Posted on 12/06/2002 2:44:59 PM PST by Michael2001
President Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell have both recently sharply criticized those warning of the grave threat posed by Islamism.
They characterized such warnings as "hate" speech.
Such a reaction from our national leaders requires abject ignorance of the world around us.
The truth? Islamism is the No. 1 threat to Western civilization today. It is the No. 1 threat to Christians around the world. It is the No. 1 threat to Jews. It is the No. 1 threat to American security.
Worse yet, Bush and Powell continue policies that actually spread the poisonous hate of Islamism – hatred that manifests itself in the deaths of innocent people around the world on a daily basis.
Failing to recognize we are engulfed in a Global Jihad – an unholy war in which only one side is on the offensive – Bush and Powell pretend that the terrorism we defend against is somehow disconnected from any religious component. It is not.
Islamism, the radical brand of Quranic fundamentalism, is on the march. Its goal is nothing short of world hegemony. Its goal is nothing short of the destruction of the United States of America. Its goal is nothing short of the end of the Jewish state. Its goal is nothing short of the elimination of Christians and Jews around the world. Its goal is nothing short of global domination.
We see the violent outbursts today in Nigeria. We see them in Indonesia. We see them in the Philippines. We see them in the Middle East. We see them in Chechnya. We see them in the Balkans. And we in the United States saw them most clearly on Sept. 11, 2001.
How can we continue to keep our heads in the sand?
Rather than criticize those who do see the truth clearly, Bush and Powell ought to remember who their friends are. They ought to remember they are responsible even today for supporting those with blood on their hands. They ought to remember those schools in the Palestinian Authority teaching real hate, real violence, real jihad – all with taxpayer subsidies from the United States of America. They ought to remember "our friends" in Saudi Arabia who fund terrorism around the globe and who sent so many of those hijackers to the U.S. last year.
Perhaps Bush and Powell believe, like President Clinton and Madeleine Albright before them, that if only we in the United States are "nice" to those who hate us, the favor will be returned. Perhaps they think appeasement is the best policy. Perhaps they think this deep-seated violent hatred against us will dissipate if only we pretend it doesn't really exist. Perhaps they think we can win respect from our enemy if we are kinder and gentler.
This was the mistake Israel made a decade ago. Under pressure from the West, the Jewish state negotiated and conceded and bargained and withdrew. Only recently have most Israelis seen the truth: It was all for naught. It was all in vain. It was all an illusion. There was never any chance for peace through weakness.
The only way to achieve victory in this war with Islamism is to recognize who the enemy really is. That is how we defeated the Soviet Union. President Reagan called it what it was – an "Evil Empire." And that was the beginning of the end. If we don't call evil what it is, we cannot hope to defeat it.
No, we are not at war with all Muslims. There is a distinction. Some Muslims, as we have seen, prefer to live under freedom. Some prefer to live free of hate. Some prefer to live in peace with Christians and Jews. But we cannot ignore the fact that many do not. We cannot ignore the fact that many see our demise as their divine purpose. We cannot ignore that there is a sizable and growing number of Muslims in that category.
There is no danger that Americans are about to be consumed with hatred for all Muslims. There is no danger that Americans are about to punish innocent Muslims for the crimes of others. There is no danger that Americans are going to become like our enemies.
Therefore, here's my advice to Bush and Powell: Stop the appeasement. Pull the plug on the financial aid to terrorism. Recognize the true enemy and deal with it harshly. Don't compromise with evil. And, most of all, stop criticizing your true friends and allies in this war.
And your word "queer" tells me all I need to know about how your kids will think of homosexuals as a result of your indoctrination.
Although, lots of kids go to school with "queers" and think their parents are out to lunch on the subject.
But to go beyond that, it's easy to buckle under your own high standard. I think everyone knows how that feels.
I would hate to set a wholesale standard for Muslims today, only to have it tossed in my face tomorrow.
Honestly, some of the things I have seen advocated on these threads are nothing short of tyranny.
What if it were a bunch of McVeigh types who killed 3000 in the "name of Jesus & Ronald Reagan" .. And, suddenly people were crying out about "dangerous" Conservatives, Christians and (worst of all) Christian Conservatives.
You turned the tables but not quite enough.
The numbers to which you allude are not nearly equal to the Islamist threat. Let's frame it this way: there are 28-42 million McVeighs in the USA who, since the tenth century, have murdered millions in the name of Jesus and Reagan. Would you hesitate to cry out about dangerous Christian conservatives?
I wouldn't.
America's Fifth Column ... watch Steve Emerson/PBS documentary JIHAD! In America
New Link: Download 8 Mb zip file here (60 minute video)
No, I would condemn them instantly.
I would however point out that the innocent Christian Conservatives (like myself) don't deserve to be punished for their actions.
I mean, I didn't do anything. Why hurt me?
Exactly. For now it's the 10-15% Islamists we have to punish. In due time we'll see if that number needs to be revised.
America's Fifth Column ... watch Steve Emerson/PBS documentary JIHAD! In America
New Link: Download 8 Mb zip file here (60 minute video)
How many times must we circle this wagon?
What's Bush "doing"?? Spinning Islam as the "Religion of Peace." Either it is or isn't...
And what "hysteria"?? Could it be a FReepers' internal 'BARF Alert' mechanism in response to "Islam: the reigion of peace"? Haven't we had quite enough smoke blown up our collective @ssed by the 8 years of the Clinton regine?
Ok, maybe we are all over-reacting. Maybe it is just a figment of our collective imagination that whereever Islam has gained a foothold throughout the world, it has bore nothing but bondage, torture and misery for its inhabitants. MAYBE the Koran does not instruct its bretrhren to kill "infidels." And maybe "only" 1/2% of America Muslims actually believe it so -- no cause for alarm, right?
Nonetheless, IMO the reaction is more a FREEPER'S historical and intuitive sense of recognizing an unprecedented yet legitimate threat to OUR freedom and OUR country from within.
Let's face it -- American Islam needs to earn their "benefit of the doubt" and measure of respect and acceptance by and large from it's "fellow" Americans. They may have to "prove their allegiance", as did American black and American Japanese servicemen did during WWII -- by some kind of dramatic sacrificing or overly patriotic gestures.
No Islam thread is complete without a squawk from TLBSHOW.
I've had more than my share of bloody encounters with bad Muslims, but mass detention of any group is a sobering thought which I hope never again comes to pass. I thought about this a few evenings ago as I passed a local "Muslim Community Center" and marveled at how the parking lot was overflowing for a Ramadan celebration. I am sure that most of the families there are very nice, law-abiding people who live here for the same reasons I do. But it's the others who bother me. I'm sure Uncle Sam has that place infiltrated, but you never know for certain who's who in such a closed circle with its own language, nuance and moral code. I hope the situation never reaches that lowest point where the only safe course is total isolation. It well might, and I fear that it might, but I hope not...
Drive the infidels from the MidEast. Let the Goy travel to other lands where they can fornicate and eat cake without disrupting the NATIONS of Islam. I know the term NATION is a BAD, BAD word because Bush Fuhrer has said so and that makes it true, don't you know. snicker.
Hunkered down, satire grenade in hand.
CATO
Cool.
Will you re-write the Constitution, or shall I?
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