Propaganda 101 for Christians

A great propaganda ploy in use is defending something that has negative aspects by attempting to make it morally equivalent to something that is positively acceptable to the majority of the population or at least seen as its nature having similar characteristics.  After 911 people fell all over themselves to make sure everyone knew that Islam is a religion of peace to protect Muslims against reprisals.  Jesus is the Prince of Peace and believers who follow Him are Christians.  Christianity is a religion.  Islam is a religion.  Therefore Islam is the religion of peace.  It did not stop there.  All Muslims are peaceful was another idea that developed from this and then the word jihad was defined as an inner spiritual struggle by a student at Harvard.  I do not doubt that many Muslims are peaceful.  Interestingly, many students from the United States came forward touting getting rid of western civilization in order to institute Islam in the United States and the rest of the world to the exclusion of any other religion.  The nation of Germany was considered a Christian nation and therefore the Nazis were pushing a Christian agenda in the 1920's through the 1940's according to this kind of thinking.  Therefore 911 was no big deal compared to what Christians did in Germany.  Most of the arguments utilizing this propaganda are borrowed from Stalinist propaganda.

The first article is the belief and policy we see in the Hamas Covenant.  The Hamas Covenant clearly states that all non-Muslims must be killed or converted.  The charge of American colonialism is borrowed from the old Soviet playbook of propaganda.  As most of the Democrats try as they will to make terrorism seem a good and terrorists having the need to be protected from the Patriot Act are not scoring points with everyone.  They make the Great Delusion seem as though it is here already.  Christians are not on the right or the left, but Al Sharpton pretends that anyone who is a Christian and a Republican is not a Christian except in name only.  After all Muslims and terrorists are just misunderstood and more peaceful than Christians. We are to believe terrorist Muslims do not wish any ill toward the U. S. in the press of the United States and Europe. The frontrunner of the Democratic presidential candidates, Howard Dean, thinks the terrorists are warriors.  He makes out as though this is the case and may believe it since he is trying to discredit the President in hopes it will get him elected.  

The author of the article supposes had Hitler won the Nazis would have found that FDR and Churchill might have been found to have committed more atrocities.  He assumes that the Allies were morally equivalent to the Axis powers.  Then he takes it a step further ending up suggesting that the bad guys won.  This is a tactic used on a regular basis in our country now.

The following is the real case.

The US, Enemy of the Arabs

Columnist Mahmoud Abd Al-Mun'im Murad of the Egyptian government-sponsored daily, Al-Akhbar,

"The conflict that we call the Arab-Israeli conflict is, in truth, an Arab conflict with Western, and particularly American, colonialism," he wrote. To this end, it is helped by the smaller enemy, and I mean Israel."[1] "The issue no longer concerns the Israeli-Arab conflict. The real issue is the Arab-American conflict… Arabs must understand that the US is not 'the American friend'… and its task, past, present, and future, is [to impose] hegemony on the world, primarily on the Middle East and the Arab world…" "It is our duty to Allah to destroy the true root of evil in this world, the United States, of which Israel is merely a small tentacle of the evil empire[2]

The objective in our struggle against Israel should be to create one small imperfection in the American armor. For once we have eliminated the Zionist state we shall control the eastern Mediterranean and the forces of Jihad will then take the war to America… the age of the American collapse has begun."[ 3]”

[1] Al-Akhbar (Egypt), February 2, 2002.

[2] Al-Akhbar (Egypt), August 29, 2001.

[3] Al-Akhbar (Egypt), August 26, 2001.

The Egyptian Government Paper Al-Akhbar Once Again Defends Hitler

Special Dispatch - Egypt
June 20, 2001
No.231

Following criticism of President Husni Mubarak during his visit to the US in early April 2001, the Egyptian government daily Al-Akhbar temporarily ceased publishing articles defending Hitler. Recently however, the paper again published an article by Mahmoud Muhammad Khadhr, a cleric from Al-Azhar University, entitled "In Defense of Hitler"(1). Following are experts of the article:

"No one was sorry when Hitler vanished from the world; he took his own life, as did many of his ministers and [military] officers. They did it so that they wouldn't have to see the faces of the old ape, Churchill, and the big bear, Stalin, who would sentence them to death with no one
to defend them or ease their punishment."

"Each one of them has the right to a defense, whatever their infractions may have been, and even if they admit to their [crimes]. But Hitler's executioners took this right away from him and attributed to him crimes that he committed and that he did not commit. I do not know what would have happened to Churchill, de Gaulle and Roosevelt, had Hitler won. Perhaps the crimes for which they deserve the death sentence would have been much worse than all that Hitler has done."

"But all of Hitler's crimes and infractions were forgotten by the world, except for one crime that was exaggerated and blown completely out of proportion, thanks to the insistence of world Zionism to continue to stoke the fire. The reason for this was the emotional need of the Sons of
Jacob to extort Germany and to eat away at its resources. It is hard to believe that the Europeans and Americans, who are entitled to thinking, confirming or denying anything - including the [existence of] the prophets and God himself - cannot address the 'Jewish Question', or more precisely, the false Holocaust, whose numbers and scope they have exaggerated until it has reached the level of the merciless destruction of six million Jews, only because Hitler saw them as an inferior race unworthy of living next to the Germanic race, which must rule the world."

"Anyone who knocks on this door encounters the most horrible accusations and is tried in all of the European countries and in the US for anti-Semitism, for two reasons:"

"The first is Zionism's control over thinking in the West. This control testifies to the degree of oppression of thought by the Zionist propaganda apparatus in those nations. No one can oppose this oppression, for fear of being tried and sent to prison, or having his livelihood
and his reputation threatened..."

"The second reason is, without a doubt, the great fear that the lies of Zionism will be exposed if the subject [of the Holocaust] is investigated by facts and if logical conclusions are made."

"The first dubious fact is the number of six million Jews who were burnt in the gas chambers. Did they have families, children, who demanded compensation, or did Zionism see itself as their only heir? If we assume that every person had an average of five family members, this would bring the number of Jews affected to thirty million. It is certain that many Jews escaped before the ship sunk, that many of them therefore, survived, despite the so-called extermination and burning [in the gas chambers]. This would mean that the number of Jews in Germany was sixty million, although the total number of Germans has never reached this number."

"Even if we cross off one zero from the six million and are left with a tenth of this number, it would still seem exaggerated and would have to be investigated."

"No one can ask why Hitler punished the Jews. The reason had nothing to do with that broken record known as anti-Semitism. If Hitler was an anti-Semite, why was this anti-Semitism mentioned only after the World War was declared? Hitler could have expelled - in the period in which he built Germany up and prepared it for the War in order to recover what it lost in WWI - this undesirable [Jewish] race from Germany and planted it in South Africa or anywhere else in the world. Did Hitler attack the Jews or did their crime deserve even more?..."

"The Zionists were a fifth column in Germany, and they betrayed the country that hosted them, in order to realize their aspirations. This had to be exposed, [and indeed], Hitler discovered that the Zionists were spies for the Allied Powers. Inevitably, he was enraged and took revenge
on them for this great betrayal."

"Both the Zionist movement and the Allied Powers had an interest in keeping this matter a secret, so that people would not know that the Zionists were punished for helping the Allied Powers, for betraying [Germany], and for stabbing Hitler in the back."

"Even Germany and the government set up by the Allied Powers could not tell the truth, although they knew it, because it was under the influence of the Allied Powers, and because defeated nations must pay. Thus, the Zionist movement took control over the subject from Europe and the US and has easily made laws with which they try anyone who wants to raise the subject. Even historians can research any subject except for this forbidden one. Furthermore, the influence of the Zionist oppression has reached some Arab countries, who prevented the meeting of two conferences of historians who want to investigate the subject and expose the truth. The conference was delayed more than once, but some of Egypt's main journalists promised to host this conference and we hope that it will succeed in exposing the secrets surrounding this subject..."

"We denounce racial discrimination and the persecution of any person on the basis of religion, race or color, anywhere in the world. Those who yell about false persecutions that allegedly occurred half a century ago, must not ignore the persecution of others, their expulsion from their houses and their land, and the confiscation of their property. They should not commit those crimes that they claim were committed against them."

"Likewise, Germany should pay compensations to the victims of mines that were planted in the Western desert [in Egypt], and compensations for the land that lay untouched for half a century, before it pays compensations for false crimes that have no proof except for false and misleading claims."

Endnote
(1) Al-Akhbar, May 27, 2001

The following example was chosen because the author had a fatwa calling for his death after he had written Satanic Verses.  It was chosen because the statements in the Koran and the haddiths are damning evidence that 911 is all about Islam and the annihilation of all who are not Muslims is the theme of the religion.  In other words, if we say that Nazi Germany was not about Christianity, it makes it easy to say that 911 and terrorism is not about Islam.  The following is an excerpt from the article of November 2, 2001.

Yes, This Is About Islam, by SALMAN RUSHDIE