-Submitted by David Drumm (Nal), Guest Blogger
Al-Hayat al-Jadida, the official daily newspaper of the Palestinian Authority, published an Op-ed by Hassan Ouda Abu Zaher. The Op-ed states: “to the lie about Al-Qaeda and the Sept. 11 events, which asserted that Muslim terrorists committed it, and that it was not an internal American action by the Freemasons.” While there are many conspiracy theories about the Sept. 11 attacks, there are usually relegated to fringe websites. Unsurprisingly, no evidence is presented to support such a fanciful claim.
This is Islamic lunacy and should be opposed by all rational human beings. That this lunacy is supported by the Palestinian Authority confirms a World Public Opinion poll that showed that 46% of Palestinians believe that the U.S. government or Israel was behind the attacks.
This degree of credulousness is not unexpected when people are raised from infancy to believe nonsense, such as Muhammad ascending to heaven on a winged horse. Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer wrote on this subject in the 19th century:
If, in early childhood, certain fundamental views and doctrines are paraded with unusual solemnity, and an air of the greatest earnestness never before visible in anything else; if, at the same time, the possibility of a doubt about them be completely passed over, or touched upon only to indicate that doubt is the first step to eternal perdition, the resulting impression will be so deep that, as a rule, that is, in almost every case, doubt about them will be almost as impossible as doubt about one’s own existence.
A Sophisticated Islamic Theologian™ might assert that no true Muslim would have committed the attacks on Sept. 11, in contradiction to the available evidence, including the admission by al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden that he orchestrated the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. However, this would be an example of the No True Scotsman logical fallacy where “an individual attempts to avoid being associated with an unpleasant act by asserting that no true member of the group they belong to would do such a thing.”
James Madison wrote of the importance of a “perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters” in his letter to Edward Livingston in 1822. While Madison’s “perfect separation” is under constant attack, we need not look far to see the effect of ignoring his wisdom.
H/T: Jerry Coyne.
Anyone w/ any intelligence knows the real truth is the Twin Tower collapse and the moon landing were both done w/ Hollywood special effects. So was the 1969 Mets World Series. Geez!
The Palestinian newspaper only needs to look to history for a lesson in how to disrupt this threat by secret societies, such as the Freemasons:
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
The President and the Press: Address before the American Newspaper Publishers Association, April 27, 1961
Transcript:
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/JFK-Speeches/The-President-and-the-Press-Address-before-the-American-Newspaper-Publishers-Association.aspx
Audio:
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKWHA-025-001.aspx
“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. ” James Madison, June 29th. 1787, Debates in Federal Convention
Did someone mention Cheney?
Stewart to Cheney: ‘Your Dick is out’
http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2009/05/stewart-to-cheney-your-dick-is-out/
I am not one for conspiracies overall but I do think people need to watch this
This just in from DogGoogle.dog:
There are two sects of Freemasonry known as the York Rite (that has “9” degrees of secrecy) and the Scottish Rite (which has “33” public degrees of secrecy). Masons are a very proud bunch and any of them will have no problem in telling you that most US presidents have been either 32 or 33 degree Freemasons. Bush I and II, and their cronies, Vice President Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Wolferwitz etc, are all 33rd degree Freemasons. The UK’s Tony Blair is a 33rd degree Freemason, as also is Vladimir Putin, Mikhail Gorbechev, Ariel Sharon, and the list goes on and on. John Howard is a Freemason; as is the illegally appointed Australian Governor General Major-General Philip Jeffery.
Even NY Mayor Rudy Giuliani was knighted into the Masonic order by the Queen of England on Feb “13”th, 2002 for his role in 9-11.
The incorporation of numbers and numerology is very important to both the freemasons but most especially to their Illuminati ‘overlords’.
The most important and “magical” numbers are considered to be:
3, 6, 7, 9, 11 (including multiples such as 22, 33 etc)
13, 14 (2×7), 18 (3×6), 19, 21 (3×7), 27 (3x3x3), 28 (4×7) 39, 93 (666), 111. The most revered numbers of all being 9 & 11.
Bearing these numbers in mind, the origin of Freemasonry goes back to “1111”AD where “9” European separatists declared themselves the “Knights Templar”. (This is why the numbers “9” & “11” are so important to them.)
Is Cheney a Freemason? Just wondering. Got you wondering? Someone needs to Google: Dickhead Cheney and Freemasons. My computer is down–except for this Dogalogue machine.
I gotta friend who is a dog living with a member of Bricklayers Local 101 and he says that the word Freemason is a contradiction in terms.
I have neighbors who are Freemasons and I dont trust em. They dont have dogs. They had a party the night after 9/11. There may be something to this.
That story has more credibility than the “official” version.
Deny, deny, deny….. Seems to be a universal cry…..
pete9999 1, March 23, 2013 at 10:36 am
dredd
i believe it was 1 egyptian (caught), 16 saudis, 2 uae’s, and 1 lebanese
and a partridge in a pear tree.
you’ve opened the gates Nal, bring on the truthers.
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As usual, I was quoting officials (“15 Saudis”).
Glenn Greenwald has a nice piece today which describes the stylistic propaganda currently in vogue in polite company in U.S. “here’s the way to talk in public” circles:
(Guardian, Greenwald). By now after a hundred years it is solidly implanted within the American cultural amygdala, and is as automatic as a transmission in a Buick.
dredd
i believe it was 1 egyptian (caught), 16 saudis, 2 uae’s, and 1 lebanese
and a partridge in a pear tree.
you’ve opened the gates Nal, bring on the truthers.
“That this lunacy is supported by the Palestinian Authority indicates that Palestinians believe these claims.”
Obviously “Palestinians” believe these claims because, apparently, more than one does. But the sentence structure makes it sound like you’re saying “all” Palestinians believe these things, which is demonstrably false by finding just one Palestinian who doesn’t.
If you’re going to chide people for logical fallacies and not having evidence for their claims, I would think you would avoid the composition fallacy, and provide some evidence for exactly what % of Palestinians believe the Freemasons perpetrated the 9-11 attacks.
They believe in their patently ridiculous propaganda BS for the same reason we believe in our patently ridiculous propaganda BS; because they just want to get on with their lives believing they are the good guys.
Some mainstream news in the U.S. set forth a theory supported by U.S. Senators, 911 Commission members, and CIA that Saudi Arabia was directly involved.
Of the 19 hijackers, 15 were said to be Saudi Arabians.
Watch the Chris Matthews and Joe Scarborough Shows on video in mainstream TV time interviewing officials (Fighting Terrorism For 200 Years – 3).
Everybody has a rap, but the evidence is more convincing to a mind that knows the government did not and still does not want to go after Saudi Arabia.
Steve Rattner says on the Morning Joe video, that the truth about this is something we really do not want to know.
David: This degree of credulousness is not unexpected when people are raised from infancy to believe nonsense, such as Muhammad ascending to heaven on a winged horse.
As opposed to Americans, 95% of whom are raised from infancy to believe that Christ walked on water, raised the dead, and turned water into wine and multiplied the fishes, that Moses split the Red Sea, that biblical characters had conversations with their talking donkeys.
I think before you attribute their belief to their religion, you should ask why the equally ridiculous predominant religion of the USA has not produced the same level of credulousness. Or perhaps it has.
Do you consider any website that is not MSM to be a ”fringe” website? Do you consider a huge group of architects and engineers to be a fringe group? ae911truth.org If you actually LOOK at evidence instead of just dismissing it with tunnel vision, you will see all KINDS of proof!
and are you attacking all religions here? ”This degree of credulousness is not unexpected when people are raised from infancy to believe nonsense, such as Muhammad ascending to heaven on a winged horse.” Is this any more ridiculous than Elijah ascending to heaven in a chariot (it WAS Elijah, right? or am I misremember that). Or Jesus arising from the dead? There are an AWFUL lot of people who believe these things, and they are not ”fringe.”
To me, FRINGE is believing what you’re told to believe by a government that hands you a story totally full of holes. Now THAT is fringe! Just ask architects and engineers!