Posted on 09/13/2001 5:27:56 PM PDT by RightOnline
I would like to take this opportunity to address the Muslim community around the world, especially in the wake of the horrific events that took place on American soil on September 11th, 2001.
As untold millions of Americans stare in horror at the images of the World Trade Center or the Pentagon, we feel an emptiness in the pit of our collective stomach. We now feel the agony of mindless violence visited upon innocents within our nation's borders. We are stunned, we are nauseous, and ultimately...............we are increasingly angry.
To compound this anger, we see images from Palestinian communities, Egypt, and elsewhere of you gleefully celebrating the senseless deaths of tens of thousands of non-combatants. You fire weapons, you hand out candy, you ululate, you clap, you flash "V for Victory" signs. Your hatred for All Things American is no longer even slightly hidden; it is bared for all the world to see.
We noticed.
Yet, we are told that we don't appreciate the reasons why you hate us so. We hear that you have such good reasons to despise us. We hear that we must understand why you harbor and now openly exhibit such deep-seeded hatred for our culture, our Government, and our country's citizens.
Well, Muslim folk, I am hereby telling you, from the bottom of our collective American heart, that we don't care. Not a whit.
You claim to be followers of Muhammed. Devotees of Islam. Lovers of all things Muslim. Well, you people had best study your own religion more thoroughly. Christians, Jews (yes, your much-hated Jews), and Muslims all worship the SAME God. This is why we're all often referred to as "Children of the Book". To you, this doesn't seem to matter. You claim to follow Islamic laws and dictates, yet we just saw some of your own commit suicide in the commission of these terrible acts, even though suicide is expressly forbidden by your faith.
Your "leaders" use the Koran the way some charlatans in our country like Jesse Jackson use the Bible. It is worn as a decoration; used as a yard sign; borne as a righteous shield for hypocritical, destructive acts.
We Americans aren't really as ignorant as you have been told. We know that you despise Israel and, by default, the U.S. for our undying support of Israel. You seem to trumpet your devotion to your faith and murder us for seemingly failing to understand that faith. Yet.....you do exactly the same thing to us. You know nothing of our Bible. You know nothing of our Judeo-Christian heritage. That heritage has taught us that the Jews are God's chosen people (we didn't choose them; God did..........yes, the same you call "Allah"). They thereby deserve and will receive, according to our faith, our neverending, to-the-death support as a nation. However, your chest-beating over failure to recognize your faith-based motivations rings hollow in our ears.............for you have never, ever understood ours.
What Americans see is this: We have given and given and given and given and GIVEN to the world. Repeatedly. This isn't "government money". This isn't oil money usurped by some fat, lazy "royal" family (as in your world). No, this is money earned by the sweat of the collective American brow. It is the citizens of this country who work, and work hard, to earn enough to house, feed, clothe, transport, and otherwise care for their families. NO one gives us what we have; we've fought, clawed, educated, sacrificed, struggled, and hauled ourselves up to the level we enjoy as a nation today. We can do this, for we are a nation devoted to God in His Heaven and to the concepts of individual freedom.
Your countries aren't, and that is precisely why you struggle in eternal mediocrity. You envy our money, our lifestyles..................all the while cursing us for same. We know, though. We know that it's envy.
It isn't our place on this earth to succor you, to pay you, to clothe you, to feed you indefinitely. You must grow up as a culture. Your immaturity is a never-ending source of disdain to us, for we know you for what you are.
You cheer as we die.......but you also know that you won't cheer for long. Unless you are far stupider than some claim, you know our history. You know that we are a nation of diverse backgrounds and nationalities. You know that we squabble and fight like brothers. You know that we have endless arguments among ourselves and constantly struggle with the meaning of the word "freedom". You know that we have Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Taoists, Wiccans, and those of every other faith you can name, making us a roiling mass of contradictory and often violently opposing factions, colors, religions, and beliefs.
You must, therefore, also know what has happened when an enemy manages to cross that terrible line and unite Americans. They have paid terrible prices.
I must now tell you that your world must now pay that terrible price for the actions of few..............but the attitudes of your multitudes.
You have spat upon us, stolen from us, gouged us, kicked us, cursed us, railed against us.........and murdered us.
Hope you enjoyed the ride. We now have the controls. Make your peace.
The Muslims, Jews and Christians share the same past and mostly up to Jesus they had the same prophets, same biblical information, same beliefs as we do.
They believe that Jesus was a great prophet but like the Jews they don't believe that Jesus was the Son of G*d.
Right there is where Christian, Jewish and Muslim religions branch off.
Where we are also different from them, we are not a Semetic people while both Jews and Arabs are. They are actually brothers.
From what I read in the Koran, their religion is one of peace and harmony. This dark evil stuff that some of them do in the name of Islam is not really Islam but a twisted b*st**d religion/excuse for money/power branching off from Islam.
Not that they are the only ones..just about all religions have had similar branches at one time or another where false prophets have convinced enough of their followers to do evil in the name of the twisted, self serving teachings of their religions, to give their false prophets (even insane prophets) money and power.
I'm not accusing you of this, but the level of anti-Muslim hatred I'm seeing on this board and others is disturbing. Hell, I've seen calls on this board (deleted, thankfully) for Americans to take revenge on American muslims.
And again, take a good look at this photo. Not all Muslims, even Palestinians, hate us.
I thank god for people like you who can direct your anger thoughtfully and at the right place.
Sign me up....I'll give my life for that cause!
They can try, if any of them are still alive. At some point they're going to run out of warm bodies.
They have no reason to fear. The doves have emasculated this nation to a point where we will take it and run home with our tails between our legs.
Think I'm wrong? Read the dozens of examples of Muslims openly celebrating in this country, without ONE SINGLE RESPONSE from the kittenish Americans.
And to the pigs who dance and celebrate our beloved murdered family members? Do you wish us to bow our heads to them as well? Shall we invite them over to dinner so they can spit on our memorials, our flags, and our graves, too?
What in the Sam Hill are you going on about? Have you actually read this thread???? TRY that, next time. It helps.
Who did we target in Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the war with Japan? Did we specifically look for Hirohito or did we end the war? Do you know what war is? War is what THEY did to US.
What would you have us do? Become like our enemy? Drop a nuke on cities full of women and children?
In any war, civilians will die. That doesn't mean we should target civilians.
I will NOT defer to Muslims who celebrate our mourning, no matter what dovish, cowardly, liberal tripe they spew.
I expect better of you, RO. You're usually rather well-reasoned.
What I said, take at face value. Americans are Americans. To attack someone of Middle Eastern heritage (or of the Muslim faith) who lives in our country JUST because of that heritage or faith is idiocy. Many are American citizens; hell, a LOT are American citizens.........and they're as pi**ed off about this attack on OUR country........now THEIR country.........as you and I are. They aren't the "target" here.
Now...........IF someone of such "heritage" was stupid enough to run around gleefully, shooting a firearm in the air, whistling, shouting, laughing, etc. over what happened, then I don't care WHO the hell they are or if they're 6' 4" and Aryan: they're going to get an ass kickin'.
Does that explain it better?
Anyone who cries for the carpet bombing of nations or indiscriminate destruction of civilian targets is no more virtuous than those who support the 18 monsters who killed more than 5,000 Americans.
We, as a nation, have now seen the "man behind the curtain"....Jihad is the Face of Death. As thousands of my fellow Americans have just learned in the most horrible way imaginable. Each parent that died left children that will never forget. If their intent was to show us their hate, they succeeded. They also succeeded in sowing a hatred for them that will never die. They were celebrating their own demise when they danced in the streets.
THAT'S what gets me so riled up, especially after leaving those threads describing the celebrations in Houston college classes, Dearborn schools, Long Island communities, California campuses, etc... where NOT A SINGLE ONE of them got the ass-kickin' they so richly deserved, and worked so hard to earn.
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