Bloodthirsty Liberal

Practicing Islamic anti-Semitism without a license ought to be against the law. Somebody might get hurt:

Following is an excerpt from an interview with Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt, which aired on Egyptian TV on February 11, 2009.

Interviewer: So [the Jews were dispersed in 133 C.E.?

Zahi Hawass: That’s right.

Interviewer: And they didn’t reunite until 1900?

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Zahi Hawass: For 18 centuries they were dispersed throughout the world. They went to America and took control of its economy. They have a plan. Although they are few in number, they control the entire world.

Interviewer: Dr. Hawass, you are a great historian and archaeologist. I would like to figure out the mystery of how 15 million people, 5 or 6 million of whom do not share this vile Jewish logic… With regard to Israel and Zionism – we are talking about 7 or 8 millions. How is it possible that these 7 or 8 millions have taken control of the entire world, and have convinced the world of their cause, while we, over one billion Muslims, cannot convince the world of our cause? How would you explain this from a historical perspective?

Zahi Hawass: The reason is that they are always united over a single view. They always move together, even if in the wrong direction. We, on the other hand, are divided. If even two Arab countries could be in agreement, our voice would be stronger. Look at the control they have over America and the media.

Interviewer: So in your opinion, the secret lies in unity?

Zahi Hawass: Yes. It was unity that gave them this power…

Jews unified? The people of whom it is said that if you have four in a room, you have five opinions—they are unified?

With such unity, what can they not accomplish?

Following are excerpts from an interview with Egyptian author Galal Amin, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on February 21, 2009.

Interviewer: You once said that you suspected that Israel was behind the attempted assassination of the author Naguib Mahfouz.

Galal Amin: You are raising very sensitive issues. It is true that I said this, and I still believe it to be true, but…

Interviewer: Even though we know who stabbed Mahfouz.

Galal Amin: Even so…

Interviewer: The extremist Islamists were accused of this at the time.

Galal Amin: Let me tell you how I view it. When I say that Israel is responsible, I can’t tell you exactly how it happened. The responsibility it bears may be indirect responsibility.

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I cannot imagine that a group of Islamist terrorists carried out these attacks – whether the attack on Naguib Mahfouz or the blowing up of buses – for many reasons. First of all, they do not stand to gain anything from such an attack. They would not serve Islam by doing this. I am sure that any one of them, even if his brain was this small, would tell you this. Moreover, the results of the investigations were never published in detail. They said: “We arrested the man who did it.” Tell us exactly what you found. I would like to remind you of the Kennedy assassination…

Oh God. See what you conspiracy kooks have done? Now, any time some Egyptian cleric wannabe decides to accuse the Jews of, I don’t know, drowning kittens in burlap sacks, all he has to do is cite the Kennedy assassination. Jack Ruby was Jewish, remember.

Not that we’re much more enlightened:

Politico reports that the Rahm Emanuel-David Axelrod Perpetual Campaign Squad has its sights set on Rep. Eric Cantor, the rising Republican star:

For all the focus on the king of conservative talk, Democrats may have found a more important villain in House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, a telegenic young Republican trying to bring life to his party on Capitol Hill.

As the Virginia Republican fights President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority on everything from spending to stem cells, the Democrats are racing to introduce him to voters before he can introduce himself.

At last month’s White House summit on entitlement reform, Obama painted Cantor as a poster child for obstructionism. “I’m going to keep on talking to Eric Cantor,” the president said. “Someday, sooner or later, he’s going to say, ‘Boy, Obama had a good idea.’”

In a Washington Post op-ed last week, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said Rush Limbaugh’s voice “could be heard in the words of new Republican quarterback Eric Cantor.”

In robocalls aimed at potentially vulnerable Republicans in Michigan, Florida and California, union groups are urging voters to ask their representatives why they’re “following the ‘party of no’ and its Republican leader, Eric Cantor.”

In a series of TV spots, Americans United for Change identified Cantor as one of the Republican leaders who have stood with Limbaugh and opposed Obama’s stimulus plan.

What’s that? It’s unfair to lump the O-Ring in with mindless, foamy-mouthed bigots? Sure it is. No question.

Just as unfair as accusing critics of President Obama of racism:

[CHRIS] MATTHEWS: Do you think he’s got a race problem?

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[DAVID] FRUM: Sometimes, he talks that way. I don’t know whether it’s conscious or…but I went through how many times between inauguration day and the present that he’s made a comment about President Obama being invulnerable to criticism because of his race. I found five instances…one a week. That’s sort of a lot.

That’s a lot for one post, but far-reaching lateral thinking is what you pay us for. (Hey, you don’t pay us anything!)