Posted on 11/09/2009 10:55:15 PM PST by johnwcassell
Thirty years ago I used to drink whiskey and play chess with several of the MP's and PMI's at Ft. Hood. Though it never rated five stars, the place was home when I was on pass from my own installation.
Fifty-five years ago the subways I rode had Radio Free Europe Ads promoting beaming the Truth behind the Iron Curtain. Today we keep the truth from our own people. The very protoges of the journalists so enraged by Bill Moyers lying about Vietnam now routinely lie or refuse access to the Truth.
The American people just yawn and vote Democrat.
Yesterday, world famous author Jack Engelhard cried out with a warning...and it bears repeating here...
************************* Fort Hood: Political Correctness Is Killing Us -- Jack Engelhard
The New York Times is still going at it; finding “stress” as the motivation that prompted that man to go on a killing spree against his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood.
Baloney.
As for me, I knew right off what it was all about, even while all the networks were searching for the CAUSE.
The cause was always right before their eyes, but, refined and restricted by political correctness, they refused to see – to see that it was Islamic terrorism.
Let me jump right in and say that surely and absolutely not all Muslims are terrorists. Most are You and Me folks. Many are our neighbors and many are truly peace-loving. But please, we cannot whitewash the fact that a contingent of them are maniacally driven by perverted “religious” leaders who cannot be religious at all since they command their followers to commit bloodshed.
I blame the killer at Fort Hood and I blame the killers who crashed into our buildings Sept 11, 2001 and I blame the killers who keep on killing Israelis (where it all began) – but secondly, or perhaps firstly, I blame the enablers, those of us who by omission or commission refuse to name the enemy.
We even refuse to BLAME the enemy – that’s how mousy we’ve become. We blame ourselves. We say – what did we do wrong? How can we improve ourselves?
We did nothing wrong. How about faulting the bloodthirsty savages for once? How about realizing that there is such a thing as pure evil?
In my religion, for more than 3,000 years we’ve known that wickedness is motivated by BASELESS hatred.
To blame the VICTIM is the first sign of a civilization gone corrupt and perverted. That’s how HOLOCAUSTS begin!
I’m talking about The New York Times and the rest of the news media and all the academics and, in fact, our entire generation that has been inflicted by the disease of political correctness. By our silence, by our explanations, by our apologies we give aid and comfort to those who keep on murdering -- and thus we become accomplices.
Without a cheering section, these murderers would find themselves adrift. Instead, they find themselves embraced. Oh, poor dears, we say – how have we offended you?
Stress, huh? Sorry about the stress. Most of us have stress and most of us don’t go killing.
Was there ever any doubt that this man was fired up in a mosque? Allah Akbar he shouted. Did we not know this was coming?
To find the cause, don’t even follow the money; follow the mosque.
Yet my neighbor is a Muslim and we are friends and within the mosque he attends the sermons are about tolerance.
I like to think that this speaks for the majority of mosques.
I don’t think we do American Muslims any favors by giving a free pass to the killers among them. I imagine that they, the vast majority of American Muslims, want their rogues weeded out as much as we do, and would rather have us join them in united outrage – instead of canoodling them, the killers, and approving them for the sake of political correctness.
I trust that American Muslims say No Thanks, for by supporting the killers in their midst through politeness we taint Islam and place all of them in the same boat.
That is not fair to Jews and Christians, and it is not fair to Muslims. My neighbor does not deserve to be judged alongside that man at Fort Hood. My Muslim neighbor wanted no part of this. He’s a doctor and he came to this good earth to be a healer, not a destroyer.
But our sensitive souls, our bleeding hearts, our flower children grown into journalists and academics, insist on moral equivalency. They insist that good and evil are interchangeable and compatible, and that for every act of cruelty there are reasons and excuses, and even justifications. They – the politically correct who walk among us – they share the blame. In fact, they are mostly to blame, for their words become deeds.
They may not pull the trigger, but as Solomon has it – “death and life are in the power of the tongue.” (Or print.)
That – yes that is the sickness in the land!
About the author: Jack Engelhard’s latest thriller, “The Bathsheba Deadline,” a newsroom drama centered on our war on terror, is available in paperback at Amazon. Engelhard wrote the international bestselling novel “Indecent Proposal” that was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. Engelhard can be reached at www.jackengelhard.com
I was at Fort Hood thirty years ago (191st Combat Intelligence Company, 312th Military Intelligence Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division) and he’s right, it never rated five stars. Being MI, I knew all the MP, CID, MPI and related folks, at both divisions, III Corps and other units. The “alleged shooter” Muslim major would’ve looked liked a Swiss cheese if he’d tried that sh!t back in the day...
Well he pretty much ended up that way, once the police, the only armed people around, arrived, the MPs showed up later, although not much. And regular infantry troops, from the photos, in full battle rattle, somewhat latter yet. (They had to go to their unit arms room to get their weapons)
well said!
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Dear Jack,
“Let me jump right in and say that surely and absolutely not all Muslims are terrorists. Most are You and Me folks. Many are our neighbors and many are truly peace-loving.”
Does the concept of Daresalm mean anything to you? It does to your neighbors - that would be the peace of Islam when you are either converted or sent to Paradise.
“Yet my neighbor is a Muslim and we are friends and within the mosque he attends the sermons are about tolerance.”
Tolaerane means allowing you to exist as a second class person as a dhimmi.
Those neighbors’ words mean different things and are counting on you to think they are somehow different from the Major and his ilk.
The author doesn't say how he knows this.
Does he speak Arabic & attend the same mosque? I doubt it. More likely he is taking his neighbor's word for it. Just like the Army believed Hasan when he gave his enlistment oath. Same for his oath on becoming an Army officer. Neither were worth the breath used to recite them.
Given that islamic law allows (even encourages) a muslim to deceive infidels (non-muslims), how can he know his neighbor is telling the truth? Answer: He can't!
Recall the British muslim doctor that drove a car full of explosives & gasoline into a British airport. I'm betting his neighbors & co-workers thought he was a real peaceful guy prior to this event, who had repudiated violent islam in public. Uh, he lied!
It has been my experience that when I know I can't trust someone’s word or what they might do next, I tend to avoid these people like the plague. I don't want anything to do with them. If I am forced to work or mix with these types, I keep a close eye on them and trust nothing until I can verify it. I think Ronald Reagan influenced this attitude.
If the guy next door to me believes it is OK that his spiritual guide has sex with (rapes) a 9 year old "wife", brutally murders & enslaves thousands of people, wants to enslave the world, & encourages all followers to do the same; then I am extremely leery of the guy & wont be inviting him to any cookouts. I call them "Hey, how are you" neighbors, cause that is all they ever get from me.
I have read numerous sections of the Koran that exhort muslims to convert, kill, or enslave ALL non-muslims. I have heard of the same being said frequently (daily?) in mosques all over the world, including in America. That's enough to convince me that muslims are my mortal enemy - forever!
Furthermore, since islam wants to establish a world caliphate, & muslims constantly vilify the USA, I believe that islam is the mortal enemy of my country - forever!
Those who do not know history, are condemned to repeat it.
This is Islam's 1500-year push to the West, better armed, but this time without formal armies. The big Battles of Tours, Vienna, Mohacs, Lepanto, etc. etc, did not work out well for the Muslims. Now, in our era, we have coordinated smaller strikes, in effect, a world-wide Muslim insurgency. This is part of the Taliban and al-quaida program, as they strike isolated outposts, bomb police stations, pick off individual soldiers, and storm army headquarters.
Hassan was seen earlier on the day with a worthy oriental gentleman in flowing robes, an Imam, as he gave away his possessions, and copies of the Koran. His lone act was a coordinated strike, a part of the plan against us.
There are literally dozens of armed Muslim training camps across the US. What do you say we make this their last day of existence?
just wait till they give the signal
amen, brother...courts are worthless...terrorists should be eliminated for the safety of all concerned. The troops at Schofield had the same problem during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Their weapons and ammo were in the arms room locked...they had to break in to get them.
Same with the 13th US Cavalry during the attack by Pancho Villa...it was as if Wilson arranged for a slaughter of our people, just as he did sending contraband on the Lusitania. Their weapons were all chained up and their officers mostly gone [under orders]. Still a colonel managed to mount 35 soldiers and they went after the three times larger Mexican force....killing some 75 of those terrorist bullies in the process.
OUR BRAVE SOLDIERS IN EVERY GENERATION HAVE SAVED OUR WORTHLESS SELVES. Today in New Mexico there is a park honoring Pancho Villa... makes me vomit...defending this country is a thankless job...
well I’ll tell ya mister Da...the author served in the IDF and went up agqainst terrorist cells heavily outnumbered and out gunned.
No one can denigrate this man’s knowledge of the cruelty in this world. He also saw many blown up school kids from ordinary Muslims launching missiles. He rode camels in the Sinai and tanks in Golan. G-d bless him.
If I did, then I'd be a John McCain or John Kerry supporter (I'm definitely not), among others. Both bravely served our country, yet I trust neither with my money or my country.
So many times we see the neighbors & friends of mass murderers express astonishment & say something like, “He was a nice guy. I never expected this”.
Brave soldiers are not immune from being deceived. None of us are.
I find it interesting that you mentioned the Sinai & Golan, since these battles were a direct result of the treachery of Israel's lying muslim NEIGHBORS.
I have no doubt there are many “muslims-in-name-only” who understand that lying & deception are immoral, regardless of what the koran says. But there are others that would use the teachings in the koran as a moral license to harm non-muslims. How do we tell the difference until it is too late?
Are you saying that in those days, soldiers, went about their daily business armed? Once armed folks, in this case two civilian DoD police officers, showed up, he went down, possibly with a severed spine. (And hopefully a colosotomy bag, but they haven't said much about his internals). But, as is generally the case, those "officially armed" individuals were not at the point where they were needed. So it was an unarmed victim zone. Just like schools and many shopping malls.
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