Apparently, destroying world heritage landmarks such as the Bamiyyan Buddha Statues in 2001 wasn't enough for the Religion of Peace and Tolerance. As such, its adherents have now gone after another Buddha statue, this time in Pakistan: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/11/wpak111.xml. I had to go to an English paper to get a report on this because, God forbid, any representatives of our MSM paint the Islamic faith in anything other than a glowing light.
This P.C. bulls--t is going to get us all killed. You can NOT fight an enemy as ruthless as this one in a politically correct fashion. Life means nothing to them. History means nothing to them. Culture means nothing to them. Science means nothing to them, except where they can use it to engage in terrorist attacks.
After 9/11, I had a debate with a good friend of mine, and he was certain that 9/11 was the wakeup call we needed. I was much more pessimistic, and argued that not only would we learn nothing from what happened that awful day, we would move in the other direction. Time has proven me right. If anything, Islam now enjoys a status in the West in general and the United States in particular that Bin Laden and his ilk could not have possibly imagined in their wildest dreams before 9/11. The rare voices that criticize the faith, such as Stephen Emerson, Dr. Andrew Bostom and Daniel Pipes, are immediately shouted down as being racist and "Islamophobic".
This is not a clash OF civilizations. It is a battle of civilization against primitive, seventh century religious zealots armed with 21st century technology, people who believe that they are mandated by God to establish a global caliphate run by Sharia law. It makes no difference if the are Shiite freaks like Hezbollah or the Iranian Mullahs, or Sunni whack jobs like al Qaeda or its progeny. And, if you think that they would be "satisfied" if Israel were wiped out, or if the U.S. immediately pulled all troops out of the Middle East (HELLOOOOOO, Congressman Ron Paul!), you're deluding yourself. This ideology is a Fascist ideology, and it will never be satisfied, because Fascism is inherently expansionist. It cannot be dealt with via a policy of containment. "Grievances" such as the existence of Israel and the presence of U.S. forces in the Middle East would quickly be replaced by new ones (Al Andalus, anyone?). There are only two possible outcomes here, win or lose. There cannot be a tie.
The question in my mind is, do we have what it takes to fight this war? I question that we do, given that we are now so P.C. that we dare not even acknowledge who our enemy is. "War on Terror"? Give me a break. This is a war against ISLAMIC FASCISM. The last I checked, neither Basque separatists nor disgruntled I.R.A. holdouts were flying planes into buildings in New York or murdering school children in Beslan.
I am sorry that I have strayed so far from my original point, but this story really ticked me off. When the Taliban destroyed the Bamiyyan Buddhas, I said that it was a harbinger of things to come. A matter of weeks later, I was proven right. At some point, civilized people must stop living in their morally relativistic cocoon and confront these savages. When will it happen?
2 comments:
It won't happen.
Go tell 'em, Geek.
It's sad that they won't listen, though.
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