martillo@mit-athena.UUCP (Joaquim Martillo) (07/18/85)
> From: Raju Bhatt >>From: ephraim@techunix.bitnet (Ephraim Silverberg) >> When the State of Israel tries to neutralise the military camps of the >> Shi'ites in Lebanon, we are condemned as facists and murderers, although >> these people have waged an active war of terror on the Northern residents >> of Israel for over ten years. However, when the lives of Americans are af- >> fected then a "different" standard seems to apply -- anything goes: random >> killing, attack civilian populations, etc. >> >> I do *not*, Heaven forbid, take the lives of the endangered Americans >> lightly and I sincerely hope and pray that they all return safely to their >> homes and families. I am only sickened by the *constant* double standard >> the world applies to the State of Israel. We value the blood of our peo- >> ple and children as much as you do. >Interesting, so the Shiites were attacking Israel for the last 10 years...Then >what were the Palestinians doing, sightseeing in the refugee camps? I hope by >now you realised that you goofed, but then to you "They all look the same." I While the Western Press in its delusion that religion is not an ideological driving force tends to ignore the religious background of Arab Muslim terrorists, I have tracked the religious backgrounds of Arab Muslim terrorists. Approximately 20-25% of the terrorists making attacks in Israel or upon Israeli citizens or upon more moderate Arab Muslim or Arab Christian leaders in Israeli controlled territories have been Shiite. I remember in particular that the terrorist who dashed out the brains of several young children at Ma`alot was a Pakistani Shiite. Further Assad of Syria who is a leader of Arab rejectionist forces is a shiite. There have been fewer shiite attacks because most shiites are geographically distant from Israel and because Lebanese shiites until recently have had to be more concerned about the various Christian, Sunni, and Druze groups (not to mention Libyan agents -- crazy even by Arab Standards) with which they have had to contend in their own territory. The Israelis were mucking around in Southern Lebanon long before 1982. My family has had until recently some business interest in Lebanon and I can affirm that the mullahs were just as enraged in 1972 as in 1982 that Jews freed themselves from Muslim subjugation. By the way I know the intricacies of the various madhahib of the Sunnis as well as the opinions of the shiites. I am impressed by the wahhabis and I think a Jewish form of wahhabism might be useful to dislodge the Ashkenazi rabbinate. I assure Raju Bhatt that they don't all look alike to me and that my family has known muslims intimately for a millenium and that because we have known them intimately for a thousand years, we want them to suffer immensely at least until they show perhaps even the slightest willingness to admit that we have some grievances against Islam. Raju Bhatt shows himself basically a vile racist apologist for Muslim attrocities by refusing to take the least cognizance that most Israeli Jews have their origins in Muslim lands where Jews and all other non-Muslim groups were subjected to generations of mistreatment. Peace can only come in the Middle East when Muslims clean up their barbaric act.