Here are two of them...
Wed Mar 8, 7:09 PM ET
Now how many people have been slaughtered along with buildings and cars torched because hundreds of thousands Muslims object to a few non-Muslims in a secular country exercising their right of free speech?
It is hard to keep count. We may need to set up a macabre pari-mutual accounting board that totals the people killed year to date because Islamic guys wake up grouchy.
How much has the cause of freedom and democracy been set back? A very long way.
The American press unanimously and pusillanimously decided not to reprint the cartoons.
That sweeping decision to run up the white flag proves that there is a gutless press oligopoly in this nation and that is not good for any of us.
However, there is a bright side to all of this believe it or not.
Neither my Dictionary of Quotations nor Google tell me who said this, but there is a succinct quote that applies to this situation:
"History is the recordation of the race between education and catastrophe."
In this case, catastrophe for us is to know too little about the Muslim religion. Many nations have learned to their sorrow what it means to have a large group of Muslims as their neighbors, immigrants, or conquerors.
There are endless publications attempting to warn the American people that the Muslim religion is unlike any other religion or philosophy in the world (see: "The West's Last Chance" by Tony Blankley).
But none of those writings could have made the point as vividly as has the Muslim reaction to the cartoons. Millions more now understand that the Muslim position is that things should be their way or no way.
Every other religion or philosophy of which I am aware: Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Confucianism, Sikh, even Shinto, attempt to inculcate into their adherents an internal scheme of socializing principles designed to overcome their "sinful" impulses with "saintly" conduct. Such internal policing also makes them better neighbors.
It is true that there is a long gruesome history of groups subscribing to religion getting hijacked into wars when the economics of the situation happen to coincide with religious affiliations.
The Irish Catholic-Protestant conflict sadly comes to mind.
But all such wars are in direct conflict with the express tenets of their religion.
Not so with the Muslims. While the Muslim religion does inculcate a strong element of self-control (the internal Jihad), there the similarity ends.
The Muslim religion is now and, ever since a few years after its founding in Saudi Arabia, has been a warrior religion just like the Spartans of ancient Greece (see: "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Gibbons).
Ever since about 550 A.D., Muslim armies have been on the march, plundering nation after nation, flourishing not as much by their own creativity or hard work but by harnessing the talent and resources of those they militarily subjugate.
The Christian Bible abjures its adherents to: not murder; turn the other cheek; love your neighbor; and to do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
The Koran (Qu'ran) says:
Surah 8.65 "Oh Prophet! Exhort believers to fight."
Surah 62.6-7 "Oh ye Jews, if claim that Allah favors you over all mankind, then long for death ..."
Surah 5.51 "Take not Jews and Christians as your friends."
Surah 2.191 "Slay the aggressors (people who defend themselves) wherever you find them" (including the Olympics).
Surah 4.91 ... Then take them and kill them wherever you find them. Against such we have been given a clear warrant."
Surah 2.216 "Warfare is ordained for you."
Surah 3.151 "We shall cast terror in the hearts of those who disbelieve."
Surah 4.56 "Disbelievers we shall expose to the fire."
Surah 17.16-17 "We annihilate townships who disobey the commandments. We have destroyed many generations. We annihilate with complete annihilation."
Non-Muslims ignore the plain language of the Koran and the murderous conduct of so many that believe that it is the literal word of god at our peril.
The Koran is a blueprint for the domination of the Earth by a Muslim population that now numbers about 1.5 billion around the globe.
Living off of oil money sent to the Saudis, they are exporting murderous extremism throughout the rest of the world.
The optimists among us are attempting to split the Muslims between the extremists and the "moderates."
"Moderate Muslim" seems to be an oxymoron on which we should not base the future of our culture.
Author Victor Davis Hanson has written, "A War Like No Other," which chronicles the decades-long death struggle between the democratic, civilized, and wealthy Athenians vs. the unprosperous though warlike Spartans; a parallel to the present conflict between the Islamacists and the west.
Guess who won that war?
Stirling is a retired superior court judge who now practices law with the firm of Garrison & McInnis. He is a former Army officer, member of the San Diego City Council, the California State Assembly and the State Senate. Send comments to larry.stirling@sddt.com. Comments may be published as letters to the Editor.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/sddt/20060309/lo_sddt/thegoodnewsaboutthemuslimcartoonriots
On another planet. Far, far away.
As for the trojan horses, they are aplenty.
In the UAE who we just punished!
Pray for W and Our Heroic Troops
There are none of any consequence.
Asking "Where are the moderate Muslims? is as nonsensical as asking "Where are the holy Mafiosi?"
In the mosque, plotting?
If someone is getting the hell kicked out of them and they die and you do nothing to stop it you are complicit.
I think the percentages are way off as to how many germans killed jews nevertheless many many many more knew and did nothing.
I can tell you what my father, who spent 4 years fighting in Europe, and who related his first-hand accounts of 'everyday' Germans they met when they liberated two concentration camps.
The everyday Germans, in his opinion, would have had no problem if Hitler had managed to win the war. Germany Uber Alles was something most Germans thought their due. Much like the ' Islam must dominate' declarations we hear now. The goal of the Nazis, and the goal of Islam, is the same.
'Good', non-Nazi Germans lived within smelling and visual disatnce of the camps my father entered. They denied knowing what was going on there, even tho you could smell burning human flesh for miles.
The nearby townspeople were collected and made to not only go into the camps, but to help bury the dead.
The 'good' Germans, like the 'good' Muslims agreed with what Nazism wanted. Domination and obedience. Superiority. They might not have been willing to risk their necks for it, but they were fully prepared to enjoy being the conquerors.
what the heck is a "moderate" Muslim ?
someone who kills ya with a means other than beheading?
Where are the moderate Muslims?
With the moderate Nazis?
He's on vacation.
The Athenians would have won if they had ICBMs and nuclear submarines. :P
Out raising money for the Nutjob ones!!!
Here are two of them...