No fear in Curtis's article; just "Plain Ol' " fact, which to the Anti-American/Pro-Islamist Crew, constitutes a reason for unwarranted attack and smear,
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 3:53 PM, plainolamerican <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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