Decoding and Debunking
Irshad Manji's Disgusting Riddle:
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Imperial power
may kill Muslims,
but Muslims kill
Muslims too!
By Nadir Ahmed
Posted: Friday, June 28, 2007
I would encourage everyone to first read the
following article, on Understanding The Riddle: A
powerful form of deception utilized by the professional liar.
Irshad Manji fully implements riddles in her propaganda. One of these riddles
in particular, is the following:
"In the last
100 years alone," she says, "more Muslims have been
tortured and murdered at the hands of
other Muslims than at the hands of
any former imperial power." (*)
(In this next example, we see how the riddle is
used to protect
“AS'AD ABUKHALIL:when those same governments would not
dare to launch
a boycott of
responsible for more offenses against Arabs by
virtue of
occupations than the
“IRSHAD MANJI: What “Mr. Angry Arab”
there doesn’t seem to appreciate
or care to acknowledge is that in the past 100 years alone, more Muslims have
been tortured, imprisoned, raped, maimed and murdered at the hands of other
Muslims than at the hands of any foreign imperial power…” (*)
Remember - the sole purpose of these types of riddles are to confuse people, because the professional liar relies on an effective tactic: If you can not win them, try to confuse them. And of course, the media trumpets this bogus
riddle into the homes of millions of people, while completely shutting out what
they perceive as "fundamentalist Muslim" viewpoints, especially the
apologist for "fundamentalist Islam" who are actively seeking to
expose the lies and deception of Irshad Manji in public debate for the American
audience to witness.
I think the best way to decode and debunk this complicated riddle is by simply providing another disgusting riddle:
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Terrorists may
have killed Americans on September 11th,
But Americans kill Americans too!
How does it feel? Do you feel antagonized? Insulted?
Disgusted? Well, you should feel all the above. Likewise, when Muslims read
such disgusting riddles that trivialize atrocities committed against them, they
also feel antagonized, insulted, and disgusted. Now, let me decode and debunk
this riddle:
ü Just because Americans kill Americans as in the VT massacre, that does make the outrage of 911 any less.
ü Just because Americans kill Americans, that does not in
anyway demonstrate hypocrisy when Americans decry the atrocities committed
against them by others.
ü Under NO CIRCUMSTANCE should Americans reflect on Virginia
Tech massacre to counter balance September 11th.
ü Regardless of whether it is Americans killing Americans,
or terrorist killing American, it should be both condemned with equal force.
If all the above points are true, then can we
also make the exact same points against Irshad Manji's riddle? Those identical
points would be:
ü Just because Muslims kill Muslims as in
ü Just because Muslims kill Muslims, that does not in anyway
demonstrate hypocrisy when Muslims decry the atrocities committed against them
by others.
ü Under NO CIRCUMSTANCE should Muslims reflect on the
Muslim-on-Muslim violence to counter balance violence committed against them by
others, namely
ü Regardless of whether it is Muslims killing Muslims, or
others, it should be both condemned with equal force.
In conclusion, this
riddle is just another feeble attempt by Irshad Manji to defend Israel, as well as to instigate Muslims, so
that she can generate more negative feedback (better known as the self-fulfilling prophecy), and turn around and
say:
“look there! See how those
Muslims are!”
“They are violent!”
”They need to be reformed!”
”Muslims need some of my Ijitihad!”.