In the city of Volgograd [Stalingrad] is this awe inspiring statue that towers above the historic landscape...it is Russia's mirror of Americas's Statue of Liberty.
Stalingrad on the Volga was WW-2's "Killing Fields"...for Nazi Germany the price was 250,000 dead....90,000 prisoners..of whom only 3000+ ever returned home a near decade after the war from their hellish existence in Soviet Gulags.
Mamayev Kurgans shadow falls upon the ground of over a Million Russian deaths,military and civilian.
Russians fought bravely at Stalingrad....not for Stalin...but for Rodina...the Motherland.
Other nations have their Patriotic places...the theme of such vaulted aloud in battle cry and on the streets of home when trouble visits their lands...
But what kind of honorable symbol might we find if we were to pull aside the dark curtain of Islam....a nation encompassing much of the earth.
Where is their Statue of Liberty....Mother of Rodina?
Inquiring we find none to be seen....
In my mind..there is something exceedingly dark within the framework of this nation...one that fails to express courage and honor..themes which represent what is most noble concerning man.
When challegened to give an account for their corporate actions in history past and present ,the reply is a defensive roar...which leads to words of blame and guilt towards the one asking the question.
If we...that is the West..and add Israel too of late...had attacked this nation of Islam...if Islam had made some stand somewhere where multitudes fell for thier passion..would there not be some symbol of that for them to present the world..to remind us...a place for them to rally when their realm is threatened?
They actually might have one..and it would be in a place called Ein Jalut...where the Mamaluks defeated the Mongols and drove them from the lower mideast regions...but Ein Jalut will not emerge in the average Muslims mind if you asked..for they are hardly aware of their own history.
Looking at Islam....I see a great tragedy that has run for far too long...a history of being.....but lacking in Glory.
