Thursday, February 09, 2006
Information Warfare produces Real Riots
Muslim rioting over the Danish cartoons is a best viewed as a product of Militant Islamic information warfare. This does not mean that all rioters are militants and certainly not that all muslims are Islamic Militants. But some are and they are doing the inciting as a means of leveraging the world's 1.3 billion muslims and the religion of Islam for their own ideological war and power. We need to stay mindful that we are in a war with these people and have been, at their initiative, for decades if not longer. It's just recently that we have forced to recognize this war is real and threatening to us and is being played out in many arenas from the military to the cultural.
There are several good articles following up on the theme of my post about the "Cartoon Wars" being orchestrated.Thanks to a lot of good investigative blogging, we now know that much of the riot instigation (for political benefit) is due to Syria and Iran; that the Egypt-based Muslim Brotherhood and some Danish Imams played a big initial role - even to the point of including 3 extra (highly inflamatory) bogus cartoons; and that the Egptian newspaper, al-Foger, published the original cartoons in mid October,2004 and excited no violence or outrage at that time. Here are a few good references and links for more.
This article by ThreatsWatch.Org cites statements by both US and Lebanese officials that show some clear-sighted understanding of what is happening and the need to respond. It also has a photo of that Egyptian paper with the cartoons ( so much for the sanctitiy of Mohammed's image). It starts: "US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called out Iran and Syria for their part in inciting and fostering ongoing riots in their own countries and elsewhere throughout the region. In accusing the two countries of implication, Ms. Rice said, “I don’t have any doubt that given the control of the Syrian government in Syria, given the control of the Iranian government – which, by the way, hasn’t even hidden its hand in this – that Iran and Syria have gone out of their way to inflame sentiment and to use this to their own purposes, and the world ought to call them on it.”" Read it all.
For more on the role of the Danish Muslim militants and the organization of the info war plot , see this Powerline Blog: The cartoon intifada, cont'. It covers several other pertinent links. For continuing coverage, keep checking Powerline blog as well Michelle Malkin's blog, where you can see the for the original 12 cartoons as well as the bogus extra 3.
By the way, one of the extra 3 was billed as showing Mohammed with a pig's snout; but the fact is that it was a grainy fax image from a french newsphoto of a clown at a hog calling contest. Scroll to this blog item from Michelle Malkin: "THE LYING DANISH IMAMS, posted by her on February 08, 2006 .Trust the blogosphere to publish these images side by side for you to draw your own conclusions.
There are several good articles following up on the theme of my post about the "Cartoon Wars" being orchestrated.Thanks to a lot of good investigative blogging, we now know that much of the riot instigation (for political benefit) is due to Syria and Iran; that the Egypt-based Muslim Brotherhood and some Danish Imams played a big initial role - even to the point of including 3 extra (highly inflamatory) bogus cartoons; and that the Egptian newspaper, al-Foger, published the original cartoons in mid October,2004 and excited no violence or outrage at that time. Here are a few good references and links for more.
This article by ThreatsWatch.Org cites statements by both US and Lebanese officials that show some clear-sighted understanding of what is happening and the need to respond. It also has a photo of that Egyptian paper with the cartoons ( so much for the sanctitiy of Mohammed's image). It starts: "US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called out Iran and Syria for their part in inciting and fostering ongoing riots in their own countries and elsewhere throughout the region. In accusing the two countries of implication, Ms. Rice said, “I don’t have any doubt that given the control of the Syrian government in Syria, given the control of the Iranian government – which, by the way, hasn’t even hidden its hand in this – that Iran and Syria have gone out of their way to inflame sentiment and to use this to their own purposes, and the world ought to call them on it.”" Read it all.
For more on the role of the Danish Muslim militants and the organization of the info war plot , see this Powerline Blog: The cartoon intifada, cont'. It covers several other pertinent links. For continuing coverage, keep checking Powerline blog as well Michelle Malkin's blog, where you can see the for the original 12 cartoons as well as the bogus extra 3.
By the way, one of the extra 3 was billed as showing Mohammed with a pig's snout; but the fact is that it was a grainy fax image from a french newsphoto of a clown at a hog calling contest. Scroll to this blog item from Michelle Malkin: "THE LYING DANISH IMAMS, posted by her on February 08, 2006 .Trust the blogosphere to publish these images side by side for you to draw your own conclusions.
