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Daily Archives: September 12, 2006
President Bush sure frustrates me some days
I’m a fundamentalist Christian. I read my Bible every day, work to memorize key verses, believe it’s the inspired word of God, and I do my best to live my life accordingly. I’m not a “radical” Christian, although in these days of prosperity preaching and the church growth movement, Christians who actually read their Bible do tend to stand out. But I’m taking my faith at its fundamentals by reading the “instruction manual” that God provided, putting my faith and trust in it, and doing my best to conform my life to God’s teachings in it.
These terrorists are fundamentalist Muslims. They read and memorize the Koran. They believe it’s the inspired words of their god allah and his prophet. They do their best to follow the teachings in it. They are not radical Muslims, they’re just reading the instruction manual that mohammed gave them, and trying to follow it.
How many Christians do you know that are sold out for their faith… witnessing to people, eagerly giving their testimony, and trying to tell others of their need for Jesus Christ as their savior? Certainly not the majority of them. But that’s what God wants us to do: the great commission, as it’s called, is to “go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.” While any Christians who do that may stand out in this day and age, they’re the only ones doing what God told them to do.
The same thing pertains to the terrorists. They think a god told them to convert people to their twisted religion, by the sword if necessary. And, while they’re mistaken, they’re doing just what the book they read tells them to do. They might stand out from the millions of peaceful Muslims out there…but if one uses the Koran to judge them, they’re the ones who are really practicing it.
Political correctness will be our undoing. When grandmas are pulled aside and searched while middle Eastern men are given a pass so as not to offend them, then we’re sunk. If we can’t refer to our enemy as what he truly is, then we’ll never defeat him.
Oh, and one more aside; if we figure that these terrorists are just a minority among the nations of Islam, we’re fooling ourselves. Look at all the hate that’s being taught in mosques all around the world, including in our own country. And we’d be naive to think that the peaceful Muslims will make a difference; have you EVER heard a representative of Islam condemn a terrorist act against the West? Never. CAIR is proof that they realize how to beat us over the head with our own politically correct sensitivities. Well, if the “moderate Muslims” here and abroad won’t even speak out against terrorism now, what makes anyone think they’ll make a difference when things get worse?
President Bush: If you really think that it’s a perverted version of Islam that we’re fighting, get better advisors. If you know the truth, please say it. America’s ready to hear it. Take a stand and call on CAIR and other such groups to denounce terrorism… we all know they won’t. Let’s make them show their true colors instead of being afraid to point them out.
Path to 9/11
First off, the point of this movie was that the federal government is unable, as such a huge bureaucracy, to get out of its own way in the war on terrorism. It didn’t portray either administration in a stellar light. In fact, Richard Clarke comes out looking like somewhat of a Paul Revere character, and he’s no friend to the Bush administration. But it was obvious that more could be done in both administrations.
Second, it illustrated that terrorism is nothing new to the United States, and it’s not going to go away. If we were to continue to turn the other cheek after every attack, as the Clinton administration did, they wouldn’t stop attacking us and our interests. In fact, the way we cut and ran in Somalia was one thing that emboldened them, and they’ve said so. Anyone who says that “George Bush is making new terrorists” is off their rocker.
Third, and perhaps most profound, is the reaction to the film before it had even aired. The same people which cry out for civil rights, terrorists’ rights, free speech rights, abortion rights… pretty much every type of rights except religious rights, were the ones threatening the broadcast licenses of the ABC stations for airing this! You want government censorship? Look at the behavior of the Democrats in Washington! Can you imagine if President Bush had asked Michael Moore to edit his piece of drivel, Fahrenheit 9/11? People would be screaming about the first amendment and calling Bush a fascist. Well, they call him that anyway, but they’re insane.
It was as interesting to watch the reaction to this movie as it was to watch the movie itself. It’s amazing how people circled the wagons around former President Clinton. You can write books and make movies about the assassination of George W. Bush, but you don’t dare point out the record of the Clinton administration. Isn’t that crazy?
The movie was entertaining. It was a good reminder of a lot of things. It also allowed a lot of people to show their true colors, before the film even aired. I hope people learn as big a lesson from that as they do from this or other 9/11 coverage.
I also think that, while we should not give the terrorists any credence in treating this as a day of mourning, we should never forget what happened that day. We need to see the planes hitting the towers. We need to see the people jumping out the windows to get out of the flames. We need to see the towers come down. There are so many people out there trying to pretend that it never happened that we need to emphasize that it did.
I had a friend who got off the Boston flight just before it boarded with new passengers and took off for the last time. A friend of mine with a White House job recalled seeing some of the hijackers in a restaurant a few days before they executed their plan. As Americans we all have a connection to the attacks, because they were meant to strike at our way of life. Most of the people that protest the war live lifestyles completely incompatible with the Sharia law that fundamentalist Muslims want to impose on the world. But they’ll never face that reality. It’s up to the rest of us to make sure we never forget.