"ISIL is not 'Islamic.' No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL's victims have been Muslim. And ISIL is certainly not a state; it was formerly al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq and has taken advantage of sectarian strife and Syria's civil war to gain territory on both sides of the Iraq-Syrian border. It is recognized by no government nor by the people it subjugates... ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple, and it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way."
-- Barrack Obama, U.S. President
When I started this post, I considered going with shock and awe for an opening photo; a photo of the bloodied, headless body of a small child butchered by these heretics. I opted not to offend some of my reader's delicate sensibilities, but the image of this small child is exactly the point, and should be the image all of us take into the fight against these monsters of the "Islamic" state.
It's not our battle! This is the battle cry of the future victims of atrocity. Innocence is being murdered in the world, and if you don't take a stand against it for the sake of the innocent, there will be no one left to take a stand when the monsters come for you. It truly comes down to, if not now, when?
If we're to believe in a peaceful Islamic culture, this is an Islamic issue. Islam should be leading the fight against their own shame; their own insane, murderous heretics that misinterpret the Qur'an in order to fulfill their own, sick, agenda of terror, murder, and rape. If Islam doesn't take a loud, visible stand against this horror, they are condoning it, and the world will eventually tire of the insanity... and snap. Mosques will burn and even peaceful Muslims will be deemed as big a threat as those murderous terrorists they said nothing against. Their silence will indeed be seen as condoning the evil and, for many of us, it already is. Vigilantes will rule the streets, the innocent will hang, and our God will weep as a true religious war engulfs the world - Islam against everyone. Iran and those countries immediately downwind, will become a radioactive wasteland in an effort to stem the tide of terror. In the end, what is left of Islam will be a shadow of a once great culture that gave the world so much in the name of Allah. Sadly, the world will spend the next one hundred years learning nothing from the experience as is our norm. History will continue to repeat.
Is there really any difference between Adolf Hitler and the Ayatollah Ruhollah Moosavi Khomeini.? Like Hitler, the Ayatollah wants world domination and is willing to destroy innocence, and the world, to attain this goal. Muhammad's Qur'an has been reinterpreted to allow a denial of the faith, lying, cheating, and murder of the innocent, as long as whatever is done is for the continued spread of their hypocrisy. This is what the new interpretation says Allah represents. I'm sure this makes the faithful so proud, or they would be creating such an uproar as to drown out any that would dare accuse them of following the Islamic state of terrorism.
Soldiers deserve soldiers in battle, not this cowardly rabble that has taken territory through terror and intimidation. Soldiers deserve to fight real men, not cowards that cover their faces and cut five year old children in half in order to ineffectively prove some sad "Islamic" definition of manhood. Any insane lunatic can burn people in cages, drown babies in a fifty gallon drum, and cut heads off of living beings. This isn't being a man, or a soldier. This is being insane, and there is no cure for this insanity other than extermination. We, the world, need to excise this cancer from our civilization before we lose another great culture. This disease is already destroying many of the rich historical buildings and artifacts cherished by much of the Middle East.
This is not a war, and we must send a clear message that this behavior will not be tolerated by the civilized world for, if we don't, we are doomed to relive this in the future like the dregs of a cancer not fully removed from the body. There must be no prisoners, no quarter given, no civil or human rights, no legal recourse. We all need to suck it up, once again, and go do that which must be done in order to save all that we hold dear.
Before you go getting your panties in a bunch, it is essential to understand that this is just an opinion site and, as such, can be subjected to scrutiny by anyone with a differing opinion. It doesn't make either opinion any more right or wrong than the other. An opinion, presented in this context, is a way of inciting others to think and, hopefully, to form opinions of their own, if they haven't already done so.
It is my fervent hope that we keep open and active minds when reading opinions and then engaging in peaceful, constructive, discussion and debate in an arena of mutual respect concerning the opinions put forth. After over twenty years as a military intelligence analyst, planner, and briefer, I have come to believe engaging each other in this manner and in this arena is the way we will learn tolerance and respect for differing beliefs, cultures, and viewpoints.
We all fall from grace, some more often than others; it is part of being human. God's test for us is what we do afterward, and what we learn from the experience.
Frank Anthony Villari (aka, Pastor Tony)
It's not our battle! This is the battle cry of the future victims of atrocity. Innocence is being murdered in the world, and if you don't take a stand against it for the sake of the innocent, there will be no one left to take a stand when the monsters come for you. It truly comes down to, if not now, when?
If we're to believe in a peaceful Islamic culture, this is an Islamic issue. Islam should be leading the fight against their own shame; their own insane, murderous heretics that misinterpret the Qur'an in order to fulfill their own, sick, agenda of terror, murder, and rape. If Islam doesn't take a loud, visible stand against this horror, they are condoning it, and the world will eventually tire of the insanity... and snap. Mosques will burn and even peaceful Muslims will be deemed as big a threat as those murderous terrorists they said nothing against. Their silence will indeed be seen as condoning the evil and, for many of us, it already is. Vigilantes will rule the streets, the innocent will hang, and our God will weep as a true religious war engulfs the world - Islam against everyone. Iran and those countries immediately downwind, will become a radioactive wasteland in an effort to stem the tide of terror. In the end, what is left of Islam will be a shadow of a once great culture that gave the world so much in the name of Allah. Sadly, the world will spend the next one hundred years learning nothing from the experience as is our norm. History will continue to repeat.
Is there really any difference between Adolf Hitler and the Ayatollah Ruhollah Moosavi Khomeini.? Like Hitler, the Ayatollah wants world domination and is willing to destroy innocence, and the world, to attain this goal. Muhammad's Qur'an has been reinterpreted to allow a denial of the faith, lying, cheating, and murder of the innocent, as long as whatever is done is for the continued spread of their hypocrisy. This is what the new interpretation says Allah represents. I'm sure this makes the faithful so proud, or they would be creating such an uproar as to drown out any that would dare accuse them of following the Islamic state of terrorism.
Soldiers deserve soldiers in battle, not this cowardly rabble that has taken territory through terror and intimidation. Soldiers deserve to fight real men, not cowards that cover their faces and cut five year old children in half in order to ineffectively prove some sad "Islamic" definition of manhood. Any insane lunatic can burn people in cages, drown babies in a fifty gallon drum, and cut heads off of living beings. This isn't being a man, or a soldier. This is being insane, and there is no cure for this insanity other than extermination. We, the world, need to excise this cancer from our civilization before we lose another great culture. This disease is already destroying many of the rich historical buildings and artifacts cherished by much of the Middle East.
This is not a war, and we must send a clear message that this behavior will not be tolerated by the civilized world for, if we don't, we are doomed to relive this in the future like the dregs of a cancer not fully removed from the body. There must be no prisoners, no quarter given, no civil or human rights, no legal recourse. We all need to suck it up, once again, and go do that which must be done in order to save all that we hold dear.
Editor's Note
(re: disclaimer cum "get out of jail free" card)
Before you go getting your panties in a bunch, it is essential to understand that this is just an opinion site and, as such, can be subjected to scrutiny by anyone with a differing opinion. It doesn't make either opinion any more right or wrong than the other. An opinion, presented in this context, is a way of inciting others to think and, hopefully, to form opinions of their own, if they haven't already done so.It is my fervent hope that we keep open and active minds when reading opinions and then engaging in peaceful, constructive, discussion and debate in an arena of mutual respect concerning the opinions put forth. After over twenty years as a military intelligence analyst, planner, and briefer, I have come to believe engaging each other in this manner and in this arena is the way we will learn tolerance and respect for differing beliefs, cultures, and viewpoints.
We all fall from grace, some more often than others; it is part of being human. God's test for us is what we do afterward, and what we learn from the experience.
Frank Anthony Villari (aka, Pastor Tony)
Pastor Tony is founder of the Congregation for Religious Tolerance and author/editor of the Congregation's official blog site, "The Path."
It doesn't take a Prophet to predict a world in flames and/or radioactive glow, at least not if one is prone to accept the world view which the mass-hysteria, oligarch owned media thrives upon as a solution to their ever decreasing relevance. This is the ultimate "reality show" but I increasingly suspect that it is a well written and carefully produced one.
ReplyDeleteBut who is it that originates and funds the "terrorist" and/or "freedom fighter" organizations which the world sees operating under so many different banners? That much is actually known to powerful people who could easily do something to stop it, but somehow those parties known to be responsible seldom if ever get called out to answer for their obvious continuing crimes against humanity. To digress but slightly, does not all of this murderous turmoil also serve to magnify and enrich the U.S. Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex as well as their many foreign counterparts? Why is everyone's foreign "aid" always heavy on weapons instead of education, energy and the means for people to actually improve their lives?
The real question... what will happen to the oligarchs when the grass roots members of all those terrorist and freedom fighter organizations (armed, but not too well) finally realize that they're nothing more than disposable tools, fools and cannon fodder for their respective oligarch masters (very well armed) who entertain themselves daily with their roles as puppet masters? Peace in our time? Only if such peace is akin to Pax Romana, but in the absence of a hopefully benevolent world leader it's all about deception and diversion anyway... it's ever about keeping the rabble's blood stains off of the ivory towers.
Thank you for your input. Intelligent comment is always refreshing.
DeleteThank you for your input. Intelligent comment is always refreshing.
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