Over at The Propagandist, Jonathon Narvey confronts a brand new, and decidedly stinky, conspiracy theory: that those shadowy Zionists, and not Islamist terrorists, were behind the shocking massacre of 58 Iraqi Christian worshippers at the Sayedat al-Najat Cathedral in Baghdad on October 31. Writes Jonathon: “This is a useful example of a larger phenomenon that makes brokering peace between Islamic states and Western ones, or dealing with Islamist terror, state-sanctioned or otherwise, so much more difficult. A broad swathe of humanity throughout the Islamic world, particularly their political leaders and intellectual class, believes in blood-curdling fairy tales. And they project the worst aspects of Islamism’s brutalities upon its victims.”
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I think this is what psychoanalysts call “projection.” After being decisively rejected by voters in east London at the recent British General Election, George Galloway is now prostrating himself before a man for whom voters are an irritant, to be beaten, tortured and imprisoned until they realize that the right to vote should be understood as the right to vote for him alone.
Read more at the The Jewish Chronicle.
For those readers who have forgotten how George behaves in the company of genocidal tyrants, here’s a reminder. Somehow, this footage never loses its nauseating quality no matter how many times you see it, but since a) it’s the weekend and b) Saddam’s regime is no more, you may choose to laugh rather than grit your teeth.
