The outcry from the Mullahs is deafening!
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Posted on 09/08/2004 4:56:45 AM PDT by Isara
Terror: We're all thinking the same thing now, are we not? That the horror of Beslan could just as easily have been visited on any town or school in America, and that those poor innocent children could easily be our own.
What mother hasn't put herself in the place of those who waited outside that school, listening to the cries of their children as guns were waved in their faces, or urine was poured over their heads, or bayonets were thrust through their bodies as they begged for a little water?
What father hasn't felt that terrible feeling in the pit of his stomach as he reads of the teenage girls who were dragged screaming into rooms adjoining the gymnasium to be raped — and filmed while they were raped?
What parent hasn't shuddered when imagining what it would be like to be given the unthinkable choice of which of your children will be set free and which will be left in the terrorists' clutches?
And what parent hasn't wondered what he or she could have done to stop it, even if it meant stepping in front of the bullets that tore through the backs of the kids who ran when all hell broke loose?
After last week, does anyone — parent or no, American or no — still doubt that Islamo-Fascism is a scourge truly global in scope and just as virulent as the evils that had to be confronted in the last century?
Oh, spare us the homilies about the "religion of peace." We'll be more receptive when more Muslim groups break their deafening silence in the aftermath of the latest round of atrocities, or when clerics such as London-based Omar Bakri-Mohammed no longer condone similar hostage-taking in Britain as long as the cause is "just."
Spare us also the tales of courageous "separatists" and how they've struggled against a brutal regime, or how incompetent Russian authorities have been in this and other showdowns with them. Vladimir Putin's far from perfect, but nothing justifies what happened last week in North Ossetia.
The 9-11 attacks brought it home to America. Bali brought it home to Indonesia. Madrid brought it home to Spain. Now Beslan, on top of the two downed flights and a suicide bombing in Moscow, has brought it home to Russia.
How many times does it have to be "brought home" before civilized people everywhere realize that fanatics with nothing to live for are plotting the next Beslan — or worse — even as we speak?
Madrid brought it home to Spain.
I'm not sure whether the spaniards really get it yet.
Preach the New Crusade!
Nope, Spain didn't get it. But look how long it took us to get it.
Oh, I know it's wrong to go so far, but somehow it has to be made clear to the Islamists that the price of their actions is not only their death (which they welcome), but the eradication of their families and the complete eradication of their culture and religion.
I'm not sure America really gets it yet, either.
Our elected officials constantly spout: "Our children are our greatest asset!". Yet we protect our space shuttles better than "our greatest assets".
Our schools are wide open to this kind of attack. Hell, they're wide open to pedophiles and kidnappers.
We recently had a guy go to an elementary school, hang out for awhile and try to grab a little girl. The school is wide open, no security whatsoever.
Nothing was done in the aftermath to strengthen the security of our schools. The guy is still on the loose. Heads have been replanted in the sand.
If this statement is true, then why do so many citizens advocate the unconstitutional disarming of fellow citizens?
Every editorial I've seen from IBD has been exactly right, this one being no exception.
Some countries continue to think they can tiptoe around the problem. They might for a while, but it will catch up to them, and at that point it might be too late.
Well, not just as easily. There was a lot of inside site preparation that happened in Beslan; the place was wired to explode before the kids even showed up, and an arsenal was installed beneath the floorboards of the gym.
But still, that it could happen here at all is unacceptable. The government should be promoting widespread concealed carry, and offering firearms training for free to all citizens.
The outcry from the Mullahs is deafening!
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I said later, if only the men, about 20 of them, had raised up right then and resisted, and the other adults joined them. Before the explosives were wired. Because they executed the men after they did the work they needed from them anyway.
I am to put my life on the line and stand in front of someone trying to take a child out of the building or to set up a hostage situation. Not that it thrills me, but if each and every one of us did this, just resisted right from the beginning, the terrorists would not win.
I am firmly convinced this is the only way we can respond. Let them get everything set in place and take away your water and food for three days and you have already lost.
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I don't know why we don't bury any remains of terrorists inside the carcass of a pig -- a few public funerals might be effective.
Carolyn
Immolation of the corpse after it's been soaked in pork lard should be the standard method of disposal of these scum. Grind the charred bones into a paste with pigfat and feed it to pigs.
Carolyn
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