Another great rant from Ron, my periodic guest poster.
Our Posturer-in-Chief has no grasp on the reality of radical Islam's goals. He apparently believes that Hamas and Al Qaeda and the growing number of contagious madrassas are merely a miniscule fraction of the whole of Islam, a tiny cadre of loosely associated extremists. Rather than confront the demented idealogues who would bomb us, or shoot us, or behead us, and defend ourselves against the hatred, the violence, the destruction they plant and nurture, he prefers to handle them as minor irritants guilty only of misdemeanor annoyances against reactionary American hotheads who deserve the annihilation they preach.Posted by denny at June 22, 2009 12:57 AMHe seems locked into the idea that if the burr under their saddle were removed, they would all return to their traditional existences as nomadic traders trekking the trackless sands of East Africa and West Asia carrying exotic spices, hand-woven carpets, goat cheese, and dates across borders in exchange for out-of-date rifles, watches, trinkets, and beads.
Toward that perception's becoming real, he is perfectly willing to kick Israel to the curb (along with his maternal grandmother and that pesky Constitution thingy) and allow thugs and lunatics to spew their vile rancor and malevolence into the waters the next generation will have to drink from.
He just doesn't get it. For some reason he is unable to comprehend that although a great majority of the world's Muslims aren't particularly interested in blowing up things or murdering Jews or destroying the Great Satan, they're not much inclined to stop those who do. In fact, the nearly one billion who would call themselves "moderate" will quicker align themselves with fellow worshippers of Allah and Muhammad than with the corrupt and sinful Westerners who mostly follow no god at all.
The whole idea of Islam, in fact the word itself, means "obedience." It is a global imperative, and the duty of every true Muslim is to offer Islam to the infidel and then slay him if he rejects it. Jews, Copts, Catholics, Baptists, Buddhists, Hindus, and everybody else are potential enemies, threats to the goal of total submission, obstacles to the establishment of a world order based on the Qur'an and Shari'a law.
In that aspect, Muslims are raised very much like hive insects, trained from infancy to blindly obey the rules of the queen. They learn to read by memorizing the Qur'an, and all that they experience in their formative years is filtered and shaped by some bitter cleric's interpretation of carefully selected surahs.
In an anthill, for example, all is driven by hormones issued by the queen. If she sprays a hormone on a worker which identifies it as dead, the other workers will pick it up and throw it on the dead-ant pile, whether it's actually dead or not. If it gets up and walks away, not being dead after all, they'll simply grab it and throw it on the dead-ant pile again. It's a chemical imperative which overrides any and all other impulses in their tiny little ant brains.
The same happens with Muslims. If the local imam, or the regional mullah, or an important ayatollah declares a fatwah, no alternatives exist: the fatwah must be followed. It's the same mentality as the hajj: each Muslim MUST, if he is physically able, go to Mecca and mill around in a trance, circling the Qa'aba and muttering memorized excerpts from a long-dead drug addict's hallucinatory garblings.
The book declares that the god of Muhammad gave Islam to mankind as the final edition of the true path, that it is for all mankind for all time, and all other options are negated and void. Muslims can no more deny or disobey that edict than a bee can refuse to bring nectar back to the hive for the good of all.
The ultimate end will justify all means employed in its achievement in the Muslim mind. Beheadings, revolutions, combat, atomic weapons, economic warfare, lying, stealing, cheating . . . all is fair in establishing the global caliphate. Negotiating, bargaining, compromising, cooperating . . . all are useful for short-term gains, but completely expendable in the long term. Deals made can be broken in the name of Islam; compromises can be reversed; bargains recalled; and negotiations terminated. Stalling for time through semantics or overt lies while upgrading yellowcake to weapons grade material is good in Allah's sight so long as the end product is used to smite the enemies of Islam.
Our Kumbayatic Apologist-in-Chief could see that only if his speechwriter scrolled it up his teleprompter. The concept is too simple, too clear, too real to get past the paranoid filters and Chicago mentality of his I'm-too-cool-to-fail mindset.
He cannot hear the laughter of the Kims, the Ahmadinejads, the Assads, the Sauds over the siren call of his legacy lullaby. He cannot see the danger of Islam's insect mentality, lost in the ripples of his Narcissus pool. He cannot understand that world leadership and political campaigning are not interchangeable synonyms, and that speechmaking and socialism do not produce strength and wealth.
The Great New World Experiment is about to collapse into rubble because the democratic process has finally selected a government which cannot see the jungle for the ferns; which fails to understand that Islam wants only conquest, not cooperation; which believes that the people exist to serve it, not the other way around.
Gawd!
Our writer/ranter STILL hasn't figured out that ALL of World-religion relies on but one foundational-upright:
"Does it further HONESTY?"
Everything else pales in comparison.
I can appreciate any HONEST religion while not being religious myself.
Can any religious person say somewhat the same?
EZ answer? NOPE!!!
And therein lies the problem.
Religious-Folk are convinced that they (and they alone!) have the answer and that any other answer or mode-of-thought is NOT correct!
Just LOOK at what this mode of thought has wrought! It will be EZ to see that it's just such a mode that is causing, and has caused, all of the BULLSHIT that clouds the meaning of what ANY God would want for Her subject's.
Play God today! Stomp on every single ant you see! After you kill enough, to your satisfaction, you'll find yourself listening to a tiny-voice within. I do not want to know what that voice says; it's enough for me to know that YOU hear a voice as well as me, GWB, Denny, and even Charlie D.
What you do with that voice is Religion; what that voice commands is not.
Posted by: DanS. on June 21, 2009 11:22 PMDAMN! ....That was a great Rant!
Where does King Barry find the time.
Destroying an economy and a Republic you would think would be enough to satisfy your average megalomaniac. BHO manages to fit in undermining our security too.
We are so Fucked*
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*until the Revolution
DanS ...as usual you are so full of shit that you can't see straight...
Religious-Folk are convinced that they (and they alone!) have the answer and that any other answer or mode-of-thought is NOT correct!
are you saying all religious "folk" think this
what a pile of shit you are to think as you do
but then you are DanS and we expect this of you
this was a great "Rant" and I thank Denny for bringing it our way...
Islam is indeed different and to make a moral comparison to ANY other religion is rediculous...but then I guess we are learning to expect this of you
Bertrand Russell
"Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic."
DanS - as a Christian I do believe that there is one way to heaven and it is through Christ. As muslims they obviously believe that I am way wrong.
Christians have had their times in history when they have been the oppressors in the name of religion. It was of course not right.
Islam will have to get to a point where it can coexist peacefully. Until it does its going to be a mess. Its up to them.
Posted by: patrick on June 22, 2009 12:17 PMChristianity had its Reformation. Unfortunately Islam, by its basic structure and beliefs is incapable of a reformation. I do believe the next world war will be between the West and Islam and it will not be pretty.
Posted by: Denny on June 22, 2009 12:21 PMI say K I L L T H E M A L L. Damn good rant and spot on.
Obama lied, Neda died.
Posted by: fubar on June 22, 2009 12:32 PMDanS.....
I do not understand how any reasonably educated person cannot understand the basis for Islam is to convert or die. It is this belief which is universally understood & accepted by at least 95% of muslims across the world.
The only real difference between the hardline radicals & so-called moderate muslims is the Radicals enjoy the killing & the moderates defer to the radicals to perform this unpleasant islamic duty.It is also correct the moderates will ally with the radicals rather then infidels from outside the religion of Islam.
Dan ...you ought to read the Religion of Peace .com posting to your left side on this website where it details 13,441 attacks across the world by Islamic terrorists since 9/11. Many ten`s of thousands have been killed & none of the moderate muslim`s have voiced much concern.
I think if even 10 terrorist attack`s were conducted by either Jew`s or Christians during this time frame ....there would be international outrage, yet the Islamic terrorists get a pass. what this should mean to anyone who thinks is there is a dedicated fundamental belief to perpetuate these terrorist attacks by the Muslim fanatic`s & nothing will change that until we kill the majority of the terrorists worldwide & put the fear of retribution into the hearts & minds of the moderate muslims. Then & only then can a fundamental change be made in the thinking of muslims.
DanS, disagree if you wish ....but were you to journey to the middle east & declare you are an American who finds common ground for sympathy or compassion to muslim`s, your severed head would be on display world wide by those muslims you want us to understand.
The biggest mistake Chimpy made was that half of the Muslim world isn't STILL a smoldering ruin 8 years now after 9/11...Only thing them 8th century types really understand is being hit harder than they just hit you...Yes, I'm crazy....An' yr point is ? -Unca Sandy
Posted by: Sandy G. on June 22, 2009 01:13 PMDenny - I've long felt that we are in that world war right now. It is not a declared war and will probably be fought more with drones, special ops, and CIA guys on our side with terrorism on their side...but I think we are in it. Chimpy said that it would be a decades long endeavor.
Posted by: patrick on June 22, 2009 01:26 PMSusan B. Anthony wrote, "I distrust those people know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
This seems to be the basis behind the leaders of Islam and way too many "Christians" today who are using religion to justify their own goals, and in many cases, their own existence.
Posted by: Scottiebill on June 22, 2009 01:27 PMThe First Posturer DOES know what he's doing. He WANTS disaster. Americans are the root of all evil and "the people of the third world" must be given the opportunity to kick us again and again.
After a few castrophes, our Fascist In Chief can then assume absolute power - for our own good.
Remember, never let a good crisis go to waste. And, if you can create a crisis - all the better.
Posted by: Tom on June 22, 2009 04:58 PMI agree with Tom - I don't see any of this being "accidental". They are running full speed and trying to do as much damage as possible, as quickly as possible, before the American public can wake up and take action (and I'm not talking 2010 elections).
The GOP appear to be willing accomplices in this war against the individual and freedom - so they'll need to come get some, too.
Posted by: John Galt on June 22, 2009 09:51 PMObama! Tough on flies! On Iran, not so much.
chicopanther
Posted by: chicopanther on June 23, 2009 09:16 AMTom -- interesting point.
Once upon a time, not too long ago, there was a movie called "Wag the Dog".
The left thought it was fiction, or a smear against the Great Prevaricator.
The right thought it was a documentary about the Great Prevaricator.
The TOTUS-in-waiting and his minions must have thought it was a training film.
Posted by: Grumpy Old Ham on June 23, 2009 06:58 PM