting belief.  Especially if the non-believer is powerful and successful, after all, God is supposed to reward the believer and punish the non-believer.  If the believer is convinced the nonbeliever is bad, better yet, if the believer kills the nonbeliever, than the believer is less likely to be influenced by the nonbeliever. 

     There is an Islamic belief that the non-believer is unclean.   This idea was promoted to create hatred of non-Muslims so that they would not influence Muslims (Bostom, A. The American Thinker 7/22/08).  Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran explained that:

Eleven things are unclean: urine, excrement, sperm, blood, a dog, a pig, bones, a non-Muslim man and woman [emphasis added], wine, beer, perspiration of a camel that eats filthThe whole body of a non-Muslim is unclean, even his hair, his nails, and all the secretions of his bodyA child below the age of puberty is unclean if his parents and grandparents are not Muslims; but if he has a Muslim for a forebear, then he is cleanThe body, saliva, nasal secretions, and perspiration of a non-Muslim man or woman who converts to Islam automatically become pure. As for the garments, if they were in contact with the sweat of the body before conversion, they will remain uncleanIt is not strictly prohibited for a Muslim to work in an establishment run by a Muslim who employs Jews, if the products do not aid Israel in one way or another. However it is shameful [for a Muslim] to be under the orders of a Jewish departmental head.

a political order from Islam and must be adhered to by the followers of Islam, and the goal [was] to promote general hatred toward those who are outside Muslim circles. This "hatred" was to assure that Muslims would not succumb to corrupt, i.e., non-Islamic thoughts.

To much of Islam, the United States represents the powerful successful non-believer. 

   Daniel Pipes when asked why Islamic radicals attacked the United States (CNNfn: Moneyline News Hour August 29, 2002) answered:

You know, it's in the nature of all totalitarian movements, all radical utopian movements, like the Fascists, the Communists, and now the Islamists, that sooner or later they get the United States in their sights as the most dangerous enemy they have.   And we're dangerous by virtue of who we are, not necessarily what we do. By our democracy, our individualism, our consumerism, our commercialism. And totalitarians can't abide that because, among other things, it is an enormous temptation for their own people. So they have to get rid of it.

Mosques teach the faithful that the practices of the non-believer are evil. For example the Khalid Bin Al-Walid Mosque of Toronto has a web site in which it is written:

"Allah and his messenger have warned us against following or imitating non-Muslims in things which are characteristic of their religion or beliefs. This is more emphasized in the case of their eids [festivals] or occasions, which always hold some religious or ideological non-Islamic meanings, and on which the kuffaar indulge in many evil practices."

What are these evil holidays in which the Kuffaar (non-believers) engage in many evil practices? Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, Halloween, birthdays, New Years are among them. (National Post 10/4/07)

    Volunteers who vaccinate Muslims in countries such as Pakistan are sometimes killed.  This may be a result of Muslim suspicion of vaccinations provided by the infidel West.

  Christians called those who disagreed with their doctrine heretics and created paranoia toward them.  The following paragraphs about this are from the Catholic Encyclopedia.

Heresy, in the sense of falling away from the Faith, became possible only after the Faith had been promulgated by Christ. Its advent is clearly foretold, Matt., xxiv, 11, 23-26: " . . . many false prophets shall rise. and shall seduce many. . . . Then if any man shall say to you: Lo here is Christ, or there, do not believe him. For there shall rise false Christs and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect. Behold I have told it to you, beforehand. If therefore they shall say to you: Behold he is in the desert, go ye not out: Behold he is in the closets, believe it not. "Christ also indicated the marks by which to know the false prophets: "Who is not with me is against me" (Luke, xi, 23); "and if he will not hear the Church let him be to thee as the heathen and the publican" (Matt., xviii, 17); "he that believeth not shall be condemned" (Mark, xvi, 16). The Apostles acted upon their Master's directions. All the weight of their own Divine faith and mission is brought to bear upon innovators. "If any one", says St.Paul, "preach to you a gospel, besides that you have received, let him be anathema" (Gal., i, 9). To St. John the heretic is a seducer, an antichrist, a man who dissolves Christ (I John, iv, 3; II John, 7); "receive him not into the house nor say to him, God speed you" (II John, 10). St. Peter, true to his office and to his impetuous nature, assails them as with a two-edged sword: " . . . lying teachers who shall bring in sects of perdition, and deny the Lord who bought them: bringing upon themselves swift destruction . . . These are fountains without water, and clouds tossed with whirlwinds, to whom the mist of darkness is reserved" (II Pet., ii, 1, 17). St. Jude speaks in a similar strain throughout his whole epistle. St. Paul admonishes the disturbers of the unity of faith at Corinth that "the weapons of our warfare . . . are mighty to God unto the pulling down of fortifications, destroying counsels, and every height that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God . . . and having in readiness to revenge all disobedience" (II Cor., x, 4, 5, 6).

What Paul did at Corinth he enjoins to be done by every bishop in his own church. Thus Timothy is instructed to "war in them a good warfare, having faith and a good conscience, which some rejecting have made shipwreck concerning the faith. Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have delivered up to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme" (I Tim., i, 18-20). He exhorts the ancients of the Church at Ephesus to "take heed to yourselves, and to the whole flock, wherein the Holy Ghost hath placed you bishops, to rule the church of God, . . . I know that, after my departure, ravening wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock . . . Therefore watch, . . ." (Acts, xx. 28, 29, :31). "Beware of dogs", he writes to the Philippians (iii, 2), the dogs being the same false teachers as the "ravening wolves". The Fathers show no more leniency to perverters of the faith. A Protestant writer thus sketches their teaching (Schaff-Herzog, s. v. Heresy): "Polycarp regarded Marcion as the first-born of the Devil. Ignatius sees in heretics poisonous plants, or animals in human form. Justin and Tertullian condemn their errors as inspirations of the Evil One; Theophilus compares them to barren and rocky islands on which ships are wrecked; and Origen says, that as pirates place lights on cliffs to allure and destroy vessels in quest of refuge, so the Prince of this world lights the fires of false knowledge in order to destroy men. [Jerome calls the congregations of the heretics synagogues of Satan (Ep. 123), and says their communion is to be avoided like that of vipers and scorpions (Ep. 130).]" These primitive views on heresy have been faithfully transmitted and acted on by the Church in subsequent ages. There is no break in the tradition from St. Peter to Pius X

The punishment for heretics is described by the Catholic Encyclopedia as follows:

The burning of heretics was first decreed in the eleventh century. The Synod of Verona (1184) imposed on bishops the duty to search out the heretics in their dioceses and to hand them over to the secular power. Other synods, and the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) under Pope Innocent III, repeated and enforced this decree, especially the Synod of Toulouse (1229), which established inquisitors in every parish (one priest and two laymen). Everyone was bound to denounce heretics, the names of the witnesses were kept secret; after 1243, when Innocent IV sanctioned the laws of Emperor Frederick II and of Louis IX against heretics, torture was applied in trials; the guilty persons were delivered up to the civil authorities and actually burnt at the stake. Paul III (1542) established, and Sixtus V organized, the Roman Congregation of the Inquisition, or Holy Office, a regular court of justice for dealing with heresy and heretics (see ROMAN CONGREGATIONS).

   It is interesting to note that from the Jewish point of view Jesus was a heretic.  Many Christian antisemites hate the Jews because of the belief that the Jewish leaders reported Jesus to the Roman authorities yet the Christians killed and tortured heretics.  At least the Jewish leaders had the excuse that they were supposed to report all sedition to the Roman authorities and would have been killed by the Romans if they did not report Jesus.  We don't know with certainty if the Jewish leaders reported Jesus to the Romans at all, the Romans must have known about him because of the large following that he had.  In fact when the Romans killed him they called him the "King of the Jews".

3) Finding a scapegoat for the failures of the religion. (Protecting self esteem by blaming others)

   According to Yossef Bodansky, in his book Islamic Anti-Semitism as a Political Instrument:

The Jewish conspiracy is the most effective excuse and justification of Islamist leaders about the backwardness of the Muslim World-the loss of power and economic failures vis-a-vis the West.  All of these calamities, they argue, are because of a Jewish-dominated global conspiracy aimed to eradicate Islam.  Being a divine way of life, Islam is expected to have an answer to everything.  Therefore, the troubles from which the contemporary Muslim society is suffering must be due to nonbelievers and to plots-primarily by Zionists.

    According Andrew Bostom, one of Islam's oldest and most respected Sunni historians, al-Tabari (d. 923), taught that a renegade Yemenite Jew, Abdallah b. Saba, infiltrated the Muslim faith, propagated false teachings (Shia Islam) and launched the split between Sunnis and Shiites.

 Ralph Peters in an article called "The Tragedy of the Arabs" (New York Post 3/30/03) wrote:

Without the United States - and, of course, Israel - as excuses for Arab political squalor, Arabs might have to engage in self-examination, to ask themselves, "How have we failed so badly?"

They prefer to blame others, to sleepwalk through history, and to cheer when tyrants and terrorists "avenge" them.

On one level, Arabs know that Saddam Hussein is a monster. They know he has killed more Arabs than Israel ever could do. Saddam has been the worst thing to happen to Mesopotamia since the Mongols razed Baghdad. But Arabs are so jealous and discouraged that they need to inflate even Saddam into a hero. They have no one else.

  Many of the Muslim conspiracy theories are downright insane.  A collection of these has been posted by Kathy Shaidle.  A Muslim cleric is shown below saying that internet porn is a Jewish conspiracy to make war on Muslims.

This may be in part an effort to make excuses for the widespread interest in pornography by Muslims.  Here is a comment on this video that appeared on jihadwatch.

Another commenter wrote:

Stephen Brown in an article titled The Depraved World of Jihadi Child Porn, pointed out that there is a strong correlation between child sexual exploitation and terrorism.

Many Christians reacted to criticisms of Mel Gibson's Passion movie with paranoia.

   Rabbi Benjamin Blech in an article titled "The Passion, The Movie and the Aftermath" (3/9/04?) wrote how after he saw the Passion a woman asked him what he thought of it. He replied that the movie was very violent. She angrily said to him: "You must be Jewish. Jews are always going to find fault, with a story that tells the truth about our Lord!" There have been numerous Christian articles claiming that those who attack the Passion are really against Christianity.  Although that may be true in some cases, in some cases the criticisms are out of genuine concern.  One case in point is that of Sister Mary Boys, a professor at the Union Theological Seminary in New York, who was part of an ad hoc group that was asked to read an early screenplay, and who publicly warned that it could inflame anti-Semitism. Rabbi Blech wrote about the Christian reaction to her as follows:

The result? Sister Boys said that not only was Gibson furious but since the group made those criticisms, she and other members have been attacked by supporters of the movie as "anti-Christ, the arrogant gang of so-called scholars, dupes of Satan, forces of Satan and other terms that I cannot use in polite company.

   Recently created religions show the same disturbing tendencies as Christianity and Islam.  For example Scientology calls nonbelievers the "enemy".  In addition religions often inculcate a feeling of superiority toward the nonbeliever.  Part of Christian doctrine was that God rejected the Jews and chose them instead because the Jews killed Christ.  Scientologists derisively term people outside Scientology "Wogs" or as Hubbard defined them, "common, ordinary, run-of-the-mill, garden-variety humanoids." (See, Tom and Nicole Split, a Question of Faith).

   The motive to create paranoia to those who challenge the faith extends to those who challenge the faith of others in oneself.  For example paranoia was created to Israeli journalists who reported Palestinian criticism of the corruption of a local Fatah leader in Bethlehem (Palestinians: We'll kill Israeli journalists who enter Bethlehem, by Arieh O'Sullivan and Lamia Lahoud Jerusalem Post Feb 13, 2001).   Following the report, the Bethlehem Fatah movement published an announcement intended to clear Hamid's name, saying that the corruption charges were planted by "external agents interested in splitting the Palestinian street and the Fatah leadership." The Bethlehem Fatah movement created paranoia to the Israeli journalists in order to discredit them.  This also falls under the category of creation of paranoia to remove a threat which is discussed in my article.

     A film about the life of Muhammad by an Egyptian copt named Nakoula Basseley Nakoula sparked Muslim protests across the world as well as attacks on the U.S. embassy in Egypt and Libya.  The American ambassador as well as other Americans were killed.  Nakoula claimed his name was Sam Bacile and that he was an Israeli American real estate developer who raised 5 million dollars for the film from 100 Jewish donors.  He didn't want to be attacked for the film and figured why not blame the Jews.  Copts are known to be anti-Israel.  Long after it was known that a copt made the film muslims protested in Sri Lanka. 

"Dear Muslims around the world, stop purchasing Jewish products such as Coca Cola, KFC, McDonald's, Pepsi, Fanta, Pizza Hut, You Tube, D and G etc," said a banner carried by protesters.

"Who is behind the film? Jews," said another anti-Semitic placard carried by the demonstrators.

6) Islams Need to Create Paranoia to Sustain Jihad

Nonie Darwish in a speech to the Heritage Foundation which can be viewed online said:

Jihad is defined by Al Azhar University which is the oldest Islamic University in Cairo over a thousand years old this is the definition of Jihad. It's a permanent war instition against nonbelievers Jews Christians and Pagans. Permanent war institution. To maintain this permanent Jihad a villain must always exist as a reason and motivation. Thus we get a culture dominated by anger hatred pointing fingers and being constantly offended.

Islam promises men the reward of virgin beauties in paradise if the kill the non-believer. In order to provide additional motivation for Muslims to kill they are shown videos depicting tortured and slain Muslims that are now on the internet. Although Muslims are slain in conflicts with non-Muslims I have not heard reports of torture of Muslims other than by other Muslims.  Videos of Muslims committing atrocities can be seen here.

     Ryan Mauro wrote an article titled Hate Crimes an Islamist Weapon in which he gives examples of Muslims staging phony hate crimes and Islamic groups using them to create paranoia and to convince other Muslims to donate to them.  One example he gave was of Musa and Essa Shteiwi, Ohio men who received media attention in 2006 after reporting several attacks on their store, the third being with a Molotov cocktail. A fourth attack then occurred, when an explosion was set off and badly burned the father and son, injuries from which they later died. CAIR highlighted it as a hate crime. However, investigators found that the two had set off the explosion themselves after they poured gasoline in preparation for another staged incident and one of them foolishly lit a cigarette. The pair had hired a former employee to carry out the previous attacks as part of an insurance fraud scheme.

     Mr. Mauro included a graph of hate crimes in his article:

Notice how the group with the most hate crimes against them are the Jews the group who the Muslims hate the most.  Guess who probably is committing these hate crimes.

Abdul Razak Ali Artan, a student at Ohio State drove a car into a crowd of people, then got out and stabbed several more before he was shot and killed by campus police.  In a Facebook post, Artan referenced jihad mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki and declared: I am sick and tired of seeing my fellow Muslim brothers and sisters being killed and tortured EVERYWHERE. I cant take it anymore. America! Stop interfering with other countries [if] you want us Muslims to stop carrying lone wolf attacks.  Abdul believed that America is torturing and killing his fellow Muslims.  This paranoia coupled with the promise of virgins is key to motivating Muslims to murder people.

MEMRI posted a video creating paranoia toward Jews because a Jew created the comic hero superman.  According to the anti-semitic mindset everything the Jews do must be bad.  This video is quite instructive how an innocent nice thing can be made to look like sinister manipulation.

4) Creating Paranoia to Create Pride

   Mark Juergensmeyer in an interview by the New York Press (Jihad 101 11/28-12/4/01) said how Dr. Abdul Rantisi, the political head of Hamas told him:

Don't think we're fighting for land.  We're fighting for pride.

   In the same interview Juergensmeyer writes how Mahmud Abouhalima told him the story about a lion who was raised by sheep.  One day the lion went to a pond and saw his own reflection and then he suddenly realized he wasn't a sheep he was a lion.   He said that is what Islam taught him -- that he wasn't a sheep, he was a lion.   This exhilarating sense of empowerment came with feeling he was part of a great struggle.  He was a warrior.  A fighter. 

IIb Religions Creation of Oppressors

   Religions such as Islam command their adherents to subjugate or kill the non-believer.  The believer needs some explanation for why he is to be so brutal to the non-believer.  The fact that they don't believe may not be sufficient.  Therefore there is the incentive to find rationalizations to view the non-believer as the oppressor.  Here is a clip from MEMRI in which the speaker starts by giving the religious reasons to fight the non-believer and then shifts to the non-believer is the oppressor theme.

    The Quran says that Muhammad slaughtered infidels and infidels are evil.  If Muhammad   slaughtered infidels they must be evil according to the thinking of Muslims who believe that Muhammad was a great prophet.  Hence the tendency to believe paranoid theories about infidels.  What if you are an Imam, you may feel it's your job to instill hatred of these evil infidels in your Muslim followers.  In one example of this Jamaican Sheikh Abdullah Al-Faisal accused infidels of putting cancer in fake zamzam (water drawn from a sacred well in Mecca), which was then bottled and sold to Muslims. Nonie Darwish gave a very good explanation of this kind of thinking in her article "Why Muslims Must Hate Jews".

    Another source of paranoia is that non-believers are not going to walk like lambs to the slaughter at least not all of them.  Some will fight back with the result that there will be dead Muslims.  An unfortunate but very common human trait is to forget one's responsibility for disasters.  So Muslims are likely to forget their responsibility for the violence that led to the defensive action of the non-believer that led to the dead Muslims.  That would be hard on their self esteem.  They are much more likely to view the defensive action as an aggressive action of the non-believers against them.   Then they become the heros fighting the evil non-believer oppressor.  That much better for the self esteem.  This is illustrated in a cycle diagram on this web site.

   In Egypt Muslims kidnap Christian girls and forcibly convert them to Islam.  According to CNN, there have been widespread rumors of Coptic women in Egypt who were allegedly detained by the church after they converted to Islam, in the hopes of convincing or compelling them to return to their original faith.  This became a reason for revenge attacks on Christians.  Muslims had made Christians out to be the oppressors imprisoning innocent Muslim women.  The Islamic State of Iraq avenged itself by attacking a Catholic church during Mass in downtown Baghdad in the deadliest siege ever recorded against the countrys Christian population.

The terrorists held dozens of people hostage for hours. By the time the standoff had ended, 58 were dead and 75 others were wounded, including many women and children.

They also put Christians across the Middle East on notice that they are now legitimate targets.

   This cycle to a large degree explains the view of many of the Arabs that the Israelis and the Americans are the evil oppressors.  The Arab propaganda directed toward the West doesn't argue this of course and instead argues that the Israelis are brutal oppressors and that they are fighting for their freedom.   The falsity of these claims is discussed on the Arab Propaganda page of Americans For A Safe Israel.

    Muslims have a long history of enslaving other people in fact they enslave blacks today in the Sudan and they sold enslaved blacks to Europeans who shipped them to America.  Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, however, accuses Jews of being involved in the slave trade.  The majority religion of the ship owners were Christian however there were some Jews who owned some of the ships.  There were also some Jewish slave owners.  However the paranoid picture painted by Louis Farakhan differs greatly from reality.  We get a picture of reality from Oscar Straus who wrote as follows: (We lived there too (Kenneth Libo and Irving How)

In our town, as in all Southern communities, the better families were kind, especially to their household slaves, whom they regarded as members of the family requiring guardianship and protection, in a degree as if they were children. And the slaves addressed their masters by their first names but always preceded by Mr. and their mistresses as miss.  My mother, for instance was Miss Sara.  I recall one of our servants pleading with my mother: Miss Sara, wont you buy me?  I want to stay here.  I love you and the white folks here, and I am afraid my master will hire me out and sell me to someone else.  At that time we hired our servants from their masters, who we paid an agreed price.  But, as the result of such constant pleadings, my father purchased household slaves one by one from their masters, although neither he nor my mother believed in slavery

Creation of Paranoia to Gain Influence

    Alan Dershowitz wrote an article about creation of paranoia by the modern Catholic church.  He wrote:

An essential aspect of Christian teaching, and especially of Catholic teaching, is the important principle that distingusihes between intentionally killing an innocent person, and unintentionally killing an innocent person in the process of legitimately trying to prevent harm to ones self or others. This concept, known as the principle of double effect, is central to Catholic theology. It traces its roots to Thomas Aquinas and has had enormous influence on moral thinking not only within the Catholic Church, but throughout Christianity and indeed in the secular world as well. Understanding and complying with this principle may literally mean the difference between eternal damnation and eternal salvation. Thats how important it is.

Except, apparently, when it comes to the Jewish state of Israel. Then suddenly moral blindness makes it impossible for church authorities to see, understand or apply this principle. Cardinal Martino is not the first church leader to try to create moral equivalence between the actions of Hamas in willfully and proudly trying to kill as many Jewish children, women and other civilians as possible, and the actions of the Israeli Defense Forces in trying to stop them from killing Jewish children, while inadvertently killing some Palestinian civilians who are used as human shields by Hamas. The Pope himself has been guilty of invoking such moral equivalence between these very different actions. Indeed it is fair to say that the Vaticans entire approach to the Israel-Hamas conflict has been to suggest a false moral equivalence.

Church leaders know better. They understand precisely what they are doing. They are making utilitarian, pragmatic and very anti-Catholic cynical judgments calculated to bolster the influence of The Church in the Middle East.

The odd aspect of this is that Christians are persecuted throughout the Middle East by Muslims.  It may be that the church hopes to protect Christians in the Middle East by attacking Jews.  Since many Christians view the Jews as evil killers of Christ it is easy to blame the Jews for Muslim attacks on Christians.  If we only attack the Jews too, the Church leaders may reason, the Muslims will not associate us with them and treat us well.

IIB Use of Religion to Create Paranoia:

   The accusation that the Jews were planning to destroy the Al Aqsa mosque has been used to repeatedly incite Arabs to violence against the Jews.  In August 20 such incitement led to assaults by Arab gangs which included massacres in Hebron, Safed and Jaffa where elderly, defenseless people were tortured and murdered.  (Years of Wrath, Days of Glory, Yitshaq Ben Ami 1983)

   According to the Palestinian Media Watch Bulletin (Aug. 26, 2004):

On Aug. 21, 1969,  a non-Jewish Australian named Michael Rohan set fire to the podium of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Israel arrested and tried the mentally deranged arsonist.
 
For years, the PA has been portraying this as a Zionist attack on the mosque. This week, a special program dedicated to the issue described the incident as a premeditated attack by the Israeli government. According to this broadcast, Israel conspired with the arsonist, then deliberately allowed the fire to spread by delaying the arrival of fire engines and cutting off water to the site.

The PA version of events -- this week and in previous years -- also states that then-Prime Minister Golda Meir referred to the fire as both the "hardest" and "happiest" day of Israel's history: the hardest because she feared the incident would lead to an attack by neighboring Arab countries, and the happiest because such an attack never occurred. One account from 2001 even claimed that Meir "laughed" when there was no attack.

   Here is an example of the Al Aqsa accusation from a PA sermon in 2010

    As is usually in these types of paranoia creation those creating the paranoia are guilty of doing the same thing to their enemies.  The Muslims have dug near the Al Aqsa mosque and the dirt from their digging was full of Jewish artifacts.  In fact a law suit was filed against the Muslims for damaging Jewish antiquities.

   The Saudis post online sermons that incite according to Dore Gold author of Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism. (Response summer 2003 V24 #2)

The sermons advocate ongoing religious conflict with Christianity and Judaism, described as the camp of blasphemy and polytheism.

IIC Creation of Paranoia to Reduce Shame

   I read an interesting hypothesis for one of the causes for Nazi anti-semitism on a website called All the Emperor's Men which was that blaming Germany's defeat on a Jewish conspiracy reduced the shame of having lost.   Garry Greenwood the author of the web page wrote:

Possibly the most frightening and devastating facet of Adolf Hitler's blueprint for world power had already come into his possession as early as 1919. For it was around then that the supposed records of the proceedings of the World Congress of Jewry, held in Basle, Switzerland, in 1897, had been recently smuggled out of Russia, where they had been secretly kept till then, and published in Germany and other countries. These published proceedings are known as "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion", and purport to be the resolutions and plans of a Jewish conspiracy for world domination....

The recently defeated German nation soaked up the contents of "The Protocols" like a dry sponge, since they explained, to them at least, why their powerful nation had suffered such a bitter defeat in World War I. From "The Protocols" they perceived how they were the victims of a global world conspiracy, and this allowed the Germans to place the blame for every conceivable woe rightly upon the shoulders of the Jews. 

   The Japanese school system hides from Japanese children the atrocities Japan committed before and during World War II.  Garry Greenwood wrote:

Immediately upon their surrender, the Japanese army, which was in charge of the education system, totally erased all reference to and information regarding Japanese aggression, occupation and atrocities committed during the war. All documents and films recording their recent holy war were confiscated or destroyed. Nowhere, particularly today, will you find any Japanese reference to what their army did in the years leading up to 1945. This means most Japanese born after that year, which probably amounts to around 75 percent of the population, are almost totally ignorant of these facts. No Japanese under 50 will have any knowledge of the infamous "Rape of Nanking", the Baatan and Sandakan death marches, and so on. I have asked several Japanese Mahikari members if they are aware of the infamous "Rape of Nanking", and they have all answered in the negative. However, the Japanese have been told of their struggle to halt foreign imperialism, and how this struggle resulted in the fire-bombing of Tokyo in which 200,000 people were incinerated, plus the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from the use of atomic bombs.

   Thus the Japanese erase their shame and create paranoia to the rest of the world, paranoia that some day may lead to war.

   When the hero of the Arab world, Saddam Hussein was capture in a hole after not firing a shot this was a day of sadness and intolerable shame for the Arab world.  As a result they generated conspiracy theories such as Saddam having been drugged before he was captured so that he couldn't resist and so on.  Perhaps the most creative conspiracy theory was written about by Robert Spencer in frontpagemag.com as follows:

Have you heard? Saddam Hussein is in Tel Aviv. He has been an agent for the U.S. and Israel since 1980, and followed instructions given him by George W. Bush himself in a phone conversation last winter about how to behave when American troops entered Iraq. The capture of Saddam was an elaborate charade designed to bolster the flagging morale of American troops in Iraq. The bearded, broken man who was captured wasnt Saddam; any keen observer would know that Saddam had a mole or wart on his cheek, but that the crude double in the hands of the Americans has no such mark. Whats more, in the footage of Saddams hideaway, the foliage is from late summer! Clearly the Americans are trying to fool us with months-old archival footage that has nothing to do with Saddam at all!

Saddams sons Uday and Qusay, meanwhile, are in Monte Carlo, continuing to live the high life. American troops spirited them out of the country and staged their deaths in order to demoralize the Iraqi resistance.

   There apparently is shame in the Arab world that Muslims are fighting Muslims and that their heroic role model Al Qaeda is attacking other Muslims.  How does a Muslim rid oneself of this shame?  By blaming the Jews of course.  This may explain why the Palestinian newspaper, Al Quds  ran an article on March 23rd which quoted a Saudi official as saying that "world Zionism" was behind Al Qaida. Salah Zahrani, chairman of the Saudi Consultative Council's security committee told a lecture in Riyad that world Zionism has fueled Al Qaida attacks throughout the world.

The idea being promoted is that the Zionists sowed confusion among the Al Qaida leadership when they killed Al Qaida's real leader, Abdullah Azzam. The Mossad killed him because he wanted to bring Islamic holy war from Afghanistan to Palestine.
   
Since then, world Zionism has supplied Al Qaida and deceived its membership into attacking Islamic countries. Zahrani pointed out that Al Qaida has never conducted a major attack against the Jewish state. He also said Saudi security forces have found a Mossad link with Al Qaida, which has received weapons supplies from Israel. (Palestinian Clan Battles, Frontpage Magazine.com 3/28/2006)

   The Islamic faith says that Muslims are to be dominant to infidels.  Muslims feel shame when they do not achieve the dominance they are commanded to achieve.  Kenneth Levin, a psychiatrist who authored the Oslo Syndrome Delusions of a People Under Siege, said that the impulse to Islamic indoctrination of the Jews:

 which is also directed to a lesser degree against Christians and other groups, lies largely in Arab xenophobia and the dominant self-perception - advanced by both Islamist and secular regimes - of being a people whose rightful superior place in the world has been stolen from them by the evil machinations of others.  (Purifying Allah's Soil, Frontpage Magazine 1/27/06)

   David Gutmann, in an article titled The Arab Lie Whose Time Has Come (frontpagemag.com 4/21/04) wrote that many Palestinian Arabs fled in 1948 and about how they've rewritten history to make it appear that they were brutally driven out of their homes.  He wrote:

The Palestinians are still tortured by the residual shame of their flight. Their shame is so great because in their eyes running from Jews was like running from women...  To relieve their shame they stridently and continually demand that their unsavory history be rewritten and reversed.

   After Al Qaeda bombed Jordanian hotels and killed many Muslims including the fathers of a couple having a wedding many Jordanians blamed Israel even though Al Qaeda took "credit" for the bombing.  They didn't want to believe that Muslims would do such a thing. (New York Times, 11/12/05)  On Nov 13, an Iraqi woman confessed to being part of the suicide plot on Jordanian TV (Excite News 11/14/05).

      The more shame a group has the more it has to defend its honor.

     Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave a speech at Columbia University, in which he assured the audience that there are no gay people in his country.  Joseph Masad a professor at Columbia said that:

Queer is an imperialist term.  It is part of the Anglo-American gay agenda... queer is an example of cultural imperialism.

IID Creation of Paranoia to Avoid Facing a Threatening Reality

    Amy Wax is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania as of this writing (2018).  In an interview with Glen Loury she said that " I don’t think I’ve ever seen a black student graduate in the top quarter of the class, and rarely, rarely, in the top half."  This provided students with ammunition they needed to get her removed from teaching students entering Penn Law School.   She was accused of racism and her opinions condemned.  What she said is probably true.  Affirmative action by definition brings people into school who are less qualified so one would expect them not to perform as well in a very competitive environment like Penn.  A study that showed that the elimination of race-based admissions policies would lead to a 63% decline in black matriculants at all law schools and a 90% decline at elite law schools. Heather MacDonald wrote in the Wall Street Journal that:

“In the early 1990s, the Law School Admissions Council tracked 27,000 students at nearly 90% of all accredited law schools. Of the 2,000 students attending the most "elite" law schools, 52% of blacks were in the bottom tenth of their class, compared with 6% of whites. Only 8% of blacks were in the top half of their class. Bar failure rates were also skewed; the LSAC data showed that 19% of blacks graduating from these elite schools failed the bar, compared with 3.5% of whites.”

Here is an excerpt of the excellent article titled University of Denial Amy Wax wrote in the Wall Street Journal:

Somewhere deep in a file drawer, or on a computer server humming away in a basement, are thousands upon thousands of numbers, with names and identities attached. They're called grades. They represent an objective reality, which exists independent of what people want reality to be. They sit silently, completely indifferent to indignation, angry petitions, irritable gestures, teachers' removal from classrooms—all the furor and clamor of institutional politics. ..

The problem is that students, including law students, go out into the real world. They are hired, paid and expected to perform, and their actions have real consequences for others. Whether we like it or not, grades help predict future performance..

students often expect equality of results and—especially in our identity-conscious world—issue loud demands for equality in group outcomes. When that doesn't happen, frustration and disappointment ensue, followed by charges of racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination...

That belief that political force determines objective reality has characterized totalitarian regimes world-wide and throughout history—regimes that are responsible for untold amounts of human misery. That mindset is dangerously inconsistent with the kind of free society Americans have painstakingly built and defended over many centuries, at the cost of blood and treasure. Perhaps we no longer want such a society. But we relinquish it at our peril.

    Global warming believers demonize those who don't believe in Global Warming.  Rael Isaac, in her fascinating book, Roosters of the Apocalypse (revised and expanded edition) wrote:

    Given the sweeping success of the climate change movement, you might think its roosters would disregard the vastly outnumbered owls, leaving them to naysay, ignored, on the margins.  But that's not how apocalyptic movements work.  Unanimity is terribly important.  As in the story of the emperor's new clothes, one small voice a the right moment can expose the nakedness of the project.  So dissenters must be silenced, discredited or worse...

    In the global warming apocalypse, every effort is made to banish climate change owls, no matter how distinguished their scientific record, to the outer fringe.  The owls are flat-earthers, patsies for big oil, "deniers" (as in Holocaust deniers), analogous to racists (Al Gore's contribution), "people who say that asbestos is as good as talcum powder" (this from Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change).  James Hansen says CEOs of fossil energy companies should be tried for "high crimes against humanity and nature."  Canada's equivalent to Al gore, fruit fly geneticist turned television broadcaster David Suzuki, challenged a McGill University Business Conference to "put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there's a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail for not acting swiftly on environmental issues. 

Korea:

South Korea faces a very threatening situation from North Korea. North Korea has enough conventional weapons trained on Seoul to annihilate it and has exploded a nuclear bomb. The United States is probably the only barrier preventing war with the North. Many South Koreans would like to believe that the North really isnt that bad and that the problem is the United States and if the South just helps out the North economically and perhaps merges with the North into a single Korea all will be well. One can speculate that blaming the United States is desirable because the United States is a lot less threatening and also because its easier on the self esteem to blame the Caucasians then their people of their on race. In an article titled Cracking the Hermit Kingdom, Gordon Cucullu and Joshua Stanton wrote: (frontpagemagazine.com 10/24/2006)

To their everlasting shame, many in South Korea choose to live in cognitive dissonance and outright denial about conditions inside their northern neighbor. Many South Koreans dismiss reports of grave human rights abuses as U.S. propaganda, and dispute reports of conditions within North Koreas gulag, to include the reported experimental poison gas chamber at Camp 22.

Britain:

Britain faces the same Islamic threat as the rest of the western world. The underlying reasons for this are that Britain is a largely infidel country that is not governed by Sharia and the support Britain has given the United States which the Muslim world considers the Great Satan. The Muslims world considers the United States the great Satan because it supports the little Satan Israel and because it is a large infidel country not governed by Sharia and because it overthrew the Taliban in Afghanistan and is fighting a war against the terrorist Muslims of Iraq. Muslims hate the little Satan, Israel, because Israel is a free democracy not governed by Sharia law and because of the hostility written into the Koran and the Hadiths towards the Jews because they rejected Islam. Unless they submit to Sharia law and fight for Islam, Britain will always be a target of Islamic terrorists. Israel is an ally in the war against Islamic terror. This is a very undesirable reality. It is much more preferable to believe that the Islamic threat would disappear if Israel would disappear, or at least if Britain did not ally itself with the Israel supporting United States. It is much less threatening to create paranoia toward the United States. To ease the guilt of allowing another Holocaust of Israel it is much more desirable to see Israel as the Nazi-like aggressor in the region that deserves whatever happens to it. It feels better to create paranoia toward Israel. Melanie Phillips in an article titled Britain is turning on the U.S. at its Peril (USA Today, 10/24/2006) wrote:

Fury at Prime Minister Blair for being President Bush's "poodle" has reached such a pitch that the most successful Labor prime minister in memory is being forced out of office because of his support for U.S. policy in Iraq and Israel. Labor's members of Parliament say his refusal to break with America by calling for an earlier cease-fire in Lebanon was the last straw. The disturbing fact is that Britain is consumed by a rampant anti-Americanism and an allied hostility toward Israel, which are driving public debate into irrationality, prejudice and appeasement.

In a Populus poll last month in The Times of London, 62% said the government should change its policy by distancing itself from the United States, being more critical of Israel and declaring a timetable for withdrawing from Iraq. An August YouGov poll in The Spectator magazine revealed that only 14% supported closer U.S. ties

The biggest single cause of British anti-Americanism, however, is Israel. Despite being the target for more than half a century of genocidal Arab and Muslim aggression, Israel is widely perceived in Britain as the regional bully, and its acts of self-defense are viewed as the principal motor behind both the Middle East impasse and Islamic grievance because of its supposed refusal to allow the Palestinians to have a state of their own.

Thus John Denham, chairman of the parliamentary Home Affairs Select Committee, wrote that Israel's policies were making Britain a target for terror. America brought the 9/11 attacks upon itself, goes this type of thinking, because of its support for Israel and the only reason Britain is now threatened by Islamic terror is because of Blair's support for the United States

A recent report by the Parliamentary Committee Against Anti-semitism found that since 2000, anti-Semitism is on the rise in Britain. It is now common to read in the news media, for example, that the Jews are engaged in a global conspiracy that has subverted U.S. foreign policy to serve the interests of Israel and put the rest of the world at risk. In April, for instance, The Independent newspaper illustrated an interview on the subject of the "Israel lobby" in America with a picture of the American flag in which the stars of the union were replaced with the Stars of David. The headline: "The United States of Israel." Thus the prejudice against America is inextricably conflated with prejudice against Jews and the Jewish state.

The dismaying truth is that, even after the suicide bombings in London, America's defense of the free world against Islamic terror is widely viewed in Britain as the cause of that terror. The paranoid bigotry that drives the jihad that the United States and its Jewish puppet masters make up a giant conspiracy of evil is being increasingly echoed within Britain's non-Muslim population.

Europe:

   Robert Wistrich in an interview (Outpost, Nov 2004) said that:

For now, Europe prefers to single out Israel, to pretend that if only the Israeli Palestinian conflict was resolved on Arab terms, terror would fade away...

   The belief that pressuring Israel will end terror is a much more preferable belief to the belief that even if Israel did not exist, Muslims would commit acts of terror against Europe and that as they develop nuclear capability those acts of terror could involve nuclear weapons.  The belief that showing hatred to Israel will make Europe popular in the Arab world is certainly less threatening than belief that until Europeans are Muslim, they are part of the Dar al Harb and therefore Moslems are commanded by Islamic law, to fight them whether Israel exists or not.  According to Robert Wistrich

European policy toward the Arab world is de-facto appeasement.   In some respects it reminds one of the 1930s.  European Jews find themselves again caught in a very sensitive and potentially dangerous situation.  If they support Israel in this constellation of European appeasement of the Arab world - and Muslims in general - they are increasingly treated as "warmongers" going against the political consensus.  These are not only far-Left and far-Right accusations but also mainstream ones.  They revive the old, seemingly unresolved question mark about the 'dual loyalties' of Jews.

Dr. Kenneth Levin, in an interview with Jamie Glazov that appeared in frontpagemagazine (The Oslo Syndrome 11/24/05) wrote about American self delusion in the face of the Islamic threat as follows:

Those who unleashed the carnage of 9/11, as well as their supporters, have conveyed in word and deed their grievances against America and their goals. They have declared their deadly hostility not only to Americas military and diplomatic presence in the Muslim world but to its cultural presence as well. They have informed us of their determination to pursue a violent path to a recreated Islamic caliphate cleansed of all Western "pollution" and to fight for imposition of their Islamic rule worldwide. They have declared this a religious duty. They have demonstrated there are no limits to the methods and weapons they are prepared to use in their war.

Yet, while much of the American public quickly recognized the gravity of the challenge, many have sought to recast the threat, to rationalize it, and to urge policies aimed at appeasing the terrorists and their supporters in the delusional hope of thereby rescuing the nation from the dangers it faces. Or they have preferred to focus on particular, supposedly misguided, American policies as having caused or intensified the threat. Indeed, blaming America is the standard line in significant segments of American academia and media.

Among our political leaders, a number have urged us to compromise our answers to the war against us by yoking our policies to European allies, to those even more determinedly averting their eyes from the threat in the Middle East.

In the last Presidential election, one candidate, with the support of his party, advocated subsuming our measures to the collective will of the United Nations. The UN has routinely pandered to terror-promoting states and has failed to respond forcefully even to acts of genocide. It has deemed Sudan and Saudi Arabia fit for membership on its human rights commission, and it chose Libya to chair that commission. Why political leaders would urge us to follow the consensus of that body in fashioning our own actions in the war against Islamofascism is difficult to fathom except as the delusional perspective of people determined not to look honestly at the threats we face.

Averting our eyes from the actual challenge cannot help but sap our capacity to fight the war in a manner that might minimize the losses we are yet to suffer.

While the U.N. puts human rights abusers on its human rights commission it condemns Israel. A powerful 5 minute video of the United Nations being condemned for this can be seen here. The following graphic makes clear the bias as well.

The United Nations published the Goldstone Report that accused Israel of crimes against humanity in operation Cast Lead against Hamas in Gaza.  The following youtube video by U.N. watch discusses what's wrong with that.

    Coptic priest Fr. Zakaria Botros, has been called by al Qaeda "one of the most wanted infidels in the world," issuing a 60 million dollar bounty on his head. Popular Arabic magazines also call him "Islam's public enemy #1". He hosts a television program, Truth Talk, on Life TV. When asked Muslim clerics and imams have such a difficulty discussing what Islam itself teaches and instead just attack you personally? he answered

I think the answer is obvious. The Islamic sources, the texts, speak for themselves. Muslims have no greater enemy than their own scripturesparticularly the Hadith and Sirawhich constantly scandalize and embarrass Muslims. To date, I have done well over 500 different episodes dedicated to various topics regarding Islam. And for every one of these episodes, all my material comes directly from Islams textual sources, particularly usul al-fiqhthe Koran, hadith, and ijma of the ulema as found in their tafsirs.

So what can the sheikhs of Islam do? If they try to address the issue I raise based on Islams texts and sharia, they will have no choice but to agreefor instance that concubinage is legal, or that drinking camel urine is advocated. The only strategy left them, then, is to ignore all that I present and attack my person, instead.

Blaming Others Rather than Facing the Truth:

Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as of 11/15/2006 has been making the effort to warn the world about how serious the threat of a nuclear Iran is. He said regarding the Wests view of the situation:

They really think that this is a Jewish problem. They think that the Militant Islamists hates the West because of Israel. They've hated the West for hundreds of years before there was an Israel.

To view Netanyahus speech on video click here. What much of the Western world is doing is avoiding facing the reality that they are faced with nuclear annihilation unless they fight Iran. The way the West is doing that is by rationalizing that if Israel would only disappear the threat from Iran would be diminished. They rationalize that if they just show the Islamic world that they dont like Israel and join the world in ganging up on Israel the Islamic world will not be angry at them anymore and cease to be a threat. Israel is one of the Infidel Bastions against the threat of Islam. That is a fundamental reason that the Arab world hates Israel. Ironically the world does not appreciate Israel for this. On the contrary they turn against Israel to avoid facing reality.

In March 2006, Mearshimer and Walt published an article entitled "The Israel Lobby" in the London Review of Books and on the Kennedy School's Web site. The paper asserts that a consortium of American Jewish groups and individuals has conspired to undermine US national security by forcing the US to support Israel in contravention of America's national interest. Caroline Glick wrote (The Jerusalem Post online 11/6/2006):

Sadly, the popularity of Walt and Mearshimer's thesis is a consequence of a larger cultural phenomenon. Today large swathes of people throughout the Western world wish to avoid the harsh reality of global war at almost any price. This desire induces them to blame any person or group they feel is forcing them to recognize this reality. And so over the past five years we have been witness to malignant vituperations of hatred directed against President George W. Bush, the neoconservatives, and the Jews for their insistence on recognizing the reality of war.

Indeed, it is Bush's insistence on recognizing the reality of war far more than the Democrats' refusal to accept the results of the 2000 presidential elections that has fuelled the widespread, obsessive and venomous hatred that Democrats heap on the president.

     The real power in Washington may be the Saudi lobby as John R. MacArthur pointed out in 2007, in The Vast Power of the Saudi Lobby.

IID2 Creation of Paranoia to Prevent Hate

    When a Muslim commits a crime in the West considerable effort is made to avoid calling him a Muslim and if he's Asian he'll be called Asian.  This may be done to avoid offending Muslims and creating hatred toward Muslims but the result is the creation of hatred to all Asians.  When Muslims preyed on infidel girls in England the press called them Asians.  The Network of Sikh Organisations UK, The Hindu Forum of Britain, and The Sikh Media Monitoring Group UK issued a joint statement in which they said:

"We believe that in this case the government itself is sanctioning the use of term Asian as a way of clouding responsibility,..  We believe that political correctness stifles debate and will not facilitate a frank and mature discussion or solutions to get to the root of why the above pattern is emerging in these crimes and how to help find a solution to the problem.  We will not be able to do that if we mask the identity of those involved based on misguided views of 'protecting a vulnerable community' of the perpetrators and not looking at the vulnerable community of victims."

The groups say sex gangs have targeted Hindu and Sikh girls but the cases are rarely reported as they seldom reach the courts.

Pamela Geller is a very courageous Jewish woman who responded to ads slandering Israel by posting her own ads telling the truth about Muslim countries and theology.  Pamela is attacked for this even by Jews.  Some of these Jews are involved with interfaith understanding efforts and don't want anyone to say anything that will antagonize Muslims even if it's true.  What's interesting though is that when they attack her they attack her for things she didn't say.  They create paranoia toward Pamela Geller in their quest to get along with Muslims.  David Wood discusses this in the video below.

    The media also avoids calling black gangs that attack white people black perhaps in order to avoid creating racist feelings toward blacks.  Colin Flaherty reported on May 19, 2012 that:

On St. Patricks Day. A white tourist was attacked, beaten, robbed and stripped of his clothes by a gang of laughing and violent black people...

The attack was captured on two videos posted to YouTube that are attracting hundreds of thousands of viewers.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake called the episode a bar brawl. And the Baltimore Sun newspaper suggested that violence at the Inner Harbor was part of an Easter tradition of kids milling around.

After the beating, police commissioner Frederick Bealefeld told reporters that the violence was an isolated incident, not racially motivated and that only about 100 people were involved.

But two months later, reporters from the Baltimore Sun listened to the audio tapes of police dispatchers and discovered there were at least five times more people involved and much more violence, including previously unreported stabbings and beatings.

And according to witnesses and video accounts, all the perpetrators were black.

Pat McDonough, a member of the Maryland legislature and his wife were in the area for a charity fundraising dinner on a Wednesday night.  He said:

when I stopped at a traffic light, I saw a hundred young black people in the next block over fighting and walking down the middle of the street.  There were no police around. No police reports. And no stories in the paper. Violence and mayhem among young black people in the Inner Harbor is the new norm, and this has to stop.

     While the media and government officials go to great lengths to avoid creating hatred toward blacks it has no qualms about creating hatred to whites who speak the truth. 

McDonoughs call for state police to protect the Inner Harbor from black youths who are terrorizing the area drew sharp rebuke from local elected officials and the media.

Rawlings-Blake said McDonoughs request was a racially tinged publicity stunt..  A fellow legislator called McDonough a race baiter.  The Baltimore Sun called on the Maryland legislature to sanction McDonough. 

Pat McDonough, a member of the Maryland legislature had the guts to say the truth.  He said:

The Inner Harbor is a dangerous place for residents and visitors, and it does us no good to avoid this hard truth: Black youth are responsible for a sustained and dangerous period of violence in one of Baltimores nicest neighborhoods.

    The media will even fabricate evidence to make someone appear racist who is not.  George Zimmerman shot a black Trayvon Martin.  According to the transcript of his 911 call, Zimmerman first said: "This guy looks like he's up to no good. Or he's on drugs or something. It's raining and he's just walking around, looking about." The dispatcher asked: "O.K., and this guyis he white, black or Hispanic?" Zimmerman responded, "He looks black."  NBC edited the tape to say "This guy looks like he's up to no good. He looks black.  The producer who edited the tape was fired when the story became public knowledge and there was an uproar.

    The back of Zimmerman's head had blood on it from being bashed into the ground.  The media edited the pictures.  Ann Coulter talks about this below.

    One reason she gives for this is that the press wants there to be support for Obama who is black and believes that showing that whites are racist will increase such support.

  Zimmerman was cleared by a jury after which there were black protests and black attacks on white people in revenge for Trayvon.  Thee were no protests for Darryl Green a black teenager who was killed because he refused to join a black gang.  That's because the Trayvon case was a useful tool to bash whites with.

   That didn't stop NBC from altering clips. 

    Michael Brown was a black man killed by a decorated police officer in Ferguson Missouri.  The left wing narrative is that the nearly 300-lbs. Brown, who had just robbed a convenience store minutes before encountering decorated policeman Darren Wilson, was an innocent gentle giant trying to surrender.  This narrative does not fit the evidence and the testimony of multiple witnesses that Darren Wilson attacked the policeman and tried to get his gun.  It doesn't fit the orbital fractures in Darren Wilson's eye.  One possible purpose of creating paranoia toward whites in this way is to increase support for the Obama administration.  The message is if you vote for Republican whites more of you will get shot.  The Democrats leadership tend to side with Michael Brown thus gaining support of blacks.  An example of this is Hillary Clinton who said young Michael Brown was a victim of police brutality.

    The Grand Jury decided that Darren Wilson was not guilty and riots broke out.  Prosecuter McCollough gave a speech after the Grand Jury made it's decision in which he explained what the evidence was and how the testimony that Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown in the back was inconsistent with the evidence.  One has to ask oneself why there was false testimony like that?  The reason is deliberate creation of paranoia toward whitey.  On the other hand there was false propaganda that Darren Wilson's eye socket was broken. The motivation there was to support Mr. Wilson.

Here is an interview with Darren Wilson about happened:

   The U.S. "Justice" department issued two reports.  According to Thomas Sowell:

The first report, about the shooting death of Michael Brown by Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson ought to be read by every American.

It says in plain English what facts have been established by an autopsy on Michael Browns body by three different pathologists, including one representing the family of Michael Brown by DNA examination of officer Darren Wilsons gun and police vehicle, by examination of the pattern of blood stains on the street where Brown died and by a medical report on officer Wilson, from the hospital where he went for treatment...The other Justice Department report, issued the same day Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department was a complete contrast. Sweeping assumptions take the place of facts, and misleading statistics are thrown around recklessly.

John Lott Jr. wrote:

Data collected by the Ferguson Police Department from 2012 to 2014 shows that African-Americans account for 85 percent of vehicle stops, 90 percent of citations, and 93 percent of arrests made by FPD officers, despite comprising only 67 percent of Fergusons population.
Those statistics dont prove racism, because blacks dont commit traffic offenses at the same rate as other population groups.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics 2011 Police-Public Contact Survey indicate that, nationwide, blacks were 31 percent more likely than whites to be pulled over for a traffic stop.
Ferguson is a black-majority town. If its blacks were pulled over at the same rate as blacks nationally, theyd account for 87.5 percent of traffic stops.
In other words, the numbers actually suggest that Ferguson police may be slightly less likely to pull over black drivers than are their national counterparts...

The survey also reveals that men are 42 percent more likely than women to be pulled over for traffic stops. Should we conclude that police are biased against men, or that men drive more recklessly?
In fact, blacks die in car accidents at a rate about twice their share of car owners.

   Lloyd Marcus is a conservative black.  He wrote that Democrats have an

" insidious tactic of dividing Americans into victimized voting blocs (blacks, women, Hispanics, and so on). After convincing various groups of Americans that they are victims, the Dems request their votes to use as protection money to keep their white racist sexist Republican/conservative enemies at bay. It is disgusting and evil."

    Liberals often play the victim while victimizing others.  Michael Rectenwald is a professor at NYU who experienced this.  He wrote:

As they responded to my criticisms, the social justice idealogues both inside and outside the university demonstrated their authoritarian and fanatical character.  With their notoriously vituperative, outrageous attack and pack mentality, they showed they routinely victimize others, all the while playing the victim. 

   While Iran was experiencing a drought Iranian Muslims must have wondered why Allah would allow such a thing to happen.  Perhaps Iranian Leaders got nervous that the people would blame them some how.  What to do?  Blame Israel of course!  Brig. Gen. Gholam Reza Jalali, in charge of Iran's civil-defense organization explained that: "

"Joint teams from Israel and one of the neighboring countries make the clouds entering into Iran barren. Moreover, we are faced with the cases of cloud theft and snow theft," he said.

Jalali did not name the other country he believed was stealing Iranian clouds and snow.

     This is not the first time Iranian leaders have blamed other countries for their drought.   In 2011, then-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Western countries of causing a drought in Iran. He also accused Western states of creating the HIV virus to weaken the developing world and create a market for pharmaceuticals.

    In 2003, the northern Nigerian state of Kano backed Muslim religious leaders in opposing an immunization program, claiming it was a Western plot to make people infertile.  Health experts say this led to many people becoming infected by polio.

  In an interview published in the London based Arabic newspaper al-Shark al-Awsat, Yousef Abu Safieh, the Palestinian Minister of Environment, accused Israel of spreading carcinogens to the Palestinians by manufacturing drinks containing Sweet and Low.  He also said that the Egyptians confiscated two Israeli truckloads of toys that were highly radioactive. The trucks were en route, he said, to Palestinian children. (frontpagemag.com 6/16/05)

Here is a video of a Palestinian Authority mayor repeating the allegation in 2013.

I (the author of this website) was in Israel when I was 11 years old and I remember that Palestinian Arabs would leave booby trapped objects in parks and when I left something in the park some Israeli grabbed it thinking it might be an explosive.  I never encountered an explosive object myself but I remember that was a concern.  This is an example of Palestinian Arabs accusing Israelis of what Palestinian Arabs are guilty of.

  Arutz 7 reported on May 22, 01 that the Palestinian Authority accused the Israel Defense Forces of dropping poisoned chocolate candies to Palestinian children. 

   A front-page declaration in the official PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida on Aug. 14, 2001, claimed that "the occupation is using naked women to hunt down intifada youth." (Jerusalem Post, Aug.15, 2001).  Ironically it was the Palestinians who used a woman to lure an Israeli teenager to his death (Jerusalem Post 1/19/01)

   The official PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida reported on Dec. 24, 2001, that "When the occupying authority holds the bodies of martyrs ... they steal body parts of the martyrs." Similarly, Arafat said on Al Jazeera Television on January 13, 2002, that the Israelis "murder our kids and use their organs as spare parts."

   Speaking to reporters on July 20, 2004, Arafat alleged that Israel uses depleted- uranium bullets, as part of its plot to "cause cancer that is like Hiroshima and Nagasaki."

    After Arafat died a former senior aide Ahmed Abdul Rahman, claimed that an Israeli assassin killed the Palestinian leader by blowing a slow-acting poison into his ear.   (Ex-aide Israeli assassin poisoned Arafat in Ear, worldnetdaily.com 11/17/05)  Tzi Ben Gedalyahu reported that (PA: Americans Gave OK to Poison Arafat, Israel National News 11/18/05):

Bassam Abu Sharif, former advisor to Arafat, said on a Palestinian Authority (PA) television program that he warned Arafat that Israeli officials were planning to poison him with the knowledge of the American government.  

"The Israelis planned to kill him by poison, because of Sharon's promise to the Americans that [Arafat] will not be killed by bombing," Abu Sharif told Arab viewers. He continued,

"According to the confirmed information I have, [Defense Minister Sha'ul] Mofaz spoke to [Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon in the following manner: 'This is an opportunity to get rid of Yasser Arafat...' Sharon was silent for a moment, and then looked [at Mofaz and said], 'Only if it would be done in a way that the accusing finger won't be pointed at Israel.' These are the exact words."

Abu Sharif also stated that France, where Arafat died after being hospitalized, knew about the alleged poisoning but hid it in order to prevent "igniting" Arabs. However, he added that "that every Palestinian will see it as his duty to avenge [the death of] Yasser Arafat."
 

The PA ambassador in Sri Lanka, Attalah Quiba declared that Israel killed Arafat with a high-technology laser. Quiba informed a news converence that two Israelis who met Arafat on the day he fell ill used a laser device to attack him, and that tests of Arafats blood in 16 coutnries revealed that he had been poisoned by high technology.

On August 11, 2007 Arafats personal physician Dr. Ashraf al-Kurdi, disclosed that Yasser Arafat had the deadly HIV virus in his bloodstream when he died. WorldnetDaily reported that:

Dr. Ashraf al-Kurdi, Arafat's personal physician, began telling Al Jazeera during a live interview he knew that Arafat had HIV in his bloodstream at the time of his death, but the satellite Arabic network immediately cut him off when he made the accusation.

Hours later, a Jordanian news website Amman quoted al-Kurdi as saying someone injected HIV into Arafat's body before he died and that the real cause of the Palestinian leader's death was poison

While Arafat was ill and after his death, some publicly speculated he was dying of AIDS.

In his book "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder", radio talk-show host Michael Savage speculated Arafat had died of AIDS. Savage also slammed much of the U.S. news media for its posthumous characterization of Arafat as "innovative" and a "freedom fighter," stating the PLO leader was a notorious terrorist leader.

The homosexual site 365Gay.com, which deals regularly with issues related to HIV/AIDS, ran a piece reminding readers that for several years it had been suggested Arafat was bisexual and could have contracted the disease.

"If suggestions that Arafat has AIDS are true, it is doubtful it would be made public," wrote its European bureau chief Malcolm Thornberry.

National Review diarist David Frum suggested in a column Arafat contracted AIDS from homosexual sex with his bodyguards.

Ion Pacepa, who was deputy chief of Romanian foreign intelligence under the Ceausescu regime and who defected to the West in 1978, stated in his memoirs the Romanian government bugged Arafat and had recordings of the Arab leader in orgies with his security detail In a WND interview, the National Security Agency's former analyst of Arafat's communications said the U.S. had information indicating the Palestinian leader may have been a homosexual who preyed on teenage boys.

James J. Welsh, who in the early 1970s monitored communications for the NSA related to Arafat's Fatah movement, said, "One of the things we looked for when we were intercepting Fatah communications were messages about Ashbal [Lion cub] members who would be called to Beirut from bases outside of Beirut. The Ashbal were often orphaned or abandoned boys who were brought into the organization, ostensibly to train for later entry into Fedayeen fighter units.

"Arafat always had several of these 13-15 year old boys in his entourage. We figured out that he would often recall several of these boys to Beirut just before he would leave for a trip outside Lebanon. It proved to be a good indicator of Arafat's travel plans. While Arafat did have a regular security detail, many of those thought to be security personnel the teenage boys were actually there for other purposes," Welsh said.

   After Arafat's death and during the regime of Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian media continues incitement against Israel.  Aaron Klein in an article in wnd.com wrote (Palestinians Claim Israelis X-rayed Woman to Death 5/2/05):

The official Palestinian media, credited by many for reformist policies reportedly implemented following the election of Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, claimed last week Israeli forces X-rayed a woman to death at a checkpoint.

   This is very clever propaganda because it makes the most innocuous defensive measures that the Israelis are forced to take into a dastardly deed against the Palestinians.  I saw a similar approach concerning the wall/fence that Israel built to keep out suicide bombers and terrorists.  The allegations became, the wall is walling us in and creating a prison.  I walked passed a Palestinian propaganda poster once and they quoted someone as saying something to the effect of:  "They've walled off the sky, I can't see the sky.

    The Palestinian Authority accuses Israel of conducting horrific Nazi-like medical experiments on Palestinian prisoners. These fabrications have been featured repeatedly in the Palestinian Authority's official newspaper, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, which is under the direct authority of Mahmoud Abbas.

According to Palestinian Media Watch 7/10/2008:

In the past week alone there were three new examples of this libel:

"The method employed by the Israeli Occupation in which they [are] instigating slow death ... doctors in Israeli prison clinics use the prisoners as guinea pigs for clinical drug testing under the pretense of 'treatment.'" [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 6, 2008]

"Many of the male and female inmates received injections from needles they had not seen before, and which caused their hair and facial hair to fall out permanently ... others lost their sanity, or their mental condition is constantly deteriorating... and some are suffering from infertility." [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 4, 2008]

"The doctors in these prison clinics are using the prisoners as guinea pigs for clinical testing of drugs and treatment-methods." [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 3, 2008]

MEMRI has released an English transcript of an address given by a Muslim religious leader in Egypt in February 2009, in which he explains that PEPSI is actually an acronym for "Pay Every Penny to Save Israel." 

In addition, a member of the Hamas terrorist organizations parliament in Gaza made similar accusations against Pepsi in 2008. Speaking with official Hamas TV station Al-Aqsa TV on April 23, 2008, Hamas MP Salem Salamah said, There are companies established by the colonialists and occupiers - large companies with branches all over the world, like Pepsi, Pepsi Cola. This is a well-known company. Pepsi is an acronym. P-E-P-S-I - Pay Every Pence to Save Israel. Pay every pence - pence is one-hundredth of a dollar to save Israel. Pay every pence to save Israel
 

    Why does the PA media create such paranoia? Al-Hayat Al-Jadida explained that such reports about such "experiments" performed on Palestinian prisoners serve to "mobilize each and every human-being as such... to actively participate in activities aimed at their release and their return to freedom, properly meant as a return to life... all of us! all of us! all of us! - to confront the enemy in the war it wages." [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 3, 2007]  Creation of paranoia is a way to mobilize Palestinian Arabs to confront and fight the Israelis.

In June 2005, PA's official news service WAFA "reported" that (Irrelevant Visions, Jerusalem Post 6/24/05)

 Israelis were sending hordes of wild pigs to Palestinian villages around Hawarah village in the Nablus district to attack them and destroy their fields.

The PA's official news service even interviewed Hawarah Mayor Mansour Dmaidi, who backed these ludicrous and incendiary statements.

   After Sharon visited the temple mount the Palestinian Arabs started a massive shooting campaign against Jews living in Israel.  Although the Palestinians claimed to the West it was because of Sharon Abu Mazen himself said on Palestinian radio that the visit was "only a pretext." Although the Palestinian Authority is responsible for the escalation of violence they blame the Jews for it.  In response to a call from Colin Powell,  about a terrorist attack in Azur Feb 14, 2001, Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat said that Israel is responsible for the military escalation endangering any potential prospects for peace in the region.

    Daniel Pipes in an article titled Arafat's Bedroom Farce (frontpagemag.com 11/10/04) wrote about the creation of paranoia against Israel resulting from the last days of Arafat.

What Arafat might be dying of has been conspicuously not mentioned, leading to many speculations. Of course, some Palestinians have hatched a conspiracy theory about Israel poisoning Arafat. The PLO's news service, WAFA, with a straight face demands an inquiry into the exact manner of his poisoning. "We have the right to know the type, the source of the poison as well as the antidote and how to get it," writes WAFA's political editor. More interesting, though, is the plausible thesis that the "president" is dying of AIDS, especially given his reputed pre-nuptial activities. David Frum elaborates on this hypothesis in National Review Online:

We know he has a blood disease that is depressing his immune system. We know that he has suddenly dropped considerable weight possibly as much as 1/3 of all his body weight. We know that he is suffering intermittent mental dysfunction. What does this sound like?

Former Romanian intelligence chief Ion Pacepa tells in his very interesting memoirs that the Ceaucescu regime taped Arafat's orgies with his body guards. If true, Arafat would a great deal to conceal from his people and his murderously anti-homosexual supporters in the Islamic world.

   Although Arafat had access to doctors, food, running water and electricity in his compound, Abu Qusai, a spokesman for Arafat's al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades said that Israel was to blame for Arafat's death, by forcing him to live in primitive conditions in his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah.  He said:

"Our groups together with brothers from other factions took to the battlefield with the enemy to make it pay the price ... The next days will witness violent clashes with the Zionists everywhere."
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In Nov? 2002 Muslims murdered Bonnie Witherall, an American nurse and missionary while she was opening the clinic in which she ministered to Lebanon's poor. Michael Medved wrote that:

An influential Muslim publication in Lebanon, "The Pulpit of the Calling," denounced the Christian and Missionary Alliance in which Mrs. Witherall participated as "a Zionist organization. They destroy the fighting spirit of the children, especially of the Palestinian youth, by teaching them not to fight the Jews, for the Palestinians to forgive the Jews ".

   Amir Taheri wrote Motqada el Sadr's attempt to create paranoia against the Americans in Iraq.  He wrote that Sadr:

hoped that hiding in the "holy" shrines of Najaf and Karbala would provoke their destruction by the Americans, thus triggering worldwide Shiite rage against Washington. 

When the Americans refused to play that role, Sadr ordered his own men to damage part of the shrines, blamed the Americans, then brought in arab satellite TV cameras to record "the greatest crime of the United States."

The hoax failed:  The people of Najaf and Karbala knew who had damaged the buildings, and soon organized marches calling for Sadr and his henchmen followers to leave town.  (The marchers, of course received no publicity in the Arab and Western media.)

   In medieval times the Christians spread the blood libel about the Jews.  In modern times the Moslems are doing and doing it with modern technology.  For a video clip of the Syrian version of the blood libel click here.

Palestinian Media Watch Reported on April 5, 2009:

Jews drink the blood of Muslims and believe that God wants Jews to hate Muslims, according to a Hamas TV skit. Performed before a live audience at the Islamic University in Gaza, the segment features actors playing a father and son, in traditional Hasidic Jewish garb, discussing their God mandated hatred of Muslims. The skit opens as the father instructs: "We Jews hate the Muslims, we want to kill the Muslims, we Jews want to drink the blood of Muslims." It is later explained that Jews wash their hands before prayer, not with water, but with Muslims' blood: "We have to wash our hands with the blood of Muslims." Blood libels were a tragic part of Jewish history, as Jews were accused of using the blood of non-Jews for ritual purposes, especially the baking of Matzah for Passover. Blood libels created deep hatred and were an effective trigger for numerous pogroms and the murder of thousands. The Hamas accusation that Jews drink Muslim blood comes the week before Passover, the anniversary of many horrific blood libels.   Click here to view

   One thing that's fascinating about this is how it projects radical Islamic attitudes towards Jews on Jews.  Radical Muslims believe it is their duty to hate the Jew and to kill the Jew.  The skit explains that Jews wash their hands in Muslim blood.  Click on the picture below to see a videoclip of Muslims holding up their hands covered with Jewish blood.

Egypt is preparing Egyptians to go to war with Israel. The problem is that Israel signed a peace treaty. So they produced a film called A Girl From Israel. Nonie Darwish wrote how in the film an:

Israeli father is shown trying to shake hands with Egyptians, while talking about peace and the normalization of relations.  The Egyptians, however, regard him with utter disgust, rejecting his extended hand. In this way, the Israeli father is understood to be insincere in his quest for peace. In a final act of Jewish treachery, the film ends with the killing of the Egyptian young man, the only character to befriend Jews, at the hands of his Israeli friend!

The lesson is that not only are Israelis insincere in their quest for peace but also that they kill you if you befriend them.

The following is an excerpt from an interview with Egyptian researcher Muhammad Galaa Idris, which aired on Al-Rahma TV, September 23, 2011:

The Jews were responsible for all the depravity that has spread in society. ... The Jews were behind the spread of immorality, prostitution, and licentiousness in Europe. They were behind the spread of all sins, and they are to this day. This is written in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. We've discussed this. Moral corruption is part of the conspiracy...  The Jews have managed to brainwash Europe.

Hindus create paranoia towards Christians. British Parliamentarian David Alton wrote to Nepalese officials (wnd.com 5/27/07).

"I am disturbed by reports that [a Hindu group] wishes to kill the main Christian leaders in Nepal and to destroy the church buildings. Hatred is also being incited in local newspapers against Christians. I am told that Christians have been falsely accused of involvement in Maoist activity, drug trafficking and trafficking of girls for prostitution.

The reality is that the churches are doing good works such as providing homes for orphans, help for the poorest of the poor, giving humanitarian and medical aid and education for the underprivileged as well as taking care of the spiritual welfare of the people.

IXAA Creation of Paranoia to Hide Motives of Conquest

Garry Greenwood, on his web site about the Mahikari, All the Emperor's Men wrote:

The notion of creating a perceived foe, which in this case is both the Jewish conspiracy and the frightening unknown world of spirits and demons, has proven very effective in diverting people's attention away from the real agendas of the Mahikari organisations. This is exactly what Hitler did.

   According to Garry Greenwood the agenda of Yoshikazu Okada the head of the Mahikari organization is world domination.

IXAB Creation of Paranoia to Avert Catastrophe

   Early in 1348, the Black Death struck Europe, spreading with terrifying rapidity... As more and more people were struck down, panic grew and the need to find the cause and destroy it.  Nicholls writes: 

It will be no surprise that blame fell on the Jews.  That spring, as deaths multiplied, Jews were attacked.  At Narbonne and Carcassonne, Jews were dragged from their homes and burned to death.

Clemente VI tried to stop this by issuing a bull in which he said that Christians who blamed the Jews for the plague had been "seduced by that liar, the Devil."   He pointed out that everybody, including Jews, was falling victim to the plague.   It existed equally where there were no Jews and where Jews did live they were suffering from it like their neighbors.  He was ignored.

IXB Creation of Paranoia To Prevent Conflict and Violence

   Amazingly people may create paranoia to prevent conflict and violence.   An example of this is an essay called "Tips for Parents and Schools Regarding the Anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001," prepared by Dr. Brian Lippincott of John F. Kennedy University in Orinda, Calif and recommended by the National Education Association. Professor Lippincott wrote that commemorative programs must avoid any suggestion that Islamic fanaticism can be blamed for the attacks explaining that:

protecting against harassment of our Arab American classmates and neighbors is most critical right now.

Here Dr. Lippincott is simply just advocating creation of delusion to protect Arab-Americans but he went further.  He wrote that:

"We must not repeat terrible mistakes," demanding discussion of "historical instances of American intolerance. Internment of Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor and the backlash against Arab Americans during the Gulf War are obvious examples."

Michael Medved wrote in response to this (Commemorating 9-11: Blaming America, exonerating Islam, Worldnet Daily 8/19/02):

Examples of what, precisely? Of America's unprecedented goodness and generosity? Even at the height of the Gulf War (and, so far, during the War on Terror), Arab Americans experienced no significant "backlash" continuing to enjoy full civil rights and to sustain the conspicuous success that has characterized this hard-working ethnic group for nearly a century.

  Dr. Lippincott is distorting history and making America out to be the bad guy, he is creating paranoia to America and whitewashing Islam in order to protect Arab Americans.

   Lord Halifax was Neville Chamberlains Foreign Secretary (1938-40)   and has gone down in history as one of the architects of the Munich fiasco and  the disastrous policy  of appeasement that led to the Second World War.     He was also the author of the 1939 White Paper which restricted Jewish immigration to a trickle and doomed millions to death. An early admirer of Hitler and a Nazi sympathizer, he reportedly told the German leader:

 War would undoubtedly serve the purpose of all Jews, Communists and doctrinaires in the world for whom Nazism is anathema.

  Thus the only people who wanted to go to war were wicked Jewish Communists.   This was a convenient creation of paranoia to justify the prevention of conflict and violence.

   In 1971 John Kerry told Congress that U.S. troops in Vietnam:

personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civlians, razed villages in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war...

Nor, said Kerry were these

isolated incidents, but crimes committed on a day to day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command.

   These claims all came from the "Winter Soldier Investigation".  Kerry just repeated the charges, leveled by 150 supposed Vietnam vets, word for word.  Two journalists with strong anti-war credentials, Neil Sheehan and James Reston, later exposed "Winter Soldier" as a mass of fabrications by people who hadn't even been to Vietnam (What Kerry Left Out, New York Post 8/1/04). Why were these charges fabricated.  Historian Guenter Lewy in his book America in Vietnam, wrote:  It is more likely that this inquiry, like others earlier and later, had primarily political motives and goals."  What political motives and goals would motivate such slander?  William Crandall a vet without an atrocity tale to tell who however, believed the allegations wrote: (What Did America Learn from the Winter Soldier Investigation)

We wanted to bring our brothers and sisters in uniform home alive and untainted by further involvement in such deeds.

My guess is that those who gave false testimony wanted America out of Vietnam.  Perhaps they thought that by slandering American soldiers they could convince the American public to end the war.

   The media reaction to all of this before the elections of Nov 2004, was to paint the vets who complained about Kerry as warmongers who didn't like Kerry because he was a peacenik. (worldnetdaily 10/22/04)

    Prime minister Sharon apparently believed that he was bringing peace to the Middle East by forcibly removing Jews living in Gaza, Judea and Samaria from their homes.  Perhaps he knew better and thought he was scoring points with America.  In order to prepare the public for violence against these people statements such as "The settlers are worse than terrorists," have emanated from his office (Israel National News 2/16/05).

IXC Creation of Paranoia to Protect Civil Liberties

   CAPPS II (Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening system II) is an airline screening system designed to keep homicidal terrorists off of planes which verifies that a passenger is who he claims to be and checks whether government files list him as a terrorist suspect. 

   Heather MacDonald in an article titled Perils of 'Privacy' Extremists vs. Air Security (New York Post 4/26/04) wrote how organizations such as the ACLU made false charges regarding the infringements of civil liberties that would result from implementation of CAPP II in order to stop it.  She wrote about the paranoia of organizations such as the ACLU as follows:

Every proposed national security technology is a Rorschach test of the viewer's special paranoia.  Where the ACLU sees racial discrimination in CAPPS II, the libertarian Right sees the hand of left wing busybodies.  

   According to Ms. MacDonald Airlines that cooperated with the government in its effort to test whether computer technology could help identify terrorists now face hundreds of billions of dollars in class action   lawsuits and development of CAPPS II has come to a standstill and private sector cooperation with the War on Terror has evaporated.

Paul Eidelberg in an essay titled: The Cultural Left: Islams Ally (Freeman Center Email Broadcast 2/19/07) wrote:

The Cultural Left is waging a war against the Christian Right .  Cultural leftists fear Christian fundamentalists more than Islamic fundamentalists .  They see in religion a threat to unfettered personal freedom .  For the Cultural Left, freedom means the absence of any external moral constraint; it means complete moral autonomy, which logically includes moral depravity . 

IXD Creation of Paranoia to Stay Out of Jail

    James Clay, a former high school basketball coach in Ohio was sentenced to four years in prison for setting fire to his home, which prosecutors said he had done to portray himself as the victim of a hate crime.

Authorities who responded to the fire at James Clays house in Troy found a spray-painted racial slur on his car.

The 2007 fire came days after Clay, who is black, was charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl.

X Denial of Contradictory Evidence

   William Nicholls in his book Christian Antisemitism, A History of Hate, writes about the libel of host desecration.  He writes:

According to this calumny, the Jews obtained a consecrated host from the mass, with the assistance of a Christian who retained it from the administration of communion, took it to their synagogue or homes and subjected it to every indignity, including trampling on it and sticking pins into it... The accusation was made for the first time at Belitz, near Berlin; all the Jews of the town were burned.  One hundred instances of the charge have been recorded , in many cases leading to massacres.

This accusation is particularly bizarre, because it assumes that Jews themselves actually believe not only the doctrine of transubstantiation but also a particularly materialistic, and strictly speaking heretical, popular version of it.  Of course, no Jews believes such a doctrine in any form.  To a Jew, the host is simply a piece of bread...

   Christian in medieval times also believed the Jew was the devil.  As such the Jew supposedly had the foetor judaicus, the sulphurous smell of the devil.   The fact that they did not smell sulphurous was not taken as evidence that they were not the devil, bus simply that they were cunning and were able to hide the smell.

   Raphael Israeli in his article "The Oslo Delusion: The Collapse of Assumptions - Part 1, (Outpost August 2001, page 3) wrote how:

In May 1983, the Palestinians accused Israel of having "poisoned" schoolgirls in the West Bank, who were in fact fainting in a wave of mass hysteria.  The affair was taken up by the rest of the Arabs and Muslims, then by United Nations bodies and the Western press, which wondered "how the Jewish people, who had experienced the gas chambers, now treated the Palestinians in the same way."  Cries of "genocide" flew from all quarters, until an international medical inquiry team discovered it was, in fact, a case of mass hysteria.  But the Palestinians did not budge; they had adopted the much more "plausible" theory that the Jews had schemed to "sterilize" young Palestinian women in order to affect the demographic balance which was ticking adversely in their disfavor.

   Raphael gives other examples of this type of denial:

When the al-Aqsa mosque was burned by a mentally ill Australian tourist in 1969, Israel was directly blamed by the Palestinians and the entire Muslim world for having caused the arson.  The fact that the arsonist was apprehended and sentenced, that he was Christian, and that it was the Israelis who rushed to extinguish the fire, did nothing to exonerate the Jews from their guilt, because it is in their "nature" to perform acts of profanation. 

   Jedediah Purdy in his book Being America, wrote that whenever he asked Egyptians about September 11 there was:

Always the same inconsistency: we admire Osama for attacking America, but in fact it was the Israeli secret service that attacked America.

   According to Israel National News (1/22/04)

Sha'aban Abdel Raheem, the Egyptian singer who brought the Arab world the smash hit "Ana Bakra Isra'il ("I Hate Israel" www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=41433), has now come out with "Kharittat Al-Tariq" ("Road Map").   The new song features, among other themes, an accusation against the Americans for having carried out the World Trade Center attack. 

The lyrics say, "Hey people, it was only a tower, and I swear by God that they are the ones who pulled it down."  The new hit song "gives voice to widespread views in the Egyptian street regarding the September 11th events and the U.S.- Iraq standoff," according to an article in the Cairo Times weekly. Abdel Raheem sings that the U.S. purposely carried out the September 11th terrorist attacks on New York and Washington "to make people think that Arabs and Muslims are terrorists and were behind that disaster. Now the U.S. can do what it pleases to the Arab world since everyone thinks they are to blame," the Egyptian culture magazine detailed.

XB Creation of Paranoia to Explain Away Contradictory Evidence

      Jamie Glazov wrote an article in Frontpage Magazine titled Hating Valentines about the hatred of Valentines Day by both the radical feminist left and radical Islam.  He wrote:

In the West, meanwhile leftist feminists are not to be outdone by their jihadi allies in reviling and trying to kill Valentines Day. Throughout all Womens Studies Programs on American campuses, for instance, you will find the demonization of Valentines Day, since, as the disciples of Andrea Dworkin angrily explain, the day is a manifestation of how capitalist and homophobic patriarchs brainwash and oppress women and push them into spheres of powerlessness. As a person who spent more than a decade in academia, I was privileged to witness this grotesque attack and deconstruction of Valentines Day at close range. Feminist icons like Jane Fonda, meanwhile, help lead the attack on Valentines Day in society at large. As David Horowitz has documented, Fonda has led the campaign to transform this special day into V-Day (Violence against Women Day) which is, when it all comes down to it, a day of hate, featuring a mass indictment of men.

Why this hostility toward Valentine's Day?   My theory is that people like Andrea Dworkin and Jane Fonda believe that men are evil oppressors of women.  Valentine's Day is a day when men express their love toward women.  This is a threat to the beliefs of these Females.  They probably wants women to rebel against their evil male masters and see Valentine's day as sapping the motive to rebel. 

   In March 2016 the American College of Pediatrics listed a policy statement regarding transgenderism.  They wrote:

Pre-pubertal children who use puberty blockers to impersonate the opposite sex will require cross-sex hormones in late adolescence. This combination leads to permanent sterility. These children will never be able to conceive any genetically related children even via artificial reproductive technology. In addition, cross-sex hormones (testosterone and estrogen) are associated with dangerous health risks including but not limited to cardiac disease, high blood pressure, blood clots, stroke, diabetes, and cancer.7,8,9,10,11

Rates of suicide are nearly twenty times greater among adults who use cross-sex hormones and undergo sex reassignment surgery, even in Sweden which is among the most LGBTQ affirming countries. What compassionate and reasonable person would condemn young children to this fate knowing that after puberty as many as 88% of girls and 98% of boys will eventually accept reality and achieve a state of mental and physical health?

Conditioning children into believing a lifetime of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is normal and healthful is child abuse. Endorsing gender discordance as normal via public education and legal policies will confuse children and parents, leading more children to present to gender clinics where they will be given puberty-blocking drugs. This, in turn, virtually ensures they will choose a lifetime of carcinogenic and otherwise toxic cross-sex hormones, and likely consider unnecessary surgical mutilation of their healthy body parts as young adults.

Did this lead the left to rethink their promotion of transgenderism?  You have got to be kidding, of course not.  Think Progress described the American College of Pediatricians as a hate group masquerading as pediatricians.

The Huffington Post wrote that Once again, Paul McHugh (one of the authors of the study) has used the ever more tarnished name of Johns Hopkins to distort science and spread transphobic misinformation.

What possible agenda could the left have to dismiss such important information.  The homosexual agenda is to promote acceptance of homosexual behavior but think that transgenderism offers them.  Supposing you are the female in a homosexual relationship.  You want to be female.  Acceptance of transgender hormones means you can be that much closer to being female and not be condemned for it. 

In short the left dismissed the study by creating paranoia toward the American College of Pediatricians. 

   When Israelis sent people to help the Haitians after a major earthquake (Jan 2010) it created a problem for those who wish to incite hatred toward the Jews.  The solution, warn the Haitians that the Israelis are stealing their organs.  The aid America sent created a problem for Hugo Chavez who does not want goodwill to exist in Latin America for the United States.  Chavez told Spanish newspaper ABC that the earthquake was the product of a "tectonic weapon" launched by the U.S. Navy in a test-run for the U.S.' ultimate target: Iran.  He also accused the United States of seeking a military occupation in Haiti.

Darwins theory of evolution is perhaps the greatest threat to religion. It challenges the very basic religious belief that God created man and the basic Christian and Jewish beliefs that he did so in 7 days. One Christian response has been to create paranoia to Darwin and equate him with Hitler.

Worldnetdaily, a Christian news web site promoted a documentary called Darwins Deadly Legacy. They quoted Jerry Newcomb, one of the documentarys creators as saying that Darwins theory has probably been responsible for more bloodshed than anything else in the history of humanity." According to a worldnetdaily article

Before the advent of Darwinian beliefs, said Newcombe, the Western world's basic concept was that man was made in the image of God, and was therefore valuable. But Darwin changed all that. "Karl Marx wouldnt embrace all (Darwin's) tenets, but said, 'This is a scientific theory on which we can base our theory of man,'" Newcomb told WND... "We talk about the link between Darwin and Hitler, and in the middle ground, eugenics," said Newcomb. "Darwin led to eugenics, which led directly to Hitler."

"To put it simply no Darwin, no Hitler," said Kennedy, who is host for the special. "Hitler tried to speed up evolution, to help it along, and millions suffered and died in unspeakable ways because of it."

Lets consider the assumptions here. One is that man is not valuable if he evolved. If we assumed are loved ones are a product of evolution does that make them any less valuable to us? Another assumption is that Darwinism is responsible for the crimes committed by those who claimed to believe in Karl Marxs theories. Karl Marx wanted to create a world that did not operate according to the paradigm of survival of the fittest. Karl Marx believed in socialism in which everyone gets equal pay no matter how fit or unfit they are. The idea that Hitler would not have existed without Darwinism is questionable, the Jews were seen as an evil group and persecuted by Christians long before Darwin, and Hitler is likely to have seen the Jews that way as well. There is nothing in Darwinism that says that Jews are in anyway inferior to anyone else. Hitler was trying to legitimize his hatred with science. Conquerors have conquered other groups and killed and subjugated them long before Darwin, in fact many of these conquerors did so in the name of religion which is challenged by Darwins theories. Darwin originally intended to join the ministry, but his study of nature made it clear to him that Church teachings were wrong.

   Baigent et. al., in their book, The Messianic Legacy, wrote about the way Tertullian dismissed evidence against Christianity with paranoia.  They wrote:

One can trace numerous specific elements in the Gospels to their origin not in history, but in the traditions surrounding Tammuz, Osiris, Attis, Adonis, Dionysos and Zoroaster,  Many of them, for example were supposed to have been born of a god and a virgin.  Mithraism exerted a particularly powerful influence on the coalescence of Christian tradition.  It postulated an apocalypse, a day of judgment, a resurrection of the flesh and a second coming of Mithras himself, who would finally defeat the principle of evil...  Baptism played a prominent role in Mithraic rites.  So, too, did the communal meal.  There is a passage in the Mithraic communion which is particularly interesting: 'He who shall not eat of my body nor drink of my blood so that he may be one with me and I with him, shall not be saved'. 

When Tertullian, one of the early Church Fathers, was confronted with this passage, he insisted it was the Devil, centuries in advance, parodying the Christian Communion in order to diminish the import of Jesus's words.

MEMRI reviewed sermons in Saudi Mosques and published their observations on September 26, 2002.  One was in regard to how Saudi preachers portray efforts to create religious harmony as evil.

International initiatives aimed at promoting interreligious harmony have been condemned by many Saudi preachers. In a sermon at a Mecca mosque, Sheikh Adnan Ahmad Siyami said, "[Islam] believes that only Islam and the 'Camp of Kufur' exist, and that there is no way to reach Paradise and to be delivered from Hell except by walking in the path of our Prophet Muhammad and joining Islam. Any other way leads to Hell. In light of this, my believing brethren, how can it be claimed that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are all paths leading to Allah?!."

"Several years ago, a sinful call arose, which unfortunately garnered support from some clerics and preachers of this religion, Islam. [a call] for the unification of the monotheistic religions. They flaunted an empty and false slogan of 'religious harmony,' Christian-Islamic friendship, and uniting the three religions into a global religion'."

"The call for the unification of the religions is a call for the abolition of religious differences among people: No more Muslim and infidel. All will come under the unity of human harmony. This accursed call has ramifications that most certainly will shake Islam in the hearts of its people, leading them to the lowest of the levels of Hell.

   The concern of Westerners for women's right in Islamic countries is portrayed as an effort to undermine Islam.  MEMRI quotes a sermon at the Al-Huweish mosque in Al-Taif, by Sheikh Muhammad Al-Nimr:

Why do the West and the secular Westernizers focus on the [Muslim] woman?  The answer is that they grasped the status of the woman and her role in the building of the nation, and her influence on society, and therefore realized that if they corrupt the woman and manage to entice her into deviating from the path of righteousness, it will facilitate their infiltration of the Muslim strongholds. The satanic Jews say in their Protocols: 'We must get the woman. The day she stretches out her hand to us is the day of our triumph'.

Many people react to those who oppose their cherished beliefs by thinking the opposers are stupid or bad. I knew two people who disagreed on whether or not the United States should go to war with Iran. The person who felt that the United States should go to war argued that there will be war one way or another and it will be either with a nuclear armed Iran or an Iran without nuclear weapons. The person who thought that the United States should not go to war, reacted to that argument by accusing the person who made it of liking war. I happen to know that the person who made the argument for going to war with Iran hates war and violence but believes that sometimes it is the lesser of two evils. So why was he accused of liking war. Probably because the person who accused him doesnt want to believe that there is a legitimate argument to be made for war. To do that he creates paranoia to people who say that there is. He also accused the other person of being a fool which is another way to rationalize away counterarguments to ones cherished beliefs.

XC Creation of Paranoia to Gain Status

    Ann Coulter listed examples of hate crime hoaxes in an article titled Another Liberal Noose-ance, Frontpage Magazine 10/18/07.   Here is an excerpt from her article

In 1997, at Duke University, a black doll was found hanging by a noose from a tree at the precise spot where the Black Student Alliance was to be holding a rally against racism. Two black students later admitted they were the culprits and were immediately praised for bringing attention to the problem of racism on campus. Indeed, four years later the president of Duke gave a baccalaureate address nostalgically describing the hoax as a "protest" against racism. Next stop: the Nobel Peace Prize.

In 2003, vile racial epithets were scrawled on the dorm room doors at Ole Miss, producing mass protests and a "Say No to Racism" march. And then it turned out the graffiti had been written by black students, against whom no charges were brought. A "Say Yes to Racism" rally at Ole Miss was later canceled due to lack of interest.
In 2005, obscenity-laced racist and anti-Semitic messages appeared on dormitory walls at the College of Wooster in Ohio. The fliers were instantly blamed on "typical white males," even though all the letter I's in the epithets were dotted with little hearts. Breadcrumbs left by the culprits included the message "Vote Goldwater" among the obscenities. The matter was dropped and flushed down the memory hole when the perpetrators turned out to be a group of leftist students led by a black-studies major.

Just this year, anti-Muslim fliers were put out on the George Washington University campus by leftists, including a member of "Iraq Veterans Against War." When it was thought the leaflets were from the conservative group Young Americans For Freedom, the dean called for the expulsion of the culprits and the university demanded that YAF officers sign a statement disavowing "hate speech." But when it turned out leftists had distributed the fliers, the matter was dropped faster than Larry Craig was dropped from Mitt Romney's campaign.

Playing the game of He Who Is Offended First Wins, Americans seek status not by claiming to be rich or of royal lineage, but by portraying themselves as victims. In one recent hoax hate crime, a white woman professor at Claremont McKenna College said her car had been vandalized with racist and anti-Semitic graffiti, with the words "Shut Up!" spray-painted on the hood of her car.

She was not black or Jewish, but had recently converted to Judaism and spoke out against racism. So she was a victim! After the vandalism of her car, she promptly became Queen for a Day. Far from "silenced," this anonymous mountebank was given a national microphone to bore us with her race-gender-culture theories. The campus was shut down for a day for anti-racism rallies in the charlatan's honor. Then eyewitnesses identified her as the one who had spray-painted her own car, and the pity party was over.

XI Creation of Paranoia to Overcome Opposition

    One of the most obvious creations of paranoia to overcome opposition was by Nicolas Maduro dictator of Venezuela who accused the United States of planning to assassinate his opponent.  That way Maduro can assassinate him and blame it on America.

    The Southern Poverty Law Center maintains a list of hate groups.  If they disagree with a group which they often do since they are a far left organization, they label it a hate group.  Pamela Geller wrote about the SPLC here and talks about it in the video below.

    Murders with guns are used to discredit the gun lobby even though murders have been prevented by people with guns.  If a racist commits a murder that is sometimes is blamed on the Republican party by Democrats.

   Angie Harmon was accused of racism because she was critical of Obama.  She complained that:

"If I have anything to say against Obama it's not because I'm a racist, it's because I don't like what he's doing as President and anybody should be able to feel that way, but what I find now is that if you say anything against him you're called a racist."

Portsmouth Democrat State Senator Louise Lucas accused Mitt Romney of engaging in racial tactics against Barack Obama.  She argued that:

What I am saying to you is Mitt Romney, hes speaking to a segment of the population, who does not like to see people other than a White man in a White House or any other elected position.

All the folks who are saying We dont like Barack Obama they cant tell you any reason they dont because President Obama did not create the situation they have, this economic mess we are in, everybody knows this stuff happened under George Bush and they are trying to dump it on the President.

And intelligent people understand that President Barack Obama did not create this mess. And the mess that was created could not be solved in 2 or 3 or 4 years.

    According to Lucas everyone knows the economic mess is all George Bush's fault so if they blame Obama it's because they are anti-black.  Never mind that the debt went up more under Obama than all his predecessors combined.  Never mind that when George Bush wanted to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac he was blocked by the Democrats.

The accusation of racism is made in order to discredit those who speak out against Obama and to prevent others from speaking out against him.

    There was a massive demonstration against Obama in Washington D.C..  Former president Jimmy Carter accused people who oppose Obama as being violent racists.  The following You Tube video discusses the accusation of racism against those who protested against Obama.

   Walter Williams in an article titled Is Disagreement with Obama Racism wrote in regard to the people who accuse opponents of Obama as racists:

For these people, it is inconceivable that many Americans are outraged by the presidents spending policies, budget deficits, industry takeovers, not to mention the appointment of Czars...  Obamas presidency is truly a remarkable commentary on the goodness of Americans and how far weve come in resolving matters of race. Obama convincingly won votes in states with insignificant black populations, such as the New England states, Iowa and Minnesota...

When one says that race is no longer the problem it once was, it is not the same as saying that there are not major problems that confront a large segment of the black population. Grossly fraudulent education is a major problem but it has nothing to do with racial discrimination as evidenced by the fact that the worse education received is in the very cities where blacks dominate the political structure. Crime is a major problem but it has nothing to do with racial discrimination, particularly in light of the fact that blacks commit most of the violent crime in America and well over 90 percent of their victims are black. The fact of a 70 percent illegitimacy rate and only 35 percent of black children raised in two-parent homes is a major problem but it has nothing to do with racial discrimination.

   Ken Blackwell in an article titled What Me Racist?  wrote:

Well, two former Presidents-Jimmy Carter and now Bill Clinton-have labeled me such. Why? Because I oppose President Obama's takeover of our health care system. We're celebrating 200 years this December of the great Samuel Johnson who said "patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels." Today, Dr. Johnson might say charging racism is the first refuge of liberals.

Pat Lehman, the "dean of the Kansas delegation" to the Democratic National Convention and the president of the Kansas Democratic Labor Committee, invoked Adolf Hitler to argue that Republicans are lying when they say voter ID efforts are designed to combat voter fraud.

Its like Hitler said, if youre going to tell a lie, tell a big lie, and if you tell it often enough and say it in a loud enough voice, some people are going to believe you, Lehman said in an interview with The Wichita Eagle.

Wanting people to prove their identity when they vote is a totally reasonable way to prevent voter fraud.  The fact that many Democrats oppose ID checking indicates that they believe voter fraud will get them the white house.  The person telling the big lie is Pat Lehman.

Lehman also said Republicans, especially vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan, are on track to dismantle Medicare and Medicaid and every other social program, including education.

She stated that education is the only route most Americans can use to improve their lives, and the thought of having our public education system basically devastated, Im really worried about that.   Why isn't she worried about how the mounting debt threatens to destroy the value of the American dollar and make it impossible to pay for a decent education?  What about the people in the future who have to pay off the education of today's children.  Why not worry about how poor the quality of education is of Americans compared to that of students from other countries when America spends so much more on education than other countries?

Another democrat, John Burton echoed Lehman and said that Republicans are lying in order to defeat President Barack Obama.

"They lie and they don't care if people think they lie... Joseph Goebbels - it's the big lie, you keep repeating it," he told CBS News.

At the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., a Jewish Democratic county chairman lashed out at evangelical Christians (who are mostly republican) , claiming they arent true friends of Jews and that Christians want Jews slaughtered to bring about the second coming of Jesus Christ.

      After Trump was elected I saw young people pouring along broadway toward the Trump tower in protest.  I saw an anti-bigot sign.  Since then I've seen a sign that said "love trumps hate" and "hate isn't great".  The last sign is a play on Trump's slogan "Make America Great Again".  These protestors believe that the Trump election is that of a racist bigot to office and a triumph for hate.  Trump appointed Steve Bannon the chairman of Breitbart news media as a chief strategist for his presidency.  There was outcry from the left that Steve Bannon was a racist anti-semite.  Even the head of the Anti-defamation league, defamed and accused Steve Bannon of anti-semitism.  You could probably not find someone more pro-Israel and more against anti-semitism than Steve Bannon.  The left also accused Steve Bannon of racism.  Steve Bannon worked hard to help inner city children and one of those who knows him well wrote that Steve doesn't have a "racist or sexist or homophobic bone in his body".  Despite all the evidence Bannon's accusers stick to their allegations because that is a way to get at Trump.  Accusations of hate, racism, sexism, homophobia and bigotry are all weapons the left uses to overcome those opposed to their views.

    In addition people and the media reported hate crimes that didn't happen and blamed them on Trump.

 What is interesting is that there was little if any complaints from the left about Jeremiah Wright's anti-semitism or Bill Ayer's terrorism because they were both associated with Obama.

The chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party Dick Harpootian compared the Republicans female governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, to Adolf Hitlers mistress, Eva Braun.  The Mitt Romney campaign issued a statement afterwards 9/5/2012 demanding Democratic officials "cease and desist from comparing those with whom they disagree to Nazis" after three analogies were made over the course of three days by the partys politicians

   Michelle Malkin on Feb 23, 2010 wrote:

Last Thursday, a disturbed pilot flew a small plane into an Austin, Texas, office complex that contained an Internal Revenue Service office. ..

before taking off on his deadly journey. Investigators found a Web posting, identified as Stacks suicide manifesto, in which he railed against tax laws, inequity, government and crony capitalism. He also targeted puppet George W. Bush, murderous health care insurers and the pharmaceutical industry.

The manifesto ended:

The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.

At the eponymous mega-website of Arianna Huffington, a 2,000-plus comment thread was filled with allusions to teabaggers:

I would bet he has a membership card to teabag nation and the Glenn Beck fan club!

Tea bag bomb.

Good to see natural selection still works! Tea party Unite!

This guy sounds just like a teabagger.

Oh please. This has tea bags dripping all over it.

I hope teabaggers are proud!!

Great opening day for CPAC (the Conservative Political Action Conference) isnt it??

This guy sounds like a Tea Partier first class! Maybe that movement is more DANGEROUS to our freedoms than they let on! Be afraid America, BE VERY AFRAID!

He was a Tea Party Terrorist.

     Tea Partiers are against government health insurance not private health insurance.  They are more likely to be pro-George Bush and more pro-capitalist than their leftist opponents.  There is no evidence that Mr. Stack was part of the Tea Party protest movement.  Yet the Left in its eagerness to smear their opponents saw this as an opportunity to paint Tea Partiers as terrorists. 

Michelle Malkin wrote:

The smear merchants, of course, are simply following Rahm Emanuels advice to exploit every crisis. Pointing fingers at the Tea Party gremlin demonizes the lefts most potent political opponents. This is the blame-gamers ultimate agenda: criminalizing dissent.

Rush Limbaugh wrote that:

David Checketts, an investor and owner of sports teams, approached me in late May about investing in the St. Louis Rams football franchise...  Numerous sportswriters, CNN, MSNBC, among others, falsely attributed to me statements I had never made...  I never said I supported slavery and I never praised James Earl Ray. How sick would that be?..

Having brought me into his group, Mr. Checketts now wanted a way out. He asked me to resign. I told him no way. I had done nothing wrong. I had not uttered the words these people were putting in my mouth. And I would not bow to their libels and pressure. He would have to drop me from the group. A few days later, he did.

As I explained on my radio show, this spectacle is bigger than I am on several levels. There is a contempt in the news business, including the sportswriter community, for conservatives that reflects the blind hatred espoused by Messrs. Sharpton and Jackson. "Racism" is too often their sledgehammer. And it is being used to try to keep citizens who don't share the left's agenda from participating in the full array of opportunities this nation otherwise affords each of us. It was on display many years ago in an effort to smear Clarence Thomas with racist stereotypes and keep him off the Supreme Court. More recently, it was employed against patriotic citizens who attended town-hall meetings and tea-party protests.

These intimidation tactics are working and spreading, and they are a cancer on our society.
 

Paranoia is created to those who dont believe that global warming is a result of human activity yet "Carbon dioxide is 0.000383 of our atmosphere by volume (0.038 percent), and Only 2.75 percent of that is a result of human activity. Man is responsible for just 0.001 percent of this atmosphere. If the atmosphere was a 100-story building, mans CO2 contribution today would be equivalent to the linoleum on the first floor."

The issue of Global Warming being caused by carbon dioxide production by industry has been discredited by a documentary titled The Great Global Warming Swindle. A much more convincing argument was that global warming is caused by changes in the solar wind which changes the amount of cloud formation. That suggests a way to cause global cooling (seed clouds). It is probable that behind the global warming hysteria are people with agendas such as anti-corporate agendas. Corporations are the big producers of carbon dioxide. The Republican party is generally seen as the pro-corporate party so it is in the interest of the Democrats to turn people against the Republicans by creating global warming hysteria. Scientists who do not agree with global warming are afraid to speak up. In the Global Warming Swindle a scientist said that its

Harder to get research proposals funded because of the stands we have taken publicly.

Another reason to support the global warming hysteria is it generates fame. Another scientist said in the Global Warming Swindle that:

Even within the scientific community, you see its a problem. If I run a complicated model, and I do something to it, like melt a lot of ice into the ocean, uh, and nothing happens, its not likely to get printed. But if I run the same model, and I adjust it in such a way that something dramatic happens to the ocean circulation, like the heat transport turns off, ah! It will be published. People will say that this is very exciting; it will even get picked up by the media. So there is a bias, theres a very powerful bias within the media and within the science community itself toward results which are, uh, dramatizable."

Jeff Jacoby wrote an article about the paranoid hysterical reaction to those who are skeptical about the global warming models. He wrote: (The Boston Globe 8/15/07)

At the Live Earth concert in New Jersey last month, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denounced climate-change skeptics as "corporate toadies" for "villainous" enemies of America and the human race. "This is treason," he shouted, "and we need to start treating them now as traitors."

Some environmentalists and commentators have suggested that global-warming "denial" be made a crime, much as Holocaust denial is in some countries. Others have proposed that climate-change dissidents be prosecuted in Nuremberg-style trials. The Weather Channel's Heidi Cullen has suggested that television meteorologists be stripped of their American Meteorological Society certification if they dare to question predictions of catastrophic global warming.

A few weeks ago, the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Marlo Lewis published an article opposing mandatory limits on carbon-dioxide emissions, arguing that Congress should not impose caps until the technology exists to produce energy that doesn't depend on carbon dioxide. In response to Lewis's reasonable piece, the president of the American Council on Renewable Energy, Michael Eckhart, issued a threat:

"Take this warning from me, Marlo. It is my intention to destroy your career as a liar. If you produce one more editorial against climate change, I will launch a campaign against your professional integrity. I will call you a liar and charlatan to the Harvard community of which you and I are members. I will call you out as a man who has been bought by Corporate America."

Walter Williams wrote in Frontpage Magazine that:

U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer said it was criminally irresponsible to ignore the urgency of global warming. U.N. special climate envoy Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland on May 10, 2007 declared the climate debate over and added its completely immoral, even, to question the U.N.s scientific consensus.

In July 23, 2007, CNNs Miles OBrien said, The scientific debate is over. Earlier he said that scientific skeptics of manmade catastrophic global warming are bought and paid for by the fossil fuel industry, usually...

The fact of the matter is an increasing amount of climate research suggests a possibility of global cooling. Geologist Dr. Don J. Easterbrook, Emeritus Professor at Western Washington University says, Recent solar changes suggest that it could be fairly severe, perhaps more like the 1880 to 1915 cool cycle than the more moderate 1945-1977 cool cycle. A more drastic cooling, similar to that during the Dalton and Maunder minimums, could plunge the Earth into another Little Ice Age, but only time will tell if that is likely.

Geologist Dr. David Gee, chairman of the science committee of the 2008 International Geological Congress, currently at Uppsala University in Sweden asks, For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming? For how many years must cooling go on?

  One of the most successful creation of paranoia campaigns was carried out against the Serbs.  Julia Gorin wrote an article about this in frontpagemagazine (3/16/05)  titled A Jewish Albatross: The Serbs.   The Muslims convinced the world that the Serbs were committing genocide against them.  Julia Gorin wrote:

We were told that a genocide was in progress. We were told of mass graves. A hundred thousand killed and 800,000 displaced, Bill Clinton said.

Soon after the U.S.-led NATO invasion, the 100,000 figure turned out to be closer to 2,000 and included armed Albanian and Serb fighters. No Bodies at Rumored Grave Site in Kosovo, read a Reuters headline as early as October 99, above an article reporting the results of an excavation by international war crimes investigators to check the rumors that Serbs had hidden up to 700 Albanian bodies in a lead and zinc mine. Other mass graves turned up empty or hardly massive, and the Racak massacre, the feather that was used to break the NATO camels back, turned out to have been staged, according to three forensics teams sent in to investigate--but only after the first team, headed by Finlands Helena Ranta, initially gave a thumbs-up to massacre so that the bombing campaign could commence. (Two years and thousands of lives later, Rantas final report confirmed the opposite conclusion.) ..If, as we were told, there was systematic rape by Serbs, where are the resulting children? Or evidence of mass abortions? Jewish women had Nazi babies, and at Nuremberg there was plenty of testimony and plenty of evidence. So far at the Hague, there has been only testimony (much of which falls apart under cross-examination), and virtually no evidence.

If, as we were told, there was systematic rape by Serbs, where are the resulting children? Or evidence of mass abortions? Jewish women had Nazi babies, and at Nuremberg there was plenty of testimony and plenty of evidence. So far at the Hague, there has been only testimony (much of which falls apart under cross-examination), and virtually no evidence.

    As a result of the successful Muslim propaganda campaign the West bombed the Serbs for 78 days.  The Muslims are now in power in Kosovo and are committing atrocities against the Serbs. 

    Another very successful creation of paranoia campaign is carried out by Muslims against Israel. One way they do this is by shooting rockets at Israeli from civilian areas. When the Israelis strike back civilians get killed which enrages the Muslim world and turns the West against Israel.

According to the German scholar Matthias Kntzel, the Berlin daily the Tagesspiegel published a letter-to-the-editor from Dr. Mounir Herzallah, a Shiite from the South of Lebanon. Dr. Herzallah reports on how Hezbollah-terrorists came to his town, dug a munitions depot and then built a school and a residence directly over it. He writes: Laughing, a local sheikh explained to me that the Jews lose either way: either because the rockets are fired at them or because, if they attack munitions depot, they are condemned by world public opinion on account of the dead civilians. Hezbollah, he says, uses the civilian population as a human shield and then when they are dead as propaganda. (Stage Managed Massacre, by Robert Spencer, Frontpagemag.com 8/2/2006)

A link to pictures of the use of civilians as human shields by Hezbollah is included with an editorial in the Washington Times (July 31, 200)6. Haaretz, quotes an Israeli paratrooper who sums up Hezbollah's tactics: "They are a lousy army. They only win when they hide behind baby carriages."

Arabs create phony photos of Israeli atrocities which are distributed by Western media. This practice has been dubbed "fauxtography."

WND columnist Michelle Malkin surveyed wrote:

It's the story that the journalistic elite would rather just go away. In the aftermath of Reuters' admission that one of its photographers, Adnan Hajj, had manipulated two war images from Lebanon after bloggers smoked out his crude Photoshop alterations, and all 920 of his Reuters photos were pulled, evidence of far more troubling photo staging and media deception in the Middle East continues to pour in.

After citing other galling examples, Malkin noted: "Not all photographers overseas have their heads in the sand. Last week, Middle East-based photographer Bryan Denton, whose work has appeared in the New York Times, revealed on the professional photography website Light Stalkers that he had observed routine staging of photos and even corpse-digging by Lebanese stringers. (WND.com 1/3/2007)

Francisco Gil White writes that the Intifada was a (Is the U.S. an Ally of Israel, Part 2)

deliberate strategy of the PLO meant to produce the appearance of Israeli oppression

The Egyptians created a staged movie of Israelis soldiers killing bound Egyptian prisoners. This has been aired by the Palestinian Authority in addition to the Egyptians in order to create paranoia and hatred toward Israel.

When a landmine blew up children on a Gaza beach Hamas accused Israel of killing the children. That this is not the case is supported by the fact that shrapnel removed from a girl who survived the blast was not from Israeli artillery. Other evidence was presented by Palestinian Media Watch which I include below:

PA TV falsifies video of Gaza deaths By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook, June 12, 2006

Palestinian Authority TV has been repeatedly broadcasting a falsified video clip of the events surrounding the deaths of seven family members on the Gaza beach on Friday. In an attempt to blame Israel's navy for the deaths, PA TV took unrelated video of an Israeli missile boat firing at Gaza earlier in the day and edited them into the scenes, creating the impression Israeli responsibility.

The following is the time frame of the PA TV editing and falsification:
00 - :32 Seconds: PATV clip introduces the scene by showing an Israeli missile boat firing on the Gaza coast. Audio of ambulance siren is added to visual to create false impression that boat was shooting at same time as ambulances were present.
0:32 - 1:05: Scene switches directly to the victims, creating a false connection between the events.
1:05 1:09: PA TV returns to the naval vessel showing sailor with binoculars looking at shore, again creating the false impression he is observing the evacuation.
1:09 2:00: The evacuation scene continues ending with the word "Why" on the screen only in English, indicating a foreign target audience, possibly media.

The video of the Israeli navy was unrelated to the deaths, having been filmed earlier in the day and had already released to the media and to the internet by the Israeli army at 4:00 PM, an hour prior to the deaths.

Click here to see the falsified PA TV broadcast of the evacuation

Comment: It should be noted that not only is the video falsified, but the beach scene clearly backs the Israeli contention that the deaths were not caused by an Israeli shell. Any Israeli shell would have left a giant crater and spread sand over the entire area, as well as on the victims. There is no crater and the beach scene is not disturbed in a way that indicates an Israeli shell could have landed nearby.

Forging evidence in this way fits the category of creating paranoia in order to shift blame. However, there is evidence that Palestinian Arabs have been killed by other Palestinians deliberately simply to create paranoia to Israel. (Leyden, J., Hamas Murders Children in Palestine, Frontpagemag.com 6/13/2006)

One tactic used to create paranoia by anti-American Muslims is to take photos of dead people and claim the U.S. did it. Middle East news website Al Jazeera published a provocative photo (wnd.com 6/15/06)purporting to show a "massacre" by Marines in Haditha, Iraq, despite the fact several papers already issued retractions admitting the image was of fishermen executed by terrorists months before the incident under investigation.

    Egypt has always been a factory of anti-Israel paranoia and it's production of this paranoia has increased since the fall of Mubarak.  Eldad Beck wrote that:

The best way to eliminate someone politically is to accuse him of having ties with Israel. Egyptians are eagerly reading reports about Israel's "secret takeover" during Mubarak's era; most of the stories are pure inventions meant to implicate former top officials in the gravest crime of all: Normalization with Israel.

Meanwhile, businessmen associated with the previous regime are accused of planning to sell Cairo's main streets to the Jewish Agency, "which is planning to take over Cairo as it took over Palestine." If this hysterical witch-hunt, which is replete with anti-Semitic tones, wasn't enough, Egyptian daily al-Wafd reported this week that Israel also stole the opera Aida from Egypt.

"Israel, as usual, is exploiting events in Arab states in its favoras it considers itself a Middle Eastern state, it organized several Aida shows at the Dead Sea on June 5th and 6th. It appears Israel chose those dates in order to celebrate our defeat in the 1967 war. Aida was written especially for Egypt, yet Israel is always trying to take over the property of others."

   Much of the outrage against Mubarak's regime stemmed from him not being anti-Israel enough.   Despite this Dubai's police commander said Egypt's trial of former President Hosni Mubarak was an 'Israeli plot.'  Whether he really believes this or is trying to protect Mubarak is hard to know.

   Inez Laufer explained how supporters of Female Genital Mutilation create paranoia to those who oppose them:

To the relativists - who kept their eyes closed to the fact that the anti-FGM movement started in Africa, not in the Western world - this was an infamous affront to what they see as a significant part of African culture and identity. They called the Western opponents of FGM cultural imperialists and racists - and simply ignored the voices of the growing number of men and women who opposed this butchery in their own African, Arabian or Asian countries.

    The opposition to the ruling United Democratic Front of Malawi spread rumors that the country's government is colluding with vampires to collect human blood for international aid agencies (Reuters 1/10/03).  As a result hundreds of angry Malawians accusing Governor Eric Chiwaya of harboring vampires and stoned him.

  Lest we think we Americans are too civilized to spread false rumors to overcome opposition, the Democrats put out an internal manual that advises Democrats to launch "pre-emptive" strikes charging the GOP with voter intimidation - even if none exists.  The manual reads:

If no signs of intimidation techniques have emerged yet, launch a 'pre-emptive strike'

The manual goes on to provide ways in which Kerry workers can spotlight intimidation, including organizing ministers or other civic leaders to protest it, writing press releases etc.. 

Tad Devine, a top Kerry aide, defended the manual on CNN saying "We're going to make sure people of color are not turned away from voting places" (New York Post 10/15/04).  This is clearly a way of trying to mobilize the black vote.  I never before heard the charge that people of color were turned away from voting places, something like that would have made headlines in all the newspapers in the United States, and would have resulted in a major law suit, therefore I suspect the charge is a fabrication in order to mobilize blacks.

  Before the re-election of John Street as mayor of Philadelphia, in 2003 or 2004, an eavesdropping search was found in his office.   The FBI had planted it because of a corruption investigation.  Mayor Street's campaign used the charge that the FBI was out to get him the way they went after Dr. Martin Luther King, to mobilize the black vote and succeeded in relecting him in a landslide. 

  There is overwhelming evidence that the American left, in an effort to defeat George Bush forged accusations against his National Guard Service (New York Post 9/10/04). 

   Ms. Burkett, mentioned at a Frontpage symposium (The Left's Hatred of Bush, 11/15/04) the creation of paranoia by the left toward Bush and suggested that one motive might have been to overcome him and reelect Kerry.  She said:

I certainly don't agree with Bush on many things. However, the demonizing of Bush and his administration, with its attendant refusal to acknowledge that he has, in some cases, struck blows for justice, suggests to me either that the Left doesn't care much about justice and freedom or that it is more interested in promoting John Kerry than in those principles.

As one who grew up on the Left, that death of principle makes me extremely sad.

  Although after 9/11 the majority of Democrats voted for the Patriot act, in order to win the election against Bush they blamed it on him and created paranoia that it was a major threat to civil liberties.  Jonah Goldberg wrote:  (townhall.com, Exit Ashcroft, Abused, Maligned and Right After All, 11/12/04)

Because it was an election year, the leadership of the Democratic Party found wisdom in feeding the worst paranoia about the Patriot Act without ever seeming to care that they were undermining a vital law designed to prevent another 9/11. An entire phantasmagoria of tyrannies, oppressions and injustices were alleged to have been spawned out of the hateful Patriot Act - most particularly the dreaded Section 215, which allowed the government to search library records. So intense was the propaganda campaign about this bat-winged clause that Sen. Russell Feingold could say with a straight face that Americans had become "afraid to read books, terrified into silence." Librarians burned their card catalogs lest The Man find out who borrowed "Huck Finn."

Of course, not one library was ever searched. Ever.

Dennis Prager wrote that:

Leftist rhetoric routinely depicts opponents of the Left in extreme terms. Opponents of race-based affirmative action are racists. Opponents of same-sex marriage are homophobes. Opponents of illegal immigration are xenophobes, racists and engaged in Nazism (that is the word that Cardinal Roger Mahony used to describe Arizonas anti-illegal immigration law). And so on.

  On September 19, 02, Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri in an effort to gain support against the United States at the U.N. read a paranoia-creating message from Saddam Hussein to the U.N. General Assembly as follows:

In targeting Iraq the United States is acting on behalf of Zionism, which has been killing the heroic people of Palestine and seeking to impose their domination on the whole world, not only militarily but also economically and politically...

The U.S. administration wants to destroy Iraq in order to control the Middle East oil and, consequently, control the politics, as well as the oil and economic polices of the whole world.

  The speech elicited applause from the U.N. chamber.  Yet it was Iraq who invaded Kuwait in order to control Middle East oil.  It was the U.S. who drove him out and left an independent Kuwait. The Iraqi speech also makes use of the Arab hatred of Zionism and ties the United States to Zionism thus creating more paranoia against the United States. 

   The Democrats in their opposition to Bush also created paranoia against him for the invasion of Iraq.  Rachel Ehrenfeld wrote in Frontpagemag.com (Iran's Growing Threat 7/23/04) that the politicians of the Democratic party have said that each American and Iraq death the intended are the  by-product of President Bush's willful lies.  She wrote:

Ted Kennedy  claimed the war was "cooked up in Texas" months or years before it was  launched; Al Gore screeches that President Bush "betrayed us!"; and the Left  at large has claimed the president massaged intelligence to manipulate the  public into attacking the benign despot of Iraq.

   Jock O'Connell in his Review of Louis Rappoport's book Stalin's War Against the Jews wrote how:

On January 13, 1952, the Soviet government announced that nine Kremlin doctors, six with identifiably Jewish names, were involved in a plot conceived by Western intelligence agencies and Zionists to kill the top Soviet political and military leadership. Over the next forty days, the Soviet media whipped an already hysterical anti- Semitism into a mass psychosis. Amid this climate of hate, the government circulated a letter for the signature of prominent Soviet Jews. This so-called "Jewish Statement" appealed to the authorities to evacuate all Jews -- for their own safety -- to camps in remote regions of the country.

The Doctor's Plot was to be Stalin's pretext for the Final Pogrom... (Stalin's death in March 1953) ... abruptly concluded this meticulously organized campaign against Soviet Jewry. Within days, most of those arrested were released, and the Kremlin issued a statement that the plot had been a complete fabrication. In "Stalin's War Against the Jews," Jerusalem Post editor Louis Rapoport has produced an extraordinarily chilling tale of an era of civic terror most Americans literally could even imagine. (Khrushchev described life under Stalin as "The Lottery.")

   Before the U.S. elections in 2004, the North Koreans created paranoia against Bush because they didn't want him reelected.   According to frontpagemag.com (9/23/04)

The North Koreans already know that President Bush is going to maintain a hard line with them: he will demand nuclear disarmament, transparency in processes, cessation of sale of missile parts to rogue states, cessation of trafficking in narcotics and it is hoped immediate improvement in the human rights situation in North Korea. Conversely, North Korea expects that a John Kerry presidency would be in essence a return to the Clinton policies of live and let live. North Korea would expect bilateral talks that provide the opportunity for them to play one side off against the other and to negotiate very favorable deals. They expect that a threat of hostile action will convince Kerry to placate and appease rather than challenge and demand.

For these reasons the North Korean regime has openly supported the Kerry candidacy and runs pro-Kerry messages within North Korea and on its web sites. Bush, conversely, is portrayed as a monster and warmonger who oppresses their fellow Koreans in the South. In a recent BBC production entitled "Access to Evil," the news crew interviewed North Korean students whom when asked if they had a message for President Bush replied "stop killing the children of South Korea."

  The Creation of the fictitious Protocol of the Elders of Zion is a classic example of paranoia creation to discredit an opponent.  The charter of the fundamentalist Palestinian group, Hamas, cites The Protocols of the Elders of Zion by name and frequently reflects the message of that fraudulent text:

The enemies (The Jews) . . . have labored to amass astounding and influential material wealth, which has been exploited to realize their dream. They have used their wealth to gain control of the world media, news agencies, the press, broadcasting stations, etc. . . . They were behind the French revolution and the Communist revolution. . . . They instigated World War I. . . . They caused World War II. . . . It was they who gave the instructions to establish the United Nations and the Security Council to replace the League of Nations, in order to rule over the world through them.

   The Protocols purports to be the secret transcription of a Zionist Congress that met in Switzerland in 1897 as taken down by a tsarist spy and first published in St. Petersburg in 1903.  At the meeting Jewish leaders allegedly discussed their plans to establish Jewish "sovereignty over all the world."   The Protocols includes their boasts of being invincible and plans to establish a "Super-Government Administration" that will "subdue all the nations."  

Robert Carroll in the Skeptic's dictionary explains that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a forgery made in Russia for the Okhrana (secret police), which blames the Jews for the country's ills. It was first privately printed in 1897 and was made public in 1905. It is copied from a nineteenth century novel (Biarritz, 1868) and claims that a secret Jewish cabal is plotting to take over the world.

  The basic story was composed by a  German novelist and anti-Semite named Hermann Goedsche who used the pseudonym of Sir John Retcliffe. Goedsche stole the main story from another writer, Maurice Joly, whose "Dialogues in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu" (1864) involved a Hellish plot aimed at opposing Napoleon III. Goedsche's original contribution consists mainly of introducing Jews to do the plotting to take over the world.

  The Russians used big chunks of a Russian translation of Goedsche's novel, published it separately as the Protocols, and claimed they were authentic. Their purpose was political: to strengthen the czar Nicholas II's position by exposing his opponents as allies with those who were part of a massive conspiracy to take over the world.

  The Protocols were exposed as a forgery in 1921 by Philip Grave, a correspondent for the London Times; by  Herman Bernstein in The Truth About "The Protocols of Zion": A Complete Exposure, reprinted with introduction by Norman Cohn (Ktav Publishing House, New York,1971); and Lucien Wolf in The Jewish Bogey and the Forged Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion (London : Press Committee of the Jewish Board of Deputies,1920).

  After the Russian Revolution in 1917, frustrated supporters of the ousted Czar rescued the document from obscurity in order to discredit the Bolsheviks.

   Hitler endorsed the book and made it a key argument in justifying his murder of 6 million Jews.  In the words of historian Norman Cohn, the Protocols served as the Nazis' "warrant for genocide."

   Israel's Channel 7 reported on 12/7/01 about Arab use of the protocols which I quote below:

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reports that several Arab television stations, including those in Egypt, are broadcasting a special series on the "evidence" of a Jewish conspiracy to rule the world, as described in the above Czarist anti-Semitic tract. While "Protocols" is still widely sold in the Arab world, this is the first television series on the subject purporting to show how the Jews and Israel act today to enact the strategy described in the work. The 30-part series, entitled "Horseman Without a Horse," is a huge undertaking starring over 400 Arab actors, including prominent ones, from Egypt, Syria and France. MEMRI reports that the series was produced by Arab Radio and Television, which broadcasts to the Middle East, North America, Latin America, Australia and Africa.

   An Egyptian weekly, Ruz al-Yusuf, lauded the series for "courageously tackl[ing] the 24 Protocols of the Elders of Zion, revealing them and clarifying that they are the central line that still, to this very day, dominates Israel's policy, political aspirations, and racism..." The book contain 24 aspects of an alleged Jewish plot to take over the world, and the TV series states that "19 of the 24 protocols [have already] been put into practice" - and then proceeds to give examples. For instance, the presidency of Bill Clinton is alleged to be the application of a Jewish plot to "choose someone corrupt [for the presidency of the superpower] and when he resists us - we will expose him." Other alleged Jewish "protocols" such as 'Feed a dog, [but] not a Muslim or a Christian' and 'Kill a Muslim or a Christian and take his house as your house and his lands as your lands' are also highlighted.

  According to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Muhammad Sobhi, a co-writer and actor or The Horseman without a Horse said:

    Zionism exists and it has controlled the world since the dawn of history.

  Daniel Pipes (New York Post 11/4/02) wrote how:

For some weeks now, the Arab Voice (an Arabic language newspaper published weekly in Paterson New Jersey) has been serializing an Arabic-language version of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" in its pages....That a forgery that helped caused the Holocaust is now openly published in New Jersey points to two important realities:

1.      Arab and Muslim institutional life in the Untied States remains as radicalized after 9/11 as it was before.

2.      Arab and Muslim institutions are now the primary advocates of anti-Semitism worldwide, including in the West.

    Syria published an updated version of the Protocols in which they included allegations that the Jews burn out the eyes of Palestinians with red-hot iron pokers and that they open up their stomachs, remove their kidneys, liver and heart and then sew them up again. (wnd.com 3/9/05)

   Ibrahim Nafi, the editor of Al Ahram, the Egyptian government controlled newspaper, has claimed that the food the U.S. is dropping in Afghanistan is genetically poisoned.

  Al Jazeera, the popular Qatari satellite channel transmitted pictures of Afghan toddlers with charred limbs and crushed skulls -- the results, it says, of the latest American bombing raid.  Again an effort to stir up the Muslim masses.

  Abu Bakar Bashir, leader of Jemaah Islamiyah whose organization is probably behind the car bombing of the Sari nightclub in Bali which killed 188 people and wounded hundreds of others, accused the United States of carrying out the bombing saying, (New York Post 10/14/02)

It would be impossible for Indonesians to do it. Indonesians don't have such powerful explosives. I think maybe the U.S. is behind the bombings because they always say Indonesia is part of the terrorist network.

   In a Newsweek interview he was asked if it was possible that some other Indonesian Islamic group carried out the bombing.  He replied:

Definitely not, it was carried out by America.  They probably hired some people who claim to be Muslims or are amateur Muslims.  That's a possibility but I'm sure that America and Israel were the masterminds.

When asked about the perception that he is the new Osama bin Laden he replied:

Praise the Lord. Osama bin Laden is a Muslim hero and warrior of God. Not a terrorist. The real terrorists are [U.S. President] George Bush and [Israeli Prime Minister] Ariel Sharon. Osama bin Laden was acting in self-defense. He was defending Islam. He saw Islam being attacked, so he fought back. Thats what we call a mujahedin, not a terrorist. America attacked Afghanistan first, without any reason. Israel kills Palestinians for no reason.

The pattern of committing an atrocity and then blaming it on the United States and/or Israel has been used before by Muslim groups, notably in the accusation that the U.S. and Israel was behind the attacks of 9/11/2000.

   Saudi Sunnis blame Jews for the existence of the Shiite branch of Islam.   When Sheikh Abel Aziz bin Baz was Saudi Arabia's highest ranked Sunni theologian he was asked why Sunnis don't like Shi'ites.  He answered:

When the Shi'ites say that reason must be favored over tradition what they mean is putting man in place of God.  For us Islam is a truth from the beginning to the eternity.  It cannot be something today and something else tomorrow.

   The Saudi Sunnis in order to discredit the Shi'ites have written into some of their government financed books that Shi'ism was "invented by a Jew as a means of splitting Islam" and accuse Shi'ites of practicing incest and cannibalism in secret. (Amir Taheri, Apartheid, Saudi Style, New York Post 5/22/03)

   Muslim terrorists also blame India for their atrocities.  On March 24, 2003, Islamic militants dragged 24 Hindus from their homes and massacred them in a remote village in Indian Kashmir.  Women and children were among those shot by a group dressed as soldiers. (Times Online 3/25/03)

Hizbul Mujahidin, the main Kashmiri militant group, condemned it and accused India of orchestrating it.

  Farouq Qaddumi, head of the PLOs Political Department, was interviewed on December 12, 2001 by Londons al-Hayat newspaper. In that interview Qaddumi described the methods used to fight Israel.  He said:

It is a war based on the element of surprise, in time and place. In this war, one incites the public for 20 hours, and fights for perhaps two hours.

   Examples of incitement in the Palestinian media can be found at Palestinian Media Watch.  After a wave of suicide bombings Israeli soldiers engaged in hand to hand fighting in towns such as Jenin in order to rout out terrorists.  The Palestinians declared that the Israelis carried out a massacre in Jenin.  According to Israeli intelligence, the Palestinians in order to convince the international community that the Jews had massacred Palestinians, dug up graves and moved the remains from those graves to one large grave so as to produce a mass grave to show the international community.  In addition Palestinians held phony funerals in the Jenin refugee camp to make the death toll appear worse than it was.   An Israel Defense Force drone filmed a funeral procession on April 28, during which the stretcher-bearers dropped the purported corpse.  The "dead" man hopped back onto the stretcher, but the next time he was dropped, he walked away in a huff (The Jewish Week 5/20/02).  In reality the Israelis went to great efforts to avoid hurting the civilians of Jenin.  The Palestinians have been circulating a movie Jenin, Jenin at Palestinian film festivals on American college campuses in which they interview Palestinian Arabs who fabricate atrocity stories and make wild accusations of Israeli F16 attacks killing thousands of Arabs in Jenin.  An excellent article about this called "PLO Propaganda Film, Jenin Jenin" (frontpagemag 2/20/04)  can be viewed online.

Films of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy crouching behind his father in terror as Israelis gunned them down in Netzarim junction on Sept 30, 2000 were shown across the world.  A journalistic  study of the incident concluded that it was a piece of Palestinian street theater.    A report about this study titled "Mohammed al-Dura martyrdom a media myth?" is published in the March 2003, edition of Whistleblower. Phyllis Chesler in her book The New Antisemitism, wrote:

A German television documentary that aired in March 2002 strongly concluded that "it is not possible to determine with absolute certainty that Palestinans shot the boy, but the extensive evidence points, with high probability to the fact that the Israelis did not do it.  Israeli shooters were all stationed in low places, and the boy was shot from above.  (IsraelInsider, Mar 20, 2002)

Whistleblower cites reports of Palestinians playing to the camera, including Israeli commentator Amnon Lord's account of the larger scene at Netzarim Junction when al-Dura was supposedly shot to death. He describes "incongruous battle scenes complete with wounded combatants and screeching ambulances played out in front of an audience of laughing onlookers, while makeshift movie directors do retakes of botched scenes."

Palestinian journalist Sami El Soudi echoes Lord's observation, who discloses that

Almost all Palestinian directors take part more or less voluntarily in these war commissions, under the official pretext that we should use all possible means, including trickery and fabulation, to fight against the tanks and airplanes the enemy has and we dont. Our official press reported 300 wounded and dead at Netzarim junction the day when Mohammed was supposedly killed. Most of the cameramen there were Palestinians. They willingly took part in the masquerade, filming fictional scenes, believing they were doing it out of patriotism. When a scene was well done the onlookers laughed and applauded....

Tatiana Menaker in an article called "College Film Festival: Kill the Jews" wrote that (frontpagemagazine.com 12/16/03) :

Palestinian Arabs have become professional victims and actors in the "Israelis-and-Jews-Are-Horrible-Child-Murderers series. These films are constantly shown in Europe and especially in the Middle East due to heavy demand and plentiful funding.

   In another effort to create paranoia toward the Israelis the Palestinians fired on Israelis from the Church of the Nativity and when the Israelis fired back they lit three fires in the church and blamed it on Israel.  Arafat shaking with feigned fury said to reporters:  (New York Post 5/2/02)

I don't care if this room I'm sitting in blows up. It is not important what happened to me here.  What is important is what is happening in the Church of the Nativity. This is a crime that cannot be forgiven. How could the world possibly be silent about this atrocious crime?

   This is hypocritical to say the least as Palestinian gunmen took refuge in the Church of the Nativity, took the Christians inside hostage and fired on Israelis from there and according to Israeli intelligence refused to leave as a result of orders from Yasser Arafat.  According to the Jerusalem Post (4/28/02), monks who managed to flee the church have told security officials how the Palestinian gunmen were looting and destroying property inside the church and threatening the hostages.

   It is also hypocritical when one considers the history of the PLO's lack of respect for churches or for Christians for that matter.  In January 1976 Arafat's men destroyed Damour, a Christian town of 25,000 people in Lebanon. There were five churches and three chapels in Damour. Some 500 people gathered in the Church of St. Elias. They did not know how to escape the murderous assault. An old man suggested that they raise a white flag. "Perhaps if we surrender they may spare us." Pretty soon two men who fled the town earlier knocked at the door of the Church.  They saw the white flag from the shore and rushed to the church to tell the people that it would not help to raise a flag. "We raised a flag in front of Our Lady, and they shot at us."   The people decided to flee the town, except of one old man who said that he could not walk and would prefer to die in front of his own house. He was not killed. Several weeks later Father Mansour Labaky, the priest of Damour, found him in a PLO prison, and learned what happened after the people left the Church of St. Elias. Soon after they were gone "the PLO came and bombed the church without entering it. They kicked open the door and threw in the grenades. The people that left would all have been killed had they stayed" (Jillian Becker. The PLO. St. Martin's Press, New York, 1984).

   The fact that there still is a Palestinian refugee problem is the result of the desire of the Arabs to create paranoia to the Jews.  With all the oil money the Arabs had they could have easily resettled the Arab refugees who fled Israel when the United Arab world tried to destroy Israel in 1948.  Some of these camps are in Arafat controlled territory yet these refugees still live in squalid conditions despite generous aid from the World to Arafat.  Instead of improving their living conditions Arafat has kept the refugees in camps as a propaganda tool while he spent donated money on buying weapons.  Sharon aide Dani Naveh prepared a dossier based on the vast intelligence information garnered as a result of Operation Defensive Shield that revealed that huge amounts of cash sent by Europeans for Palestinian economic projects were funneled to the Tanzim, Arafat's Force 17 presidential guard, and other Palestinian Authority organizations that took part in terror (5/4/02). By diverting funding from the camps Arafat not only accomplished his goal of increased terrorism against Israel, he also accomplished his goal of keeping the level of hatred up against Israel since the poor conditions in the camps probably increases the hatred of the camp inhabitants towards Israel.  Hatred of Israel and the United States is fomented in these camps, children are taught in their textbooks to hate Israel.  30% of the funding of these camps comes from the United States according to the Special Report with Brit Hume TV program(April 30, 2002).

The Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land and the International Coalition for Nazareth, said that local residents told them that every night cars drive through the city with loudspeakers blaring anti-Christian and anti-Israel propaganda (Jerusalem Post online edition 1/21/02).

   As part of the roadmap agreement the Palestinian Authority agreed to stop incitement.  Indeed they did erase some incitement off some walls but on the same day that they were being praised by the International media for doing that Palestinian TV broadcast a high school graduation ceremony during which the graduates sang this song:

With words and with a rifle we will sing.  From Jerusalem to Gaza, Ramallah, Al Bira, Haifa, Jaffa, and Ramla.  There is no alternative even if they promise us the Garden of Eden.  The sound of the submachine gun is heard.  We will live and die only that our homeland should return to us.  I am a Palestinian.  My weapon is the stone and the knife.

   On July 13th, not long after the roadmap agreement Palestinian television broadcast a sermon of Hassan Khader in which he reminded his Muslim audience that (Worldnetdaily 7/15/03):

Muhammad said in his Hadith: "The Hour [Day of Resurrection] will not arrive until you fight the Jews, [until a Jew will hide behind a rock or tree] and the rock and the tree will say: 'Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!'

   The Palestinians produce music videos to indoctrinate children to become suicide bombers. 

   One way the Palestinians make propaganda against the Jewish settlers is to accuse them of cutting down their olive trees.  Left-wing activist Arik Asherman who is against the settlers investigated the charges.  He said that he knows of incidents in which Arabs cut down their own olive trees in Yesha (Judea, Samaria and Gaza) in order to later blame the Jewish residents and thus benefit from a "propaganda" victory.  The PA's agriculture department pays the damages for cut-down trees from money arriving from Saudi Arabia. (Israel National News 11/27/03)

    Moslems create paranoia to Steven Emerson, a reporter who investigated the network of Islamic terrorist groups in the United States in order to silence him.   Ali Abunimah, a leader of the Chicago-based Arab American Action Network convinced NPR to ban Emerson by accusing Mr. Emerson of being a "well-documented anti-Arab, anti-Muslim racist" and threatening them if they allowed him to speak on the air again.  Arabs actually went further than that and dispatched an assassination team to kill him.

   The cry of racism is often used by Moslems and their supporters in attacking their critics.  Daniel Pipes warned of the dangers of al-Qaida to the U.S. several months before Sept. 11, 2001. Yet his warning was reviled as racist by some, including Columbia University professor Edward Said, who scoffed at "highly exaggerated racial stereotyping" that talked of hijacking jetliners and blowing up buildings. (WorldnetDaily   Muslims Protest Possible Bush Appointment August 14, 2003)

   David Horowitz the organizer of Islamo-Fascism week on campuses discussed in an interview with Glen Beck described how the accusation of racism is used to silence opponents. He said:

The term Islamo fascism first doesn't mean all Muslims We were defending most Muslims. If you believe that there are moderate Muslims and I do we were defending them. We were defending Muslim women from being abused and yet we were called sexist. Because the terms are not used to describe anything real. What they are they're terms to shut you up. To paint a target on your back and make everyone hate you so they won't listen to you to begin with.

  Oriana Fallaci in her book The Rage and The Pride wrote:

"What logic is there in respecting those who do not respect us?  What dignity is there in defending their culture or supposed culture when they show contempt for ours?  I want to defend my culture, not theirs, and I inform you that I like Dante Alighieri and Shakespeare and Goethe and Verlaine and Walt Whitman and Leopardi much more than Omar Khayam."  Well: I got crucified.  "You racist, dirty racist!" It was our cicadas who crucified me with the fraudulent word "racist."And later, that is during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, they did it again.  They did it because each time the bearded warriors yelled Allah-akbar while shooting the mortar, I had a foreboding and said: "Let's admit it.   Soviets are what they are, but in this case we should thank them."   Besides, I got crucified also when I pointed out what they used to do to the Soviet prisoners.  I mean they cut off their arms and their legs.  (The same atrocity, don't forget they performed at the end of the nineteenth century on Queen Victoria's ambassadors and on other European diplomats based in Kabul.  After such mutilation, they decapitated the victim still alive, and with the cut head they played buskachi, a sort of Afghan polo.As for the arms and legs, they  sold them as trophies in the bazaar...).  I got crucified then, too, yes.  ...They called me "racist" for that too remember?

   Ironically it is the Palestinian Arabs who are the real racists.  An excellent article about this was written by Alan Dershowitz (The Palestinians Genocide Campaign, Jerusalem Post 4/14/04).  He wrote that the random targetting of civilians in Israel because they are Jewish by terrorists is racist.  He wrote that:

It should not be surprising that Palestinian terrorists employ racist criteria in selecting their civilian targets, since the entire goal of Palestinian terrorism is racist to its core. It seeks to deny the Jewish people the right to self-determination. Under their version of Islamic law, it is impermissible for Jews to govern any land that was once under Muslim control, and it is equally impermissible for a Jewish majority to govern a Muslim minority, namely Israeli Arabs.

   Paranoia is created by Moslems on American campuses.      200 pro-PLO activists convened a 2 day Israel divestment conference at the University of Michigan on Oct 12 and 13, 2002.  University of Michigan graduate and Detroit Attorney Debbie Schlussel, told Israel's Channel 7 (10/14/02) that some of the speakers at the PLO conference delivered hate-filled incitement-laced speeches against Israel and Jews.

   According to Schlussel one of the speakers at the PLO-conference was U of M student Fadi Kiblawi who published an article in a student newspaper the previous year calling on Arabs to strap on bombs and blow up Jewish students.  Schlussel added that university authority's had knowledge of Kiblawi's article but nevertheless allowed him to speak.

   Laurie Zoloth, a professor at San Francisco State University wrote, in a widely circulated email that: (New York Post 5/14/02)

I cannot fully express what it feels like to have to walk across campus daily, past posters of cans of soup with labels on them of drops of blood and dead babies, labeled 'canned Palestinian children meat, slaughtered according to Jewish rites.'

According to John Podhoretz

That's the explicit return of the "blood libel" the foul accusation leveled against the Jews of England in the 12th century that they were killing Gentile babies and using their blood in religious rituals.

   Moslem and Jew Haters in general, see some of Israel's support in the world as stemming from memory of the Holocaust.  For this reason there is a lot of Holocaust denial among Moslems.  Likewise sympathy for Israel increased after the Sept 11th attacks.  This was one reason many Islamic countries accused the Mossad of having carried them out.  Antisemitism has been on the rise in Europe with the results that Jews are attacked daily in countries such as France.  Some anti-semites perceive that the widespread attacks against Jews occuring in France by Moslems could gain the Jews sympathy.  For this reason the April 29 issue of The Tehran Times, cited a report published in the United Arab Emirates-based daily, Al-Khalij, referring to statements made by French anti-globalization activist Jose Bouvet.

According to Bouvet, the Mossad has been organizing daily attacks on synagogues in France "in order to divert French public attention from Israeli atrocities against Palestinians.

    Ion Mihai Pacepa, the former acting chief of Communist Romanias espionage service, whose book Red Horizons was republished in 24 countries told about how the Soviet Bloc added to the paranoia of the Arabs against the United States in a symposium hosted by frontpagemagazine.com (The Terror War, How We Can Win, 11/15/04).  He said:

During the last six years of my other life, as a Romanian intelligence general, the main task of the Soviet bloc espionage community was to transform Yasser Arafats war against Israel and its main supporter, the United States, into an armed doctrine of the whole Islamic world. America was our main enemy, and a billion adversaries could inflict far greater damage on it than could a mere one million. Islamic anti-Semitism ran deep. Our task was to convert its historical hatred of the Jews into a new hatred of the United States, by portraying this land of freedom as an imperial Zionist country financed by Jewish money and run by a rapacious Council of the Elders of Zion, the Kremlins epithet for the US Congress.

According to KGB theorists, the Islamic world was a petri dish in which we could nurture a virulent strain of America-hate. Islamic cultures had a taste for nationalism, jingoism and victimology. Their illiterate, oppressed mobs could be whipped up to a fever pitch. Terrorism and violence against America would flow naturally from their religious fervor. We had only to keep repeating, over and over, that the United States was a Zionist country bankrolled by rich Jews. Islam was obsessed with preventing the infidels occupation of its territory, and it would be highly receptive to our dogma that American imperialism wanted to transform the rest of the world into a Jewish fiefdom.

   Vladimir Putin created paranoia toward his opponents in the November 2007 elections in Russia.  Alex Alexiev wrote (Frontpage Magazine 12/6/2007):

It began with the unusually strident anti-western and anti-American propaganda campaign unleashed by the Kremlin, complete with lurid tales of CIA plots to overthrow the government, that eerily echoed Stalinist times, as did Putin's angry denunciations of his political opponents as paid agents of Russia's foreign enemies. In what may be a reflection of the man's paranoid views, he accused the former communists and their liberal victims both of having willfully destroyed the great Soviet Union. 

   It's quite possible that Putin really believes that those who call for Democracy including the United States were willfully destroying the Soviet Union.  Glastnost led to many countries breaking away from the Soviet Union and one of Vladimir Putin's concerns is that those countries will join in a military alliance with the West.  It is also possible that the United States did want the breakup of the Soviet Union which had been a formidable enemy for such a long time and which under Putin is a formidable enemy again. 

Nashi (Ours, in Russian), is a pro-Putin youth movement.

Adi Ignatius wrote in Time Magazine that:

I went to Nashi's Moscow headquarters ... and met with Lyubov Serikova, a pretty 22-year-old redhead from Russia's Chuvash Republic who is a rising star in the organization. She was thrilled with the recent election and credited Nashi with helping thwart an unnamed enemy's attempt to launch an "orange revolution" in Russia. Her world seemed conspiratorial, and she echoed Putin's own statements: those who run against the President were trying to bring the country down. Putin, she said, "has made Russia a leading country in just a few years."

When we finish talking, I take a look at an official Nashi poster hanging outside her office, which excoriates U.S. policies. It's reminiscent of Soviet-era propaganda with its non sequitur acceleration of hysteria: "Tomorrow there will be war in Iran. The day after tomorrow Russia will be governed externally!" But this is no fringe group. Putin frequently visits Nashi's training camps and meets with its leaders. And from there he sometimes launches anti-Western tirades, including a recent blast at London authorities who are demanding the extradition of the suspected killer of Litvinenko.
 

   Regarding Russia, Ralph Peters wrote:

Russian paranoia is immeasurable, with malice toward all and charity toward none.

   After the Democratic convention in the United States that nominated Kerry, President Bush raised the terror threat.   Bush was beseiged by left wing critics who claimed that he raised the terror threat to stall Kerry's momentum.  One consequence of this creation of paranoia is that President Bush felt it necessary to defend himself by revealing that his reason was information gleaned by the British and Pakistanis when they arrested Mohammed Nasin Noor Khan in Pakistan on July 13.  According to Dick Morris (New York Post 8/11/04):

This unfortunate release of information reportedly crippled ongoing British efforts to use Khan - or at least his computer and e-mail - to communicate with, and therefore identify, his al Qaeda colleagues.

  John Podhoretz in an article called "Anti-War Psychosis" (NYPost 3/11/02) wrote:

Say this for the anti-war movement and its fellow travelers in the media: They're succeeding in driving everybody crazy, including themselves...

Craziest of all, however, is the logic of those who have decided to man the front lines in the anti-war movement: They seem to have convinced themselves that the coming war isn't about what George W. Bush says it's about.  It's not about ridding the world of weapons of mass destruction now in the hands of a dictator who has broken every U.N. resolution he ever signed. 

No, it's about oil.  Or it's about revenge...Or it's about Bush dominating the planet due to his cowboy fantasies.  Or it's about a bunch of Jews in and around Washington secretly manipulating stupid goyim into letting Israel commit genocide and get away with it...

Among those who prefer hate to love are the leaders of the anti-war movement , who have chosen to believe the very worst of those with whom they disagree, In the process, they have induced in themselves a kind of poltiical psychosis...

I know this political psychosis well, because I have seen it at work in conservative ideological quarters during the Clinton years.  Many Clinton-haters would believe anything, literally anything, about Bill Clinton.  They wanted to   believe it...

George W. Bush is grappling with Iraq out of the very highest of motives - to protect and defend the American people and the world in the new, post 9/11 strategic reality.  The inability of those who dislike him to grant him even that much is a mark of how politcally psychotic they have become.

   Why do so many members of the anti-war movement believe these things?  Why do they want to believe these things?  One possibility is that believing that Bush has justifiable reasons for his actions would weaken their ability to defeat him.

   Perhaps the most successful creation of paranoia was accomplished by Prince Abdullah, the de facto ruler of Saudia Arabia when he visited Bush's ranch in Crawford, Tex., in April of 2002.  Glen Kessler wrote in the Washington Post (6/3/03):

In a scene that one senior Bush adviser later likened to "a near-death
experience," Abdullah arrived at Crawford with a book showing pictures of
Palestinian suffering and a 10-minute videotape of images of children shot
and crushed by Israelis that had appeared on Arab television.

The adviser said Abdullah spoke eloquently about what these images meant --
conveying a respect for life rather than a hatred of Israel -- and then laid
it on the line for Bush: Was he going to do something about this or not?

Bush replied that he was working on a vision and would present it soon, the
current and former officials said.

"It certainly made an impact on the president," one official said.

Few leaders had ever spoken so directly to Bush. The president, the official
said, concluded that Abdullah was a good person who has a vision of where he
wants to lead his country. Since then, the president frequently asks aides
whether Abdullah believes Bush is living up to the commitments he made at
Crawford.

The video with pictures of Israeli tanks crushing Arab children were undoubtedly creations of the Arab propaganda machine.  They were very effective in making Bush paranoid toward Israel who since then has aggressively pressured Israel into following a roadmap of territorial concessions and uprooting of Israeli settlements in exchange for Arab promises to fight terror, promises the Arabs already made when they signed the Oslo accords and failed to keep.

   Creating the myth that the Holocaust is a fabrication created by Jews to gain sympathy is a widespread Arab tactic.  Phyllis Chesler in her book The New Antisemitism, quotes Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah (The Jews and the Media Monopoly, July 2, 1998) about this:

Everywhere, the Jews have been the subjects of hatred and disdain because they control most of the economic resources upon which the livelihoods of many people are dependent...Teh winds began blowing in their favor when the campaign of persecution against them was begun by Hitler the Nazi...The international Jewish communications media under their control exploited this in the best possible way, and then the show started.   They begain to disseminate frightful pictures of mass executions and invented the shocking story of the gas ovens, where Hitler allegedly burned them...They focused on women, children and old people and have exploited this to arouse sympathy for themselves when demanding financial compensation, donations and grants from all over the world.

The truth is that the persecution of the Jews is a deceitful myth which the Jews have labeled the Holocaust and have exploted to get sympathy...And even if it is possible that Hitler's assautl against the Jews hurt them a little, the fact is it did tem a clear service whose fruits they are reaping until today.

Phyllis points out that:

Palestinians seem to be accusing the Jews of doing exactly what I am accusing the Palestinians of doing: creating deceptive propaganda about a nonexistent genocide for the purpose of gaining sympathy, money, and power.

   Mabel Elliott in her book, Beginning Again at Ararat wrote about the creation of paranoia by the Tsar of Russia. She wrote:

    When, after the disastrous Russian Japanese war of 1905, the Tsar refilled his treasury by confiscating the wealth of the churches, the peoples of the Caucasus were driven to a frenzy.  There were mass meetings, demonstrations, riots, and a sudden lovefeast of all the peoples.   Armenians, Georgians, Tartars, united to resist the Tsar's attacks on their churches.  Such friendliness among his subject peoples was the most imminent danger to the Tsar; if ever they were united his throne would be destroyed as by a hurricane.   The Russian secret police desperately hastened to avert such a calamity as friendliness among the races of the Russian empire.

    In Baku they disarmed the Armenians and gave arms to the Tartars.  Then hundreds of them, working among the ignorant Tartar masses, inflamed their minds with stories of Armenian atrocities, until on a certain day they distributed free vodka to all the armed Tartars, withdrew the police from the city, and led the drunken mobs into the Armenian quarter.  The massacre was one of the  most terrible in Armenian history; for days afterwards thosuands fo bodies lay piled in the streets.  The whole Armenian quarter was burned; even the oil wells owned by Armenians were set on fire.  The sky was covered with black smoke, the blazing oil ran out over the waters of the Caspian Sea until even it seemed to be burning, and all the passions of ignorant men crazed by vodka rioted through this inferno during three days and nights.  Satisfied, the Tsar's secret police brought back the Cossacks; the carnage ceased in a ruined city.  The desire of the Tsar ahd been attained; there was no more love between Armenian and Tartar. 

    The war between Tartars and Armenians did not cease during fifteen years.  From the massacres of 1905 until the establishing fo the Armenian Soviet government in 1920 there was constant war between Armenian and Tartar villages everywhere int he Caucasus.  Men ventured from tehir villages only in armed groups; the life of a Tartar in an Armenian village of that o fan Armenian in a Tartar village was worth no more than the shortest possible time required to kill him.  Every effort of the leaders of both races to stop this slaughter, to make peace betweent he peoples, was thwarted by the Russian secret police.  So long as the peoples could be kept killing each other, they would not turn against the Tsar.

Xib Creation of Paranoia to Overcome Competition

One would think that Al Qaeda would be part of the cheering squad for Hezbollah after Hezbollahs rocket attacks on Israel in 2006. Instead Al Qaeda sees Hezbollah as stealing their glory and worse their leadership in the Jihad against Israel. A speech allegedly made by Sheikh Abu Abdul Rahman, a senior Al Qaeda leader, has surfaced on a jihadi pro al-Qaeda website in which Rahman is cited as condemning the "infidel Hizbullah" and "the most corrupted regimes of Syria and Iran. (Lappin, Y., Al Qaeda Member: Hizbullah Backed by Evil, Ynet News.com 8/27/2006)

"We need to know the reality, and we already know how Hizbullah do not fight for the sake of Allah. They declare themselves that they

fight for the sake of Lebanon, are backed by the most corrupted regimes Syria and Iran and backed by the most evil people. We cannot be fools to die for nationalism and tribalism, if two entities of Kuffar (infidels) fight that does not bother us. What bothers us is if we side with any one of them Hizbullah has been the shield for the northern border of Israel, just like the eastern and southern shield is Jordan and the western shield is Egypt. These shields are all to prevent any Mujahideen (holy warriors) from entering Israel or to attack them. We remember when al-Qaeda launched rockets from southern Lebanon, it was Hizbullah who rose to defend Israel and condemned it and threatened to cut the hand of those responsible if they caught them.

Thats funny, I dont remember when Hezbollah defended Israel against rockets. I must be getting forgetful in my old age because that is something I think I would remember.

XII Creation of Paranoia to get Revenge

   Senator Lieberman opposed some aspects of the Democrat's health care agenda so Blogger Jane Hamsher got revenge by accusing his wife, Mrs. Lieberman of being a lobbyist who should be fired from her position as global ambassador for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer charity.  Only problem is that Mrs. Lieberman is not and never has been a lobbyist.  Kathleen Parker wrote an article about this for the Washington Post.  The comments in response to the article shocked me because they justify Hamsher's revenge on Senator Lieberman.

  In my article Creation of Paranoia that appeared in the International Bulletin of Political Psychology I discuss how religious leaders created paranoia to those who rejected their message because of the hostility they felt toward those who rejected it.  At the time I had not yet read the excellent book The Sword of the Prophet by Serge Trifkovic. In that book he has a chapter on Muhammad and describes what his scholarship has led him to believe led Muhammad to turn against the non-believer.   He writes that Muhammad started preaching to friends and family and that in about 613 AD he decided to go public with his "revelations".  Serge writes:

The beginning of Muhammad's ministry, received with indifference or derision by most Meccans was slow...

His opponents, led by one Abu Jahl, suspected Muhammad of harboring political ambitions and seeking the position of leadership in the city.  A mob raged against Muhammad, the "divider" who wanted to tell real men what they can and cannot do, calling him a blasphemous unbeliever. 

   Serge writes how in the beginning Muhammad was hoping to convert Jews and Christians and how in his Meccan revelations Muhammad wrote:

Do not argue with the "People of the Book, ... but say 'We believe in the Revelation which has come down to us and in that which came down to you."  At that time he allowed for the possibility that Jews and Christians could attain salvation.   They, and his own followers, "any who believe in God and the Last Day and work righteousness shall have their reward with their Lord: on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve."  It was only later, in Medina, when Muhammad's prophetic claims were rejected by Jews and Christians, that his position underwent complete change to uncompromising hostility and justification of violence.

   When Muhammad would tell tales delineating the life of the patriarchs and prophets and giving examples of divine retribution that fallen on impious nations, al-Nadr of the Quraysh tribe, would speak after him and say" "Listen now to things which are as good as those with which Muhammad has entertained you."  Serge writes that al-Nadr:

would then relate the marvelous exploits of the Persian heroes Rustam and Isfendiar, adn finally ask his enchanted audience: "Are the stories of Muhammad more beautiful than mine?  He is spouting ancient legends that he has gathered from the mouths of men more learned than he." 

In a battle with the Quraysh, Muhammad's followers captured al-Nadr.  As the corpses of Muhammad's enemies were cast into a pit Muhammad said "Woe unto this people! Ye have rejected me, your Prophet!"  Muhammad then proceded to kill the prisoners.  Al-Nadr bitterly complained that had the Quraysh taken Muslims prisoner, they would never have killed them.  Even were it so, "Muhammad scornfully replied, "I am not as thou and Islam hath rent all bounds asunder."   Al-Nadr was then beheaded.

Trifkovic writes:

Another condemned pleaded for his life, asking who would take care of his little girl.  "Hell-fire," Muhammad replied, and as the victim was slain, he added, "I give thanks unto the Lord that hath slain thee, and comforted mine eyes thereby!"...

After his victory at Badr, Muhammad returned to Medina in triumph and proceeded to settle scroes with his detractors there.  An atmosphere of fear descended on the city; informers passed all disrespectful or merely careless remarks to the prophet...His first victim was Asma bint Marwan, a poetess who disliked both Muhammad personally and the religion he preached.  In one poem, she urged her fellow tribesmen not to obey a stranger who did not belong among them...  Muhammad exclaimed, "Will no one rid me of this daughter of Marwan?"  one of his followers by the name of Umayr duly did, that same night, stabbing her as she nursed her youngist child... 

In Mecca, Muhammad had hoped to be accepted as God's messenger by the Jews and to win them over by ordering his followers to turn in the direction of Jerusalem during prayer, and adopting the Jewish Day of Atonement, Ashura, as the Muslim holy day. 

   The Jews did not accept Muhammad as God's messenger.  Trifkovic writes that:

The perceived slight, as was customary with him (Muhammad), turned into rage.  

   Muhammad then engaged in ethnic cleansing and genocide of Jews.   Trifkovic writes:

The first stage consisted of individual murders of Jews, the second entailed the expulsion of two tribes from Medina; the third was completed with the slaughter of one remaining tribe.  ...He first received a divine warning that the Jewish tribe of Banu Nadir plotted his death, and promptly ordered them to leave Medina within ten days.   At first they refused; but after a siege of several weeks, they surrendered and were expelled.  All of their considerable belongings and land were distributed among Muhammad's faithful.  (They were slaughtered two years later in their new abode.) His own royal fifth finally made him a wealthy man.  The visible and very tangible benefits of being Muslim acted as a powerful inducement of the remaining doubters to embrace Islam, even if they remained unconvinced by Muhammad's preaching.

   Muhammad accused the last Jewish tribe in Medina, the Banu Qurayzah of disloyalty and complicity with the Meccans.  Trifkovic writes:

Muhammad offered the men conversion to Islam as an alternative to death; upon their refusal, up to 900 were decapitated at the ditch, in front of their women and children...   Truly the judgment of Allah was pronounced on high" was Muhammad's comment...   The women were subsequently raped;  Muhammad chose as his concubine one Raihana  bint Amr, whose father and husband were both slaughtered before her eyes only hours earlier; such treatment had already been sanctioned by prophetic revelation.As for the captured husbands fathers, sons, or brothers, the messages now grew even harsher; "Take him and fetter him and expose him to hell fire.  And then insert him in a chain whereof the length is seventy cubits.  (Koran 69:30-37)  Those are the lucky ones; others "will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternative sides cut off" (5:33-34)In this world, for the captured infidel, "we have prepared chains, yokes and a blazing fire." (76:4)

  According to the New York Post of July 9, 2001, Moammar Khadafy has at least partly staked his career on as making the United States out as the sworn enemy of Muslims worldwide.  On Sunday July 8, 2001, Moammar Khadafy warned rapt Muslim followers in the Zambian capital of Lusaka. 

I say, beware of the Americans,do not allow them any influence in your countries...The Americans are infiltrating everywhere, using their intelligence agencies.  See the Muslims fighting in Nigeria.  It is the work of the Americans, spreading suspicion and confusion. 

He also said that the United States is a cutthroat global troublemaker masterminding violence everywhere.  The Libyan leader's description of the United States could better describe himself as he played a role in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie Scotland.  United States warplanes bombed Libya in 1986 for ties to terrorist organizations so one of his motives for incitement against the United States may be a desire for revenge..

XIII Creation of Paranoia To Divert Hostility and Shift Blame

Early in January 2004 in Iraq, Charles Graner, handed Joe Darby a couple of CDs to duplicate.  So Joe went down to the Internet cafe near the sleeping quarters and started duping the discs.  Graner hadn't given him any warning about special files or secret folders, and Joe was sitting there scrolling through the images, mindlessly, when bam!, the first hideous photo came up.    Then another.  Then another.  Then another.

He said,"What the heck is this?" remembers Janis Karpinski, the Brigadier General who ran Abu Ghraib.  "It was very innocent.  He was absolutely shocked by this."

Late one night, he slipped a copy of the disc under the door of the army's Criminal Investigation Division...

On campuses and in the halls of government, even within the upper echelons of the military command, few would question what Joe had done.  But in his own hometown, plenty of people did...  Joe Darby's decision didn't make him honorable; it made him a traitor.  (The Conscience of Joe Darby, Gentleman's Quarterly September 2004)

   Several of the people involved in the Abu Graib scandal were from towns near where Joe Darby lived.  The message of disgrace he bought back to his neighborhood angered people who blamed him.  His home was vandalized and the army found it necessary to put him and his family in protective custody.  This is an example of how people blame the messenger rather than face that the soldiers that they were so proud engaged in disgraceful behavior.

   Charlie Hebdo is a French satirical magazine.  The magazine published cartoons about Muhammad and became the target of two terrorist attacks one in 2011 and the other in 2015.  On 7 January 2015, two Islamist gunmen (directed by an "Al Qaeda cell in Yemen") forced their way into and opened fire in the Paris headquarters of Charlie Hebdo, killing twelve, including staff cartoonists Charb, Cabu, Honor, Tignous and Wolinski, economist Bernard Maris and two police officers, and wounding eleven, four of them seriously.

During the attack, the gunmen shouted "Allahu akbar" ("God is great" in Arabic) and also "the Prophet is avenged".

Those cries have not prevented French Muslims from blaming the terrorist attacks on the Jews.  Daniel Greenfield wrote:

The man, who gave his named as Mohamed, also said he was a devout Muslim but then changed his demeanor and added, grinning, that he was also a delinquent. Then he said he was a drug dealer and without prompting, invited the reporter into the (also very clean) gas station to show an array of hashish for sale in broad daylight on a shelf next to the ATM.

He also called the Paris terrorist attacks un complot, or conspiracy, and launched into a lengthy explanation of the magical Jews behind it. They were not ordinary Jews, he said, but a hybrid race of shape shifters who have extraordinary abilities. They know how to get in everywhere, he said. They are master manipulators.

You might dismiss him as a lunatic, except that minus the shape shifting part, this is the mainstream narrative in the Muslim world.

   In 2013 pressure cooker  bombs full of nails and  ball bearings were detonated next to the Boston Marathon killing 3 including an 8 year old child and maiming many more.  This is the type of bomb used in IEDs in the Middle East by Muslims.  These types of pressure cooker explosives have been used in Afghanistan, India, Nepal and Pakistan, according to a July 2010 joint FBI and Homeland Security intelligence report. One of the three devices used in the May 2010 Times Square attempted bombing by a Muslim was a pressure cooker, the intelligence report said.  In addition multiple explosions occurred one shortly after the other which is a hallmark of Al Qaeda.  Despite this the New York Post pointed out that the explosions occurred during tax day and reported that authorities think that it is a domestic terrorist who was responsible.  Who is the most likely person who would be angry at taxes?  Why a member of the Tea Party of course.  Tea Partiers are opposed to the enormous spending and borrowing by the U.S. government and especially the Obama administration.  The terrorist acts committed at the Boston Marathon were an opportunity to smear them as terrorists by saying that we don't know that Muslim terrorists are responsible and pointing out that it was tax day.   Obama advisor David Axelrod And Im sure what was going through the presidents mind is we really dont know who did this, Axelrod said. It was Tax Day.

MSNBC talking head Chris Matthews blamed those on the Right, stating incorrectly that, Normally, domestic terrorists, people tend to be on the far right. Rep. William Keating (D-Mass.) played along on the TV show, also suggesting the bombing could have something to do with Tax Day.

Now, we have an international event, the marathon, the oldest marathon, Keating said. And we also have Tax Day, April 15, so we dont know if thats the kind of symbol a domestic terrorist might use as well.

Philip Hodges wrote:

Even a Senior U.S. Counterterrorism expert told CNN that the use of pressure cookers in explosives is a signature for right-wing extremists. Never mind the fact that the supposed right-wing terrorists never used pressure cookers in their explosives.

And never mind the fact that it was an Al-Qaeda publication that recommended the use of pressure cookers to their aspiring terrorist readership. In a 2010 article entitled, How to Make a Bomb in Your Moms Kitchen, it listed which ingredients would be needed in order to make an explosive device from common household appliances. But it said that the prescribed concoction only works in a highly pressurized environment. The pressure cooker is the most effective method, it advised...

 And never mind the fact that using pressure cookers in IEDs have already been done many times in the Middle East and in the U.S. by Islamic terrorists. Breitbart detailed a few examples:

• In 2010, militants in Pakistan attacked the office of Christian aid organization World Vision and killed six workers there, all Muslim. After shooting workers, the terrorists exploded a locally made pressure cooker bomb.
• Also in 2010, Faizal Shahzad attempted a bombing near Times Square by leaving explosives, including a pressure cooker bomb, in car a near Times Square.
• In 2011, police seized two pressure cooker bombs from the hotel room of Naser Abdo, who planned to use them to bomb Fort Hood in Texas.

Yet, somehow this pressure cooker phenomenon is a right-wing thing.

    When it became evident that the bombings were carried out by Islamic extremists the media made excuses.

Here is a video of the President of Egypt (before he was president) saying the Jews are bloodsuckers and the descendants of apes and pigs.

When confronted by American senators about his statements Morsi blamed it on the Zionists control of the American media.

Well, I think we all know that the media in the United States has made a big deal of this and we know the media of the United States is controlled by certain forces and they dont view me favorably,

    On Feb 13, 2012 the wife of the Israeli embassy's chief security officer was injured when a bomb exploded in her car in New Delhi, India.  The same day a staffer of the Israeli embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia discovered a bomb underneath his car as he was driving to the embassy.  Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said that "Israel perpetrated the terror actions to launch psychological warfare against Iran".  He said that such actions were in Israel's "innate nature," adding that Iran condemns terrorism in the strongest terms.

    ISIS is an organization of terrorist Muslims attempting to create a caliphate in Iraq and Syria who have massacred everyone in their path who isn't Sunni or a woman.  The infidel women they make into sex slaves. Five articles in 6 weeks in PA's official newspaper blame the United States for establishing the Islamic State, to divide and control the Muslim world.  Iraqis also blame the U.S. for creating ISIS.

   In March 2011 Arabs infiltrated the home of Udi and Ruth Fogel and massacred them. 

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