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Saturday, September 04, 2004
The Butcher’s Bill
It appears that we now know the approximate scope of the carnage in Beslan, Russia. The totals are not complete, as there are still Chechen Muslim terrorists struggling to resist capture by the Russian troopers who stormed the school. Undoubtedly a few more bodies will be added to the pyres before the day is done.
Would anyone care to argue that the Chechen Muslims who perpetrated this horror were just acting on their legitimate nationalistic aspirations? Come closer, please. My arms aren’t that long.
There is simply no defense for the use of civilians as military targets, or hostages, or bargaining chips, or anything else in pursuit of some political or religious goal. There’s a special circle reserved in Hell for those who use children in this way.
Meanwhile:
- the Islamic ethno-religious genocide continues in Sudan,
- Palestinian Muslims continue their intifada against Israel,
- Islamic terrorists continue to ravage the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia,
- Acts of Islam-powered violence are multiplying in India,
- The Taliban is regrouping its fragments in Pakistan and hopes to return to power in Afghanistan,
- An Islamic theocracy pursues the construction of nuclear weapons in Iran,
- Muslim vandals perpetrate scores of anti-Semitic and anti-Christian acts throughout Europe and Australia,
- Muslim activists strain to establish parallel, shari’a-based systems of justice in Australia, Britain and Canada,
- Wahhabi mosques and madrassas teach hatred of America and its secular republic right here in America,
- Saudi Arabia sends money and men to them all.
Before Black Tuesday, Americans knew little of Islam or the horrors committed in its name. They thought it was just one more monotheistic faith, perhaps a little more passionate than the others, whose adherents just happened to dress oddly, for being mostly from a single part of the world. Our awakening, despite the warm-up acts at the World Trade Center, the Khobar Towers, the USS Cole and other places, was slow and reluctant. I’m not criticizing; I was one of them.
Our excuses are gone. Our hour of decision is upon us.
Except for Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, the world has done nothing. Americans can be proud of that, I suppose. But it’s not enough. As much as we’ve already done, as much as it’s cost us in money, men, and national will, it’s far short of being enough.
I have struggled with this for three years now, and I still can’t see another way out. Islam is arguably the most evil creed ever to be unleashed on this planet. Don’t take my word for it; read the Qur’an and the hadith yourself. Opposing individual excrescences of the creed is simply not enough; we must oppose the creed itself.
If Islam were merely a demented belief that confined its depredations to its voluntary adherents, like the self-mortification cults of Christianity during the Middle Ages, we could relax about it. But this is emphatically not the case. It is a doctrinal pillar of Islam that Muslims have an obligation to convert the entire world, by any means expedient, including force if necessary. Islam’s medieval code of “law,” the shari’a, must be imposed on the entire human race.
Thus, Islam is incapable of being civilized. By “civilized,” I mean capable of confining its brutalities to those who’ve freely chosen to live under them, which is not a particularly high standard. Some ten percent of Muslims—about 150 million of them—are estimated to be either active participants in Islam’s worldwide jihad or enthusiastic supporters thereof. This demonic tenth shelters easily among the others, using them as human shields while they mass to strike.
How high must the butcher’s bill rise before we go on an all-out offensive? What will it take to armor our consciences sufficiently to address the ever more evident need to wipe this vicious totalitarian ideology cleanly out of human memory?
The Nazis killed about ten million before we decided to expunge them. The Russian Communists racked up nearly thirty million before they stumbled into the dustbin of history. The Chinese Communists have killed far more, yet they retain their grip on power, and even enjoy the favor of large parts of the Western world.
Those are not comforting numbers. They speak of fantasies of “peaceful coexistence” resolutely retained in the face of evidence that should convince any sentient being of its impossibility.
How many deaths can be attributed to Islamic fury and ambition already? How many more will it tot up before we resolve to put an end to the tally?
We have hoped for an outpouring of condemnation of Islamic barbarism and good will toward non-Muslims from the “moderates” of that faith. We have hoped and waited in vain. No such expression of civilized anger at their demonic co-religionists has arrived, and none will. “Moderate” Muslims, however many there are and wherever they hide, are more afraid of the vengeance of their terrorist brethren than they are of anything else in this world.
It’s time to raise the sword of freedom, not against specific regimes, but against the whole ideology of Islam. Free speech? Freedom of religion? Of course. Those are the standards of all decent men. But they do not oblige us to support evil in any way. No decent man anywhere should have even the least little thing to do with any Muslim, and I mean anything at all, including employing him, working for him, buying from him or selling to him, unless and until he publicly recants his so-called faith.
No, I’m not interested in hearing about your nice Muslim neighbors. Muslims are taught that it’s perfectly acceptable to lie to “infidels” about their beliefs and intentions, as long as some benefit accrues to Islam thereby. Muslims are also taught that in any controversy between a Muslim and an “infidel,” all Muslims must take the Muslim’s side regardless of the merits. These are doctrines of their creed. Again, don’t take my word for it; read their scriptures and the statements of their leading clerics, and satisfy yourself.
Islam is the greatest obscenity in motion in the world today. It must be effaced before it can do any more harm. Our own concepts of justice deny us a pogrom against them—that would lower us to their level—so Islam must be marginalized and made non-viable by exclusion, ostracism, and unceasing public pronouncements against it. That’s the method of freedom. It’s the only tool by which we can draw a line under the Islamic butchers’ bill.
Do you care enough about the future of human life and liberty to join in this effort?
Comments
I wonder if the Russians are going to bury their heads in the sand like the rest of the world seems to do…
Posted by mostly cajun on 09/04/2004 at 01:23 PMI have the same issues with Islam that you do Mr. Porretto.
I too have read the Quran, and pursue literature that explains the mentality of Moslems and the Arab world. All I have really learned is that cults of death-worshippers exist, and reign over Islam. I don’t want to be an advocate of death, but total annihilation of the Moslem world seems like our (non-Moslems) only viable option if we are to survive as free peoplesThey don’t want to understand (unless it helps them dominate) us, and it seems that we can’t come to an understanding with them. I wish there was another way.
Posted by on 09/04/2004 at 04:13 PM” unless and until he publicly recants his so-called faith “
So, basically, you don’t want anyone to have anything to do with anyone who has ever been a Muslim. A Muslim who publicly recants his/her faith is a dead ex-Muslim.
We’d need something like the witness protection program for ex-Muslims before we could demand that.
Of course, the upside to that little problem is that there are a lot of people who say they are Muslims but don’t practice, and just go to mosque once in a while ‘for show’.
Posted by Kathy K on 09/04/2004 at 05:47 PMThat’s exactly the point, Kathy. They have to put themselves at risk of the wrath of their violent co-religionists before I’ll believe they’re sincere.
Difficult? Yes. Risky? Emphatically yes. But what about the risks the rest of us are taking by having them in our midst? What are they, chopped liver?
Posted by Francis W. Porretto on 09/04/2004 at 05:50 PMMmmmm… chopped liver
Posted by on 09/04/2004 at 07:48 PMSome of them do put themselves at that risk. Mostly the Sufis (considered heretics by most Muslims anyway).
But your average secular “Muslim”? They won’t do that. They just want to be left alone to buy Barbie dolls and fly kites and listen to music.
Try asking a secular Christian to protest against the Christian Reconstructionists and you’ll get the same reaction. And the Reconstructinists aren’t even threatening death to those who disagree (unless they get power, of course).
Posted by Kathy K on 09/04/2004 at 08:26 PMLet them all put themselves at that risk. Until they’ve done so—and publicly, so there’s no significant chance of recantation—they are not trustworthy. They are adherents of the most violent ideology abroad in the world today. Until they renounce it where everyone can hear, they don’t deserve the assumption of benevolence.
It’s a hard saying, but we live in a hard time—and I will not pass this world on to my descendants with this particular hazard in it.
Posted by Francis W. Porretto on 09/04/2004 at 09:02 PMChristian Reconstructionists, by the way, pose no risk to anyone. They would be a hazard were they to acquire political power, but the prospect is unbelievably remote.
Posted by Francis W. Porretto on 09/04/2004 at 09:03 PMWell, I’m not sure I would insist on renoucing their ENTIRE religion. But I would seettle for the moderate Muslims breaking their little code and declaring Jihad on the “fake” muslims or whatever they would like to refer to their violent adherents.
I personally have heard and read some muslims that are calling for just that as they understand that they are threatened as well, not just by their compatriots, but now, by us because they are a minority here and they fear the vigilante justice that might occur should another atrocity occur on our soil. So, some folks in the Muslim world feel like they should get out in front of this thing and take it by the horns.
This is good in my book, but I think, unless something terrible happens and a major retaliation occurs to the population in here in the US, this is not going to get a lot of momentum. They will have to feel the pain first.
That will be the same in places like Saudi. When or if the terrorists decide to take their fight to the royal family in civil war, they will certainly commit atrocities among their own kind. This will divide them from the base of muslims (hopefully). If not, there will be total war.
Posted by Kat-Missouri on 09/04/2004 at 09:32 PMI’m reminded of the Friendlies in Gordon Dickson’s novels.
Posted by Joseph Hertzlinger on 09/04/2004 at 11:46 PMI agree (as usual) with Francis, and think we should begin acting sooner, rather than later. And in doing so, we should remember that Islam isn’t the only enemy.
As horrifying as the Beslan massacre has turned out to be, I got a little extra frisson of terror out of hearing Putin’s speech, today, in which he blamed the ineffectual response of Russian security forces on the collapse of the old Soviet Union, and called for heightened strength and security.
Yow, eh? The pulling-away of former Soviet republics has always stimulated hard-line talk from Russian leaders—most of this talk has been ineffectual in light of general attitudes and against the backdrop of other social issues. But when you tie the pulling-away of Chechnya to global Islamism, how might Putin (or others) play this, both in-country and on the world stage?
Could we, y’know ... end up with a new USSR on our hands?
Posted by on 09/04/2004 at 11:50 PMThe war on terror will be won, yes, when the last Mosque is converted to a McDonalds. They needen’t be killed, just made the same offer they make us: Convert or die. To what, we don’t particularly care. Catholic, Protestant, Buddist, Zoroastrian(sp?), whatever, or fertilizer.
Posted by Billll on 09/05/2004 at 10:56 PMIt is sad that tragedy is the basis of alliances in the 21st century, those who’ve experienced them and those who can envision them stick together. It is a mutual enemy to humanity.
Posted by Jane on 09/06/2004 at 12:58 AMI’ve thought for quite a while that Islam ought to be regarded as a “hate religion”.
Posted by on 09/06/2004 at 08:34 PMHere you go Fran:
“We can’t call those who take schoolchildren as hostages our own.”—Abdel Rahman al-Rashed, general manager of Al- Arabiya news channel.
This is but an excerpt from the kind of break you called for. Here’s the rest of the piece.
Please read it and comment further, as only you can.This man and his thoughts needs protection from non-extremists near him, and prayers from non-muslims everywhere.
Is it not disgusting that CAIR, queerly cowering behind the American Left, has less sense of decency than this man and his outlet, continues to remain silent after all that’s transpired? Awaiting their next claim that Bush and Israel is somehow responsible for that one too.
Is it not repellant that our MSM didn’t report upon it—and it IS news— but I had to be directed to it at the UK Telegraph online by talkradio host Dennis Prager?
Let’s pray the dam of silence is about to collapse after the horrifics visited upon those poor Russian children. (Though I firmly retain strong doubts about ol’ Lamestream.)
Posted by Pascal on 09/07/2004 at 02:18 PMThis lady thinks, as do I, that we must first get rid of the Imams.
Posted by Kathy K on 09/07/2004 at 09:15 PMAgreed, their culture must be destroyed. Which is what we were doing for decades without even trying and is why they hate us so much. Porn, alcohol, women showing their faces in public, that sort of thing. Perhaps more of that will help bring them down. Long term I believe the Internet and exposing their young to our culture will solve the problem. But short term we may need to take more drasitic measures. I’m thinking along the lines of converting the worst of them into pig manure, posting the video of the process on web sites then dropping the manure as bomb payloads on their mosques.
Posted by Joe Huffman on 09/07/2004 at 11:45 PM
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