I fought in Afghanistan as a Special Forces Team Commander. I am also what you would perceive as a “wacky-right-wing-conservative-religious-person”
So here are the differences between myself and the Taliban.
The Taliban allowed no freedom of expression, no rights for women, no freedom of religion and destroyed anything and everyone that did not abide by their version of Islam. They destroyed the famous Buddhist statues of Bamiyan because the felt they were un-Islamic graven images. The wiped out entire peoples and villages (such as the Hazara) because they were not Islamic enough. They would think nothing of executing an entire village if one family converted to Christianity. They cut the ears, eyes, tongues and noses off people for “infractions against Islam.” They turned schools into horse stables. They planted bombs and mines in children’s play fields to kill them. They torched newly built girls schools. They stoned women to death who had been raped for “adultery.” They allowed the training of terrorist groups to export their version of Islam to the world. They looked at the world as two spheres – One that has been conquered by Islam and one that will be conquered by Islam through war. They would think nothing of raping your wife and children and making you a slave or corpse. It is what you and your family, or any non-Islamic person, deserves for being an infidel. They would not allow women (and girls) to go to school, have a job or even leave their home (unless accompanied by a male relative). The Taliban ruled by fear and intimidation. They remind me of the Nazis and Communists.
What do the so called religious conservatives in this country want? Here is the super secret list: Economic Opportunity and Personal Liberty.
Things like: Taxes we can afford; A reverence for the US Constitution as the Founding Fathers wrote it; An appreciation for the values and traditions that made this country the finest in the history of the world; A respect for all opinion, not just what is the PC flavor of the month; An understanding that people should “not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character;” And respect for life (no matter how vulnerable or powerless).
The differences are slight, but there they are. I hope this clears up any misunderstandings.
De Oppresso Libre,
2banana
BTTT
Thank you for your service, sir.
If O'Donnell actually believed that radical Christians were as dangerous as radical Muslims she would not have said so on TV for fear of being killed by the producer, cameraman, studio audience or rampaging crowds of Christians which even her armed bodyguard could not protect her against. Since she felt free to insult Christians she knew she was in no real or perceived danger for stating the insult.
See post one here, we'll get you educated yet!
My tagline says it all :<(
Clueless.
The attack against Christians, especially white conservative Christians continues.
Thank you for serving, thank you for such a succinct response. Good day sir.
So the Civil War was actually a religious war. Well, you learn something new every day. /sarc
Rosie has used up her 15.
Hey bitter religion hating lesbo!
You'd be stoned to death in the middle east for being who you are.
In america, you where able to make millions and chase all the females you want while shooting off your big mouth.
Well said. Another way of saying it would be, "under Taliban rule, people like Rosie would never be heard from again."
First, for the record, I can't stand Rosie. Period. She makes me ill. That said, we still need to pray for our enemies. I consider her one of those enemies. On the other hand. She said "Radical Christians" not conservative christians or fundamentalist christians or devote christians. She compared Radicals to Radicals. I pose this thought by taking Rosie out of the equation: Don't RADICAL Christians blow up abortion clinics? Isn't that a lot like what the RADICAL Muslims are doing?
I second.. that... Thanks for your service!
God Bless you.
That's because your a left-wing whore, Glen.
Wasting time responding to a mentally-deranged deviant is beneath your dignity.
Only to the ill informed, she does. The Crusades were called to stop the onslaught of islamic aggression and conquest of Christian lands, with the first goal being to drive into Jerusalem to retake the Holy Land, PERIOD.
The Spanish Inquistion was called after the Spanish finally threw off the yoke of 800 years of Moslem oppression, to flush out muslims who falsely converted to Christianity for the purpose of sedition, spying and causing internal unrest. Many, but not all, Jews were expelled because of their military alliance with Moslems in North Africa, where they fought together against Spanish troops. Even so, most the expelled Jews sailed to Rome and were welcomed by the Pope. It is now known by historians that only about 880 persons were actually exectuted by the Spanish Inquistion between 1540 and 1700; hardly the "millions of executions" we read about by the lying anti-Catholic revisionists.
The Turks in 1480 attacked the south Italian city of Otranto. 12,000 people were killed, the rest made slaves. The Turks killed every cleric in the city and sawed the archbishop in two. So Queen Isabel sent a fleet to Italy. In September of 1480, when it was clear the Turks might do the same to any coastal city, King Ferdinand V and Queen Isabella established the Inquisition. It dealt with the special problem of those who pretended to become Christians, but were not really converted, and might open the gates of the city to the Turks.
During this period the West was in danger of following the fate of Constantinople and falling under the sword of Islam. Indeed Protestant and Catholic princes joined forces against the threat and at one point the Turkish armies were at the gates of Vienna.
Otherwise, the modern nations of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, 16 miles away from Spain, formed part of a vast imperial system established by the Muslim Turks, a system as powerful and menacing to western Europe as the Soviet bloc was conceived to be in our day.
It was under this threat that the Pope Sixtus IV authorized the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 if it should be needed. The kings of Spain, Isabella and Ferdinand, instituted it two years later. The specific threat that the Inquisition faced was the "conversos." Spain had been freed form Islamic control for only a few generations, after 800 years of oppression... and not completely, because Islam still ruled in Granada up to 1492.
The Spanish Inquisition was independent of the Medieval Inquisition. It was established by Ferdinand and Isabella with the reluctant approval of Sixtus IV. It was entirely controlled by the Spanish kings, and the pope's only hold over it was in naming the inquisitor general chosen by the kings. The popes were never reconciled to the institution, which they regarded as usurping a church prerogative.
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Incredible post!
Thank you for your service. President Karzai mentioned many of these things in response to some reporter's dumb question yesterday at the White House. Something like "Is Afghanistan better off now than it was before 9/11?" or something similarily stupid.