4um: I Am Not Afraid of Radical Islam

Title: I Am Not Afraid of Radical Islam
Source: The Fountain of Truth
URL Source: http://www.geocities.com/fountoftruth/radical.html
Published: May 11, 2008
Author: Doug Newman
Post Date: 2008-05-11 16:28:09 by snoopdougg
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Comments: 60

Radical Islam has no command center. As a religion it has no pope or Vatican. Politically, it has no Berlin, Tokyo or Moscow from which to dispatch terrorists on missions of death.

Can you name the last time a Muslim country conquered a non-Muslim country? If not, don’t feel bad. I can't either. It has been centuries.

Terrorism is a means of venting political grievances. It is not a philosophy of government. Terrorists don’t even control the government of Afghanistan, one of the poorest countries on earth. So this idea that they are going to come to America, take over, and force us all to speak Arabic, submit to shari’a law and pray to Mecca five times a day is indescribably absurd.

The Islamic world is militarily irrelevant. Consider Iraq. It had no navy or air force. American pilots flew thousands of missions over Iraq between 1991 and 2003, and not once was an American plane shot down. In 2003, Iraq had a military budget of $1.3 billion – enough to build two stadiums here in America.

Terrorists do not “hate us for our freedom and democracy.” While America is not as free as most people think, we still have a measure of freedom. Many other countries have a similar measure of freedom, as well as democratically elected governments. And they have no terror problem.

When you have a military presence in 130 countries and you insist on throwing your weight around to the extent that America does, you will inevitably have a few folks hating on you. The Bible teaches that you reap what you sow and that if you live by the sword you die by the sword.

It is a lie that “if we don’t fight them over there, we will fight them over here.” I don't worship at the altar of Ronald Reagan, but I will give him this: after 240 Marines were killed in a suicide bombing in Lebanon in 1983, he pulled the Marines out of Lebanon. Lebanese terrorists didn't "follow us here." Britain once had a terror problem in Kenya. And when they granted independence to Kenya, the problem of Kenyan terrorism went away. France, likewise, once had a problem with terrorism in Algeria. And then, when they granted independence to Algeria – budda bing budda boom – the Algerian terror problem went away. As Pat Buchanan has said, terrorism is the price a nation pays for having an empire.

Terrorists know they cannot defeat you militarily. So they will make your life miserable as long as they have a grievance against you.

9/11 – even if you believe the official story, which I don’t – was an attack, not an invasion. This is not just a matter of semantics. There was no invading Army. There was no naval battle group in New York Harbor or Chesapeake Bay. There were no aerial bombing raids by the terrorist Luftwaffe.

Moreover – again, even if you believe the official 9/11 story, which I don’t – the 19 hijackers are DEAD!!! You cannot take over a country and establish an Islamofascist dictatorship and do all kinds of horrible things WHEN YOU ARE DEAD!!!

It is interesting that, in the name of preserving freedom against threat of Islamofascism, so many Americans are willing to relinquish their freedoms.

There is a Constitutional provision for dealing with things like terrorism. Article I, Section 8 authorizes Congress to “grant Letters of Marque & Reprisal.” Wikipedia defines this as “an official warrant or commission from a government authorizing the designated agent to search, seize, or destroy specified assets or personnel belonging to a foreign party which has committed some offense under the laws of nations against the assets or citizens of the issuing nation”.

The response is to be in proportion to the offense. Even if you believe the official story, 9/11 was not an act of war by a foreign nation, but an act of gang violence against American people and property. Let Congress send a few Marines or Rangers or SEALS to take care of business, but don’t launch an endless, ruinously expensive, unwinnable war against a tactic.

Shortly after 9/11, the Marque and Reprisal Act of 2001 was introduced by – surprise! – Congressman Ron Paul.

H.L. Mencken once stated that “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.“

The left wants us to freak out and to give up all our freedom in the name of fighting global warming. The right wants us to freak out and to give up all our freedom in the name of fighting terrorism. To quote Pat Buchanan one more time, the left wing and the right wing are actually two wings of the same bird of prey.

Sorry, I've been around so much of this I just have to laugh out loud sometimes...

Of course it's a religion, despite the Hasbra spewing all over TOS and TOS2 to the contrary. Face it, the anti-Islamic propaganda has a purpose. The attempted sinking of the USS Liberty had the same goal in mind.

I'll just say that having spent a LOT of my life in Muhammadan nations...somewhere decades ago...there was a fusion of Communistic-Fascism...that intertwined State and "Socialism"...with brutal tyranny which was justified by that 'religion'...and I'll leave it at that. Liberal Christians are predominantly neocommies now days as well...different but similar. But then I see Christianity differently, obviously.

Balfour Declaration of 1917

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Not to be confused with the Balfour Declaration of 1926.

Arthur James Balfour.

The Balfour Declaration of 1917 (dated November 2, 1917) was a classified formal statement of policy by the British government stating that the British government "view with favour" the establishment in Palestine of "a national home for the Jewish people" on the conditions that "nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine" or "the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."

The declaration was made in a letter from Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Lord Rothschild (Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation, a private Zionist organization. The letter reflected the position of the British Cabinet, as agreed upon in a meeting on October 31, 1917. It further stated that the declaration is a sign of "sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations."

The statement was issued through the efforts of Chaim Weizmann and Nahum Sokolow, the principal Zionist leaders based in London but, as they had asked for the reconstitution of Palestine as “the” Jewish national home, the Declaration fell short of Zionist expectations.^[1]

The "Balfour Declaration" was later incorporated into the Sèvres peace treaty with Turkey and the Mandate for Palestine. The original document is kept at the British Library.

British Mandate of Mesopotamia

Main articles:
British Mandate of Mesopotamia
and Assyrian independence

British troops entering Baghdad.

At the end of World War I, the League of Nations granted the area to the United Kingdom as a mandate. It initially formed two former Ottoman vilayets (regions): Baghdad, and Basra into a single country in August 1921. Five years later, in 1926, the northern vilayet of Mosul was added, forming the territorial boundaries of the modern Iraqi state.

For three out of four centuries of Ottoman rule, Baghdad was the seat of administration for the vilayets of Baghdad, Mosul, and Basra. During the mandate, British colonial administrators ruled the country, and through the use of British armed forces, suppressed Arab and Kurdish rebellions against the occupation. They established the Hashemite king, Faisal, who had been forced out of Syria by the French, as their client ruler. Likewise, British authorities selected Sunni Arab elites from the region for appointments to government and ministry offices.^[specify]^[10]