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| 2004-04-26 |
| From the April 4, 2004, News Herald (Florida) - via Robert Prather EFL By Phil Lucas 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 than 3,000 people, including fellow Muslims, in New York City. Madeline Albright, the former secretary of state and feckless appeaser who helped get us into this mess, said last week Muslims still resented the Crusades. Well, Madame 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? 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. Read the whole thing at the link. This piece is truly on target. I can hear the howls of the easily offended from here. Good. |
| Posted by:Barbara Skolaut bskolaut@hotmail.com |
| #3 Dave D.: Was it? Sorry - didn't see it. Still, it's good enough to deserve posting twice. :-p Cthulhu: My fault - Fred fixed the error. (That's what I get for typing from memory instead of copy and paste.) |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-04-26 6:27:00 PM |
| #2 Ummm... minor nit: this is a duplicate of an item posted on RB earlier today. Great article, though! |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2004-04-26 5:37:43 PM |
| #1 Phil Lucas and Phil Harris... looks like the NewsHerald is starting it's own Army of Phil. |
| Posted by: Cthulhu Akbar 2004-04-26 5:00:41 PM |