An Open Message to the Muslim World

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.

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.

I am very confused by the facts in this. How do the Muslims benefit from this? What were their goals?

We are supporting the Muslims in Kosovo, we even bombed the christians in Serbia for them. We have provided aid for Egypt, the Palestinians and Jordan. We supported the Afghanis against the soviets(enlisting Usama bin Laden in there behalf and going so far as teaching them terrorist tactics). Look at Chechenya right now. We have been bending over backwards courting the Arabs.

It looks to me like the Muslims are getting their way with us more and more all the time.

Who would benefit if that were to stop?!!!!!!!!!!!

This could be a situation where the youngest child calls mama into the action to dish out some punishment to the other siblings.

It could be a situation where someone with an agenda and the power to call the shots is shaping public opinion.

I am pragmatic. I would not look a gift horse in the mouth. Let us do what has to be done. However, best we not feel too righteous about it.

Cheers:^)

An excellent post as usual. I have to agree with agrandis in post 55. The theological discussion aside I agree with the premise of the initial post.

It is vital for all of us to understand that in a declared war there will be non-combatants killed. I want a declaration of war. Why? Because our military needs to conduct this action with specific and declared goals and objectives and not be hamstrung by hand-wringing and tentativeness because of a photo, or press-conference or bad temporary outcome.

During Russia's invasion of Afghanistan a Soviet regiment was taken out by two suicide bombers who drove a truck-bomb into a fuel convoy inside a tunnel that was located in a mountain. Over 800 Soviet soldiers were immolated or sufficated by the act. This will not be a war to occupy or casually pacify a people. It will be total war.

It is vital that we get Russian cooperation and speak directly to our enemies and allies about consequences in the coming combat. It is likely that at some point the forces of evil will acquire a nuclear weapon. Tuesday, sadly, was not the worst case scenario. We must make them cringe in pants-wetting fear at the thought of ever hurting Americans again. We must make the average Ahmed in the Middle East beat the s*** out of the neighbor kid who tries to corrupt Ahmed's 9 year old son with visions of military glory. We must make the love of life transcendent over a true culture of death.

It is true the terrorists have "awakened a sleeping giant". It is also true that the namby-pamby moderates here in this country and abroad will do all in their power to make the giant shrink from his "terrible resolve". It is vital that as citizens we punish, persecute and remove from office those that whimper and sigh about the actions that will take place and must take place to protect this country and its citizens. Our resolve must be the conscience of that giant. We must ensure his actions are directed outward and not at home. We must ensure that the corruption that has eaten at the marrow of this government is purged before our efforts are begun.

I am 110% behind the President and our military in the prosecution of the coming war. But I insist that the war be conducted by the elected government of this nation and not by the corrupt clinton hold-overs of the last 8 years. Where did the code words come from? I will bet sabot to heat rounds that the transmitter of that information has a (d) behind his/her name. I want it found out and I want them prosecuted for treason, convicted and hung - publicly.

I want the micro-management of the govt. appointments to stop. After Tuesday there can be no more desire for degrees of idealogical purity within the (r) party. It is no longer acceptable for dems appointed by x42 to remain in critical positions where they can continue to do things that embarass the administration (best case) or endanger our military personnnel - or President - as what happened on Tuesday (worst case). Tuesday must be used as a subtle political club to get the democrat senators in line and get the appointments done.

If FreeRepublic.com is looking for an action-item this is it!

Thanks for the post and the Flag. Sorry for the length of my response.

Semper Fi,

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