Ports and Priorities
DJ Drummond at Polipundit gives his perspective on the UAE ports deal.
I agree.
"You can't win a war against radical Islam without rewarding and supporting the moderate silent majority."
The alternative is too dangerous!
One other point I did not see mentioned this week and that is...
The UAE held elections this past year and has made serious steps towards democracy and improving womens rights. The UAE also scrapped its "Ministry of Information" which used to control the media. And, the UAE announced in December that "democracy" will start being taught in the first grade!
These are obviously good signs.
And, it should not matter what company is managing the ports. If the right systems are in place, security issues should already be taken care of.
Today the UAE annunced that it would delay the deal on the seaports.
You don't see many protests like this in many of the Muslim Countries where the protesters are asking for "dialogue". At least, the Western media does not show it. That is exactly the reason that the silent majority of Muslims need to be empowered so that voices of moderation can be heard over the threats.
A member of the Assabil Islamic centre carries a sign reading 'Dialogue yes, Vandalism no' in Bilbao, northern Spain, February 11,2006, during a protest against cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed, published in various European newspapers. Association members carried printed signs in favour of dialogue, and against 'Insults', 'Violence', and 'Vandalism'. (REUTERS/Vincent West)
Previously:
Moderate Views on the UAE Port Deal
Update: (Saturday 2-25) Glenn Reynolds has excellent commentary on the selling of the ports posted at today's Wall Street Journal. This struck me:
Some bloggers, meanwhile, were having second thoughts. One of them was me: Although my initial reaction was negative, I started getting emails from readers -- some of them longtime correspondents -- who had experience with the UAE. One had served alongside troops from the Emirates in Afghanistan; another had spent time in Dubai. Some had worked with UAE ports officials. All were positive.Freedom for Egyptians writes about the UAE port deal.
Then Jim Dunnigan of StrategyPage explained why the UAE has been a good friend to the U.S. and is likely to be trustworthy here, and why this deal is in American interests. I found it pretty convincing. A lot of other bloggers, of all political persuasions, were reaching the same conclusion, even as the mass-media and talk-radio hysteria was still building. (To be fair, some Big Media like The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post were weighing in with good sense.) As the National Journal's Blogometer reported, "This movement was generally led by the intellectual right, and the intellectual left soon found itself in guarded agreement -- the deal wasn't as bad as it first seemed."
Earlier, she wrote about Condi's disappointing visit to Egypt this week.
posted by Gateway Pundit at 2/24/2006 02:05:00 PM
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The first issue to be given top priority is : WHY IS THE WEST SO BLIND?
Islam is an ideology aimed at dominating the world. What makes it apparently different from Nazism or Communism is that Islam comes under the flag of religious belief.
Democracy stems from the quest for LIBERTY, it is a bottom-up process : freedom loving ( i.e. submission hating ) people devised Democracy as the best way for governing themselves. The idea of bringing Democracy to "submission" minded peoples is doomed to the bitterest of failures, as adamantly demonstrated by the rise to power of the obscurantist forces of Hamas in Palestine, Shia clerks in Iraq and the coming to prominence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Though sanctioned through publicly held polls, that’s not democracy, that’s tyranny under the travesty of Democracy.
Submission minded peoples are bound to be governed either by fascism ( Baath ) or fundamentalism. They still belong to the old ages of SUBJUGATION and that's what Islam is all about : THE WILL TO SUBJUGATE, the worst scourge that keeps haunting the humanity since the very beginnings. Believing that Islam is just a religion like many others is a lethal misjudgment.
Human societies of all kinds have thrived millennia upon slavery in a world where oppression was the norm, while LIBERTY is the antithesis devised -- at last -- by the human spirit for escaping SUBJUGATION.
LIBERTY is very “recent” in human history. It’s enough to have a look at the today’s world -- 215 years “only” since when the First Amendment was established -- to understand that LIBERTY is still tottering and very frail.
For the “true believers” the world is divided into two sides: Dar El Islam ( the house of the believers) and Dar El Kufr ( the house of the infidels ). The FIRST duty of a believer is to conquer the land of the infidels and submit them.
Submission comes in three choices: 1st is conversion, 2nd is dhimmitude, 3rd is being decapitated.
However those who believe that not to be free but instead to be rich should be the main purpose in human life won’t find themselves restrained under Islamic rule. There are no provisions in the Qur’an against being rich and wealth is indeed praised and recommended.
Islam is akin to HIV : it takes a very long time for the infected host to recognize the lethal enemy and too often when he does it is too late. There is something in HIV that misleads the immune system into trusting the newcomer as one more member of the family while in reality it is an alien.
Would the US have allowed a USSR owned company to run its ports? Well, what the US is doing now with UAE owned DP World is by far worse.
But business is business!! And what about America’s open investment policy?? Goddamn those who dare to say that DP World's takeover of American ports management is not business as usual!!
Never seen glittering Dubai’s streets? The big cars and limos, gold and jewels everywhere, the flavor of greenbacks all around, whole armies of obsequious servants, and all the “brands” of the world available to so-called brand-conscious people. Well, isn't that what the most of us are dreaming of ? Thus, since we share the same dreams, who dares to say that they aren’t akin to us?
In the West unabashed LOVE FOR GOLD stands on top of everything, while LOVE FOR LIBERTY lags by far behind in the values’ ladder. That’s why we get so easily fooled by the virus of “submission”. And when the gates are wide open all kinds of ideological servants lusting for economical and political rewards hurry to show up : political correctness resulting in toleration of intolerance, lambasting common-sense measures of nationality profiling, defending heinous women subjugation as a just different lifestyle, laying down the First Amendment on the altar of so-called religious sensitivity… But that’s history already : now both sheer fear at home and bitter defeat in the Middle East are looming large.
The alien is taking hold but the infected host still insists upon maintaining that it is just a new a member of the family.
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