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THE DIOGENES REPORT WHAT CULTURE WAR II? In three predominantly Muslim states in northern Nigeria rumors that a campaign to vaccinate Nigerians against polio is really a plot by the U.S. to spread AIDS and render Muslims infertile is threatening worldwide efforts to eradicate polio. As a result of the roadblocks thrown up by the Muslim communities 15 million African children are at immediate risk and a dozen children in four other West African nations have fallen victim to polio which has all but been eradicated in the Western world. Where are the Muslim leaders who should be enlightening their people on this issue? Nah, there’s no culture war. Here are excerpts from a sermon delivered at the holy mosque in Mecca and carried on the official station of the Saudi Government. The Imam says: “Islam forbids killing non-Muslims, terrorizing innocent people, or plundering their property.” Sounds good coming from the nation that the world’s leading supporter of al Qaeda. But then, he goes on to preach: “O God…humiliate infidelity, destroy the enemies of our nation and religion, and support our mujahidin brothers everywhere. O God help them score victory over the unjust Jews and aggressive Zionists in Palestine. O God destroy the Jews and their supporters. O God destroy them…and make them prey for Muslims.” This from the “moderate, peaceful” nation of Saudi Arabia, the ally of America. Nah, there’s no culture war. From the proposed Palestinian State, Dr. Hassan Khader, a Muslim “academic” and founder of an Arabic encyclopedia quotes a hadith (Islamic tradition attributed to Mohammed) as follows: “Mohammed said in his hadith, “The Hour (Day of Resurrection) will not arrive until you fight the Jews, (until a Jew will hide behind a rock or a tree) and the rock and the tree will say: Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!” And from Yemen, where American State Department and Defense Department officials sent the U.S.S. Cole to refuel in order to provide income for the Yemeni Government, the concluding words of a sermon preached at the Grand Mosque in Sana. The imam prays: “O God help your mujahidin brothers score victory. O God, destroy the enemies of Islam, Zionists and Americans. O God, shake the ground under them, instill panic into their hearts, and freeze the blood in their veins. O God, destroy them.” These are not the cries of the 7th Century barbarians who poured out of the Arabian peninsula to subjugate, by spear and sword, a large part of the world. These are the rantings of the 21st Century barbarians who are trying to conquer the rest of the world
by bomb and terror. so does history, as well as the events of our day. Therefore, I must repeat my message until its truth and advice stirs my readers and the majority of Americans into action. Let me reemphasize that democracy, the rule of law, the Judeo-Christian ethic, Western Civilization and even premature universalism do not mandate that nations or individuals commit suicide. When attacked, we are required to respond with all of the force at our command. These are responses that the United States has not used in the face of dozens of assaults upon its citizens and property. Neither has Israel responded in kind. Nor have the Jewish people. Islam is at war with the West and they will continue their attacks because they believe they can defeat us. The Muslims delivered dozens of blows to the United States and its citizens that we ignored before delivering the blows of 9/11—blows we could not ignore. Our response was two quick military “victories” in Afghanistan and Iraq. The result of these "victories” is that we are bogged down in both countries. And the prospects are that we will remain in both places for a long, long time. The “towel heads” have trapped the “technologists” with the “tar baby ploy.” We need a different approach to contain the Islamic terrorists/fundamentalists/ religious fanatics. Forget about bringing freedom and democracy to the Muslims. If they want freedom and democracy they will have to well up from among them. Pull out our troops from everywhere except the oil fields, pipelines and oil shipping ports—these will be ours until both Gulf Wars are paid for. Then, maybe, just maybe, we will hand the facilities back to them. But we have to show the Muslims that we’re serious about stopping their advance against the West. One way is to hit them in a sensitive area. Whenever and wherever the Muslims perpetrate an atrocity—whether it’s mutilating American soldiers, bombing a bus or a synagogue or an embassy, or attacking a theater, the bombing of a mosque or two would be an appropriate reminder that their actions are unacceptable. The target mosques could be anyplace—Saudi Arabia, Egypt, France, the U.S., Israel or India, for example. Mosque bombing could be combined with military “quick reaction” attacks—in and out. Such on-going responses to terrorism would prove the determination of the West to repulse the tide of Islam, as well as to remind the Muslims that they are not immune to retribution anyplace in the world.
THE ONLY LAND WHERE TREASON IS IGNORED OR APPLAUDED It’s Israel, of course, the land of twisted leaders and a great many sick citizens. Where else would people who are not members of the government or officials who are not responsible for foreign affairs would be permitted to negotiate “treaties” with an enemy of their state. Or even to whip up foreign nations into a frenzy of antagonism to the policies of their state. Even a low-life like Jesse Jackson asked the President’s permission before he went to unfriendly countries to rescue American prisoners. Yossi Beilin and other members of the gang that were responsible for one of the greatest disasters in Israeli history—the Oslo Accords-- have been negotiating with Palestinian Arabs to produce another disaster for Israel. In addition he has arranged for anti-Israel, pro-Arab European countries to underwrite the proposed “Geneva Plan.” The Europeans could likely be using money robbed from Jews during the Holocaust to pay for the propaganda blitz. Why Beilin and his gang of traitors are not rounded up and indicted is beyond the comprehension of anyone living in a sane society. It is a sign that Sharon and the Israeli leadership are not committed to a strong Israel that can protect its people against Arab terrorism. It is also a sign that Sharon and the rest of the leadership should be committed.
HEADLINES AND COMMENTS Catalonian Political Rivals Agree On Seeking Autonomy Bolivia’s New Leader Takes Over Chaotic And Angry Nation Ford Foundation Financed Anti-Israel Activists At Durban The New Pill Can End Ageing. (cover headline, Readers Digest) St. Mary Priest Sued Over Attack By His Dog Traces Of Antidepressant Found In Fish In Texas EPA Won’t Regulate Use Of Dioxin-Laced Sludge As Fertilizer Police Officers Say Many Officers Are Wearing Defective Vests Report Finds F.B.I. Bosses Engaged In Lewd Conduct Palestinian Officials Send Peace Signal In Mideast Pentagon May Start Using Chemicals To Calm Rioters Muhammad Is Guilty In Sniper Spree Slayings in Capital Area U.S. Sets Quota For Chinese Lingerie British Targets Bombed In Istambul Many Of Our Kids Can’t Read, Can’t Do Math And Can’t Write (TV promo) Schenectady Hits A New Low, And There's No Edison In Sight Mexicans Fear China Is Winning In Export Market Congress Backs New Museum On Black History And Culture Croation Nationalists Poised For A Comback In Elections
NOT A HEADLINE, BUT WORTHY OF COMMENT How is the audience supposed to feel after watching the Son of Man being beaten until his skin is hanging off in strips? To see Christ mocked, whipped, beaten and nailed to the cross? Part of the problem is Gibson himself, a member of a schismatic Catholic denomination that holds mass in Latin, rejects key Church reforms and the papacy itself. It was the 1965 Second Vatican Council that absolved Jews from collective guilt for the killing of Jesus “deicide.” Gibson’s 85-year old father, Hutton teaches that Vatican II was a Jewish plot, that the Holocaust never happened, and that al Qaeda was not behind 9/11. -------
NAMES Here is one that’s a perfect fit. The individual who gave the French composer Fromental Halevy the idea for the opera La Juive was the librettist and playwright, Eugene Scribe.
QUOTES I LIKE Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey. I’m astounded by people who want to “know” the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. We think in generalities, but we live in detail. Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor. There comes a time in politics when a man must rise above principle. The trouble with us in America isn’t that the poetry of life has turned into prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a barnacle. You may not be interested in war but war is interested in you. If you don’t understand the situation in Iraq, you probably watched the President’s press conference. Good fences make good neighbors, but not when your neighbor is an Arab. Every time Colin Powell comments on the Arab-Israeli conflict, I’d like to run up to him and warmly grip… his throat. Most popular bus destination in New York City: Not In Service Fair warning to Mr. bin Ladin: even your most outrageous acts of terrorism will not push Kobe Bryant, Michael Jackson or the Laci Peterson case off our front pages or the TV newscasts. A reviewer comments on two translators; Both Schaefer and Davies “translate” the German, but I’m afraid only one writes English. Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. John Williams relates that when Steven Spielberg showed him the rough cut of Schindler’s List, he was so overwhelmed that he took a long walk to sort out his feelings. He then met with Spielberg and told him that he didn’t feel he was the one to write the music. “You need a better composer,” Williams said. And Spielberg replied, “I know, but they’re all dead.” On Winston Churchill: Winston has devoted the best years of his life
to preparing his impromptu speeches.
KEEP THESE TURKEYS AWAY FROM YOUR THANKSGIVING TABLE 1. Two vultures board an airplane, each carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at them and says, "I'm sorry, gentlemen, only one carrion allowed per passenger." 2. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. The one turns to the other and says "Dam!".. 3. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it too. 4. Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says "I've lost my electron." The other says "Are you sure?" The first replies "Yes, I'm positive." 5. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal? He wanted to transcend dental medication. 6. A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse. "But why?" they asked, as they moved off. "Because", he said, "I can't stand chess-nuts boasting in an open foyer." 7. A woman has twins and gives them up for adoption. One of them goes to a
family in Egypt and is named "Ahmal." The other goes to a family in Spain; they name him "Juan." Years later, Juan sends a picture of himself to his
birth mother. Upon receiving the picture, she tells her husband that she 8. These friars were behind on their belfry payments, so they opened up a small florist shop to raise funds. Since everyone liked to buy flowers from the men of God, a rival florist across town thought the competition was unfair. He asked the good fathers to close down, but they would not. He went back and begged the friars to close. They ignored him. So, the rival florist hired Hugh MacTaggart, the roughest and most vicious thug in town to "persuade" them to close. Hugh beat up the friars and trashed their store, saying he'd be back if they didn't close up shop. Terrified, they did so, thereby proving that Hugh, and only Hugh, can prevent florist friars. 9. Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him A super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis. 10. And finally, there was the person who sent ten different puns to his friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in ten did!
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