If straight talk of savagery offends you, if you
believe in ethnic and gender diversity but not diversity
of thought or if you think there is an acceptable gray
area between good and evil, then turn to the funny
pages, and take the children, too. This piece is not for
you.
We published pictures Thursday of burnt American
corpses hanging from an Iraqi bridge behind a mob of
grinning Muslims. Some readers didn't like it.
Mothers said it frightened their children. A woman
who works with Muslim physicians thought it might offend
or endanger them.
Well, we sure don't want to frighten, offend or
endanger anybody, do we?
That's just too much diversity to handle. I mean,
somebody might get hurt.
We could fill the newspaper every morning with mobs
of fanatical Muslims.
They can't get along with their neighbors on much of
the planet: France, Chechnya, Bosnia, Indonesia, Spain,
Morocco, India, Tunisia, Somalia, etc., etc., etc.
Can anybody name three ongoing world conflicts in
which Muslims are not involved? Today, where there is
war, there are fanatical Muslims.
We might quibble about who started what conflicts,
but look at the sheer number of them.
One thing is sure. Muslim killers started the one we
are in now when they slaughtered more that 3,000 people,
including fellow Muslims, in New York City.
Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state and
feckless appeaser who helped get us into this mess, said
last week Muslims still resent the Crusades.
Well, Madam Albright, if Westerners were not such a
forgiving people, we might resent them too.
Let's recap the Crusades. Muslims invaded Europe, and
when they reached sufficient numbers, they imposed their
intolerant religion upon Westerners by force. Christian
monarchs drove them back and took the battle to their
homeland.
The fight lasted a couple of centuries, and we
bottled them up for 1,000 years.
Now, a millennium later, Muslims have expanded forth
again. Ask France. Ask England. Ask Manhattan.
Two-and-a-half years ago fanatical Muslims laid siege to
us. We woke up to the obvious. Our president announced
it would be a very long war, then took the battle to the
Islamic homeland.
Sound Familiar?
Let's consider the concept of a "long war!" Last time
it was 200 years, give or take. Anybody catch Lord of
the Rings? You know, the good part, the part that wasn't
fiction, the part that drew us to the books and movies
because it was the truest part: the titanic struggle
between good and evil, between freedom and enslavement,
between the individual and the state, between the
celebration of life and the worshipping of death.
That's the fight we are in, and it never ends. It
just has peaks and valleys.
There may be a silent majority of peaceful Muslims -
some live here - but that did not save 3,000 people in
the World Trade Center, the million gassed and butchered
in the Middle East, the tens of thousands slain in
Eastern Europe and Asia, the hundreds blown to bits in
the West Bank and Spain, or the four Americans shot,
burned and hung like sausage over the Euphrates as a
fanatical minority of Muslims did the joyful dance of
death.
Maybe we are so tolerant, we are so bent on
"diversity," we are so nonjudgmental, we are so wrapped
up in our six-packs and ballgames that our brains have
drained to our bulbous behinds. Maybe we're so addled on
Ritalin we wouldn't know which end of a gun to hold.
Maybe we need a new drug advertised on TV every three
minutes, one that would help us grow a backbone.
It doesn't take a Darwin to figure out that in this
world the smartest, the fastest, the strongest, and the
most committed always win. No exceptions.
Look at your spouse and children. Look at your self
in the mirror. Then look at the pictures from the paper
last Thursday. You better look at them.
Those are the people out to kill you.
Who do you think will win? You? Or them? Think you
can take your ball and go home and they will leave you
alone? Read a little history. Start with last week, last
month, last year, and every other year back for half a
century. Then go back a thousand years. Nobody hides
from this fight.
Like it or not, that's the way it was and that's the
way it is. But many Americans don't get it.
That's why we published those pictures. If they
jarred you off the sofa, if they offended you, if they
scared your children and sent you into a rage at mass
murderers or heartless editors, then I say, it's a
start.
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