Holier Than Thou

Town Hall ^ | May 17, 2004 | Diana West [Newspaper Enterprise Assn.]

[quidnunc]

When the White House promised to punish the murderers who sawed off Nicholas Berg's head, a spokesman said the crime "showed the true nature of the enemies of freedom."

Wrong. Or, rather, not wrong, but vague, and perilously so. It's not every enemy of freedom who shouts, "Allahu akbar (God is great)!" while committing murder in front of a video camera. What Mr. Berg's heinous killing showed was the true nature of fundamentalist and unreformed Islam, according to the Koran. "Now when ye meet in battle those who disbelieve, then it is smiting of the necks," says verse 47-4 in the Marmaduke Mohammad Pickthall translation. This and other venerable translations stand until modern Muslims renounce the principle of jihad, or holy war against the "infidel."

Until that happens, pulling the political veil over the face of the enemy is not just a fashionable nod to political correctness. Failing to unmask the brutal face of modern jihad is a possibly suicidal lapse of logic and nerve that has dangerously obscured the wider war on "terror" — which, of course, is the euphemism of choice for Islamic jihad.

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[tbpiper]

Push Islam to it's fundamentalist extremes and you get videoed head removals. On the other hand, push Christianity to it's fundmentalist extremes and you get snake handlers and televangelists.

[freebilly]

Push Islam to it's fundamentalist extremes and you get videoed head removals. On the other hand, push Christianity to it's fundmentalist extremes and you get snake handlers and televangelists.

Hey, my church is hard core fundamentalist. We've got a tent service next weekend, and I'll be handling bar-b-qued ribs....

[Jaysun]

Push Islam to it's fundamentalist extremes and you get videoed head removals. On the other hand, push Christianity to it's fundmentalist extremes and you get snake handlers and televangelists.

Well said and so true. And before anyone makes the infantile comment - the "crusaders" have been dead for centuries.

[The Scourge of Yazid]

Even the simplest descriptive terms for this class of subhuman, unrelenting purveyors of barbarism are rendered inaccurately.

These people are not "fundamentalist" any more than practitioners of mystical, Sufi Islam are "fundamentalist."

They are not followers of Jonathan Edwards-and probably wouldn't even be able to process the complexity inherent in his sermons, had they been alive at the time-and they do not gather in big tents for revival meetings!

I continue to be amazed at how incredibly dense and uniformly uninformed these media analyses are.

Well, at least Townhall.com is on the case.

Cheers!

[lainde]

I agree and BTTT

[The Scourge of Yazid]

Thanks.

By the way, what does BTTT stand for?

[backhoe]

By the way, what does BTTT stand for?

Back To The Top...

...and "bump" is from BBS days- "Bring Up My Post..."

[The Scourge of Yazid]

Thanks.

I kind of feel like a novice walking around experts in this place.

[backhoe]

[The Scourge of Yazid]

How sweet!

Shouldn't that star have a nose, though?

[backhoe]

Shouldn't that star have a nose, though?

Hummm... I see what you mean... Aha! I have the answer!

[ C-Span seminar caller ]

I think it's Boosh's fault.

[ /C-Span seminar caller ]

[The Scourge of Yazid]

Heh, heh. Good impression you got there.