Holy shit.
The religion of peace kills again. Muslims in England (and many citizens of Hollywood, Boston and Dearborn) are concerned about bigotry and backlash this week in the aftermath of their brethren bombing innocent Brits for the unholy crime of commuting to their jobs on Thursday morning. Bodies are still buried in London's Underground as liberals and other terror supporters in blue states and around the world blame the blasts on everything from American SUVs and Halliburton to Gitmo and global warming. But for reasonable people, at least two things are apparent in the aftermath of this cold-blooded attack on our most loyal ally. First, the muslims picked the wrong target. The British people aren't the spineless Spanish or the Vichy French. They've endured and overcome Irish bomb-throwers and the Nazi blitzkrieg. While they may not be able to raise an edible cow, the English are made of stiff stuff and they won't be bowing to Mecca anytime soon. And second, it's time to have an honest conversation about the nature of our enemy in the War on Terror. And I'm not talking about the newsroom of The New York Times. I mean radical Islam... All Praise to Google. A product of public schools well-before 9/11 (and even before Al Gore invented the internet), I grew up thinking Muhammad was a heavyweight boxer with a quick jab and a quicker tongue and that Medina was a nice little town south of Cleveland. I did know enough about the Middle East to be armed with some keywords to feed the browser. Starting with "low-aspiration civilizations comprised of bitter, unaccomplished and unattractive people" I found quite a few links to helpful information about the Columbia University faculty as well as a few sources for some straight poop on the perpetually pissed-off Palestinians and other dyspeptic desert-dwellers. And I found some stuff about Islam. Apparently, the number two guy in Islam (Allah is their god and ranks #1) is a prophet named Muhammad who was born c. 570 in Mecca and died 63 years later in an Arab Peninsula oasis called Medina (which, it seems, is nowhere near Cleveland). Muhammad, like our own John Kerry, made his fortune by marrying a rich, old widow. But while Kerry has been content to preach class warfare from a plush perch of political privilege, Muhammad made his place in history the holy way. As a 40-year-old merchant sitting in a cave, he claimed to have "visions" that made him special. He became a preacher, recruited a wacky cult of followers and began robbing caravans, building a legion of believers and waging war on his neighbors in the region. Along the way, he found time to marry a nine-year-old girl (as well as another nine or ten women) and even serve as the subject of an important book. It documents Muhammad's "visions" and lays out the rules for the old world order. It is called The Qur'an.... Read it and weep. You don't have to spend a lot of time reading the revelations and rules in the Qur'an to see it includes toxic themes providing the gameplan and playbook of global terror for those inclined toward evil. Spend a little time with it, and you'll see how the blind believers think, the nature of their agenda and what they really want to do to you, me and our way of life. Here's one of my personal favorites: (Qur'an 8:59) "The infidels should not think that they can get away from us. Prepare against them whatever arms and weaponry you can muster so that you may terrorize them. They are your enemy and Allah's enemy.".... Here's a question for all you "infidels".... When does a "legitimate" religion become a "hate group" ? Or at least a violent criminal enterprise? We're not talking about a TV evangelist scamming an old lady out of a pension check to pay for his new Cadillac. We're talking about millions of radical zealots exporting global violence and oppression because they don't approve of the way we live. They resent our freedom and they're not content to live among 'non-believers' while they aspire to greater things through education and hard work. They say they will kill us or make us like them, however long that takes. We don't have to wait for the now-over-burdened Scotland Yard to crack this case. Whether or not all muslims are terrorists, all terrorists in this war have been muslims. If we're going to save our freedom and our skins we had better start profiling the real problems, paying attention to our borders (and our neighbors), protecting ourselves (and our friends) by taking off the gloves and praying to anyone but Allah that we can stop these crazies before they can kill us by the millions.... and a question for you "true believers." Where are the powerful clerics, Islamic community leaders and mainstream muslims who should be condemning all this senseless killing? If muslims are indeed peaceful people seeking a positive, productive role in a diverse modern world, someone had better speak up pretty soon. Because with terrorists screaming louder and louder for more blood in the name of Islam, it's getting harder and harder to hear the belly-aching about "bigotry and backlash." Clean your house.
posted by Steve's America at 9:20 PM
18 Comments:
You accuse muslims of high crime and assert (without sources): "They say they will kill us or make us like them, however long that takes." I agree, "convert or die" is a terrifying and barbaric ultimatum. The same chill went up my spine when I read Ann Coulter's "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity." It is interesting to me how similar the Islamic extremists sound to our own Christian extremists (who ARE harsher than old lady swindlers). At the end of the day what separates them is geography, little else.
Ann Coulter is just trying to get a rise out of you and peddle some books. The radical muslims are killing innocent people every day, invoking the name of their god in the process. Big difference.
Sir, I must take issue with your derogatory statement regarding the British cow. My mum's Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathic-infested roast beef was delicious. Apparently, the trick was to take a 5 pound roast and cook it until it was about the size of a walnut. Her Yorkshire pudding, on the other hand, could kill you.
Steve- Your headline and lead sentence are what I would have wanted to see in at least one msm newspaper on 7/7 or any media outlet for that matter. It really speaks volumes. By the way, is it just me or did the previous commentor equate writings from the Koran to the writings of Anne Coulter? What is it going to take for people to understand? Thanks for posting a great perspective. It was much appreciated!
Susan
Susan, I share your frustration about the MSM. As for the views of the earlier contributor (not the guy whose Mum tried to poison him with Yorkshire pudding... the other one) we have only the public schools and political correctness to blame for the dangerous relativism. Thanks for the comments.
Hear, hear. Moral and cultural relativism is enfeebling western civilization. Still the best book on the subject is Allan Bloom's "The Closing of the American Mind." Well worth a read. Also, my Mum's Brussels sprouts, stuffed in the end of an old sock and swung with moderate force, could knock a man insensible.
Thanks for the lead... I'll look for the book. My own mother would use a foot of kielbasa like a blackjack to get our attention.
I'm baaaaaack. So, I've been labeled unjustly as someone who invokes relativism for the sake of being politically correct. It was also mistakenly posted that I compared the koran to the writings of Ann Coulter. Again, I would never compare an interesting and influential piece of religious literature to the rants of a careerist, fascist twit whose name will be forgotten in a few years (tops). I actually used Steve's line condemning muslims for wanting to convert us or kill us and compared it to a similar condemnation I make regarding Ms. Coulter. No, Ms. Coulter isn't strapping bombs on herself and killing civilians but the advocacy of "convert or die" is damnable in any context. Thus, I am far from a relativist. The most succint definition I could find of relativism is "Relativism, a theory that conceptions of truth and moral values are not absolute but are relative to the persons or groups holding them." Of course, you could blame the public schools for this definition if you wish but I'll bet you a slice of the gaza strip that my saying "people who want others to convert or die are always morally and ethically wrong" can only be taken as the statement of an absolutist. I do not believe that morality is relative but it seems that you all do... otherwise, why would you excuse Coulter's prejudice and fascism simply because she doesn't have a gun or bomb? I was raised to condemn all types of prejudice, not just the ones that affect me. As a Jew, one learns to be wary of any person (blond or not) that thinks the solution is homogeneity through genocide.
My entire point is that bad things happen when people are extremists and violent extremism should be condemned. Saying that Islam is the cause of terrorism is like saying Christianity is the cause of the holocaust. Don't blame the religion, blame the extremists who warp the religion. All of them. The mormon fundamentalists who rape and marry their daughters, the Catholic priests who molest little boys, the Jewish Underground who tries to blow up the Dome of the Rock, the KKK who want the country to be white and christian... These are not accurate representatives of their religion just as the hijackers and suicide bombers aren't accurate representatives of Islam. And hopefully, Ann Coulter is not an accurate representative of "love thy enemy" christianity.
Steve's America better check his facts...
Grand Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi of the Al-Azhar mosque of Cairo - which is seen as the highest authority in Sunni Islam - said groups which carried out suicide bombings were the enemies of Islam. Speaking at the conference in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, Sheikh Tantawi said extremist Islamic groups had appropriated Islam and its notion of jihad, or holy struggle, for their own ends.
BBC News, 11 July, 2003
Prominent Muslim scholar Dr. Youssef Al-Qaradawi has condemned Al-Qaeda for their fuel tanker suicide bombing of a centuries-old Jewish synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba in April 2002.
"Hijacking Planes, terrorizing innocent people and shedding blood constitute a form of injustice that can not be tolerated by Islam, which views them as gross crimes and sinful acts."
Shaykh Abdul Aziz al-Ashaikh, Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia and Chairman of the Senior Ulama, on September 15th, 2001
"The terrorists acts, from the perspective of Islamic law, constitute the crime of hirabah (waging war against society)."
September 27, 2001 - Fatwa, signed by:
Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Grand Islamic Scholar and Chairman of the Sunna and Sira Countil, Qatar
Judge Tariq al-Bishri, First Deputy President of the Council d'etat, Egypt
Dr. Muhammad s. al-Awa, Professor of Islamic Law and Shari'a, Egypt
Dr. Haytham al-Khayyat, Islamic scholar, Syria
Fahmi Houaydi, Islamic scholar, Syria
Shaykh Taha Jabir al-Alwani, Chairman, North America High Council
"Those terrorists must be reading a completely different Quran than the rest of us. This isn't about Islam. It's about terrorism."
US Marine Corps Captain Aisha Bakkar-Poe.
-and there is plenty more where that came from.
Well had the Islamic radicals, like Ghandi before them, made their message clear to the British and won, through peace, not war, the words we purport they represent might be heard in the first person...but then I'm a very happy "liberal and other terror supporter" who lived in fear of his Italian mother throwing a hot meatball at him.
P.S. - ABOUT the French..who was our buddy in the big one, the Revoltionary War? Without them, a free pulpit to blog from might not exist...okay... that last bit was really just to bait you.
P.P.S. I have this AMAZING British beef, kielbasa, brussell sprout, and meatball recipe you just MUST try
el feo332,
Have you forgotten about the second world war? France would not have the same name today had it not been for the intervention of the U.S. It might be called...Germany.
why does everyone here think that the United States won WWII by itself? how about the 9 million soviet casualties of war compared to the 300,000 US? what about the battle of stalingrad? the US was instrumental in the victory, sure, but lets not pretend that we could have won the whole thing by ourselves.....
We beat Japan with two airplanes, need I say more? Look what the commies did with the WWII victory, they tore down the Hitler propaganda and replaced it with statues of Stalin wearing bushy hats. The people of Russia are still trying to recover from what that sociopath has done to the country. We could have done without Stalin and his repressive regime.
Lolly: Extremism id defined by the middle. Homicide bombers and mass murderers are farther out there than an anorexic conservative with a sharp tongue.
elG: I don't believe you're a liberal. I believe you are a soft-hearted libertarian.
worldsworstgolfer: The French should be shunned. America did the heavy-lifting in WWII just like we're doing it today. By the way, is your screen name an aspiration or a fact?
Peanutbutter:
I'm not asking the muslims to fight our war. I'm asking them to fight for their religion if they care about its legitimacy.
Just a fact check. You commented that Muhammad wrote a book.... the Koran. It's my understanding that he in fact did not write the Koran, but rather the Koran is a record of his actions and sayings that were gradually written down over a 200 year period. Am I correct?
And Lolly.... Vultures and eagles are both animals seperated by geography.... but also many other things as well. Cursorary observation would quickly point them out. Like Steve responded... "Big Difference".
Anonynous,
Your basic fact is correct. Muhammad didn't physically "write" the Qu'ran. It was documented by others. But it was, in fact, his story comprised of his teachings. Much the way Hillary writes her books with hack ghost-writers.
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