CRUSADERS NEED TO ENGAGE THE SARACENS

Posted by johnhouk on Apr 02, 2007
John R. Houk
© April 2, 2007

James Lewis is so awesomely correct. If the Medieval loving Mohammedans hate the West then let them also fear the West. The time for Politically Correctness to a group of people who only wish to end our democracies and civilized culture because it is neither Mohammedan nor lined up with Sharia Law needs to have a major paradigm shift.

Islamic radicals (which more and more are winning over so-called Moderates) refer to America and the coalition of the willing as being Crusaders. They mean it as an epithet praying that the West will forgot the violence, rape, pillaging and forced conversions by Mohammedan invaders building an empire. If the West wishes this entanglement of victimhood and corresponding violence to continue, then by all means let us propose Appeasement options to Mohammedan aggression. Other wise let us become Crusaders to engage the Saracen.

Does not the West have superior fire power? Do not anti-terrorists experts believe it is only a matter of time until Islamofascists unleash chemical or nuclear WMD? I say let the Islamofascists think real hard of what the consequences would be.

Let the West use their superior military infrastructure to strike fear in Middle Eastern communities that support Islamofascism. If an oil rich and savvy nation threatens with decreased oil, then take over the oil fields. If pro-Islamofascist communities protect or promote terrorists, blow them up. Strike fear in the heart of the so-called Umma. Then Mohammedans will deliver the radical Islamists to the West.

So does the West wish to live a half a century with terrorism (as Israel has) or does the West seriously wish to take off some years by switching from the Leftist paradigm of Appeasement to a paradigm Mohammedans understand: striking fear.

JRH
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As long as you are hated, it's better to be feared

By James Lewis
April 02, 2007
Posted by CD of Blind Conservatives
American Thinker

Tehran isn't interested in loving the West, or even in tolerating us. If you doubt it, just listen to the Khomeini gang. Since the 1979 they've been yelling "Death to America! Death to Israel!" Have we not heard? Even while the Brit Left is busily trying to figure out a way to blame America for Tehran's barefaced kidnapping of 15 UK Service personnel, The Telegraph is rediscovering common sense. In an editorial entitled, "If they hate us, let them also fear us" they are drawing the obvious conclusions.


No doubt a lot of Europeans were secretly glad that they were not the target of all that mass hatred. But of course that's simple self delusion. Khomeini and his followers were taught to hate the whole West, including Europe and
America --- for its wealth, power, sexual openness, women's liberation, homosexual freedoms, capitalism, Christianity, its free press, its Marxoid intellectuals, and for conquering Andaluz in 1495. (If you forgot how we conquered Andaluz and drove out the Muslims, Ahmadinejad hasn't. Nor has Osama Bin Laden.)


In fact, Europe has very conveniently blacked out its own history. Europe as a unifying idea arose to resist numerous Muslim invasions --- in Spain, France, Eastern Europe, even in the British Isles, which were the subject of slave raiding well into the 18th century. That's what the Song of Roland is all about, the first European epic poem. That's what Charlemagne was all about, the hero of today's European Union. You can try to imagine that's all past, but Ahmadinejad lives in the past. That's what "Islam" means to the radicals: Surrender to the 7th century, or get your head chopped off.


Short of running up the white flag the West has only one strategic option: To show its real mettle. This will upset the fantasy-prone Left to no end, but it's so obvious that only a fool or a professor could think otherwise.


The West is far more powerful than the madcap mullahs. What they have over us is sheer pig-headed fanaticism. But if you pit two speedboats with armed
IRGC zealots against a couple of boatloads of oh-so-polite Brits, the zealots will win every time.


Now politeness is a very good thing. Queen Victoria, as far as we can tell, was extremely polite every day of her long reign. But she was no fool. The Victorians understood that civilized behavior only works with civilized countries.


They would have very politely come to an instant conclusion: "If they hate us, let them also fear us" --- and taken the necessary action. That's not cruel, mean, or imperialistic. It's elementary common sense.


Just one warning shot from HMS Cornwall would have stopped the kidnappers in their tracks, because they were conducting a carefully planned provocation.

It was a test of British resolve, courage and power. They still are doing it today to squeeze every drop of advantage out of their mischief.


Ahmadinejad understands that game very well. He's run his whole career on the principle of inspiring fear. That's how the mullahs stay in power and keep the people of Iran in abject misery.


In a decade or so, London will be within easy range of Iranian weapons of mass destruction, along with Paris and Berlin. The purpose of Tehran's rush to nukes is to inspire a hell of a lot more fear than today's exercise in intimidation. Turn tail now, and they will gain more confidence that Europe will turn tail when they get the Big Bomb.


Does the British government understand the obvious? Or will Prime Minister Blair try to buy off the mullahs --- like Roman Prodi just bought off the Taliban --- hoping that the crocodile will eat him last?

CRUSADERS NEED TO ENGAGE THE SARACENS
John R. Houk
© April 2, 2007
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