7/3/11, "TSA: A Portrait in Islamization,' American Thinker, Rabbi Ryeh Spero
"On June 18th in an airport in Florida, Transportation Security Administration agents required a 95-year-old woman with leukemia to remove her adult diaper if she wanted to pass their inspection and travel. The TSA says they would have been satisfied with merely feeling around the garment,
- but it was wet.
This is not simply foolish, but evidence that our governmental agencies are already engaged in Islamization, for Islamization has taken root when a society abandons its decades of prevailing standards of dignity and common sense so as to accommodate Islam. In this case, American policy has set aside
- our historic respect for individual personhood
as well as law enforcement's tried and tested method of profiling the most likely to commit a particular crime. Groping little girls, afflicting old women, and invasively searching middle-aged people with no indication of being a threat is not the American way and would not, in other circumstances, be tolerated by any civil rights organization except here due to our preoccupation of
- not offending Muslims.
When a society asks its citizens to accept their own debasement and forgo their right to modesty and propriety -- and all that constitutes first-class citizenship -- so as to accommodate Muslim demands, those citizens have now taken a backseat; they have become second-class. Second-class citizenship for non-Muslims so as not to offend Muslims is called dhimmitude, a core Islamic belief, the a priori subtext of the Islamization process. In effect, it elevates the Muslim over the non-Muslim and holds in higher regard how he is to be treated relative to how the Christian or Jew is to be treated. This is the ideal practiced throughout the Islamic world.
There are those that call this accommodation, but in reality it is Islamization for it, step-by-step, leads to an acceptance by society and ultimately society's new standard. The imams and Islamic organizations are well aware of Western society's desire to be accommodating and have seized upon it as a way to begin the process that goes from accommodation to a society submissive to its own dhimmi status, in its very own land.
This has happened in Great Britain where schools with a mixed student body will, out of deference to the Muslim students, no longer serve pork in the cafeteria. Jewish students never made such demands. Instead of live and let live -- the historic operating template of the West -- Britons are asked to forfeit their preferences and identity under the Islamic rubric of "It's our way, not your way." Similarly, British neighborhoods with sizeable, but not majority, Islamic populations are forgoing their centuries-old Christmas street displays so as not to offend Muslims. It is, effectually,
- the beginning of a society
- submitting to shariah,
- first by omission and eventually in actual commission.
Government bureaucrats call it sensitivity, but it is, of course, the ever-moving train of Islamization. Islam makes demands of a society that no other minority has ever made precisely because, unlike other groups, its goal is to reconfigure the society. Even today, many in the West think Islamic demands are simply of the age-old civil rights variety, as was the case with other minorities, when it is
- really about Islamization, the imposition of Islam
- over the prevailing culture and over its citizens.
This degradation of the American citizenry is not enough for many in the Islamic organizations, who all too often yell discrimination and "Islamaphobia" when a Muslim, like all other Americans, is subjected to TSA inspection. They cry the cry of civil rights, but the undertone bespeaks a feeling of Islamic entitlement, that Muslims are above the rest and should be spared the intrusions others must bear. It's a manifestation of the dhimmi notion found in the fifty-seven Islamic countries that shape the attitude of those,
- even here, who see them as model societies.
but yet another opportunity to assert Islamic supremacy and hierarchy above the rest of us, the dhimmis.
A society is in a condition of dhimmitude when it neglects protecting its own people and overlooks what is done to its people so as not to offend Islam. It does so by discarding its previous values and begins accepting what it, deep down, knows is not true. In Norway and Sweden, for example, there are reports of young Islamic men raping local Scandinavian girls. Yet, fearful of Islamic cries of Islamophobia, authorities are not prosecuting these men and are buying into the imamic assertion that it's the scantily dressed girls who
- are, really, at fault by making men victims of their own youthful passions.
When coming from a nation that for years denounced these very assertions as sexist, one has reached dhimmitude. What was previously the victim, the raped woman, is now the aggressor, and what was previously the aggressor, the man, is now the victim if a male Muslim. Dhimitude is not simply the demotion of one's own culture in relation to Islam but a categorization of inferiority as a people, and in body, to that of Islam. Many in the West are now
- voluntarily practicing racism against their own race.
Islamization is happening not simply because of the brazenness of Islam but because of the multiculturalism that has become our self-imposed test as to our worthiness. What began as an attempt in openness has metastasized to assigning
- other cultures superiority to our own.
In fact, the more it differs from our own,
- the more we elevate it above our own.
Last year, a State Department spokesman announced that our procedures at the airport were necessary "so we can prove what we preach." Proving our tolerance has become more important than common sense. What impels a society to
- undergo mass humiliation so as
- to prove to Islam that we are not racist?
Indeed, it would seem that Islam has a greater need to prove itself to us -- to prove that the atrocities perpetuated in its name around the world are, somehow, an aberration.
The more we obsess over their honor, the less we seem to care about our own honor. What makes us cherish their honor more than being concerned with the gross indignities of our own women and children? It is the self-hate and guilt generated by liberalism, an infectious disease spread across this country unrelentingly for over fifty years from the dens of New York's Upper West Side. It has brainwashed a great people into
- a confused and, often, pathetic submission.
It has made us ripe for Islamization. Let's hope we gather our strength and pride before we, God forbid,
- become Sweden and Norway. "
From the 9-11 Commission Hearings, 1/27/2004, discussing airline safety measures:
""MR. MANNO (TSA official): Well, historically the groups that have targeted
- aviation have been
- Islamic extremists, yes. "...
(in repsonse to question from Commissioner Senator Bob Kerrey)
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1/27/2004, "NATIONAL COMMISSION ON TERRORIST ATTACKS UPON THE UNITED STATES"
Public Hearing, including Jane Garvey, former FAA administrator, Mr. Flynn, former FAA official, Mr. Manno, TSA, assistant administrator for intelligence, Mr. Loy, DHS Dep. Sec., United Airlines (former officials Soliday and Studdert), and American Airlines CEO (Arpey), Commissioners former US Senator Bob Kerrey, Mr. Ben-Veniste, Mr. Lehman, and others.
Following is discussion of airplane safety, from 9-11 Commission Transcript, 1/27/04, (Senator Kerrey said even in 2004, long lines and searches at the airport were a waste of time and intruding on the wrong people. Airline officials told him they were not allowed to profile an ethnicity and the airline was sued every time they removed a problem person from a plane):
(Former US Senator) Mr.(Bob)Kerrey: "And by the way, I'm a customer, and when this commission finishes this work today, I'm taking the train back to New York and no small measure because I find the security procedures not only to be a nuisance,
- but I think they're largely ineffective....
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"MR. MANNO (TSA official): Well, historically the groups that have targeted aviation have been Islamic extremists, yes.
MR. KERREY: Historically?
MR. MANNO: Hezbollah. Pardon, sir?
MR. KERREY: Historically?
MR. MANNO: Historically. Going back to Hezbollah, for example, is one of the other groups.
MR. KERREY: Give me historically. What are you talking about historically? Last 10 years?
MR. MANNO: Since 1985, with the hijacking of TWA 847 by Hezbollah.
MR. KERREY: Did any change occur in 1998?
MR. MANNO: No.
MR. KERREY: So...are you saying that there's no increase and concern about the danger to the United States from Islamic extremists in 1998?
MR. MANNO: No. There was. And we wrote several assessments, sent out information circulars and -...MR. KERREY: After the attack on Dar es Salaam in Nairobi -- and I say it with great respect, Administrator Garvey -- you said that after 9/11, there was a war, before 9/11, there was a war. There was a war before 9/11. It didn't start with 9/11. That was one of the military actions against us. ... I'm not blaming you for this because it seems to me at some point the President's national security advisor, whether it was President Clinton or President Bush or Burger or Rice, they got to drive this thing all the way down to the FAA
- or it's not going to work....
Mr. Ben Veniste:
"Fundamentalist elements who have been tracked and described and whose motivations have been categorized for years and years, and then an individual in the screening process, seeing a young Arab male carrying such a device, is not interviewed: What are you doing with this? Where are you going? Who are you? How long have you been here? The sort of common sense that we heard yesterday from an INS officer, Jose Melendez.
But that was not done not once, not twice, nine times as people set off magnetometers, which of course was the case we know with respect to at least some of the hijackers. I don't understand how you could have all of these directives and taking additional security measures when the individuals who are conducting the security measures are not themselves told to be alert and specifically for the type of people who you know, on the basis of what you are saying yourselves, might be the ones to carry out such terrorist acts. Admiral Flynn?
MR. FLYNN: With regard to people, we were under very strict guidelines not to select people on the basis of ethnicity or national origin.
MR. BEN-VENISTE: But somebody of ethnicity who fits the description of what you yourself regard as the principal threat domestically to airline security, carrying a knife like this, does that not -- did that not at that time at least warrant the individual conducting that security measure
- to ask some questions?
MR. FLYNN: No....
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MR. SOLIDAY (former United Airlines Safety Officer): The problem is -- and you can make light of it, if you like -- a citizen does not have the right to search and seize. There are privacy issues and, for example, as a company who was prepared to roll CAPPS out and did roll it out long before any other company, a visitor from the Justice Department who told me that if I had more than three people
- of the same ethnic origin
in line for additional screening, our system would be shut down as discriminatory.
MR. LEHMAN: That is an important point"....
(United and American Airlines officials say even after 9/11 up to the week before these hearings, they were sued and/or fined each time they removed a passenger who was a threat. United was told not to continue removing such passengers after 38 instances. American Airlines says it was sued by the US government for all 10 or 11 passengers they had removed at that point post 9/11:ed.):
- Continuing transcript 9-11 hearings, 1/27/2004:
"MR. SOLIDAY (former United Airlines Safety Officer): "After 9/11, 38 of our captains denied boarding to people they thought were a threat. Those people filed complaints with the DOT, we were sued, and we were asked not to do it again."...
MR. ARPEY (American Airlines): "In a post-9/11 environment, we had situations where our crew members were uncomfortable with passengers on board the airplane, they hauled them off the airplane and I think -- there was 10 or 11 of them -- and today we're being sued by the DOT over each one of those cases. "...
MR. STUDDERT (former United Airlines official): I think last month United was actually fined. We should follow up for you on that....
Mr. Kerrey: there's two big ways I think you get the job done. One is by preventing them from getting on the plane in the first place, and I think there's a couple of -- personally, I think there's a couple of relatively simple things that could have been done and still could be done that could eliminate all these long lines and all this harassment and all this difficulty getting on the airplane and making it difficult to fly and causing people to wonder what in the heck is going on.
There's a couple of relatively simple things that could be done prior to people getting on the airplane and I think, for political reasons, we don't want to do it. And I think the American people want you to tell us what are those simple things. And if the politicians are afraid -- the elected politicians are afraid, we need to give them some room and give them permission to do it...
It wasn't unimaginable. We had an Islamic terrorist organization that was operating right in the United States of America and we allowed it to happen....
I've got a prosthesis from the Vietnam War. You know, they've got to -- now they practically strip search me to check me out and do all that. I mean, go fly commercial. I've got friends today that won't fly commercial any more.
I mean, I hope that TSA doesn't do to Amtrak what it's done to the airlines. I mean, that's the way I feel, let me just tell you. I just -- from the standpoint of a single individual, I don't feel safer and I don't feel like -- in part because I don't think we're walking up to the microphones and saying, all of us made a terrible mistake. We miscalculated here....
What is that all about, other than denial?
So when I hear this -- I hear people seem sort of chirpy that we've got it all figured out and it's all going to be better, I just say Jesus. I mean, you've got to start by saying every single one of us made a huge miscalculation and it got us into a hell of a lot of trouble...
We made a terrible mistake and we paid a hell of a price for it. And I just -- I mean, my whole -- I wish you well. I mean, I hope that you and Tom Ridge are very successful and that you win distinguished service medals for great service in organizing this department, but I'm still a skeptic. I'm still skeptical that the whole thing has added much value to the security of the American people. "...
1/27/2004, "NATIONAL COMMISSION ON TERRORIST ATTACKS UPON THE UNITED STATES"
Public Hearing, including Jane Garvey, former FAA administrator, Mr. Flynn, former FAA official, Mr. Manno, TSA, assistant administrator for intelligence, Mr. Loy, DHS Dep. Sec., former United Airlines officials (Soliday and Studdert), current American Airlines CEO (Arpey), Commissioners former US Senator Bob Kerrey, Mr. Ben-Veniste, Mr. Lehman, and others.
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