OBSESSION IS NOT JUST A FILM

Sharia Law offers public flogging. Resolutely unAmerican, unWestern, uncivilized.

ON THE UPROAR of this short documentary called Obsession which was recently inserted into newspapers distributed primarily in swing states—Florida, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Ohio, Michigan—and the attached card mentions the upcoming elections.

Fear tactic? Yes. Blatantly false? Not on your life.

The documentary with real clips and honest reportage makes this case: That a current tendency in Islam regards the West, especially the United States and Israel, as enemies to be destroyed and that achieving personal annihilation in forwarding that goal—to die in jihad—is a good and holy thing. This tendency is far from being a majority view, and yet neither is it suppressed; in fact, it is supported by regimes that allocate television airtime and publish schoolbooks.

We must be keen to note that 9-11, the Madrid bombing, the London bombing, the Beslan slaughter, the Bali slaughter and dozens of other outrages were not merely linked to terrorism but were expressly and explicitly motivated by a particular kind of Islam. Let's cut the crap. That isn't an anti-Muslim point; it is an anti-jihad one, and the odd fact that it has become impolitic in some circles even to discuss the nature of this threat is exactly why it's worth airing in this or any political season.

The real scandal is that this film has been available and shown for two years now, but has been barred from wider release in part for political reasons, in part because of the kind of spinelessness displayed by one North Carolina newspaper publisher, at the Greensboro News & Record, who refused the insert as it was "divisive" and "serves no educational purpose."

"People don't want to feel this is part of a single threat," says Winston Churchill biographer Sir Martin Gilbert tells the documentary interviewer, "because if you come to that conclusion—and I'm sure it's the true conclusion—then you have to do something about it."

Read more about why you should take some time out of your busy schedule to learn more about this threat. Don't be a tool of the Left, or the Right. Get some facts that will start you on the journey for significant citizenship. Before it's too late.

BESLAN REMEMBERED

LET US NOT FAIL TO RECALL, nor long forget Beslan either, as we seek to save the world from enemies that live among us, some that look like sheep, and some that look like the ravenging wolves that they are. Here's a tasteful link to the tragedy.

And here's a gem of writing by a poster over at Jihad Watch. Thanks to "dumbledoresarmy."

I have just got my copy of Andrew Bostom's "The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism".

Part One, entitled 'Islamic Antisemitism: Jew-Hatred in Islam', which is the overview and distillation of all his research, makes for riveting—and terrifying—reading.

If every Christian priest or pastor, and every Jewish rabbi, had to read just that portion of Bostom's book, during their training, and show evidence of having understood it, before their ordination, we would be spared many of the more embarrassing displays of Useful Idiocy that we are forced to witness today from our spiritual leaders. The nonsense about 'three Abrahamic religions' that we hear so much about, would cease.

If our journalists and political leaders also read Bostom's damning report, and truly understood and believed it, much Western reporting and diplomacy vis a vis 'the Middle East situation' would be radically different.

If every Jewish member of the Knesset read, learned, marked and inwardly digested what Bostom has discovered, they would *know* the mind of the enemy that they face every day. They would *know* exactly where the hate is coming from. They would know that no concession, no negotiation, no bribe, no talks, no nothing, is going to achieve 'peace' with the Arab Muslims, or indeed, the entire Muslim world: only Jews all dead, or Jews reduced to a terrified, powerless, tormented and despised remnant of dhimmi near-slaves, will ever be enough for the Muslims.

Read part one of Bostom's latest book, David England. You wrote: "It is sometimes said that the radical islam of today is fascistic. What is not talked about is how it may have grown out of Nazi fascism directly".

No it didn't. I see Nazism and Islam more as cases of 'convergent evolution'. And they hopped into bed with each other so quickly, and borrowed ideas and strategies so eagerly, because they were kindred spirits before they ever met.

Muslim jihadist hatred of Jews is a good example. Bostom's book shows that Muslims did NOT need Nazis to teach them to hate Jews, they already did that quite thoroughly and comprehensively, all by their little selves.

Furthermore Ibn Warraq, when he identified a whole string of congruences between Islam and fascism was not talking about anything that modern Islam has *learned* or *copied* from European fascism: the Islam he had in mind was classical mainstream Islam, what Hugh [Fitzgerald] calls "'Islam, Islam, Islam", Islam of Qur'an-Sira-Hadith, Islam as it was expounded by Muslim jurists and theologians, and practised by Muslim despots and Muslim mobs, for over a millennium before European Fascism was ever a gleam in a philosopher's eye.