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 yourself 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!
Thanks
to Noah for sending me this gem...
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