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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."--C.S. Lewis
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:: Thursday, July 14, 2005 ::
A message to the left:"We are infidels, and our infidelity matters much more than our active collaboration. As part of the hated West, we were a target long before Madrid, Iraq, Afghanistan or 9/11. Al-Qaeda does not care what we say about where we stand: it considers only whether our destruction would amount to a sufficiently emphatic statement of its aims and intentions. Its objective is to remake the world in the image of Islam, its strategy to terrify the West into surrender.
"But the penny drops tardily. On the morning of the London bombings, this newspaper reported on a group of middle-aged Irishwomen attending a rally at the G8 summit in Edinburgh where they held placards bearing an image of George W. Bush and the slogan, "World's 1 terrorist". On the letter's page on Saturday, three out of four writers blamed Bush for what had happened in London. Such thinking, which used to be merely tedious, now becomes dangerous.
"Let's hope we smell the coffee before we discover what the word terrorism means. Our collective mind, numbed by the dim cynicism of the Michael Moores and Clare Shorts, is slow to grasp what is going down. With our constant talk of "fundamentalism" we have fostered this misleading notion of a primitive peace-loving monster being awoken from its slumbers by Western bellicosity. It's time we got cause and effect in the right order.
"The world's number one terrorist? We wish. Very soon we may find ourselves praying that Bush and Tony Blair will be able to strike terror into the hearts of those who perpetrated last week's atrocities."
- John Waters, The Irish Times (subscription required)
Well said. Radical Muslims would just as soon saw-off the fat head of a Michael Moore as a John Ashcroft. Actually, were they given their way in America, I suspect the Jihadists would likey turn their attention first to acedemia and then move quickly upon Hollywood - the two towering pillars of "progressivism" in America. But ultimately, nobody is safe from these brainwashed, suicidal mass-murderers as many thousand of moderate Muslims would attest - were they still alive and breathing to do so. See previous post for more.
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