Random musings...
anonymous
November 14 2006, 07:03:44 UTC
Random musings, late at night:
1) My dear friend, the jihadists don't care a fig for whether or not Lincoln revoked habeus corpus, or whether Roosevelt signed off on the internment of native Japanese, or whether George Soros is buying influence, or whether GWB dodged his National Guard physical. They couldn't care less about the rule of our law. The point, as Mary Habeck has made clear, is that they believe that any law made by man--whether it be from Lincoln or Mao--is an affront to God and an act of apostasy. The jihadists believe that in the Koran God has provided all the laws that we need, and since "God has no partners" any attempt to pass further laws is forbidden. Thus any idea of self-government--especially Western-style Enlightenment-based democracy--is absolute anathema. (Mind, I'm not saying these are the beliefs held by the moderate Muslims of the world, but 1% of a billion is still 10,000,000.) The attempt of our military to somehow curry favor with the jihadists at Gitmo by handling the Koran with white gloves and
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1) My dear friend, the jihadists don't care a fig for whether or not Lincoln revoked habeus corpus, or whether Roosevelt signed off on the internment of native Japanese, or whether George Soros is buying influence, or whether GWB dodged his National Guard physical. They couldn't care less about the rule of our law. The point, as Mary Habeck has made clear, is that they believe that any law made by man--whether it be from Lincoln or Mao--is an affront to God and an act of apostasy. The jihadists believe that in the Koran God has provided all the laws that we need, and since "God has no partners" any attempt to pass further laws is forbidden. Thus any idea of self-government--especially Western-style Enlightenment-based democracy--is absolute anathema. (Mind, I'm not saying these are the beliefs held by the moderate Muslims of the world, but 1% of a billion is still 10,000,000.) The attempt of our military to somehow curry favor with the jihadists at Gitmo by handling the Koran with white gloves and ( ... )
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