Have this guy any sense of reasoning ?

Submitted by Hilare (France), Dec 20, 2002 at 05:24

Not really surprised, because this is the only way to try a defence of islam, though i must say that i remain stunned by the absolute nonsense speech of H. Ibish.

In particular, i am impressed by this man's success to be self contradictory in so few lines.

Starting his speech, H. Ibish stated that, according his opinion, the incriminate film is not a proselytizing one. Until this point and after all, why not ?

""HOLT: Your view of this film, was it proselytizing?
IBISH: Oh no, I don't think so. (...)""

The problem is that H. Ibish dares to give to everybody the answer : of course this film is intended to be proselytizing, as H. Ibish himself points out that this film was made in a way respecting the tradition of the religion.

""IBISH:(...) And that's usual, in the same way that the documentary about-the eight-part series about the Jews in civilization took Jewish traditions seriously, the way most documentaries about Christian traditions, about Jesus and about the early church and things like that, take those traditions seriously.""

Has anybody ever known of a religion's tradition which could not be apologetic ? Does H. Ibish thinks that just switching the term 'apologetic' in a shrewdly more suited for propaganda : 'tradition', may change the reality ?

Where is a minimal rationale here ? Except of course, the need of refusing to face up to the facts.

The same is applied to H. Ibish direct negation of obviousness. According to this man thinking, a two hours apologetic film can't influence viewers.

""IBISH:(...) And I think the notion that anyone is going to get converted by watching a two-hour documentary on Muslim traditions and the history of the prophet Muhammad is simply ridiculous.""

For sure. This is certainly why every company spend billion of dollars every year, just for some seconds of advertising spots : because those kind of films absolutely doesn't influence anybody ! Please note that exeggerating the comment : 'converting right after a film', is also a very well spread propaganda method. Of course, except idiots, nobody will do that, but this can perfectly be the starting point of a convertion.

When a man needs to lie up to such a point, the only issue is to know why he does so.

I am repeating here that lack of sense and obvious lies are the only way to try a defence of islam, as the truth against this ideology is not bearable. So, using this method, the aim of H Ibish is clearly a defence of islam, and not a defence of American liberty. The only religion to have a name for the art of concealing in either proselytizing and gaining territory is islam, and the name of this strange art is : Taqiyah. This simple fact must alert anyone.

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