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In the recent print-issue of the Western Standard, an article by Matt Welch discusses the creation of a “media offensive” in Arabic. Welch quotes Donald Rumsfeld who wrote in the Wall Street Journal about “embracing new ways of engaging people across the world, as the U.S. Information Agency and Radio Free Europe did during the Cold War.” But, as Welch points out, Radio Free Europe “was staffed by well-known émigré intellectuals.” If we did that today, we’d staff a Radio Free Ummah with Ibn Warraq, Ali Sina, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and Wafa Sultan instead of sending Karen Hughes to Egypt to tell them how much we love them the way they are.
During the 20th century we had a continuous stream of refugees warning us of the impending danger of both fascist and communist forms of totalitarianism. Economists such as Von Mises and von Hayak experienced the disintegration of Austria. Wigner, Teller, and other Hungarian scientific refugees warned about both fascism and communism—they experienced both first hand. Ayn Rand saw the Russian Revolution from her window and tried to wake-up an America in denial. Many of the early writers of conservative publications, such as National Review, were ex-communists.
However, there is a difference. The ex-Muslims above are rare individuals who broke free of their culture (let's remember how hard that is.) Few in the Islamic world share their sympathies. During the Cold War, several Eastern European nations tried to break out of the Soviet orbit. Today, few Islamic nations are trying to break free of Islam. When critics in the 1980s said Reagan was wrong and all we could hope for was communism with a human face, the populations living under communism took the first chance they got to get rid of communism. Today, at the first chance, Muslims vote for more Islam.
A few exceptions may dramatize the human spirit and its potential but they are just that: the exceptions. We have to face the fact that the enemy isn't just a few extremists. We have to wake-up to the full depths of the problem.
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This excellent translation was done by fellow blogger Herr Winn at Klein Verzet, http://kleinverzet.blogspot.com/ Read the rest at my site, http://whatwouldcharlesmarteldotm.blogspot.com/ (I tried the links and failed. Feel free to laugh!!) This article...
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Radio Free What?
In the recent print-issue of the Western Standard, an article by Matt Welch discusses the creation of a “media offensive” in Arabic. Welch quotes Donald Rumsfeld who wrote in the Wall Street Journal about “embracing new ways of engaging people across the world, as the U.S. Information Agency and Radio Free Europe did during the Cold War.” But, as Welch points out, Radio Free Europe “was staffed by well-known émigré intellectuals.” If we did that today, we’d staff a Radio Free Ummah with Ibn Warraq, Ali Sina, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and Wafa Sultan instead of sending Karen Hughes to Egypt to tell them how much we love them the way they are.
During the 20th century we had a continuous stream of refugees warning us of the impending danger of both fascist and communist forms of totalitarianism. Economists such as Von Mises and von Hayak experienced the disintegration of Austria. Wigner, Teller, and other Hungarian scientific refugees warned about both fascism and communism—they experienced both first hand. Ayn Rand saw the Russian Revolution from her window and tried to wake-up an America in denial. Many of the early writers of conservative publications, such as National Review, were ex-communists.
However, there is a difference. The ex-Muslims above are rare individuals who broke free of their culture (let's remember how hard that is.) Few in the Islamic world share their sympathies. During the Cold War, several Eastern European nations tried to break out of the Soviet orbit. Today, few Islamic nations are trying to break free of Islam. When critics in the 1980s said Reagan was wrong and all we could hope for was communism with a human face, the populations living under communism took the first chance they got to get rid of communism. Today, at the first chance, Muslims vote for more Islam.
A few exceptions may dramatize the human spirit and its potential but they are just that: the exceptions. We have to face the fact that the enemy isn't just a few extremists. We have to wake-up to the full depths of the problem.
- Obama Is A Foreign Policy President
I think that Poland would be happy to host these broadcasts under any other kind of administration. I doubt if Obama has the temerity to piss off the Rooskies, besides, he recognizes his ‘real enemies’, the people who don’t vote for him...
- United In Hate: Why The Left Loves And Glorifies Tyranny
From SaberPoint: I just got from Amazon.com my copy of Jamie Glazov's book, "United in Hate: The Left's Romance with Tyranny and Terror." I also heard Glazov on KSFO radio (San Francisco) talk about the book. Glazov notes that the Left always...
- They Say/we Say
And until we say Islam, we will continue respecting evil in the name of good. We will continue giving the benefit of the doubt to something that's never, ever earned an ounce of it. Listen to the Ex-Muslims like Wafa Sultan, Ibn Warraq, Ayan Hirsi...
- Winds Of War: Eating Our Young
Our movement against the political ideology of Islam is a young one but we run the risk of eating our young and putting in motion what we saw in Europe 70 years ago. I’m referring to the current blog wars involving those organizations in Europe opposing...
- More Pim In Translation
This excellent translation was done by fellow blogger Herr Winn at Klein Verzet, http://kleinverzet.blogspot.com/ Read the rest at my site, http://whatwouldcharlesmarteldotm.blogspot.com/ (I tried the links and failed. Feel free to laugh!!) This article...