U.S. Troops Prepare to Enter Najaf

Associated Press ^ | April 25, 2004 | Denis D. Gray

[boomop1]

Deja Vu, never fight a war wearing handcuffs, don't broadcast your intentions, just do it, lets roll.

[Allegra]

Just get al-Sadr.

He's caused a lot of heartache, anxiety and misery around these parts.

[pt17]

Just get al-Sadr.

Bullseye, which is what should be on al-Sadr's forehead. Take him out as the first step, then roll in to clean up.

[oceanview]

I don't know, I still don't see this happening. this is the place where we risk a flash point and a broader uprising. the other shia clerics can take care of sadr.

[AFPhys]

From the perspective of someone on the scene (though I realize you are restricted in actual knowledge): do you favor just assigning a sniper team to him, or would we be better off waiting until we can capture him, or another method?

[Allegra]

From the perspective of someone on the scene (though I realize you are restricted in actual knowledge): do you favor just assigning a sniper team to him, or would we be better off waiting until we can capture him, or another method?

I'm afraid I let my emotions get into this one. I just want him wasted. Vaporized.

I'm not bloodthirsty at all, but the little "trouble" he stirred up here recently hurt a lot of people and shattered a lot of families. I guess since I'm kind of close to the situation, I'm harboring a bit of a grudge on that loser.

This goes against my Christian beliefs, but I despise the guy.

[Happy2BMe]

BTT

- - WHY ARE ALL TERRORISTS MUSLIM?

WHY ARE ALL TERRORISTS MUSLIM?

"Unless a man becomes the enemy of evil, he will not even become its slave, but rather its champion. God Himself will not help us to ignore evil but only to defy and to defeat it!" G. K. Chesterton.

In an outrageous attack upon Christian leaders facing the lie of Islam with the Word of God, the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) issued a public rebuke, sharply criticizing "derogatory statements" made by some evangelical leaders concerning Islam. The National Association of Evangelicals represents more than 43,000 congregations in the United States of America. Specifically, the NAE named Franklin Graham, Dr. Jerry Vines, and the Revs. Jerry Falwell, and Pat Robertson as chief culprits who must learn to temper their speech concerning Islam.

This is shocking! The NAE wants to take the one offensive weapon we Christians have in our arsenal, the Word of God, and replace it with - dialogue? That's right! The truth of God's Word is being replaced with tolerance, appeasement, common ground, reaching across the aisle, pragmatism, and negotiation. "Can't we all just get along?" Of course the answer is, "No! Not when God's Word is the standard."

To be sure, God's Word is confrontational, dividing, judgmental, and absolute, yet it is filled with mercy. Islam, on the other hand, is all of the above, yet it is filled with violence and murder. There is no common ground between these two religions. Islam and Christianity are at war! Neither will tolerate the other.

Unfazed by planes crashing into buildings killing thousands, suicide bombings of countless innocent human beings, mass slaughter of millions of Christians in the Sudan, and violence of unprecedented order, the NAE now wants us to dialogue with the Christ hating false religion of Islam. This spiritually emasculated organization, is espousing that we hide in caves so that we won't be killed by Muslims living out their faith in the streets of our cities. Living out their faith?

The NAE's solution to stop the merciless bloodletting of Islam is to draft guidelines and begin an interfaith dialogue with Islamic leaders. What utter nonsense! Somehow the president of the National Association of Evangelicals, Rev. Ted Haggard, has convinced himself and several others of the good faith of his Islamic counterparts. Haggard is championing the lie of Islam without realizing what it is that he and the NAE are doing.

Ask a simple question, "Why are all terrorists Muslim?" You doubt the premise of the question? Let's just take a look:

1. 1972 Muslim terrorists kidnap Israelite athletes at Olympics in Munich (14 killed).
2. 1972 Muslim terrorists overtake U.S. Embassy in Iran.
3. 1980's Muslim terrorists abduct large numbers of U.S, citizens in Lebanon.
4. 1983 Muslim terrorists bomb Marine barracks in Beirut (250 U.S. soldiers killed).
5. 1985 Muslim terrorists commandeer cruise ship Achille Lauro (Mr. Klinghoeffer, a 70 year old paraplegic, was shot to death and pushed overboard in his wheelchair).
6. 1985 Muslim terrorists seize TWA Flight 847 in Athens (U.S. Navy Seal killed in attempt to rescue passengers).
7. 1988 Muslim terrorists bomb Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland (all souls killed).
8. 1993 Muslim terrorists bomb the World Trade Center for the first time (6 killed).
9. 1994 Muslim terrorists begin the mass slaughter (genocide?) of Christians in the Sudan (more than 2 million slaughtered to date).
10. 1998 Muslim terrorists bomb U.S. Embassies in Kenya, Tanzania, and Nairobi (264 killed and over 4,000 wounded).
11. 2000 Muslim terrorists bomb U.S.S. Cole (14 killed).
12. 2001 Muslim terrorists hijack four airliners and crash them into buildings and the ground killing thousands.
13. 2001 Muslim terrorists call for jihad in Indonesia as Christians are warned to flee the country.
14. 2002 Muslim terrorists kidnap Martin and Gracia Burnham (along with others) in the Phillipines. Martin was killed in the rescue attempt. Gracia made it home.
15. 2002 Muslim terrorists defeated in Afghanistan by strong arm of United States Military.
16. 2002 Muslim terrorists kidnap and ruthlessly slash the throat of journalist Daniel Pearl.
17. 2002 Black Muslim terrorist John Mohammed kills twelve in a cold-blooded 21-day killing spree near Washington, D.C. He was suspected of throwing a grenade into a tent housing 16 soldiers in Gulf War in 1991.
18. 2002 Muslim terrorists bomb a Jewish owned hotel in Kenya (16 killed, 80 injured).
19. 2002 Muslim terrorists bomb a night club in Bali where many westerners were present (182 killed).
20. 2003 Black Muslim terrorist SGT Asan Akbar of the 101st Airborne rolls a grenade into the barracks of sleeping soldiers (kills 2 and wounds 12).
21. 2003 Muslim terrorists convicted of plotting to bomb a Christmas market in Strasbourg, Germany.
22. 2003 Muslim terrorists bomb US-Saudi company and three residential areas where westerners live in Saudi Arabia (at least 50 injured, many died).
23. 2003 Muslim terrorists bomb Jewish and western targets in Casablanca (41 killed).
24. 2003 Muslim terrorists bombard Israel on a daily basis with assaults of unprecedented order.

    What do all of these recorded instances of sheer violence and evil have in common? Islam! Why are all these terrorists Muslim? Their false and murderous religion demands them to be so. There is no escaping the link between terrorism and the Islamic faith. Islam is a lie birthed in the very pit of hell that must be defeated before it destroys everyone who will not bow the knee to Allah and his lying prophet Mohammed.

    Islam must be annihilated, completely. It must be exposed for the lie that it is. Allah is not God and Mohammed is not a prophet of God. Jesus is God, and apart from Him there is no other. Jesus is not tolerant of any other God than Himself, for there is no other God but Him! For the NAE to say anything less is to betray the God of the Holy Scriptures and the 43,000 congregations it represents.

    The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), upon hearing the NAE's appeasing statement said, "We can understand theological differences, but what's important is that the dialogue is one of respect, not demonization." Dialogue? Sure, Rev. Haggard, you won the accolades of Islam, but you are suffering under the condemnation of heaven. There is nothing Islam would rather do than to dialogue with you while it continues its murderous onslaught. The Word of God demonizes Islam, not Franklin Graham or any of the others.

    For the NAE to take its cues from CAIR, a front organization for Islamic terrorism, is absurd. CAIR is the organization that came up with the politically correct idea that America should no longer be considered a "Judeo-Christian" nation. Why? Because it is offensive to Muslims living in America. Please! CAIR is that "gentle" organization that coined the endearing term "Islamophobia," and is presently suing American Airlines for wrongfully profiling "middle eastern" looking men.

    Wrongfully profiling? One doesn't have to look too long at the statistics to realize that 98.7% of all hijackings from 1970 to this day were done by "middle eastern" looking men who were all (100% of them) Muslim terrorists. CAIR says it's just not fair to be demonized by the Word of God. Too bad! Unfortunately the NAE wants to jump on that "politically correct" ship that is going to sink into eternal damnation.

    We have three choices in dealing with Islam. We will either be killed by those holding to its murderous tenets, kill them (like we are doing in Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.), or convert them to Christ. Which one do you choose?

    Flip Benham

     

 

[oceanview]

Sadr is losing support amongst the Shia. It actually may help to keep him alive now.

[DoctorMichael]

Prayer for our boys.

[Allegra]

Sadr is losing support amongst the Shia. It actually may help to keep him alive now.

Oh, I know he is. As I said, my emotions come into play with this one.

Fortunately, I'm not the one calling the shots.

[blam]

"We're going to drive this guy into the dirt."

Yes!

[Nam Vet]

Good morning from Oregon. If y'all don't mind, will you add me to that ping-list of yours?? It's nice to read perspective from your vantage point.

Nam Vet

[traumer]

Put your seat belts ON ....

[traumer]

al-Satan promised suicide bombers in that case...
Let's hope not in the US

[Allegra]

Good morning from Oregon. If y'all don't mind, will you add me to that ping-list of yours?? It's nice to read perspective from your vantage point.

Good evening from lovely Baghdad. I'll try to remember to put you on my ramblings...my brain is a little sun-baked these days. :-)

[Allegra]

al-Satan promised suicide bombers in that case...
Let's hope not in the US

I don't think his influence is that far-reaching. He's losing steam even in the region...

[Oatka]

Shiite leaders have warned of a possible explosion of anger among the country's Shiite majority . . .

Yeah, like the explosion of anger from the Arab "street" if we invaded Iraq.

[bert]

.....WHY ARE ALL TERRORISTS MUSLIM.....

All terrorists are not Muslim. In fact the most long lived terrorist movement is Roman Catholic. The Irish Republican Army has been in business for going on a hundred years.

It is supported by many in the American cities of New York and Boston. IRA leaders were greeted warmly by the Clinton Whitehouse. The Kennedy political machine undoubtedly raised money to fund these Terrorists. I would not be suprised if Kerry also contributed.

In South west Virginia, The United Mine Workers committed acts that under the current law would undoubtedly be terrorist actions. The miners, their wives, their children, their nuns.....all wore camaflouge uniforms. They patroled the roads noting who went where. At night they destroyed Automobiles and property. They sent death threats. Richard Trumka said they were not directed from above and hoped the lawlwssnwss would stop. Today he is a vice president of the AFL-CIO.

Stop the delusion.......your premise is incorrect.

[Mr. Mojo]

And then there are the eco-terrorists as well -- the ones who set fire to SUV dealerships, bioengineering labs, private homes in suburbs stretching the boundaries "urban sprawl," etc.

So you're right, all terrorists are not Muslim.

But most are.