Posted on 09/28/2006 2:56:33 PM PDT by sergey1973
I am a bigot, a Klansman "with higher-thread-count sheets," the "enemy within," part of "the rotten core of American extremists" who are making it harder for moderate Muslims "to recapture their own faith."
So says Ralph Peters, retired military man, establishment conservative and eternal optimist.
In a commentary in the September 7th New York Post, Peters went postal on those who believe (in his words) "that Islam can never reform, that the violent conquest and subjugation of unbelievers is the faith's primary agenda."
Us Islamophobes fantasize about the "Protocols of the Elders of Mecca," imply that Muslims are "evil and sub-human," and thus spread baseless hatred wherever we go, Peters charges.
I am mortified and deserve to be sentenced to a sensitivity-training session forthwith.
Ralphie explains it all so clearly. Muslim fanatics are "a minority of a minority," says he. And, while Peters admits that Islam as it's perpetrated in the Middle East is less than delightful, still, "from Senegal to Sulawesi, from Delhi to Dearborn, I've seen no end of vibrant, humane, hopeful currents in the Muslim faith," the columnist insists.
Excuse me while I gag.
(Excerpt) Read more at donfeder.com ...
You'd think if there were so many examples of that, the LSM would be plastering the news with it in their drive to convince the world that islam really IS a peaceful religion. Perhaps the dearth of such stories is very telling.
If even THEY can't find them....
This guy is apparent blind to strategy and tactics.
Islam PING ! Excellent satire by Don Feder !
Nah - he is definitely wrong on this one, but Peters is a pretty astute observer of military/strategic trends. Everyone is entitled to be wrong on something; he just chose to be wrong on something VERY important.
In her 2001 book "The Rage And The Pride," Fallaci (who fought in the anti-fascist resistance as a young girl in World War II) could have been addressing Peters when she warned: "You don't understand, you don't want to understand, that a reverse Crusade is underway - a war of religion they call Holy War, Jihad. You don't understand, you don't want to understand, that for those reverse Crusaders the West is a world to conquer and subjugate to Islam."
Needed to be in bold.
Yeah, you would think that he would have at least read a brief synopsis of Sun Tzu's work on ways to win without fighting.
What a bonehead this "military man" is. Probably peeled spuds and scrubbed crappers for four years. If not, he should have!
With all due respect to the late great Fallaci, it was the other way around. The crusades were the answer to the last Muslim Jihad on Europe.
Ya gotta hand to the muslims, they are experts when it comes to shutting down any opposition. Utter islam is sick, and mo-ham-id was a pedophile, and they'll lock you up for a hate crime.
Is there a magic number that when muslims have murdered a certain number of the human race that we start to fight back?
I'm sure Crusades II will kick off eventually. As soon as someone figures out that magic number...if anyone's left that is.
I've seen Peters on TV and always wondered whose side he was on. Not ours, apparently.
bump
Military service does not automatically bestow wisdom. I also served in the military and my friends will attest to the fact that, like John Kerry, John Murtha, John McCain, and Ralph Peters, I don't know my arse from a hole in the ground.
Guys like Peters and Norquist (to name only two among many) are freakin Arabist bootlickers who are majorly compromised. We should have weeded them all out a long, long time ago. THEY are the enemy within!
I'd advise everyone to read his military insights, which are by and large first class material, and ignore his personal opinion on this. Army officers are forced to endure tremendous PC programming in order for their careers to survive. He's really not unlike many outstanding officers I've known, that, aside from occasionally repeating the muddle headed party line polical correctness they're force fed throughout their careers, are brilliant and admirable people.
Well, there's always hope. Maybe your friends are fullofit.
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