Milksop moderates like Obama and Bush like to talk about how Islam and the west can get along, and how terrorists are anti-Islam, and all that baloney. But your real wise men, like Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the founder of the Islamic State, and Rick Santorum understand that war between Christians and Muslims is decreed by God.
Al Baghadi:
O Muslims! Do not think the war that we are waging is the Islamic State’s war alone. Rather, it is the Muslims’ war altogether. It is the war of every Muslim in every place. … O Muslims everywhere, has the time not come for you to realize the truth of the conflict and that it is between disbelief and faith? … This war is only against you and against your religion.
Santorum:
Islam is an ideology. And we need to be honest about the American public about what the nature of our enemy really is.
We are at war with radical Islam . . . The other thing we need to do is eradicate, and that’s the final thing. As I said, this is going to be a long war. There are going to be pluses and minuses, ups and downs. But we have to win this war to — fight this war to win this war.
I wonder if guys like Santorum and Cruz understand that they sound exactly like the people they insist are their opposites.
Opposites and equals. Two sides of the same coin.
ReplyDeletePeople lost in cultures of supremacy, hatred, and willful ignorance - so desperately afraid of dissent or contradiction of their blindly zealous world views that they will drive their loyal flocks to bloodshed and atrocity rather than even contemplate the possibility of their own faults, flaws, or failings.
They have an all consuming need to be right - a superiority complex that crushes out everything else. They cannot accept anything less than absolute perfection. Perhaps, over a millenia ago, they might have been willing to reform in the face of rational evidence against their notions of the universe. But tradition is a heavy burden to bear - to admit fault now, after all these centuries, is unthinkable. It would make all their suffering and anxiety, all their crimes carried out in "faith", worse than senseless. Their vile history is so deeply ingrained as to be a vital part of who they are. And they are terrified of being anything other than what they have always been - or what they imagine they have always been.