Islamofascism and Star Trek Conspiracy Fantasies

One reason it is impossible to make peace with Islamic fascists is that they all live in some parallel universe detached from reality in which Palestinians are oppressed by Israel and where conspiracies abound. And the Left inevitably backs them up in their conspiracist nonsense.

Today's mind-numbingly stupid conspiracy du jour from our Islamofascist friends is right out of Star Trek, or maybe the Teletubbies:

Yassir Arafat was Killed By High Tech Laser Attack says PLO Envoy

Attallah Quiba, the Palestinian ambassador in Sri Lanka, believes that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was killed by unnamed Israelis using advanced technology, the Island newspaper said. Responding to questions at a media conference in Colombo on Friday, Quiba claimed that two Israelis who met Arafat on the day he was taken sick "used a laser device to attack Arafat."

"They tried to flee after using the device but were wrestled down by the Palestinian Authority security personnel. Both men were carrying Canadian passports. "Quiba was quoted as saying the Palestinian Authority immediately informed the Israeli government of the "attempt on Arafat's life."
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Now we really do not see how this is any sillier than the anti-Semitic conspiracy "theories" endorsed by Alexander Cockburn, editor and publisher of Counterpunch, about how Jews spread anthrax and how the Israelis knocked down the World Trade Center to make poor bin Laden look bad. Cockburn often endorses Islamofascist conspiracy theories. Here is a sample from His Cockroachship:

"There are a number of stories sloshing around the news now that have raised discussion of Israel and of the posture of American Jews to an acrid level. The purveyor of anthrax may have been a former government scientist of Jewish ethnic extraction with a record of baiting a colleague of Arab origins, acting with the intent to blame the anthrax on Muslim terrorists. Rocketing around the Web and spilling into the press are many stories about Israeli spies in America at the time of 9/11. On various accounts of unknown reliability, they were trailing Atta and his associates, knew what was going to happen but did nothing or were simply spying on U.S. facilities. Some posing as art students have been expelled, according to the AP. Finally, there’s Sharon’s bloody repression of the Palestinians, and Israel’s apparently powerful role in Bush’s foreign policy."

In fact, we expect to see this new Teletubby theory of the PLO tp be reprinted on Counterpunch and Noam Chomsky's web page before the week is up.