UP AGAINST FANATICISM

Panama City News Herald ^ | 4/25/2004 | Phil Lucas

[JesseHousman]

Up Against Fanaticism

By Phil Lucas, Executive Editor, Panama City New Herald

If straight talk of savagery offends you, if you believe in ethnic and gender diversity but not diversity of thought, or if you think there is an acceptable gray area between good and evil, then turn to the funny pages, and take the children, too. This piece is not for you.

We published pictures Thursday of burnt American corpses hanging from an Iraqi bridge behind a mob of grinning Muslims. Some readers didn't like it.

Mothers said it frightened their children. A woman who works with Muslim physicians thought it might offend or endanger them. Well, we sure don't want to frighten, offend or endanger anybody, do we? That's just too much diversity to handle. I mean, somebody might get hurt.

We could fill the newspaper every morning with mobs of fanatical Muslims. They can't get along with their neighbors on much of the planet: France, Chechnya, Bosnia, Indonesia, Spain, Morocco, India, Tunisia, Somalia, etc. etc. etc. Can anybody name three ongoing world conflicts in which Muslims are not involved? Today, where there is war, there are fanatical Muslims.

We might quibble about who started what conflicts, but look at the sheer number of them. One thing is sure. Muslim killers started the one we are in now when they slaughtered more that 3,000 people, including fellow Muslims, in New York City.

Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state and feckless appeaser who helped get us into this mess, said last week Muslims still resent the Crusades. Well, Madam Albright, if Westerners were not such a forgiving people, we might resent them too.

Let's recap the Crusades. Muslims invaded Europe, and when they reached sufficient numbers, they imposed their intolerant religion upon Westerners by force. Christian monarchs drove them back and took the battle to their homeland. The fight lasted a couple of centuries, and we bottled them up for 1,000 years.

Now, a millennium later, Muslims have expanded forth again. Ask France. Ask England. Ask Manhattan. Two-and-a-half years ago fanatical Muslims laid siege to us. We woke up to the obvious. Our president announced it would be a very long war, then took the battle to the Islamic homeland. Sound Familiar?

Let's consider the concept of a "long war." Last time it was 200 years, give or take. Anybody catch Lord of the Rings? You know, the good part, the part that wasn't fiction, the part that drew us to the books and movies because it was the truest part: the titanic struggle between good and evil, between freedom and enslavement, between the individual and the state, between the celebration of life and the worshipping of death.

That's the fight we are in, and it never ends. It just has peaks and valleys.

There may be a silent majority of peaceful Muslims - some live here - but that did not save 3,000 people in the World Trade Center, the million gassed and butchered in the Middle East, the tens of thousands slain in Eastern Europe and Asia, the hundreds blown to bits in the West Bank and Spain, or the four Americans shot, burned and hung like sausage over the Euphrates as a fanatical minority of Muslims did the joyful dance of death.

Maybe we are so tolerant, we are so bent on "diversity," we are so nonjudgmental, we are so wrapped up in our six-packs and ballgames that our brains have drained to our bulbous behinds. Maybe we're so addled on Ritalin we wouldn't know which end of a gun to hold. Maybe we need a new drug advertised on TV every three minutes, one that would help us grow a backbone.

It doesn't take a Darwin to figure out that in this world the smartest, the fastest, the strongest, and the most committed always win. No exceptions.

Look at your spouse and children. Look at yourself in the mirror. Then look at the pictures from the paper last Thursday. You better look at them. Those are the people out to kill you.

Who do you think will win? You? Or them? Think you can take your ball and go home and they will leave you alone? Read a little history. Start with last week, last month, last year, and every other year back for half a century. Then go back a thousand years. Nobody hides from this fight.

Like it or not, that's the way it was and that's the way it is. But many Americans don't get it. That's why we published those pictures.

If they jarred you off the sofa, if they offended you, if they scared your children and sent you into a rage at mass murderers or heartless editors, then I say, it's a start.

[JesseHousman]

if you think there is an acceptable gray area between good and evil, then turn to the funny pages, and take the children, too. This piece is not for you.

[iceskater]

bump

[Just another Joe]

I'm glad someone in the media is willing to tell it like it is and not like they want it to be.

[Iron Matron]

Found several things that need some further thought before I comment. Copied, taken to read at lunch.

For now, lets say I agree with the author.

[Quix]

THANKS MUCH.

Perhaps the following is another testimony/warning of those issues . . . and perhaps of a greater warning, message looming:

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Maybe I'm being more than a little paranoid . . . but that . . . and the warning in LA . . .

and, some subtle to not so subtle puzzle pieces I've been scanning recently, leave me feeling that there is something to the following, whatever it's talking about. I just hope it's NOT a nuke in LA in some ship container.

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DEAR ONES,

I think there's something to this. In any case, for your prayerful consideration,
Quix

To: Quix
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:12:03 -0400
Subject: [AP List] Something about to happen
From: "AP List" aplist@earthlink.net
Reply-To: aplist@earthlink.net

Something about to happen
AP List

Mary Clark has been a "trusted prophetic voice" over the years that I have been on the internet...since 1996. This isn't anything "new" as we have listened to the voices and paid attention to the times and seasons but it is a reminder of what we know and a reminder to keep our eyes on him, and a reminder that All Things are in His hands.
Meri

April 29, 2004

Mary Clark

Something is about to happen, beloved, and when it does, I want your focus entirely on Me-­not on what is going on around you. Let Me explain Myself:

Something of catastrophic proportions is about to take place in theworld, and when it does, I do not want My beloved staring off into space, wondering about this thing. I want you looking to Me­-looking to Me to rectify anything that comes your way. This is My plan, beloved. Let it be yours.

Many people on the face of the earth are going to be distraught beyondwords. They are going to be wringing their hands in anguish. But you,My beloved, I want you focused on Me. I want you conversing with Me. I want you to maintain a constant line of communication with Me. That is an order, beloved. That is an order from your Lord and Master. Keep the lines of communication with Me open. That is an order!

Let Me tell you something more about this something that is about to happen. It is going to be a time of rich discovery for those who seek Me. It is to be a time of rapid growth for those who maintain their place in Me.

How do you go about maintaining your place in Me?

It is simple: By keeping the lines of communication open between us. Do notlet the enemy drown out My voice. Do not listen to anything that is not of Me.

What is of Me? Truth-­only truth. Let My truth prevail in your life. Let My truth prevail in your walk. Don't let the enemy deter you in any way.

Something is about to happen. It is a good thing that it
happens. Remember those words-­it is a GOOD thing. It will set offf a season of events that will establish My beloved in a place of great wonder. It is a GOOD thing, beloved. Remember these words-­accept these words as truth no matter what you see and no matter what the
enemy tries to speak to you.

Accept My words as truth. I am about to do something catastrophic. I am about to get the world's attention in a catastrophic way.

Remember this, beloved: This will bring about GOOD results. This will bring about results that will expand My kingdom. Remember: This will be a GOOD thing. It will not bring disaster to any heart that is focused on Me. It will be a GOOD thing, beloved child.

Remember: It will be a GOOD thing for you, and a good thing for Me-­for My kingdom, and this is a promise-­a solid promise from your God. This will be a GOOD-­a very, very GOOD-­thing. You can bank ok on it! You can believe Me when I tell you that what I am bringing to the face of
the earth-­though it is catastrophic-­it is a GOOD thing-­a GOOD thing-­once again I say, it will be a GOOD thing.

Trust Me, beloved.
Just trust Me in this. A GOOD thing!!!

Meri Burlingame

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