Posted on 03/26/2006 9:54:25 AM PST by LurkedLongEnough
Funny thing though, islam respect bullies...but not beacons.
Do they respect bacons?
I know everything I need to know about the horror that is islam, after 9-11.
The key: they got the mind-bending working-at-the-carwash-blues.
Islam flourished during its Golden Age (8th-9th centuries A.D.) precisely because it was an open society that assimilated the best the world had to offer.
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This demonstrates the dangerously flawed thinking of appeasers and those who have swallowed the myth of the "Golden" age of Islam. Far from golden it was bloody.. Islamic hegemony was built on the crucified bodies of Christians who resisted and an oppression that still resonates in the nightmares of those whose ancestors survived it.
You can't win them over if you can't protect them from apocalyptic fanatics.
To encourage greater openness in the Muslim world, America must return to being a beacon rather than a bully.
"Openness"? You won't have openness unless you are prepared to protect the people who want openness. The primary victims of attack in Iraq are other muslims. A few Americans are killed, and these are the ones you hear about. Many, many Iraqis are killed, these are the main targets. Secretaries are machinegunned on their way home from work. Construction workers are beheaded. Kids playing in the street or boarding school buses are blown to bits.
Before our arrival, people were beheaded in police stations by men in uniform, on the state payroll. Now the head-choppers must hide out in the shadows. The moment we leave, they will shoot their way back into power, and reclaim their uniforms and salaries.
If we don't stand in the way, there is no other "beacon of hope".
I liked this one. This is the fault of the decadent West? In a land ruled by Wahabi rulers? It must be Bush's fault!
I resent this. If ANYONE needs to learn about the enemy it's Hollywood, Marxists and members of the Mainstream Media.
Absolutely marvelous........
These characters have yet to figure out "Red State" voters or their own sinking circulation figures, and they're instant Islamic scholars, military and geopolitical tacticians and diversity consultants all wrapped in bright pink ribbons.
At least they left Global Warming out of this tome. Must have left their pointy hats and magic wands in the closet.
Sorry that I just can't seem to capitalize such words.
Granted there is a monstrous gap between our society and theirs, but there is hope. It's just going to take a very long time.
Marx a Muslim? This crap is pure Socialism. All I wanted to know about Islam I learned on 9/11.
The reason that the Muslim religion is moderately successful is that there is no economic development in most of the Muslim countries, keep the people poor and instill in them that they will get their reward in the next life. 72 Virgins, want to buy a cheap bridge? For a religion that puts women as second class, a lot of credence is applied to virgins, strange.
When America was being a beacon Saddam was gassing the Kurds and the Taliban was destroying Afghanistan and plotting our destruction. We were are target more than a beacon. They Islamists have chosen to attack but now we have chosen the battle field. Good for us.
I was going along all right with the premise of the article until I got to the very end. Apparently it IS America's fault after all for not understanding our Islamic brethren. What hubris on the part of the writer. Does he really think that the current president - or any president, for that matter - isn't already surrounded by academics, thinkers, military historians, and specialists who attempt to understand the motives and the background of other people in the world? This writer is replaying the stereotype of "the ugly American," not thinking seriously about the issues of the day. This doesn't mean that we get it right 100 percent of the time - who does? The human condition implies imperfectability and unpredictability. However, to say that we just don't understand the basic outlines of the Islamic worldview seems inane. I noticed that the article doesn't provide substantiation for his viewpoint, either, just a vague, shared understanding that Americans are generally too naive and stupid for the rest of the world. Yawn.
So moderate Muslims can't control their own fanatics, and this guy says that before we can wage all out war on the fanatics, we have to prove ourselves to the moderate Muslims.
Sorry jack, you've got it backwards. The moderate Muslims need to clean up their own religion's mess and prove to us that we won't need to wipe all of them out.
I thank the author for compiling every self-delusional pacifist canard about Islam in one place.
You need to know yourself as well!
Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
Christians should read the New Testament and read the Koran.
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