this segment of American society is increasingly being marginalized, and rightfully so. ---- watching the religious persecute each other is fun!!!
On Aug 10, 10:47 am, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > Friday, August 10, 2012The We re at War with the Muslims Crowdby Jacob G. > Hornberger > Have you noticed that the we re at war with the Muslims crowd has been > noticeably silent in the wake of the murders at the Sikh temple in Wisconsin > and the arson of the Islamic mosque in Missouri? Well, they re smart to keep > their mouths shut. Hopefully, this segment of American society is > increasingly being marginalized, and rightfully so. > Ever since 9/11, there have been a group of American extremists who have > claimed that Muslims are waging war on the United States and that the CIA and > U.S. troops are just defending us in this war. According to this group, since > Muslims have embarked on a worldwide quest to conquer the Western world, the > U.S. invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan were simply defensive measures to > defend ourselves against the Islamic war of conquest against the West. > During the past 10 years, I have periodically received emails reciting this > nonsense to me. I have responded by advising the writers that they would be > wise to refrain from engaging in this war by killing Muslims here in the > United States. I have told them that if they go out and start shooting > Muslims, they will be arrested by the police, indicted for murder, convicted, > and sentenced to jail or receive the death penalty. > I have told them that when they say to the judge, Oh, you can t do this to me > because we are at war. The Muslims are trying to conquer us. In war it is > entirely legitimate to kill the enemy. That s all I was doing -- killing > Muslims during wartime to defend my country, the judge might consider an > insanity defense but more likely he will simply tell them how utterly inane > their position is before imposing sentence for a murder conviction. > Why do some people hew to this inane position? Because it enables them to > avoid confronting what is one of the most frightening things that could ever > happen to them: to face that their very own government -- the U.S. government > -- their daddy -- has done and is doing bad things to people overseas, in > this case Muslims, some of whom have decided to defend themselves and their > countries by either attacking U.S. invading or occupying troops or committing > terrorist attacks, either abroad or here in the United States. > In other words, acts of terrorism against the United States by Muslims are > not part of some worldwide Islamic conspiracy to conquer the Western world. > Instead, the anger and hatred that drives such acts of terrorism are rooted > in the horrible things the U.S. government has done and is doing to people in > the Middle East. People get angry when their family and friends are killed, > starved, humiliated, shamed, tortured, and abused, and some of them finally > say, Enough is enough. I m going to retaliate with violence. > What are those bad things? They include foreign aid to brutal Middle East > dictatorships, unconditional foreign aid to the Israeli government, the > brutal sanctions on Iraq that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children, > the brutal sanctions on Iran that are impoverishing the Iranian people, the > support of Saddam Hussein, the Persian Gulf War, which killed an untold > number of Iraqis, the stationing of U.S. troops on Islamic holy lands, the > illegal no-fly zones over Iraq, which killed Iraqi children and others, the > invasion and occupation of Iraq over bogus WMDs, which killed, maimed, or > exiled hundreds of thousands of more Iraqis, the invasion and occupation of > Afghanistan, which has killed brides, grooms, children, seniors, and many > others, and regime change operations that install brutal pro-U.S. > dictatorships into power. > How could victims of these acts not get angry over such things? Wouldn t > Americans get angry if a foreign regime were to do these things to Americans? > The fact that most of the victims have been Muslims doesn t mean that the > Muslims have embarked on a worldwide quest to conquer the Western world. It > simply means that because the victims have overwhelmingly been Muslim, the > anger and rage and thirst for retaliation will naturally arise within this > set of victims. That is, if the victims were, say, Catholics, acts of violent > retaliation would not mean that Catholics had embarked on a quest for > worldwide conquest. > What s the solution to all this anti-American anger and rage among > foreigners, especially in the Middle East? For the U.S. Empire to exit the > world stage, especially the Middle East. No more sanctions, embargoes, > support of dictatorships, support of the Israeli government, foreign aid, > invasions, occupations, no-fly zones, foreign military bases, torture, > foreign prisons, and the like. Once that happens, the anti-American anger and > rage will begin to dissipate. > Unfortunately, the U.S. government has decided to shift the focus of its > military empire from the Middle East to Asia and Latin America rather than > simply dismantle the empire and bring all the troops home. The Pentagon and > the CIA are now shifting their focus to China and Latin America, claiming > that China and Latin American drug dealers will constitute the new official > threat to national security in the years ahead. > Prepare yourself: The we re at war with the Muslims crowd will soon begin > exclaiming, The communists and drug dealers are coming to get us. They have > embarked on a quest to conquer the West. > In other words, they will replace the Muslims as America s new official > enemy. Anything to avoid confronting the reality that it is the U.S. Empire > that is the reason that so many people around the world hate the U.S. > government. > One of the most amusing aspects of the we re at war with the Muslims crowd is > their refusal to criticize the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Why is that > amusing? Because the U.S. government s invasions and occupations of those > countries have succeeded in installing two official Islamic states. Just go > look at their official constitutions and you ll see what I mean. Yet, the we > re at war with the Muslims crowd never calls on the U.S. Empire to bomb the > regimes in those two countries. Instead, the crowd continues to exhort us to > support the troops in their attempt to preserve these two official Muslim > regimes. Maybe the crowd doesn t realize that the Muslims might be using Iraq > and Afghanistan as the foundation for their supposed quest to conquer the > world. > It s a good thing that the we re at war with the Muslims crowd are keeping > their mouths shut in the wake of the attacks on the Sikhs in Wisconsin and > the Muslims in Missouri. The last thing we need is more senseless > killing.http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2012-08-10.asp -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
