Posted on 05/17/2004 1:56:26 PM PDT by SJackson
I made the mistake of looking at the images of what they did to Nick Berg.
It's hard for Americans to imagine anyone doing this to an innocent man, but they did. It's hard to imagine they would praise G-d while doing it, but they did that, too.
I can't think of a better illustration of what the war on terror is about.
Nick Berg was a typical American idealist. He was a free spirit, his friends said, one of the coolest and wittiest fellows around.
He was a bright fellow who attended Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania. He probably spent many a night with his friends knocking back a beer and talking about his dreams.
One of his dreams was to help people. He went to Ghana to help the poor. He taught them how to make bricks and build homes. Full of the American spirit, Berg didn't see problems. He saw challenges. And all any challenge requires is a solution.
He didn't graduate, but started his own telecommunications firm. Unlike his father, a Democrat who opposed the war, Berg was a Republican who favored it. You can imagine some spirited conversations around the dinner table Sunday nights.
He went to Iraq on his own to make a few bucks and help rebuild the country, help support democracy for people who never knew it. An employee at the Baghdad hotel said he was friendly as could be. Cheerful. Said he wanted to learn Arabic. Said he came back every night with some beers in his bag and a smile on his face.
Berg had reason to smile. I never met him, but he was surely like many fellows I've known. He believed in the future. He believed in the power of the individual. He went to Iraq to share his skills and help build up the country's infrastructure. It would be an adventure. And in his own small way, he could help the struggling country grow and prosper.
His murderers saw the future, too, and it terrifies them. The future of Iraq involves people who are free to think, act and speak as they please. Principles will rule — civil rights for all, the rule of law, free elections, innocence will be assumed until guilt is proven, freedom of religion.
Whereas Berg lived to build and improve, they live to tear down and destroy. Berg was curious about the world and loved to travel and learn how others think. They disdain the world. Any ideas that contradict their own must be quieted. Any people whose will is contrary to their own must be eliminated.
Berg was an idealist, after all, who celebrated life. Like many Americans, he knew in his bones that our beliefs and way of life will set the world free. Freedom will unleash the human spirit, giving birth to new ideas and innovations. Capitalism will unleash economic miracles that will allow families to grow and prosper.
They are idealists, too, but they celebrate death. They have disdain for this life — disdain for anyone who dares live differently than they do. And they believe that they kill in celebration of G-d. Why else would they praise G-d's name while cutting off the head of an innocent man?
Yeah, Nick Berg was a perfect example of what the war on terror is all about. He was naïve and idealistic and he paid for both with his life. America is naïve and idealistic, too. Our idealism brought us into Iraq.
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But if America loses, the culture of death will win. More women will be oppressed. More economies will falter. More people will suffer and die.
Nick Berg, your end came way too early. The world has lost a great soul. But at least you left this conflicted planet celebrating life. I can't imagine G-d finding fault with that.
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Was that "G-d" they were praising, or "Allah"?
Somethings not right about "official" versions of this story.
Proof enough that theirs is a different "God."
allah is not God, allah is a god, a tin god who can not talk, can not walk, and can do no good, only evil.
They were NOT praising God--they were hailing satan.
I agree. The orange suit, a sacrificial robe perhaps? There are many holes in the stories I have heard. Altho idealism and naivete, bad combination. I wouldn't be there without the military around me, frankly.
The Iraqis have stolen trainloads of goods destined to American facilities in Iraq, and in addition, there are many AQ sympathizers among the local people we have hired for day-to-day operations there. It wouldn't have been hard to come by an orange jumpsuit.
I think he was just extremely idealistic and probably a little too good natured for his own health. On the other hand, I think his father may have a lot of things to explain.
And that is exactly what the Nihilistic leftists desire deep down in their degenerate bones. They are the Destroyer's children, with darkness and enmity in their hearts. They wish to cause and witness the destruction of all that is Good in the world. To be sure, the battles that lie ahead are truly between Good and evil. That's all their is to it.
Like training chimps, sure, they may go through the motions, but, it's doubtful they realize the meanings.
Holes or no holes, the video clearly represented in extremely graphic detail what the Islamunists want to do to each and every one of us who believes in freedom. I just hope the message sinks in. When discussing it with people who have not gone to the Internet to view it, I stress that the beheading was not one of those antiseptic ones they imagine from the French Revolution movies.
Allah...is Satan in cognito! Islam is a Satanic religion created by Satan as a counterfeit to reject the deity of Christ.
What God will find fault with is if he did not "pick up his own cross and follow Christ". All else is of less importance than this fact.
"No man comes unto the Father except through Me"
"If any man rejects me in the sight of men, so shall I reject he on the day of judgement in front of the father and all the angels of Heaven."
The narrow road Jesus referred to is pretty daunting indeed.
How "Christian" of you.
Great book BTW, "A Travel Guide to Heaven" by Anthony DeStefano. Puts a great face on the reality of Heaven.
This is hard to read without getting tears in my eyes. However, the media doesn’t give the cover this story deserves. I guess naked photos of suspected terrorists are the real crime.
Either on the radio or an article here, perhaps both, some media type was explaining that as the result of the medias focus on negative news stories, thus Abu Gharab is crowding out other stories.
In the last few weeks we've had a beheaded American, four incinerated Americans, a murdered family in Israel, along with the offer of a body parts for prisoners exchange, Christians slaughtered by the hundred in both the Sudan and Nigeria and an attack in Thailand by machete wielding motorcyclists, dealt with efficiently by the Thai military.
Why didn't any of these stories dominate the media, individually or cumulatively. Not enough blood and gore, or no political angle?
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