Why an American Earthquake Is Propaganda for Middle Eastern Anti-Americans
Well, who is Sultan? He used to be a resident of Hilliard, Ohio. At that time, in 2006, Poole wrote about Sultan, saying he was a radical Islamist.
What was the local response? The Columbus Dispatch defended Sultan as a moderate and attacked Poole as a racist. One of the newspaper’s Muslim columnists wrote that Poole’s “hatred runs deep and wide” against Muslims because he criticized Sultan.
Those Columbus, Ohio, journalists could not imagine that anyone — especially someone living in their area — could possibly be an advocate of terrorism, of murdering people for political reasons. Well, guess what? Poole was 100 percent correct. Sultan has proven Poole’s case. Sultan was the one whose “hatred runs deep and wide” against non-Muslims. Will anyone learn anything from this story?
To understand another part of the world you must understand how people there think and behave. Endless energy and money is spent by multiculturalism projects, complaining that Westerners don’t understand Middle East Muslims or Arabs or Iranians. They’re right, but in a far different way than they think.
Meanwhile, nobody spends any time ever exploring how those groups don’t understand the West, or Christians, or Jews.
‘revolutionary Islamist groups will proclaim the earthquake that hit Washington and the area around it to be the work of divine intervention to smite the evil American rulers.’
They’re going to keep getting a slew of incidents and events to befall the U.S.
which will re-enforce their convictions.
On the other hand it seems nothing will awaken the U.S that it’s embrace of Sodom and Gomorrah values has sealed her doom.
So few can see the handrwiting on the wall.
‘Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.’
Proverbs 16:18
Iranians: Time ripe for ‘Great Satan’ to be removed
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=336865#ixzz1VtRcajs6
I agree – and the problem isn’t that the people aren’t faithful or that they’re asleep. It’s that we have leaders in place who really seem to hate this country and its people. They also seem hellbent on destroying Israel and that will surely damn us. We will be held responsible for what our leaders do regardless of our faith.
Earthquakes should be no surprise. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matt%2024:7-8&version=NIV
LOL… this article is pointing out the fact that religious whackos in the middle east ascribe meaning to a random act of nature (punishment from god/allah/flying spaghetti monster/random sky wizard). The point is to laugh at them and their ridiculous conclusions. Then you come along and double down, ascribing the same meaning to a random act of nature.
Religious whackos reading too much into the event are the butt of the joke! Then you jump in and put yourself in the same boat! LOL.
…will proclaim the earthquake that hit Washington and the area around it to be the work of divine intervention to smite the evil American rulers.
And what will it be when earthquake prone Iran gets hit again, maybe some of their nuclear sites ?
Islamists appear to have as many (dissembling) double standards as America’s Leftoids.
That’s why they’re such comfortable bedfellows, that is, 0until the Islamists take over and behead the ‘toids.
You said: “Islamists appear to have as many (dissembling) double standards as America’s Leftoids.”
Pure wisdom.
Combine that with the fact that the very low income, very low intelligence (education) muslims are reproducing like rabbits while all of western society is not even maintaining the minimum standard of childbirths to keep their population level.
The smarter imams see the future and preach patience. The dumb ones preach immediate jihad.
The big question is what will western society do?
What was the magnitude of that earthquake? 5.8? And it did how much damage?
I think the earthquake can be used as clear evidence that God has kept his promise to those who follow His teachings.
It should not be hard to imagine this at all, fundamentalists in the USA on extremes of all religions proclaim it is God’s judgement when disaster strikes, natural or man made.
There are dozens of articles regarding hurricanes, the disaster in New Orleans, etc, etc, and the usual rabid religious leaders insisting that is is God’s judgement upon them… one actually stated it was due to girls gone wild being filmed in New Orleans that created the flooding.
It has been this way for Thousands of years, and for thousands of years sheep have followed the zealot.
Take the fundies from all religions and drop them into their own Island….let them Battle it out and leave the rest of us alone.
My thoughts exactly. The first comment is blaming the US decline on gays. How ridiculous!
Jimminy Christmas, it was only a 5.9. If that’s all Allah can muster, time to toss in the towel.
Towel Heads!
Christopher Hitchens used to promote these overt Trotsky conspiracy theories.
Now he is a little more covert about his Trotsky agenda—the booze and tobacco tab grew -so he went for the money–saying the same thing over and over again- with a different spin.
In his anti Christian, anti Jewish ,anti religious rants continues in his Trotsky tradition.
If he’s gone covert it is only because now that he has throat cancer he has a hard time talking. Nothing to stop his writing yet!
It was not an earth quake it was patriots rolling over in their graves. Even if it was a 5.8 earth quake there was little or no damage. In some Muslims countries all of the mud huts would have collapsed.
Israel’s apology to the Egyptians was wasted. I’m glad Israel made the apology because it was the civilized thing to do. But the Egyptians aren’t worthy of civility.
My question with regard to Islamic fantasy is, do they believe it. Does a Muslim recognize a lie as he cunningly twists truth into falsehood? If you put a lie detector on Sultan would his grotesque falsehoods register spikes on the readout? Or does falsehood become truth in a Muslim’s mind as it rolls off his tongue?
Adjami’s The Dream Palace of the Arabs is an engaging and enlightening read related to this subject.
Exactly the question I’ve pondered. Do they truly believe the nonsense they spout? I would love to see a study done on this topic.
Seems easy to answer by asking another question. How many of these Islamic leaders are willing to martyr themselves (or their own children) for the glory of Allah?
Worst thing that could happen for many of those leaders would be for Israel to disappear. Far too handy of a scapegoat for self-caused Islamic failures, as if a tiny nation of under 8 million is singlehandedly holding back roughly 1.2 billion Muslims in 50 countries. Of course, I suppose they’d just switch the blame entirely to the United States.
And once the west is gone then they will kill over the sunni/shia thing.
It is all part of the doublethink of Muslims/Islam. How else to explain their belief in the Koran that at one point ( in Mecca when he started ) preaches good will towards men (sort of) and at another point when that didn’t work for Muhammad and he changed tactics ( in Medina after the Meccans didn’t buy his BS ) he preached to kill everyone that didn’t buy into his doctrine.
Coeurmaeghan in 29 Palms, CA
I must say there is peculiar bit of acute insanity that infects the Muslim mind. It is exemplified by the Palestinian Arab claims to be Phillistines, by their claims to there being no Temple on the Temple Mount and by Muslim claims that it was the Americans and Israelis who crashed the planes into the WTC on 9/11. david levavi asks, ” … does falsehood become truth in a Muslim’s mind as it rolls off his tongue?” My answer is that they can’t tell the difference; they think that whatever metanarrative they want to be true today is true, although the same person may have another opposite metanarrative tomorrow he/she wants to be true and it will be true. How can anyone trust such insane individuals and how can peace agreements be made with such individulas when they have such a tenuous grasp on reality?
As for the Americans in Columbus Ohio, they fit Anrdew McCarthy’s stereotype of the willfully blind Westerner.
“…Islamist groups will proclaim the earthquake that hit Washington and the area around it to be the work of divine intervention to smite the evil American rulers.”
Hmpf. Not much of a beginning. The logic of the pesentation declines from there. Change the nouns and pro-nouns, and only slightly restructure the piece, and it could be an ideological screed about any nation or group of people on earth, written by almost any ideologue on earth.
For example, a lot of Americans say the same thing every time there’s a natural diaster in other nations. Many of them were saying it about American cities and citizens, during and after Katrina. Change the nouns and pro-nouns and it could’ve been written by an American left-winger, hoping to demonize their political opponents.
It’s a cut and paste, fill in the blank, piece.
For example, a lot of Americans say the same thing every time there’s a natural diaster in other nations. Many of them were saying it about American cities and citizens, during and after Katrina. Change the nouns and pro-nouns and it could’ve been written by an American left-winger, hoping to demonize their political opponents.
What differentiates the Islamist viewpoint from those of left- and right-wingers stateside is that Islamists believe they should help Allah finish the job, by killing all who do not convert.
Was it WWII, the last time we invoked God’s help in killing our enemies? …or haven’t any Americans done the same since then?
If you’re going to kill them befoe they kill you, fine and dandy. They’ve said they want to kill us, and they went about proving that they meant what they said. I don’t have a problem with killing the other guy before he kills you or me. The additional justifications are toally unecessary. Plus, they’often irrational, illogical, and based upon false premises, ill-thought assumptions and simply awful preconceptions.
I wonder if Professor Rubin will take a shot at deciphering Victor’s odd apparent schizophrenic break, since that seems in line with the article. What little I know of him is that he’s Turkish and spends his time in the comment section of Michael Totten’s blog attacking Israel and inventing fantasies where Israel is abandoned by America.. things like that.
I hate to break it to you, bud, but it isn’t going to be just those wack-jobs in the middle-east that will think this earthquake was the hand of God. It was the first thing that popped into my head. And how many other Americans who believe Obama represents not just a tongue-in-cheek Obamanation, but the real deal, too?
And I guess this article is serving its purpose – deflecting discussion to the non-sequitor of Muslim response, and away from anyone trying to tally another BAD OMEN for this administration. Not that we need to discuss omens, but I’m not going to have a blind eye.
The first official bad omen was the swearing in, and the redue, by the way. The rat/mole thing that made the news and the fly on the lip are two others… The presidential emblem falling off the podium, and off the limo. A lot of seemly seemly (no typo) coincidences.
Those who put America above God are blind to any warnings or wake up call God might send to awaken them of even more severe judgment on the way.
These are the modern day ‘idol worshipers’.
Their arrogance and their idol’s blinds them as they mock God and joke when they should be getting serious.
How could they not see that from day 1 that the destroyer Obama is His judgment on the U.S. ?
He always give a wicked nation wicked leaders to lead them,and a perverse people are never a free people.
Totally agree. The one conclusion I always come to when I try to step back and grasp the bigger picture is that there was a time when America was a God fearing nation, whereas now it is farther and farther from that and at such a fast pace. And Conservatives are not exempt. The litmus for this is the observable lack of understanding about God. Case in point, when people hear of the “fear of God” it is common for them to automatically scoff.
On a side note, I also believe that the belief in Evolution (molecules-to-men) has played perhaps the primary role in legitimizing the subversion of the minds of men. It is common, also, that people conflate and equivocate Natural Selection with Evolution. A strange mixture of intellectual naivete is rampant. Interestingly I just read a spot in Timothy where it speaks of how people will have itching ears and accept false teachers; learning much but never coming to know the truth – believing in fables. A great irony is that a Creationists is, according to the world, a believer of myths, while an Evolutionists literally is one who believes frogs have become princes.
I recommend Answersingenesis dot org as a Creationist resource.
I wonder how many recognize a psychological coping mechanism when they see one, they’re successful, I’m a dork therefore the Jews are are out to get me.
I think I just summed up modern Arab thought in one sentence.
Laughable, considering the exact same earthquake in Tehran would have killed 100,000 people minimum. Our God, our construction standards, and engineers can beat the crap out of their Allah, and backwards culture.
The cavemen say the earthquake is their so-called god’s retribution. And we’re supposed to buy that.
Whatever.
Very well. Then let’s “accidentally” lob a few
thousanddozen nukes at them, and then tell them it must have been “the will of Allah.”Remarkably fickle, that guy.
Got your resume ready for the Secretary of Defense?
That, and a targeting list, sure.
“…and today’s forecast in Tehran will be sunny, with temperatures exceeding 10,000,000 degrees.”
If all Allah can muster is that pathetic earthquake, then he does not need to be feared. Let their Moon god do his worst.
“You can bet that the leadership in Iran and other countries; many Middle East media outlets; and revolutionary Islamist groups will proclaim the earthquake that hit Washington and the area around it to be the work of divine intervention to smite the evil American rulers. ”
Come on, Mr. Rubin — we all know that this was the work of the International Zionist conspiracy to punish the Obama administration for its efforts to go against Israel…why Richard Perle himself lubricated the fault line to make it move…..
/unfortunately I have to say “Sarcasm off” due to the type of Nazi sickos you talk about in this article.
EARTHQUAKE EMBOLDENS JIHADISTS
Barry Rubin is right. But perhaps the earthquake which made a crack in the Washington Monument and caused three stones to loosen and fall from the pinnacle of the National Cathedral was an act of divine intervention designed to embolden our jihadist enemies to miscalculate like they did on 9/11. Since the fall of the Twin Towers the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have thrown the Middle East into utter turmoil spawning democratic movements everywhere however illiberal, primitive and Koranically driven. Go ahead jihadists, hit us again and strike us hard. See where it will get you. In the end you’re victories will turn to dust as freedom marches on.
‘as freedom marches on’ What Freedom ?
Factor this in: China and Russia will not sit idle as they did when we went into Afghanistan, turned Iraq and Libya into a hell hole.
If and when the incompetent fool in the W.H. makes a move on Syria and or Iran they will make their move,another Pearl Harbor of much greater magnitude awaits the proud nation.
The challenges ahead will be awesome indeed. But can they be any more dire than the Civil War or WWII which we survived victoriously at great cost? I’ve been to your blog. Your views are extreme and your predictions too bleak. As the author of the universe is Supremely Good in everything that happens there’s always something good. It’s called THEODICY, God’s justice. I recommend the book by Leibniz, or St. Thomas will do.
“Well, who is Sultan? He used to be a resident of Hilliard, Ohio. At that time, in 2006, Poole wrote about Sultan, saying he was a radical Islamist.
What was the local response? The Columbus Dispatch defended Sultan as a moderate and attacked Poole as a racist. One of the newspaper’s Muslim columnists wrote that Poole’s “hatred runs deep and wide” against Muslims because he criticized Sultan.
Those Columbus, Ohio, journalists could not imagine that anyone — especially someone living in their area — could possibly be an advocate of terrorism, of murdering people for political reasons. Well, guess what? Poole was 100 percent correct. Sultan has proven Poole’s case. Sultan was the one whose “hatred runs deep and wide” against non-Muslims. Will anyone learn anything from this story?”
Such as… Muslims are the enemies of non-Muslims BY DEFINITION (according to the Qur’an) and should never be permitted to set foot in non-Muslim countries.
For a country that gets billions in aid from the US, and has tourism as its major industry, Dr Salah Sultan isn’t too smart. What’s his doctorate in, anyway? Witch?
Open your eyes it could be a wake up call but that is just for us loons!
If so, then He’s a pretty pathetic smiter.
Barry wrote:
“Then yesterday a correspondent wrote me asking if what an Arab professor told him was true: that most Arab leaders, including Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi and also Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, were secretly Jewish.”
Whenever a large number of Muslims feel animosity to any particular leader there is inevitably a widely-held conspiracy theory that the leader is either Jewish or funded by Israel. This is not restricted to Arabs in the Middle East. I know many supposedly intelligent Asian Muslims in the UK who, for example, are now convinced that Ghadaffi is a Jew. Three years ago I was shocked to see a documentary in which every student in the top private school in Kabul believed that George Bush was evil because he was a Jew. Yet I have since discovered that many Muslims in the UK are convinced that Bush is a Jew.
Probably as many whackos in the ME will claim the EQ was punishment, just like religious whackos in the US blamed the tsunami on Islamic whackos. Hell, look at the first comment here basically suggesting that the US is in decline due to gays.
Oh, for pete’s sake! I remember a wee, tiny tremor about 45 years ago in Wilmington, NC. We all looked at each other, kids and adults, and said, “That was an earthquake!” The local newscast that evening confirmed it.
I still don’t know if it was pro-Vietnam or anti, or maybe a dread comment about assassinations (which seemed a national hobby around then), or Gaia trying to give her Saggy Blue Tetons an uplift to match the Rockies; but I do know that the world is still with us, tiresome as it is.
When the Almighty decides to get our attention, it’ll be with more than a 3.9.
Mr. Rubin;
Have you given any thought as to the cost to the American economy the earthquake and hurricane Irene are going to be?
Wait ’til Obama blames them for the need to increase the debt ceiling! You know it’s coming.
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