Ben Shapiro, on Townhall.com today, hits the nail on the head with his open letter to the mainstream media:
Dear mainstream media,Mark Alexander
I understand why you report as you do in both the Israel-Hezbollah conflict and the larger war on terror. You believe journalism requires a sort of elegant moral relativism, that telling "both sides of the story" is a necessary prerequisite to "objective" journalism. You don't believe that there can be an objective right or wrong; if you were reporting World War II today, you'd feel obligated to speak to front-line Japanese and Nazi soldiers and discuss the Allies' disproportionate response to the attack on Pearl Harbor and the invasion of Poland. Open letter to the mainstream media by Ben Shapiro
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Mark, the excert below is from: www.islamawareness.co.nz - ah yes, think I might go and visit a mosque. And guess what? It's from the BBC, now there's a shock.
"In this 90-minute documentary, Rageh Omaar uncovers the hidden story of Europe's Islamic past and looks back to a golden age when European civilisation was enriched by Islamic learning. Rageh travels across medieval Muslim Europe to reveal the vibrant civilisation that Muslims brought to the West. This evocative film brings to life a time when emirs and caliphs dominated Spain and Sicily and Islamic scholarship swept into the major cities of Europe. His journey reveals the debt owed to Islam for its vital contribution to the European Renaissance."
So there you go mate! Be thankful!
A very fine article by this young man. I printed the entire article to savor.
Two things the article evoked:
1. If there is anyone in the MSM who has any idea just what "objectivity" is, please identify this person, so that we can single out him or her for great praise. Note, I said "this person." To the MSM, objectivity has come to mean "presenting all sides of what I feel." Encarta's dictionary said it in one of its definitions of objectivity correctly ['the fact or quality of being accurate, unbiased, and independent of individual perceptions"]. One does not have to be "fair and balanced" in the usual banal sense of that expression to be objective, nor does one have to give up one's own biases and perspectives (i.e., become "dispassionate"). One has to know all of the relevant facts and principles involved and know how to separate them from one's own viewpoint rather than "select" facts, based on one's desires, etc. It's that knowing the differences that MSM folk lack.
2. Whenever you see or hear anyone referring to "proportionate" with regard to war, beware. You are around somebody stuffed with this postmodernist "just war theory." There is a great article about the errors and evils of "just war theory" in http://www.theobjectivestandard.com in its inaugural issue (vol. 1, no. 1). I will just add that if you want to see "just war theory" in action, look at the disasters of Iraq and Afghanistan. The "just war theory" is neither objective, nor just, but it is killing the USA and its coalition allies.
Ben Shapiro has the right idea about proportionality: If a war must be fought, fight to win and give it all that you can as quickly as you can to sap the ability and will of the enemy and his supporters to fight and to save blood and treasure. That is objective "proportionality." Israel made its job so very hard by using this surgical strike notion instead of a massive blitzkrieg into southern Lebanon. As a result, the war has stretched out, and the blood and treasure are pouring out.
I am torn between the media understanding of 'proportionate response' and my understanding of it.
If for example, I am buzzed by a wasp then I will shoe it away, I think that is 'proportionate'.
However, if that same wasp comes back to me in time, having gotten itself drunk and angry on rotten fruit, and it then stings me - I will kill it, without the slightest hesitation, and most probably wish that I had done so in the first place!
Now picture that response in media terms, and there lies the problem... after all it's me that's getting stung not them, and if I went on to destroy the wasps nest killing many 'innocent' wasps in the process then in media terms that would be 'disproportionate'.
But for me it would simply mean that I could sit back once again and enjoy the sunshine.
Human beings though are not wasps, they do not have to follow their creed - they have choices.
Anyone that lives with, associates with, harbours, feeds, or supports terrorism is a terrorist, innocent victims are the tragedy of such people.
just heard breaking news that a terrorist plot to blow up a British aircraft has been thwarted, but its just a matter of time, how many plots have the British police stopped now?
Patience is wearing VERY thin with people like you fella, fredistar, when you eventually arouse the sleeping anger in the British people then you will find who is afraid of whom.
The British people have been lied to by their government, invaded by unwanted and alien cultures, taxed heavily to subsidise them, and are now under attack by those same people for whom we opened our doors as sanctuary from oppression.
You have bitten the hand that showed you kindness, and from this point there will be a gathering storm. Sense it, feel it, for it will sweep this land of you and all those like you. We are British, this is OUR land, and our kindness to you has become our undoing, be aware that we will not make that same mistake again!
There are some really inciteful comments here today. So many speaking so much sense!
We've had enough of all this nonsense the BBC spews out, and all the rest of the multi-culti, politically-correct MSM and politicians. Let's see some real leadership. It's time to think about doing the unthinkable. We need to protect innocent people, not protect the perpetrators of evil.
Excellent points, both The Old Nail and Mussolini! We have to defeat this barbarism that only Islam seems to know these days!
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