The burning news of the day,
besides the racial animus and anarchy gripping Ferguson, is the 5-minute snuff
video of the beheading of freelance Global Post journalist James Wright
Foley. The video made a short appearance
on YouTube™ before being scrubbed, but the video can still be viewed at Live Leak. I will echo the warning that accompanies the
video: Missing journalist James Foley
reportedly beheaded by ISIL might contain content that is not suitable for all ages.
A spokesman for YouTube™ said the
company had "clear policies that prohibit content like gratuitous
violence, hate speech and incitement to commit violent acts, and we remove
videos violating these policies when flagged by our users".
The
Sydney Morning Herald reports that social media users including the US
Muslim Public Affairs Council are begging people not to share the graphic
images. They argue that sharing these
images would only “help the terrorists deliver their propaganda.” Doing so might, just might, make people extremely angry.
I vehemently disagree with that
sentiment and here is why. This is a
teachable moment for Americans who have a media that emasculates the English
language using only “permissible” words to sanitize the emergence of a
caliphate that closely resembles the Third Reich. They have slaughtered, buried alive,
crucified and beheaded Shiites, Kurds, Christians and anyone else it can find
by the untold thousands.
Daniel
Greenfield warns, “We can see the larger problem flying Jihadist flags in
London and New Jersey. We can see it trooping through Australian and Canadian
airports to join ISIS. We can see it in the eyes of the Sunni Arabs murdering
their Yazidi neighbors. ISIS is an expression of the murderous hate within
Islam. We are not only at war with an acronym, but with the dark hatred in the
hearts of men, some of whom are in Iraq and Pakistan. And some of whom live next door.” [Emphasis mine]
The release of the video came a
day after IS militants threatened to attack
US targets in another video where they warned "we will drown all
of you in blood".
“A Message to America” is meant
to evoke revulsion, to taunt and intimidate.
Arlette Saenz and Jonathan Karl
of ABC
News report that The White House had been aware of the threat to kill
Foley prior to the video’s release but The World’s Most Dangerous Community
Organizer partied on at an engagement party for MSNBC host Alex Wagner.
Today the president, in a bland, meaningless ritualism spoke
at a new conference saying, “the entire world is appalled by the brutal
murder of Jim Foley by the terrorist group ISIL” He continued, “Jim Foley’s
life stands in stark contrast to his killers. Let’s be clear about ISIL. They
have rampaged across cities and villages killing innocent, unarmed civilians in
cowardly acts of violence. They abduct women and children and subject them to
torture and rape and slavery. They have murdered Muslims, both Sunni and Shia,
by the thousands. They target Christians and religious minorities, driving them
from their homes, murdering them when they can, for no other reason than they
practice a different religion.”
“They declared their ambition to
commit genocide against an ancient people. So ISIL speaks for no religion.
Their victims are overwhelmingly Muslim, and no faith teaches people to
massacre innocents. No just god would stand for what they did yesterday and
what they do every single day. ISIL has no ideology of any value to human
beings. Their ideology is bankrupt. They may claim out of expediency that they
are at war with the United States or the West, but the fact is they terrorize
their neighbors and offer them nothing but an endless slavery to their empty
vision and the collapse of any definition of civilized behavior.”
Contrast those remarks to those
of President Bush when a video was released in February 2002 by a Pakistani
group that beheaded Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl:
Laura and I, and the American people, are deeply saddened to learn about the loss of Daniel Pearl's life. And we're really sad for his wife and his parents, and his friends and colleagues, who have been clinging to hope for weeks that he be found alive. We are especially sad for his unborn child, who will now know his father only through the memory of others.
All Americans are sad and angry to learn of the murder. All around the world, American journalists and humanitarian aid workers and diplomats and others do important work in places that are sometimes dangerous. Those who would threaten Americans, those who would engage in criminal, barbaric acts, need to know that these crimes only hurt their cause and only deepen the resolve of the United States of America to rid to world of these agents of terror. May God bless Daniel Pearl.
De Mortuis Nihil Nisi Bonum
Will the savage death of Foley open the eyes
of liberal apologists?
According
to Daniel
Greenfield and Bare
Naked Islam, “Foley came to Syria to support the Sunni Islamist
rebels against the Syrian government. He often voiced his disdain for Mitt
Romney. He didn’t travel to report on a
story, but to promote an agenda, a parallax view if you will, that was obvious
from his Twitter feed.” No other reporters, it would appear, bothered
to read through his timeline. Mr. Greenfield
included many of those tweets in his post and here are two that demonstrate his
political leanings:
Dear #Syrians don't believe that Romney will help you acquire surface to air missiles. He's just saying that to prove Obama's "weak".
— James W. Foley (@jfoleyjourno) October 8, 2012
@HalaJaber is killing it today #arabspring
— James W. Foley (@jfoleyjourno) September 16, 2012
good analysis on what a more liberal Senate could mean http://t.co/2nKykG4c
— James W. Foley (@jfoleyjourno) November 7, 2012
Romney's got a hangman's row of potential advisors... http://t.co/X8KCSdSY
— James W. Foley (@jfoleyjourno) October 27, 2012
UPDATE: According to the White House travel pool, The World's Most Dangerous Community Organizer arrived at Vineyard Golf Club at 1:05 p.m., following his statement on the Foley beheading.
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