This is going to be a long, long post, and I do apologize in advance, so grab a coffee, tea, or whatever, hell, have a drink if you must to get through this one.
Enjoy the opening musical act:
Journey to the Centre of Your MindCome along if you care
Come along if you dare
Take a ride to the land inside of your mind
Beyond the seas of thought
Beyond the realm of what
Across the streams of hopes and dreams where things are really not.
Cause this is all soooooo not what it seems !!!!!!
Let's start at the beginning, shall we?
I post the Omar Khadr video and get this crazy reaction? who and why?
This is what brought this crew from 'Muslims against Sharia' here, and yes it appears to be minimally a crew of two.
A MOTLEY crew of two. Now, motley can mean two things, one is a haphazard assortment of things or people that somehow become a group. The other is a Jesters' traditional costume.
As we already know, from my
previous post the assortment of
bloggers from MAS, is indeed a motley crew, but then it is said, that politics makes for strange bedfellows. MAS is clearly a political group, with the intention of swaying the opinions, by using fear, of the great unwashed masses, which this motley bunch of political opportunists has a great deal of disdain for.
The disdain is clear, MAS, is going to tell you what to think, how to think and what to be afraid of.
Because, little darlings, your to stupid to realize on your own!
But, why do I say that? It wasn't just that I had posted the Omar
Khadr video, it was that I didn't condemn Omar
Khadr in my commentary, when I posted the video. One of the comments left yesterday, but sadly deleted, was indicative that was the issue. Someone was having a 'non-acceptable' opinion!! Out comes the Motley crew from MAS, the over the top comments, profanity filled, just horrendous stuff really, from a "serious" group,
committed to their "cause"?
Well, yes indeed, if the cause REALLY is to bully, intimidate, spread fear, silence different opinions and manage perceptions
That is what Muslims Against Sharia is really about. How else to explain the behaviour?
Yesterday, in the comments section, MAS, left a long answer and I have left it there, since it was written by the better behaved member of the crew. But rather then end with just that, we have a link to FEAR. Look at this and be afraid. Fear, fear, fear.
Well, whoever wants to look be my guest, I just want to address the long answer here:
"As soon as the Gitmo interrogation tape of Omar Khadr hit the Internet, the blogosphere was flooded with demands to repatriate him to Canada. This wave is reminiscent of a Soviet campaign to free Luis Corvalán from the "fascist regime" of Augusto Pinochet thirty five years ago."
Do you notice the quotations around fascist regime?? The writer of this piece clearly does
not acknowledge that the Pinochet regime of Chile was just that, a
despicable murderous fascist regime. Interesting? The masses of Chileans thought him a murderer, the elites of course backed by their US counterparts did not, going so far as to aid him in his bloody take over coup. Draw your own conclusions.
The "repatriate Khadr" crowd describes him as "a child", "a kid", "a boy", and even "a torture victim", with no facts to substantiate the torture claims notwithstanding.
That is not the case at all, but, I will draw the attention of MAS to the case of one
Specialist Joshua R. ClausWhat a special fellow, the kind I am sure MAS, has awarded some kind of perverse "justice" award to, and if they haven't already, they soon will.
But, why mention Joshua R Claus? Because he was assigned to Omar
Khadr. And, get this
"the military had promised immunity to one of Khadr's main interrogators for possible abuses against the Canadian while he was held at the Bagram detention centre in Afghanistan before being transferred to Gunatanamo Bay." Not proof, but, certainly damming.
"Let's forget for a second that Omar Khadr killed Christopher Speer."
Indeed, let's forget that entirely, because as of this moment Omar
Khadr stands accused not convicted, so to assume this is wrong. Of course there is the fact that
"Friendly fire might have killed U.S. medic, not Khadr: " Or that the Pentagon may have
altered a reportOr that the
Pentagon fired a credible the judgeOr that
Khadr, was
not the only one left alive at the scene, but the other survivor was summarily executed at the scene.
"The officer confirms that there were two individuals alive in the compound after a hand grenade was allegedly thrown."
To the defence team, the officer describes in his diary how he saw R not only kill, but possibly execute, the second al-Qaida suspect. The officer also admits to being on the verge of ordering "R," who is identified as being an army private, to effectively execute Khadr.
Since such acts would contravene the laws of war, the defence suggests the officer and the private had reason to later tell - or surrender to a request to tell - a different story about what happened during the firefight."
Somehow, MAS forgot all those FACTS. Instead MAS chooses to play emotional games
using the family of the medic as their pawns to do so. When all that really can be said is, he was killed under questionable circumstances.
Ahhh, but by playing emotional games, MAS, can manipulate people, like the good propagandist group that they are.
" The goal of propaganda is control over culture through influencing people vis a vis thought, feeling and action. The use of emotional manipulation is common." But, wait a minute, MAS, who claims to be promoting, anything except "sharia law" , must therefore endorse western democratic law? NO, they seem to "flip the bird" to all LAW, the law of the land, human rights, International Law, etc.,
So what kind of law does MAS support, not democratic, not sharia, then what?
Well if the comment on the Pinochet government is any indicator?
Now these people understand law:
LAWYERS AGAINST THE WAR
Re: Omar Khadr: Duty of Canadian government to protect the rights of Canadian citizen Omar Khadr imprisoned by U.S. authorities since July 2002 -- first in Afghanistan and, since November 2002, in Guantánamo Bay.ok, back to the comment from MAS:
"Let's forget that Khadr's father was an al Qaeda financier."
Alleged, but then he is dead, so anyone can say whatever they want.
Let's forget that Khadr's family is known for it being al Qaeda sympathizers.
I am sure that lots of people, such as MAS
bloggers, hold all sorts of weird sympathies, hey whatever floats your boat!
Let's just remember what this "child" was fighting for in Afghanistan.
Another assumption, since, one doesn't know what this child was fighting for, or if he was even fighting, who knows, really?
Now, and finally, back to the second meaning of motley, from way back at the beginning, the Jesters traditional costume. The behaviour exhibited by MAS, is that of a Jester, an entertaining buffoon providing a diversion from reality.