I have been so frustrated with the climate of the media, politicians, and the average person that I have not posted anything lately.
I know this is an audience that is plugged in to the truth about what is going on in the world.
The issue I have is that since we are at the fore-front of the happenings of the day, I feel like I'm preaching to the choir.
So, I have had a long absence on our IBA.
We show eachother articles about the atrocities perpetrated by Muslims, the dhimidute of the media, and how our politicians fall short of stopping it.
So what do we do?
I have been involved in a discussion at Fu2rman and Friends with a reader.
He seems to think that our current course of action in Iraq is going to fail.
In a nutshell, Muslims are not programmed to want democracy.
He may be right, he may be wrong. But the points he makes are valid.
In general, he says, All civilized people must come out against Islam, like they did throughout history with other oppressive religions.
That is inevitably the war we are in.
And I have to agree.
If we continue this Politically Correct war in Iraq, and start another PC war in Iran, I fear we are just spinning our wheels.
We must take on Islam as a whole.
I'll post more on that as my conversation continues at F2 and Friends.
Glad to see you posting here again!
ReplyDeleteI've become more outspoken (not that I was ever quiet) since I read up on these:
1. the beheadings of Indonesian schoolchildren
2. the cartoon furor
3. the case of Abdul Rahman
If we go to a PC war against Iran, we'll have missed another opportunity to expose the egregious practices and tenets of Islam. The MSM won't take on the job; we in the blogosphere MUST!
AOW,
ReplyDeleteThanks.
I'm sure I started blogging for the same reason you did, to expose the truth.
Well the truth that I currently see is that we have to step it up.
Pointing out the atrocities that Islam is responsible for is no longer enough, we have to find solutions.
I don't have answers, but I know this is a group that can find them.
Now that we all know the evil that Islamofascists represent, where do we go from here?
True, true, true. I've been calling for greater mobilization of people like us, and there are thousands if not millions of us. Heck, I never did anything online really until December and I was thrilled that there were other people out here as outraged as I was! I'll weigh in. My problem has been in the fact that we are scattered, although there are certainly plenty of locals here who would do something. It's just not as easy to find them as it is online.
ReplyDeleteDude, here you are preaching to a choir of 1000 people per day. I don't think all of them have formed final opinions. You might as well post your ideas here. Seems more likely you'll help.
ReplyDeleteThis is a long slog.
ReplyDeleteIt will be, I promise you, a "near run thing" (in Wellington's words). That's the way democracies are programmed to be. (US)
Even if all we do is to keep each other energized, then posting is worth the time.
Every one of us is going to get down and discouraged
Every one of us is goig to get tired of the whole thing because of the ignorance of the underlying threat (not OBL).
From Churchill first recognizing the problem until war was declared was 7 years, and that was for the most obvious of challenges imaginable.
This is not so easy and not so clear for those who don;t really see this stuff every day.
Hell it took me two years frmo 2001 and I was talking with arab every single day, until it was undeniable that salafism is the KKK, and that every mother's son teaching, acting and promulgating was going to have to be put out to pasture one way or the other.
Now I think I'll take good look at your conversant.
You can't kill an ideology. Rational debate does not trump the will of God. The best we can hope for is to destroy the leaders of Islam (Saddam, the mullahs, the Arab Kings, et al) on earth. And the best weapon we have to do this is democracy.
ReplyDeleteFu2rman - I agree, hence my absence from IBA the past few weeks. It more a sense of resignation than despair. Still ...
ReplyDeleteThomas,
ReplyDeleteI've been wondering where you've been. As you know, I'm dipping awfully close to despair at this point myself.
But, that doesn't mean I don't still believe we are going to hit Iran.
You know, the one thing that might cheer us all up is that a lot of people are beginning to get a little suspicious that maybe Islam isn't quite as peaceful as Our Leader has insisted. When the next disaster hits (I think we're all pretty much in agreement that it will), we may have more people who are "primed" to respond appropriately than we imagine right now.
ReplyDeleteHang in there.
All I can say is "Me too!", but I feel somewhat like cubed, epaminondas and others.
ReplyDeleteIt is a long slog. I don't know why YOU have been exercised by Islam to the point of distraction, but the fact is - YOU HAVE.
I often feel drained and exhausted by blogging on Islam and "preaching to the choir", but I think I am kinda like everyone here; I cannot NOT do it, either.
There is a lull at the moment, and so we are in mark-time mode. That Islam will provide us with a new outrage, a new onslaught, is something we all know in our gut.
The reaction at 'our' blog, during the cartoon fiasco, was probably echoed wherever 'you' blog. We were getting a quarter of a million hits a day, at the height of that drama. Now we aren't.
Drives me crazy; I want to be doing so much more, I desperately want to be aligned with people of action, blah, blah, blah.
Next time Islam acts true to form, there will be a million a day.....that is what we need to keep in mind.
I "start the conversation" about Islam WHEREVER I GO in Australia, these days. Not once have I been met with any hostility or contrary opinion. Everybody agrees, they are just not driven to action.... yet.
I have no doubt that awareness is heightened and the knowledge about Islamic ideological plans, required to form an entrenched resistance to it, is growing. So to is the disgust with which our appeasers and apologists are viewed.
That happened in no small part because of the actions of bloggers.
Some people probably shudder when they see an email from me in their inbox. I have lost a very long term friend because of this. Too bad.
In a few years time they will be glad of the information.
I often feel (and I don't suffer from grandiosity) that I was born for this, for a time like this, for this action. So were you. Suck it up and keep your lamp trimmed and burning. We are all in for the long haul.