Posted on 12/29/2007 3:35:10 PM PST by fanfan
So much for our "way of life" - you know, the one our leaders told us they went to war to save.
The deeply English, deeply Christian city of Oxford, one of the homes of free thought, is now being asked to accept the Islamic call to prayer wafting from mosque loudspeakers over its spires and domes.
If that is not a threat to our "way of life", then I don't know what is. Allowing the regular electronic proclamation of Allah's supremacy in a British city is not tolerance, but a surrender of the sky to a wholly different culture. Just you wait and see what opponents of this scheme are accused of.
What about the nonsensical, illogical frenzy among our rulers to snoop on us, docket us, lock us up without trial and make us undress at airports? That's a pretty major assault on our "way of life", as I recall it being until very recently.
The Oxford skyline could be filled with the sound of an Islamic call to prayer
And of course it is accompanied by the laxest border controls you can imagine for those coming in, and the zealous dismantling of what remains of our Christian culture in schools, public ceremonies and everything else.
And now we're talking to the Taliban, one of the twin bogeymen with which the Government has sought to frighten us into acceptance of an entanglement of 'security' measures which have yet to prevent a single outrage.
No doubt we would talk to 'al Qaeda' too, if such an organisation existed, but - as all intelligence men know - it is a vague collection of rival factions, lumped together to scare the ill-informed into surrendering their liberties.
So much for the Great War on Terror, which has neither saved our way of life nor defeated Islamist extremism. What did you expect from the very same people who surrendered to the IRA, a genuine threat that really did exist (and still does) and which we could have beaten? What a lot of hogwash we are fed. The murder of Benazir Bhutto is a disgusting crime, but people really should grow up a bit about Pakistan.
This is a country that still has feudal landlords and slavery, which is utterly ethnically divided, speaking at least nine languages.
It is deeply economically sick, corrupt as a corpse, and haunted by the sinister ISI intelligence agency. Fewer than half its people, and only 36 per cent of its women, can even read.
It has no heroes, or heroines for that matter. Miss Bhutto was a pretty terrible prime minister when in office, and at one time a chum of the Taliban.
If we have learned nothing else from the Iraq adventure, surely it is time we grasped that other countries are the business of the people who live in them. We have quite enough to worry about at home without trying to impose our own wobbly political system on a nation where it couldn't work for five minutes (does it work here, actually?).
Yes, our way of life does need saving, but mainly from our own Government.
Kinda late in the game, but yes a lightbulb may be going on.
Apparently, if you poke a hole in the top of a LED, it increases the light output substantially.
We should try that with liberals.
The Borg hive has infested Great Britain, and Time Lord Dr. Who may not be able to come back and quell its effects.
But Rose or Martha might be able to.
I was mainly ignorant of Muslims prior to 9/11 and it was a blissful existence.
I yearn for those days again but, I have been doomed to acknowledge I was educated long ago of my ancestors such as Charles Martel, Charlemagne and Richard the Lion Heart and their memories were warmly placed aside until the need once again has arisen.
Christianity is the greatest gift mankind has ever received and today the Trinity is being taken for granted. We have people in the Western world that is ignoring Christ at their own peril.
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