« Obsession« , non, c’est pas un nouveau parfum d’Yves Saint-Laurent ou Calvin Klein ni même le film qui avait coûté la vie au petit-neveu de Van Gogh (« Submission » ).
Mais un documentaire de Raphael Shore sorti en novembre dernier sur les parallèles entre l’islamisme et le nazisme.
Il n’est pas aussi bon que le film de Robert Spencer (Islam: What the West Needs to Know) parce que, comme le montre Ilana Mercer (voir ci-dessous), il se cramponne encore au mythe rassurant de la distinction entre un islam « modéré » et un islam « radical », mais il a le mérite de faire connaitre au grand public, comme le montre l’entretien sur CNN du réalisateur et de Nonie Darwish (merci etabori), un certain nombre de faits généralement occultés par les bonnes feuilles paroissiales qui nous servent de médias.
Voir le reportage de CNN (et la transcription ) du 14 décembre dernier :
I was actually speaking with Bernard Lewis last week. He’s a preeminent Islamic scholar in the world today, and he said that what is important for people to realize today, he said, he was an intelligent officer in the British Army in the 1940s.
He was more optimistic about a victory of the West then, after the Nazis had taken over Poland, Czechoslovakia and France than he is now, over the victory of the West over radical Islam.
And I asked him why, that’s such a shocking statement. And he said because, then we knew who we were and we knew who they were. We were the Western world, which was freedom and Democracy and individual rights and they were totalitarian dictators who were trying to destroy our way of life.
Today, he said, we don’t know who we are, we don’t know what we stand for in the West and we don’t know that there’s an enemy that is trying to — has declared war and is trying to destroy the West.
PHILLIPS: The film is called « Obsession, » radical Islam’s war against the West. It’s a fascinating and chilling look at the parallels between Nazism and modern Islamic terrorism.
Raphael Shore, one of the film’s producers joins me from Jerusalem and Nonie Darwish is in Los Angeles. She was featured in the film because she grew up in Gaza and her father led Fedayeen operations against Israel until he was assassinated.
It’s an honor to have both of you. Raphael, I want to begin with you, talking about the comparison between radical Islam and Hitler’s Nazi regime. I think a lot of people look at this, or those that have seen this film and say, wow, we have not learned from the past, have we?
RAPHAEL SHORE, PRODUCER, « OBSESSION »: No, I don’t think so. First of all, thanks for having us on the show. It’s really the case that we have not learned, and that’s what helped — Alfons Heck says when we have — he was a Nazi youth officer in the film, and he is the one that points out that while Nazi Germany is finished and they repented from what they did, the Arab and Islamists, the radicals who were in Berlin at the time and grew up and learned from Islam, from the Nazis, they never changed, and they continued the battle against the West.
PHILLIPS: And Nonie, you lived this.
NONIE DARWISH, « OBSESSION »: Exactly. I grew up in the Middle East for 30 years. I heard all the propaganda of hatred and it’s happening again. The same propaganda as Nazi Germany is happening across the Middle East by radicals who want to keep the hatred and the dehumanization of the Jews.
And to them, they have reduced a great religion to just an ideology of hatred of Jews across many mosques in the Middle East. We learn so much hatred, it’s embarrassing to even repeat what’s being said by some religious leaders, some political leaders in our cartoons, in movies, in schools.
PHILLIPS: And Nonie, growing up, what did you learn? What did your father teach you? Your father fought against Israel. He led Fedayeen operations there in Gaza. Was he teaching you hate?
DARWISH: No, my father was a soldier. And he was doing what most of the Arab soldiers did, which is invade Israel and kill Jews. But it’s beyond the military. It’s everywhere. It is in schools.
For example, I was told, don’t take any fruit or candy from a stranger, because it could be a Jew trying to poison you. The Jews wanted Arab blood to bake their cookies, and we believed it. We recited jihadist poetry daily while we were crying in school, wishing upon ourselves to die as a jihad to kill Jews before they kill Arab children.
And when you grow up with this kind of ideology day in and day out, you really believe that terrorism is OK, and that hating — hatred is justified. And there are so many lies across the Middle East being taught right now to Arab children and it’s really a disgrace that’s happening today. The same — the same propaganda of Hitler is being done right now in the Middle East, across the Middle East.
PHILLIPS: Let’s talk more about that. I want to go to a clip that has the former Nazi youth leader that Raphael mentioned, Alfons Heck, also talking with a former PLO terrorist and what they said about the comparison between radical Islam and Hitler’s regime. Let’s listen.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
HECK: The fanatic Muslim world and creed says that no ideology can exist beyond theirs. It’s all-encompassing.
WALID SHOEBAT, FORMER PLO TERRORIST: Secular dogma like Nazis is less dangerous than this Islamofascism that we do today. It’s less dangerous because Islamofascism has a religious twist to it. It has God almighty ordering to do this, not the furor. So it is way more dangerous. It is trying to grow itself in 55 Muslim states, so potentially you could have a success rate of several Nazi Germany if these people get their way.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
PHILLIPS: Raphael, it’s amazing to hear a former PLO terrorist say that what’s happening right now can be even more dangerous than Nazi Germany. And just looking at the propaganda that you point out to in the film, looking at the comparison of how the Nazi propaganda and the Palestinian extremists’ propaganda, it’s similar, it’s exactly the same images.
SHORE: Yes, and we point that out. In fact, some of these clips are available at our Web site at obsessionthemovie.com. But the point that I want to make clear is that what we’re showing in this movie is that this is a war that radical Islam has declared against the western world.
It’s not just about Israel or the Jews, although that’s an important subplot. But radical Islam today has made a continuation of the Nazi past, and they have declared this war, and they are working against Christianity, against Buddhism, against gays and all over the world, they are attacks.
What we are trying to show in this movie is that when you look around the world and you see separate terror attacks, it looks like separate things going on in separate areas. But we need to connect the dots and realize that in their eyes, it is one global jihad, one front in a global jihad against western civilization and that’s what we try to show in « Obsession » the movie.
PHILLIPS: Well, and it starts with the kids. Let’s listen to this clip.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think the worst form of child abuse is teaching a child to hate. But we have on Palestinian TV and on Saudi TV over and over again, are little kids being taught signs, I want to be a suicide bomber.
UNIDENTIFIED CHILD (SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE): I’ll turn into a suicide warrior. I’ll turn into a suicide warrior. In battledress, in battledress, in battledress.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
PHILLIPS: Oh, it’s heart-wrenching. Nonie you’ve even made the point that look, not all Muslims are radicals like this and not all parents are teaching this, that your religion infiltrated by this hateful agenda. How do you break it though? How do you start changing what we’re seeing here among hundreds and hundreds of children?
DARWISH: That’s the million-dollar question. The Arab leadership, the good people in the Muslim world, and I don’t doubt that the majority of my culture are decent, good people, but they are not in power. They have to end this hate. They have to say, enough is enough. We should never teach our kids hate.
Because, really, terrorism doesn’t only hurt the West and Israel and the non-Muslims, it destroys the moral fabric and goodness that I know exists in Arab culture and in Muslim culture.
And it’s bad for — even for moderate Muslims who are being oppressed and being threatened by radical Islam. It can — a very horrific ideology that is tyrannical and it oppresses freedom of speech, it oppresses women, and it oppresses even men and it’s a tyranny.
PHILLIPS: And, finally, points well made, Nonie. Rafael, just — I encourage everybody not only to see this film but just look into the history of this relationship between Adolf Hitler and the Grand Mustafa al-Husseini, the grand Mufti of Israel and how they both came together and talked about the extermination of Jews.
They had the same goal and that was world domination and hatred. I mean, this goes back decades. What do you want people to walk away with after they see this film? Not only the understanding of history, but what else do you want?
DARWISH: I would like to see …
SHORE: Actually, I would …
PHILLIPS: Go ahead, Rafael.
SHORE: Yes, I was actually speaking with Bernard Lewis last week. He’s a preeminent Islamic scholar in the world today, and he said that what is important for people to realize today, he said, he was an intelligent officer in the British Army in the 1940s.
He was more optimistic about a victory of the West then, after the Nazis had taken over Poland, Czechoslovakia and France than he is now, over the victory of the West over radical Islam.
And I asked him why, that’s such a shocking statement. And he said because, then we knew who we were and we knew who they were. We were the Western world, which was freedom and Democracy and individual rights and they were totalitarian dictators who were trying to destroy our way of life.
Today, he said, we don’t know who we are, we don’t know what we stand for in the West and we don’t know that there’s an enemy that is trying to — has declared war and is trying to destroy the West. And, therefore, the first important message to, answer your question, and this is what we try to get across in « Obsession » the movie, is people need to understand that there is a war going on today.
It’s not something that we asked for, but there are people, just as there was in the Nazis in the 1930s and ’40s, there are people and it is the minority of Muslims like Nonie says, but there are radical Islamists and there are millions of them who are trying to declare war and destroy civilization, Western civilization. We have to be aware of and it educate ourselves. That’s the most important thing that needs to happen today.
PHILLIPS: Well, you can definitely get an incredible education by watching this film « Obsession. » Rafael Shore, Nonie Darwish, I can’t thank you enough for your time. The movie left many of us speechless. We appreciate what you’ve done.
Voir aussi la critique d’Ilana Mercer:
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Viewers of « Obsession » are treated to terrifying, flesh-creeping scenes common in the Arab media: death-adulating, Quran-quoting kids and clerics in madrasas and mosques across the Muslim world, all calling for the killing of Jews and gentiles and for the subjugation of the West to Islam. Nevertheless, these spectacles are then punctuated by pieties about Islam being a peaceful religion, hijacked by extremists – a hell of a lot of them.To be fair, « Obsession » does dispel the fiction that jihad is an inner struggle, but then even an A-list Islam apologist like professor John Esposito has admitted as much: « Jihad means to fight to spread Islam, not just to defend it, and to wage war against [Jews and Christians] who refuse Muslim rule, » Esposito has conceded.
« Radical Islam »: now there’s another redundancy that ought not to have marred the message of this important documentary. If one cares to delve into the Quran, the hadith, and the Sira, or read the scholars who’ve done so for us, then it becomes abundantly clear: Islam is radical.It was thus no coincidence that during the holy month of Ramadan, Iraq experienced a 22 percent spike in attacks. A similar trend was observed in other hot spots around the world. Yom Kippur sees Jews struggle to quell aggression; Ramadan is a time for Muhammadans to amplify it. Again, this is perfectly congruous. Iraqi mujahedeen were heeding, not hijacking, their prophet, who had revved up his raids on the caravans of the Quraysh during the Ramadan.
Friday, November 24, 2006
‘Obsession’ By Muhammad
Posted: November 24, 2006
By Ilana Mercer
« Obsession » is a new documentary about « Radical Islam’s War against the West. » The unfortunate title, however, conjures a Calvin Klein fragrance, not a serious examination of the foundations of jihad. To the faithful, jihad is not an obsession; it’s a religious obligation. It’s not a « compulsive preoccupation » with an « unreasonable idea or emotion, » to follow the dictionary’s definition of « obsession »; it’s the sixth pillar of Islam, exhorted to in over a hundred verses in the Quran. Jihad isn’t like a scent, picked up and chased in a pheromonal frenzy; it’s what Muhammad described as the Muslim’s highest duty.
That’s the problem with « Obsession »: Jihadists cite Muhammad and the Quran faithfully; « Obsession » is mum about their muse.
Indeed, one of the pillars of an Islamized media is the « Daily Prayer » – the ritual repetition of expedient disclaimers about Mohammad, whom Muslims regard as the perfect man, and his manual, which they consider equally celestial.
Viewers of « Obsession » are treated to terrifying, flesh-creeping scenes common in the Arab media: death-adulating, Quran-quoting kids and clerics in madrasas and mosques across the Muslim world, all calling for the killing of Jews and gentiles and for the subjugation of the West to Islam. Nevertheless, these spectacles are then punctuated by pieties about Islam being a peaceful religion, hijacked by extremists – a hell of a lot of them.
To be fair, « Obsession » does dispel the fiction that jihad is an inner struggle, but then even an A-list Islam apologist like professor John Esposito has admitted as much: « Jihad means to fight to spread Islam, not just to defend it, and to wage war against [Jews and Christians] who refuse Muslim rule, » Esposito has conceded.
« Radical Islam »: now there’s another redundancy that ought not to have marred the message of this important documentary. If one cares to delve into the Quran, the hadith, and the Sira, or read the scholars who’ve done so for us, then it becomes abundantly clear: Islam is radical.
Consider: When King David sinned horribly, robbing Uriah first of his wife, Batsheva, and then of his life, he was confronted and exposed by a furious prophet, Nathan. King David repented and accepted cruel punishment. There’s a conventional moral code for you.
Conversely, Muhammad sated his basest urges, miring himself and his followers in murder, mutilation, robbery and rape, only to receive « divine revelations » that sanctified rapine and licentiousness for Allah’s Ali Babas. That’s the Islamic moral code for you. It’s certainly unconventional, or radical.
It might even be posited that therein lies the appeal of Islam. It’s a license to indulge. It teaches that, provided they’re Muslim, the murderous, not the meek, shall inherit the earth. And it tells the Muslim faithful to claim their inheritance by force: subjugate, enslave, or eliminate their non-Muslim inferiors.
It was thus no coincidence that during the holy month of Ramadan, Iraq experienced a 22 percent spike in attacks. A similar trend was observed in other hot spots around the world. Yom Kippur sees Jews struggle to quell aggression; Ramadan is a time for Muhammadans to amplify it. Again, this is perfectly congruous. Iraqi mujahedeen were heeding, not hijacking, their prophet, who had revved up his raids on the caravans of the Quraysh during the Ramadan.
« Obsession » delves into the « historic links » between Hitler’s Mufti (also Arafat’s idol), the Palestinian Haj Amin al-Husseini, and radical Islamic ideology. Notwithstanding Husseini’s humble contribution to the Final Solution, the Mufti didn’t invent Muslim anti-Semitism, he merely modernized it. Nor did the hatred Muslims harbor for Jews begin with the establishment of the state of Israel. This hatred boasts a pure Islamic pedigree and can be traced to Muhammad.
When the Jews rejected him, Muhammad set out to exterminate the tribes of the region. The blood-curdling harangues heard on the documentary are a variation on a Quranic theme. Here’s Muhammad’s vision for the end of days, according to « Muslim, » book 41, No. 6985 (in Spencer, 2006):
« The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him. »
« Obsession » features the brilliant Daniel Pipes and the heroics Brigitte Gabriel and Walid Shoebat. However, conspicuously absent from the impressive lineup is the indefatigable Robert Spencer, whose detailed exegeses have exploded the myth of a peaceful Islam.
On the other hand, since the directors of « Obsession » appear intent on upholding this Scheherazade-worthy charade, it is perfectly understandable why they would exclude the author of « The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), » and « The Truth about Muhammad: Founder of the World’s Most Intolerant Religion. »
Ilana Mercer is the author of « Broad Sides: One Woman’s Clash With A Corrupt Culture. » She is also an analyst and blogger-at-large for Free-Market News Network. To learn more about her work, and to contribute to Barely A Blog, visit IlanaMercer.com.
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