Posted by
Patrick Henry on Friday, November 28, 2008 12:05:29 AM
At this writing 125 persons are known dead, and nearly four-hundred more wounded
in a vicious attack by Muslim extremists against a train station, a restaurant, three hotels
and a Jewish center. And already the America-baiters are lining up to rationalize just
what made these poor, aggrieved Muslim boys go so wrong.
We read in Time about tragic British mistakes made in their colonial days, and the
persecution of the (14%) Muslim population in India by the (80%) Hindu populace.
Yet it wasn't the Hindi these terrorists sought out as hostages. It was American and
British citizens. It's the tired old business of shooting the pig because he saw the fox
steal the chickens. Everybody in the world with a grievance targets the USA. Why?
Some of them think we're to blame for whatever ails them, and the rest think we're the
only ones who can really do anything about their plight. I know I'm certainly more
anxious to help Indian Muslims now that they've slaughtered innocent civilians. Aren't
you?
But the real problem here isn't the terrorist nut jobs who pulled off the Mumbai
massacre, or the Palestinian backpack bombers, or even Al Qaeda. The real problem
is a world that refers to such murdering thugs as "militants," news services such as
Reuters that will NEVER apply the term "terrorist" to someone who blows things and
people up for a deeply felt cause. We saw it in America recently when the National
Education Association petition decrying the demonization of domestic terrorist
William Ayers argued that the charges against him were "just history," and that he
acted as he did -- blowing up police stations and government buildings -- because
he felt passionately about his (anti-war) cause. If that's an example of the reasoning
of our teachers, no wonder so much of public education in America today sucks!
But I guess their position -- and that of many in the media and in public life all
over the world -- is that if you have a grievance you have a certain license to break
the law, destroy property and even kill people without being labeled a filthy criminal
or paying the full fare for your crimes. By that sick logic if you happen to be black,
slavery permits you open season on whites. If you're fat and were ridiculed for it, fire
at will on those skinnier than you. And if you believe God's on your side, as the
Muslims do, well, that gives you a double free pass. So, let's all line up and
practice political correctness until the terrorists run the whole world. Or better
yet, let's cluck our tongues and look the other way in hopes that when we get
really ticked about something we'll also be able to find a building to torch or an
unarmed civilian to shoot.
Compicating the Mumbai scenario is the apparent fact that the terrorists were
not Indian Muslims at all, but sailed to India on a ship originating in Karachi,
Pakistan. And Pakistan's take? Who, us? We don't know anything about such a
ship. This from a Muslim country that hates India and the Hindi and who can
never seem to get hold of "actionable intelligence" to go after bin Laden or
Alzawahiri who everyone knows live in their half-assed country -- whose own
intel apparatus is so riddled with Taliban that they couldn't do anything with such
information if they had it.
Murder by the aggrieved is still murder! People who do dastardly deeds while
hiding behind their religion are STILL criminals. They are not heroes, they are
not soldiers and they wouldn't recognize honor if it snuck up and bit them on
the backside. You will NEVER hear this on MSNBC, or read it on CNN. No,
one way or another they'll find some way to blame Mumbai on America. And
their example heralds the death of any pretense of intellectual honesty in the
American media. Apparently they've caught the virus from Reuters and the National
Education Association.
The bottom line is this: the world is awash in the blood of innocents killed by
the aggrieved and religious fanatics. And until right thinking people have the
courage to say ENOUGH, and call these actions and crimnals what they really are,
they will go on bombing, murdering, burning and taking hostages. And those not
killed in the process will likely walk away unpunished. It's a world gone mad!