I haven't really looked so closely at what the Islamicists might have in mind for Christians such as myself, but I have acknowledged a few things I like about Islam. It's simplicity for one, and its ritual discipline for another. Furthermore and probably most of all, I admire that Islam is not anthropomorphic.
As I drove into work this morning, Rush Limbaugh was railing against the studied ignorance of his journalistic colleagues, spun as they are for the purposes of Hezbollah apologies. Liberals! Yeah but we have to live with the Hollywood limousine light loafer'd liberals. They are, nationally speaking, us. But what if the godless sybarites among us suddenly got religion, and it wasn't christianity? What would it take for them to sell us out completely? We being the American red-blooded right? Is it conceievable that the same twisted logic that yeilds Bush Derangement Syndrome has not been completely manifest - that we are in the early stages of a much more deadly disease which will prepare them completely for dhimmitude?
You see, my sweet respites of knowledge and logic are coming these days from the broad/podcasts of Hugh Hewitt and the blogging of Counterterrorismblog.org and The Belmont Club. I cannot find any better and more coherent sources. And yet Nulan, my respected interlocutor and verbal nemesis is hard set on a plane of moral rectitude that I think simply doesn't apply. And I think it goes deeply to the question of the extent to which masses are moral and so motivated. I see in the arc of history he presents a central dynamic and enabling moral force which overcomes inevitably. I don't see it that way, rather as a history of *doing* and restive peace interspersed where thinking about doing can flourish. And now at this moment of history we can maintain coteries of people who think about doing while others actually *do*. We here in the blogosphere illustrate the intellectual appeal of thinking about doing. Those of us who can't do, and teach (and preach) are of necessity held in thrall by those who actually do what we're merely talking about. But sometimes we get caught up in the beauty of our own little nasty worlds, and so e can believe without recourse that the rationale we propose is what truly motivates the doers we blab on about. All of this is to say that I sense that there is some logical path which supports the intent of Hezbollah's warmaking which is to shut us red-blooded righties and our global capitalist conspiracy down.
I think that it goes without saying that to crush our intent is to send the world back into Dark Ages, but if there is a moral argument for that which coincides with the bloodthirsty perfidy of Jihadis, then this should be the nexus of focus. It will be where people who seem to belong within the folds of the modern West have taken there dissent too far, and where they will look diligently for the good in Islam to conquer the 'evil' manifest in our Judeo-Christian world.
In other words, be on the lookout for Dhimmi spies.
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