Before I go any further, let me express my deep condolences to the victims and their families who have suffered because of this nightmare. May God grant you solace, strength, and healing.
I kept putting this post off, because every time I thought about it or read something new on the shooting, my blood started to boil, and I didn't want to just slough this off as another rant to blow off steam on how pissed off I am at the stupidity and ignorance rampant in this country. I wanted to use the opportunity to make a sound and logical argument as to why we as a nation are at war with islam, and how this tragedy is a prime example of that fact. Too many in this country refuse to accept that, for a number of reasons in addition to stupidity and ignorance: stubbornness, myopia, peacenikitis (a new word I just coined), media bias, misinformation, their own anti-Americanism...the list goes on. So I'm going to try to finish the puzzle for them without having to resort to flipping the table over and just knocking some heads together.
Islam is at war with the United States of America. That is a plain fact. The media, the prez, the various paid mouthpieces like CAIR and the ACLU, muslims living in America, and several others would have you believe otherwise, but that is nonsense. The war has been going on, at the very least, since the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983. Over the years it continued to quietly escalate, until the disastrous 8 years of the Clinton presidency allowed the craziest of the lunatics to plot and carry out the attacks on September 11th, 2001. The first World Trade Center bombing, the attacks on US embassies abroad, the attack on the USS Cole, the ceaseless attacks on our military, the shooting at Ft. Hood: all conceived, planned, and executed by muslims. Even the constant threat posed to Israel, America's only true ally in the region despite the current administration's best efforts to undermine that friendship, has a direct relation to this deliberate aggression. On an almost daily basis, muslim leaders around the world denounce the United States, revile us as the Great Satan, and call for our immediate and merciless destruction. The solid proof of this overwhelming attitude is legion, and yet people still refuse to acknowledge what their eyes and ears tell them. They say that "real" muslims don't share this attitude; they say that the negative press is just a construct of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy and conservative hate-mongers; some believe, aided by islamic propaganda, that it's all a Jewish plot, and that a fictitious Global Zionism is really to blame. They blame American imperialism, capitalism, racism, ethnocentrism; they blame the Military-Industrial complex, the oil barons and the defense contractors, the Old Boy network of racist, chauvinistic, white males, and, of course, they blame George W. Bush. I'd be willing to bet that somewhere in this country there are people who blame global warming for islamic aggression. They rant and rave and point the finger everywhere except the very direction it needs to be pointed: squarely at islam.
Despite the intense propaganda effort to show otherwise, islam is not, nor has it ever been, a religion of peace. It has never been spread by anything other than violence. It is true that other religions have, in the past, been spread by violence as well. But those times are centuries gone, and even taking that into consideration, other religions have overwhelmingly been spread in peaceful ways. Not so islam: it always has been, and continues to this day to be, spread by the sword, bullet, or bomb. A bit of on-the-spot evidence: there are over 50 shooting conflicts in the world today, and muslim forces are involved in almost every single one of them. And one would be hard-pressed, hard-pressed indeed, to find a case in any nation where the influx of muslim immigrants has not led to serious social problems, if not outright violence, because of islam's view of the world. It's very simple to them: you are either muslim, or you are not. There is no room for middle ground, or even separate ground. Sharia must be absolute: that is the belief. Is there ever any kind of meaningful outcry from the "peaceful" muslim community when tragedies like the Ft. Hood shooting occur? Rarely, if ever. Some might express concern over an event, but they always stop short of actually condemning the perpetrators. Very much along the lines of "We don't necessarily agree with the method of delivery, but we agree with the overall message." Convert, submit, or die: that is the islamic way.
(Let me interject here to say this: proposing that the violence done in the name of Christianity is as bad or worse than the violence done in the name of islam is an absolutely untenable argument. I'll prove that in a post to follow soon.)
Unfortunately, the "die" option is the one Nadal Hasan chose for 13 people, and attempted to choose for 29 others. Evidence is piling up, despite obstructions put in the way by the Hussein administration, that intelligence agencies knew Hasan was very potentially dangerous, and that he is very likely not alone in his sentiments and position. People who worked closely with Hasan remarked often about his attitudes: about how he spoke out against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as they particularly pertained to muslims, about his recurrent tirades in support of his faith, about his attempts to contact Al Qaeda, about his increasingly violent and antagonistic behavior. All of this centered around one thing, and one thing only: islam. His killing spree was spurred on by one thing, and one thing only: islam. The death-cult of Mohammad is unquestionably at the very core of this entire incident. Islam is the reason behind the shootings.
Yet our president cautions us not to jump to conclusions. In truth, as he is a muslim himself, that is hardly surprising. The Director of Homeland Security cautions us against rash judgement. Why? Will any facts surface to unseat islam as the root cause of this tragedy? Of course they won't, but that is part of the propaganda machine. People are free to blame whatever they want on whoever they want whenever they want, especially if that blame can be laid at the feet of white, male conservatives, but it is unacceptable to blame muslims for anything. Any crime committed by a muslim must not mention the fact that the criminal is a muslim, because that is considered inflammatory and unnecessarily biased. Organizations like CAIR will stoop to any level to accuse anyone of anything, and they claim it is their right to do so; but let one person cast any kind of dispersion on muslims or islam, and they are guilty of a hate crime and must be persecuted. And this is, and has been, the modus operandi of islam in America. Blame everyone else while refusing to accept blame. Expect complete freedom of thought and speech while demanding that everyone else's be denied. Criticize, lie, and agitate while demanding protection from retaliation. Expect everything while giving nothing. Replace the U.S. Constitution with sharia law. This is their goal.
The homegrown threats are mounting, and will continue to mount, as long as so many people in this country continue to ignore them or dismiss them as inconsequential. Hasan's actions at Ft. Hood speak volumes: volumes about the threat of islam to the American way of life. Threats to Freedom and Peace. The time to take action is NOW. And if our current president won't take those actions, then the citizens of America need to find leaders who will, while we still have the ability to elect them.
As for Hasan himself, he is a dangerous criminal and needs to be treated as such. He is not mentally ill, and mental illness must not be allowed to factor into his prosecution. He should be given his fair trial; then he should be executed without mercy like the animal he is so that justice can be served.
More on the continuing story here.
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