March 31, 2004

Another Muslim Cleric Preaches Openly For the Killing of Americans… and the False Compartmentalization in the Logic of the Left.

CNN reported it—no one’s making this up.

GLOBAL JIHAD

Iraqi cleric: 9-11 ‘miracle from God’
‘Proof’ of divine plan seen in ‘fall of the American Twin Towers’

The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S. were “a miracle from God,” and Israel’s assassination of Hamas’ terrorist leader was a “dirty crime against Islam,” says a prominent Shiite cleric in Iraq.

During Friday prayers at a mosque near the holy city of Najaf, Moqtada al-Sadr praised the attacks that killed some 3,000 Americans, reported CNN.

... “They have planned and paved the ways for a long time, but it is God who is the real planner and the proof of this is the fall of the American Twin Towers.”

The more Americans are exposed to information on this subject, the more out of touch the left is going to appear. We’re in a war.

Of course, the left likes to do their “false compartmentalizing” thing with stories like this. Quote the above story to a liberal friend, and he or she will likely say, “Oh, that’s just in Iraq. Of course Muslims there are angry with us, because we invaded. You can’t generalize from that to other Muslim clerics.” This is one kind of false logic used by the left: claiming that two related things have nothing to do with each other. The only thing wrong with this logic is that it isn’t true. Clerics throughout the middle east are preaching exactly the same thing. As Giacomo, a reader from Bolzano, Italy, noted in a recent comment here:

Wahabbism is the teaching of the Saudi Arabin State (which got the most islamistic and radical rules after Taliban Afghanistan), it spread it all over the islamic world in building coran schools an mosques in which the terrorist teaching are broad to the muslims.

I was talking to a friend the other day who was telling me there was no connection between Hussein and terrorism. I asked, what about the money he paid to suicide bombers? “Oh—that’s just Israel,” she said.

That’s another perfect example of false compartmentalization. In my friend’s opinion, terrorists in the mideast who want to kill Americans, have nothing to do with terrorists in the mideast that want to kill Israelis. The only thing wrong with this logic is that it isn’t true. They all live in the same part of the world, coincidentally share a religion, coincidentally are all terrorists, and of course they all hate America.

Moxie’s got a great post here on a conversation she had with a friend who’s voting for Kerry, and who literally can’t continue a conversation when Mox raises the subject of Kerry’s policy of increasing taxes. It violates the false compartmentalization he’s got in his head that keep his opinions on Kerry from bumping into his opinions on taxes.

False logic is to the brain what heroin is the body. It makes you think you feel good for the moment; it makes you think you’re the smartest person in the room; it makes you think you’re winning all the arguments; and it can get you killed. Animals in the jungle know that if you zig when you need to zag, you’re lunch. If we don’t act with every means at our disposal to oppose terrorism and bring freedom to the oppressed people of the mideast, we will meet with more and more terrorist actions directed against our people.