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.
Why are Americans allowing this? We are at war, and this is the enemy.
I know and see that I am apparently against virtually everyone at free republic, but I believe that an overwhelming majority of Muslims are not evil and do not wish destruction upon the US. One of my best friends is Muslim and a frequent lurker of the forums. I find that most people who migrate to America because of war and conflict in their home country are often more patriotic then most Americans who have lived here their entire lives.
Huh? Where do you get this? Muslims DO NOT WORSHIP THE SAME GOD as Jews and Christians do. "Allah" is not Jehova. "Allah" is the Arabic MOON GOD.
The majority of Southerners in the mid-19th century were actually against slavery. However, they paid a terrible price for those who purported to speak for them..........and also for other reasons of import (i.e. States' rights). The point is, I have made it clear above (as if I had to, for anyone with a brain knows...) that not all Muslims subscribe to such base, genocidal feelings. However, those that you describe are in the minority in the Muslim world. You may deny it; you may not like it; you may claim I'm wrong.........but it's the truth. Again, it's sad, but even the innocent in war pay the price for the guilty.
I'll lay you dollars to donuts that the animals who committed these crimes cared less for their countrymen than you do. Think very, very carefully about that before accusing me of un-Christian attitudes (and I won't divert this thread into Biblical justification for what's coming...........but trust me, it's there). God bless.
Huh? Where do you get this? Muslims DO NOT WORSHIP THE SAME GOD as Jews and Christians do. "Allah" is not Jehova. "Allah" is the Arabic MOON GOD.
Also, in Islam, Christ is not the Son of God, who laid down his life for sinners, He is a coward, who tricked his executioners when they came for him into killing Peter instead. That difference in the religions alone makes ALL the difference.
I say that what we see in the Middle East (their culture; their misery) is the fruit of worshipping the god of the Koran. Ideas (and religions) DO have consequences.
It is true that Jesse Jackson and many, many others twist the Bible, but the evil we witnessed Tuesday is the ultimate fruit of the teachings of Mohammad, as was the brutal conquest of North Africa and large sections of Asia, African slavery, and so many other evils in the world since the madman Mohammad started his conquests. It's not politically correct to say, even on a freedom-loving forum such as this, but it's true, and it's at the base of this particular problem. I don't respect Islam at all - I long for all those under its darkness to come to the Light.
That campiagn took about 300 years to complete. But, that was before warplanes, tanks, nuclear warships and computers.
I'll bet we can finish the same job in about 5-7 years.
But again, yes.................they DO, to the surprise of many in this country, worship the same God we do.
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