FLEXIBLE 'FACTS'

The manipulation of Western youth by militant mullahs and leftist academics who ironically enjoy the freedom's of the West are succinctly captured in this article:

http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2015/11/lefts-road-islamist-terror/

A Personal experience of such factual manipulation
I remember going to a religious debate many years ago; 1979 actually, between Ahmed Deedat the head of the Islamic Propagation Centre in Durban and Josh McDowell, Christian apologist.

Some friends and myself had prepared ourselves to listen to both sides of the debate with as much objectivity as we could muster and be prepared to pass  a sound philosophical opinion on the outcome regardless of who 'won'.

The actual event was a total anti-climax.

Ahmed Deedat was not only a completely incompetent debater, he was also extremely emotional and succeeded only in abusing McDOwell and ranting at him. McDowell in fact ceased trying to reason with the man and ended by trying to console Deedat with his(McDowell's)personal conversion experience and the love of the Gospel of Christ. The actual 'debate' was an embarrassing and illuminating experience.

But that is not where the story ends.

My wife who was the Marketing manager of a large clothing company in Durban as well as overseeing the staff of the company's factory floor, that is; a staff of many hundreds of personal, told me what ensued on the monday morning at work.

The staff who were predominantly Muslim, were each given a cassette tape of the 'debate' by someone from the Propagation centre. The tape had been cleverly manipulated, doctored and edited in a way that appeared to give Ahmed Deedat a resounding victory over the infidel MCDowell. How this was accomplished given the actual content of the interaction will be forever a mystery for me.

The re-writers of the story had obviously toiled through the night to edit and copy a vast number of tapes, because her factory was not the only recipient, it was widely distributed throughout the rather large Muslim community of Durban.

It was for me a very powerful, experiential, illustration of Winston Smith's job in Orwell's distopian novel: 1984. Spooky and very sinister.