On September 30, 2007 Richard Landau, host of the talk show Behind The Story which is broadcast on the CTS television station from Burlington, Ontario quoted a UN report which says that Islamophobia was causing Muslim youths to act violently. Landau responded viscerally blasting the report and calling it a canard. One must see the scene to get a sense of the flask of anti-Islamic acid that must have burst in the viscera of that man at the mere suggestion that Islam may not be as evil as he makes it to be week after week - relentlessly, mercilessly and in defiance of decency, professionalism and the value we call truth. He does that through the show he hosts and the shows he produces for the same station.
We can discuss race and religious relations to try and understand this attitude but we cannot discuss these subjects in Canada without putting things in the larger context of the North American continent. And to do this, we must begin the discussion in the United States, and so it is there that we go first.
Americans like to think of themselves as a social experiment and their country as a laboratory to which people come from all over the world to live in harmony, be fruitful and do wonderful things together. They point out that people go to great length, even take chances with their lives to reach America’s shores, a reality they say which proves that the social experiment is succeeding. Maybe so but the jury is still out as to how big that success is. And because we are talking about the life of a nation, the jury will be out for a long time before it can reach a decision.
What is certain, however, is that America has had a civil war and has never had an easy relationship with its Black population. And every ethnic group, from the Europeans to the Asians to the Middle Easterners have experienced a form of rejection when they first came to the country. Some argue that the initial rejection of newcomers is a normal human reaction, and people in general accept this argument. So be it.
What is not normal, however, is the attitude of the American majority towards its Black minority. To be fair, there is an ongoing debate on this subject and the expectation is that the issue will be resolved some day perhaps to the satisfaction of everyone. We all hope so.
Where there is not a debate yet is around the relationship between the Muslims, the Jews and the rest of society. To be more specific, the ethnicity of the Middle Easterners is of title concern to Americans given that these peoples are light brown or white skinned anyway. In fact, those of us who are Christian of Middle Eastern descent blend into the society in little time, intermarry with the other groups and quickly forget our roots. By the time the next generation comes of age, it cannot be distinguished from those who have been here several generations.
But this cannot be said about the Muslims even when they are white skinned and blue eyed. What is at issue here is the religion and what is stirring is the relationship between the Muslims, the Jews and the rest of society. People such as Landau who walk around with a flask of anti-Muslim acid in their viscera - not to forget the fire with which they spew it - make sure that the relationship never becomes normal, and there lies the problem.
Maybe Landau is too young to remember how it happened that he sits today in the privileged position of being one of a massive swarm of Jewish journalists on a continent that shuts out the Arabs from the profession. He and his colleagues sit there spewing Islamophobic propaganda without being challenged by someone who could offer an opposing view, oblivious of the history that brought them to this point.
Well then, here is what should come as news to that man and to those like him. While he was growing up and not watching the events of the day, his elders were being called obnoxious Jews by many others to which the elders responded that the name calling was a case of the tea calling the kettle black. They explained that the Jews were made obnoxious by the gentiles who left them with no choice but to be obnoxious and to act obnoxious.
And who were those gentiles? They were the ones who liberated the Jews from the concentration camps of the Nazis. The point that the elders were making was that the gentiles did not embrace the Jews as enthusiastically after the war as they did when they liberated them, and so the Jews turned obnoxious. The elders meant to say it was not the fault of the Jews that they turned obnoxious, and Landau seems to be saying this is no canard.
It may be true that the gentiles failed to embrace the Jews after the war but they did not spew Judeophobic acid week after week - relentlessly, mercilessly and in defiance of decency, professionalism and the value we call truth without someone being there to offer an opposing view, and yet the Jews turned obnoxious. By contrast, the Muslims are attacked culturally by a million media outlets, physically by the most lethal weapons ever devised, and they are killed by the tens of thousands every year … and what happens?
What happens is that a handful of youths who are deliberately cornered by the likes of Landau and never given a chance to come out of their predicament respond by committing not a huge amount of random violence as youngsters of every race and religion do all the time but by committing a minimum amount of violence designed specifically to tell society what the source of their discontent is and what solution they want to see implemented.
Given not a single chance to communicate the extent of the pain that is inflicted on them by the swarm of Zionists who control the media, Young Muslims use the only tool left at their disposal which is civil disobedience pushed to extreme. I know what these kids go through because even though I am Christian, I was mistaken for a Muslim 40 years ago and have been blacklisted ever since.
I was told point blank to write like they tell me to write which was to insult my race and to denigrate what they though was my religion or I shall stay on the blacklist until I do. I could have told them right there and then I was Christian, not Muslim and put an end to this savagery but I did not because I welcomed the chance to study what the acid of hate in the viscera of people like Landau does to them and to society. I tell you, folks, it’s ugly. It is just ugly.
To solve the problem of the obnoxious Jew, Landau’s elders offered the notion that once the Jews control the media, their discontent will abate, everything will get back to normal and they will cease to be obnoxious. But Landau and those like him are living proof that the more things change the more they remain the same.