Up against fanaticism

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.

We published pictures Thursday of burnt American corpses hanging from an Iraqi bridge behind a mob of grinning Muslims.

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 than 3,000 people, including fellow Muslims, in New York City.

Madeline Albright, the former secretary of state and feckless appeaser who helped get us into this mess, said last week Muslims still resented the Crusades. Well, Madame 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.

There may be a silent majority of peaceful Muslims – some live here – but that did not save 3,000 people in the World Trade Centers, the millions 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.

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.

By Phil Lucas - Executive Editor – The News Herald - Sunday, April 4, 2004 http://www.newsherald.com/viewpoint/phillucas/040404.shtml

We need to think outside the box. Just simply take a depp breath, and reflect on the ENTIRE problem.

After the Iranian revolution, the export of radical Islam permeated every damn Moslem country on earth. That was also helped by billions of petrodollars from Saudi Arabia, and fanatical jihad cells in every mosque. At this point the Moslem world has the holy mission of "us against them" attitude. Under such cover, the entire Moslem world is rapidly deteriorating into the sixth century barbarian mode. To be fair, the conservative Christians and Jews are not too far behind them in fanatical ideologies – please don’t get very defensive, and read through. What this world is in need, at this confusing time is moderation, tolerance, and coexistence. This has to be the constant message from every church, mosque, and synagogue. Yes, there is no hate preaching in “most” churches, but to be accepted, and respected, you must be able to have self criticism.

Having said so, I am not naive to think that Islam is a religion of peace, or to think that Islam does not have a hidden agenda of dominating the world. As a matter of fact, Christianity has similar mission (to share Christ with every human on earth - i.e. witnessing)! Judaism to a lesser extent is not interested in converting people but interested in "greater Israel". The difference is the use of coersive force to achieve converts!

Religions are very similar to sport teams; if fans become fanatics, then the whole sport become too dangerous, and the game becomes unsafe. During the heat of a game, as fans are drinking, and their testosterone is flowing, if the leaders (like the coaches) started up a fight, the stadium will blow up in violence. To assure civility, there are rules of sportsmanship. That is essentially what we are missing in religions. As a matter of fact this idea is not new, the communists had a way to deal with it, they abolished ALL religions! The simple reason we are missing such rules in the religion realm today is because we are supposed to be “politically correct”, and respect other people faiths. Our leaders MUST state to the population of the earth: WE RESPECT ALL RELIGIONS AS LONG AS THEY DON'T PREACH HATE AND VIOLANCE AGAINST OTHERS. If a religion has such scriptures in its text, it should be swept under the carpet, and never become the dominant verses in any sermon in any prayer or gathering. Such consensus is not too difficult to attain in a UN forum or other international gathering of political and religion leaders. That is so simple, if we can shut the ACLU, and the "diversity" knee-jerk liberals up. If the Moslems refused to comply, they will be risking the isolation from the rest of the world.

"If a religion has such scriptures in its text, it should be swept under the carpet, and never become the dominant verses in any sermon in any prayer or gathering. Such consensus is not too difficult to attain in a UN forum or other international gathering of political and religion leaders."

Two things:

1) The only religious types who would go along with this are not religious types; they're heretics or hypocrites, regardless of their faith. Revealed religion's texts cannot be subject to human modification; interpretation is permissible, but not editing or censoring;

2) I don't want a bunch of international kleptocrats and pedophiles assembled in NY to dictate ANYTHING TO ANYBODY, but especially not ANY MAN'S RELATION WITH THE DIVINE.

Religion is not a hobby; it is not a sport or a political party.

You are correct. Moslems have spread their religion historically by violence, and still do. Unfortunately, very few people know that simple fact. If we all know that fact, and become very aware of Moslem people in the US, and around the world, we can better tailor special counter attacks. If the schools, the media, and the politicians are all acting stupid to that simple FACT, then how is the public going to act or react? Our President keeps reminding all of us that Islam is a religion of peace! The Moslem leaders have never renounce violence against the non-believers, or chose to pressure their religious leaders to reform their barbaric religion.

Having said so, we are still having to share this planet with one billion of these crazy people. We have to 1) understand their tactics and 2) devise a counter-action to stop the hate ideologies spewed from the mosques and madrasas.

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