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A Critical Analysis of 'Real Islam'. Its People ... - Bukti dan Saksi

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asic needs <strong>of</strong> food, shelter, and clothing? We must be pragmatic and realize that the first order <strong>of</strong><br />

business <strong>of</strong> any society is self-preservation. We must without paranoia see our enemy, Islamic Hatred,<br />

clearly with all its roots and support structures, even if part <strong>of</strong> that structure comes from our own<br />

government and other charitable sources <strong>of</strong> aid.<br />

To help in raising the standard <strong>of</strong> living and self sufficiency <strong>of</strong> others is a noble cause worthy <strong>of</strong><br />

pursuit, but common sense and self preservation now cry out for re-focusing those efforts toward more<br />

worthy recipients less inclined to kill us. Certainly there is no shortage <strong>of</strong> needy peoples in North,<br />

Central, and South American countries, or in Russian and European societies as they struggle to transition<br />

to democratic governments and free economies. So how to respond … do we bury Islamic peoples in<br />

charity, sympathy, goodwill, and understanding? At issue is whether we should be providing logistical<br />

support to any nation where majorities <strong>of</strong> extreme Muslim people express hatred towards free democratic<br />

nations, and wherein organizations exist, drawn from a core anti-American culture, with designs to harm<br />

us.<br />

When the British retook the Falkland Islands, the fact that Argentina had failed miserably to provide<br />

for the support <strong>of</strong> their own forces was an important factor in the decision making process for those<br />

beleaguered foot-soldiers to give up the fight, and which ultimately resulted in reducing friendly<br />

causalities and expediting the campaign. This is the nature <strong>of</strong> war. A military siege, by definition, is to<br />

force an enemy into submission and capitulation by extreme methods, which outside <strong>of</strong> war are<br />

considered inhumane. Historically, the ‘civilian’ population suffers all kinds <strong>of</strong> shortages when a<br />

government struggles for conquest or its survival by force <strong>of</strong> arms. Although collateral damage and<br />

innocent blood are regrettable and should be avoided, an enemy cannot be allowed to cower behind the<br />

protection <strong>of</strong>fered by its own innocent victims. It is incumbent on the peoples who suffer at the hands <strong>of</strong><br />

repressive and dictatorial leaders who bring nothing but war, despair, and hunger to their own lands, to<br />

rise up and depose <strong>of</strong> the scoundrels. The people who suffer must understand that the solution to the<br />

problem is for Muslims to rise up against terrorists in their neighborhoods, including violent Imams<br />

preaching hate, and bring real reform to their religion and culture. Humanitarian aid and rebuilding<br />

activity is normally considered appropriate after capitulation, because logistical support to an enemy is<br />

unthinkable. Yes, it is cruel and brutal, but war is impossible to sanitize to a form palatable to liberal<br />

western sensibilities.<br />

The Red Cross and other international aid organizations did not make humanitarian deliveries to<br />

Japan in the period between Pearl Harbor and Japans unconditional surrender, nor to Germany and Hitler.<br />

Anyone suggesting that food and monetary aid be sent to Hitler in hopes to influence the reform <strong>of</strong><br />

Nazism would have been mocked and then sent to the insane asylum. Equivalent outrageous suggestion<br />

get a pass today. On Dec 7th 1941 a beleaguered West realized that pacifism meant suicide, and the<br />

Sermon on the Mount was temporarily suspended in pursuit <strong>of</strong> War. During the Cold-War no aid was<br />

provided to prop-up communist regimes, which led directly to the downfall <strong>of</strong> the failed system. On Sept<br />

11th enemies we neither provoked nor sought bring death to us, eating the bread we gave them.<br />

As we struggle to make sense <strong>of</strong> September 11 and decide how best to fight Jihadists, it would be<br />

instructive to remember the 1801-1805 war that first brought the United States into conflict with Muslim<br />

terrorists from countries in the Middle East. The example <strong>of</strong> the fledgling US government dealings with<br />

Muslim terrorist pirates in the late 1700’s operating in North Africa's Barbary Coast (and protected by<br />

Muslim nations) demonstrated clearly that paying tribute never works anyway, rather it simply emboldens<br />

them to take further action.<br />

In the late 1700’s it seemed impossible for Muslim states along the Barbary Coast to ignore awkward<br />

American merchant vessels, no match for the speedy Muslim corsairs, traveling through the<br />

Mediterranean. After the War <strong>of</strong> Independence, the Royal Navy no longer protected shipping from the<br />

rebellious American colonies, and piracy became intolerable. After seizing their cargo and scuttling the<br />

vessels, the pirates would ransom the ill-fated seamen, or sell them into slavery. It was a lucrative for the<br />

pirates, and the Muslim states also depen<strong>dan</strong>t on the plunder. The US responded and sent missions to the<br />

Barbary states <strong>of</strong> Tripoli, Algiers, Morocco and Tunis proposing to pay an annual sum to each <strong>of</strong> the local

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