Posted on 08/23/2014 9:53:30 PM PDT by chessplayer
Is the beheading of an American journalist – along with the genocide of Christians and other religious minorities – enough to label the Islamist terror group ISIS as the consummation of evil? According to CNN.com, the answer is really quite complicated.
In fact, James Dawes, director of the program in Human Rights at Macalester College, argued in a piece for CNN’s online arm that “there are few things more dangerous now than allowing ourselves to think” that ISIS does “evil things for evil ends,”as NRO’s Jonah Goldberg phrased it in a tweet earlier this week. Dawes’s assertion is that Americans need to “do the hard work of understanding the context that made them, so that we can create a context that unmakes them.” He added that“understanding” will “help us see the world through their eyes.”
Why not give them the Noble Peace prize?
Wondering if beheading a captured hostage is evil or not?
No wonder. This is coming from somebody who thinks ripping the limbs off unborn babies is a civil right.
No wonder CNN’s ratings have tanked. Nothing but idiots there.
Foley probably thought they were not evil too. That kind of mentality will
get people beheaded and behead a dumb ass network, as well.
“Understanding” my rear end. I’m not even gonna read the whole article.
They are 7th century barbarians.
Is it Muslim?
Then the answer is really quite obvious.
It is mind blowing how this pea-brained journo, a pure excretionary product of modern liberalism thinks he can ‘understand’ something as raw and barbaric as Islam in its true form. It is like a dog trying to understand a snake.
ISIS or CNN?
I would never have believed that the world could get so upside down!
islam is a terrorist death cult and criminal enterprise, the most dangerous faction on the planet, and an existential threat to the American public.
"Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. That war is yet flagrant; nor can it cease but by the extinction of that imposture, which has been permitted by Providence to prolong the degeneracy of man. While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and good will towards men.".
"In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth.
Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust, by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind.
THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE
Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. That war is yet flagrant; nor can it cease but by the extinction of that imposture, which has been permitted by Providence to prolong the degeneracy of man. While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and good will towards men.
The hand of Ishmael will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. It is, indeed, amongst the mysterious dealings of God, that this delusion should have been suffered for so many ages, and during so many generations of human kind, to prevail over the doctrines of the meek and peaceful and benevolent Jesus" (Blunt, 1830, 29:269, capitals in orig.).
-John Quincy Adams
“”They are 7th century barbarians.”
ISIS or CNN? “
BOTH!
Why not give them the Noble Peace prize?
Actually, they don’t think they are doing anything evil. They think they are doing God’s work. They are True Believers.
Hmmm, that’s too difficult. What about the important questions?
Like, should it be called ISIS, or ISIL?
Wicked
Well...I’m thinking about that...
Tie that arrogant bastard to a chair and force him to watch the beheading.
THEN, force him to watch these cretins rape a goat.
Then, make him write an article about that.
Great quote! I’d never seen it before.
According to the Left, there is no God or, if there is a God, He’s an egotistical, judgmental bigot not worthy of worshiping. Once you take God out of the equation, you remove any ultimate authority for “good” and “evil”.
Therefore, there is no evil without a God to tell us it’s evil. So how can one judge an act as evil without acknowledging a higher authority? That’s why the Left has such a difficult time calling anything or anyone “evil” because they, themselves, don’t want to consider God’s judgement for their own evil (abortion, homosexuality, etc.) even when that evil is blatantly obvious.
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