Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.
- Winston Churchill
On almost every metric that counts, the Muslim world, especially that part of it which has spawned, and adhered to, the most fundamentalist (radical) reading of the Koran, is a failure and has no ability to threaten the Civilized World. They produce next to nothing (with their oil wealth the results of technology that others have built and operate), their level of education, freedom, and openness are pathetic, and their military abilities have been laughable since the dawn of technological warfare. In almost every way that counts, they have failed as a civilization and should pose an insignificant threat to the current established order. Yet, like the school yard bully in the absence of an authority figure, they do indeed threaten.
The West presents itself as eager to appease Islam and to avoid any actions that the most supersensitive Muslim could take offence to; as with the typical Narcissist, they are easily offended despite the best attempts to avoid giving offense. Where no offense exists, they will often need to manufacture an offence (as occurred with the use of the Mohamed cartoons months after they were first published.) The fecklessness of the West is an outgrowth of our Civilizational insecurity and age. We spend more time fighting among ourselves whether discomforting our enemies is ever justifiable than actually trying to engage in the ideological battle of our time.
Our enemy does not rest in his attempts to harm us and our media establishment and governments raise not a peep in protest.
Much of the media and the western world are again ignoring the appalling slaughters of Christians in Nigeria and other parts of the world and threats of worse to come.
Over the past weekend (March 7, 2010), Muslims attacked three targeted Nigerian villages, Zot, Dogo and Nahawa, killing 500 Christian villagers (many of them young children).
A Times Online/Reuters report described the brutal massacre as follows:
Witnesses said gangs waited at main entry points to the villages while others went from house to house, setting the homes on fire. Those who fled were killed at the exit points. Others were slaughtered after being caught in animal traps and nets as they ran in the dark.
Ben Kwashi, Anglican Archbishop of Jos, said he visited one of three villages engulfed by the violence. “I could see kids from age zero to teenagers, all butchered from the back, macheted in their necks, their heads. Deep cuts in the mouths of babies. The stench. People wailing and crying,” he said. . . .
The Lockerbie bomber -- who was released from a Scottish prison last year because cancer had supposedly left him at death's door -- could be kept alive for up to five more years.
Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was said to have just months to live when Scottish authorities made the controversial decision to free him and allow him to return to Libya.
But the terrorist, given a life sentence for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 270 people, has since been taking the chemotherapy drug Taxotere, the British paper The Sun reports today.
Other reports said that al-Megrahi had not been given the drug while he was in prison -- and might not have been allowed a "compassionate" discharge if it had been prescribed.
We are living in an Alice in Wonderland mirror world when horrendous atrocities are celebrated by our enemies with not a protest from the usual suspects, yet building houses in an area long ago conceded as part of Israel brings forth a foaming, enraged reaction:
So, let’s just accept that Israel’s handling of the Ramat Shlomo settlements announcement during US vice-president Joe Biden’s recent visit was cack handed and self-defeating. Prime Minister Netanyahu has admitted as much by apologising. It was a diplomatic faux pas, and it provoked a torrent of protest from the State Department to the Palestinian Authority. It also received saturation coverage in every major outlet in the western media. Hold that thought.
Now consider the response to the Palestinian Authority’s decision last week to celebrate the worst terrorist atrocity ever perpetrated inside Israel (the 1978 bus massacres which left 38 dead including 13 children) by naming a central square in Ramallah after its perpetrator, Dalal Mughrabi. That was a statement of values and intent, glorifying mass terrorism and signalling to Israel and the world that the Palestinians can never be trusted to abide by civilised norms. It tells you everything you really need to know about Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians and why peace with them has proved elusive for more than six decades. What follows is a list of the western news outlets that have covered what, I repeat, is an immensely significant and illustrative story:
1. The New York Times. 2. Nobody… That’s right, every other major media outlet in the western world has effectively censored it. Apart from the New York Times the story has been ignored.
I could go on, and on, and on; the great bulk of terrorist atrocities in the world are the unique contribution of the Muslim world; such atrocities are routinely ignored in the West (kudos to the Times for mentioning Mughrabi) while efforts to protect ourselves or strike back are often used as excuses to demonize those who would defend us from these predators.
Too many on the left side of the political divide minimize the danger from Islam. (Please note, that as long as the majority of those who speak for the Muslim world condone, abet, or encourage violent behavior against non-believers, there is minimal distinction between Islam and radical Islam; we would do the Muslim world a great favor if we made a better effort to support those who wish only to coexist in peace but that is certainly not the case now.) Many do so out of a misguided belief that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. The greater enemy for those on the far left being Capitalism and the greater enemy for the soft, quasi-pacifistic left is "violence and war." Others are simply craven and believe if they surrender, they will be spared. Unfortunately, even a minor nuisance can become a great danger if one's defenses are compromised. No one has need to fear an individual army ant, but defenseless animals can be devoured by a colony of the creatures.
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