Posted on 02/09/2006 12:40:31 PM PST by neverdem
Your comment is so... well, twentieth-century.
Prove it. Let's see your sources.
Thanks for the ping!
All forms of extremism tend to lead you down certain similar paths.
Nazi, Commie, Islamist....... it don't matter.
The liberal in our society sees the protection of a democracy and republic as synonymous with fascism. Their belief is that freedom equates to a permissive society with no rules, no expectations, a society that does nothing when if faces a threat.
They are the self proclaimed intellectuals who learned a lot from Chamberlain, Mao, Stalin, Hitler, the latter shutting down a republic in order to create a situation where he can seize power through the chaos he helped produce.
A republic, a democratic society is a relationship between a people and their government. It is something that requires constant attention and a conscious effort to keep alive. Taking a republic for granted is leaving it for the wolves like a Hitler who will dismantle it for his quest for power. Appeasing those who are unwilling to compromise, those who are bent on your destruction accomplishes what Chamberlain did with his statement that he had created “Peace in our time”. Carter, Clinton, and others are perfect examples of politicians who through inaction encouraged and allowed the cancer to grow, whether Communism or AQ.
The notion that democracy and a republic was borne through some miracle is nonsense. It’s blood and tears that paved the way for America to become and remain a republic, a free democratic nation. Those who today see nothing worth fighting for, see no enemy in radical Islam, who think our republic is not threatened, who think we can appease this foe, who think the only right thing to do is to not fight back and focus internally on ourselves are “ignorant fools”. Listen to Carter and we'll end up where he took us once before, into a societal decline.
They borrowed from India a number system that had a zero and rewrote it as their own.
I believe the Arabs can take credit for optics and being the first to make corrective lenses.
Do you have a link for that, or was that off the top of your head?
Thanks for the link.
You could just GOOGLE " Moroccan Jews King Mohamed V" and you will get tons but for your reference, pls see below:
Sources:
http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/jewishsociety/My_Meeting_with_the_King.asp
http://www.drcowles.ca/art_pg/curator_1.html
With the exception of college region-specific history texts, it is unlikely that most US world history books cover but here are two I can remember
-La Maison d'Iligh
- the Sultan´s Jew
Promise you tons more but just need to get my author names!
Furthermore, did you know?
1) King Hassan II allowed Moroccan Jews who wished to emigrate to Israel after the 1967 war to keep their Moroccan passports.
2)Pres. Bush included these facts in his speech on the WH lawn for the welcoming ceremony for King Mohamed VI of Morocco (June 20, 2000)(http://www.gradewinner.com/p/articles/mi_m2889/is_25_36/ai_64263207)
3) Morocco was the first country to recognize the newly independent USA in 1777. (You might be interested in the letter between Sultan Mohamed III and President Washington; copies should be in the National archives/Library of congress).
The best source: my godmother who is a Moroccan Jew and though now getting on in her years, still remembers the Vichy days where both Jew and Muslim were treated like dirt by the occupiers..
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