Israpundit: Face it America, Its a Religious/Cultural War
Arafat continues to attack us, and we continue to propose solutions that fail to admit the naked reality. It is no wonder we are losing the war.
AND THE U.S. MISTAKE
The same is now happening to America. While America is not a Christian country, it is the standard-bearer of Western culture which draws from Christian culture. Why do the terrorists hate the US so much? Why are they prepared to commit suicide in order to kill Americans? After all, America has not conquered their country. On the contrary, many of them receive generous aid from the US. How strange that even Arabs in New Jersey, who are actually living in the fleshpots of America and were liable to have suffered physically from the terrorist attack, rejoiced at the sight of the horrible massacre.
Why this hatred?
(some of the rest from Israpundit..)
Two daughters branched out from Judaism and left the fold to conquer the world: Christianity and Islam. Judaism integrates the qualities of strict justice and mercy, in harmony and in proper measure. Christianity took only the quality of mercy, while Islam took the quality of strict justice.
The Moslems see with jealousy how the culture based on Christian mercy succeeds in gaining control over the world. Let everyone come and benefit from the cornucopia open to all, the American-Christian culture says; to everyone we proffer the other cheek, and even the whole body. Come and take your part in the wealth, come and enter the gates of the World Trade Center. We aren’t conquering you with the sword, but with gold.
“Why are they bringing their wars here?” a soot-covered broker shouted into a CNN reporter’s microphone. He didn’t understand that he himself was engaged in conquering, not territories, but the opposing culture, straight from there – from the Twin Towers.
But every Moslem child understands it clearly. What the political commentators and senators in the US fail to realize is crystal clear to the other half of the world. America is not at war with a single individual – Bin Laden – but with every child that will be born tomorrow in Cairo, Amman, Beirut, Gaza and, if he is a Moslem, even in New Jersey.
FACE UP: IT’S A RELIGIOUS WAR
America will never admit that it is involved in a war of cultures, in fact in a religious war. Such an admission implies that American values are fundamentally at question. But the fact is that they are not as universal as Americans would like to believe. The happiness they pursue in the name of all humanity may be happiness for a specific group based on Christianity, but it means hell for another group that is just as large.
But it appears that this other half is now beginning to attempt to actualize its own aspirations for happiness (via rivers of blood). America will never admit it, and consequently will be unable to fight back, because they have failed to identify the enemy. They seek the terrorists just as Sharon is pursuing individual terrorists. They are pursuing the wasps instead of destroying the nest, because they are afraid of the nest. They are afraid of a real confrontation between their values and those of Islam.
They want a coalition with moderate Arab countries. The situation is so ludicrous that even Arafat is being wooed – Arafat, who invented hijacking; Arafat, the father of 20th-century terrorism. They want to make a coalition with him, if only to avoid facing reality.
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