Where are the Defenders of Homosexuality on the Left Now?
It seems that the Shia clerics of Bhagdad (not Bhagdad by the Bay) have decided it's time to clean up again now that the West is looking the other way. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8005420.stm is a BBC report of the harrassment and killing of gays and other sexual minorities.
While I am not 'anti-Bush', one of my major disappointments with the execution of the Afghan and Iraq actions was the lack of planning/foresight and proper collection of human intelligence. Sadly, the more I think about it, the more it seems it's a total lack of an accurate conception of our enemies. In simple terms, our leadership on BOTH sides of the aisle are either liars or in so complete a state of denial that they can say things like "we are not at war with Islam."
Thomas Jefferson spoke with Ambassador Abdrahaman of Tripoli in Paris who told him that all Christians are sinners in the context of the Koran and that it was a Muslim’s “right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to enslave as many as they could take as prisoners. Jihad is not just crazed, Bearded arabs or Persians. Those "pirates" may not all be funding the jihadis in Somalia but no doubt many are. Unless the world, or at least the US, is willing to make the 'cost' of being a pirate too often fatal, and I suspect even then there will be many who are willing to die since dying in jihad is a guarantee of Paradise, the piracy will continue.
I do wonder what it will take to get the 'man on the street' upset enough to read the Quran and it's accompanying texts and to think about the history of the middle east. From Mohammed's "peaceful" phase in Mecca where he raised a few handful of adherents, to his violent, warlord time in Medina when he raised and army that began a pattern of broad conquest. If you look at the Turkish Caliphate, it spread from North Africa, Spain north to Vienna and east to the 'stans. Five hundred years..... The Muslim Brotherhood longs to restore that glory. Do YOU want to help them? Inaction WILL help.
While I am not 'anti-Bush', one of my major disappointments with the execution of the Afghan and Iraq actions was the lack of planning/foresight and proper collection of human intelligence. Sadly, the more I think about it, the more it seems it's a total lack of an accurate conception of our enemies. In simple terms, our leadership on BOTH sides of the aisle are either liars or in so complete a state of denial that they can say things like "we are not at war with Islam."
Thomas Jefferson spoke with Ambassador Abdrahaman of Tripoli in Paris who told him that all Christians are sinners in the context of the Koran and that it was a Muslim’s “right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to enslave as many as they could take as prisoners. Jihad is not just crazed, Bearded arabs or Persians. Those "pirates" may not all be funding the jihadis in Somalia but no doubt many are. Unless the world, or at least the US, is willing to make the 'cost' of being a pirate too often fatal, and I suspect even then there will be many who are willing to die since dying in jihad is a guarantee of Paradise, the piracy will continue.
I do wonder what it will take to get the 'man on the street' upset enough to read the Quran and it's accompanying texts and to think about the history of the middle east. From Mohammed's "peaceful" phase in Mecca where he raised a few handful of adherents, to his violent, warlord time in Medina when he raised and army that began a pattern of broad conquest. If you look at the Turkish Caliphate, it spread from North Africa, Spain north to Vienna and east to the 'stans. Five hundred years..... The Muslim Brotherhood longs to restore that glory. Do YOU want to help them? Inaction WILL help.