Saturday, November 5, 2011

A Religion of Peace

      Terry Jones, a small town Florida pastor, threatened to burn copies of the Koran on the September anniversary of the World Trade Center attack.  Although Jones was well advised to refrain from carrying out that threat, all things considered, you would have thought he had threatened mass murder, given the avalanche of self-righteous indignation directed at him.  Some folks breathed a sigh of relief that those big bad conservatives hadn't taken over just yet.
      It was jihadist terrorists, promoting the "religion of peace", not Terry Jones, who decided to fly jets into buildings, blow a hole  in a ship, torch a night club full of people in Bali, bomb trains in Madrid and London, hotels in India and Pakistan and embassies in Africa, a passenger jet full of innocent people in Scotland, attempted to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge, attempted to set off a bomb at the Los Angeles airport, and on a jet flying the Atlantic, and a jet landing in Detroit, and a bomb in Times Square, decapitate  innocent people who displease them,  murder disagreeable authors, establish Shariah Law by force where it isn't wanted, stone women to death, require women to  have a male escort when leaving home and to forget about driving a car or having a career,  erect a triumphant in-your-face mosque at ground zero while denying Christians, Jews and Hindus the right to worship in Saudi Arabia and wherever else they can do so, and to run 'wahabi' schools to teach murder and mayhem against 'infidels'. 
     Goody-goodies and can't-we-all-get-along types sometimes assert that "you just don't understand the Moslem religion".  My response is "I don't have to, nor do I care to.  What they believe is their business.  What they do is everyone's business".  I don't even care whether Islam is really a religion at all, or a political movement dressed up as a religion to take advantage of a lot of misguided notions about religious freedom.  Nor should we be interested in the ridiculous argument that they are mad at the United States because we're such mean old imperialists and racists and all that crap.  If they were really motivated by anger at Americans why do they commit their atrocities all over the world?  If these guys aren't stopped at some point they will take over the world, largely by default flowing from the lethargy and indifference of the West.
     How wonderful that we have so far been protected from this monster Terry Jones and his fifty parishioners in rural Florida

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