Posted on 01/02/2007 9:15:12 AM PST by SJackson
Yesterday afternoon, after wrapping up our vacation with a couple of pleasant hours in the Elliot Bay Book Company, Sheryl, Madeleine and I started back to our hotel to pick up our bags and head home to LA. We were with our friend and my Pajamas colleague Gerard. He proposed we take a cab; he would drop us by the hotel before continuing to his home.
We found one quickly. It was driven by an African guy. We had to instruct him about the location of our hotel; it was new. In the course of this I asked him where he was from. Kenya, he said. But then quickly added he was Somali. Many Somalians live in Kenya.
Ah, Somalia. Immediately the three adults in the car perked up. We acknowledged we knew there was big trouble in that country, the attack from Ethiopia on the ICU, etc. To our surprise, our driver immediately launched into a vitriolic attack on Al Qaeda. They were evil violent men, hijacking Islam across the globe. He had details of their infiltration of Somalia from a phone call he had made the previous night, how they were using Saudi money, etc. Thousands of people were being murdered by these Wahhabis for no reason. He was obviously following the situation closely. Al Qaeda was a danger to all mankind, he said.
It was a refreshing to hear this view from a Moslem taxi driver in Seattle. He was obviously pleased that we recognized the travails of his people too. So he continued with his explication of what was behind this terrible situation - how the Moslem religion could have been taken over by these violent forces. Someone was behind the rise of this Saudi Wahhabism . The answer, he said, was Israel. It was all an Israeli plot. They were behind the Wahhabis.
Suddenly our hearts sank. How could a man who seemed so reasonable, so knowledgeable, say something so obviously crazy?
Just then we were at our hotel. Sheryl and I left the cab, stunned. I phoned Gerard from the airport. What had the man said on the way to his place? Gerard - wisely - had let him continue. There was no point in fighting with a man like that. Better to learn how his mind worked. Gerard simply inquired why the Israelis would want to back Al Qaeda when Al Qaeda was sworn to destroy Israel. The man replied by talking about his childhood, his Islamic education. He had learned about the Jews from the Koran. That was the truth, of course.
Taxi driving in Seattle. So it goes.
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The only difference between Radical Islam and the moderates is the method of eliminating the Jews.
I think I've had that cab driver, but in Houston.
Alas, I think his thought process is all too common.
These are the people our government would like us to accept with open arms. Never. Never in one hundred years will I trust a person who claims islam as his or her religion.
Never.
If a WASP tried to deny service to anyone for anything, the MSM would be all over this like stink on ..., well you know.
There is no difference between Radical Islam and the Moderates as both are our enemies and both want "US" eliminated. Anyone that thinks Israel is their only target is a FOOL!
I hope his comments were taken into consideration when he received his tip.
"Moderate muslim" bump.
You are very wise to not accept our enemies. Only fools trust those that have already proclaimed they want us eliminated. There are none so blind as those who will not see.
Hating Jews and other non-Muslims is the cornerstone of Islam.
The conspiratorial, cloudy thinkers are a significant voting block.
It's that infernal Zionist Time MachineTM going back in history to the 1700's and starting the Wahabi sect, going back to the 1800's and writing all those books about the Holy Land and its wide empty spaces on all that land supposedly inhabited by Palestinians.
Damn sneaky, those Zionists.
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These American 'moderate' muslims are the muslims that the White House is now recruiting for our military, to "be used as interpreters, and to help bring understanding and goodwill between islamic cultures and those who fight the war on terror". Our ship is sinking fast because we have no captain at the helm, just an incompetent, globalist nincompoop.
Mark Steyn mentions this intellectual disconnect that is found in most all moderate Muslims. The early brainwashing that is done to Muslim children in the madrassas is nearly impossible to overcome. This is the reason that I fear Barack Obama. He attended the madrassas for most of his early life, first in Hawaii and then in Indonesia. It would be impossible for him to suddenly become a Christian, just by attending a Catholic high school. As a matter of fact, he would be dead, because abandoning Islam is supposed to be an automatic death sentence.
I feel exactly the same, and have posted similar sentiments in other threads.
Islam is our enemy. But who are Islam's soldiers?
I have come to the understanding of exactly _who_ "Islam's soldiers" ARE.
They do not, for the most part, wear uniforms. They are spreading through the world. They are here - in increasing numbers.
Islam's soilders. Do YOU know who they are?
- John
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