Now churches are targeted

The Australian ^ | December 15, 2005 | Nick Leys and Dan Box

[dsc]

"The police of NSW have been hog-tied in their ability to control the situation."

I think treating this as a police problem is a grave mistake. As in France, it is an insurrection, a military problem.

Gangs of marauders in cars? Put rockets into the cars, and machine gun anybody who crawls out.

[montag813]

carol-singers were spat on and church buildings peppered with gunfire

"Turn the other cheek" doesn't apply to animals. They spit on you, you beat them up. They shoot at your church, you burn down their mosque.

[montag813]

Community leaders said Lebanese youths should not venture out after 9pm on Friday and Saturday, and should stay home all day on Sunday.

Once again, the pathetic Aussie police fail miserably. They ought to be saying "Lebanese youths must stay inside after 9pm OR BE SHOT ON SIGHT"

[shezza]

...the situation was being treated as if it were a terror attack.

Is that not exactly what it is? Crikey.

[The_Reader_David]

St. John the Dervish and St. Ahmad rebuke you! (They're the only two Orthodox saints I can remember who were raised as Muslims and converted.)

Turn the other cheek applies to individual human relations, and is a call to imitate Christ. It does not apply to those 'who bear not the sword in vain', nor to the defense of other innocents. It is for this reason that there has never been a prohibition on Christians bearing arms (though in the earliest days, Christians couldn't join the Roman army until it was depaganized, since soldiers had to offer sacrifices to the pagan gods), though clergy are forbidden to shed blood (abused in the West by mace-weilding prelates, but
I digress). We Orthodox regard warfare as problematic, though--while we have specific blessings for arms, we also penance anyone who commits homocide, even accidentally or in a war under just legal authority.

[bboop]

Dundee, you are there? Amazing. Will this be handled like the Frenchies did it? Looks like the Aussies are seeing this more clearly??

[themormon_rebel]

"Its always those riotous Mormons, Jews and Catholics that get the world into trouble."


AHEM!
And what trouble might us mormons be getting the world into?

[Uncle Miltie]

You know, rioting, beheadings, "Death to Israel" chants, genocidal threats, that sort of thing.

[sit-rep]

I've been listening to Hadley and Morrison everyday on 2GB everyday, and sent them a bunch of info for their files. I hope you guys don't back down and keep the fight going, and win. There is no even ground with these muslim POSs, and the sooner it is realized, the sooner we'll win globally...

SR