Posted on 07/02/2007 7:39:44 AM PDT by pacelvi
"More Moslems came, and soon a small mosque was built, which attracted yet others. As long as Zoroastrians remained in the majority, their lives were tolerable; but once the Moslems became the more numerous, a petty but pervasive harassment was apt to develop. This was partly verbal, with taunts about fire-worship, and comments on how few Zoroastrians there were in the world, and how many Moslems, who must therefore posses the truth; and also on how many material advantages lay with Islam. The harassment was often also physical; boys fought, and gangs of youth waylaid and bullied individual Zoroastrians. They also diverted themselves by climbing into the local tower of silence and desecrating it, and they might even break into the fire-temple and seek to pollute or extinguish the sacred flame. Those with criminal leanings found too that a religious minority provided tempting opportunities for theft, pilfering from the open fields, and sometimes rape and arson. Those Zoroastrians who resisted all these pressures often preferred therefore in the end to sell out and move to some other place where their co-religionists were still relatively numerous, and they could live at peace; and so another village was lost to the old faith."
Boyce, A Persian Stronghold of Zoroastrianism, pp. 7-8;
Muslims are a pestilence that must be driven out of our countries.
It took Spain 100s of years to get rid of them.
Are there many Zoroastrians in Spain?
Fireworks Or Fortitude
Al-Qaeda Beheaded Their Children - We Must Ask Ourselves, What Is Worth Fighting For?
By Steve Schippert
In a village on the outskirts of Baqubah, the animals of al-Qaeda destroyed everything in sight and slaughtered that which possessed life, including the people and even the livestock. As Michael Yon describes in Bless the Beasts and Children, “The village had the apparent misfortune of being located near a main road—about 3.5 miles from FOB Warhorse—that al Qaeda liked to bomb. Al Qaeda had taken over the village.” They did not just kill the villagers, they mutilated them and beheaded the children in a horror that stretched over time. The bodies were at various stages of decomposition and decay.
This is our enemy. He is in Iraq, his self declared ‘central front’ against America and the “Jews and Crusaders” named in al-Qaeda’s 1998 declaration of war. He is in Pakistan. He is in Afghanistan. He is in Iran and Lebanon. He is in Indonesia and the Philippines. He is in Somalia, Algeria, Mali and Sudan. And he is in Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Morocco, Canada and the United States. He is wherever concealment or hospitality provides.
And in Baqubah lies a glimpse of his savage legacy.
Yet, we are relentlessly implored, we have lost to him in Iraq and must therefor ‘redeploy’ to the disengaged climes of elsewhere, anywhere else but Iraq. With eloquence, we are bombarded with calls for a ‘new direction’ and a “political solution in Iraq,” such as was uttered by one congressman in a Sunday talk show this week. And in place of truly defeating a ruthless enemy is disengagement under the guise of an intellectually aggressive sounding “diplomatic offensive.”
What political or diplomatic solution, short of ceding these animals both territory and the subjugated for unimpeded horrors, quenches the bloodlust of the animals of al-Qaeda?
We are inundated with political armchair commanders who already declare “the surge” a failure. That the full complement of “the surge” has only been fully constituted for a matter of days is an apparently meaningless observation.
Yet, millions of Americans will trek safely and comfortably to “Fourth of July” celebrations across the country this week, with the meaning of the celebration, Independence Day, largely abandoned for the more readily recognizable pleasures of a day off and an evening looking toward the sky.
It is therefor sadly understandable that when the words in our National Anthem include “the rockets’ red glare,” many will associate that with beautiful displays of entertaining fireworks. When, in fact, those “rockets’ red glare” written about so eloquently were the trails of destruction, seeking their targets and bringing death and carnage to those who were defending something worth fighting for in the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812. Yet for many, little today seems to be worth fighting for at all.
Perhaps it is because the beheaded children are not our own. Perhaps because the slaughtered share not our names. But underlying, among those who refuse to engage our enemy where he slaughters without grief or remorse, is a clear disassociation with the distant victims of such horrors. Comfortably concluded is that we somehow brought the unspeakable upon them. Present also is a refusal to acknowledge that the distant ‘they’ are ‘we’ in a greater war we did not declare and did not seek.
It must be acknowledged that, if we disengage and leave Iraq and its children to the hands of al-Qaeda, millions will suffer the consequences of our ultimate decision. For the unspeakable horrors of children beheaded will not be averted by our absence. Rather, they will be simply unchallenged and the only thing averted will be our eyes. Once again. And a relative few will then seek the distant disassociation that will allow them to sleep peaceably at night, purposefully disconnected from the consequences of their powerful actions by the necessity their collective conscience requires.
Our media ran with a false story of mass beheadings last week. And it was somehow perceivably meant to convey why we should disengage the carnage brought upon the Iraqi people, presumably by our own actions and effectively by the ever-evasive and generic ‘sectarian strife and violence.’
Meanwhile, the true story of al-Qaeda’s animals beheading the children of a Diyala province village is unlikely to receive the same immediate and mass exposure. Yet, unlike the unverified and ultimately false story of 20 beheaded in Salman Pak, the witnessed and recorded aftermath of the horror of beasts will likely net relative silence.
We must ask ourselves, collectively, “Why?”
Perhaps it is because a story of twenty beheaded in Salman Pak is difficult to associate with a specific group and therefor easily chalked up to ‘sectarian strife,’ which we presumably can do nothing about. Perhaps because the Baquba beheadings are attributed not to ‘sectarian strife’ but rather to the inhumane evil of a precisely identifiable and thus defeatable enemy. Perhaps.
But at the end of the day, we surely must ask ourselves, “What is worth fighting for?”
And we must conclude, now and for the foreseeable future, if “the rockets’ red glare” truly should come to mean nothing more than the evening sparkle of annual fireworks over our pleasant picnics and parties.
I have no idea.
OMG
They sound a lot like termites. Wonder if the Orkin Man can help.
Nancy Pelosi - There is mo al-qaeda in Iraq.
Nancy Pelosi - There is no al-qaeda in Iraq.
You cannot passively fight aggression. There are all sorts of things the Zoroastrians could have done to fend them off, but didn’t. For every nudge from the Muslims, you have to nudge back, harder enough to leave them wincing.
You equip all women with short knives. Any Muslim comes too close and they are obligated to nick him. Just a small cut will do, at first. Then have them start using pork fat as a hand cream, spraying it around in the presence of Muslims while loudly talking about how good it is for the skin.
Spill pork fat on the streets and sidewalks, cook with it, the smoke and smell permeating the neighborhood. Raise pigs and dogs, and use their excrement as fertilizer on your fields, accidentally dumping quantities of it on Muslim streets and lands.
Set up neighborhood watches so that if a Muslim comes near everybody is ready for them. Make them want to leave.
Why was that not widely reported? This is what the world faces if it is not informed. I guess the MSN was too busy looking for our troops to screw up.
And you're right, with people like Pelosi promoting their selfish interests instead of acknowledging the obvious truth and doing whatever needs to be done, I fear for our children, and their children.
You'd think the slaughter of the villagers, including the animals, and the beheading of the children would be all over the news but this is the first time I've heard about it.
Politicians like Pelosi are undermining EVERYTHING the troops are doing.
Instead of planning for their deaths, the Jihadis are planning to take over once they leave.
Pelosi and Harry The Body Reid are giving the Jihadis the certainty of knowing that they dont have to fight for thier lives.. they just need to hang out a little while longer.
It means they do not see themselves as being defeated. These Democrats need to be locked up for treason. If i was in the militrary i would consider a coup... really.
Pure evil. Those who pretend otherwise, those who aid, abet and comfort these demons are equally as evil. A few may be good souls who have been deceived, but I believe that at some point they have refused to see the darkness before them. Their souls have been corrupted. We must fight them.
I agree with you all the way. One goal I have is to get a large pig as a pet. Lots of pigs grow to be like 450 pounds of solid muscle. Then take him for walks, to the lake swimming and so on.
The threat to us, however, is right here in the US in the form of a burgeoning Muslim population. The question is how many American lives and how much $ is going to go to try to prevent Muslims from killing each other over there? You either have to go all out and start killing them all, which we are not going to do, or continue to sit in the middle of their fight and take casualties. They’ve been fighting and killing each other for hundreds of years, and nothing is going to stop that. Does anyone here really think that Iraq is going to become a peaceful democracy?
An interesting thing in life is extreme religious believers can have inhuman courage.. But invariably those same religious beliefs always come with achilles heels.
If we try to fight muslims based on a 1 on 1 fight to see who can shed the most blood I fear we may lose.
That is excellent!
Thanks for posting!
The threat to us, however, is right here in the US in the form of a ‘liberal politician’ such as Murtha, Pelosi, Reid etc etc ..... list is long.
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