Anti-Islam Web Site Calls for Shooting at Egyptian Protesters

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)
January 30, 2011

http://www.realcourage.org/2011/01/anti-islam-calls-for-shooting/

While the death toll in the Egyptian protests against its oppressive government has risen to over 100, one American-based web site has called for shooting at Egyptian protesters, then urges the Mubarak government to use tactics from Tienanmen Square, and even genocidal tactics from Indonesia.

In a disturbing development, R.E.A.L. has learned today that the anti-Islam “Jihad Watch” website has posted an article, titled  “A Whiff of Grapeshot” on January 28, 2011, calling for shooting at Egyptian protesters. The Jihad Watch article also urges Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak to use the same practices as Communist China totalitarians did in the Tienanmen Square massacre in 1982.  The infamous Tienanmen Square massacre against Chinese freedom activists resulted in estimates of between 400 and 3,000 killed in June 4, 1989.

In the January 28, 2011 posting  “A Whiff of Grapeshot” on JihadWatch.org, JW writer “Roland Shirk” makes the argument that if there are Muslim Brotherhood members within the Egyptian protesters that a “whiff of grapeshot” should be used to dispose of them.

• Jihad Watch writer “Roland Shirk” states that: “That should prove enough to cripple Mubarak’s attempts to stay in power–which could only succeed through the ruthless willingness to show the mob a ‘whiff of grapeshot.’  I know it sounds terrible to say this, but if they are in league with the Muslim Brotherhood, the Egyptian mob deserves it.”  (The term “whiff of grapeshot” refers to efforts by the French dictator Napoleon Bonaparte, while he was a Brigadier General during the French Revolution,  to shoot and kill Royalist opponents in the street on October 5, 1795. The future dictator had ordered soldiers to kill the Royalist rebels with cannons killing 300, which 19th century historian Thomas Carlyle called clearing the streets with a “whiff of grapeshot.”  Grapeshot was used in rifles as a series of large metal slugs to cause maximum damage to opponents.   It was used to kill American soldiers during the Revolutionary War.)  (see also screen capture)

• Jihad Watch writer “Roland Shirk” concludes by urging Hosni Mubarak to use the tactics of Communist China in 1989 in Tienanmen Square that murdered thousands of freedom fighters, stating:  “For us to be prattling on about the virtues of self-government in this context is suicidal, like Russian aristocrats hosting Bolsheviks in their salons. If I could have Mubarak’s ear, I would whisper just two words of wisdom: Tienanmen Square.”  (see also screen capture)

• In further comments after his article, “Roland Shirk” also writes that “The best hope for Egypt would be a TOUGH crackdown, followed by a relentless purge that targeted the Muslim Brotherhood. It might end up being as ugly as Suharto’s war against the Communists in Indonesia.”   Statistics on the Suharto purge against Communists show that at least half a million were killed and 1.5 million were imprisoned.  (see also screen capture)

Other recent columns by “Roland Shirk” have been praised by the “racialist” Lawrence Auster who applauds this individual’s calls to end the right of any Muslims to immigrate to the United States.

The Jihad Watch website is run by SIOA co-leader Robert Spencer whose SIOA political activism has included protests at a planned mosque in Long Island and the planned Park Place Islamic Center in New York City.  He will be speaking on February 11 at a CPAC convention on those topics in Washington DC.

For the record, R.E.A.L has long objected to, protested against, and written many articles challenging the views of the Muslim Brotherhood and their political Islamist views that we believe are anti-democratic.  However, we can object to and disagree with the Muslim Brotherhood, while believing in human freedom, human dignity, and democracy.  We can see challenges to freedom without calling for tactics used by dictators, Communist totalitarians, and architects of genocide.

We urge Jihad Watch to retract this article calling for violence.

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