French President Francois Hollande said the attacks on Paris
had “nothing to do with Islam.”
Unless and until we summon the
courage to tell the truth and openly discuss what is really occurring, we will never prevail in this existential
battle of good and evil. If those in the public eye continue to look for any
and every other reason for these continuing attacks around the world, we become
the alcoholic that denies there is a real problem and blames his troubles on everyone
and everything else. How come there is never any problem boldly stating that
‘white supremacists’ committed a crime or that a ‘fringe group’ of
anti-government types are responsible? Sometimes a politically-incorrect group
is blamed first for one of these atrocities committed ‘in the name of Allah’,
without any evidence for the assertion. How did
radical Islamic terrorists get onto the politically-correct ‘protected
list’, anyway?? It’s always ‘open season’ on anyone who has the temerity to
utter traditional western religious
beliefs. The media revels in
reporting on the Catholic priest sexual-abuse scandals. Mildly disapprove of
gay marriage? Be gone with you! It’s
re-education camp for you and anyone who’s had contact with you in the last ten
years. Think the death penalty is warranted in the most extreme cases of
multiple, heinous crimes? You’re not welcome in polite society. Your dinner
invitation to Streisand’s has been cancelled. You believe spanking your child
is warranted in certain rare cases? Don’t expect to keep your job at Starbucks.
You believe the man should wear the pants in the family? Good luck in this
society. You might want to wear a helmet if you are near a college or
university. (Where there are likely to be more female than male students).
Yet Islam, with its tenets that the
woman is effectively the property of the man and can be beaten when ‘necessary’
and is not supposed to go out in public without her husband or a male relative
as chaperon, is untouchable. In many Islamic countries, gays are still stoned in the public square. Thieves
and adulterers may have a hand or other appendage cut off, yet it is the one
religion treated as sacrosanct.
Since the recent attacks in France,
there have been as many articles and opinion pieces in the local newspapers
dealing with the potential ‘fallout’ to the local Islamic community as there
have been on the attacks themselves. Literally. Most of these pieces, issued
from trembling fingers, have speculated about how it feels to be a Muslim in
America or the West today. Many have been written by Muslims, who have collectively spent a great deal of time writing and speaking about their
feelings and not much time at all actually denouncing the terrorists and their
attacks.
Historically, almost all of the
radical Islamist terrorist (sorry, ‘insurgent’)
attacks have been (barely) preceded by the cry of “Allahu akbar!” This should
be a clue that it isn’t a simple case of ‘workplace violence’ about to occur.
There weren’t thousands of articles
on the feelings of Germans (‘krauts’) in
newspapers across the United States during World War II, and they didn’t even behead many
people. If the Germans- or, say, youthful American males who fell under the
spell of National Socialism- had
killed many people in attacks here while wearing swastika-laden clothing and
screaming “Heil Hitler”, authorities would not have assumed it was just another
garden-variety case of workplace violence. “It’s a head-scratcher, Bob, but I’m
gonna guess it was someone involved with the Communist Party.”
Historically, there has been only
one truly effective way of dealing with Islamic terrorists. For a time, the
English threatened to stuff pork products in and on their person at burial,
preventing them from ever going to Paradise. Sadly, that is the only logical
way to defeat people who worship death and are eager for the glories of
Paradise, glories that they believe they will earn by killing as many ‘infidels’
as they can.
Let’s hear it for the pig.
Allahu akbar.
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