Attack, Attack, Attack: Truth versus Islam!
Prof. Paul Eidelberg
The truth about the "Freedom Flotilla" to Gaza is now being publicized, but only in a superficial way. Entrenched in Gaza is Hamas, a terrorist proxy of Iran, whose President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has vowed to "wipe Israel off the map"—a malediction vividly declared in Hamas's own Covenant.
Hamas is waging war against Israel. Hence any nation or group or individual that aids or seeks to aid Hamas becomes, in effect, a belligerent and is or should be subject to the rules of war.
Consider the language used to describe the convoy in question. It's called the "Freedom Flotilla." Since the ships of this convoy were more or less outfitted by Turkey, an Islamic regime, and since these ships were manned primarily by Muslims, the convoy's name, "Freedom Flotilla," is nothing but a Big Lie because Islam is the greatest enemy of freedom. Nor is this all.
The flotilla to Gaza was paraded as a "humanitarian" mission. As others have remarked, humanitarian missions do not bear and use arms, as did this Islamic convoy. But this, too, is a superficial observation. It's superficial because "Islam" and "humanitarianism" constitute a contradiction in terms! For evidence, consider the following passages from my forthcoming book An American Political Scientist in Israel:
In 1985, Raja 'i-Khorassani, the permanent delegate to the United Nations from the Islamic Republic of Iran, avowed that "the very concept of human rights was 'a Judeo-Christian invention' and inadmissible in Islam.… According to Ayatollah Khomeini, one of the Shah's 'most despicable sins' was the fact that Iran was one of the original group of nations that drafted and approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights." Juxtapose this horrific statement with a report of the Center for the Study of Political Islam, which indicates that, in the pursuit of Islam's global ambitions, Muslims have slaughtered some 270 million people since Muhammad! What underlies this juxtaposition? Alain Bosançon goes to the theological core of the issue:
Although Muslims like to enumerate the 99 names of God, missing from the list, but central to the Jewish and Christian concept of God, is "father"—i.e., a personal God capable of a reciprocal and loving relationship with men. The God of the Quran, the God who demands submission, is a distant God; to call him "Father" would be an anthropomorphic sacrilege. The Muslim God is utterly impassive…. If God is not "Father," then it is difficult to imagine the human person as having been "made in the image of God."
Without the Biblical conception of man's creation in the image of God, the idea of the human community, hence of "humanitarianism," is logically absurd.
From this analysis it's obvious that the so-called Freedom Flotilla was anything but a humanitarian mission. Indeed, this Islamic convoy was a satanic ploy to undermine the one nation that endowed mankind with the concept of man's creation in the image of God, which alone makes the idea of the human community and humanitarianism possible.
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