WE WELCOME the discussion of propaganda, hate, and authortarian, dictatorial regimes in the Middle East, but can't help but wonder... WHY have CNN and Glen Beck given A FREE PASS to the SAUDI FUNDING of Wahabi Madrasses (religious schools) throughout the region, including those in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Asia, that teach intolerance, hatred, and the ideology of "Jihad" conquest of non-believers?
Indeed, WHY has CNN and the entire "major media" given such a huge FREE PASS for the Bush administration's CLOSE LINKS to the Saudi regime before, during, and after the 9-11 terrorist attacks? (17 of the twenty 9-11 terrorist hijackers CAME FROM SAUDI ARABIA).
WHY do we know SO LITTLE about the 9-11 hijackers and their funding back in Saudi Arabia?
WHY does Mr. Beck not mention that KUWAITIS are close allies of the US as well, even though the Kuwaiti Iman pictured in the CNN "Extremist Agenda" video is calling for hate and destruction of Isreal?
note: We are under no illusion as the to potential for Islamic radical hate. Political Science professor, Conflict Resolution researcher, and Nobel Prize nominated author Rudy Rummel has documented Pakistan's brutal "mega-genocide" against East-Pakistan before India intervened in that bloody operation and helped the Bengalis declare independence from Pakistan, India's intervention in the brual genocide in East Pakistan led to the creation of the independent nation of Bangladesh, but only after up to ONE MILLION Bengalis, Hindus, intellectuals, and other minorities were killed by Pakistan's military.
Statistics of Pakistan's 1971 Democide in East Pakistan, (modern Bangladesh), 1,500,000 killed in less than 267 days
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP8.HTM
(Excerpt at bottom of this post)
However, such murderous intent is far from restricted to Islamic states, as we well know from even a passing review of Hitler or Stalin's regimes. Perhaps an even more valid comparison would be the carnage inflicted on the African peoples of the Congo river basin by Belgian King Leopold II after he hoodwinked European powers and religious leaders into giving him sole, uncontested rule of what he would cleverly label "The Free Congo Republic" in 1878. What was labelled "Congo Free State" was in fact a vast slave gulag where the good king owned EVERYTHING throughout the land, and the natives were not permitted to own even the trees in their villages. Leopold's hired soldiers and "company administrators" would routinely wipe out half of any given village in any given week's conquest. According to some of the statistics, the Congo region declined in population from as much (or more than) 20 million Africans, to less than 8 million under Leopold's murderous, MASS-MURDEROUS rule. That is, at least from 5 to 15 million Africans perished under the insanely murderous regime of King Leopold II and wholesale European neglect of those systematic atrocities.
Indeed, Professor Rummel is a specialist on the subject of "DEMOCIDE" - murder (mass-murder) by government - and as astoishing at it seems, Hitler and Stalin don't even break into the Top-Three of most murderous regimes in history.
Mr. Rummel brings up the point, "How can such a massive destruction and genocide, for greed and profit, slip down the memory hole of our western conciousness?" And the answer is clearly, (our words) "Citizens and the public hear what they are told from the mass communication media, and if the mass media trumpets for a decade or two only those stories of our alleged 'moral values' superiority, then they (the media and consumers) don't have the time to examine the other side of the story.
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Up to, or more than 10 million Africans killed under Belgian King Leopold's ruthless rule of the Belgian Congo/Congo Free State
http://freedomspeace.blogspot.com/2005/12/reevaluating-colonial-democide.html
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GLENN BECK
Exposed: The Extremist Agenda
Aired November 15, 2006 -
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0611/15/gb.01.html
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
GLENN BECK, HOST: For the next 60 minutes, you are going to see video of Islamist extremists that you have probably never seen before. Video that personifies hate and rage. Video like this one from inside a Baghdad mosque that has made me believe that we must not only listen to these people, we must take them at their word.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (speaking foreign language)
GRAPHIC: The Americans and their president and the British and their allies and the Zionists, the spoiled offspring of this entity, Allahu Akbar! (Allah is the greatest). If Allah permits us, oh, Nation of Mohammad, even the stone will say, Oh Muslim, a Jew is hiding behind me, come and cut off his head, and we shall cut off his head. By Allah, we shall cut it off!
Oh Jews, Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Jihad for the sake of Allah! Victory to Allah! Allahu Akbar! The believers [Muslims] will triumph!
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BECK: A few months ago my producers showed me a video of Islamic extremists leading a massive rally against Israel and the U.S. in the Middle East. It shocked me to my core. Not just because of the size of the crowds and the depth of their hatred, but it was beyond that. (continued at
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0611/15/gb.01.html
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Statistics of Pakistan's 1971 Democide in East Pakistan
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP8.HTM
In 1971 the self-appointed President of Pakistan and Commander-in-Chief of the Army, General Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan and his top generals prepared a careful and systematic military, economic, and political operation in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). They also planned to murder its Bengali intellectual, cultural, and political elite. They also planned to indiscriminately murder hundreds of thousands of its Hindus and drive the rest into India. And they planned to destroy its economic base to insure that it would be subordinate to West Pakistan for at least a generation to come. This despicable and cutthroat plan was outright genocide.
After a well organized military buildup in East Pakistan the military launched its campaign. No more than 267 days later they had succeeded in killing perhaps 1,500,000 people, created 10,000,000 refugees who had fled to India, provoked a war with India, incited a counter-genocide of 150,000 non-Bengalis, and lost East Pakistan.
Thursday, November 16, 2006
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