Islam + Fanaticism Deserve A Good Ass kicking

[guyman1966]

Below is an editorial from a Florida newspaper located

in Florida's panhandle. Someone who reads this paper

thought that the editorial was worth a wider

distribution and retyped it to send out over the

Internet.

Phil Lucas, the paper's Executive Editor, wrote this

article published in The News Herald, Panama City,

Florida, Sunday, April 4, 2004. His e-mail address is

plucas@pcnh.com. The News Herald web site is found at

http://www.newsherald.com/

Up Against Fanaticism

By Phil Lucas, Executive Editor, Panama City New Herald

If straight talk of savagery offends you, if you

believe in ethnic and gender diversity but not

diversity of thought, or if you think there is an

acceptable gray area between good and evil, then turn

to the funny pages, and take the children, too. This

piece is not for you.

We published pictures Thursday of burnt American

corpses hanging from an Iraqi bridge behind a mob of

grinning Muslims. Some readers didn't like it.

Mothers said it frightened their children. A woman

who works with Muslim physicians thought it might

offend or endanger them.

Well, we sure don't want to frighten, offend or

endanger anybody, do we? That's just too much

diversity to handle. I mean, somebody might get hurt.

We could fill the newspaper every morning with mobs of

fanatical Muslims. They can't get along with their

neighbors on much of the planet: France, Chechnya,

Bosnia, Indonesia, Spain, Morocco, India, Tunisia,

Somalia, etc., etc., etc. Can anybody name three

ongoing world conflicts in which Muslims are not

involved? Today, where there is war, there are

fanatical Muslims.

We might quibble about who started what conflicts, but

look at the sheer number of them. One thing is sure.

Muslim killers started the one we are in now when they

slaughtered more that 3,000 people, including fellow

Muslims, in New York City.

Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state and

feckless appeaser who helped get us into this mess,

said last week Muslims still resent the Crusades.

Well, Madam Albright, if Westerners were not such a

forgiving people, we might resent them too.

Let's recap the Crusades. Muslims invaded Europe, and

when they reached sufficient numbers, they imposed

their intolerant religion upon Westerners by force.

Christian monarchs drove them back and took the battle

to their homeland. The fight lasted a couple of

centuries, and we bottled them up for 1,000 years.

Now, a millennium later, Muslims have expanded forth

again. Ask France. Ask England. Ask Manhattan.

Two-and-a-half years ago fanatical Muslims laid siege

to us. We woke up to the obvious. Our president

announced it would be a very long war, then took the

battle to the Islamic homeland. Sound Familiar?

Let's consider the concept of a "long war." Last time

it was 200 years, give or take. Anybody catch Lord of

the Rings? You know, the good part, the part that

wasn't fiction, the part that drew us to the books and

movies because it was the truest part: the titanic

struggle between good and evil, between freedom and

enslavement, between the individual and the state,

between the celebration of life and the worshipping of

death.

That's the fight we are in, and it never ends. It

just has peaks and valleys.

There may be a silent majority of peaceful Muslims -

some live here - but that did not save 3,000 people in

the World Trade Center, the million gassed and

butchered in the Middle East, the tens of thousands

slain in Eastern Europe and Asia, the hundreds blown

to bits in the West Bank and Spain, or the four

Americans shot, burned and hung like sausage over the

Euphrates as a fanatical minority of Muslims did the

joyful dance of death.

Maybe we are so tolerant, we are so bent on

"diversity," we are so nonjudgmental, we are so

wrapped up in our six-packs and ballgames that our

brains have drained to our bulbous behinds. Maybe

we're so addled on Ritalin we wouldn't know which end

of a gun to hold. Maybe we need a new drug advertised

on TV every three minutes, one that would help us grow

a backbone.

It doesn't take a Darwin to figure out that in this

world the smartest, the fastest, the strongest, and

the most committed always win. No exceptions!

Look at your spouse and children. Look at yourself in

the mirror. Then look at the pictures from the paper

last Thursday. You better look at them. Those are

the people out to kill you.

Who do you think will win? You? Or them? Think you

can take your ball and go home and they will leave you

alone? Read a little history. Start with last week,

last month, last year, and every other year back for

half a century. Then go back a thousand years.

Nobody hides from this fight.

Like it or not, that's the way it was and that's the

way it is. But many Americans don't get it. That's why

we published those pictures.

If they jarred you off the sofa, if they offended you,

if they scared your children and sent you into a rage

at mass murderers or heartless editors, then I say,

it's a start

[igloo]

Below is an editorial from a Florida newspaper located

in Florida's panhandle. Someone who reads this paper

thought that the editorial was worth a wider

distribution and retyped it to send out over the

Internet.

Phil Lucas, the paper's Executive Editor, wrote this

article published in The News Herald, Panama City,

Florida, Sunday, April 4, 2004. His e-mail address is

plucas@pcnh.com. The News Herald web site is found at

http://www.newsherald.com/

Up Against Fanaticism

By Phil Lucas, Executive Editor, Panama City New Herald

If straight talk of savagery offends you, if you

believe in ethnic and gender diversity but not

diversity of thought, or if you think there is an

acceptable gray area between good and evil, then turn

to the funny pages, and take the children, too. This

piece is not for you.

We published pictures Thursday of burnt American

corpses hanging from an Iraqi bridge behind a mob of

grinning Muslims. Some readers didn't like it.

Mothers said it frightened their children. A woman

who works with Muslim physicians thought it might

offend or endanger them.

Well, we sure don't want to frighten, offend or

endanger anybody, do we? That's just too much

diversity to handle. I mean, somebody might get hurt.

We could fill the newspaper every morning with mobs of

fanatical Muslims. They can't get along with their

neighbors on much of the planet: France, Chechnya,

Bosnia, Indonesia, Spain, Morocco, India, Tunisia,

Somalia, etc., etc., etc. Can anybody name three

ongoing world conflicts in which Muslims are not

involved? Today, where there is war, there are

fanatical Muslims.

We might quibble about who started what conflicts, but

look at the sheer number of them. One thing is sure.

Muslim killers started the one we are in now when they

slaughtered more that 3,000 people, including fellow

Muslims, in New York City.

Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state and

feckless appeaser who helped get us into this mess,

said last week Muslims still resent the Crusades.

Well, Madam Albright, if Westerners were not such a

forgiving people, we might resent them too.

Let's recap the Crusades. Muslims invaded Europe, and

when they reached sufficient numbers, they imposed

their intolerant religion upon Westerners by force.

Christian monarchs drove them back and took the battle

to their homeland. The fight lasted a couple of

centuries, and we bottled them up for 1,000 years.

Now, a millennium later, Muslims have expanded forth

again. Ask France. Ask England. Ask Manhattan.

Two-and-a-half years ago fanatical Muslims laid siege

to us. We woke up to the obvious. Our president

announced it would be a very long war, then took the

battle to the Islamic homeland. Sound Familiar?

Let's consider the concept of a "long war." Last time

it was 200 years, give or take. Anybody catch Lord of

the Rings? You know, the good part, the part that

wasn't fiction, the part that drew us to the books and

movies because it was the truest part: the titanic

struggle between good and evil, between freedom and

enslavement, between the individual and the state,

between the celebration of life and the worshipping of

death.

That's the fight we are in, and it never ends. It

just has peaks and valleys.

There may be a silent majority of peaceful Muslims -

some live here - but that did not save 3,000 people in

the World Trade Center, the million gassed and

butchered in the Middle East, the tens of thousands

slain in Eastern Europe and Asia, the hundreds blown

to bits in the West Bank and Spain, or the four

Americans shot, burned and hung like sausage over the

Euphrates as a fanatical minority of Muslims did the

joyful dance of death.

Maybe we are so tolerant, we are so bent on

"diversity," we are so nonjudgmental, we are so

wrapped up in our six-packs and ballgames that our

brains have drained to our bulbous behinds. Maybe

we're so addled on Ritalin we wouldn't know which end

of a gun to hold. Maybe we need a new drug advertised

on TV every three minutes, one that would help us grow

a backbone.

It doesn't take a Darwin to figure out that in this

world the smartest, the fastest, the strongest, and

the most committed always win. No exceptions!

Look at your spouse and children. Look at yourself in

the mirror. Then look at the pictures from the paper

last Thursday. You better look at them. Those are

the people out to kill you.

Who do you think will win? You? Or them? Think you

can take your ball and go home and they will leave you

alone? Read a little history. Start with last week,

last month, last year, and every other year back for

half a century. Then go back a thousand years.

Nobody hides from this fight.

Like it or not, that's the way it was and that's the

way it is. But many Americans don't get it. That's why

we published those pictures.

If they jarred you off the sofa, if they offended you,

if they scared your children and sent you into a rage

at mass murderers or heartless editors, then I say,

it's a start

Love the passion!

This certainly makes you think: ..."Can anybody name three

ongoing world conflicts in which Muslims are not

involved? Today, where there is war, there are

fanatical Muslims"

Good analysis:

Maybe we are so tolerant, we are so bent on

"diversity," we are so nonjudgmental, we are so

wrapped up in our six-packs and ballgames that our

brains have drained to our bulbous behinds. Maybe

we're so addled on Ritalin we wouldn't know which end

of a gun to hold. Maybe we need a new drug advertised

on TV every three minutes, one that would help us grow

a backbone.

It doesn't take a Darwin to figure out that in this

world the smartest, the fastest, the strongest, and

the most committed always win. No exceptions!

[kramadas]

While the article has a few good points, there's a lot of trash that hides them. For example, three conflicts that does not involve Muslims? Are you fuckin kidding me???

Colombia, Nicaragua, haiti, all over south America for that matter, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, Cote d'iVoire, Ireland, Spain, Italy ... the list goes on.

Hell if he's going to include SPain and other countries that were victims of AL Queda terrorists attacks, then this guy has wool for brains who cannot separate countries that are victims of terrorists attacks (due to a single organization) from truly separate conflicts.

And Bosnia?? The Muslims in that region were put in concentration camps. Thats like saying it was the Jews' fault for the holacaust!

[igloo]

While the article has a few good points, there's a lot of trash that hides them. For example, three conflicts that does not involve Muslims? Are you fuckin kidding me???

Colombia, Nicaragua, haiti, all over south America for that matter, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, Cote d'iVoire, Ireland, Spain, Italy ... the list goes on.

Don't piss on the passion campfire!..let the author roll with it

[kramadas]

Don't piss on the passion campfire!..let the author roll with it

His passion used properly can do a lot more than it being spread out to encompass things that don't need to be encompassed! hehe

[igloo]

His passion used properly can do a lot more than it being spread out to encompass things that don't need to be encompassed! hehe

Very true....speaking of misplaced passion, did you hear Gore's speech today......reckless for a former Vice President in a time of war to say the things he did today....