This morning in Paris, Islamic terrorists invaded the offices of a magazine that had published some cartoons of the prophet Mohammed and killed 12 while wounding many others. This act, like many that went before it, symbolizes the "religion of peace" as it is practiced by the many crazies who are included among its adherents. Innocent people were killed because they spoke their minds. This attack on one of the basic freedoms of the Western world calls for a stern response.
I have not yet heard the official American statement on this morning's events. Hopefully, president Obama will for once avoid the usual politically correct pap when he denounces the attack. There really is no need to tell the world how this act does not represent Islam when the killers shouted "Allahu Akhbar" while slaughtering the magazine staff. The truth is that the killers did indeed represent a large strain of Islam. These are not the folks who killed thousands of Yazidis in Iraq for being "devil worshippers". Those crazies were different. These are not the hundreds of thousands who are fighting in Syria basically over the issue of the proper successor to the prophet Mohammed in the eighth century; that battle between the Sunnis and the Shiites is never-ending. It claimed lives of about a quarter of a million people in Syria in the last few years. Essentially all of those who were killed are adherents of the "religion of peace" as were the killers too.
Not long ago, the president of Egypt gave a speech in which he called on Moslems to redirect their religion away from those who would kill non-believers or iconoclasts in the name of God. That speech in a major Islamic country may have marked president Sisi in the eyes of the Islamists. It was, however, something that needed to be said. Let's hope that the leaders of the USA have at least some of the courage displayed by president Sisi. Just for once, Obama should tell the truth.
I have not yet heard the official American statement on this morning's events. Hopefully, president Obama will for once avoid the usual politically correct pap when he denounces the attack. There really is no need to tell the world how this act does not represent Islam when the killers shouted "Allahu Akhbar" while slaughtering the magazine staff. The truth is that the killers did indeed represent a large strain of Islam. These are not the folks who killed thousands of Yazidis in Iraq for being "devil worshippers". Those crazies were different. These are not the hundreds of thousands who are fighting in Syria basically over the issue of the proper successor to the prophet Mohammed in the eighth century; that battle between the Sunnis and the Shiites is never-ending. It claimed lives of about a quarter of a million people in Syria in the last few years. Essentially all of those who were killed are adherents of the "religion of peace" as were the killers too.
Not long ago, the president of Egypt gave a speech in which he called on Moslems to redirect their religion away from those who would kill non-believers or iconoclasts in the name of God. That speech in a major Islamic country may have marked president Sisi in the eyes of the Islamists. It was, however, something that needed to be said. Let's hope that the leaders of the USA have at least some of the courage displayed by president Sisi. Just for once, Obama should tell the truth.
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Jeff. You are talking about Chicken Shit Obama. He talks and then HIDES behind the safety we citizens provide.
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