NOTE: Another blatant whitewashing taking place is that of Palestinian terror. Although they have been engaged in massacres and many other acts of terror over several decades now, they are still characterized by Western governments, media, churches and humanitarian organizations as "victims," while demanding from their victims - the Jews - land for the creation of another Arab terror state.
Part of the deception is the concealing of Palestinian Arabs active participation in the design and implementation of the Holocaust through their leader at that time Haj Amin al Husseini, the Musfi of Jerusalem. (See references.)
BLINDING HISTORY
By Diana West
Diana West is the author of American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character, and The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization. Her weekly newspaper column is syndicated by Universal Uclick. West also serves as Washington Correspondent for the European weekly newspaper Dispatch International. West is one of 19 co-authors of Shariah:The Threat to America, a 2010 publication of the Center for Security Policy.
For logic-minded Americans still genuinely puzzled as to how it could be that our presidents and secretaries of state and generals and pundits keep hammering home the big lie that Islam has nothing to do with jihad, that the religion of conquest is a "religion of peace," I have a special warning. Such widespread, politics- and mass-media-driven brainwashing is nothing new.
Just as today's opinion-makers seek to divorce Islam from its impact -- for example, brutal conquest, forced conversion, religiously sanctioned sex slavery, beheadings -- past opinion-makers worked equally hard to divorce communism from its impact -- for example, brutal conquest, forced collectivization, concentration camps (Gulags), mass murder.
It worked. Unlike Nazism, communism has never been judged guilty or even held responsible for the carnage and suffering it has caused. On the contrary, it remains a source of "liberal" statist ideas such as Obamacare.
American Betrayal
My book "American Betrayal" delves deeply into this dangerous double standard. In short, it not only enables collectivist policies to strangle our remnant republic, but also explains why American students can find a drink called Leninade, emblazoned with a hammer and sickle, for sale on a college campus. It is also why silkscreens of Warhol's Chairman Mao, history's top mass murderer, are sought-after items for the homes of the wealthy.
There are no such trendy portraits of Hitler, and who would want them? Who would want to swig a bottle of Hitlerpop, decorated with a swastika? So, why Leninade? Not only does the stench of death not follow the Communist murder-cult, the brand lives.
Barring a groundswell of common sense, I predict that Islam, the brand, will most likely remain separate in the public mind from the violence and repression it causes and has caused for more than a millennium.
That's certainly the direction leaders from both political parties have been relentlessly herding us in for over a decade, insisting against all reason -- against all sacred Islamic texts -- that "Islam is peace."
A campaign of lies
This means that not only must we contend with this cycle of expansionist jihad -- a recurrence that should be familiar from Islamic history were it, too, not subject to whitewash -- we must simultaneously withstand a campaign of lies designed to subvert our understanding of how Islam, in fact, has everything to do with beheadings and other violence both in the Islamic world and in the West.
The whitewashing of genocidal regimes has happened before
And yes, such whitewashing has happened before. Stalin's Red Army occupied half of Europe at the end of World War II, but Americans were told they had won the war and that "Uncle Joe" was a great guy.
Then there is the whitewash of the transformation the Cold War wrought at home, where agents, agents of influence, fellow travelers, and dupes worked to advance Moscow's will just as Soviet tanks (and agents, too) imposed it abroad.
The conventional wisdom, however, set forth by academics, historians, think tank analysts, journalists, filmmakers (whether "liberal" or "conservative"), remains suspended in the amber of the "Red Scare," the 1950s period during which anti-Communist "witch-hunters" searched for "Reds under the bed," allegedly in vain.
Never mind that many hundreds of American traitors had infiltrated the federal government in previous decades. The important thing, says the conventional wisdom, is not to connect the dots and examine whether these proxies for Stalin influenced the "American Century."
That, of course, is exactly what "American Betrayal" does, thus enraging all keepers of conventional wisdom. No matter.
The more I learn about the extensive penetration by Stalin's secret agents into the federal government over the two decades that FDR and then Harry Truman held the Oval Office, the clearer it is that the American ship of state had too many hands loyal to the USSR pushing at the rudder, influencing, to varying degrees, the direction of U.S. policy and strategy, even if not especially during World War II.
Such is the once-hidden history that comes into closer focus since the U.S. and Russian governments released some subset of their vast secret archives -- intelligence documents, FBI files and the like.
Reigning "court historians" keep looking the other way, hoping Americans never notice the big picture: that FDR presided over the biggest national security disaster in U.S. history, the massive infiltration of the U.S. government by agents of a foreign power.
Ken Burns' new PBS documentary, "The Roosevelts," typifies this blackout.
For example, take the series' treatment of the Yalta Conference, the final meeting of the so-called Big Three wartime leaders. Old news footage shows the conference table, from Stalin to FDR to Churchill. The camera also shows a man who sure looks like Soviet military intelligence agent and U.S. State Department official Alger Hiss.
Next to him is top White House aide and, according to some experts, Soviet agent or asset Harry Hopkins. Both men are seated behind the dupe-ish secretary of state Edward Stettinius.
Does Burns inform viewers of the identities of these notorious figures seemingly "boring from within" before the viewer's eyes?
Does he note the existence of scholarship confirming covert agent Hiss' outspoken role at the conference, and evidence that he may have exerted influence over deliberations on China policy, war reparations including German slave labor, and other vital issues in the USSR's favor?
Is there any mention of the troubling questions about Hopkins' single-mindedly pro-Soviet stance that caused George C. Marshall to describe "Hopkins' job with the president" as being "to represent the Russian interests"?
Silence. Or rather, Burnsian chatter about the big secret of Yalta being FDR's grave health -- something obvious to anyone who looked at him. The series' ultimate mission is accomplished, however. A re-gilded FDR is burnished to a starry sheen, blinding a worshipful audience. Is that what history is for?
Via - http://www.israpundit.org/
More columns by Diane West
http://townhall.com/columnists/dianawest/
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THE RELIGION OF PEACE
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
Palestinian Arabs - Nazis then, Nazis now
Their hidden Nazi history and their current Nazi genocidal ideology
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/09/palestinian-arabs-nazis-then-nazis-now.html
WESTERN HYPOCRITICAL OUTRAGE OVER ISIS BRUTALITY
SAUDI ARABIA has beheaded at least 19 people in the month of August 2014 alone - And the White House sells $11 billion worth of weapons to Qatar, which sponsors terror
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/09/western-hypocritical-outrage-over-isis.html
Islam and human rights
http://markhumphrys.com/islam.human.rights.html
The myths of Islam
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Pages/Myths-of-Islam.htm
U.S. PRESIDENT DEFENDS ISLAM
and bashes Israel in speech at the United Nations
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/09/us-president-defends-islam-and-bashes.html
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SEARCHING FOR MODERATE ISLAM
It only exists in the imagination of multiculturalists - There is only one real Islam. Just ask a real Muslim. Daniel Greenfield writes:
I have been searching for moderate Islam since September 11 and just like a lost sock in the dryer, it was in the last place I expected it to be.
You won’t find the fabled land of moderate Muslims in the east. You won’t even find it in the west. Like all myths it exists in the imagination of those who tell the stories.
You won’t find a moderate Islam in the Koran, but you will find it in countless Western books about Islam.
Moderate Islam isn’t what most Muslims believe. It’s what most liberals believe that Muslims believe.
Without 'moderate Muslims', nationalism returns, borders close and the right wins. That is what they fear.
To believe in moderate Islam you have to disregard over a thousand years of recorded history.
The real Islam is a topic that non-Muslims of no faith who hold sacred only the platitudes of a post-everything society are eager to lecture on without knowing anything about it.
Their Islam is not the religion of Mohammed, the Koran, the Hadiths, the Caliphs or its practitioners in such places as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq or Indonesia. Their Islam is a religion that does not exist, but that they fervently believe must exist because without it their way of life is as doomed as the dodo.
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On the whitewashing of Communism
A review of Diane West's book American Betrayal
The left's disgraceful support for Stalin's crimes
Excerpts:
The Gulags - Stalin's "work camps" in Siberia - and his many crimes against humanity that cost millions of lives, were glossed over by devoted followers of Marxism in the West, especially by intellectuals who should have known better.
These days leftists worship the memory of Ernesto Che Guevara, another mass murderer. And they regard Fidel Castro as a hero.
Leftist intellectuals also support violent ideologies abroad that oppress women, abuse children, persecute religious minorities, and ignore human rights we take for granted.
Why academics hate Diane West's book American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character.
She exposes the true history of the 20th century, the history of communist crimes against humanity, to which so many in the Western Establishment were accomplices and collaborators; and then a massive cover-up of those crimes, which infested our entire public life with a culture of hypocrisy and double standards.
It is this search for the causes of our moral crisis that brings her as far back in history as 1930s, when the Great Famine was artificially organized by the Soviets to force the peasants into collective farms, and the Western media consciously helped Stalin to cover up that mass murder.
Having researched the mountains of evidence, Diane West persuasively demonstrates:
- How the most important strategic decisions of the WWII, such as effectively abandoning the Italian front to concentrate forces for the invasion of Normandy, were taken because Stalin demanded them. Against the counsel of Churchill and military commanders on the ground, the pro-Soviet FDR administration rejected such sensible alternatives as advancing from Italy to Balkans and Eastern Europe, which might have limited the Red Army’s advance to the West.
- How every attempt by anti-Nazi underground in Germany to secure Allied support for their plots to overthrow the Nazi regime was thwarted by Soviet agents in Washington – because the German conspirators were anti-communist as well as anti-Nazi. So another opportunity to destroy the Nazi regime and win the war without letting Stalin conquer half of Europe was lost.
- How the notorious Yalta division of Europe, surrendering half the continent to Stalin, was accepted by the pro-Soviet FDR administration without any serious attempt to find an alternative solution. In effect, the US simply went along with the Sovietisation of Eastern Europe in breach of Yalta Agreement, and betrayed the allied democratic governments of East European states.
- How thousands of American POWs “liberated” by Soviets from the Nazis were simply abandoned to rot in the Gulag as hostages to Stalin, in the vain hope of preserving good relations with Moscow after the war.
Scandalously, most secret archives of that period remain classified to this day, and very few historians ever complain about that.
Read more
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2013/10/the-lefts-disgraceful-support-for.html
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Stalin's gulags
The Gulag was nothing less than a slave labor system under Stalin's rule, where millions of men and women transported to Siberia and other outposts of the Soviet empire. They were more than 2000 camps in total. Their purpose was to work prisoners to death. There were instances where starving inmates resorted to cannibalism.
Between 1929 and 1960 about 14 million people were incarcerated by the Soviet regime.
U.S. historian Anne Applebaum estimates that a minimum of 2,750,000 people died in the gulag system.
The Soviet regime relied on violence and intimidation.
The Soviet regime relied on violence and intimidation.
About 14 million people were killed in the civil war that erupted after the revolution, five million of them alone died from hunger.
A deliberate famine aimed at forcing peasants into collective farms, resulted in a further seven million deaths between 1928 and 1932.
However, many Western intellectuals denied for a long time that such horrors were being perpetrated in the Soviet Empire.
Stalin's purge of Communist Party members in the mid-1930s resulted in approximately 600,000 people being tortured and killed.
The Western Left looked the other way or made excuses. They also made excuses when Stalin made a pact with the genocidal Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler. Stalin and Hitler invaded Poland and divided it between themselves.
The irony is that these Western intellectuals of the Left should have been at the vanguard against genocide, imperialism and the violation of human rights.
Instead, they continued to worship Stalin and his regime.
They defended a regime where only the elite had access to luxury goods while the majority of the population barely survived, if at all.
Christianity and other religions were aggressively discouraged; some ethnic minorities, persecuted.
And a regime of surveillance, fear and distrust pervaded till the very end of the Soviet regime - where no one could trust anyone, even their own family and friends.
Instead, they continued to worship Stalin and his regime.
They defended a regime where only the elite had access to luxury goods while the majority of the population barely survived, if at all.
Christianity and other religions were aggressively discouraged; some ethnic minorities, persecuted.
And a regime of surveillance, fear and distrust pervaded till the very end of the Soviet regime - where no one could trust anyone, even their own family and friends.
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Soviet deportees to Nazino Island
They were abandoned there with nothing, and resorted to cannibalism
The deportation to Nazino island -The Nazino affair was the mass deportation of 6,000 people, 4,000 of whom died, on Nazino Island in the Soviet Union in 1933.
The small, isolated Western Siberian island is located about 800 km north of Tomsk, in Alexandrovsky District, Tomsk Oblast near the confluence of the Ob and Nazina Rivers.
It is called "Death Island" or "Cannibal Island" because about 4,000 out of 6,000 Soviet "special settlers" died there during the summer of 1933, after being abandoned with only flour for food, few tools and little clothing or shelter.
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NAZINO ISLAND - Thousands of Soviet-era prisoners rounded up in Joseph Stalin's brutal purges were dumped without food or shelter on a remote island in Siberia, where they turned to cannibalism.
Newly disclosed documents from a Kremlin archive show that more than 4000 of the 6000 prisoners abandoned on Nazino, an inhospitable and deserted slip of land in a river 2400km northeast of Moscow, died in less than four weeks in the late spring of 1933.
Several dozen cases of cannibalism were recorded as prisoners sought to live off the bodies scattered around the island. Others were killed for their flesh.
Read more -
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/stalins-island-exiles-turned-to-cannibalism/story-e6frg6so-1111113307928
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THE SOVIET PERSECUTION OF RELIGIOUS AND ETHNIC GROUPS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians_in_the_Soviet_Union
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_and_anti-Semitism
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BRITAIN AND THE US SECRETLY HELPED HITLER DURING THE WAR
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2013/08/britain-and-us-secretly-helped-hitler.html
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BRITAIN AND THE US SECRETLY HELPED HITLER DURING THE WAR
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2013/08/britain-and-us-secretly-helped-hitler.html
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