tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post115713336853100100..comments2024-03-28T10:00:45.108-04:00Comments on Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org : Zachor Asher Asha Lecha AmalekDaniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-1158068953989173482006-09-12T09:49:00.000-04:002006-09-12T09:49:00.000-04:00Firstly religion is the source of morality. There'...Firstly religion is the source of morality. There's ultimately no morality without religion, anymore than a plant can survive for long without its roots. The right religion that is.<BR/><BR/>Religion is indeed a major force for instability. The wrong religion is a cancer that eats away at the world. The right religion has the potential to destabilize the self-centered static world people try to create, for one that's truly meaningfull.<BR/><BR/>From there we get our definition of evil, hatred of God.<BR/><BR/>It's ironic that you cite Suharto's Indonesia, which is yet another example of the worldwide Muslim genocides liberals keep whitewashing except when they can use them to bash their own countries, as you are predictably doing. You cite the bogus figure of 100,000 dead in Iraq, while utterly ignoring how many Saddam killed, because again liberal morality hinges on hatred of their own countries, rather than hatred of evil.<BR/><BR/>Is the West perfect or all that good? Certainly not. History tells us otherwise. So do current events. The West, particularly America, is good by contrast to most of the Third World and the innate savagery of the followers of Islam. The West has the potential to ennoble itself despite its flaws but that potential is speedily vanishing and it is vanishing because in fact many of its citizens gleefully choose evil in the name of multi-culturalism or tolerance, but those are merely disguises in the end for their real impulses.<BR/><BR/>Saying that combating terrorism with bombs and guns doesn't work is as silly as saying that a fight can't be won because it hasn't been yet. Thousands of terrorists are dead, repeated internal Al Queda communiques testify to the fact that they seem themselves in big trouble and stretched thin. We are winning, it just as simple or as straightforward as a Hollywood movie but then real life wars rarely are.<BR/><BR/>As to your proposal.<BR/><BR/>Hunting down and trying the terrorists as criminals, doesn't even work with our own domestic criminals. Even with the toughest anti-drug laws, fighting drug cartels using criminal codes has done little good. You can consult the Kerensky government to see how much good their criminals codes did against the Communists or how much good the German legal code did against the Nazis.<BR/><BR/>You can meet violence with violence or choose surrender. As for the solution lying in appeasing "legitimate grievances" I can assure you that bringing the Muslim Brotherhood to power, nuking Israel and massacring every single Jew in the West will do absolutely nothing but sate their appetite with more "legitimate grievances"Daniel Greenfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-1158042181306658252006-09-12T02:23:00.000-04:002006-09-12T02:23:00.000-04:00Firstly, I don't know why you feel the need to con...Firstly, I don't know why you feel the need to conflate religion with morality ("To <B>secularists</B>, liberals and an entire generation raised in the shadow of the cultural values they have erected, this entire passage seems vicious, genocidal, nationalistic and otherwise repugnant"). In fact, religion is, unsurprisingly for a doctrine that remains largely unchanged over thousands of years, externalises morality, is open to interpretation and inspires fanaticism among its followers, religion is a major force for instability and violence in the world today.<BR/><BR/>Interestingly, you haven't defined what evil is. So, you've given 9/11 as an example of an evil act, because you consider killing 3,000 to be an evil act. This is fair enough - if that's not evil, I don't know what is. But surely if killing three thousand civilians illegally is evil, then killing 100,000 (as in Iraq) is too? And surely arming and supporting a dictator (Suharto) that embarked on a campaign of genocide in East Timor, killing 200,000 people (a third of the population)...surely that has to be evil aswell?<BR/><BR/>Of course, in those last two examples the US/UK was responsible. This seems to defy your implied assertion that "the modern West" is good, and must learn how to reject evil.<BR/><BR/>Lastly, you don't say HOW we are to reject evil. For instance, I would say that trying to combat terrorism (an evil) using bombs hasn't worked and won't work. Trying to combat it using a two-pronged strategy of a) hunting down the terroists and trying them as criminals and b) addresing the legitimate grievances much of the world has with the West to ensure radical groups like al-Qaeda remain isolated an ostracised (and so easier to deal with) in the societies they operate in.heathlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11173181922024850981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-1158005721235258542006-09-11T16:15:00.000-04:002006-09-11T16:15:00.000-04:00Beautiful, righteous, humane blogging. Thank you....Beautiful, righteous, humane blogging. Thank you. Please forgive my error in not visiting your site for the past few weeks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-1158004027168602312006-09-11T15:47:00.000-04:002006-09-11T15:47:00.000-04:00War on terror is working too.We have to keep it up...War on terror is working too.<BR/>We have to keep it up til they are done.Chana @ Lemon Lime Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11656854855385193867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-1158003908440551922006-09-11T15:45:00.000-04:002006-09-11T15:45:00.000-04:00They are ugly people to say the least.I think they...They are ugly people to say the least.<BR/>I think they should leave earth on that alone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-1157991922782818332006-09-11T12:25:00.000-04:002006-09-11T12:25:00.000-04:00Amein! "You don't reason with evil. You destroy...Amein! "You don't reason with evil. You destroy it." --Duncan, (Talmud on Steroids)Yobeeonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13067866336964665242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-1157988333549209102006-09-11T11:25:00.000-04:002006-09-11T11:25:00.000-04:00Amen!Amen!Keli Atahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05089132216830000713noreply@blogger.com