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No. 378 Sept 16th, 2012
Isaac and Ishmael
9.11
The
Siege
Revenge
Why We Hate Muslims
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Freedom vs. Ignorance
Islamic Furor Leaves Four Americans Dead On 9/11
On Tuesday, 9/11, two days after we posted our essay on America vs. Islam, an angry mob attacked the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, killing J. Christopher Stevens, Washington's ambassador to Libya, as well as three other Americans at the compound. The violence erupted out of mass protests in Libya, Egypt, and other Muslim nations over a little-seen, straight-to-YouTube anti-Islam film called “Innocence of Muslims,” which depicts the Prophet Muhammad as a womanizer and pedophile. The “film,” which is actually just a sub-amateur video posted to YouTube by what appear to be extremely ignorant self-professed “Christians” (whose shameful acts demonstrate they are not Christians at all) was further promoted by Terry Jones, the hate-mongering ignorant, Quran-burning pastor of less than fifty ignorant folk in Gainesville Florida, at what he called his “Judge Muhammad Day,” a “Christian” hate event. That a relative nobody could post a stupid, home-made “video” to YouTube and another relative nobody could promote it, inciting global violence which led to murder, and neither “Christian” express even the slightest regret or remorse only further underscores my point about the scourge of religious bigotry, ignorance and extremism in this country. One of the steepest prices we pay for freedom is our having to put up with ignorant hate-speech. Freedom means precisely that, that each of us is entitled to our own voice, no matter how hateful that voice may be. A major problem with the so-called Arab Spring is that oppressed people, yearning for freedom, usually do not fully understand what freedom actually means or the price they all must pay for that freedom. The protestors and rioters, having only recently won their own freedom from oppression, are demanding only free speech they agree with or free speech which does not offend them (or, in this case, blaspheme God). There is no freedom if you pass a law banning speech you disagree with. In the hands of those who have only known cruelty and totalitarianism, freedom is a much more fragile, much more complex, and far more costly thing than many of them understand.
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No. 378 Sept 16, 2012
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by
the mercies of God, that ye present your
bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable
unto God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be
ye transformed by the renewing of your mind,
that ye may prove what is that good, and
acceptable, and perfect,
will of God. —Romans 12:1-2
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A Complicated Love Affair
We had posted a link (above) to the president’s DNC Nomination Acceptance Speech, but replaced it with former President Bill Clinton’s DNC Speech, which was far superior to that of our current president’s. Not that President Obama wasn’t good. It wasn’t a bad speech. The problem was, it wasn’t a great speech. To win re-election with any kind of a mandate, this president needed a great speech. A historic speech. This wasn’t it. The best parts of Obama’s speech were when he referred back to Bill Clinton’s. Clinton parked it. And then some. President Obama seemed pressed, as if the speech was a chore, something to bear down and press through. Just get it over with. Mid-70’s era Muhammad Ali in round 9, no longer dancing, just a joyless hack job, lumbering around the ring, hunched over, covered up, while his challenger futilely pounds away. Oh, Ali was going to win, but he was phoning in his performance and we felt ripped off. The president didn’t rip us off Thursday night, we got classic Obama, but the fire was not there. He was being safe if not homogenized, when he should have been on the attack. Are we better off than we were four years ago? Unquestionably. Four years ago the economy was in free-fall, losing not a few thousand or even ten thousand jobs every month, but losing more than half a *million* jobs every single month. Obama fenced his way through some of his achievements, but he should have been thundering, not reading a list. Even if they were not everything he or we wanted, these are unprecedented, historic, amazing accomplishments and significant if not miraculous digging out from the unprecedented disaster of the Bush years. George W. Bush nearly destroyed this nation, destroying our economy, plunging us into two wars, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children, destroying America’s global reputation. President Obama has doggedly, systematically, pulled America back from the edge. Is there more to do? Of course. But, are we better off than we were four years ago? Without question. But president Obama never echoed any of these points. President Clinton did, but Obama needed to do it. We needed to hear this from him. Instead we got more David Axelrod Corned Beef Hash. The worst part of Obama Campaign ‘12 is it makes us all wonder where the guy from Obama ’08 went. Man, we’d love to see him again.
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