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		<title>By: Aaron</title>
		<link>http://pjmedia.com/phyllischesler/2008/06/16/help-the-vistor/#comment-13484</link>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is the most ridiculous article I have read for some time. First of all I think this movie does a good job of showing how Muslims have been treated while in detainment in the US. How would I know that? I have a friend who works for immigration and has been appalled at the way they have been treated. Secondly, the author of this article has not a clue about the reality of the Muslim world. She makes broad generalizations that have no truth in reality. Many Muslim nations allow for public criticism of their policies. I can easily name three for you: Egypt, U.A.E., and Bahrain, though there are others. Yes some Arab nations do not allow for criticisms and this movie shows that when talking about Syria. The whole reason they came to the US in the movie was because of Syria&#039;s policies which caused the incarceration of Tarek&#039;s father. Another point: Israel plays no &quot;small&quot; role in Palestinian suffering. Has anybody seen the number of innocent Palestinian&#039;s murdered by the Israelis? Obviously this author hasn&#039;t. Israel also uses internationally illegal weapons. Yes it is true that some Muslim nations have terrible human rights problems, though that is not by and large the majority of them. This author seems to forget that the Muslim world stretches from Morocco to Indonesia and even further. Many of these nations have human rights comparable to the US. I highly recommend this film. It shows the truth about how generalizing an entire culture is wrong and how we cannot treat an entire group of humans as terrorists simply because a very small portion of them have committed such acts. The author of this article need assess her own bias.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the most ridiculous article I have read for some time. First of all I think this movie does a good job of showing how Muslims have been treated while in detainment in the US. How would I know that? I have a friend who works for immigration and has been appalled at the way they have been treated. Secondly, the author of this article has not a clue about the reality of the Muslim world. She makes broad generalizations that have no truth in reality. Many Muslim nations allow for public criticism of their policies. I can easily name three for you: Egypt, U.A.E., and Bahrain, though there are others. Yes some Arab nations do not allow for criticisms and this movie shows that when talking about Syria. The whole reason they came to the US in the movie was because of Syria&#8217;s policies which caused the incarceration of Tarek&#8217;s father. Another point: Israel plays no &#8220;small&#8221; role in Palestinian suffering. Has anybody seen the number of innocent Palestinian&#8217;s murdered by the Israelis? Obviously this author hasn&#8217;t. Israel also uses internationally illegal weapons. Yes it is true that some Muslim nations have terrible human rights problems, though that is not by and large the majority of them. This author seems to forget that the Muslim world stretches from Morocco to Indonesia and even further. Many of these nations have human rights comparable to the US. I highly recommend this film. It shows the truth about how generalizing an entire culture is wrong and how we cannot treat an entire group of humans as terrorists simply because a very small portion of them have committed such acts. The author of this article need assess her own bias.</p>
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		<title>By: TRS</title>
		<link>http://pjmedia.com/phyllischesler/2008/06/16/help-the-vistor/#comment-12928</link>
		<dc:creator>TRS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Reality Show: The cheap Arabist film: “The Visitor”

http://lightonthings.blogspot.com/2009/06/cheap-arabist-film-visitor.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Reality Show: The cheap Arabist film: “The Visitor”</p>
<p><a href="http://lightonthings.blogspot.com/2009/06/cheap-arabist-film-visitor.html" rel="nofollow">http://lightonthings.blogspot.com/2009/06/cheap-arabist-film-visitor.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: John R</title>
		<link>http://pjmedia.com/phyllischesler/2008/06/16/help-the-vistor/#comment-2801</link>
		<dc:creator>John R</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I applaud the sentiments of June and George.  Eveyone I suppose has a theory as to why the West is so timid and intimidated by the savage race (i.e. radical muslims).  My own theory is that the West hasn&#039;t yet steeled itself to the notion that mass killing is a very likely solution to this problem - and the West will have to do the killing.  I view radical islam in the microbial sense of a virus having infected a host.  There is no talking cure for such diseases.  They simply must be eradicated.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I applaud the sentiments of June and George.  Eveyone I suppose has a theory as to why the West is so timid and intimidated by the savage race (i.e. radical muslims).  My own theory is that the West hasn&#8217;t yet steeled itself to the notion that mass killing is a very likely solution to this problem &#8211; and the West will have to do the killing.  I view radical islam in the microbial sense of a virus having infected a host.  There is no talking cure for such diseases.  They simply must be eradicated.</p>
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		<title>By: June Neal</title>
		<link>http://pjmedia.com/phyllischesler/2008/06/16/help-the-vistor/#comment-2799</link>
		<dc:creator>June Neal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Whoever Louis Santacroce is, he knows the truth.  I say that as a professional writer who has spent the last 25 years studying the mideast.  Americans are generally good and decent people and we&#039;ve evolved from the slaughter of native Americans and the sin of slavery to the present day, where we accept neighbors, even new in-laws, based on the content of their charater. So should it be. 

The next step in our evolution must be the common sense to stand up against  a global malignancy that couches itself as a religion.

Currently, we are so untutored, so limited in knowledge and so fearful of being labeled bigots, that we stand impotent as radical Islam seeps into every nook of society, and, with steady patience, moves toward its goal:  Islamicizing the world.  

We can&#039;t say we were not warned.  They have no problem shouting their hatred of us, and their intentions,from the rooftops of their mosques.

The Koran is loaded with horrendous incitemtents to terror and barbarism:  cutting off people&#039;s heads ((cuttng at the neck), calling Christians and Jews infidels, animals, etc, that must be destroyed.  Given this catechism, coupled with the hatred taught to their children from birth, each of them becomes an adult IED.

I applaud Phyllis Chesler for her eloquent advocacy for for Israel, the only democracy in the mideast, and for women&#039;s rights, the lack of which illuminates radical Islam&#039;s darkest side.  We need mmore like her. An army more.

The civilized world faces an enemy of untold strength and uncanny deceit. 

With their hands on the world&#039;s oil spigot, the Arabs have the West  running scared.  The Archbishop of Canterbury opined that Britain shoud adopt Shari&#039;a law!  Immediately following the bombings in Spain, the leftist government was elected.  The entire West kisses the Arabs&#039; asses because of oil and demonizes Israel in an attempt to show the Arabs we&#039;re on &quot;their side.&quot;  

What a side!  Fathers and brothers who slit their daughters&#039; throats because the the poor girls have been raped.  Hypocritical Arabs who murder outed homosexuals, at the same time that the murderers practice homosexuality in secret. (Many gays go to Israel, where they are safe.) 

They, who can throw a wheelchair-bound man into the sea, who burn Israeli soldiers and fling their corpses onto railings for public view, who can invade an Israeli kibbutz and murder all the babies in their cribs, who laughed and applauded 9-11 while Israelis wept openly in the streets.

An enemy unfathomable, so devoid of basic sense of decency that it is incomprehensible to us--and therefore dismissed.  What we can&#039;t understand, we put aside.

We will not be able to do so for much longer.

Unless we remove this enemy of civilization from our midst, we will witness the rise of a monstrosity which no army nor antidote can contain.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whoever Louis Santacroce is, he knows the truth.  I say that as a professional writer who has spent the last 25 years studying the mideast.  Americans are generally good and decent people and we&#8217;ve evolved from the slaughter of native Americans and the sin of slavery to the present day, where we accept neighbors, even new in-laws, based on the content of their charater. So should it be. </p>
<p>The next step in our evolution must be the common sense to stand up against  a global malignancy that couches itself as a religion.</p>
<p>Currently, we are so untutored, so limited in knowledge and so fearful of being labeled bigots, that we stand impotent as radical Islam seeps into every nook of society, and, with steady patience, moves toward its goal:  Islamicizing the world.  </p>
<p>We can&#8217;t say we were not warned.  They have no problem shouting their hatred of us, and their intentions,from the rooftops of their mosques.</p>
<p>The Koran is loaded with horrendous incitemtents to terror and barbarism:  cutting off people&#8217;s heads ((cuttng at the neck), calling Christians and Jews infidels, animals, etc, that must be destroyed.  Given this catechism, coupled with the hatred taught to their children from birth, each of them becomes an adult IED.</p>
<p>I applaud Phyllis Chesler for her eloquent advocacy for for Israel, the only democracy in the mideast, and for women&#8217;s rights, the lack of which illuminates radical Islam&#8217;s darkest side.  We need mmore like her. An army more.</p>
<p>The civilized world faces an enemy of untold strength and uncanny deceit. </p>
<p>With their hands on the world&#8217;s oil spigot, the Arabs have the West  running scared.  The Archbishop of Canterbury opined that Britain shoud adopt Shari&#8217;a law!  Immediately following the bombings in Spain, the leftist government was elected.  The entire West kisses the Arabs&#8217; asses because of oil and demonizes Israel in an attempt to show the Arabs we&#8217;re on &#8220;their side.&#8221;  </p>
<p>What a side!  Fathers and brothers who slit their daughters&#8217; throats because the the poor girls have been raped.  Hypocritical Arabs who murder outed homosexuals, at the same time that the murderers practice homosexuality in secret. (Many gays go to Israel, where they are safe.) </p>
<p>They, who can throw a wheelchair-bound man into the sea, who burn Israeli soldiers and fling their corpses onto railings for public view, who can invade an Israeli kibbutz and murder all the babies in their cribs, who laughed and applauded 9-11 while Israelis wept openly in the streets.</p>
<p>An enemy unfathomable, so devoid of basic sense of decency that it is incomprehensible to us&#8211;and therefore dismissed.  What we can&#8217;t understand, we put aside.</p>
<p>We will not be able to do so for much longer.</p>
<p>Unless we remove this enemy of civilization from our midst, we will witness the rise of a monstrosity which no army nor antidote can contain.</p>
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		<title>By: Norman Simms</title>
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		<dc:creator>Norman Simms</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, Phyllis and friends, we are up against a massive apparatus of denial, obfuscation, and lying.  But on the one hand, for the first time in a generation at least there are friendly governments in France, Italy, Britain and Italy, friendly that is, more or less, to the USA and Israel.  On the other hand, the media and the media-led popularity polls rank the USA, Bush, Israel and anything with traditional morality down at the very bottom of the heap in terms of danger, untrustworthiness, and bad for the environment.  We just have to hang in there, help one another, and do what we can when we can.

Norman</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, Phyllis and friends, we are up against a massive apparatus of denial, obfuscation, and lying.  But on the one hand, for the first time in a generation at least there are friendly governments in France, Italy, Britain and Italy, friendly that is, more or less, to the USA and Israel.  On the other hand, the media and the media-led popularity polls rank the USA, Bush, Israel and anything with traditional morality down at the very bottom of the heap in terms of danger, untrustworthiness, and bad for the environment.  We just have to hang in there, help one another, and do what we can when we can.</p>
<p>Norman</p>
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		<title>By: David M</title>
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		<dc:creator>David M</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the - &lt;a href=&quot;http://thunderrun.blogspot.com/2008/06/web-reconnaissance-for-06172008.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; Web Reconnaissance for 06/17/2008 &lt;/a&gt; A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day...so check back often.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the &#8211; <a href="http://thunderrun.blogspot.com/2008/06/web-reconnaissance-for-06172008.html" rel="nofollow"> Web Reconnaissance for 06/17/2008 </a> A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day&#8230;so check back often.</p>
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		<title>By: George Jochnowitz</title>
		<link>http://pjmedia.com/phyllischesler/2008/06/16/help-the-vistor/#comment-2792</link>
		<dc:creator>George Jochnowitz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Are any readers of this blog film makers?  Do any of you have friends who are film makers?  What we need is a movie about honor murders.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are any readers of this blog film makers?  Do any of you have friends who are film makers?  What we need is a movie about honor murders.</p>
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		<title>By: Louis Santacroce</title>
		<link>http://pjmedia.com/phyllischesler/2008/06/16/help-the-vistor/#comment-2791</link>
		<dc:creator>Louis Santacroce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m sorry to say this, but maybe we have to take a lief from pro-moslem propagandists, especially the foreign-born element; i.e., perhaps we need to take to the streets with hysterical chanting of slogans, semi-rioting, and burning pictures of Brad Pitt -- or whoever is starring in this carefuly-constructed trash --in effegy, while calling for a holy war of our own against the infidel moslem horde. Declare a fatwah against the writer and director; Give &#039;em a taste of how the society they&#039;re trying to glamorize deals with those who disagree. 

Of course, we&#039;ll do no such thing. We&#039;re much too devoted to allowing for the expression of all points of view, and much too careful to avoid even the idea of offending someone to &quot;take up arms against a sea of troubles and, by opposing, end them.&quot; 

No; what we&#039;ll do instead is &quot;build bridges&quot; by holding meetings, teach-ins (do they still use that word?) and pot lucks, during which we&#039;ll do mea culpa to our moslem &quot;brethren,&quot; begging them to forgive us for...for what? For not embracing Islam and helping them overrun Israel? For not aiding in their attempt to thorw every last Jew into the ocean, before beginning on the Christians, Bhuddists, Hindus, etc.? Yes, we&#039;ll apologize for all these things (but not to the Native Americans, right?): &quot;Our fault, forgive us, punish us as you see fit.&quot; Either that, or we&#039;ll take the Neville Chaimberlin approach. Remember Chamberlin? &quot;Oh, that Hitler&#039;s not such a bad bloke. All we need to do is appease him a bit, and we&#039;ll have peace in our time.&quot; Anyone remember how well that idea worked out?

Like it or not -- and I don&#039;t pretend to like it, what with the stiff knees and bad back and all -- it&#039;s time to take to the streets again. &quot;Over a little thing like a movie?&quot; you ask. Yes, over a movie, over an article, over some terrorist dictator&#039;s appearance at a prestigeous university. NOTHING is a &quot;little thing&quot; anymore, as many of us are going to learn in the very near future. Dammit, people; haven&#039;t we learned it already? Don&#039;t you remember 9/11? Now, get to work!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sorry to say this, but maybe we have to take a lief from pro-moslem propagandists, especially the foreign-born element; i.e., perhaps we need to take to the streets with hysterical chanting of slogans, semi-rioting, and burning pictures of Brad Pitt &#8212; or whoever is starring in this carefuly-constructed trash &#8211;in effegy, while calling for a holy war of our own against the infidel moslem horde. Declare a fatwah against the writer and director; Give &#8216;em a taste of how the society they&#8217;re trying to glamorize deals with those who disagree. </p>
<p>Of course, we&#8217;ll do no such thing. We&#8217;re much too devoted to allowing for the expression of all points of view, and much too careful to avoid even the idea of offending someone to &#8220;take up arms against a sea of troubles and, by opposing, end them.&#8221; </p>
<p>No; what we&#8217;ll do instead is &#8220;build bridges&#8221; by holding meetings, teach-ins (do they still use that word?) and pot lucks, during which we&#8217;ll do mea culpa to our moslem &#8220;brethren,&#8221; begging them to forgive us for&#8230;for what? For not embracing Islam and helping them overrun Israel? For not aiding in their attempt to thorw every last Jew into the ocean, before beginning on the Christians, Bhuddists, Hindus, etc.? Yes, we&#8217;ll apologize for all these things (but not to the Native Americans, right?): &#8220;Our fault, forgive us, punish us as you see fit.&#8221; Either that, or we&#8217;ll take the Neville Chaimberlin approach. Remember Chamberlin? &#8220;Oh, that Hitler&#8217;s not such a bad bloke. All we need to do is appease him a bit, and we&#8217;ll have peace in our time.&#8221; Anyone remember how well that idea worked out?</p>
<p>Like it or not &#8212; and I don&#8217;t pretend to like it, what with the stiff knees and bad back and all &#8212; it&#8217;s time to take to the streets again. &#8220;Over a little thing like a movie?&#8221; you ask. Yes, over a movie, over an article, over some terrorist dictator&#8217;s appearance at a prestigeous university. NOTHING is a &#8220;little thing&#8221; anymore, as many of us are going to learn in the very near future. Dammit, people; haven&#8217;t we learned it already? Don&#8217;t you remember 9/11? Now, get to work!</p>
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