‘Game on’: why Iran goads the gullible west - a good article by Melanie Phillips: One of the more notable characteristics of what we must surely call the world jihadi community is how proud – indeed, positively boastful – they are about their murderous intent. That’s presumably because they really do believe they are fulfilling a sacred mission. From Gaza to Mogadishu, from Ramallah to Tehran, those bent on holy war repeatedly announce their support for and encouragement of the defeat of the west, the murder of Jews and the destruction of Israel. Much, but by no means all, of this incendiary rhetoric is delivered in Arabic. Statements in English often comprise the emollient phrases of compromise and moderation which are a mandatory precondition of jihadi participation in talks with the west, and which accordingly are carefully crafted to exploit the fathomless gullibility of the cultural-suicide crowd. We have heard this double-speak all the time from the terrorist godfathers of the ‘moderate’ PLO; we have heard it in spades from Iran’s President Rouhani and his foreign minister and chief negotiator at Geneva Mohammad Javad Zarif, whose own personal charm caused politicians and journalists alike to swoon. The hallucinatory nature of the warmongers’ double-speak is matched in degree by the west’s double-think. Not only do its politicians and media take the jihadis’ charm offensive at face value but, more egregiously, they totally ignore the open expressions of incitement or aggression by such people even when they are spoken in plain English. https://embooks/blog/single/game-on-why-iran-goads-the-gullible-west
Posted on: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 19:39:18 +0000
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