Attack on Egyptian mosque targets civilization itself

NY Post ^ | Nov 24, 2017 | Ralph Peters

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Friday’s bloodthirsty attack on a mosque in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula during noontime prayers was a crime against all humanity. It wasn’t “just” an attack on Muslims. It was an attack on all of us who believe in civilization, tolerance and decency. At least 235 peaceful worshippers died, with more than 100 wounded.

One is tempted to call it the work of beasts, but no creature in the animal kingdom behaves with such avid, calculated cruelty.

Yet, the attack can be explained — though the explanation only makes it worse.

Islamist fanatics struck with bombs and automatic weapons, slaughtering first the faithful, then first responders. The reversed ratio of dead to wounded (usually more are wounded than killed) tells us how potent the explosions were and how carefully the attack had been planned and executed.

And it was no coincidence that the al-Rawdah Mosque was frequented by Sufis, the mystical, tolerant strain of Islam that finds joy, rather than a slavemaster, in its deity. Sufism has been the spiritual home of poets, such as Rumi or Hafez Shirazi. Sufi orders embraced music and even dance as expressions of faith. Sufis venerate saints, and some of their beloved figures quite liked wine. Sufi orders differ, as do Christian denominations, but none threatens the world with terror these days.

The greatest sheiks of Sufism had more in common with Catholic mystics, such as St. John of the Cross, or Protestants like Emanuel Swedenborg, than with the punitive, barracks-discipline Wahhabism funded by Saudi Arabia and enforced by terrorists. If you crossed a Quaker with an Episcopalian, with a soundtrack of Catholic plainchant, you’d get something like a Sufi.

In Judaism, the closest equivalent would be the Hasidim and the transcendent warmth they discover in God.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Convert, be taxed or be killed. That is the culture the West is so zealously courting to enter its countries.

[WilliamIII]

Ralph Peters is a nevertrumper. I guess that means he wants our borders open for more Muslims to come in. And more foreign wars to waste our blood and money on

[MtnClimber]

The politicians are courting this destruction of western civilization. The citizens have all the tools to stop all participants in this insanity.

[exit82]

Ralph Peters said on Fox he was voting for Hillary.

Thus, he is an enemy to the Republic.

Haven’t listened to him since.

If he was comfortable with Hillary picking Supreme Court justices, I have no further need to hear anything he has to say.

[jmacusa]

Ah, now let me get this straight. Muslims... killing...Muslims is bad for ... the rest of us? Ah, sorry Ralphie Boy but I don’t see it that way. Hell Bells, let them off each other.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I find it interesting that this article has a tone like the terrorists attacked the author’s own family while everything about the Vegas attack was dull, colorless, and had the volume turned down—and they’ve stopped talking about it now.

[cherry]

countless Christian churches fire bombed but an attack on a mosque targets civilization itself?....

I feel that moslems are stone aged sheeple with low IQ...they might have had a decent civilization before they decided to make raping little girls the norm...

[SpaceBar]

Islam trying to pull the entire world into their own centuries-old internal Hatfield vs McCoy feud.

[kabar]

Peters is a jerk and a joke. He voted for Hillary.

[jmacusa]

Islam was never ‘’decent’’ That’s not how Mad Mo intended it to be. Islam is a crude religion for barbaric people.

[SpaceBar]

A little often overlooked factoid is that the traditional religion that has suffered the most under the scimitar of islam is Hinduism, which predates islam by thousands of years, and has lost hundreds of millions to the meteor worshipping nutcases.

[yoe]

The attack on the mosque in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula as was the Las Vegas attack was profoundly evil. Motive is not necessarily a part of evil...terrorism provides a vehicle for evil to do its terrible work on the human brain causing ordinary people to become evil doing wretched acts which are condemned and damned by God.

Evil is all around us, only a few answer evil's call.

[A strike]

-Ralph Peters-
Siwwy wabbit;
ISLAM is the attack on civilization; IDIOT

[rawcatslyentist]

It's actually very simple.

Mohamed commands mohamed to go mohomicidal. Mohamed goes mohomicidal.

[Rashputin]

An atheist killing unarmed men, women, and children in a Christian Church doesn't count as targeting civilization itself, though.

What, there's a body count threshold that has to be crossed or is it that just as long as they can say, No Muxlims were harmed in this slaughter, it's all good just like the comment about not harming animals at the end of a film?

[Bigg Red]

embraced music

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What in the heck is that?

[Bigg Red]

Ah, had not noticed it was Peters, he of the Mickey Mouse voice.

[Mark17]

Ralph Peters is a nevertrumper.

I used to have some respect for the guy. Now, not so much. 👎🤬❄️

[Noamie]

One is tempted to call it the work of beasts, but no creature in the animal kingdom behaves with such avid, calculated cruelty.
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Monkeys, ants, sharks, wolves, female lionesses..... the entire animal kingdom, including rabbits and gerbils, would kill you and everyone you love if they could. If you gave a honey badger an AK74 he would end the world within 21 days; just because he could.