Thu 21 Aug 2008
Boston Globe Gags on Word “Judeo Christian Values”.
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The Boston Globe on Tuesday took John McCain to task for suggesting, while speaking in an evangelical church, that “Our Judeo-Christian principles dictate that we do what we can to help people who are oppressed throughout the world.” (McCain’s ‘Judeo-Christian values’ reference puzzles)
Interestingly enough, the Globe’s criticism of McCain did not broach whether it really is the United States responsibility to be the Welfare Office/International Police Force/Knight-in-Shining-Armor for every other country in the world. They just took umbrage to the phrase “Judea-Christian” and suggested that it was something sinister.
The articles author, Peter Canellos, implies that it was a McCain gaffe when he suggested in 2006 that the killing of Al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was an elimination of a threat in “this titanic struggle we are in between western Judeo-Christian values and principles and Islamic extremists”. Canellos suggests that making such observations may offend some Muslims. Perhaps someone might refresh his memory that the “War on Terror” began when Islamo-facists (that is, Muslim extremists) determined that it was high-time to bring their jihad on Christians and Jews to the western continent.
Canellos suggests that perhaps McCain should be saying “American Values”, and that the extremists are attacking us because they hate “our freedom”.
Such a substitution, however, can only blur the lines of truth, and ultimately be detrimental in the war on terror.
Islamofacists don’t hate us because we have “American Values” and put a premium on “Freedom”. They just want to kill Jews, Infidels (ie. Christian) and, as a tenet of faith, want everyone living under Sharia (Islamic) law, which is completely incompatible with contemporary ideas of Western freedom. If the Globe doesn’t get that, then they have no idea what the War on Terror really is.
It is imperative that it be noted loudly, and as often as possible, that the Islamofacists are Muslims, and are howling “Allah Ackbar” every time they saw off the head of an innocent relief worker, or gleefully blowup a retarded girl with a remote detonator in a marketplace. And Muslims should be offended, and not at the media, but at the terrorists who are doing these abominations it in the name of Islam.
If indeed such terrorists are not really representing Islam, then the greatest wrath that should fall upon them is that of the “true” Muslims whose religion is being so grossly slandered by such acts.
Every sheik and iman should have called for an immediate jihad after 9/11 against the extremists, and the first one’s into to take out Al Qaeda in Afghanistan should have been Special Forces from Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt, and other developed countries that consider themselves “Muslim”.
But that wasn’t the case.
There was either a deafening silence, or a weak rationalization, condemning the attacks, but qualifying it with some statement against the United States’ support of Israel. Many Muslim populations were and still are entirely sympathetic to the attackers.
It is time that someone finally came out and said it. Western countries that were founded on the principles on “Judeo-Christian” principles hold ideals like mercy, equality, justice and individual rights as the highest moral good for a society. Countries that have Islam as their moral bedrock are misogynist, are mass sociopaths, have disdain for individual rights, and see nothing wrong with mass murder, as long as you can kill some Jews in the process. These are the simple facts.
There are plenty of Muslims in Islamic countries who abhor the backwards, oppressive, Stone Age zeitgeist of their homeland, and recognize that the core of the offense is Islam. However, it is a capital crime in those nations to convert from Islam to another religion, or to even question the teachings of Islam.
So if it helps the Boston Globe understand this better, let me spell it out. The world needs more “Judeo-Christian Values”. That is a good thing for us to be exporting. The world needs less “Muslim Values”. That is the source of the conflict.