Posted on 05/17/2004 10:57:00 AM PDT by Lando Lincoln
The following statement was read by one of the hooded terrorists just moments before the recent video-taped murder and beheading of Nick Berg.
The praise of Allah for all Muslims with his support and the humiliating of those who attempt to defeat Islam and who attack it and who entice the unbelievers with their cunning…He has ordered the prophet--peace be upon him--and he is master the merciful are with the slitting of the necks of some prisoners and their slow killing. And for us it is an example and a good example…
We tell you to know that the coffins will arrive to you one coffin after another, as your people are slaughtered in this way…Then you kill the polytheists (Christians) where you find them and you take them and count them and place them where they can be seen.
Allah is the greatest and the honor to Allah and to its messenger and to the militants. And our last claim is that the praise of Allah is the Lord of the Worlds…. And you see the slaughter your fighting brothers suspend the head of this unbeliever on one of Baghdad bridges so that they teach a lesson to others from the infidels and serves as a witness to the honor of the Muslims.
Americans have yet to realize that they are now embroiled in a decades-long war with vicious Islamofascists who hail from dozens of countries and nationalities. Al-Zarqawi, the terrorist leader behind the savage deaths of hundreds of Shiite civilians and Iraqi police, the attempted ricin attacks in the UK and chemical attacks in Jordan, and the beheading of American civilian contractor Nick Berg, spoke just months ago of ''gathering the sheep'' for slaughter. Nick Berg was just the first victim in the plan of a series of dramatic public atrocities that will unfold in the months to come.
Watching the beheading of this idealistic young American and listening to his screams as he was butchered was revolting, sickening, and maddening and yet it should be mandatory viewing. To truly understand the nature of this enemy we must digest their viciousness and use it to fuel the avenging fire that was initially kindled on September 11, 2001. War is not pretty, fun, or nice but sometimes it is not only necessary but desirable when dealing with an enemy of such diabolical methods and goals.
The commitment to victory can only be solidified by free and just peoples when faced with such recent outrages as the enemy hacking and displaying bodies in Fallujah, the pointblank shooting of a pregnant women and her four young daughters in Gaza, militants parading through the streets with the bloody remains of slain Israeli soldiers, and the butchery of one slightly lost 26-year-old American civilian.
Some commentators have made the observation that Islam has shown itself to be less of a religion than a bloody ideology similar to Nazism, Maoism, or the pesky militant Japanese cult of the Emperor that caused so much trouble a few decades ago. Where is the outrage in reaction to such crime from the good peaceful Moslems who we are told are the vast majority of Islam? The silence is deafening and the followers of Mohammad bear a portion of responsibility and blame due to their failure to condemn such actions and for the continued support, shelter, and protection of such terror artists offered by their clerics, mosques, and communities not only here in the United States but all over the world.
One of my friends put it this way.
''Never forget that many of us saw, way back on Sept. 11, 2001, that the enemy of the Americans was the same enemy that was fighting Israel, and India, and Russia, and Indonesia, and the Philippines, and infiltrating Europe, and advocating in America, and throwing acid in the face of unveiled women across the world, and preaching fanaticism in Saudi Arabia, and blowing up statues in Afghanistan, and manning the madrasses in Pakistan, and pushing propaganda on al-Jazeera, and blowing up schoolchildren in Tel-Aviv, and now beheading Jewish young men from Philadelphia.''
Truer words have never been spoken. The mindset of Islamofascism is one of genocidal mania, the celebration of death and butchery, and revelry in the slaughter of innocents. Americans and civilized people the world over have been shocked by such subhuman behavior but they should not be. That is the character of the enemy that they face. It is the nature of a religious ideology that seeks the death or subjugation of all infidels and the extermination of the Jew. Al-Queda is just the latest manifestation of 7th Century barbarism that has waged an endless shadow war on Western Civilization and has finally provoked the world war of ideology and religion that it has so eagerly sought.
American politicians in particular insist that this is not a war of religion or clash of civilizations. It is an endless spewing of ''religion of peace'' quotes, diatribes on ''a nation of immigrants',' and complaints about ethnic profiling at airports. I wish that someone would tell that to the enemy, for that is exactly the war that they are waging.
Whether it is the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Queda, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Hamas, Al-Tawhid, Abu Sayyaf, the Taliban, Al-Ansar Islam, Al-Sadr’s militia, Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), Beyyiat el-Imam, Jund al-Shams, or the dozens of other militant terrorist groups infesting the globe, their methodology, goals, tactics, cruelty, tenacity, and victims are often eerily the same. It is a strange world of martyrdom, jihad, cries of Allah Akbar, and fantasies of a heavenly reward of 72 virgins. They may differ by sect, creed, or nationality but each wages war on the innocent, the Christian, and the Jew; the concepts of Liberty and Justice; and Western Civilization itself.
The ideology of militant Islam is not some small isolated group of malcontents as they are so often portrayed. Millions of Moslems are adherents to the ideology and religious fervor that wages war on the West. The cries of jihad echo in the bloody guerilla warfare of Algeria. It is the ideology of the Arab slavers waging war on Christians in Sudan. It is the call from hundreds of minarets in Saudi Arabia, and the gospel of the mullahs of Iran. It is the creed of the border tribes of Pakistan and was the heart and soul of the Taliban. It flourishes in the jungles of the Philippines and the slums of Indonesia. It sallies forth from the green valleys of Lebanon and preaches its hate in the mosques of Europe.
There will be no easy victory and the legions of the deluded zealots who vent their rage in the blood of the vulnerable, innocent, and helpless will not be quickly defeated. Civilized peoples across the globe must learn to steel themselves against the coming barbarity and prepare for the long struggle against those who would slice your throat and murder your children in their beds if given half a chance. Their fanaticism cannot be underestimated and the righteousness of the cause of those who fight against them cannot be doubted. The world must answer terrorism and those who fancy themselves the warriors of Allah with a resolve for utter and total victory.
David Huntwork is a conservative activist and freelance columnist who resides in Northern Colorado. He receives e-mail at: DaveHuntwork@juno.com
I'd like to think that we're just practicing the art of diplomacy. Saying "good doggie..." in soothing tones while picking up a bigger stick. Not necessarily a military stick, either; could be a combined economic, cultural, energy, and military stick.
I still think so many HERE in the US do not get it. Religion of Peace -barf. I just got into this with another mom who was trying to explain why these animals did this was a response to the treatment of Iraqi prisoners. I was like you cannot try to give them a rationale no rational person holds down another and saws off his head. People do not get it. What I understand of the Islam religion their job is to either convert or kill all non islamics. So, why don't we clean up our own country too. As other threads have indicated they are using our society and laws and courts against us. So get them out of here because if they are following their religion then they are up to no good.
Islam turns the mind of man into that of an animal. And a dangerous animal at that.
bttt
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