Is it waterboarding? Bikini waxing? High school?

My latest at Examiner doesn’t look at “what Nancy Pelosi knew and when she knew it”, but rather if what was done to Jihadists was torture at all. I think the world needs a little less handwringing and a little more perspective.

We must keep in perspective that our enemies do not have the level of civilization that we do. When they capture one of our sons (or worse yet, daughters), they do not have a medical team standing by to revive them if something goes wrong. Just because Christopher Hitchens, an ivy-league toff, wasn’t able to withstand more than four seconds of waterboarding does not necessarily make it torture.

Please check it out, and in the comments feel free to leave me your “”BLANK” is worse than waterboarding” suggestions.

December 17, 2008 | Khaled Abu Toameh
PA Tortures Journalists

“This is not Israel, where you are allowed to see a lawyer.”

Over the past two years Palestinian journalists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have been subjected to a systematic campaign of intimidation that has resulted in the death of some and the detention of others.

The campaign, which is being waged by both Hamas and Fatah, has received almost no attention from human rights groups and advocates of the freedom of expression throughout the world.

By contrast, when a Palestinian journalist is accidentally wounded by Israeli gunfire during clashes with Palestinians, the incident makes headlines in major media outlets in the US and EU.

What is most disturbing about the campaign of intimidation is the fact that it’s being spearheaded by the Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank. This is the same authority that is receiving hundreds of millions of dollars from American and European taxpayers’ money every month to build a proper judicial system and promote democracy and transparency among the Palestinians.

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I have been planning this post since Wendy pointed me at the story. It has taken me all day to manage to format it my head in such a manner that I can get it down. I feel this aspect, this slice of time in terms of the events in Bombay India reveals such malice and horror, not just of deed but of agenda and thought that it requires me to once again desensitize myself beyond even what someone who writes daily on the atrocities of Muslims in the name of Islam do around the world on a daily basis.

Let’s start with what we all know. A group of well trained and well equipped Muslim terrorists from a few nations launched an operation out of Pakistan with the intention of murdering five thousand people. They fell short of that mark but that was the plan. They had prepared for this for some time in advance using a plan loosely based on a shelved one intended for use in New York called ‘Landmarks’, an Al Queada plan intended to wreak havoc and based on a design by Ramsey Yussef, the man who was the central figure of the first attack on New York’s WTC. (For more on Landmark’s, its specifics and details please click here)

We also all know that a Jewish community center was one of the targets of this operation. The idea was to kill jews. It should be noted that this building had no markings of a Jewish center. That it was far away from the other targets and that it had little or no strategic value but did require a significant percentage of the total resources available to the terrorist group to be used for this purpose. Had they not done this, and remember this was a very carefully planned and rehearsed operation, they would have inflicted a great deal more death and misery on the people of Bombay. Many of us, myself included perhaps may try and mitigate this as being some kind of act based on the existence of Israel or some kind of show of Palestinian sympathy. For a few reasons this is nonsense of course. Hatred and killing of Jews go back to Mohamed and these kinds of acts predate the existence of Israel by centuries.

What makes this so difficult to write, is the facts of how the Jews in that building where treated before they where killed. A couple of weeks ago I read an interview with the coroner who did the autopsies on these people and are the state coroners for terrorist attacks in India. From that page,

Asked specifically if he was talking of torture marks, he said: “It was apparent that most of the dead were tortured. What shocked me were the telltale signs showing clearly how the hostages were executed in cold blood,” one doctor said.

The other doctor, who had also conducted the post-mortem of the victims, said: “Of all the bodies, the Israeli victims bore the maximum torture marks. It was clear that they were killed on the 26th itself. It was obvious that they were tied up and tortured before they were killed. It was so bad that I do not want to go over the details even in my head again,” he said.

I read this at the time and kind of dismissed it. Yes there was some shock value in the idea that a seasoned coroner who routinely (that itself is unfortunate) autopsied the bodies of terror victims found this particular incident and victims too horrifying to think about or describe. He objected to discussing it as that would make him have to think of it and he wasn’t prepared to do that.

Then today a photo of the victims with some description of what had been done to them was released. a blurred out one which itself is alarming in as much as today we are all so used to seeing image of violence that would have never made mass media in say, the 1980s or before. This one was so awful that they blurred most of it out. That the Jewish victims, preselected as such with great planning and expense, had been sexually tortured mutilated and humiliated.

Whats my point? That they felt the cost of this action was justified. This wasn’t a few guys on a private plan but this WAS the official plan. This was the intended effect. No politics, no demands, no leverage or bargaining but the sheer desire to torture humiliate and kill jews in ways that would defy the healthy imagination. Below I include that fuzzy picture and a link to some of the descriptions.

I suppose at this point I should advocate for something. An appeal to gods or a demand for state action. I do think any Jew alive today who does not own or have access to a firearm is self deluded but even that won’t help much.

Mumbai Jewish center

If you can manage it, go to the link for the description of what happened to these people.

link one

Link two

James Cohen for Girl on the Right

By saying fuck the murderers and the laws that protect them.

The now-infamous British case of Baby P:

The Deceased: Peter Connolly
The Murderers: Tracey Connolly (the so-called mother), Stephen Barker (the step-father, naturally), Jason Barker (his brother)

The Crime: Using Peter as a punching bag until dead.

The law is shielding the names of these parasites due to the fact that Tracey has recently given birth (in jail) and her HUMAN FUCKING RIGHTS must be protected.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming of Muslim-hating and begging for money.

Lots of people must have been lined up for the opportunity to waterboard Hitchens. Or at least watch.

While I’m sure that it’s not really the greatest way to spend an afternoon, I can’t imagine it could be much worse than actually having to read Vanity Fair. In fact, I will be having this done to me (the waterboarding, not reading VF - that would be inhumane!) next summer. Next year, I will (most likely) have the chance to embed in Af’stan with the cool kids, and I wish to have certain things done for shits and giggles. I wish to be waterboarded. And tasered (though not at the same time, because holy crap! just think of the current!). Wet t-shirt contest in the desert!!

Why?

Because if a soft wussy Canadian chick can have it done and survive, then a blood-thirsty terrorist who trained in the barren mountains of Pakistan can bloody well handle it.

Like Hitch himself, I imagine there would be quite a lineup of people wanting to do this to me. If they’re willing to travel to a war zone to do, they are more than welcome.

The abused woman Nazia, lying on her hospital bed and uncertain about her future, told that her husband, twice her age, had suspicions about her behavior. She added ‘I swore to him many times that I was faithful to him but he did not believed. He used to beat me. A few days before Eid, he shaved my head and beat me severely. On the first day of the Eid, he cut my ears, then my nose, then damaged my teeth and beat me until my hands and legs were broken.’

‘I was second wife of Mumtaz. The first wife was already killed by him’ she added with a flow of tears from her eyes.

Such civilized people. Muslims will happily bore you with tales of how Muhammed (the pedophile/murderer) liberated women and Islam gave them all kinds of rights that other religions don’t give. However, most other religions that I know of at least allow a woman to live. And not be mutilated. Or circumcised.

But hey, it’s a religion of peace.

H/t: Sondra K