Every Generation is tested by great Evil [Ours is militant Islam]

Jewish World Review.com | August 7, 2002 | Dennis Prager

[1bigdictator]

Dennis Prager

Every generation is tested by great evil

http://www.jewishworldreview.com | It would appear that every generation confronts a major moral test. A great evil presents itself as a good, and the world that is not victimized by that evil is tested: Can it recognize the evil and confront it?

The pattern is eerily and depressingly repetitive.

1. The evil takes hold. 2. The evil has myriad defenders even among otherwise decent people.

3. The evil is vanquished after destroying an uncountable number of lives.

4. After the evil is vanquished, there is virtually unanimous agreement that it was indeed evil.

We can identify four examples that have confronted Americans and other Westerners in the last two centuries.

One was slavery and racism. A great number of Americans and others saw little wrong with slavery. How did even some otherwise decent people defend such an obvious evil? They believed that skin color determined a person's worth and destiny. To almost all Americans today, including the children of those who believed in racism, this belief is as bizarre as it is evil.

A second example was Communism. Many people living in free societies actually believed that Communism was a moral good. No matter how many millions of innocent people Communist regimes murdered, no matter how much Communism deprived people of elementary human rights, many people living outside Communism could not call it evil. Recall the uproar President Ronald Reagan provoked when he labeled the Soviet Union an "evil empire." Yet, within just a few years of Communism's fall, it was hard to find any Westerner -- outside of universities where Communism had always had its greatest support -- who did not routinely call Communism evil.

A third example was Nazism. As difficult as it is to imagine now, even Nazism had many admirers in free countries. These people saw the economic turnaround made by Germany under Hitler and either ignored, belittled or sympathized with its totalitarianism and antisemitism. Because Nazism only held power for 12 years, as opposed to Communism's much longer history, it had little time to engender the widespread support that Communism did. Nazism was finally vanquished, but only after murdering two out of every three Jews in Europe and many millions of other innocents. And since its fall, Nazism has almost universally become synonymous with evil.

The fourth example is taking place at this moment, and it precisely repeats the pattern of the other three. There is a great evil, and many in the West either defend it or excuse its totalitarianism and antisemitism. It is Islamic extremism. Afghanistan, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Palestinian society have created totalitarian regimes that, in each or all cases, have terribly oppressed women; enslaved and slaughtered a million blacks who refuse to be subjugated to Islamic totalitarianism; use religious police to whip men who drink alcohol; torture Christians who live or work there; have developed a unique theology of cruelty in which the Creator is depicted as a provider of scores of young women to all Muslims who blow themselves up while murdering Jews and Americans; and, like Nazism, it has made Jew-hatred its centerpiece. And throughout much of the Muslim Middle East, girls are murdered by fathers and brothers in "honor killings" if they are so much as perceived as having spent time with a male unapproved by the family.

It should not be difficult to call all this evil, but just as with the previous evils, many Western voices not only defend these regimes and doctrines, they reserve their condemnations only for those who oppose the evil. Apologists like best-selling author Karen Armstrong, the professors of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA), professors in other fields, the leftist European and American press -- all these deny Islamic evils. Just as their predecessors blamed America for the Cold War with Communism, and dismissed anti-Communists as "war mongers" and "fascists," today's deniers of evil blame America and Israel for Islamic terror and label terror's opponents "bigots," "Islamophobes" and, of course, "war mongers."

Hopefully, this particular evil will be eradicated before it slaughters even more innocents. But the history of evil offers little optimism. Instead we are once again subjected to the spectacle of people living in splendor apologizing for the greatest cruelty of their time. When you see this, you understand why the Creator "regretted that He made man on Earth."

[1bigdictator]

A fifth example are socialists parading around as Liberals rationalizing and excusing Islamic terror.

[goldstategop]

The Bible teaches that when God saw the Earth filled with depravity and bloodlust and evil, he repented of creating Man. He destroyed His creation once in the hope that human beings would start afresh and avoid the evils that consumed the world before them. Alas it increasingly looks like man's evil will threaten to consume the world again, if not in a flood, then in the fury of an atomic furnance. That is why Islam which has come to symbolize the pathology of a sick culture, must be stopped before the End Of The World happens. We know who is evil today. We must not rationalize or excuse it and utterly root it out and destroy it before it levels to ashes everything good and decent in the world. Let's not make God have regret again for having given Man a second chance.

[dead]

Great article. Prager is on the money.

Check out this great article on the same subject:

A new fear stalks the land: militant Islam

[Blood of Tyrants]

Actually, we are still battling the idiots who support communism/socialism. Tyranny by democratic process is still tyranny.

[1bigdictator]

Point well taken.

[ffusco]

Pure democracy quickly becomes mobocracy. This is especially true in nations that have provided the basic neccesities to most of its citizens. Once life is no longer a struggle, people begin to become selfish, lazy and narcissistic- ever been to California!

[Search4Truth]

The evil that will destroy America is within her borders. And it is not Islam. There will always be that kind of evil, that has not changed. What has changed is our resolve to destroy it.

America is weak from years of liberalization and feminization, and evil knows it. That is why they came to kill us by the tens of thousands (killing the 50,000 people in the 2 towers was their goal). Like any good predator, they can sense weakness.

America was strong when it was a male dominated society. That is how America was built, made prosperous and strong. Now it has been feminised and is weak. We will ultimately pay a great prices for this weakness.

[rightwingreligiousfanatic]

Get ready, here they come, for you and for me.

Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, in the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.....