Islam

Upon reading the article entitled, “A call to build” in Sunday’s paper, I found myself both angry and perplexed. When reading that “Members of the Greater Manchester Interfaith Council are hoping that area churchgoers will pitch in to help build New Hampshire’s first mosque,” I nearly fell off my chair. Why would they do such a thing? Time after time, each occurrence of successful or thwarted terror strikes have a common ingredient: a mosque with radicalized members and “imams”- so-called “holy” men. Knowing this, why would we want something like this here in NH? How many mosques have been used throughout the Moslem world as ammo dumps and hideouts for murderous thugs?

The new world war that we find ourselves fighting is against a radical fascist ideology, much like Nazism- only worse. The Germans found their wellspring of support generated from hyper-nationalism and racism, fueled by a charismatic leader. Today’s enemy, the so-called “Islamo- fascists,” have added a final and nearly unstoppable feature to the totalitarian mix: religious fervor. Can you imagine the thought of a Hitler Youth Summer camp somewhere in Manchester circa 1943-44? Such a notion sounds utterly ridiculous, right?

 

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Received this in an email: 

Toiletries don’t commit acts of terrorism.

Muslims do.

So why can’t I take my toothpaste on the plane? How is it that Gatorade is forbidden? Why can’t I have a bottle of water?

Because we aren’t really fighting a war with terror, we are losing a struggle with political correctness. It is not so much the evil of outsiders, it is the cowardice of Americans.

The cowardice that won’t let us call a spade a spade, that makes us all live in an alternate reality, that puts survival secondary to servility. We are fighting World War III with one arm tied behind our back.

Last week was a good example.

A group of two or three dozen fascist Muslims in England and Pakistan plotted to blow up 10 or 12 passenger-laden airliners in transatlantic flight. The purpose was to celebrate and reprise the attacks of September 11. The means was the detonation of explosive liquids disguised as common liquids – like Gatorade or shampoo.

The plot was discovered, followed and – hopefully – foiled by British intelligence with an assist from Americans and Pakistanis. Immediately, new restrictions were put on airline passengers. Because the plotters planned to use liquids, passengers were forbidden to bring liquids onto airplanes.

Not medicines, not crèmes, not drinks, not nothing. Untold hundreds of thousands of airline passengers immediately and indefinitely lost the right to carry liquids or pastes on themselves or in their carry-on luggage.

Which is stupid.

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"The security of the State of Israel is a matter of great importance to U.S. policy in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean. A strong Israel is an asset upon which American military planners and political leaders can rely. Israel shares our commitment to democracy, freedom, personal liberty and rule of law."

"The problem of militias and non-state actors operating in a sovereign country is precisely the same as that faced by Americans and coalition forces in Iraq — also supported by Iran and Syria.

"We believe that Israel’s military operation to remove Hezbollah from southern Lebanon is a correct and legitimate response to the creation of an armed force accountable to Syria and Iran … and using Lebanese territory to engage in cross-border warfare.

The statement was issued through the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs in Washington, which organizes exchanges and visits between military leaders of the U.S. and Israel to strengthen the security of both nations.

Click the "continue" link below to read the full text with list of the signers.

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Is there a place in the U.S. justice system for torture?

Alan Dershowitz, the civil libertarian defender of O.J Simpson, believes the law should sanction torture so it may be applied in certain cases, such as terrorist acts.

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Israel as “vampire bat”? Terrorist-supporting Arab states run by dictators as “butterflies”? While everyone is entitled to an opinion, this letter to the Monitor shows that some opinions are of value only as examples of poor reasoning.

Despite ample historical evidence, many on the anti-war Left continue to put their faith in international coalitions and the UN to resolve the ongoing crisis in the Middle East. These same folks claim to prefer "diplomatic" solutions even when there is no diplomatic solution. (Where is the diplomatic middle ground with an enemy that fails to uphold international standards of behavior and repeated calls for the annihilation of UN-member states?) They also favor applying a “European approach” rather than American "cowboyism" to dealing with the world’s hot spots.

Post World War II Europeans have spent decades supporting meaningless resolutions and absolving terrorist organizations of blame for heinous crimes while holding the United States and Israel to impossible standards. That is the “European approach,” and it fails miserably everywhere it is tried. (Remember the former Yugoslavia?) The irony is that the United States “cowboy” has spent billions of dollars and sacrificed thousands of lives over the past 70 years trying to mitigate European diplomatic, military, and philosophical messes.

Let us not forget that Israel was created in part because European powers could not be trusted……

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