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Subject: When the Muslim Killers Come for the Kids
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Date: 2004-09-04 09:00:19 PST
September 4, 2004 -- THE mass murder of children revolts the human psyche.
Herod sending his henchmen to massacre the infants of Bethlehem haunts the
Gospels. Nothing in our time was crueler than what the Germans did to
children during the Holocaust. Slaughtering the innocents violates a
universal human taboo.
Or a nearly universal one. Those Muslims who preach Jihad against the West
decided years ago that killing Jewish or Christian children is not only
acceptable, but pleasing to their god when done by "martyrs."
It isn't politically correct to say this, of course. We're supposed to
pretend that Islam is a "religion of peace." All right, then: It's time for
Muslims to stand up for the once-noble, nearly lost traditions of their
faith and condemn what Arab and Chechen terrorists and blasphemers did in
the Russian town of Beslan.
If Muslim religious leaders around the world will not publicly condemn the
taking of children as hostages and their subsequent slaughter - if those
"men of faith" will not issue a condemnation without reservations or
caveats - then no one need pretend any longer that all religions are equally
sound and moral.
Islam has been a great and humane faith in the past. Now far too many of its
adherents condone, actively or passively, the mass murder of school kids.
Instead of condemnations of the Muslim "Jihadis" responsible for butchering
more than 200 women and children in cold blood, we will hear spiteful
counter-accusations about imaginary atrocities supposedly committed by
Western militaries.
Well, the cold fact is that Western soldiers, whether Americans, Brits,
Russians or Israelis, do not take hundreds of children hostage, then shoot
them in cold blood while detonating bombs in their midst. The Muslim world
can lie to itself, but we need lie no longer.
The tragedy in southern Russia occurred thousands of miles from the United
States, but, in essence, that massacre happened next door. The parents,
teachers and students kept for days without water or food in a sweltering
school building before being butchered were our children, our sisters, our
wives, our parents.
The mass hostage situation wasn't about Chechen rebels (and at least 10
Arabs) opposing the Russian government. It was a continuation of the
universal struggle between good and evil. And there is no doubt which side
is evil, scorned though the word may be by our own elite.
How can any human being with a shred of conscience dismiss what occurred in
that school as anything less than evil?
The attack in Beslan wasn't about Russia's brutal incompetence in Chechnya -
as counter-productive as Moscow's grim heavy-handedness may have been. It
was about religious bigotry so profound that the believer can hold a gun to
a child's head, pull the trigger and term the act "divine justice."
We will hear complaints that the Russian special forces should have waited -
even after the terrorists began shooting children. Negotiations are the
heroin of Westerners addicted to self-delusion. Who among us would have
waited when he or she saw fleeing children cut down by automatic weapons?
The urge to protect children is as primal as any impulse we ever feel.
Make no mistake: No blame attaches to the Russians for the massacre at that
school. The guilt is entirely upon the Islamic extremists who have led the
religion they claim to cherish into the realms of nightmare.
There will be repercussions. Having suffered the hijacking and destruction
of two passenger jets, a deadly bombing at a Moscow subway station and a
massacre in a primary school all in less than two weeks, the Kremlin will
have learned to rue the day it imagined that there was anything to gain by
opposing American efforts against terrorists, whether Osama bin Laden or
Saddam Hussein.
As they inevitably do, the terrorists reminded the world of their heartless
barbarism. Even if France manages to beg the release of its kidnapped
journalists in Iraq, it has begun to sense its vulnerability.
And all Europeans with a vestige of sense will recognize that the school
seizure in Russia could easily repeat itself in Languedoc or Umbria, Bavaria
or Kent.
An attack on children is an attack on all of humanity.
No matter what differences Western states discover to divide them, the
terrorists will bring us together in the end. Their atrocities expose all
wishful thinking for what it is.
A final thought: Did any of those protesters who came to Manhattan to
denounce our liberation of 50 million Muslims stay an extra day to protest
the massacre in Russia? Of course not.
The protesters no more care for dead Russian children than they care for
dead Kurds or for the hundreds of thousands of Arabs that Saddam Hussein
executed. Or for the ongoing Arab-Muslim slaughter of blacks in Sudan.
Nothing's a crime to those protesters unless the deed was committed by
America.
The butchery in Russia was a crime against humanity. In every respect. Was
any war ever more necessary or just than the War on Terror?
And what will terror's apologists say when the killers come for their own
children?
Ralph Peters is the author of "Beyond Terror: Strategy in a Changing World."
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/28066.htm
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Subject: When the Muslim Killers Come for the Kids
View: Complete Thread (5 articles)
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Newsgroups: alt.politics
Date: 2004-09-04 09:00:19 PST
September 4, 2004 -- THE mass murder of children revolts the human psyche.
Herod sending his henchmen to massacre the infants of Bethlehem haunts the
Gospels. Nothing in our time was crueler than what the Germans did to
children during the Holocaust. Slaughtering the innocents violates a
universal human taboo.
Or a nearly universal one. Those Muslims who preach Jihad against the West
decided years ago that killing Jewish or Christian children is not only
acceptable, but pleasing to their god when done by "martyrs."
It isn't politically correct to say this, of course. We're supposed to
pretend that Islam is a "religion of peace." All right, then: It's time for
Muslims to stand up for the once-noble, nearly lost traditions of their
faith and condemn what Arab and Chechen terrorists and blasphemers did in
the Russian town of Beslan.
If Muslim religious leaders around the world will not publicly condemn the
taking of children as hostages and their subsequent slaughter - if those
"men of faith" will not issue a condemnation without reservations or
caveats - then no one need pretend any longer that all religions are equally
sound and moral.
Islam has been a great and humane faith in the past. Now far too many of its
adherents condone, actively or passively, the mass murder of school kids.
Instead of condemnations of the Muslim "Jihadis" responsible for butchering
more than 200 women and children in cold blood, we will hear spiteful
counter-accusations about imaginary atrocities supposedly committed by
Western militaries.
Well, the cold fact is that Western soldiers, whether Americans, Brits,
Russians or Israelis, do not take hundreds of children hostage, then shoot
them in cold blood while detonating bombs in their midst. The Muslim world
can lie to itself, but we need lie no longer.
The tragedy in southern Russia occurred thousands of miles from the United
States, but, in essence, that massacre happened next door. The parents,
teachers and students kept for days without water or food in a sweltering
school building before being butchered were our children, our sisters, our
wives, our parents.
The mass hostage situation wasn't about Chechen rebels (and at least 10
Arabs) opposing the Russian government. It was a continuation of the
universal struggle between good and evil. And there is no doubt which side
is evil, scorned though the word may be by our own elite.
How can any human being with a shred of conscience dismiss what occurred in
that school as anything less than evil?
The attack in Beslan wasn't about Russia's brutal incompetence in Chechnya -
as counter-productive as Moscow's grim heavy-handedness may have been. It
was about religious bigotry so profound that the believer can hold a gun to
a child's head, pull the trigger and term the act "divine justice."
We will hear complaints that the Russian special forces should have waited -
even after the terrorists began shooting children. Negotiations are the
heroin of Westerners addicted to self-delusion. Who among us would have
waited when he or she saw fleeing children cut down by automatic weapons?
The urge to protect children is as primal as any impulse we ever feel.
Make no mistake: No blame attaches to the Russians for the massacre at that
school. The guilt is entirely upon the Islamic extremists who have led the
religion they claim to cherish into the realms of nightmare.
There will be repercussions. Having suffered the hijacking and destruction
of two passenger jets, a deadly bombing at a Moscow subway station and a
massacre in a primary school all in less than two weeks, the Kremlin will
have learned to rue the day it imagined that there was anything to gain by
opposing American efforts against terrorists, whether Osama bin Laden or
Saddam Hussein.
As they inevitably do, the terrorists reminded the world of their heartless
barbarism. Even if France manages to beg the release of its kidnapped
journalists in Iraq, it has begun to sense its vulnerability.
And all Europeans with a vestige of sense will recognize that the school
seizure in Russia could easily repeat itself in Languedoc or Umbria, Bavaria
or Kent.
An attack on children is an attack on all of humanity.
No matter what differences Western states discover to divide them, the
terrorists will bring us together in the end. Their atrocities expose all
wishful thinking for what it is.
A final thought: Did any of those protesters who came to Manhattan to
denounce our liberation of 50 million Muslims stay an extra day to protest
the massacre in Russia? Of course not.
The protesters no more care for dead Russian children than they care for
dead Kurds or for the hundreds of thousands of Arabs that Saddam Hussein
executed. Or for the ongoing Arab-Muslim slaughter of blacks in Sudan.
Nothing's a crime to those protesters unless the deed was committed by
America.
The butchery in Russia was a crime against humanity. In every respect. Was
any war ever more necessary or just than the War on Terror?
And what will terror's apologists say when the killers come for their own
children?
Ralph Peters is the author of "Beyond Terror: Strategy in a Changing World."
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/28066.htm
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