..."somebody wake me when this twit makes any sense"
Posted on 11/24/2007 11:42:20 PM PST by Roberts
Hahahahahahahahahahah.....gasp.....hahahahahah!!
Sincerely (or not)
Redhead
From the Spanish-American archives in the Library of Congress.
“Soldiers of The American army:
We ‘would not be fulfilling our duty as well-born men in whose breasts there live gratitude and courtesy should we embark for our beloved Spain without sending to you our most cordial and sincere good wishes and farewell.
We fought you with ardor, with all our strength, endeavoring to gain the victory, but without the slightest rancor or hate toward the American nation.
We have been vanquished by you (so our generals and chiefs judged in signing the capitulation), but our surrender and the bloody battle preceding it have left in our souls no place for resentment against the men who fought us nobly and valiantly.
You fought and acted in compliance with the same call of duty as we, for we all represent the power of our respective States.
You fought us as men face to face and with great courage, as before stated, a quality which we had not met with during the three years we have carried on this war against a people without religion, without morals, without conscience and of doubtful origin, who could not confront the enemy, but, bidden, shot their noble victims from ambush and then immediately fled.
This was the kind of warfare we had to sustain in this unfortunate land.
You have complied exactly with all the laws and usages of war as recognized by the armies of the most civilized nations of the world; have given honorable burial to the dead of the vanquished; have cured their wounded with great humanity; have respected and cared for your prisoners and their comfort; and, lastly, to us, whose condition was terrible, you have, given freely of food, of your stock of medicines, and you have honored us with distinction and courtesy, for after the fighting the two armies mingled with the utmost harmony.
With the high sentiment of appreciation from us all, there remains but to express our farewell, and with the greatest sincerity we wish you all happiness and health in this land, which will no longer belong to our, dear Spain but will be yours, who have conquered it by force and watered it with your blood as your conscience called for, under the demand of civilization and humanity.
From 11,000 Spanish soldiers
Pedro Lopez de Castillo, Soldier of Infantry
Santiago de Cuba, August 21, 1898.”
From the same Library of Congress archives.
“The Teller and Platt Amendments”
“In April 1898 Senator Henry M. Teller (Colorado) proposed an amendment to the U.S. declaration of war against Spain which proclaimed that the United States would not establish permanent control over Cuba.
It stated that the United States “hereby disclaims any disposition of intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for pacification thereof, and asserts its determination, when that is accomplished, to leave the government and control of the island to its people.”
The Senate passed the amendment on April 19. True to the letter of the Teller Amendment, after Spanish troops left the island in 1898, the United States occupied Cuba until 1902.”
..."somebody wake me when this twit makes any sense"
It seems this "Muslim lifestyle magazine" likes to dish it out but can't take it:
“We try to give a Muslim perspective,” says Mahmud al-Rashid, Joseph’s husband, who is a full-time trial lawyer as well as the magazine’s volunteer publisher and editor-in-chief.
“In everything Mahmud and I do, we try to eradicate the misconceptions that became increasingly prevalent after 9/11,” says Joseph, who in 1994 became the first female editor of Trends, a uk Muslim youth magazine, and who was also founding editor of The Common Good, a publication of the Muslim Council of Britain. Now 32, she is also a part-time doctoral student who lectures frequently and widely on interfaith issues, religious tolerance and women’s issues.
“You have to make sure that people know about Islam and Muslims in a positive way. Muslim people do normal things, live normal lives. And the fact that we’ve got three children makes it paramount to make a better world for them. There is all this talk of clash of civilizations, but we’ve all got to coexist here!”
Al-Rashid explains that, in emel, “we wanted to produce something that we wanted to read ourselves—something with a Muslim perspective on life, looking through western Muslim eyes, something that could reveal the high culture of Islam, not the usual stereotypes.”
The magazine has no problem printing crap about the US and The West but sounds awfully sensitive when it comes to Muslims. This is exactly what is wrong with Muslims today, ducking the real issues that need to be squarely dealt with in regards to Islam and the modern world and what's wrong with Islam that has created all the problems.
The nation of Islam is the most evil of Empires. It tolerates no competinng ideology. It preaches total supremacy in law and spirit. It knows no borders but all of the servents bow to the capital 5 times every day.
Non-muslims face a death sentence for daring to enter the capital.
Stalinist socialists refused to condemn any of the horrific actions of “Uncle Joe”. This compelled George Orwell to rebuke socialism and write novels that exposed the hypocrisy.
May someone do this with the political ideology of Islam...
I was thinking the same thing...Another mouth piece for evil.
Political?
Christianity can be harmed by a crank?
Yet speak out he does with sweeping, worldwide conclusions about what is wrong with America. Nor is he bashful about telling us his prescription about how America should heal itself and properly behave in world (He urged it to launch a “generous and intelligent programme of aid directed to the societies that have been ravaged; a check on the economic exploitation of defeated territories; a demilitarisation of their presence”.)
But it is his diagnosis of what's wrong with America thatreally demonstrates his unfitness to judge: [America's] attempt to intervene overseas by "“clearing the decks”" with a "“quick burst of violent action"”
Should military action be conducted incompletely with slow increments of ineffectual action? As a military theoretician he makes a good Archbishop. Unfortunately, as archbishop, he makes a lousy Archbishop.
He does however reach for an observation which his training and presumed piety would have hopefully equipped him:He poured scorn on the “chosen nation myth of America, meaning that what happens in America is very much at the heart of God’s purpose for humanity”.
Here is after all a man who should know what God's purpose for humanity is-that is after all his profession. He is the head of the established Church of England who has the very ear of his boss, the Queen. The ordained, living vicar of Christ in England! We all wait to hear what this man has to say. Here it is:
“Our modern western definition of humanity is clearly not working very well. There is something about western modernity which really does eat away at the soul.”
Yes, yes, but what do we do about it?
He commends the Muslim practice of praying five times a day, which he says allows the remembrance of God to be “built in deeply in their daily rhythm”.
He does not have a clue.
One might have thought that he would encourage us to flee to the cross, to return our Christian roots, to implore the intervention of our God through the mediation of our Christ. But no, his nostrums are all mechanical and suspiciously left wing and anti-American. Whatever they are, they are secular. Has he no answer for us as the vicar of Christ? Can he only pander to this Muslim audience? Has Christianity offered him nothing to tell them? Will he throw away his faith to gain acceptance with this crowd? Does he have any faith?
He is the head honcho on the operations level of the established Church of England. Who more than the Archbishop is more responsible for a society that is "not working very well. There is something about western modernity which really does eat away at the soul." Whose job is it to fix this if not his? But he can't fix it, he has no idea about how to fix it except to resort again to the insanity of more leftist programs piled on failed left failed leftist programs hoping against hope that this time the failed formula will work. He is not a man of God, he is a damn socialist in sheep's clothing. He is a liar and a hypocrite. Take off your vestments if you will lecture us; garbed as you are, with scepter in hand, you are nothing but a mountebank.
So the Archbishop has no answers in his own sphere for which he is presumably trained and experienced and in which he admits, "eats away at the soul." But in the sphere which he has no competence whatsoever he presumes to lecture the world's only superpower about how to exercise its responsibilities and indeed how to maintain its national security against terrorists who would cheerfully kill the Archbishop along with every American to impose their theocracy. Funny how the Islamicists don't have any problems figuring out God's will.
The Archbishop, as ridiculous as he is, is but a figure of the left. They do not know God's will, but they are quick to tell you what it is not. They are quick to accuse others falsely of claiming the mantle of God, but it is they who play God. Their arrogance can kill us.
Imperialism: armed and unarmed conquest by a emperor for the sake of building an empire.
We are liberators, as in those that provide liberty to the oppressed peoples of the world.
This is called the Stockholm Syndrome.
And it’s infected scores of those in official positions of authority in the UK.
The Archbishop of Canterbury , yet.
An iconic figure.
And in an interview with a “British Muslim Magazine”,
which is the FIRST thing that’s wrong with this.
Before you know it, the A of C will be given some official Islamic position, like overseeing New Mosque Construction.
This is all so PATHETICALLY SAD.
Does he hit his head on the floor five times a day ?
Hopefully, the little one. We certainly don’t need him contributing to the gene pool!
The possibility that they may kill you last does not make them your friends.
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“The popular idea in the West was that Islam attained its great success within and without Arabia by violent means. “While the state was exhausted by the Persian war,” writes Gibbon on the Roman Empire, “. . . Mohammed, with the sword in one hand and the Koran in the other, erected his throne on the ruins of Christianity and of Rome.” 1 Modern scholars only rarely commit themselves to such hasty and general verdicts. 2 There are, on the other hand, some moderm scholars who discount to a large extent the violent means and maintain that Islam was mainly spread by “preaching.” 3
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- THE LAW OF WAR AND PEACE IN ISLAM
By
MAJID KHADDURI, Ph.D.
LONDON
LUZAC & CO.
1941
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