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Before the Fort Hood shootings, I was going to make another spoof message about the United States switching over to Sharia Law on January 1st. Prohibition would be reinstated. Public beatings and hangings would be held in every town. Jews would be exterminated, along with Evangelistic Christians and other supporters of Israel.
Well, it looks like I don't have to do the above. The alleged shooter is an ethnic Palestinian, according to reports. It has always been in the realm of possibility that we have servicemen in our military who believe that we are on the wrong side of the "War on Terror", but this is the first time we've seen anybody ACT on that premise. This war has always been ethnic and sectarian in nature and everybody understands that at some level.
Just last week, the site MEMRI linked to a Taliban article that proposed that the world's Islamic nations use their power in the United Nations to impose Sharia Law worldwide and dispose of Israel and the United States once and for all. I can't say this cannot happen. But it's high time everybody got clear on the stakes of this war, why we can't win it, and what it might do to our nation if we can't come up with a humane solution.
Well, it looks like I don't have to do the above. The alleged shooter is an ethnic Palestinian, according to reports. It has always been in the realm of possibility that we have servicemen in our military who believe that we are on the wrong side of the "War on Terror", but this is the first time we've seen anybody ACT on that premise. This war has always been ethnic and sectarian in nature and everybody understands that at some level.
Just last week, the site MEMRI linked to a Taliban article that proposed that the world's Islamic nations use their power in the United Nations to impose Sharia Law worldwide and dispose of Israel and the United States once and for all. I can't say this cannot happen. But it's high time everybody got clear on the stakes of this war, why we can't win it, and what it might do to our nation if we can't come up with a humane solution.