Posted on 09/19/2001 7:00:06 AM PDT by TomSmedley
... There must be something about the Islamic worldview or state of mind that produces this fanatic lust for destruction. In Algeria, Islamic terrorists slit the throats of school children in their beds. In the West Bank and Gaza, children turn themselves into human suicide bombers eager to blow up Israeli teenagers. Adult terrorists engineer the most brutal and devastating airplane hijackings, killing themselves, the innocent passengers on board, and thousands of civilians in the targets they hit with explosive jet fuel. For what reason? Is this kind of cruelty and murder called for in the Koran? Is hatred of non-Moslems so deep and obsessive that only self-destructive mass murder is actually preferable to living in a world where non-Moslems exist? What have non-Moslems done to deserve such hatred?
It is said that America's backing of Israel is the cause of Islamic hatred. But why can't the Arabs accept the existence of Israel, which occupies a tiny part of the Middle East, in which Arab states swimming in oil occupy millions of square miles of land. Unfortunately, when it comes to the idea of "live and let live," it simply does not exist in the Islamic mind. They call Zionism racism, yet a million Arabs live within Israel where they are full citizens. Yet the Palestinians will not accept a single Jew in their midst. Who is the racist?
The only way that we can live safely in a world with such malevolent people is to subdue them to the point where they cannot harm us or anyone else. Turkey has found a way of dealing with Islamic fanatics: keep them from gaining political power. Saddam Hussein in Iraq uses the fanatics to bolster his dictatorial rule. The clerics in Iran thrive on Islamic fanaticism and terror. Pakistan uses it in Kashmir against the Hindus. Chechnyan terrorists bomb apartment houses in Moscow. Syria uses Hezbollah terrorists to maintain its hold on Lebanon. The Taliban regime in Afghanistan provides a safe haven for Osama bin Laden while reducing the country to rubble. It persecutes Christian missionaries.
It is obvious that terrorism and religious intolerance is as much a part of the Islamic world as openness and religious freedom is part of the Western world. Biblical religion is the basis of the West's benevolent values. Despite the diversity of religious sects in the United States, there is that sense of tolerance and trust that permits us all to live together in a free society.
The catastrophe in New York has made Americans affirm those benevolent values in the face of such fanatical Islamic hatred and destructiveness.
We are in a war between civilization and islam.
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So what's the big surprise? Islam has been the enemy of Christianity from the start. During the early ages, their slogan was something like "Under this sign conquer!" The sign was a sword. It's time that Americans realize this. We ignore it at our own risk.
Good thread. Thanks for post it. It would be good for people to read the whole article.
The other night I was listening to a debate between Ann Coulter and that terror apologist Sam Husseini. Coulter asked rhetorically why it is that Islam, in this day and age, is able to get some individuals to commit such atrocities.
Husseini countered that it was the perversion of Christianity that led to folks like McVeigh and lone murderers of abortion doctors.
Coulter responded by saying that there's no way those folks could set up a network of hundreds planning an attack that would kill hundreds or even thousands without some who are involved, even if sympathetic, to be sickened and not turn in the whole lot.
This needs to be talked about.
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