‘Stupefying’

Stupefying. It isn’t often that word can be used when describing a Grand Canyon deep detachment from reality.

Leave it to Palestinian ‘experts’ to highlight and deepen the chasm that distinguishes and separates them and their supporters from the real world. In Honor Killings And The Palestinian Omerta, Fausta recounts the incredible Palestinian assertion that the blame for Palestinian honor killings can be laid at the feet of- who else?- but the Jews.

Soraida Abdel-Hussein, a researcher at the Women’s Center for Legal Aid and Counseling in Ramallah, uses the word “femicide” to describe the killings.

She told IRIN that Palestinian society is undergoing radical change as a result of the daily violence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – and women are suffering as a result.

“Being under oppressive occupation gives you a feeling of low self-esteem, of being less intelligent, less powerful, less of everything,” she said.

“That hits the masculine identity – and women pay the price. Men internalize the values of violence. They replicate the roles of occupier and victim. It will become part of the culture – part of how you see people and they see you. We are now at the stage where it is radically changing our society and structures.”

Fausta goes on to note that ‘the occupation’ cannot explain the ever increasing number of honor killings and other forms of misogyny throughout not only the Arab world, but in western nations as well.

There are honor killings in Germany, Britain, Holland (where Ayaan Hirsi Ali, when she was a member of Parliament, insisted that Holland begin to count the number of honor killings) and other places in Europe (h/t PeakTalk), Turkey (see above), Pakistan, Syria, Jordan and in many other countries in the extremist Muslim world.

The concerted effort to place the blame elsewhere for the various cultural implosions facing the Arab world defies comprehension. As we noted earlier today in Tenured Deceit,

…just because Palestinians agree that hamburgers, fried chicken and pizza are terrific, we are [not] all the same

The same Palestinians who come home and have dinner and worry about report cards are also teaching their children to hate and sometimes, even to kill some people of different races or religions. They believe in the racist and bigoted rhetoric of their society and swell with pride as their children march to the latest Hamas marching ditty, ‘Hamas! Hamas! Jews to the Gas!‘ and they listen attentively as Palestinian media reinforce racism, bigotry and hate as ‘honorable’ expressions of Palestinian ‘dignity.’

After decades of failure at every turn with dysfunctional leaders at the helm, the Arab world and their supporters refuse to see their own dysfunction.

We noted

What could Jews- or anyone else, for that matter, anywhere, do to Arabs what their own dysfunctional political and ‘religious’ leadership haven’t already done to insure the failure of Arab society?

In a world full of conspiracies, many in the Arab world are convinced that they have been ‘chosen’ by the Jews are conspired against. Because they are somehow so special, so very special, it is they who are selected. That is not unlike the paranoid schizophrenic who tells his psychiatrist that he believes the CIA has implanted a listening device in his anus. They broadcast subliminal messages as to when he must defecate, so as to download the mental transcripts of his exchanges with aliens as well as his most private thoughts. That paranoid schizophrenic constructs an entire world around his delusions- a world that at once validates himself as a ‘victim’ and at the same time, highlights his own ’specialness.’

There is of course, another truth about conspiracies and conspiracy theorists. Whether they like it or not, conspiracy theorists invite comparisons with the object of their obsessions. In the inevitable comparison between Jews and Muslims in cultural, societal and religious terms, the contrasts could not be more stark. The direction taken by each group are separated by 180 degrees. Most, if not all of the direction taken by the Arab world is the direct result of the choices made by dysfunctional Arab leaders.

The Arab world’s deepest fears are that in fact neither Jews or anyone else cares about them enough to obsess over- and that is why the Arab world has to create confrontations and adversarial relationships with Israel and the rest of the civilized world. Palestinian and Arab world failures and missteps are their own and the blame for those failures and missteps can only be laid at their own feet.

As we have noted,

‘Imagine an entire life lived as a psychotic episode.’

That also applies to Palestinian and Arab world supporters, because to admit the truth that they have deliberately reinforced the same failed attitudes and behaviors that have created and perpetuated Palestinian and Arab dysfunction is to admit that they have failed, on a multitude of levels. That kind of self examination and self reflection is hard top come by. Dysfunctional people will come up with any number of reasons not to have to deal with reality. The Arab world is the perfect incubator for conspiracy theories- anything that might justify their dysfunction and preclude them from having to deal with those centuries of failure.

Read Fausta’s post and consider the implications of an entire society gone wild- and blaming others for their dysfunctions. As we have noted many times, left unresolved and not dealt with, dysfunctions only grow.

They never, ever, just ‘go away.’