Posted on 10/04/2005 7:04:09 AM PDT by ElCapusto
My beautiful and sweet late mother Viola used to wear a veil to church on Sunday. I thought it gave her a certain mystique like Jean Simmons in The Robe. My mom looked just like Queen Rania of Jordan, only with red hair and green eyes -- or even Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca.
So now when I look around at London, the WTC, Madrid, Bali I and (today) Bali II, I feel so, so sad. Because this is not the Islam I saw when I lived in Cyprus, Jordan and Lebanon as a journalist.
This is not the Islam of Petra, the Dead Sea, Baalbeck, Jerash and Aqaba.
This is not the Islam which nurtured me as I retraced Lawrence of Arabia’s World War I trek.
These bombers are not the people I met in Turkey while searching out a story on the Biblical Noah’s Ark. At the tiny village of Kazan, the home some say of Noah’s anchors, I tried for a long time to convince the locals many in the West didn't believe Noah’s Ark was a real event. They simply could not fathom it. Their response: “People who don’t believe in Noah’s Ark are just stupid.”
The people that I met in the Middle East were for the most part kind and good and moral. They were soft spoken and polite. They were EVERYTHING sane and even opposite of the filthy culture which has now colonized our beloved America. Muslims can be proud of their traditional morals and the fact they are the last barrier to world government. But sending heroin from Afghanistan and the Bekka Valley to the UK is not moral. How many lives destroyed?
Of course taking slaves in Sudan and Mauritania is not moral. And we all know that killing in the name of God is not moral.
I saw the Hezbollah museum at Baalbeck and it was really sickening. They are proud of their murders like so many abortion doctors in their neat lab coats, carrying clipboards on their roach errands.
Yes, we in the West may have the Spice Girls, Sharon Stone’s crotch in Basic Instinct, Paris Hilton and the rest of the wickedness. But that is the flesh and you cannot kill the flesh permanently. You can only try and crucify it every day.
Islamic bombs cannot stop GE foods, cloning, the madness of Madison Avenue, Cosmo, Desperate Housewives, Sex in the City, late-term abortion nor the cracking of the human genome. It cannot stop Paris Hilton from being tolerate and even lionized, nor Bill and Hillary. Consider that the age of consensual sex in Spain is now 12. This is the nation that brought Catholicism to the Western Hemisphere. Does that help you understand how far it has all gone down the toilet?
Consider Planned Parenthood gave away free abortions after 9-11 “to help people cope". Did you see the Decadence Fest around the dead bodies of Louisiana after Katrina? Think of Lot and the angels and those blinded.
So please stop bombing us, Islam. Look at your own sins. Let us look at our own sins as well.
Remember please; we cannot stop President George Bush Jr. from doing things like bringing Ozzie O. in the White House to fete him and say, “Mom loves your stuff, Ozzie.”
We cannot stop him from joking about his drinking binges in New Orleans as a youth while people were dying during Katrina.
Who really knew what he was all about in 2000? We thought he would be an antidote to Clinton’s filth. We thought Iraq would be a natural ally against Bin Laden.
You see, the cultural collapse in the West overwhelms politics. We don’t need Islam to tell us we’re the Great Satan. We see the evil around us every day. It's not just America. It's the whole world.
We’re not that lost or that stupid, no matter what Hollywood tells you. Look at Mel Gibson’s film and how many people watched it. There are many good people in my country. Brave, strong, courageous, generous, putting others first, noble, heroic.
Please pray for us instead of bombing us -- for our souls are in mortal danger. The real bombs are going off in our minds, hearts and spirits. This is open warfare and the stakes are not for Halliburton and Exxon and the emerging global civilization. The stakes are for our eternal souls. This is the real silent war.
Muslims often cry, “God is great!” -- and that is true.
But God is so much more than simply great. God is primarily good. Righteousness os not about feeling good. It’s about being good.
Saint Veronica was a brave woman who stayed with Jesus to the very end. She forced her way through the Roman soldiers to wipe His face with her famous veil. This was done during Christ's darkest hours. So to we must ask Veronica to wipe our faces in this, our darkest hour -- so-called postmodern culture. This in order to reveal who we're meant to be beyond our sins and to find our true destiny. Before it is too late.
As my late mother used to say; being good is everything. It is the only thing.
Islam is as Islam does.
This sentence is the VERY DAMN PROBLEM!
Bloody T.E. Lawrence and his romaticism of the Arabs...the Brittish creation of Wahhabism and Saudi Arabia, and the hashemite Kingom (which was SUPPOSED to be the PaleSimian homeland)...the fact that the Arabs were on the side of the NAZIS in WW II, which is COMPLETELY ignored...all give us this fantasy vision.
When reality intrudes, and the REAL Islamazi face is shown, it is ignored in favor of the fantasy that has penetrated the European mind to the core!
And, as J F'n K pointed out, LIEberals strive to be more like Europe!
And when these Koranimals and PaleSimians attack Jews...well, what's a few Jews for the sake of maintaining their Fantasy world! And what's a few more miles of territory (just when is Israel going to demand that Mexico be given back OUR "conquered" terrritory?), when the Koranimals can attack Jews even farther away from the new border, the world (ESPECIALLY Foggy Bottom!) demands Israel show "restraint", because these Islamazis have oil!
F this!
What does Ozzy have to do with this? He's been married to Sharon for years, and she stuck by him through some incredible sh*t. Yeah they're dysfunctional, but at one time I owned every Black Sabbath and Ozzy album. He's really not that subversive.
"So please stop bombing us, Islam"
Hahahah..
How pathetic. 'please stop hating us Hitler'.. Same old desperate, weak appeasement strategies.
Boy is that the freaking truth. This guy reminds me of Robert Fisk in his stunning ignorance. They'd turn on him and rip his head off at any whim.
They are ALL fanatics with a mission: populate Christian nations and kill as many as they can!
Any gaggle of insane killers who believe that by blowing their intestines apart they will be greeted by 72 innocent virgins as part of their reward don't belong among the living.
Imagine THEIR terror when they discover that they have won a one-way ticket to eternity in hell.
You're right.
He's just another nut-case that has the youngsters following him around likes he's the Pied Piper of Hamlin.
He spends his largesse (obtained from the heads full of mush) on things that interest him and endears him to his eternal keeper: satan!
Spanish people need to become reacqainted with their history: especially the parts about when the world communism had seized their nation and then much further back when they were slaves of the evil muslims.
The author definitely suffers from some dilusional periods.
ROTFLOL! You're too funny : )
God isn't "primarily" good. God is Holy, Righteous, Perfect. It is in comparison to God's own perfect righteousness, that God will judge us. That is why scripture say "All have fallen short of the glory of God." "There are none righteous, no not one".
Righteousness isn't about being good as man defines it. It's not about being on the right end of the bell curve, where you are closer to Mother Theresa in your actios than to Adolf Hitler. Righteousness is about being PERFECT, not just good.
God calls us repeated to "Be Holy for I am Holy". Do a search at www.bible.com on the word "perfect" in the New Testament and see how many times we are told to be Perfect.
Jesus said to the rich young ruler who inquired about eternal life and Jesus replied, "If ye would be PERFECT, go and ...".
There are two ways to be perfect. One is to never sin, but scripture tells us nobody except Jesus accomplished that. The other is to be forgiven.
The only way to be forgiven is to accept the plan of salvation that God put together. In this plan, God Himself paid the price for our sins, by becoming incarnate in the form of His son, Jesus.
No matter how peaceful, or moral, any strain of Islam is, it will remain an evil religion as long as it rejects Jesus as the Son of God.
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