Hypocrisy:
So the French are intervening militarily in Mali. The rationale behind this intervention is threefold:
a) It was requested by the President of Mali
b) It is to prevent ‘al-Qaeda’ from running over the country
c) It is to protect French citizens in Mali
Needless to say, the Anglosphere fully approves.
I can’t help but wonder about another possibility:
Assad would request the military assistance of Russia to prevent “al-Qaeda” from running over Syria and Russia would sent its forces to protect Russian citizens in Syria. Can you imagine the outrage that would create in the doubleplusgoodthinking West?
This reminds me of one of my favorite quote by Chomsky from his Distorted Morality speech:
The hypocrite is the person who applies to others standards that he refuses to apply to himself. So if you are not a hypocrite you assume that if something is right for us then it’s right for them and if it is wrong when they do it, it is wrong when we do it.
Simple, basic, and yet constantly ignored.
As I have said many, many times here, the Russians will not intervene militarily in Syria, if only because they do not have the means to do so. At the very most, they will use their forces to evacuate Russians citizens if things really go badly. And they might agree to participate to a UNSC mandated peacekeeping force.
And yet I cannot help but marvel at the insane hypocrisy of it all. The US, UK and France are arming ‘al-Qaeda’ in Libya and Syria, while fighting against the very same ‘al-Qaeda’ in Mali (or Yemen for that matter). Crazy.
On another topic.
Blasphemy:
For centuries, the Papacy’s Jesuits used to justify their most obscene and immoral actions with the ad majorem Dei gloriam (to the greater glory of God) motto. Sadly, the modern equivalent appears to be the ubiquitous Allahu Akbar (God is greater).
As a religious person myself, I have no problem at all with the idea of acting for the greatest glory of God or with the idea that God is greater than anything else. By as a religious person, I am deeply offended by the use of these otherwise pious mottos to accompany the most disgusting, brutal, cruel and perverted actions.
The Internet is replete of videos of unspeakable atrocities committed by Muslim thugs and every single one of them is accompanied by a mantric repetition of Allahu Akbar by those committing the atrocity. I find this sickening.
What these people are doing is defiling the name of God each time they utter it. I can hardly imagine a worse blasphemy than the use of the name of the All-Loving God as a background to the worst kind of hateful atrocity!
These murderers claim to be followers of the Prophets, yet they completely ignore the commandment of the Decalogue which clearly states Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord thy God will not acquit him that takes his name in vain (Exodus 20:7). If speaking God’s name in vain is an offense, how much more of an offense is speaking His name during the commission of an atrocity!
May those who defile the name of God be accursed!
The Saker
Hear hear. As a muslim i did not feel at ease at all with these peoples action or their outcry for the Almighty’s greatness while accompanying their action with the intolerant horrible things they have managed to do. They have managed to look like the guily party while still having even sympaties of the Christian world. No matter what, a muslim should always stand firm even and especially against his own brothers wrongdoings when accompanied or witnessed such things just as the christians and jews should. We the peoples of the book can not afford to look or do the obvios wrongs anymore while the strong hypocritical brutal regimes roam around as if they can hold the many Arab or etc springs to come :) Sorry if i was to general vague for some, long day..
Hi Saker. I’m having an argument on Twitter with a diehard Blair supporter. Could you provide me with a source that proves the US/UK/France are directly arming Al Qaeda terrorists in Syria as opposed to Saudi and Qatar doing it on their own without the West being directly responsible? Cheers.
@Robert: I do not have a quote by Blair, Obama or Hollande saying “we are arming, training and directing al-Qaeda”. Just as the USA did not advertise its financing of the Afghan Mudjahedeen or Bosnian Wahabis, but that was also public knowledge. Just read this piece by Pepe Escobar:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33591.htm
which includes the following quote:
“one third of the combatants in the opposition are religious extremists, and two-thirds of the weapons are under their control.” The bottom line – this is a Western proxy war, with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) acting as a “vanguard” for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
By the way, the same US/UK are also behind the Mujahadeen-e-Khalq in Iran, the Chechen (and now Dagestani) insurgents in Russia, the Uyghur terrorist in China, the exiled Tibetans, and many more separatist/terrorist/insurgents organizations worldwide.
Don’t waste your time/energy/breath on a diehard Blair supporter. He will *easily* dismiss any fact you bring up.
My 2cts and cheers!
The Saker
I agree with you Saker. Shameful the way they abuse the calling on Allah’s Greatness. Don’t worry though, let them stay ignorant to the consequences. Real muslims abhor their blasphemous ways.
Peace to You
Zainab
@Zainab:Real muslims abhor their blasphemous ways
Of course, as much as real Christians abhorred to hear all sorts of atrocities justified under the ad majorem Dei gloriam!
I think that only a pious person can truly measure the abomination of misusing God’s name for the most depraved of human sins. This is also why I feel that it behooves us, religious people, to vehemently and systematically denounce such blasphemies, if only because, as Saint Gregory the Theologian wrote, “God is betrayed by silence”.
Peace to you and thank you.
The Saker
Patrick Cockburn has a piece that deals with the same hypocrisy:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/01/14/the-war-against-the-shia/
Peace
@Ishamid: yes, I have seen this article, but give me the credit – I did raise the topic long before Cockburn did: :-)
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-does-civil-war-in-syria-really.html
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2012/05/anti-shia-plans-finalized-by-nwo-elites.html
In this article I actually wrote “There is no war on Islam, there is only a global war on Shia Islam”
This is a topic which I might devote a full article to. There is no doubt in my mind that the New World Order has the Shia in his crosshairs and that there is a grand anti-Shia coalition at work, but there is also a lot I do not understand, being the outsider that I am.
If I lay it all out in an article, will you help me make sense of it all?
Kind regards,
The Saker
Please write the article Saker I would be fascinated to read it.