Posted on 07/23/2005 5:24:23 PM PDT by F14 Pilot
If the problem of Islamic-inspired terrorism wasn't painfully obvious before, the London bombings have driven home the point yet again. In the West our contact with murderous acts of terrorism supposedly in the name of Islam has been relatively limited but dramatic nonetheless.
In all of the furor, the constant stream of reports--from London, Madrid, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Iraq--of dead, injured, kidnapped, terrorized and brutalized populations, it is easy to be overcome by the horror, easy to forget that the fight against Islamo-fascism is a necessary, even mandatory struggle.
As pleasant, as liberating, as it might seem to be able to wash our hands of the entire business, withdraw our troops, retire behind our borders and let the world go its own way, it won't happen.
We cannot do it.
We cannot afford to do it.
The world cannot afford the luxury of ignorance. The war against terrorism is a war to the death. For the self-anointed leadership of Islamo-terrorism, there are no neutrals and that, quite frankly, is the essential reason for our complete opposition and tireless resistance.
Whatever claims may be made by Osama bin Laden or Abu Musab al-Zarqawi or their ilk, there is not a single person or idea not encompassed by their very limited and perverted screed who is held harmless or sacred--Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, it matters not--if an individual or a society does not accede to and embrace with fanatic enthusiasm the convoluted and medieval Wahabist interpretation of Islam, he or she is not entitled to life or liberty. It is that simple. And that urgent.
The increased tempo of terrorist operations--heightened as Iraq and Afghanistan draw ever further away from the enervating clutches of the fanatics--is indication of how very desperately the opposition fears democracy and religious freedom and tolerance. The very nature of the targets selected by the terrorists indicate their very real fear that they are losing the war. They have already lost the hearts, minds and sympathies of the vast majority of the civilized world.
But with every new act of terror, al-Zarqawi, bin Laden and their minions demonstrate how truly they have misread human nature. The Spaniards were deterred from their commitment to Iraq by the horrendous bombings in Madrid, but not so the British. Not so the Americans. Not so the Saudis. Not so the Afghanis or the Iraqis--Sunnis or Shiites. If anything, the terrorists' strategy to deliberately target the innocent in an effort to derail the society at large and thus paralyze the war effort, has not only failed--it has backfired.
Americans have taken the war to the very heart of the enemy's territory. The British have shaken their fists defiantly at the murderers among us and determined, with typical British aplomb, to carry on. Even the Spanish, initially deterred by the horrific violence inflicted on their citizens, have become relentless in their pursuit of the predatory murderers who have infiltrated Spanish society.
Do not be misled or cowed by the remarks of Omar Bakri Mohammed, the England-based sheik who blames the West for provoking the attacks. Do not be dispirited by the inflammatory rhetoric of Anjem Choudary, a lawyer and Islamic activist who claims, from the relative safety of his home in England, that there is more horror to come. Do not be dissuaded by the rantings of the father of suicidal hijacker Mohamed Atta, who vows a 50-year war against the West.
All of these people--the bin Ladens, the Attas, the al-Zarqawis--are failed human beings. Their belief system is corrupt, empty and vindictive in the extreme. What they label as Islam is about as far from true Islamic beliefs and practices as snake-handling is from Christianity. They are an anomaly.
As evidenced by the outpouring of outrage, not only in Great Britain and the United States but in Muslim populations throughout the world, the terrorists have done nothing but prove to the world that they are anathema to civil society. If there were ever any doubts before, there are none now. The Islamo-fascists have done their utmost to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that they are at war with the world. No pseudo-religious sect with such extreme and inflexible views should ever be allowed to hold sway over the world at large. The actions of Al Qaeda and its Iraqi, Saudi, Syrian and Jordanian associates are purely destructive--assassination, kidnapping and murder of diplomats, policemen, soldiers, journalists, teachers, statesmen, scholars, Imams. The world that they would impose on us is as dark and repressive as any ever dreamed of by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge or Adolf Hitler's Nazis.
In some ways the Islamo-fascists are their own worst enemies for, just as we are beginning to weary of the grind and drain of war, they commit inhuman outrages such as to ensure that we do not forget what this entire war is about. They remind us that this is a war we cannot afford to lose--none of us.
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What are we waiting for?
If you can wean our politicans off petrol dollars graft maybe..
If you could get the money out of the hands of the murderers
maybe...
Good luck
Yet another voice trying to tell us that the terrorists are not practicing "true" Islam, which is sweet and peaceful, tolerant and neighborly.
Islam is unique among civilizations in the fact that it has actually devolved over time. It was more civilized and prosperous 1000 years ago! While at one time Islam was an intellectual and scientific culture, in modern times it lists only the suicide belt and world-wide poverty as its most far-reaching contributions to humanity. Go Islam!
I don't know if it's unique in that -- look at Rome from the time of Jesus to around 500 -- but it has devolved. When Ferdinand and Isabella kicked the Jews out of Spain in 1492, it was the Ottoman Empire that welcomed them (including at least one of my ancestors) with open arms. ones.
And maybe that's why Turkey continues to be a reasonably free nation, when so much of the rest of the Muslim world is not.
In any case, it's only in the last couple of hundred years that Christian nations have generally been friendlier to Jews than Muslim.
The crusaders had the will, but we have the way.
Right!
May 1096 Crusaders massacred the Jews of Worms. Before embarking on the First Crusade. The town's Roman Catholic Bishop tried to protect the Jewish population, but the Crusaders overran his palace and slaughtered some 500 people who had taken shelter there.
Dec 1098 The 1st Crusaders captured and plundered Mara, Syria
Jan 1099 Crusaders set fire to Mara, Syria
Jul 1099 Jerusalem fell to the crusaders who slaughtered the Jewish and Muslim inhabitants. The dead numbered about 3,000.
May 1110 Crusaders capture Beirut slaughter inhabitants
Mar 1190 The Crusades began the massacre of Jews in York, England
Aug 1191 King Richard I (1157-1199), Coeur de Lion (the "Lionheart"), executes some 2,700-3,000 Muslim prisoners in Acre (Akko).
Nov 1202 The Fourth Crusade sacks Zara. The leaders of the Fourth Crusade agreed to sack Zara (present-day Zadar, Croatia)--a rival of Venice--as payment for transportation the Venetians supplied the crusaders. Zara, previously part of the Venetian republic, had rebelled against Venice in 1186 and since allied itself with Hungary, posing competition to Venice’s maritime trade.
Apr 1204 The Fourth Crusade, led by Boniface of Montferrat, sacked Constantinople.
The problem here is that we can do the following: win the hearts of the world; win the battle of armies, win the logistical arguements; but still lose. The way we can lose is via Islamic Nukes. What victory will there be if we lose London, New York, Los Angeles and Paris ? The main emphasis now should be on preventing and removing nukes from Islamic hands. There is absolutely NO reason the Free World should tolerate Nuclear Weapons in the hands of religious extremists. Pakistan and Iran should be next. I suggest multiple invasions from Iraq and India. Primary targets are Pakistani Nukes, Iranian Nuclear Sites, Islamic Terrorist Camps and Violent Islamic Religious Leaders. The 'peace at all costs' crowd certainly wont be able to cry that there is no connection between Iran or Pakistan and terrorists. They certainly wont be able to cry that there is no WMD in Pakistan.
They are. Can/should they do more? Absolutly.
You just have to look.
Your forgot to mention the 'Childrens Crusade'. Perhaps in a few centuries peoples of the world will also here about the atrocities our decendants had to make to stop the islamic terror. Like for example the innocent who was executed yesterday on a British Subway Train. The main difference between the old Christians and the old Islamics is that Christians have learned much from their past. Islamic Extremists have learned very little.
The Russians handled them decades ago by cutting the fingers off the family members of people who used terror on their citizens. Also killed some to send a message.
The moon god cult respected that.
The main difference between the old Christians and the old Islamics is that Christians have learned much from their past. Islamic Extremists have learned very little.
Agree.
Did you notice I used quotes, those were the authors words, as he seems to believe that terrorism and terrorists are compromised entirely from that particular "convoluted and medieval Wahabist interpretation of Islam". Not I.
The only way we can rid the world of this scourge is to attack the root, not the branches. Wipe out Islam at it's source, Mecca and prove that Mohammad was not a prophet and the war is over. Keep putting out brush fires and we just grow weary.
It is high time to threaten to invade and sack Mecca if this continues.
I noticed, quoted and singled out your word "perverted".
Then I simply listed scriptures.
This should be repeated everywhere so that we understand our enemy.
Hmm, a cosmic battle of the first order ... with a volunteer Army?
As they used to say in the muffler commercial, that's a tuffy!
Don't tell me you would think terrorism can be managed back to the level of nuisance?
The guys that buy tickets to paradise by killing innocents would disagree with you.
You just have to look.
Ok .. I'm lookin.
Can you cite me an example of an American or British Muslim that has blown the whistle on a terrorist?
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