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Who started it all?
Reader comment on item: Rampaging Islamists
Submitted by al Kidya (Canada), Sep 19, 2012 at 12:36
Dr. Pipes,
Do you really suppose that a very short YouTube trailer of Innocence of Muslims actually started all of this? Or was this implanted, by the White House and or the Secretary of State, as a distraction, 'a way out' from the hatred for current US foreign policy.
Considering this is an election year I am willing to bet that the White House used the idiotic movie as their choice to rile Muslims in Libya, to create a riot scene, to cover up a well-planned attack on the Embassy in Libya and it got way out of hand; now it's gone viral.
The Obama administrations admission of erring on Libya and Egypt is quite obviously being swept under the "false flag" carpeting.
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| How many anti Islamists on the Left? Not many..so how do we win? [399 words] | Shishir | Jul 11, 2013 14:44 | 208081 | ||
| 4 | There is so much anti-Islam videos on youtube and cause and effect! [99 words] | dhimmi no more | Jul 9, 2013 16:57 | 208041 | |
| 3 | What really happened in Libya? [318 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 15, 2012 07:59 | 199834 | |
| Western apathy [49 words] | Jim Fox | Oct 15, 2012 02:35 | 199830 | ||
| 4 | The perfect scenario: Islamists protesting against Google [164 words] | Prashant | Oct 15, 2012 01:03 | 199827 | |
| 2 | Clueless Morsi and the recent riots between Islamists and secularists in Midan el-Tahrir in Cairo [289 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 14, 2012 12:06 | 199800 | |
| 6 | Boys and girls: Now we have a new term by the enablers of Islamists: Christianists! [509 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 14, 2012 09:31 | 199796 | |
| 9 | The atrocity in Benghazi revisited [578 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 13, 2012 12:08 | 199775 | |
| 2 |  Benghazi killers were not true muslims (sarcasm intended) [42 words] | Prashant | Oct 14, 2012 17:37 | 199775 | |
| 9 | 'Love the prophet' day in Pakistan [91 words] | Prashant | Sep 23, 2012 13:46 | 199013 | |
| 15 | The diary and the truth [263 words] | dhimmi no more | Sep 23, 2012 07:57 | 199002 | |
| "I say to the president: find those criminals and bring them to justice" [15 words] | Jim Plimmer | Oct 2, 2012 20:40 | 199002 | ||
| 1 | I'm going to assume you are being sarcastic [152 words] | stanley b | Oct 3, 2012 16:57 | 199002 | |
| 4 | When yelling fire in a crowded movie theater is a civic duty! [145 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 4, 2012 17:46 | 199002 | |
| 2 | Corruption of Our Political Class [244 words] | Kepha Hor | Sep 22, 2012 20:35 | 198990 | |
| 19 | Clueless Morsi and "round up the usual suspects"! [215 words] | dhimmi no more | Sep 22, 2012 09:48 | 198973 |
| 15 | Sarah Chayes and the useful idiots [198 words] | dhimmi no more | Sep 22, 2012 07:52 | 198967 | |
| 2 | Let's imagine the LA Times if Bush were President [94 words] | Jeff | Sep 24, 2012 13:04 | 198967 | |
| 1 | Rampaging Catholics [220 words] | Jeff | Sep 21, 2012 13:59 | 198879 | |
| 3 | dont go that route [70 words] | yuval Brandstetter MD | Sep 22, 2012 09:11 | 198879 | |
| 9 | Rampaging Islamists [89 words] | Vinod Sethi | Sep 21, 2012 12:13 | 198878 | |
| 1 | Same guy [59 words] | Y Brandstetter MD | Sep 21, 2012 09:10 | 198873 | |
| 5 | Our government has no clue how to deal with the ascendency of Islam [87 words] | NuritG | Sep 20, 2012 00:24 | 198833 | |
| 4 | It is not the job of the US govenmrnent to deal with the ascendency of Islam [237 words] | Prashant | Sep 21, 2012 02:08 | 198833 | |
| 54 | islam hatred [282 words] | havas | Sep 21, 2012 16:36 | 198833 | |
| 4 | It has always been the job of the US government to promote the ascendency of radical Islam [446 words] | Ianus | Sep 23, 2012 06:30 | 198833 | |
| 17 | Armenian and kafir hate [812 words] | dhimmi no more | Sep 23, 2012 08:25 | 198833 | |
| US has to dictate to itself the moral values [50 words] | Ephraim Samiri | Sep 24, 2012 09:41 | 198833 | ||
| 5 | "Murderer America , get out of Turkey !" [638 words] | Ianus | Sep 24, 2012 14:14 | 198833 | |
| 5 | Ephraim Samiri wishes bad for America while living in America [50 words] | Prashant | Sep 25, 2012 01:42 | 198833 | |
| Clarification on US government's responsibility to prevent the ascendancy of Islam [327 words] | Prashant | Sep 25, 2012 02:22 | 198833 | ||
| 3 | "US government is doing a decent job" ... In what? In unleashing fundamntalist Islam worldwide? [261 words] | Ianus | Sep 25, 2012 17:36 | 198833 | |
| 2 | Islamic Jihad everywhere massacres - as hate crimes en-masse [321 words] | Milia | Oct 3, 2012 16:48 | 198833 | |
| 5 | No Enemy, No War [328 words] | Susan | Sep 19, 2012 22:32 | 198832 | |
| Rise and rise of religious bigotry in world politics [208 words] | Mozere | Sep 25, 2012 23:01 | 198832 | ||
| Trip to Chios, a glimmer of hope for peace and coexistence [311 words] | Mozere | Sep 26, 2012 00:37 | 198832 | ||
| 1 | Mozere - or the Lesson from a Habitual Genocide Denier [113 words] | Young MC | Sep 28, 2012 10:36 | 198832 | |
| 6 | Where lying and ignorance are involved, there can be no glimmer of hope for peace and co-existence whatsoever! 1 [2556 words] | Ianus | Oct 1, 2012 08:15 | 198832 | |
| 7 | Where lying and ignorance are involved ...2 or "ΕΡΓΑ ΟΘΩΜΑΝΩΝ" (="Made In Turkey") [945 words] | Ianus | Oct 1, 2012 10:24 | 198832 | |
| Its a good title but the content ... [85 words] | Robert | May 14, 2013 22:52 | 198832 | ||
| 1 | Rampaging Islamists [18 words] | Steven L | Sep 19, 2012 19:49 | 198830 | |
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| 11 | Clash of Civilizations [172 words] | Abdul Ameer | Sep 19, 2012 17:26 | 198826 | |
| A very astute comment [6 words] | Jay Abouaf | Sep 20, 2012 15:13 | 198826 | ||
| 7 | Insulting Islam [47 words] | Edward | Sep 19, 2012 16:53 | 198825 | |
| 2 | Insulting Islam~ [16 words] | BONNIE | Sep 20, 2012 02:33 | 198825 | |
| 3 | Naming the enemy [117 words] | Zahir | Sep 21, 2012 10:36 | 198825 | |
| 7 | Islamists or Muslims [274 words] | Patrick Moore | Sep 19, 2012 16:18 | 198824 | |
| 1 | Unchanging values [182 words] | Josef | Sep 19, 2012 16:02 | 198823 | |
| 4 | Westerners Are Divided? [26 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Gary Sack | Sep 19, 2012 14:59 | 198822 | |
| 3 | 'How the United States helped unleash fundamentalist Islam' [75 words] | Ianus | Sep 20, 2012 14:55 | 198822 | |
| 2 | 'How the United States helped unleash fundamentalist Islam' [127 words] | Vijay | Sep 21, 2012 05:00 | 198822 | |
| Can you learn anything when your interests depend on ignoring reality? [1 words] | Ianus | Sep 23, 2012 04:10 | 198822 | ||
| 5 | THE RAMPAGING ISLAMISTS [147 words] | Nenette Grunberg | Sep 19, 2012 14:33 | 198820 | |
| Battle of wills [37 words] | Henk Twerda | Sep 19, 2012 13:18 | 198819 | ||
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| 2 | Confusing the small extremist crowd with the whole population is a big mistake. [61 words] | Zahir | Sep 21, 2012 11:21 | 198817 | |
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| 1 | The US that has sown the Islamic wind is now reaping the Islamic whirlwind. [355 words] | Ianus | Sep 21, 2012 17:08 | 198810 | |
| islamic "rule"?! [100 words] | yzwisey | Sep 19, 2012 10:32 | 198808 | ||
| 10 | Will we maintain our historic civilization against their challenge, or will we accept Muslim dominion and a second-class dhimmi status? [3424 words] | Bowman2062 | Sep 19, 2012 10:12 | 198807 | |
| 4 | Ongoing Islamic Conquest of the West [252 words] | Edward Cline | Sep 19, 2012 09:43 | 198806 | |
| 1 | Not political correctness, but US Realpolitik ! [127 words] | Ianus | Sep 20, 2012 15:05 | 198806 | |
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| 1 | Macchiavellian interests and no altruism at all [71 words] | Ianus | Sep 23, 2012 05:20 | 198806 | |
| 12 | The need to update immigration laws after reading about the Australian example [79 words] | PezDispenser | Sep 19, 2012 09:16 | 198804 | |
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