Posted on 09/04/2004 8:00:04 AM PDT by jolie560
THE mass murder of children revolts the human psyche. Herod sending his henchmen to massacre the infants of Bethlehem haunts the Gospels. Nothing in our time was crueler than what the Germans did to children during the Holocaust. Slaughtering the innocents violates a universal human taboo. Or a nearly universal one. Those Muslims who preach Jihad against the West decided years ago that killing Jewish or Christian children is not only acceptable, but pleasing to their god when done by "martyrs."
It isn't politically correct to say this, of course. We're supposed to pretend that Islam is a "religion of peace." All right, then: It's time for Muslims to stand up for the once-noble, nearly lost traditions of their faith and condemn what Arab and Chechen terrorists and blasphemers did in the Russian town of Beslan.
If Muslim religious leaders around the world will not publicly condemn the taking of children as hostages and their subsequent slaughter — if those "men of faith" will not issue a condemnation without reservations or caveats — then no one need pretend any longer that all religions are equally sound and moral.
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Actually, it's you who are intellectualizing the issue.
Muslims extremists are not the majority of Islam, any more than any other form of extremist makes up the majority of any religion, or political system.
We are fighting a minority within Islam, don't increase their numbers falsely by intellectualizing the extremist viewpoint.
Thank you.
Frances is right offshore, just ESE of me moving WNW, and it appears to be gathering strength.
The only way to prevent this happening in Western countries is to keep Muslim immigrants out of the West. Does Peters support that oh-so-politically-incorrect view or does he just want to keep writing safe articles telling us mass-murderers of children are icky?
How typical.
There was a time when everyone in FR demanded condemnations from Muslims leaders as proof that they were against terrorism.
Now that we have condemnations, we demand specific wording.
No matter what happens, you will continue to move the bar.
What you are doing is isolating those brave enough to condemn the actions of terrorists while being in the terrorists' back yard by sending the message that what they're doing is not enough, and as such, you consider them the enemy as well.
By isolating them via the trivialization of their actions, you are assisting the terrorists in shutting down dissent.
Nice job.
Maybe they can stone them to death, or even behead them and tape the beheading to cast fear in the hearts of terrorists. They could cut the ears and tongues off women who are believed to be involved with terrorists. Then, they can hack to death the children of the terrorists to teach those extremists a lesson.
You want moderates to behave like extremists in order for you to believe that they're not terrorists.
That's just dumb.
They need to behave in a civilized manner and bring them to justice, executing them as proscribed by secular law.
Ann Coulter was right.
Hunt down their leaders; kill them; and convert the rest to Christianity.
We must work with Putin to go to the home countries of these killers and let lose the Dogs Fo War!
When your government won't deal with monsters, vigilantism IS the civilized approach.
No it isn't.
Lawlessness is not the way to promote lawfulness.
And we would be differnt from Islamicists exactly how?
I heard an interesting story a few years ago from one of two men awaiting trial. There was a community that was being overrun by drug dealers, hookers, and their customers. Shots were being fired into homes day and night. Families had their kids sleep in bathtubs, because there was some protection from bullets. The police would respond to reports of drug deals going down by driving a car through the neighborhood. The community had numerous marches to get the cops to respond. But they would collect the bullets from the walls of the homes and leave. The activity was all centered on one crack house. Everyone knew it, but the local government was 'helpless' to do anything.
Two men watched the house, and when no one was home they took a few gallons of gasoline and burned it to the ground. This time the cops responded. The men were arrested for arson and attempted murder (even though the house was empty).
Their sole defense was that the house needed burning.
If I had been on their jury, there's no way they would have been found guilty. What they did was the opposite of lawlessness.
Remember, the American Revolution was an act of 'lawlessness'.
They broke the law, they went to jail for it. Had you been in the jury and voted to find them "not guilty", you would have been guilty of judicial activism.
The mere fact that one segment or another of the community feels justified in breaking the law, does not excuse lawlessness.
Let's say that the community I live in stands together in opposition to laws against marijuana use, and we decide to openly smoke pot.
Did we break the law?
We absolutely did.
The citizens of that town should have planted themselves en masse in front of City Hall and refused to move until something was done by the authorities; that's what sets us apart from Islamic extremists.
Retribution is not terrorism.
Sometimes the only way to rid a house of termites is to take down the building.
Anyone who sees the photos of these dead children and urges pacifism is a fool.
How long before our government leaders muster up the guts to say that? Pretense is all it is, because Islam was hatched by a bloody murderer and it teaches it's followers to be absolutely ruthless in the suppression of every other religion. The first time I heard Bush say something like "Islam is a religion of peace that has been hijacked by a few terrorists" I couldn't believe my ears. All you need to do to learn the bloody, awful truth about Islam is read the history of the last 14 centuries it has been in existence.
No doubt someone will remind me of the Inquisition and the Crusades, and the slaughter and torture attributable to those events and others. The difference is that in those events, and in every other instance where so-called Christians murdered and tortured in the name of Christianity the perpetrators of those horrors were acting in a manner exactly opposite to the teachings of Jesus Christ and true Christianity.
In contrast, Mohammed not only ordered the slaughter of multiple thousands of innocent people, he taught his followers to do likewise, and more. Authentic Christianity was not spread around the globe by threat of death and violent coercion, authentic Islam was and still is. Islam is nothing but a demonic death cult, pure and simple.
Says it all.
I just heard a local Dim on radio saying how she thought it
was so odd that no GW mention of OBL at convention.
She says it's because it's a sore spot for the GOP. But then
these same Dims will scream bloody murder if (IN SHA' ALLA)
OBL is captured in one month from now. The Dims will claim
we've had him all along,they'll "question the timing",ect,etc. As ususual, they want their cake( have someone else buy it for them) and eat it ,too.
They sound exactly like Yasser Arafat. after another sensless bombing of innocent Jews, Arafat would condem it, and then buy more explosives.
C.A.I.R. supports Terrorism with Money and condems it in public, and they are here in America.
The Muslim Terrorists Laughed as the Russian children passed out from fear and thirst. Laughed.
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