Maybe it was this guy.
Posted on 09/02/2014 1:29:38 PM PDT by Retain Mike
History teaches that all Republics commit suicide.
History is repeating, and I daresay - ours looks to be more than just a metaphor, but a literal dalliance of offering ourselves to our enemies.
Bookmark
I'm sorry, I guess I'm slow. What does this mean, exactly? Is this referring to being stopped in the security line? Jobs?
Yes, it is not as always described "Radical Islamism," it is Islam, just as the Iranian Khomeini recently said, there is no such thing as Radical Islam, there is just Islam.
Maybe it was this guy.
mooslums are the enemy. ALL of them want to murder you and your family. Some will step forward to actively do so. The other moozlums support them, directly or indirectly. If you know a moozlum ask them why they do not eliminate moozlums who kill others. Make sure they don’t have a knife nearby or a bomb, however.
War on Drugs
War on Terror
Battling euphemisms is a losing strategy, unless you're a politician or a lobbyist.
Our enemy is not terrorism, its odumbo and his ilk.
he would have had to glass over Iran, Pakistan, and the Saudi arabian peninsula.
You are so close John, but close will not stop the enemy at our gate. Nibble at the corners of the enemy cookie or shine a light on the cardboard facade; elucidate the machinations of the complex enemy, but everyone in political circles is AFRAID to name this enemy.
The fear is that to properly name the foe is to revert to an era of barbaric mentality - a mentality of our forebears who would recognize an evil and then smash it. Our ancestors would name the enemy and rain unholy hell upon his family, land and possessions. With an enemy who accepts only total annihilation of himself, tribe and resources in order to be properly vanquished, our leaders are too afraid to alter our decadent slide and revert to a people of morality, religion and righteousness.
Things could be different if and when the name of the enemy is shouted from the rooftops and measures taken to decimate the scourge of Islam.
You are correct!
Focusing on “Wahhabi Jihadism” rather than Islam itself is just a milder form of the Political Correctness that began this whole “War on Terrorism” charade.
Until “moderate Muslims” begin to publicly denounce “extremist Jihadism” and actively work to expose these ‘Muslim heretics’ they are a part of the problem. Sides MUST be chosen.
Last month Obama said “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam. ... It is time to heed the words of Gandhi: “Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.”
He could not be more completely wrong. He would have us believe that the world is a campfire gathering, complete with S’mores, hot cocoa and the guitar accompanying us as we sing “Kumbaya”, all the while never asking the questions, “Who is this Lord we are asking to come by here, and why do we want Him to do so?”
Many things in the world are very definitely INTOLERABLE. Toleration of cancer in your body leads to death from it. Toleration of unchecked international travel by Ebola patients will lead to a pandemic.
If Muslims want to worship Allah by praying five time each day, making the haji, fasting, alms giving, etc. they are to be tolerated in those religious activities. But as soon as they begin to even talk of the oppression or forcible conversion of “infidels”, they have become intolerable.
Here, Here. We seem to no longer be able to identify any enemy.
Islam is only the product of our real enemy, liberalism is the true enemy. Without liberalism, we could stomp the radical islamists into a mud puddle in a few short years!
Great thread. BTTT!
I may have to admit you folks are right. Two billion out of a world population of seven billion are Muslim, but truly almost all are irrelevant because they are controlled by authoritarian governments that followed violent roads to power. There does not seem to be much left of a spiritual faith component after 900 plus years.
About 1100 AD Hassan bin Sabah, who inherited the Assassin’s Guild, enlightened Islamist societies to terrorism as foundational statecraft for political prosperity. Philosophical and religious lawyers retained their lives, and obtained support for and from dictators by backwards engineering the Koran into useful totalitarian heterodoxies. Concurrently, foundational thought including Jews, Christians and Muslims as ‘People of the Book” became hazardous. Concurrently, men of Saladin’s character and his Sufism stressing individual relationship with God thatexalted individuals in society became marginalized. Concurrently, extraordinary Arab achievements in mathematics, philosophy, science, and medicine submerged within authoritarian and feral societies. Omar Khayyam, Ibn al-Haytham, and Abu Ali al-Hussain Ibn Sina had no successors for uncompromising, independent thought. Such simultaneous extinctions do provide compelling evidence of a pervasive contagion subverting the Middle East.
Now all we see is bloody electioneering among aspiring Islamic totalitarians causing them to grasp and retain their power by crafting superior alliances of human cunning and animal brutality. Once acquired these skills easily replicate through generations for managing philosophies from Democracy to Communism. The natural result in our present time establishes “The Democratic (or) Islamic Peoples Republic of Whatever”.
I often think the world was a better place to live in when it was owned by basically nine countries and any differences were settled by offensives through the Ardennes forest.
So, nuke Riyadh along with Mecca.
Question: What is it that makes any official "beholden" to any special interest?
Answer: Two things; MONEY or IDEOLOGY. The current pResident is ideologically tied to the enemy. The solution for that is not a pretty one. But for the money aspect...
All political donations must be ANONYMOUS. If you don't know to whom you are "beholden", you can't do their bidding. Make it a felony to disclose or to attempt to discover the identity of a donor, with appropriate prison time for violators.
Will some cheat? Sure they will. But the first few frogmarched off in jumpsuits should minimize that!
There is a word for such Muslims: APOSTATES. To a true Islamist they are as worthy of torture and death as we Infidels.
Dems will cheat the system to be sure - I like your anonymous donation idea, even better than full disclosure.
The left is too good at political terrorism to allow them to know that person X gave to a pro-life, pro-marriage candidate.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.