GORDON DUFF: LIVING AND DYING: ISLAM, JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY

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screenhunter_49_nov._11_11.15_150SCAPEGOATING ISLAM BECAUSE WE ARE TOTALLY SCREWED UP AIN’T GONNA WORK

By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor

Today, in Tampa, Fla, a Navy reservist tried to murder a Greek Orthodox priest from Crete as a “terrorist.”  The reservist claimed the non-Arabic speaking Greek had yelled “Allah Akbar.” (God is Great)  When arrested, Naval Reservist Jason D. Bruce told police the priest had tried to rob him.  Thus, America’s honor is defended again.  Two idiotic wars, two phony invasions and lots of hate crimes, the number, we will never know.   We do know 99% of what we hear is lies.  Vietnam was a lie.  Iraq was a lie and Americans are dying in Afghanistan over more lies.  Perhaps we could spread the hate out a bit.  We seem to have so much of it.

Now when I hear about 9/11, no matter what I saw, the insane coincidences, the suppressed intelligence and the childish lies told the Commission by Rumsfeld and Cheney make me feel like we have all been “had.”  The Iraq lies, thousands of them, were not enough.  Now we have the fiasco of a war in Afghanistan where everything is destroyed, everything except poppy plants.  They must be invisible, bullet proof, something.  One pattern emerges, lies, money, lies, killing and more lies.  I am sick of it.  Scapegoating Greek priests or Islamic Americans isn’t justified, even after incidents like Ft. Hood shootings.

The stink over Ft. Hood is starting to spread.  Every bit of it dishonors the families of the dead.  We have too many people, too many armchair counter terrorists, too many “boogeyman” fundraisers and too many hate mongers.  They are all in motion now.  Dead soldiers are, as usual, a business, a racket.  Nothing new in this.

The terrorist, Hasan, is going to have to get the “Jack Ruby” treatment.  I got an anonymous email from the Homeland Security group at George Washington University last night claiming Hasan walked in off the street.  I ran the names of the people he was with, off the same list his name came from.  It was a “who’s who” of security and counter terrorism experts.  Hasan got too close to the power during his 6 years at Walter Reed.  He made friends in the “right” places and now they are running for cover like rats.

I don’t think any American had a part in this.  This Hasan guy was totally nuts.  Can I please have an end to the lying?  Please stop the phony fundraising for right wing political baloney.  Please stop damning over a billion Muslims because of this one criminal.  I don’t care if there are a hundred more like him, do the count.  Islamic Americans have not been much of a threat, not compared to many other groups.  They have a nasty habit of working for a living, obeying laws and leaving other people alone.  This is the truth. Learn to deal with it and move on with life.

If you lie to me enough times, I will stop thinking you are a nice person.  9/11 is so full of holes, that failing to call for a new investigation but blaming Islam is an insult, an insult to me, an insult to endless millions of Muslims to believe 9/11 was an abomination.

I can no longer tell which group, the former Bush administration or the conspiracy people are telling the truth.  I have proof that the Bush group lied about Iraq and hundreds of other things.  Thus, they can’t be believed.  Anyone who chooses to believe a liar is a fool. End of story.

Back when Saddam invaded Kuwait, we were told that babys were taken out of their incubators and killed.  Then we found the story, reported by every news organization, came from Israeli sources.  It was a total lie.  After 9/11, we saw films of Palestinians dancing in the streets celebrating.  Then we found the films were 10 years old.  Israeli’s gave us them also.

When the UN called our invasion of Iraq a war crime, we used 9/11 as an excuse, that and information we have found was, not only lies, but lies paid for by taxpayer money.  We bought lies to start a war whose only real purpose was to steal oil, bilk the government with no bid contracts to Bush insiders, hundreds of billions were stolen and kill of thousands of Americans in the process.

When we found we had started a permanent war, we set up a cheap subterfuge called “the surge” and put half of Iraq on welfare, paying criminals billions of dollars to leave us alone.  The end result?  We seem to have built a massive Mafia inside Iraq that any real government will have to fight for decades.  This is what has really happened.  Check on it.  The truth is out there.

Can anyone begin to tell me what Afghanistan is about?  Please, anyone?  I study this stuff and it makes my head spin.  I have so many groups, foreign fighters, Mujahideen, a dozen different Taliban groups in two countries and more warlords than you can count.  We send people out into the middle of nowhere, and folks show up and try to kill them.  I love our military geniuses.

Do we know why?  Sure we do.  You send anyone, girl scouts, mimes, washing machine repairmen into Afghanistan, and someone will show up to kill them.  Buy a history book.  Read it.

Do we call Afghanistan a war?  It is more like Detroit.

Are we going to win the war?  Win what?  Oh, we are going to make everyone loveS President Karzai and join his government and build a nation, a democracy we can be proud of.  Farming on the moon would be easier and much more sensible.  It would also be cheaper and less dangerous.

So, what is all this stuff about Islam?  I don’t claim to be an expert.  I studied this stuff in college.  I have lived in Islamic countries.  I have many friends there.  Islam is not a country.  It isn’t really one religion, there are different kinds.  We are talking about nearly half the planet here.

Are there things in Islam that read “unpleasantly?”  Yes.  The Koran has alot of Old Testament in it.  Get out a Christian Bible.  Start with Genesis.  A couple of things will start to come to mind.  Both religions involve the same folks, Abraham in particular.  Both religions involve alot of war and killing.  You can pick out language that will justify anything.

If you want to see how language can be twisted, read the Patriot Acts and then scan the Constitution.  If you don’t have your eyes roll back into your head after that, you are a pure dullard.

Islam can be used to justify many things.  The Taliban and some in Iran have some odd ideas.  The Wahabists in Saudi Arabia make my head spin also.  However, the church by my mother’s house in Kentucky had snake handlers and people rolling around the floor.  Before you want to accuse the Taliban of crazy, listen to John Hagee, “preacher in charge” during the Bush administration.  This guy is “Taliban on sterioids.”

What is real and not real?  News on TV is not real, not anymore.  If you see a picture of something, it could be a dozen years old, it could be anything.  If someone tells you something, you have to ask yourself why?  Who is paying him?  Should things be that way?  Hell, no!

If we send our kids to war, we now have to ask, who makes money from it.  We all do that already, don’t try to kid me.  Some of us don’t admit it, but we all do it.  First thing you ask:

  • What are we there to steal?  Do they have oil?  Drugs?
  • Did the Israeli’s push us into it?
  • Where is this place, I never heard of it?  Does someone have a map?
  • Who is the enemy?  Is there an enemy?  If we win, do we get a prize?
  • Do we have to blow the whole place up first, before we give them billions to rebuild it or can we just save the time and drop money on them instead?
  • What do you call 5000 lobbyists on the bottom of the ocean?  (A good start?)

Can we dig back into our own history:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. —

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are suffer-able, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpation s, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

Does it say, anywhere, that it is our job to invade other countries and do all this for them?  Does anyone note a failure or two in keeping to some of these ideas back here?  Did the Founding Fathers suspect that huge corporations were going to buy and sell our own government and that a huge standing army, more powerful than the forces of the entire planet was going to, under the guise of “spreading freedom,” run rampant around the planet with mercenaries and oil companies?

Does anyone pick up an undercurrent of “mind our own business” in these words from the Declaration of Independence?  Has anyone found the part saying we will send in armies and put drug dealers, criminals and thieves in charge of countries, steal their oil, blow things up and fight for decades, because we don’t like their religion?

The folks who wrote the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson in particular, knew Islam well and was not a person very inclined to be a Christian extremist.  It takes a bit of work to show Jefferson as a Christian at all.  These were men of the Age of Enlightenment, a time when religion and its abuses had proven itself unable to exist in a democracy.  If you want to check, you will find that the official policy of the Catholic Church, well into the 19th century declared, not only living in a democracy but the act of voting as a sin.

Perhaps the next time anyone, be it in Jordan, Egypt, Iraq or Alabama, feels a need to chase someone down the street because of their religion, it might be time to pause a moment.  The 3 religions of the Book share one thing in common, a single deity.  It is the same deity.  There are different words, different practices and, oddly, many of the same prophets.

Even if it was written 3000 years ago or 1500 years ago, the intent was not to destroy the lives of children, destroy families and spread hate.  Anyone who thinks they can fix this with a gun or bomb or advocate hate, is an enemy of mankind.  You are either with us or against, us, Bush was right about that.  He just had the “us” part wrong.


VT Senior Editor Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran and regular contributor on political and social issues.duffster

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Gordon Duff posted articles on VT from 2008 to 2022. He is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War. A disabled veteran, he worked on veterans and POW issues for decades. Gordon is an accredited diplomat and is generally accepted as one of the top global intelligence specialists. He manages the world's largest private intelligence organization and regularly consults with governments challenged by security issues. Duff has traveled extensively, is published around the world, and is a regular guest on TV and radio in more than "several" countries. He is also a trained chef, wine enthusiast, avid motorcyclist, and gunsmith specializing in historical weapons and restoration. Business experience and interests are in energy and defense technology.