Islamist Barbarians at the Gate --- while zionists continue to extort America from within.
On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 2:42:33 PM UTC-5, plainolamerican wrote: > > fear noted again. > > On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 11:33:45 AM UTC-5, Travis wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/03/islamist_barbarism_at_the_gate_.html >> >> March 10, 2015 >> Islamist Barbarism At The Gate >> >> By Michael Curtis >> <http://www.americanthinker.com/author/michael_curtis_1/> >> >> The barbarism of Islamist terrorists grows every day. They are committing >> war crimes by systematically destroying the cradle of Western civilization >> and erasing the history of the region. >> >> The world has become familiar with Islamist actions: not just the cruel >> brutal behavior of the Islamist State of Iraq and Syria (IS) with its >> belligerent militarism, its beheadings of hostages, and crucifixion of >> Christians, but also the actions of other Islamist groups such as al-Qaeda, >> Taliban, and Boko Haram. These groups have been responsible for terrifying >> modes of punishment for any divergence from the right way of life they >> impose, for the suppression of education, honor killings, enslaving and >> sexually assaulting teenage girls, genital mutilations, and forced >> marriages. >> >> Now, the world is witnessing with horror the destruction by Islamist >> terrorists of the cultural heritage of entire civilizations, including >> UNESCO World Heritage Sites, in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. >> >> It is baffling that some well-meaning Westerners still regard Islamist >> extremists -- jihadists -- as carrying the banner of the oppressed or the >> underprivileged. They disregard the reality that the extreme Islamists are >> not the modern incarnation of the members of the movements that pressed for >> liberation from Western colonial powers or the elimination of imperialism. >> Those individuals had a specific objective in mind, the creation of a freer >> and more egalitarian society, and, for the most part, they observed basic >> moral rules in their general behavior and political tactics. >> >> From about 1950 until 1970 the “Third World” group of countries and their >> Western supporters expressed the aspirations of those who wanted to >> liberate themselves from what they perceived as the iniquities of Western >> controls. They were influenced to a considerable degree by the heralded >> though imaginary Communist utopias of the Soviet Union and China. >> >> Almost all of those would be reformers were disillusioned by the gods >> that failed with the revelations of the horrors and mass murders in the two >> Communist countries. Nor can they seek any comfort in the present >> autocratic and corrupt Russian regime, or in the semi-transformation, >> economically if not politically, of China. Perhaps because there is nowhere >> else to turn, some, especially younger people, have sought out the Muslim >> world and the Islamists as a surrogate of progressive resistance against >> Western systems. >> >> But the difference is enormous between contemporary Islamists and those >> reformers who once regarded Stalin, in spite of the evidence of his >> brutality and killing of millions, as the incarnation of wisdom. Leftists >> of the past operated in the context of a Western culture that they, rightly >> or wrongly, sought to improve. The jihadists and their supporters are not >> anti-imperialists. They are opposed not simply to the U.S. and other >> Western-style democracies, but to essential Western values of civilization. >> Indeed, they reject the traditional leftist concepts, socialism, communism, >> liberalism, and nationalism. >> >> Jihadism is different from other forms of anti-Western expression. It >> incarnates justification of slavery, now illustrated by the kidnapping of >> female Christian students in April 2014 by Boko Haram in Chibok in Nigeria, >> and by the attacks by IS on 50,000 Yazidis in the mountains of northwest >> Iraq. >> >> The Islamists seek the restoration of former Islamic glories and the >> establishment of a Caliphate or an emirate, based on Sharia law and with >> the objective of conducting jihad. From the 9th century jihad has been the >> obligation of true believers against all “infidels.” >> >> Contemporary jihadists have no positive objective as did the traditional >> leftist ideologists, nor do they adhere to moral restraints. Much ink has >> been spilled over the true nature of Islam today, and who or what can be >> seen as embodying the essence of the religion. There are five acknowledged >> pillars of Islam, the basic obligations to live a good life: belief, >> prayers, fasting, almsgiving, and pilgrimage to Mecca. >> >> Individual religions are interpreted differently depending on time and >> place. Today, there appears to be a sixth pillar that the jihadists claim >> and insist upon as the truth of Islam. That pillar is the obligation to >> wage war against the infidels, and it is being imposed on an increasing >> number of Muslims, including those in Western democracies. >> >> The Islamist war against Western civilization, and civilized values is >> world-wide. What else can explain why the French flag was burned on January >> 23, 2015 in Surabaya in Java, several thousand miles from Paris, by >> Islamists who were offended by the publication in the journal *Charlie >> Hebdo* of cartoons that they held had insulted the Prophet Muhammad? >> Manifestations of jihadism are evident in a line from Senegal and Nigeria >> to the borders of China. They are particularly strong in those states that >> have failed: Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. >> >> The West has to recognize that Islamists -- jihadists is perhaps the >> better term -- have recreated a retrograde and brutal form of Islam >> directed against non-Muslims that goes back to a dark period in its past. >> . >> The brutality against non-Muslims is not new. Saladin (1169-1193) was >> known for his chivalric nature and courtesy but he also conducted a “holy >> war” against the alien world, especially the Franks. The Egyptian imam, >> Hasan al-Banna (1906-1949, called for the return to “true” Islam and for >> jihad to repel the invaders. He founded the Muslim Brotherhood to do this. >> Jihad, he held, was an obligation for every Muslim who should resist >> existing regimes. >> >> What is happening now is not resistance to any form of colonialism, >> Western or otherwise, but destruction in the areas controlled by jihadists >> of the very cultural heritage, the historical artifacts of the >> “unbelievers,” and denial of their beliefs, history, and dignity. >> Destruction of “idols” is not new in history. But the scale of the Islamist >> behavior is startling. >> >> The terrorists are removing the very essence of the cultural history of >> civilization, especially pre-Islamic history. In March 2001 the Taliban >> began the destruction of the monumental 6th-century Buddhas (180 and 125 >> feet tall) in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. In Mali in June 2012 Boko Haram >> destroyed monuments and set fire to the library in the Ahmed Baba Institute >> in Timbuktu, that had been put on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1988. >> Not only were 700 monuments destroyed, the clay from the monuments was >> taken to prevent any rebuilding in some possible future. >> >> Videos have been posted of IS terrorists destroying artifacts, including >> Jonah’s tomb, in the museum and all Christian institutions in Mosul with >> sledgehammers and power tools. Bulldozers destroyed the ancient >> archeological site of Nimrud, founded in 13th century B.C., in northern >> Iraq, and said to be the best preserved Assyrian site in Iraq. Temples and >> sculptures in Hatra, on the UNESCO Heritage List in 1985, were destroyed, >> as were the carved stone reliefs in Dur Sharrulin, the Assyrian site >> founded in 717 B.C. near the village of Khorsabad in northern Iraq. The >> Krak des Chevaliers crusader castle in Syria has been heavily damaged. >> >> The West world tends to have a capacity for illusions. Finally, outrage >> is now being expressed about the brutalities of the Islamist terrorists. >> Commendable as this is, the West must also act to prevent the Islamist >> barbarity from continuing. Islamists must not be allowed to obliterate the >> entire history of civilization. >> >> >> __._,_.___ >> ------------------------------ >> Posted by: "beowulf" <[email protected]> >> ------------------------------ >> >> >> Visit Your Group >> <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmYm1mOW9rBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0MjYwMDE4MTk-> >> >> >> >> [image: Yahoo! 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