Posted on 02/13/2009 10:01:34 AM PST by Congressman Billybob
It was just a minor story on Friday about a Dutch politician being denied entry to Britain at a London airport. You might well have missed it. But it was an extremely important event for its broader meaning.
Geert Wilders, a member of the Netherlands parliament, was invited to Britain by a member of the House ot Lords. The invitation asked Wilders to show his 17-minute film “Fitna,” which he made last year. Fitna juxtaposes quotes from the Koran with images of Islamofascists attacking and murdering various non-Muslims.
Last year there were riots around the world by Muslims against this “anti-Islamic” film. None of the protesters claimed that the quotes from the Koran were inaccurate, nor that the murders and assaults depicted were in any way inaccurate.
The day before Wilders was to fly to London, British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith told Wilders not to come because “his opinions would threaten security.” Wilders made the trip anyway, and was arrested at the airport in London and put on another flight back to Amsterdam. While he was on the ground in London, he condemned Britain for stopping him. He called the British government “the biggest bunch of cowards in Europe.”
Why should we care about what seems to be a minor dust-em-up at a London airport? It is because all Western governments are in various forms of retreat from the truth about the Islamofascists, because the murderers themselves and their millions of Muslim enablers will burn cars and buildings, attack police and civilians in return for anyone speaking the truth about them.
Two recent examples of such retreats from the truth to appease the friends of the murderers happened in the UN, and in the US. The UN has just taken under consideration a speech code which would define as “anti-Islamic” any criticism of Muslims or Muslim governments. The Nazis and the Communists certainly would have preferred such a resolution respectively in the League of Nations, or the UN. But neither the Nazis nor the Communists had the high number of corrupt governments to vote in their favor, as the Muslims do today.
The other example of retreat from the truth happened in the US last week when President Obama spoke to the national prayer breakfast. He claimed this in that lightly covered speech: “But no matter what we choose to believe, let us remember that there is no religion whose central tenet is hate. There is no God who condones taking the life of an innocent human being. This much we know.”
Well, any one who “knows” that “fact” is a brass-plated, geopolitical moron. If you go back far enough in history, all of the world’s major religions have at some time supported the murder of thousands of men, women and children who were of different backgrounds. And all of those religions have, at those times, claimed that their respective gods were in favor of those slaughters.
Most of the world’s major religions have become more civilized as the centuries have passed. All except Islam, which is stuck in 7th century, and still justifies the murder of non-believers.
None of us should pretend that the truth is not true, and pretend that the political and religious leaders of Islam are “just like us (sorta).” We are facing millions of mass murderers, and hundreds of millions of supporters and enablers of those murderers. Pretending that they are not there, and do not intend what they repeatedly say and write in public, will solve nothing. Ir will cause more of us to be murdered.
It is wrong to call the Islamofascists animals, because they are much worse than that. Animals kill to eat, and occasionally kill rivals during mating season. They do not kill at random and in large numbers.
It is right to call the Islamofascists “beardless cowards.” (Look up a history of Islamic insults to know what that means.) It is right to call the Islamofascists rabid dogs. And is the proper way to deal with them is like rabid dogs. Find and kill them as efficiently as possible to prevent more harm to civilized nations, and to civilized people who live in uncivilized nations.
To any Muslims who take offense at that, I say, your complaints are rejected. Get back to me when you become competent human beings, if you are capable of that.
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About the Author: John Armor practiced law in the Supreme Court for 33 years. He now lives on the Eastern Continental Divide in the Blue Ridge of North Carolina. John_Armor@aya.yale.edu
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John / Billybob
Good for Wilders. We likewise need to start calling a spade a spade and to hell with the consequences.
We are our own worst enemies when we allow these international socialist freaks to intimidate us with their namecalling. Cowardice will result in a long march to the ovens.
“We likewise need to start calling a spade a spade and to hell with the consequences”?
No no,
He is the “magic negro”, not the spade.
Bump repeatedly. Read Robert Spencer’s blog ‘Jihad Watch’ regularly. (Even though we should call them Hirabah not jihadis). This conduct in England is coming to the U.S. faster than you can imagine. Support Gerd Wilders.
Hark, do I hear legislation banning negative speech against Islam? (Of course, it would only apply to Islam—not to the on-going Christian bashing that we frequently hear.)
And the # 1 way of offending the Islamofascists is...
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Be alive and breathing and non-Islamic...
I wonder if Wilders would be allowed into the US?
Anyone know of an organization that might invite him to speak here? (I don’t expect Columbia University will be racing to send out an invitation).
It would be interesting to see what the response to Wilders’ being invited to the US might be.
Thanks for sharing this.
He comes here, was here several months ago and plans another trip here shortly, I read his next stop is Italy then the USA, he is welcomed here. check Jihad Watch archives I believe they have stories of past trips. marken
Thanks, marken!!
Look, there are Muslims who say that Islamofascists distort Islam. What do I know? maybe, maybe not. A billion plus people religion can not be reformed from outside. Even in the extreme and unthinkable case of direct nuclear exchange, its not clear if the minds can be changed.
Most importantly, I am not in business of reading their minds. What the West can and should do is to help those Muslims that say that Islamofascism is perversion. How? By not tolerating Islamofascism, appeasing, accommodating, giving platform, meeting in White House, etc, etc - something what the West is routinely does. The biggest complain of American Muslims that are NOT Islamofascists, is that they are ignored, while all the vile elements are treated as representatives of the Muslim community. Why majority of Islamic private schools in US are allowed to be Saudi Wahhabi founded? Would any school openly funded by KKK survive a minute? No, and rightly so.
Look what happened in the parliamentary elections in Iraq. As Krauthammer noted, all the parties having “Islamic” in their name lost. All the parties having “Iraq” in their name won. Sustani publicly and pointingly did not support any party in the elections. So, if this brand of Islam makes attempts for compatibility with democracy, why in the world the West gives more credence to the intolerant?
Mercy to cruel is cruelty to merciful - what’s not clear there?
ooops, founded=funded
Ah yes, well the Brits might be right up there at #1, but I don’t see many “stones” in old Europe anywhere.
God help them if they ever have to defend themselves...wait..they will just surrender...never mind...
DallasDeb,
You should go to your about page and brag about your daughter.
Graduate of the U.S.A.F. Academy.
I’ve two nephews who are West Point Grads. Best kids in the world as I’m sure is your over achieving daughter.
Be proud of your hero MAM.
Tell her thanks.
Great essay.
“a brass-plated, geopolitical moron”. Our man Obama.
Bump!
Thanks for the kind words. Actually, it’s my son who is the grad. No daughters, only 2 boys and proud of them both.
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