Posted on 11/18/2001 11:10:06 AM PST by Sabertooth
"but..."
It's such a commonplace word. A simple monosyllable mastered early by children. One innocuous word, but since 9/11, it is a word now fraught with the revelation of an evil secret that threatens the lives and liberties of four-fifths of the human race.
"But" is the word we've come to expect whenever we hear Moslems anywhere speak of the attack upon America.
"We condemn the attacks, BUT "
"It was a Zionist Conspiracy," or:
"America starved Iraqi children," or:
"Infidels are on the Arabian Penninsula," or:
"Israel won't give back the land they were attacked from in 1967 to those who attacked them "And so on.
"But" is the most poisonous word in all of Islam, and a billion Moslems are ignorant as to its significance. More than "jihad," more than "terrorist," more even than "Hussein", and more by far than the attacks of 9/11; the morally equivocating "but" of the disciples of Mohammed has proven to Americans and to the World exactly the nature of the threat posed to our civilization.
The entire civilized World was horrified on 9/11 as enormous skyscrapers and thousands of innocent lives were ground to a bloody, limestone paste. We know now that evil madmen of enormous wealth, hell-bent on global conquest like James Bond villains stepping from the dank caves of Ian Fleming's imagination, are diabolically capable of atrocities that beggar the capacity of our language to describe. On 9/11, such men and their vicious, suicidal pawns appeared to be full the scope of the peril we face. For a few days we were angrily, mournfully resigned to that.
Then, by mutters and whispers, in open rants and polite conversations, a more dire threat emerged, far more ominous than the attacks of 9/11: There came from the mouths of millions and millions of thought-to-be civilized Moslems that damning word "but."
Weeks later the awful, inescapable truth is still sinking in: the "but" is intrinsic to Islam.
All manner of hatred spewed forth and every act of bloodlust and carried out in the name of their "religion," can be summarily ignored or justified with a word. "But" is the fulcrum of Mohammedan thought. "But" is the three-letter Islamic distillation of Joseph Goebbel's entire career. "But" is the Moslem conjunction where reality ends and the evil at the heart of their dark theology is exposed.
The conjunction of Christianity is "and." The Old Testament "and" the New Testament. Jesus Christ is God the Father "and" the Son of Man. While Islam concedes the Bible, the Moslem conjunction "but" overrules it with the Koran. 'Jesus was a Prophet, "but" wasn't the Son of God. Jesus was great, "but" Mohammed is greater.' In truth, if Jesus wasn't the Son of God, then He wasn't a Prophet, because it was as a prophet that He proclaimed His Divinity. Logically, either Jesus is both Prophet and Savior, or He is neither. Logic is about objective Truth, "but" Islam isn't about logic.
And Islam isn't about Truth.
"But" was the justification of Osama bin Laden when he decided to kill thousands of American citizens, and people from dozens of other countries on 9/11.
"But" was the justification of the Taliban in every atrocity they committed, in every barbaric atrocity against their own people and especially their own women.
"But" was the justification of Ayman al-Zawahiri and his Islamic Jihad when they assassinated Anwar Sadat for making peace with Israel.
"But" was the justification of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to assassinate Israeli cabinet minister Rehavam Ze'evi
"But" is the justification of "palestinians" to teach anti-Semitic genocide in their schools, and encourage their children to act out skits costumed as suicide bombers.
"But" is the justification of the Arab Moslems of the Sudan, when they slaughter, torture, and physically crucify hundreds of thousands of black Christians.
"But" is the justification of Nigerian Moslems when they murder and mutilate Christians and animists.
"But" is the justification of Moslems in Pakistan who walk into a church service spraying bullets and murdering worshipers.
"But" is the justification of the Islamic Abu Sayyaf terrorists in the Philippines when they behead Christian hostages and force conversion to Islam.
"But" is the justification of the bloody Islamic camel whose nose I have only just begun to describe as it invades our tent.
However, none of these "buts" justifies the conclusion that Islam as a force in the world is evil at its heart, a threat to our lives and our civilization, and needs to be vanquished. Instead, it is the treacherous word "but" that is spoken daily and held close to the hearts and minds of hundreds of millions of Moslems around the world.
By three little letters, by one small word, by the fatal moral compromise of "but" from their own mouths, the faith of Islam is condemned.
Some of my anscestors were German. I feel no compulsion to equivocate when condemning Nazism.
Others of my family tree were Irish, who've suffered tremendously at the hands of the British over the centuries. I am perfectly able to condemn IRA terror without equivocating over the word "but."
I expect Arabs and Moslems everywhere to do the same. I especially expect it of those in the United States. Notice in my essay, I didn't mention street celebrations around the Islamic world, even in America, at the news of the carnage on 9/11. I won't hold whole peoples accountable for the bloodthirsty idiots among them.
I will hold them accountable when those I would expect to be reasonable fail to condemn the bloodlust.
Nor did I mention the lucrative fundraising tours of American Moslem communities and mosques in America during the 90s by Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri of the Islamic Jihad, for the purpose of supporting terrorist activity. I won't hold whole peoples accountable for failing to thwart an international criminal conspiracy.
I will hold them accountable when those I would expect to be reasonable fail to condemn the conspiracy, and fail to use their proximity to root out the evil in their midst.
My condemnation is amed at the religion of Islam, which holds hundreds of millions in such submissive thrall that they can't condemn an act of inhumanity by their own without equivocation. The burden is upon them to show the rest of the world where their loyalties are, because no philosophy, ideology, or religion is as uniformly brutal through such a kaleidoscope of countries as is Islam.
If you want to support one nation screwing another, that's ok. More power to you.
No country in the West screws over Moslems as much as Islamic countries. America and Israel and the West grant more freedoms and opportunities than any Islamic nation offers to its own citizens. Shall we discuss how Islamic nations treat Christians and Jews?
Yet it is the West that is hated.
When Israel and Jordan were partitioned, Israel welcomed Jews from east of the Jordan River. Jordan did not reciprocate in welcoming "Palestinians" from the West oof the Jordan. Had Jews remained in Jordan after 1948, would they have been treated as well as peaceful Arabs have been in Israel since then?
Hardly.
How much religious freedom did Jordan allow to Christians and Jews in East Jerusalem prior to 1967? Nothing compared to what Isarael has allowed Arabs since they took East Jerusalem in self-defense during the Six Day War.
BUT if you're going to talk the talk, then you damn well better walk the walk. Because some of them are going to come after you. Plain as day.
I'm aware of this. I've also become aware that nothing I do or don't do will prevent this. Some prefer to nurse grudges.
When they come after us, we will kill them.
The US government has had and still has a list of policies that have positive effects on some part of the world population, and negative effects on others. All it takes is for some of the disgruntled people to come over here and kill you for it.
There will always be complaints. We can all find anscestral axes to grind. What's the point?
Woe unto anyone foolish enough to try and kill the United States of America.
I thought I was perfectly clear what is in my heart. It is a revulsion at Islam, its bloodcurdling excesses, and its amoral equivocations.
Some of my anscestors were German. I feel no compulsion to equivocate when condemning Nazism.Fine. That's you and me who won't hold grudges. Can't expect that from everyone. There'll be some who'll hold a grudge and act on it.
Others of my family tree were Irish, who've suffered tremendously at the hands of the British over the centuries. I am perfectly able to condemn IRA terror without equivocating over the word "but."
I expect Arabs and Moslems everywhere to do the same. I especially expect it of those in the United States. Notice in my essay, I didn't mention street celebrations around the Islamic world, even in America, at the news of the carnage on 9/11. I won't hold whole peoples accountable for the bloodthirsty idiots among them.
I will hold them accountable when those I would expect to be reasonable fail to condemn the bloodlust.Go ahead. I'll bet you couldn't tell me who all condemned it and who did not.
I will hold them accountable when those I would expect to be reasonable fail to condemn the conspiracy, and fail to use their proximity to root out the evil in their midst.
Very well, I'll add you to my list of "the learned" LOL.Since the tragic events of September 11, the close friendship between Turkey and the United States has been reaffirmed in many ways. The leaders of the Turkish Government at the highest level were quick to offer their condolences and their support to our leaders in the fight against terrorism. Moreover, Turkish people from all walks of life have gone out of their way to offer words of comfort to Americans living amongst them. There have been countless telephone calls, letters and e-mail messages. From the day of the attack, there have been bouquets and wreaths of flowers left at the Embassy gate. Turks have felt the pain of terrorism and of natural disasters. Turks have fought alongside Americans on many battlefields. On behalf of my government, of the American people, and particularly for us Americans living in Turkey, I want to express our gratitude for the kindness of our Turkish friends.My condemnation is amed at the religion of Islam, which holds hundreds of millions in such submissive thrall that they can't condemn an act of inhumanity by their own without equivocation. The burden is upon them to show the rest of the world where their loyalties are, because no philosophy, ideology, or religion is as uniformly brutal through such a kaleidoscope of countries as is Islam.
Ambassador W. Robert Pearson
U.S. Embassy
Ankara, Turkey
No country in the West screws over Moslems as much as Islamic countries. America and Israel and the West grant more freedoms and opportunities than any Islamic nation offers to its own citizens. Shall we discuss how Islamic nations treat Christians and Jews?Dude, if you support a against b, then b will come and get you. Is that so hard to understand? Was I talking about religion?
Yet it is the West that is hated.That in itself is bologna, but oh well.
When Israel and Jordan were partitioned, Israel welcomed Jews from east of the Jordan River. Jordan did not reciprocate in welcoming "Palestinians" from the West oof the Jordan. Had Jews remained in Jordan after 1948, would they have been treated as well as peaceful Arabs have been in Israel since then?When you support a against b ..... don't you get it? it's logic! not religion!
Hardly.
How much religious freedom did Jordan allow to Christians and Jews in East Jerusalem prior to 1967? Nothing compared to what Isarael has allowed Arabs since they took East Jerusalem in self-defense during the Six Day War.
Woe unto anyone foolish enough to try and kill the United States of America.Alright well, I hope you guys don't peter out come election time, coz we have been in a war against terror which does not seem to ever want to end.
Let's roll.
I'm reading an interesting book by Leon Uris called The Haj. Uris is, of course, a supporter of the Jews, but [there's that word again! LOL!] in his telling of the story of pre-WWII Palestine, the Jews paid outrageous prices to the landlord owners of Palestine (who were NOT local and were affiliated with the Ottomans, BTW) for the land they built their kibbutzim on.
Now correct me if I'm wrong here. It appears to me that the Palestinians who want to exterminate the Israelis are bent on simple bloodyhanded theft and murder. Or would they honor the Israeli land purchases once they attained control of the region? (I believe pigs would fly, first...)
Now correct me if I'm wrong here. It appears to me that the Palestinians who want to exterminate the Israelis are bent on simple bloodyhanded theft and murder.The point I was trying to make was that when you get involved in someone elses fight, and then end up taking one of the sides, you are bound to attract some of the sh*t. By all means, the Arabs then should hate us Turks, since we let hundreds of thousands of Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews pass through Turkey into Palestine during WWII. The world is not a rational place, as proven by some of our Arab co-habitors, as well as these just-as-passionate haters over here.
Thanks. I'm hoping the sequel will be a little more commercial...
I'm casting Cheryl Ladd, Bo Derek, and Heather Locklear.
Sabertooth you hit the nail on the head with your essay. I've noticed the "but" word all too often from Muslims in their pathetic attempts to justify the heinous acts of the terrorists in their ranks. From everything I have seen I believe most Muslims around the world support their murderous acts. They can't have it both ways in this country.
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