Posted on 03/24/2007 3:17:41 AM PDT by Clive
Imagine a history book being read by people in 100 years time. In a chapter entitled, Why We Fought, it would list the crimes of an ideology and a movement, Islamic fundamentalism, that became so powerful and so grotesque in the opening years of the 21st century that the civilized world was obliged to resist.
The book would explain that some of the wars of resistance were unsuccessful, or even ill-advised, but that in the end the forces of light triumphed over the death-black darkness.
It would also recount how some people in the civilized world opposed the struggle, out of self-loathing, cowardice, leftist politics or simply because they were part of the jihadist movement.
But right always wins in the end, the readers would be reminded, and did so in this great culture war. Because the crimes were as many as they were devilish.
They beheaded Christian girls in Indonesia who were making their way to school. They stopped them at gunpoint, forced them to kneel down and then cut off their heads, the blood drenching their tiny uniforms.
They planted bombs in places of worship that belonged to their own Muslim faith, murdering scores of people who they knew to be innocent, apolitical and intent only on worshipping and praying. They demanded that others respect Mosques but simultaneously used them as killing fields.
They murdered 150,000 of their own people in Algeria in an attempt to destabilize their government. Often they would slit the throats of children in front of their parents before in turn killing those horrified mothers and fathers.
In Iraq they kidnapped people who had devoted their lives to helping the impoverished and the abused, tied those good people up like animals and then tortured and humiliated them. They videotaped their screams and their wild pleas for mercy and help and then slowly cut off their heads with a knife, holding the severed object up to the cameras.
They pulled organs from within the bodies of their victims and offered them to children, then ran away with severed limbs as if they were treasured trophies.
In Lebanon they dragged badly wounded co-religionists from their hospital beds and beat them to death on the street. Many of these men had been their allies only days before. In northern Israel they kidnapped families and forced fathers to watch their tiny sons having their brains literally beaten out of their heads on the rocks.
They declared their intention to target children because, they said, they knew their enemies valued children most of all and loved life. For them, they boasted, death was more important than life. They vomited this philosophy all over the world, in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and Australia.
They indoctrinated their own children and taught them to hate and loathe and lust for blood and death. They bombed schools, mosques, churches, hospitals, crowds of children asking for candy, old people's homes, funeral possessions.
They despised progress, freedom, grace, gentleness, empathy, tolerance, civilization, truth, thought, understanding, joy, laughter and love. They hated humanity and they hated God.
That, the readers would be told, was why we fought. And that is why we fight. Because if we genuinely care about all that is fine and grand and important we have no choice.
Excellent article.
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Clive posted it, I just pinged, but I agree.
This article should be required reading for lefties.
Democrats were the slave-owners in this country, and from that time forward have done everything they can to preserve and protect governments and regimes that deny their people freedom at the point of a gun, deny people basic human rights, brutally oppress their people, and torture and murder people as official government policy.
The fact is, Democrats love monsters and killers, and the Democrats of today who march in the streets to demand we leave Islamic killers alone are proof positive of that love.
How can the left be so dumb, blind and, perhaps, evil to choose to align themselves with this madness?
Along with a brain graft and a very big meal of humble pie!
Many thanks for the great post.
GRRRRREAT post. Thanks. Great comment. Thanks.
Our children and grandchildren sometime in the near future might try to muster the courage that we lack.
Tell that to the vanished populations of a once Christian Middle East.
Islam is a vomitous death cult ping!
If we assume that the left is "dumb" - or "needs to wake up" - or "doesn't understand" or "needs to read the article".....we are wrong. We need to wake up - to the reality that the left understands very well what it is doing.
The left isn't dumb, or asleep or hasn't read articles like this one. They are fully aware and they are still opposed to the world defending itself from the evil of Islam.
Much like the left fully understood the murderous communist regimes of Mao and Stalin et al. They did understand and still supported any effort to defend against that murderous ideology.
The left isn't "for" anything - rather it's against all things that Western Judeo-Christian values support.
The left has no value system - it's only against a value system. So, since Islam is against Judeo-Christian values the left enables Islam - it opens the door.
You can test this by asking yourself to list the values of Judeo-Christian advocates.
Now - try to list the value system of the left.
You can list "negatives" for them - things they are against, but not things they are for - positive things. For instance - they are for abortion - but that is not a positive thing - that's a negative thing. The list of positive values for the left is an empty list.
Back to the original reason for this post.....everytime you say to yourself "the left doesn't understand" or "if only the left read this or that article" or "after another major attack finally they will understand"......forget it. People like Senator Kennedy or Move On.org - will NEVER want us to defend ourselves and our Judeo-Christian values.
They DO UNDERSTAND - but the idea of the defeat of Judeo-Christian values overrides everything else and if it takes enabling Islam to come and defeat those Judeo-Christian values - so be it.
The left wants our defeat. You can't educate them out of it. You can only fight them.
and being 6'3" and a couple hundred pounds - ain't gonna do it.
read later
btt
You are right. I'm a 6', 240# ex-cop. I'll cover my own ass--but think of all the weenies and weasels out there. Michael Kinsley and David Corn are two examples, they'll hide when the jihadists show up. I'll take a few with....
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