Us or Them

The West is beset with problems, some of which potentially may be the seeds of our demise. Many have abandoned Western man's naturally inquisitive nature and been enveloped instead in acquisitive pursuits. Western man has given up traditional supplication and replaced belief with the "cult of the perfected self". Ironically, the greatest danger may be our suicidal sense of tolerance as has been embodied in political correctness. The ludicrous extreme of political correctness is demonstrated in the Gaza flotilla affair, where the Western powers have paid lip service to Israel's right to self-defense but in practical application, seek to deny Israel the real ability to protect herself. Israel like every other nation or society has some flaws but the moral superiority of Israel to those who seek her destruction is doubtless. The contrast between the manner in which expansionist Islam treats children and the focus on protection of children by Jews could not be more stark or striking. Israel regards defending the sanctity of children's lives a sacred duty and both boys and girls are afforded the benefits of comprehensive education. In Pakistan and Afghanistan, young women are systematically denied access to education by Muslim fundamentalists. Girls who tried to attend school have been attacked with acid, poison gas, and even murdered as have those who tried to teach them with threats extending to United Nation's schools in Gaza that try to instruct females. Virulent sexism leads to violent misogyny in both the major Sunni and Shia strains of Islam while Israeli Jews promote universal rights. While Afghan President Karzai has just declared his lack of confidence that the United States (which has just sustained a surge of casualties) can defeat the Taliban, the Taliban, who some in the West say merit a rapprochement and can be negotiated with, have just hanged a seven year old (7) boy for the alleged offense of spying for Britain. There can be no compromise with the ugly earthly face of evil incarnate. They must be vanquished. Either jihad will be defeated or we in the enlightened West will be. It is not simply Afghanistan or Pakistan where the gates of hell have been opened. In the area of Somalia where the Islamic militias serve as a parody of law, the sharia penalty of death by stoning was imposed on a thirteen year old girl (13) who had been the victim of rape (with reports emerging that the girl accepted and wanted the punishment- I imagine if she had been offered a ticket out of her Third World Islamic hellhole, she would have wanted that more, much more). On multiple occasions, Muslim terrorists have employed children as suicide bombers. When a girls' school caught fire in Saudi Arabia (a supposed ally of America despite worldwide promotion by the Saudis of Wahhabism characterised by intolerance and aggressive use of force as a tool of conversion and the indisputable connection of the Saudis to the September 11, 2001 attacks), the young female students were forced back into the flames by Saudi religious police because they had rushed out in an attempt to find safety without their head to toe covering. Many were burnt to death or perished from smoke inhalation. In 1786, Hannah Ocuish, a twelve year old American Indian child was hanged in Connecticut for murder. In the the three hundred plus years that have elapsed since that evident injustice, the West has advanced beyond that brand of barbarism with the Judeo-Christian ethos promoting progress in that regard. Expansionist Islam seeks a return to the mindset of the time of Mohammad. In the West, the are some dreamers and appeasers who think we can compromise even with the child-hanging Taliban, but decent people know this can never happen. Either the ultimate evil will be defeated or we will. Win and enlightenment can usher in a bright new world or lose and endure a thousand years of darkness.