Analyst's note: Absolutely must read. This is recommended reading of "[...] a distinguished panel to discuss the question: What psychological impulses and neuroses prevent people from objectively considering whether or not Islam is a religion of peace? In other words: Why the rigid disinclination to even consider the evidence that suggests that someone like Geert Wilders might be right?"
Higher education has clearly failed America in order to receive and protect their sources of foreign funding, according to Dr. Walid Phares. As a result, over many years the U.S. has produced a large group of academia, diplomats and journalist as well as some of our senior military who have been so "educated" who are unknowingly "preaching" for the jihadist enemy.
It helps to put this discussion into perspective to understand that according to Dr. Walid Phares, 90% of American Middle Eastern studies programs - from which our nation has been receiving much of our information on the jihadist enemy - is run by Wahabist out of Saudi Arabia. So we have graduates from a department of history who are not taught the true evolution of the jihadist and their movements or their globalist Islamist goals. As a result, these same "educated" people have been writing and discussing such Islamist terrorists as "insurgents" or members of some kind of "rebel movement." We have been too long under the huge power whelded by pro-jihadist lobbies in the U.S. and Europe who work to numb the instincts of our citizens as to these global Islamist jihadi terrorist. We have failed to understand their true origin and goals of world domination.
It is a long read, but a fascinating and illuminating discussion by Roger Simon, Robert Spencer and Kevin Levin who are speaking out for all to hear and consider their words. Here is just some of what was said.
Spencer: It is indeed, as Roger Simon, a global psy-war, and it is by no means over. We have the truth on our side, and as Kenneth Levin ably adumbrates, we have the alternate media - which is still very small compared to the mainstream media, but it is growing apace as the frustration of people who realize they're being lied to increases. The biggest challenge we face is that all too many people who no longer buy the lies of the Left still allow themselves to be cowed by this psychological manipulation, such that they're afraid to speak out for the truth themselves, or afraid to venture outside the bounds of what the Left has delineated as acceptable discourse. The hardest obstacles to clear away are not the Left's control of the mainstream media, but our own mind-forged manacles.
As for Obama, no one should be surprised by what is happening. As Pamela Geller and I show in our book The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War On America (coming July 27 from Simon & Schuster), he is not only presiding over America's decline, but is in a very real sense the apostle of that decline. The course he is taking as President could have been predicted by anyone who knew the activities and associations of his earlier career, as we outline in the book. And so it is no surprise that the list of his anti-Israel and even anti-Semitic appointees and associates just keeps growing: not just Reverend Wright, but also Samantha Power, Robert Malley, Rosa Brooks, Chuck Hagel, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and more. Likewise also his appointees who wish to give international law precedence over American law: Harold Koh, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, John Holdren, Carol Browner - on and on.
In light of all this and more, the situation is very serious, and the time for appeasement, and what Levin terms "the censorship of the appeasers," is over. William Jennings Bryan said it in 1896 in a vastly different context, but every word applies to conservatives today:
We do not come as aggressors. Our war is not a war of conquest; we are fighting in the defence of our homes, our families, and posterity. We have petitioned, and our petitions have been scorned; we have entreated, and our entreaties have been disregarded; we have begged, and they have mocked when our calamity came. We beg no longer; we entreat no more; we petition no more. We defy them!
We beg no more. We entreat no more. We petition no more. We defy them. We are not the aggressors. We are not haters. We are not racists. We are not bigots. We are not neofascists. Those who claim otherwise are knowingly or unknowingly abetting a monstrous evil. We withdraw our sanction from them. We must no longer treat journalists as if they were objective reporters when they are ideologues and propagandists. We must constantly call them out on their game. And refuse to play it ourselves.
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