Mark Steyn takes note of our bizarre way of dealing with things like the attack at Ft. Hood:
…Major Hasan is not a card-carrying member of the Texas branch of al-Qaeda reporting to a control officer in Yemen or Waziristan. If he were, things would be a lot easier. But the pathologies that drive al-Qaeda beat within Major Hasan too, and in the end his Islamic impulses trumped his expensive Western education, his psychiatric training, his military discipline — his entire American identity. One might say the same about Faleh Hassan Almaleki of Glendale, Ariz., arrested last week after fatally running over his “too Westernized” daughter Noor in the latest American honor killing. Or the two U.S. residents — one American, one Canadian — arrested a few days earlier for plotting to fly to Denmark for the purposes of murdering the editor who commissioned the famous Mohammed cartoons. But Noor Almaleki’s brother shrugs that’s just the way it is. “One thing to one culture doesn’t make sense to another culture,” he says.
Indeed. To infidels, Islam is in a certain sense unknowable, and most of us are content to leave it at that. The vast majority of Muslims don’t conspire to kill cartoonists or murder their daughters or shoot dozens of their fellow soldiers. But Islam inspires enough of this behavior to make it a legitimate topic of analysis. Don’t hold your breath. We’d rather talk about anything else — even in the Army…
What are we to do? How can we protect ourselves from such an attack? I can’t see it as right and just that we should just ignore the implications and simply wait for the next jihadist to reveal himself via a pile of American corpses.
We’re going to have to carefully sift through our Moslem population and identify those strains of thought which lead people to murder in the name of jihad – and then deport them, if foreign, and relieve them of any sensitive duty, if American. I hate to think that some of my fellow Americans and some of our honored guests will have to put up with such an invasive procedure, but we have to know – the lives of innocent people rest upon our ability to ferret out those who would use Islam as a justification for murder.
Certain things – for instance, any Moslem who advocates Sharia – can certainly tip us off to those who are unreliable and then, political correctness notwithstanding, we’ll have to take the necessary steps to protect ourselves. Its going to be hard, but standing on fears of being offensive won’t do anything other than dig some more graves – Moslem and non-Moslem, innocent and guilty.
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What do we do now?
We play golf, take Michelle out dancing, and relax at Camp David over the weekend.
All this, while Americans and Brits continue to die, in record numbers, in Afghanistan.
Actually, there’s nothing the Narcissist in Chief can do. The murderer, after all, was suffering from Pre-Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Straight out of Newsweek, I think.
However, if you believe the Canadian morons who post here, this is all Bush’s fault…
Actually keef, that had to have been “second hand” pre post traumatic stress. A rare ailment indeed.
What do we do? How about we start by acknowledging it and not let the PC crowd make excuses for it.
Retired Army Intelligence Officer Ralph Peters had an op-ed in the New York Post a couple days ago that, I though, put the shooting in perspective.
Spook,
It’s absolutely shameful. Combine this with nationalizing healthcare and I don’t even recognize this country even more. I am now with you in advocating a tax revolt. The federal government does not deserve one dime of our hard earned money……..not one dime
The federal government does not deserve one dime of our hard earned money……..not one dime
Well, they’re getting a lot few “dimes” of my “hard earned money” this year, thanks, in no small part, to BHOzo’s economic policies. I did have a nice surge in business in the 3rd quarter, thanks to a couple customers getting some stimulus money, but the lights got turned off in October.
“identify those strains of thought which lead people to murder in the name of jihad – and then deport them, if foreign, and relieve them of any sensitive duty, if American.” – Mark
Well good luck with that. Will never happen.
“if you believe the Canadian morons who post here, this is all Bush’s fault” – Keef
Hey Keef, I’m offended. You too?
CO, this clown is calling us ‘morons’.
He could have simply stated ‘liberal morons’ but nooooo, he had to offend Canadians in general. Excuse me now, I have to get the twist out of my knickers.
I meant to say ‘You too, CO?’
canuckguy says:
November 8th, 2009 at 11:51 am
“if you believe the Canadian morons who post here, this is all Bush’s fault” – Keef
Hey Keef, I’m offended. You too?
CO, this clown is calling us ‘morons’.
He could have simply stated ‘liberal morons’ but nooooo, he had to offend Canadians in general. Excuse me now, I have to get the twist out of my knickers
Im with Keef you FOREIGN STOOGES are to much to bear. UGH!!!!
cluster
Spook,
It’s absolutely shameful. Combine this with nationalizing healthcare and I don’t even recognize this country even more. I am now with you in advocating a tax revolt. The federal government does not deserve one dime of our hard earned money……..not one dime
Im with ya on this one.
Mark
declare war on islam and be over it.
root it out and destroy it in this country
We know the man who done this was a terrorist, we know this because he hollered “Allahu Akbar” just before opening fire on military men and women at the Ft. Hood military base there.
What can we learn from this?
We can learn that Islam is very dangerous, and those who hold such ideology are a very misguided group of people. We can also see in this, among thousands of other examples, the flaw in accepting and permitting polytheistic multiculturalism within our country, it allows murderous ideologies and those who hate our Judeo-Christian way of life to rein. Of course, Judeo-Christianity is no longer the way of the people in America. So we see levels of hate and rage driven by ideology taking control of our country in a major way with no system of law that punishes the wrongdoer (such as this man who murdered 13 people) but that is permitted.
“neocon1 says:
November 8th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Mark
declare war on islam and be over it.
root it out and destroy it in this country”
Sounds to me like you are advocating genocide.
casper
Sounds to me like you are advocating genocide.
NONSENSE…..muslems have declared war on us, we are to stupid to recognize that.
little dweeb pencil necks like you enable them.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/pubs/fs/5902.htm
casp
this is what needs to happen.
OOH-RAH!!
http://shock.military.com/Shock/videos.do?displayContent=203118&ESRC=airforce.nl
muslems have declared war on us…neocon1
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Wrong. Islamic jihadists are the terrorists targeting the West. You cannot lump law-abiding practicing Muslims in with the violent extremists of that religion.
Sounds to me like you are advocating genocide. – Cappy
Sounds to me like you don’t have a brain in your head.
Deleted – mindless insults.
sirwilly,
You continue to surpass yourself in mindless drivel.
Is the “see ya, wouldn’t want to be ya” another final, graceful exit of yours?
sirwilliamwallace says – Kill all Liberals in the country or send anyone who is a Democrat into a concentration camp.
Ok, how about we start with you? You would be the first liberal, and a whacky one at that, well, most liberals are whacky.
Fire a nuke into San Francisco and kill all the gays.
Wow, wouldn’t that be nice. Nah. Listen, friend, God will take care of San Francisco, by allowing a deadly form of incurable blood disease attack those who indulge in the perversion homosexuality.
So, everything is fine. God will take care of things in due time.
You never disappoint, jeremiah.
How do you do it?
That God of yours sounds like a mighty fine fellow. How do you think he’ll handle the gays from other parts of the country or the Republican gays? Are they in for the same sentence?
sirwillaim: tell ya what, when they shoot ya– I will pray for ya.
sirwillaim: tell ya what, when they shoot ya– I will pray for ya.
uffy, ROTFLMAO! Waste of lead, though — really.
Moderator’s note: Poster said he knew his profanity-laden post would be deleted, AND SO IT WAS.
Fruity,
I know your panties are in a bunch right now, but what Mark is eluding to, is that when people display disturbing Islamic jihadist signs, like Hasan did, we need to pay attention to that, and take action.
OK? Go to your happy place now. Watch some porn, or take solace that aspirin will soon be free.
I believe that’s spelled “alluding”, by the way. And aspirin? Pshhh…sorry, but OxyContin’s the way to go.
Canadian Observer says – That God of yours sounds like a mighty fine fellow.
He sure is. And He has rules. And a choice to follow those rules … so when we break His rules, we pay the consequences. We do it to ourselves.
How do you think he’ll handle the gays from other parts of the country or the Republican gays? Are they in for the same sentence?
The same way, my friend, perversion is perversion, and it breaks God’s law.
cluster: …what Mark is eluding [sic] to, is that when people display disturbing Islamic jihadist signs, like Hasan did, we need to pay attention to that, and take action.
It would probably be more efficient to suggest that anytime someone displays numerous disturbing signs, regardless of any apparent ideology, we need to pay attention.
And frankly, I think jeremiah06 is worth paying attention to.
I see, an oxy fan. Makes sense. If I were a liberal, I would also want to numb myself.
So what are you suggesting, ricorun? That I’m a crack-pot like sirwilliamwallace and Hasan who tells people to murder other people?
“I…have become….comfortably numb”
–Pink Floyd
Perhaps I should explain my position a little better, as it seems Ricorun is not getting it.
First off, I am a law-abiding citizen. That means I fear the law. I don’t fear the law because it is “inherent” to my thinking, but because I am compelled to by what Scripture, God’s Word tells me….
Romans 13:1-5
“Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, bu to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience.”
When that passage makes reference to the “sword” it is speaking of Capital punishment.
Acts 25:11 “If then I am a wrongdoer and have committed anything for which I deserve to die, I do not seek to escape death. But if there is nothing to their charges against me, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.”
When I responded sarcastically to the sarcastic remarks of sirwilliamwallace, I was pointing out how foolish he was and is to make such remarks. He only wants attention for himself by making a fool out of himself in the process. He, like many others in our day and age clamor for attention because they are unhappy with life, as they feed into their minds the corrupted things of this world, making for themselves a “safety” zone of unhappiness, being the very same people like Hasan who sooner or later commits to a heinous crime, resulting in a tragedy. The worst tragedy being, should they lose their own life not knowing Jesus Christ as their personal Savior…when this body is gone, there is no other, and life just begins, and there is no end.
As regards to my other remarks on sirwilliamwallace’s suggestion about the San Francisco homosexuals, and God allowing them to be overcome with the disease that attacks and destroys their white blood-cell platelets … this is part of, even in our world of unpredictability the inevitable harvest that is reaped from the crop sown. Everything that hurts or makes us feel bad, is, in essence part of the curse that was placed upon mankind for his sin. The ground was cursed, everything. So then God made rules after the curse so that with a choice and in choosing to do what is right according to His Word and what He tells us to do, we might escape the consequences by abstaining from sin.
But like all things, if we fail to adhere to the Word and daily prayer, and rejecting God’s word we become fools, and God gives us over to a spirit of licentiousness or evil … and then there is no stopping us from taking Satan’s bait on everything that he presents to us, resulting then in a tragedy.
God loves us as His creation, He made us in His image, but He wants us to obey if we are to be happy and free.
frrot: “I think I’ve become comfortably numb.”
Yep, from the neck up.
San Francisco homosexuals, and God allowing them to be overcome with the disease that attacks and destroys their white blood-cell platelets …jeremiah
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Say if you’re correct, jeremiah, and He is using this scourge to punish the homosexual community, why then can’t he stop heterosexual and innocent newborns from contracting this terrible disease? Surely, He has nothing against them.
I ask you as you seem to have a direct link to His thoughts and actions.
Canadian Observer,
As I explained, God expects us to use good judgment and heed the Word that He has provided. The first step, is doing that, if we want to remain happy and healthy. And since God says that homosexuality is wrong, then that opens those who commit to the act of homosexuality up to the possibility of an incurable venereal disease. There is no “ifs” about this, they will be punished for their act of disobedience. All will.
For those children who contract the incurable disease, did God give it to them, or did the persons who committed to the sin of adultery or homosexuality knowing that it was wrong and then contracting the deadly disease giving it to their children?
The answer is very obvious.
The first problem was disobedience and not caring about, or ignoring the adverse effects that resulted. So God will count it against the parents in both instances.
Well, liberals, what is your solution? How do we deal with the indisputable fact that some of the Moslems in the United States are just bombs waiting to go off in the name of Islam? Its not just a matter of a certain percentage of people being nuts or driven so – some people (reasonable, well educated people) of the Moslem faith have proven themselves again and again willing to commit the most horrid crimes in the name of their religion.
What are we to do?
Mark,
Liberals have no solutions. They will only make excuses for this guy, and others in the future who commit to these kinds of things.
We need to re-instate a national death penalty for ALL murderers…preferably by firing squad or hanging, as they are the quickest, most humane forms of Capital punishment.
Ah, Jeremiah, a classic example of the authoritarian personality:
Lemme guess, you had a really strict father?
flimflam,
Dad was strict, but only for my benefit, and I now see why, and am so very glad for it. I could have turned out like so many kids on the streets today in dope rings and into all kinds of mischief, who had no parents who cared enough to teach their children.
As for your use of the definition to your “authoritarian personality” epithet … the “predisposed to follow the dictates of a strong leader” part of it rings true…Yes, I have a strong leader. Not only is He a leader to many, but He is the Creator of the world and universe…So He’s pretty powerful, ya know … and yes, I better follow Him, and do what He says if I want to be in His favor, receive His blessings, and so forth.
so many shallow, ignorant libtards…
something serious to think on, Google “islamic terrorist training camps” and see what comes up….
On October 17, 2007, the Center for Security Policy paid tribute to John Guandolo, one of six Defenders of the Home Front honorees, stating:
Special Agent John Guandolo of the Federal Bureau of Investigations: A decorated U.S. Marine combat veteran of Desert Storm, Special Agent Guandolo has worked in the FBI since 1996 including nine years as a member of its SWAT team. Since shortly after 9/11, he has worked in the Bureau’s Washington Field Office’s Counterterrorism Division, developing a legendary expertise concerning Al Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood organizations and the broad subversive Islamist movement in the U.S. Special Agent Guandolo was recognized for his efforts to educate his colleagues and others in the law enforcement and intelligence communities about these subjects.
In his talk, Guandolo warned the group:
Every major Muslim organization is controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood, the former FBI agent said, which he said was formed to overthrow America and establish Islamic law. [...]
He said that Muslim groups will demand concessions on matters by saying, “You have to do this; you have to do this or I will be offended.”
“The solution to this is you,” Guandolo said. “If you are looking to DHS, the FBI and Congress to solve this … you’re going to be woefully disappointed.”
He said that FBI agents in the field “are working good cases,” but that the FBI leadership “is unwilling to do what the agents are asking them to do, which is to pony up and use some courage and start stepping on these people.”
“This is political subversion, this is an insurgency in the United States,” he said of the Islamic movement. “Insurgency is thwarted at the local level and the tip of the spear is local police.”
Guandolo also said that the group CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, is actually a front for the terror group Hamas.
JS02,
The enemy is at the gates and the administration is on their side, and now the American people have no other choice but to either rise up in great numbers and demand justice or acquiesce to national suicide.
flim,
Such definitions, of course, are created by leftist phonies in order to make themselves feel good about their cowardice and unrepentant depravity.
Mark,
I don’t know what the solution is. I know there are over 1.8 million Muslims living in the United States right now, the vast majority of whom are good hard working, tax paying Americans. Do we imprison, deport, or kill all of them because of the actions of a few?
There are also a lot of Muslim refugees from other countries that came here for the freedom we sometimes take for granted. Do we kick them out based on religion?
There is no excuse for what Major Hasan did. If he lives, I hope he is tried, convicted and put to death. That doesn’t give us an excuse to punish all Muslims. If we imprison, deport, or kill all the Muslims, which group will we follow with?
Casper says … I know there are over 1.8 million Muslims
You know, that’s a rather scary thought, Casper. Wouldn’t you say? You never know at what point something might tip them off and they are liable to go on an all-out Jihad against those of us they deem “infidels.” It’s frightening!!!
Jeremiah, you need to mix outside of your narrow, oppressive church circles a little more often.
WOW
http://www.freedomslighthouse.com/2009/11/new-york-city-jihadist-muslims-say-they.html
I’m afraid I can’t do that, flimflam. Because then I would become miserable like so many other miserable people without the Lord, but I can witness to those who are unbelievers so they too can have the peace and joy that passes all understanding.
Because then I would become miserable like so many other miserable people without the Lord, but I can witness to those who are unbelievers so they too can have the peace and joy that passes all understanding…jeremiah
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I’m afraid you are not a good poster child for the ‘believers’, jeremiah.
We are yet to see the peace and joy that passes all understanding from you.
If you want to have any sort of credibility, you need to lose all that darkness and negativity you constantly espouse.
The crap you peddle in the name of Jesus is one big turn-off for thinking folks, jeremiah, so if you are really serious about your faith, you should consider actually following His teachings instead of the gobbledygook you spew.
I become very angry with those who advocate for, and enjoy wallowing in the darkness, CO. Especially those dark souls who advocate for abortion and homosexuality. I am also upset at times with those who say they are “Christians” and then vote for a man whose soul is so dark that also believe in supporting those things abortion and homosexuality.
I hate the things that God hates and love the things that God loves.
I preach against murder and sodomy, and witness to those who do not know Jesus Christ.
Our Russian friend knows this. Won’t you join the celebration?