few nuclear devices (for self-defence, according to Eric Margolis of the
Toronto Sun... there's a concept. The self defence nuke. Kind of like the
self defence apocalypse), "it is not very dangerous". I wonder if Margolis
would feel the same if the United States had vowed to wipe Toronto off the
map, and then went shopping for a nuke, simply for self-defence. Margolis
goes on to say that as he did in the lead up to the Iraq war, Chirac "spoke
with logic and good sense". For decades, liberals have denounced the concept
of Mutually Assured Destruction as, aptly, mad. Even as it proved to be the
concept in logic that saved the world from nuclear devastation ever since
the atomic bombings that ended World War Two in the pacific, liberals
insisted that evil conservatives who maintained the nuclear balance were
going to get us all killed. Now that that very balance helped to bring down
the Soviet Empire, the same liberals are clinging to the same philosophy to
defend the right of an evil theocracy to gain such weapons. Chirac says (and
Margolis agrees) that if Iran nuked Israel, they would be destroyed, and
certainly they wouldn't commit national suicide. So first off, France is
granting Iran the right to destroy Israel, so long as it's willing to face
the consequences, and secondly, Mutually Assured Destruction is only MAD
when a conservative talks about it. That would seem to be the message. Maybe
Mr Margolis would feel differently if the Twin Towers had been in Toronto.
Let me repeat from last week. Ahmadinejad doesn't care if Iran is destroyed.
He wants to destroy America and Israel, and he is taking steps to do just
that. It has nothing to do with politics. It has to do with perverted
religion and most likely a chemical imbalance in his brain. And if you think
that it has nothing to do with New Zealand, you're mistaken. Just like the
Japanese reached Australia following the attack on Pearl Harbor in World War
Two, and in fact had flown over and planned an attack on New Zealand, the
attack in New York killed New Zealanders, a nuclear strike on Israel (and
the war that will follow) will reach the South Pacific.
I have here two excerpts from a fascinating letter by David W. of
Dannevirke. The first shows just how close to home radical Islam is.
Last Friday afternoon I drove down Cook St in Palmerston North and passed
the Islamic Centre at the time when an event there had finished. Stopped
by traffic I was interested to note the large number of young men (50 to 60)
milling about on the footpath. I also noted that three children were forced
to cross the road to pass this mob as they were apparently denied passage by
the crowd. That scene made me feel distinctly uncomfortable.
This excerpt quotes statements made by Dr. Tawfik Hamid, who is forced to
live in secret for fear of his life.
Dr. Hamid, medical doctor, author and activist was once a member of Egypt's
Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya (Arabic for "the Islamic Group"), a banned terrorist
organization. He was trained under Ayman al-Zawaheri, a lieutenant of Bin
Laden, who tells the world that Islamic violence will stop only when the
whole world becomes Muslim. Dr Tawfik Hamid speaks of the deliberate and
determined expansion of militant Islam and its intention to triumph not only
in the Islamic world but in Europe and North America. "Muslim terrorists
kill and slaughter not because of what they experience but because of what
they believe." Dr. Hamid is now 45 years old, and has had many years to
reflect on why he was willing to die and kill for his religion. "The first
thing you have to understand is that it has nothing, absolutely nothing, to
do with poverty or lack of education," he says. "I was from a middle-class
family and my parents were not religious. Hardly anyone in the movement at
university came from a background that was different from mine. I've heard
this poverty nonsense time and time again from Western apologists for Islam,
most of them not Muslim by the way. Most of those who do the killing are
wealthy, privileged, educated and free. If it were about poverty, ask
yourself why it is middle-class Muslims and never poor Christians who become
suicide bombers in Palestine." Dr Hamid states that the expansion of violent
and aggressive Islam began in the late 1970's and can be traced to the
growing financial clout of Saudi Arabia. "We're not talking about a fringe
cult here. Salafist [fundamentalist] Islam is the dominant version of the
religion and is taught in almost every Islamic university in the world. It
is puritanical, extreme and does, yes, mean that women can be beaten,
apostates killed and Jews called pigs and monkeys." The violence is not
about Israel, not about Iraq, not about Afghanistan. They are mere excuses.
Algerian Muslim fundamentalists murdered 150,000 other Algerian Muslims,
sometimes slitting the throats of children in front of their parents. This
had nothing to do with Israel's treatment of the Palestinians or about
American foreign policy." Dr. Hamid says, "Stop asking what you have done
wrong. Muslims are slaughtering Westerners like sheep and you still look
within. You criticize your history, your institutions, your churches. Why
can't you realize that it has nothing to do with what you have done but with
what they want." Quotes from Michael Coren, National Post, Canada. And what
they want is total dominion. Islam is never satisfied to be one religion
among many. It has to be supreme; the one and only. "...the (only)
religion (acceptable) before God is Islam." Surah 3:19. Within Islam,
freedom of religion is never an option. Allah says, "If anyone desires a
religion other than Islam, never will it be accepted of him." Surah 3:85.
Finally, David adds this:
Hence we have in Palmerston North the Muslim member of Parliament agitating
to have the cross removed from the war memorial tower in the Palmerston
North Civic Square. that is just for starters.
David is very sensible, and I'm really happy to have his input and feedback.
Radical Islam is and has been working hard in New Zealand, and ignoring and
appeasing it won't make it go away. Keep at it, David. People need to hear
this, and while I'm glad for the education, I'm also happy to spread the
word. Readers, I want to hear from you about this... even if you disagree.
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