Posted on 05/14/2005 11:23:48 PM PDT by CHARLITE
We Americans need to get our priorities straight. We are at war with Islam. I want President Bush, Secretary Rice, the media, and the bleeding-heart liberals to stop apologizing to Islam and I want it to stop right now. Islamists are slaughtering people all over the world. Islam has threatened to make our streets “run red with American blood.” A Saudi Islamic cleric gave bin Laden permission to detonate a nuke in a major American city. Enough already!
What has set off the latest round of breast-beating and begging for Islamic forgiveness? Allegedly, the Quran was urinated on, or placed on a toilet or something. Newsweek couldn’t wait to report this non-story knowing it would trigger anti-American riots and give the Islamic propaganda machine fodder for weeks to come. In fact, if Islam has any pattern, people will die because of these still unproven allegations. Once again, the sins of Islamists will be on the back page as we Americans scramble to be forgiven by Islam.
Look for more kidnappings that will be followed by the obligatory beheadings of innocent people so that “Islamic honor” can be restored. As we have all learned, only the death of someone not even remotely involved in whatever it is Islamists are enraged about, restores Islam’s “honor.” These beheadings will be video taped and gleefully shown on Al Jazeera every five minutes. In fact, four Afghani men have already died because of that report. Good job, Newsweek.
What has happened to this country? Four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle and his raiders launched an attack on mainland Japan. That raid had one purpose and one purpose only: To humiliate the Japanese and let them clearly know they had picked a fight with the wrong dog. Did Franklin Delano Roosevelt “apologize” for the attack? Of course not! He approved the raid.
On December 7, 1941, 2,403 men died at Pearl Harbor. On September 11, 2001, 2,948 people died with 48 still missing and presumed dead for a total of 2,996 on American soil. Pearl Harbor was at least a military target. The World Trade Center was not.
Now we are at war again. This time with an enemy that has no borders, no country, no government, and no recognizable army. Islam is an enemy that does not hesitate to kill innocent civilians. In fact, Islam prefers civilians because it fears our military. It’s much cheaper and easier to kill a child than a Marine.
Islam was not outraged as Saddam Hussain slaughtered his people. Islam was not outraged as the Taliban executed women for any number of imagined sins. Islam is silent as Iran stones 13-year-old girls to death. Islam is not outraged as thousands of young women die at the hands of their own families in brutal honor killings. Islam says nothing as its terrorist heroes butcher Iraqi Muslims on a daily basis.
What does it take to make a Muslim angry? Say something bad about Islam and you can lose your head. Drop the Quran in the dirt and you will be hanged. In Sudan, a hapless man named Mohamed Taha Mohamed Ahmed, dared speculate that Mohammed was not the son of Abdullah and is now on trial for blasphemy and he will probably be hanged. Mobs of foaming-at-the-mouth Muslims gather outside the courthouse demanding he be torn to bits for even thinking such a thing.
Put women’s underwear on a Muslim prisoner’s head and Islamists lose total control and riot in the streets outraged at the barbaric treatment of their “soldiers.” Islamic terrorists do not uphold a single word of the Geneva Convention. They beat, torture, and behead our prisoners, many of whom are not even soldiers. They desecrate bodies by burning them and hanging them from bridges, but touch that Quran and Islam loses its collective mind.
We are apologizing to these people?
Perhaps Americans need some reminders of some of the crimes that Islam has committed against America. It is in the name of Islam these attacks have been carried out and I hold Islam responsible because it is Islam that has raised these terrorists to hero status.
On the orders of Yassar Arafat the American embassy was attacked in March of 1973 and two diplomats were killed and others were held hostage. Arafat demanded the freedom of fellow Muslim Sirhan Sirhan, in prison for killing Robert Kennedy.
A few months later, in Athens, three Americans were killed and 55 injured as Islamic terrorists threw grenades and machine-gunned civilians waiting for a flight to New York.
In 1983, 17 Americans died when Islamists blew up a car in front of the embassy in Lebanon. Four more Americans died when the American embassy in Kuwait was attacked that same year.
Returning to the American embassy in Lebanon in 1984, 24 more Americans died when yet another car bomb went off outside the embassy.
The year 1985 brought death to five Americans in Rome with 74 wounded in an Islamic attack at the airport. Also in 1985, Americans got their first glimpse into the soul of the enemy when Islamic terrorists took over the cruise ship Achilles Lauro and shot a crippled American Jew in a wheelchair, Leon Klinghoffer, and then pushed him overboard.
In May, 1987, the U.S.S. Stark was attacked by an Iraqi fighter plane and 37 American sailors died.
Libya blew up a Pan Am flight over Scotland killing 189 Americans on their way home for Christmas.
Eighteen American soldiers died in Somalia in 1993 and six Americans died in the first World Trade Center bombing with over a thousand injured.
At 9:03 on the morning of April 19, 1995, a Ryder truck blew up in front of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. On that spring day 168 people died—many of them small children. This classic Islamic attack was quickly blamed on two “home-grown” terrorists. This case is in the process of being re-examined due to overwhelming evidence that al Qaeda and possibly Saddam Hussain were involved.
In 1996, 19 Americans died when Islamists blew up the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia. Also in 1996 there was the mysterious downing of TWA Flight 800. There were 169 Americans on board.
August 7, 1997 was the last day on earth for 23 Americans who were at the American embassies in Tanzania and Kenya.
The year 2000 brought the attack on the U.S.S. Cole that killed 17 American sailors.
This, of course, brings us to the attack on September 11, 2001. There have been many more attacks leading up to that horrible day and not once has Islam apologized.
I hear, “We don’t want to sink to the Islamists’ level.” I don’t want to hear that any more either. There is absolutely no comparison to be made. Islamic prisoners are fed, clothed, and allowed to practice the very religion that has sworn to kill us all. I don’t hear any Islamic outrage over the hostage beheadings or Iraqi children being targeted by Islamic butchers. I didn’t hear a peep of anger when a British imam said children were legitimate targets for Islam.
Islam seems to have no limit to the evil it will inflict on others. Because of this, Islam has lost all rights to protest an imagined injustice inflicted on it.
About the Writer: Barbara J. Stock is a registered nurse who enjoys writing about politics and current events. She has a website at http://www.republicanandproud.com/. Barbara J. receives e-mail at dickens502003@yahoo.com.
"At 9:03 on the morning of April 19, 1995, a Ryder truck blew up in front of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. On that spring day 168 people died—many of them small children. This classic Islamic attack was quickly blamed on two 'home-grown' terrorists. This case is in the process of being re-examined due to overwhelming evidence that al Qaeda and possibly Saddam Hussain were involved."
Other than the above portion of the article, I agree with everything else Barbara Stock writes here. Not quite sure where the real evidence is that al-Queda or Hussein really had anything to do with the Oklahoma City bombing. The article would be better without having included this as it still strikes me as the stuff of the tin foil hat brigades.
With that said, I think the article is great. She echo's pretty much exactly what I think. The war we are fighting is against Islam, not against some rogue leader or terrorist organization in this or that place. We need a comprehensive strategy to include dealing with Muslims here at home and the Islamic threat abroad. Until we understand and accept the nature of the war being waged against us, we will continue losing ground. I fear it is going to take something far more horrible than 9-11 to wake up the American people to menace which means to destroy us.
Longbow
There is a difference, and it's a huge one.
By its very nature, 'slam is antithetical to the principles upon which this nation was founded.
And it will always be.
It's just an unfortunate fact we've got to deal with.
And I start here: "Nobody ever came to regret or ruin by not trusting Muslims."
That's my starting credo, and I'll live by it. Many poor souls paid very dearly for not observing this fundamental truth - they paid with their lives.
To hell with this insane cult of death!
Not quite.
85% of "palestinians" endorse violence as a political tool.
All muslim countries in the area would yield similar results in a neutrally presented poll.
Sure, the are some innocents, as in every war. However, had we obsessed with that reality in the last hundred years, and yielded to the weakness of some, today we would be speaking Japanese, or German or Russian, or Chinese...
I prefer English, thankyouverymuch.
Suggesting that 85% of Americans agree with Jerry Faldwell is so absurd as to question the mental health of whomever suggests it.
Crystal meth in not our friend...
In an openly declared war, ongoing for years, there are no civilian targets.
We have never declared a war on anyone on religious grounds.
The islamic animals do not fail for a single day to define their murderous, primitive and mindless mass murder worldwide in religious terms. Their mosques preach it daily, their press screams it hysterically.
Are you mentally challenged? or simply an enemy plant?
At one end dwells childhood, at the other senility.
But we must also not dismiss apologists, overt and otherwise.
The most famous jurists in our history, Constitutional scholars and most normal reasonably intelligent civilians have all agreed, always, that the Constitution may not be used as a suicide pact.
Please, let's not go there.
We have our hands full with muslims.
Let's not get hijacked into beating a dead horse/historical curiosity.
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The concept is a no-brainer.
I have developed a litmus test to make the distinction:
If I find out that they are muslims before I discover that they are Americans, they have committed a fraud.
The ones I have known, worked with, discussed among and played with, often for years, before discovering that they are muslim, are as American as you and I. I am proud to know that they would fight beside me against the 7th century animals-on-two-legs from whatever continent they come from.
Excellent analytical methodology, Publius!
My hat's off to you. Very well done.
How in the hell did we allow them in this country?
Oh, man you really know what you're talking about and I salute you. Now send this message to Congress, President and Supreme Court.
Well, I don't know what the solution is for the 6 million Muslims here in the United States, but if someone could tell me in what possible way Islam is compatible with traditional American values and founding principles, I'm all ears.
Char
Now you're talkin! I agree totally, but it won't happen for awhile. Although I believe that eventually, there will be a kind of "war" here on this subject. There is NOTHING within the theology (if you could call it that) of Islam, which is compatible with Americanism or being an American - absolutely NOTHING! So, what are they doing here? What is their goal? Hint: It's not a trick question.
Char
They should be treated the same way we used to treat Communists - of suspicious allegiance until proved otherwise. Hopefully, they may someday assimilate (unlikely, though). Certainly, we shouldn't let any more into our country.
Furthermore, Jayna Davis is a specialist on the Middle-East connection and has been on several talk shows discussing the Middle-East connection, expecially John Doe #2.
For more information, read: < a href = http://www.newswithviews.com/NWVexclusive/exclusive98.htm> OKC BOMBING TRUTH SEEKERS PLAN GATHERING APRIL 19, 2005
Even if there is no direct link to OBL, there are strong indications that there is a Middle-East connection followed by a cover up by the government fearing a backlash by American Muslims. In addition, our government knew it was impotent in dealing with it and I would bet my bottom dollar that OBL was in on it.
Well my point is, you can't run them up the flagpole if they don't actually rob, cheat and kill. They have constitutional right just as we do. Due process of law. To run them up the flagpole just because they say their a Muslim is seriously wrong.
We both know that.
OKC BOMBING TRUTH SEEKERS PLAN GATHERING ON APRIL 19, 2005
My apologies.
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