|
Please Don't Miss and
|
|
Thursday, 28 September 2006
|
|
Bowing to Terrorists Only Leads to More Terror
Contributed by Shane Briscoe In yet another capitulation to Islamofascist terrorists, a Berlin opera house has pulled the plug on its production of Idomeneo because it features a scene with the severed heads of Jesus, Buddha, Poseidon and... you guessed it, Mohamed. The opera house censored itself to avoid the security risk that depicting Mohamed would entail. It is a replay of the cowardly reaction to Muslim violence over the Mohamed cartoons by much of the Western Press establishment, coming on the heels of the Pope's apology for supposedly defaming Islam by linking it to violence. But, remember, Islam is a religion of peace. If you don't believe it, they will teach you a lesson by calling for your assassination. When is the West going to learn? You cannot compromise with evil, and Islam, in its present state as interpreted by a large segment of its adherents, is evil. It advocates the worst human behavior: murder; mistreatment of women (who are but cattle in the eyes of righteous Muslims); absolute intolerance; censorship; fascism. This is Nazism with a religious face. And that is the most dangerous of combinations. In order to win this fight to the death, we must come to realize that the enemy is pure evil. And we must stand firm at every front. Any capitulation to the Islamofascists is a defeat for the West. We already are undercutting ourselves and shoring up the terrorists by placing the mantle of political correctness over our entire strategy for dealing with the threat. So, instead of profiling the people who are doing the killing, we search grandmothers and Christian babies at airports and require Americans with impeccable credentials to subject themselves to humiliating searches and restrictions on their personal freedom. We are prohibited from painting the enemy in unflattering terms, such as "rag head," at a time when jingoism would serve a useful purpose in firing up our citizens to pursue what must become a war of annihilation against the terrorists and those who would assist them (Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, North Korea are at the top of that list). We accept the vilest of racial/religious stereotyping when it is aimed at Jews, but balk at the slightest hint of criticism of the religion of Jihad, the cult of death. And roughly half of our population would rather concoct nut-case theories of the Bush Administration's complicity with the perpetrators of 9/11 and rewrite history (as Clinton and the Democrats are so good at doing) than face up to the tremendous challenge at hand: Destroying a dangerous movement that would incinerate the entire United States and everyone in it given half a chance. Slowly, and not so surely, the discourse is changing within the Bush Administration to acknowledge that we are not fighting some nameless, non-ideological foe, but specifically Islamic terrorists and an Islamic movement that is bound and determined to convert or destroy all infidels, including Islamic "infidels" who do not ascribe to the perverted, Medieval tenets of the Wahhabist sect. We need to take off the gloves, both physically in terms of the degree of violence and seriousness with which we fight this war militarily, and verbally, in how we describe the enemy and his twisted beliefs. We need to hate the enemy enough to utterly destroy him, and that will not happen as long as we wring our hands in self-deluding political correctness. The enemy is a bunch of wild-eyed, brutal, utterly immoral, throat-cutting rag heads who adhere to a fascist belief system disguising itself as religion. The appeasers, and that includes all Democrats except newly independent Joe Lieberman, are playing right into their hands. As soon as we recognize these fact and speak the truth, we will start winning this most necesssary of wars. |
|
Contributed by Shane Briscoe on September 28, 2006 at 09:37 AM in , | Comments Posted by: It seems that the cancellation will be revoked and this opera will be shown after all. What a great and shrewd publicity stunt the opera house made by first announcing the cancellation. Usually hardly anybody would be interested in that opera, but now it is the talk of the town. I think I am in a very small minority in Germany who approved of the cancellation. That opera is an insult to other religions (since it shows the severed heads of Jesus and Buddha as well) and to Mozart, the composer, himself. What benefit would we get if we had this opera? It seems the only reason to defend this stupid opera is to avoid giving the impression of appeasement to the Islamofascists. That's not enough for me. I think this opera would only strengthen Islamofasicsm since it would help their propaganda. To win the war on terrorism, we need to have moderate Muslims on our side, so that they don't support the terrorists, but give us information about them. And we want the moderate Muslims to win over their autocratic governments and fundamentalist groups in the Arab world. This opera, however, alienates the moderate Muslims and helps the fundamentalists. Let's not forget that theater plays critical of Christians and Israel also get canceled. Earlier this year: I am not a fan of Rachel Corrie. Not at all. However, if one criticizes the canellation of the Mozart opera for fear of offending Muslimes, then one should also criticize the canceling of that play for fear of offending supporters of Israel.. Besides: When Corpus Christi was shown in Germany in 2000, there have been death threats and bomb threats as well: Thus it could very well be that the threats against the "Idomeneo" opera are not only coming from Muslims, but from Christians, who don't like to see the severed head of Jesus... Having said that: The concern about attacks from Muslims is bigger. Greetings from Berlin, Posted by: | Sep 29, 2006 2:56:19 PM |