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Irwin N. Graulich is a well known motivational speaker on ethics, religion and Judaism. A child of Holocaust survivors, he has been successful in showing religious and secular people the need for God-based ethics. Irwin considers himself a multi-denominational, serious Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Jew.
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By Irwin N. Graulich
June 5, 2005
Watergate made the Washington Post into a household name. No wonder Newsweek will go to any length in order to create a new scandal portraying America as "evil." Hey, it is tabloid journalism at its best and sells big time; a primary mission of the magazine.
Behind this sinister plot is a nice (sic) Jewish boy named Michael Isikoff, whose family probably escaped the pogroms of Europe, seeking a better life in America. Little Michael is one of those pathetic elites who does not appreciate what this country has given him, wanting to hurt it so that it becomes a much better place. Isikoff, his associate, John Barry, et. al are merely attempting to step into Woodward and Bernstein's much larger investigative reporter shoes which do not fit them at all.
Editor Mark Whitaker's apologies are not worth the paper on which they are printed. Actually, Newsweek would better serve its readers as toilet training liner for the dog's cage. That is certainly a better use of its pages and wasted apologies, which led to 16 deaths and many injured.
The important part of the story is not whether Newsweek had an incorrect source at the Pentagon. Koran desecration is not the issue; human life desecration is the issue. When Muslims blew up ancient Buddhist statues, did Buddhists riot? When Muslims cut off the head of a Wall Street Journal reporter, did Americans riot? When Muslims blew up Jewish babies in pizza parlors in Israel, did Israelis riot? When Muslims urinated on the Western Wall and paved the streets with Jewish tombstones, or more recently destroyed Joseph's Tomb, did Jews riot? When Muslims burned churches in Kosovo, did Christians riot? When Muslims flew planes into office buildings and slit the throats of flight attendants, did anyone riot?
It seems obvious that the Isikoff's of the world are soft racists, expecting much less from Muslims whom they obviously believe to be a lower form of humanity with an inherent inability to control themselves. Jews, Christians, atheists and virtually all other groups are held to a much higher standard of behavior and ethics. This fact explains precisely the focus on an imaginary American interrogator, rather than the evil Muslims who rioted and murdered many of their own.
The very same media elite who see the burning of the American flag as some great freedom, made the act of flushing a Koran into something worse than mass murder. These are the writers and reporters who always seem to find fault with America and Israel, while women are treated as chattel throughout the Muslim world.
Embedded reporters and investigative journalists are the real problem today. Trying to become heroes like the American military whom they constantly criticize, these yuppies simply do not understand the sophisticated concept that "not everything should be reported... period." The President urinates, gets diarrhea, fights with Laura, even masturbates; yet these things are not for public consumption. Neither was Abu Ghraib or the Koran flushing story, even if true.
These are isolated incidents which are not newsworthy and must be kept in context with the entire geopolitical world today. Airing out all of one's dirty laundry can lead to disaster, both within a family and within a country. A pattern of abuse or evil are a completely different story and certainly should be exposed.
It is quite disgusting to create a painting of the Virgin Mary and Jesus out of elephant dung, a vile artistic fraud displayed at the Brooklyn Museum recently. Remember Mapplethorpe's "Piss Christ," a cross in a bottle of, well you know what. "Artistic freedom," another example of the moral idiocy on the left.
Yet a lesson can be learned from these despicable pseudo-artistic creations which show the moral greatness of America's Christians, who only protested verbally and in written form. Can you imagine an image of the Prophet Mohammed in a bottle of urine and how many radical Muslims would kill each other in protest. Hey... where is Robert Mapplethorpe when you really need him?
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