“Creationist” reasoning on de Nile
Jan 26, 2009 Faith and Works, Oppression, Orient
The Jerusalem Post reports (via Insty) that special kind of reasoning — as you’ll see, it’s not all that novel, however:
Samir Faris, a retired governmental school principal whose living room contains a portrait of the late Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, whom he admires for his peace efforts, agreed that “Israel was lying” about the tunnels.
“If there were tunnels, then they were created after they initiated the blockade… only because [the Palestinians] need food and bread,” he said.
But when asked about Egyptian statements that tunnels existed even before Israel withdrew its soldiers from the Gaza Strip in 2005, Faris said that Palestinians collaborating with Israel had built the tunnels “to create chaos on the borders between Egypt and Israel so that the image of Egypt would be damaged in the eyes of the world.”
You know nothing
Sound familiar? It’s a perfect twin of the commonly claimed argument of creationists that “God put fossils into the Earth during Creation to test our faith.” (I say “commonly claimed” because searching Google, I couldn’t actually find a text in which a creationist actually says that. But everyone agrees that they (we) do.)
Same here: The tunnels were put there to make it look like there were tunnels there, and thus to test the faith of Arabs, as well as Europeans and other liberals, in the childlike, benevolent innocence of Palestinians, wherever they be.
Dig?
January 27th, 2009 at 10:57 am
Better hope your Agudah friends don’t read your site, Ron. Otherwise, you may have to make a larger donation than usual to maintain your good standing!
January 27th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
You mean thirty-seven dollars?
There’s nothing hashkafically improper in this post, anyway. Plus it’s like the minister who got the hole in one when he covertly hit the links of a Sunday morning — if they did read it they’d couldn’t admit it anyway.