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July 20, 2005WITH 'FRIENDS' LIKE THE SAUDIS WHO NEEDS ENEMIES?       Political correctness is a mode of thinking that substitutes wishful fantasy for reality. Republicans as well as Democrats are vulnerable to it, because we all want to be regarded as kind and caring people. To say, for example, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, that Islam is a 'religion of peace' is a way of saying 'I'm an empathic, multiculturally sensitive person who believes in the innate goodness of my fellow human beings.' When Islamic 'scholars', sheiks, and followers hurl blood libels from mosques around the world, adding that Jews and Christian infidels must be destroyed, political correctness requires these threats be ignored or explained away. A therapeutic stance is part of political correctness so these statements are to be understood as symptoms of deep frustration caused by Western imperialist injustice. Sound familiar? The same kinds of arguments were made to 'explain' Hitler's clearly stated threats in Mein Kampf. After all, hadn't the victors in World War I imposed onerous burdens on his generation of Germans? No wonder he was angry; thus did Chamberlain insist that Hitler was underneath it all a reasonable man, and therefore amenable to appeasement, a policy that rested on acceptance of the legitimacy of his grievances. And so it was the mean spirited, belligerent Winston Churchill, the quintessentially un-PC man who argued for years that Hitler meant what he said. Churchill's warnings were as welcome as the sound of a car alarm in the middle of the night to a sleeping Upper West side Liberal. He was regarded as a war loving blusterer who lacked the proper diplomatic temperament. << Back to Horsefeathers |
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PC Multiculturalism is a disease of our age that is certain. There is no question that Islamofascism is raging in the Muslim world like a cancer. Yet if the war is to be won we need Urdu-speakers and Arabic speakers etc to be on OUR SIDE. One fact that is left out of the US occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq is that by projecting our power into those regions we can get an injection of translators, guides and spies. Of course, some will be traitors but that is the risk we take. It is better than being blind.
Nazi Germany was defeated in part by intelligence victories and propaganda victories. Without Radar and Enigma for example, Nazi Germany may have won the war. Likewise we need to penetrate the Mosques and the Islamofascist radicals. Also it is critical that we ISOLATE these fiends from our own criminal population so to reduce the chances for infection. That's why the Padillas must remain in military custody and the Al Qaida prisoners remain in Gitmo. Also I hope we are ruthlessly eliminating Al Qaida leaders and operatives.
But I repeat we must pray for Islam to be what it can be a religion of ethics and peace. But I am no fool I know despite the orthodoxies there has never been truly one Islam but a torrent of factions and sects held together by the buckle of the Koran's authority. We must support pro-Western Muslims -there are millions of them- and hope that they regain control of Islam.
We must praise the Lord and pass the ammunition remembering that in the victorious armies of the Cid were many Muslim brethren who fought as Spaniards and as loyal comrades of the Cid. Without these Muslim allies,without his multilingual forces, the Cid would not have succeeded. La conviviencia -the long peaceful coexistence of the faiths in Spain was not ultimately successful of course for many reasons. But it did have its moments and without these crucial moments Islamic fundamentalists may have conquered Spain and France.
And we think we have problems today! We are in great danger but not as great a danger as in 732 or 1940...yet. But the truth is we are approaching critical years and a very massive attack. We may expect more attacks more sucide bombers more assassinations and yes, catastrophic attacks that will make 9/11 seem like a Guernica to the coming Holocaust.
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition we are going to need plenty of both and so will our allies secular, Christian, Jewish and Muslim. We cannot win, in the long run, without diplomacy and without allies no matter how sharp the shooting and how cutting the bayonets of our Marines.
Al Qaida delenda est...al Qaida must be destroyed. May bin Laden gets what's coming to him...a slow painful death like Heydrich of the SS. Often I think I should not,as a Christian, think such dark thoughts, but there is a deeper, darker part of my soul that knows there is no safety and no peace until the killers are quelled. When they are safely dead and the peace is achieved then I will pray for their foriveness (well I will try anyway....I will be the first to admit I have never prayed for Hitler.. but I do pray for our Allies in Iraq and elsewhere...our MUSLIM allies. I pray ISLAM will be known as a wise, ethical and peaceful religion, a religion that rejects murder and suicide homicide bombers. There is hope you know...a FATWA was issued condeming suicide bombers and the murder of innocent children. It is a postive sign.
Posted by: Richard "Ricardo" Munro
at July 20, 2005 10:05 PM
The "multi, culti, diversity loving" liberals who still keep on preaching the same old tired pap about Islam being a religion of peace are the type of people who in order to show how broad minded they are - will not even take their own side in a fight.
Posted by: Ripper
at July 21, 2005 08:17 AM
There may be differing sects within islam but the canonical koran is unchanging. It is the most violent "religious" text that I have ever read. The koran is the literal word of allah according to muslims, and there is no reformation possible. Muslims of all hues are adament on this. I see no way that such a text, can ever be interpreted to be anything else but a manual for conquest and subjugation by the sword of non-muslims.
Muslims living in the West are now under pressure and so I'm deeply suspicious that they will say anything to lift the pressure. Subterfuge in the jihad is common practice. It is known as Taqqiya and Kitman. Muslims oft quote the guile and deception practised by muhammed - the treaty of Hudaibiya is the classic.
Let us consider the situation that all muslims at present living in the West, accepted the call to clean their communities of extremism. They even went further and made the changes in their teachings of the koran and the jihad. Such an outcome would no doubt come as a relief to many on this site. But I counter, that all such changes were being done merely to protect the ummah while it grows at ever increasing pace in the West. Once a near majority is achieved, that future generation of muslims will simply revoke any changes and return to the traditions of the koran. They will even praise this generation of muslims for having done what was necessary to protect islam.
Trusting the followers of islam to safeguard our security... chickens and foxes comes to mind.
Posted by: DP111
at July 23, 2005 07:02 PM
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