Just terrible news – from Lisa Graas:
My compatriots at Jihad Watch have the news about Islamist violence against Christians in Nigeria on Christmas Eve.
Nigeria: At least 31 dead in Christmas Eve bombings – Posted by Marisol on December 25, 2010 8:30 AM
Jihad attacks threatened against “the unbeliever and Christian countries celebrating Christmas” – Posted by Robert Spencer on December 25, 2010 1:04 PM…
…Nigeria: Pastor killed in front of his church, other churches targeted in arson rampage — Posted by Marisol on December 26, 2010 12:04 AM
I can find no condemnations of this violence from Muslims, but at least one Muslim blogger, at The Islamic Standard, believes this killing of Christians is justified, saying:
The Believers everywhere are rightly enraged against the policies of America and the secularist and nationalist governments that were left in control of their lands by the retreating colonialists after WWII...
I don’t put too much stock in that last statement. To be sure, its standard fare for radical Islam…but my view is that radical Islam isn’t a religious movement so much as a economic and political con job. Some people in Islam want quite a lot of power and wealth for themselves but they don’t want to earn it by working, nor do they wish to obtain it by doing well for the people and thus being rewarded with power…such paths to wealth and power are difficult; much easier, if you can do it, to just use insane violence to obtain your ends.
Unless and until we take the sternest measures possible – without paying the least attention to the softer versions of the scam (those con artists too squeamish to get their hands bloody but who yet wish to gain power and wealth without earning it – you know, groups like CAIR) – against the purveyors of this wicked violence, we won’t get anywhere. The con artist keeps at it until someone forces him to stop…its really just as simple as that (though, of course, the actual process of stopping these criminals will be long, bloody and difficult).
We can keep dancing around the issue and keep having people being killed – or we can act like men and women, and American men and women, and take care of the problem once and for all. The choice is ours.
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