Just a general comment to all: Think about it honestly. Think of every instance of the use of the ROP term and the people using it. Bush was trying to avoid Americans from depleting the American rope supply, but also, he is a friend of the Saudis. He KNOWS what Dal ar Islam means - “The peace of Islam”.
When the Palis, Hamas et all say to an American/english speaking audience “We only seek Peace with the Jews, and then say to a Muslim audience “DEATH TO THE INFIDEL!”, they are saying the EXACT SAME THING.
It’s just that most English speakers define ‘peace’ as getting along with the absence of violence. They define it as subjugation/killing of the non muslim.
So every time people ask “how can they claim to want peace with Israel and then rocket.kidnap/bomb them?”, there’s the answer. It’s been right in front of our nose the whole time, plain as day. But people just refuse to believe the words they are being told.
Also, my standard link. A fictional short story by Dan Simmons that no one should miss. Puts the above into crystal clarity.
http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm
Indeed, it’s easy to find peace with dead people around, kind of like a crazy soldier in a battle field strewn with deads, feeling strangely strong for being alive and having survived and not them. That’s what their peace means... and then you have their strange medicine or pillage attitudes, necrophiliac, perhaps.
No wonder communists are so gung ho for Arab Springiness. In Russian, the word “mir” means both “peace” and “world”. Islam has a similar concept.
It was good to revisit that Short Story.
More pertinent as time goes by...
Great story...what are the “Three Words”?