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| title: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024388)" |
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| These three levels must be understood for their differences while united by a single goal. While these levels |
| often op crate together and assist each other, we must avoid "level confusion" which the Control Factor |
| employs to curtail our fears. If the Obama narrative is swallowed- that the only threat is the Violent Jihad- we |
| will miss the other contamination fomenting within our borders. We must appreciate how these levels work |
| together and even unite with other forces such as the global Leftist movement that you, Jamie, have described |
| so forcefully in United in Hate. |
| FP: You write about how we like to talk of "Good Muslims" and how we are always on the eternal search for |
| "moderate" Muslims (Khatami, Mousavi, Abbas, etc), while we stress how the "extremists" are the real |
| problem and how "few" they really are. All of this is connected to the Control F actor. Enlighten us. |
| Siegel: The Control Factor seeks to have us feel in control of the situation. The easiest way to do this is to |
| simply minimize the number of potential enemies. We have been lectured for years about how Islam is a |
| "religion of peace" and that the violence we see (remember that we have already improperly limited the |
| problem to violence) is the product of a small number of "crazies" (remember Hillary Clinton's 50,000) who |
| have distorted Islam. I call this the "Peaceful Muslim Disclaimer" as virtually everyone in the press and |
| government has been bullied into making some statement of the kind to silence those who will pressure them |
| that they are "Islamophobic" and Islam is being attacked. (These are the Islam hustlers who operate on the same |
| principles that black race hustlers so effectively used to extort concessions over the last six decades or so). |
| Nobody has done any real work to support this proposition, nor is it clear exactly how it would be tested. My |
| view is that the grammar "Islam is x" is itself problematic because Islam has expressed itself throughout history |
| in a variety of fashions. It is more useful to talk in terms of how seriously engaged with Islam, the Koran and |
| other texts, a Muslim is. What is significant is how Muslims today are using Islam and most of those who are in |
| power either throughout a large territory or within a small community tend toward, if not fully advocate, the |
| very supremacist ideas that we try to tell ourselves are reserved for the few "extremists." Presumably most |
| Germans did not wish to see all Nazi atrocities carried out but in the end they fell in line because they had to. |
| Those our politicians and press call the "extremists" are in one sense more accurately the "good" Muslims who |
| ar e following their Islamic beliefs dutifully. |
| FP: Tell us how Western shame and guilt play into all of this. |
| Siegel: One of the dirty little secrets the Control Factor preys upon is that if we believe we control something |
| we can comfort ourselves that we can change it. Remember the horror film- the threat has one purpose and that |
| is to destroy you. You can not change it, talk it out of it, teach it alternatives or otherwise. That is what makes it |
| so inherently frightening. If we can convince ourselves that we caused the threat to act the way it does we can |
| maintain the secret hope that we can change it. Consequently, there is a tremendous attraction to blaming |
| ourselves for the Islamic Enemy's behavior. And we see this power in our readily accepting responsibility for |
| terror- because of our occupation, our greedy quest for oil, our failure to extend a hand of "engagement," |
| Israel's building settlements, our making videos that defa me Mohammed and so on. Again, the relationship is |
| defined by the enemy blaming us for his actions and our accepting such responsibility. |
| Shelby Steele has written brilliantly about what he calls "white guilt" and outlines how whites during the 60's |
| and thereafter were pressured into a transaction whereby in order to re-obtain a sense of moral authority they |
| accepted blame for the condition of blacks and behaved as if guilty. Blacks were able to extract great |
| concessions and whites were able to view themselves as morally restored and redeemed. At a certain point, |
| however, the behavior takes on a life of its own and the narratives become deeply embedded in the culture and, |
| as we can see today, difficult to uproot. |
| Western guilt is an extension of Steele's notion. President Obama's confessionals to the Arab world admitting |
| that America has made "mistakes" and was not born a colonial pow er express this same tendency to appease |
| through guilt. Hillary Clint on's "reset" with Russia conveyed the same submissive request for a more |
| acceptable response. In being guilty we presume the other party will recognize our contrition and respond in |
| like kind. One of the Control Factor's most devastating moves is employed- presuming the other is just like us |
| and will respond the way we would. This is frequently how an enabler justifies his continuous support for an |
| addict. The problem, however is that our Islamic Enemy is NOT like us and will not respond in like kind. |
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