Posted on 07/06/2008 1:29:19 AM PDT by neverdem
Very relevant article!
People have to be informed about what it’s going on in the world instead of that people are distracted,”amused” and sent to sleep by the liberal MSM and their croocks
Good information, thanks for posting.
This is not correct. OBL is actually following Islam.
"Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued." 9:29 (Jizya is the money that non-Muslims must pay to the Muslim overlords in a pure Islamic state.)
If you follow the words of the prophet, when you meet me, a Christian, you give me three choices:
1. Convert to Islam
2. Be killed
3. Submit and pay the jizya
Peaceful co-existence does not seem to be the will of Allah.
I used to believe the God of the Jew, the Christian and the Muslim was the God of Abraham. Until I started learning about the cult of death called Islam.
Defending our Republic is one thing.
Transferring my wealth to the “gap” to further the Bolshevik elites, under the Utopian dream of ending war...forget it.
This is a great phrase in a very interesting article.
The only point at which he falls down is assigning the 18th century as the moment at which Islam became violent and a threat. It was violent and a threat since the day of its founding, and is based on violence, and has always extended itself that way.
The 18th century was simply another flare-up, although it was, obviously, the first US contact with Islam, since we had just been founded. Remember, we were having to fight Islam in the Med within only a few years after our founding.
One of the problems is that while most Muslims do not agree with AQ and are not members of the Shadow Army, they are members of the Ghost Country (the umma, the house of Islam), and it is easy both to intimidate them and to radicalize them because the mental groundwork is already laid.
Can we fight all of Islam? No, not militarily. But what we need to do is to defend our ideas, because this is the area in which we really fall down. Western society has an entirely different basis, and is based on the concept of natural law and the value of the individual. It's hard for us to present this clearly because we have our own undermining force, Marxism, which is based, like Islam, on an externally imposed law (for the good of an entity known as the state, in this case), and exalts the collective.
But I think one area in which we are very remiss is the philosophical/theoretical area. We simply don't present it. About the only person who ever says anything regarding it is the Pope.
It would be nice if he had a little more company, because we need the two pronged approach: unrelenting military activity to protect ourselves and our allies, and vigorous philosophical/political activity to protect the core of our civilization and resist Islam at the most profound level.
History channel? Highbrow???
Buwahahaaha!
The former “Hitler channel” (all Hitler, all the time in the 90’s) is home of some of the worst pop history pap I’ve ever seen.
It’s a TAD beter now than it was and occasionally the do have a decent show on but it’s basically second rate. It’s the Wikipedia of history. The NY Post of history. It ain’t highbrow!
Yeah the “Hitler channel” is home of some of the worst pop history pap I’ve ever seen as well as all the inserted PC garbage that bubbles up at some off the wall time about GW, Commies and other mistruths from the Left....but compared to the 90% of pure crap broadcasttd on TeeVee it is similaer to Fox vs.ABCNBCCBSNPR...etal.
They’re also attacking us in the schools, the media, and the courts. And we’re losing.
The idea of transferring wealth to empower Barnett's Gap entails borrowing money from the world to turn the United States into the hegemon of Global Governance. Never mind that it bankrupts us in the process so that the world calls the shots within our borders, to the detriment of what remains of the American middle class. Look at what we've spent in Iraq. What makes these idiots think we can afford to do that for the entire African content?
I have no interest in a world made safe for American corporatists on the backs of impoverished taxpayers. Better that we train and arm resistances within other countries and let them build themselves, which is where we have been way behind the curve within Iran.
btt
I see it in the glazed eyes of "educated" members of my own family when the subject of Islamic terrorism arises or the latest Nanny State atrocity is passively accepted.
Disheartening.
Good article, thanks for posting.
More than a little interesting, in light of Obama's 57 states, eh?
IMHO, that's worth repeating.
We’re losing the intellectual battle because we never even present our ideas - those upon which our country and all of Western civilization were founded. We have been undermined by the left and our own professors and even secondary school (and probably primary, too) teachers, who hate the US and reject our foundational thought. We’ve got to go back to it, revive it, and teach it if we want to survive.
[the enemy is not the religion of Islam, but certain Muslims, like the team of Usama bin Laden and Mullah Omar of the Taliban, who follow the uncommon Wahhabi interpretation of Hanbali Islamic law. Laurent Murawiec’s definition, from his book Princes of Darkness, is succinct and clear:
“... Wahhabism is a strange mixture of paganism, provincial narrow-mindedness, and rhetoric borrowed from Islam. Hardly a generation ago, the Al-Saud family religion was considered by the Islamic world as a weird distortion of Islam by exalted visionaries: the backward religion of ignorant and crude Bedouins.”]
Everything that follows from this premise is flawed by the naivete of the premise itself; were it so easy to see through the motives of a militant few, so many would have abandoned the entire core long before now as to make these few to which he refers universal outcasts.
The world cheers winners and forgets how they came to win.
It’s mostly boredom that allows the day to break as the revelry crashes into the scattered pieces of the night’s excess.
Yeah, all about dung, monster quest, ice road trucking, all about sex and let’s not forget about the hapless fishermen who take to the storm-lashed seas...
IMHO, that statement is true. I don't have to agree with everything in an article before I post it.
Americans' unhappy birthday: 'Too much wrong'
I could post an article like that just to mock it. Every thing that's wrong with this country comes from the left with the exception of business that wants cheap, illegal labor.
NYT: Maybe Greenland Isn't Melting After All
Uranium Stockpile Removed From Iraq in Secret U.S. Mission. Just on the 5PM news WABC-AM, in NYC.
From time to time, I’ll ping on noteworthy articles about politics, foreign and military affairs. FReepmail me if you want on or off my list.
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1,000 years ago one man of great courage,
...one EL CID (Arabic for ‘The Lord’) portrayed by CHARLETON HESTON in the 1961 Epic Motion Picture of the same name,
pulled a fractious baby Spain together to repel a Muslim invasion hell bent on taking over an entire Christian Europe.
Sorta like today 1,000 years later,
...with our heading back to Earth’s Moon and then on to the Planet Mars in this new 21st Century AD of ours,
...bringing those living here in the 7th Century AD along for the ride.
The “EL CID” Special Edition DVD was finally released this year.
A real MUST SEE.
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