Where's the "Nuke Mecca" crowd today??

Me ^ | April 9th, 2003 | Me

[The Lake City Gar]

I've been going through posts all day today and have been absolutely overjoyed. It seems as if we're finially making in-roads on preventing another 9-11 or worse. I wish I could bookmark this entire day...This place has it ALL covered, it should be used as a History lesson in years to come...The American Internet at it's FINEST!

But I just thought of something...

Where is the "Nuke Mecca" crowd? The "The only good muslim is a dead muslim" crowd? The "Islam is a death cult" crowd? The "Intern all Arabs" crowd? The "Islam is a religion of peace" crowd?

I've had a few run-ins with these people over the past few months. I've tried to make the obvious case that not ALL 1.6 billion muslims in the world are blood thirsty animals. And I've been called everything from a muslim to a communist to a democrat to a traitor. I've taken a beating for standing up against what I saw as bigotry...And many others have gone through the same.

But today we saw muslims handing flowers to our troops, kissing pictures of President Bush and waiving American Flags.

Is this just an act? Are they trying to lull us into a false sense of security while they are plotting to kill every last one of us in the name of their "Moon God"? Or are many of them simply held against their will by brutal dictators and/or religious fanatics who have warped their muslim ideals and ways?

I choose to believe it's the latter. And I hope the above mentioned crowds are gone for good.

[Jhoffa_]

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[Spruce]

Iraqi boys in a village near the city of Najaf in Central Iraq appear glad to be back in school April 4, for the first time since the war started. U.S. Army soldiers from the 422nd Civil Affairs Battalion helped clean up the school that was damaged by artillery fire. The soldiers also took money out of their own pockets to pay the teacher several months salary in advance. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin P. Bell

A soldier from the 422nd Civil Affairs Battalion speaks with a boy while bags of rice and wheat are delivered to a village near the city of Najaf in central Iraq on April 4. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin P. Bell

An Iraqi girl attends to her lessons April 4 in a village school near the city of Najaf. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin P. Bell

An Iraqi boy offers a flower to a British solider during patrols in Basra, April 8, 2003. Photo by Mark Richards, Pool/Reuters

Young girls hold hands as they walk with their father down a street on the outskirts of the town of Al Hillah south of Baghdad, April 9, 2003.

A smiling Iraqi woman holds her baby as a column of U.S. vehicles from the 2nd Battalion, 70 Armor passes through the town of Kerbala south west of Baghdad, April 7, 2003.

A member of 21 Squadron in Britain's 3 Regular Army Air Corps, 16 Air Assault Brigade, walks beside an Iraqi boy near the city of Basra in southern Iraq, April 7, 2003.

Iraqi women and children dance with joy as they see soldiers from Britain's 1st Battalion The Parachute Regiment enter their village, north of the city of Basra in southern Iraq, April 7, 2003

British Soldiers from 16 Air Assault Brigade throw chocolate bars from their ration packs to Iraqi children, in the village of Qaryat Nasr north of of the city of Basra, in southern Iraq, April 7, 2003.

Baby W!

Regimental Combat Team 1 gives medical attention to Iraqi civilians who led the Marines to a weapons cache in Aziz, Iraq

An Iraqi boy flashes a victory sign as he walks with U.S. soldiers shortly after they entered central Baghdad, April 9, 2003.

Residents wave at U.S. Marines of India Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment as they drive by while clearing an area of potential threats, about ten miles east of downtown Baghdad on Wednesday, April 9, 2003. (AP Photo/The Baltimore Sun, John Makely)

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[Monty22]

Well, personally I would've gonna Defcon1 on 9/11 and launched towards suspect mideast (including mecca) and North Korea as good measure.

I hope that's always an option.. So we don't get slammed again without fighting back with all our resources.

[MattAMiller]

Hopefully they'll either see the light or leave.

[Just another Joe]

Never forget, Never forgive

[EternalVigilance]

Great post.

We all need to not let up in our prayers for the people of Iraq. The Lord has been answering yes!

[The Lake City Gar]

Hang around a little longer on FR. Like all human associations, it has its undulations. Don't rush to judgement thus.

I've lurked here for a long time (Couldn't figure-out how to use it! LOL!). Without a doubt, the single greatest information resource on the internet! And the political organization is invaluable. I'm just commenting on a small crowd that seems to get a pass.

[AmishDude]

NUKE VANITIES!

But first, kill all the strawmen.

[JasonC]

Bless you for that, sir.

[js1138]

Assuming Saddam was an animal for putting children in prison... What do we call people who want to nuke every potential enemy? I think it's quite clear that Saddam chose one of several available methods to control the religious zealots in his country. Perhaps we can find another way.

The future of the world depends on how the Muslims in Iraq respond to their liberation. If they show french gratitude, we are all in for a long and painful "cold" war.

[EternalVigilance]

LOL...

[FairOpinion]

Now you can see that people don't really mean it. Nobody has a problem with people who do not wish us harm.

People lash out at Muslims because the terrorists commit their atrocities in the name of their religion and the most of the rest of the Muslims don't speak out against it, and it appears they don't like us, to use an understatement.

But when Americans see other people, Muslims or not, who are actually appreciative for what we are doing for them, and love us, don't hate us, and say so, we obviously don't hate them either.

Americans are very generous people and we all just got darn tired that our generosity is being repaid by evil.

And people generalize, because it would detract from the point, if one would always talk about "those Muslims, who hate us and wish us harm, who want to kill us, or enable those who do, but we don't mind Muslims who are truly peaceful and love us, don't hate us".

Since there are still a lot of Muslims who do hate us, people just talk about Muslims in general.

Although I think that today's events may have made a some real inroad into the Arab and Muslim community, after all, they could see that their fellow Muslims were happy that we helped them get rid of the tyrant oppressing them.

[philetus]

I don't think muslims are evil, I think Islam is evil.

[FreedomPoster]

>>Where do we draw the line? How much Arab blood in any given person?

It has nothing to do with "blood", and everything to do with adherance to a hateful, evil, totalitarian political system masquerading as a religion.

If the Iraqis can reform the religion to make it compatible with the modern world and the West, I'll be really impressed and surprised.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"And I am still waiting for the U.S. Muslim organizations to denounxe terrorism and that atrocity without qualifiers."

Considering the fact that we can't get 100% of non-Muslim Americans to denounce the attacks on 9/11 WITHOUT BLAMING AMERICA FIRST, I think you should have spent about .8 seconds on Google to find your answer.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The truth is that Iraq is one of the most secular of Middle Eastern countries and will be one of the easiest to get them to accept a democratic government.

Have you not read the threads about the Syrians, Egyptians, Jordanians, and Saudis who are literally in tears of anger because the US destroyed Saddam?

The Wahabbists are still out there and they still want everyone who is not a Muslim dead and THEY are the ones that need to be taken out where ever they are.

[Windcatcher]

Nuke Mecca? Absolutely not.

Paris? Quebec City? Now you're talkin'.

[k2blader]

Well, you can include me in the "Islam is *not* a peaceful religion" crowd.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"The Wahabbists are still out there and they still want everyone who is not a Muslim dead and THEY are the ones that need to be taken out where ever they are."

Now we're talking.

[Lucas1]

AMEN