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