DoD wrote:

[Freaking liberal ding dongs, all cut from the same clothe]

The New York Times published a photograph of a young Pakistani boy
recently
standing with an old man next to an ancient, unfired artillery shell. It
placed a caption under it that read: "Pakistani men with the remains of a
missile fired at a house in the Bajur tribal zone near the Afghan
border."

A short time later, the newspaper changed the caption to: "Correction: A
picture caption on Saturday with an article about a U.S. airstrike on a
village in Pakistan misidentified an unexploded ordinance. It was not the
remains of a missile fired at a house."

The photograph - it appears - was a fake. A propaganda stunt set up by
the
Pakastanis to fool the Western media. It worked.

And, when Danish Muslim leaders recently toured the Islamic world with a
43-page report protesting 12 cartoons published by the newspaper
Iyllands-Posten last October, they inserted an extra three into the
Report
for good measure. The Brussells Journal reported that the extra cartoons
depicted Mohamed as a pedophile and a pigsnout, with a third, portraying
a
praying Muslim being raped by a dog.

Akhmad Akkari, spokesperson for the Muslim organizations involved in the
tour, told The Brussels Journal that the three extra cartoons had been
added
to "give an insight in how hateful the atmosphere in Denmark is towards
Muslims." The truth - it appears - was considered insufficient by the 21
Danish Muslim organizations protesting the publication of pictures of
their
prophet, Mohamed.

The propensity to manufacture propaganda in the Arab world is
traditionally
accepted as a method to safeguard honor and status and to avoid shame. It
is
not, as David Pryce-Jones explained in The Closed Circle: An
Interpretation
of the Arabs, a matter of morality or malice. "If honor so demands, " he
said, "lies and cheating may become absolute imperatives." In fact,
exploiting every possibility for converting shame to honor is considered
a
noble skill. Shia practice recognizes this predicament and permits
taqyia,
or "precautionary dissimulation" where Muslims can lie and cheat with
religious sanctity.

Back in 2002, Palestinian media reported that Israel had committed the
"massacre of the 21st century." The refugee camp in Jenin, it claimed,
was
the burial ground of "hundreds of martyrs." The Weekly Standard reported
that Palestinian UN representative, Nasser al-Kidwa told CNN:

There's almost a massacre now taking place in Jenin. Helicopter gun ships
are throwing missiles at one square kilometer packed with almost 15,000
people in a refugee camp. . . .Just look at the TV and watch, watch what
the--what the Israel forces are doing. . . This is a war crime, clear war
crime, witnessed by the whole world, preventing ambulances, preventing
people from being buried. I mean this is an all-out assault against the
whole population.

After the United Nations called emergency meetings and the world's press
published first-hand accounts of Israeli atrocities - they reluctantly
discovered that the whole thing was an elaborate hoax. Arafat had called
for
"a million martyrs to march to Jerusalem" and inventing a massacre had
provided a world stage for his propaganda machine. But, truth was the
real
massacre as the West climbed upon Arafat's stage and danced his
mountebank
waltz.

When the Hollywood Foreign Press Association celebrated the morally
repugnant subject of suicide bombing and rewarded its adaptation to a
Hollywood template by presenting Paradise Now with a Golden Globe, the
truth
was in jeopardy again. Studded with historical inaccuracies and
romanticized
terrorists, the film attempts to normalize everyday mass murder by
portraying murderers as misunderstood victims who kill innocents to
create
justice
The film's producers couldn't have known when they inserted historical
inaccuracies into the script that the Hollywood entertainment industry
would
grant them "precautionary dissimulation" and then put gold in their
pockets
to reward them for their dishonesty.

And when the wannabe suicide bomber, Khaled, announced in the film that
"the
Palestinians have exhausted every political means" to achieving "a
two-state
solution", the Hollywood Foreign Press Association forgot about 1937,
1947,
1967 and 2001, when the Jews accepted the partition of Palestine/Israel,
but
the Arabs rejected a two-state compromise. They chose instead, to adhere
to
the film's representation where their newfound favourite actors could
safely
remain victims.

Hollywood gave Golden Globe winner, Hany Abu-Assad, the world stage and
several million people to listen to his claim that the award was "a
recognition that the Palestinians deserve their liberty and equality
unconditionally." They didn't ask him why they'd already knocked it back
four times and Hollywood didn't appear concerned with the real historical
details.

So, while it is clear that Arabs exercise taqyia to promote honor and
prestige, it is unclear why the West is continually drawn into this
charade.
Recognizing trickery and deciphering propaganda have become essential
modern
day skills in the interpretation of Arab behaviour. David Pryce-Jones
noted
that for Arabs "Information control, which may or may not include lying,
is
the only effective strategy for arbitrating between honor and shame..."
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Thanks for posting this.