A Few weeks ago the Lewiston
Tribune carried an interesting article about a gentleman who collects wartime
propaganda posters. Several of these
posters were displayed in the article, with one specifically catching my eye as
I had seen it before. (Long before I
assure you!)
Obviously a World War 2 poster that
was aimed at Nazi Germany, labeled “This is the Enemy”, it depicts a hand,
emblazoned with a swastika, stabbing a bayonet through a bible. While Nazi Germany is long gone, this poster
(with minor changes), strikes me as being just as pertinent today as it was 70
plus years ago, for, despite the assurances of Mr. Obama and the rest of the
loony left, America, our beliefs, and our distinct culture, is under a massive
attack today, on all fronts.
The threat from Nazi Germany and
Imperial Japan are long gone, thanks to my Fathers generation. The threat from Soviet Russia is gone as
well (unless Mr. Putin manages to resurrect it), thanks to my generation and
not a few folks from the following one.
So, rather than leave us in peace for a while, the world just has to
bring on more problems and yet another quite serious threat. And no, I’m not speaking of Mr. Obama and
his bleeding heart liberal henchmen who are trying to destroy our country, but
rather the worldwide threat of radical Islam and the terrorism it preaches. Nor is it just America under attack, but the
entire western world as well.
Be it as it may, before Mr. Obama
took office there was little presence of Islam in America. Now, all of the sudden, Islam is a required
subject taught in many of our schools, while Christianity and the bible are banned
in those same schools. Now we must
allow Islamic prayer in schools, airports and businesses, while a
Christian football coach is fired from his job for praying before a high school
game. A traditional Christian prayer is
suddenly banned from a high school graduation ceremony because it might offend
a Moslem.
Suddenly we are inundated with law
suits by Muslims who are offended by American culture, and now Muslims are
suing employers and refusing to do their jobs if they personally deem it
conflicts with Sharia Law. Of
course if I made a similar claim about conflicting with the old Irish Breahon
Law I’d be laughed out of court!
(Feisty as they may have been, at least my Celtic ancestors didn’t
figure that killing everybody in town was the answer to any disagreement.) I rather think that if Muslims are all that
offended by American culture, they should really go someplace else! But no, instead, we now have the Attorney
General of the United States vowing to prosecute anyone who engages in
"anti-Muslim speech". By
order of the man with three Muslim names, Jihadists who engage in terrorism and
openly admit they acted in the name of Islam and ISIS, are declared
NOT to be Islamic by our leaders and their actions are determined NOT to
be terrorism! We are constantly reminded
from on high that Islam is a religion of peace, yet…
The beltway snipers were Muslims…
the Ft. Hood shooter was a Muslim… the
USS Cole bombers were Muslim… the
Boston marathon bombers were Muslim…
the Libyan Embassy attack was by Muslims… the Iranian Embassy takeover was by Muslims… The first World Trade Center bombing was by
Muslims… the Beirut marine barracks
bombers were Muslim… the 9/11 attackers
were Muslims… On and on, ad
nauseium.
Yet it becomes US government
foreign policy that rabid Islamists and the Muslim Brotherhood dictators must
replace other Middle East dictators that were reasonably friendly to the
West. Conveniently our troops
are withdrawn from Iraq and the Middle East, giving rise to a
murderous reign by the ISIS. In
the face of this open warfare against the United States, Mr. O conducts a purge
of the military, getting rid of our proven combat commanders, the US Navy is
diminished to pre-World War I levels. The US Army is at pre-1940 levels. The US
Air Force is scrapping 500 airplanes.
Our nuclear stockpile is reduced to 1950 levels, all of which means we
don’t have very much left to defend ourselves with. Now he wants to eliminate yet another 40,000 soldiers!
It surely looks like Mr. O is
keeping at least one of his campaign promises, that of reducing Americas armed
strength to levels that Muslim countries are comfortable with. In order to do that of course a nuclear arms
deal with Iran must be made at any cost, leaving the gate wide open for the
further development of Iranian nuclear weapons, and generously funded by a few
hundred billion dollars we hand over to Iran for just that purpose. Oddly enough there’s is no money for
American defense, secure borders, our poor, our disabled veterans,
jobless Americans, or hungry Americans, but there seems to be an endless
supply of money for Obama's "Syrian refugee"
resettlement programs. You might
also have noticed that those “refugees” are overwhelming military age
males. It appears that in “running for
their lives”, they left the women and kids behind. But that’s all right we’re told, because those refugees are
carefully ‘vetted. Humm… ‘Vetted? By whom, the ISIS? If you have a bowl containing ten thousand M&M candies, and a
couple of dozen of them contain a deadly poison, how many M&M’s are YOU
going to eat, or give to your kids?
Strangely enough the most important
thing for Obama to do after a mass shooting by two Jihadists, is to demand
the disarmament of American Citizens.
Apparently he hasn’t realized that a Muslim terrorist with an AK-47 has
little to fear from a hundred or so unarmed Americans, and he’s going to pay
little attention to a “Gun Free” sign on a nightclub door. (If you feel you really need an all-up [fully
automatic] AK-47, talk to your neighborhood drug smuggler, not to the NRA or
the local gun shop, as that class of weapon is already illegal in this country,
and has been since the 1930’s!)
A new (June 2016) Department of Homeland Security report
urges rejecting the use of Islamic terms such as “jihad” and “sharia” in
programs aimed at countering terrorist radicalization among American
youth. Government agencies should
employ “American English instead of religious, legal and cultural terms like
‘jihad,’ ‘sharia,’ ‘takfir’ or ‘umma,’” states the report by the Council’s
“Countering Violent Extremism” subcommittee. The report calls for
avoiding the use of an “us versus them” mentality by shunning those Islamic
terms, despite a 1,700-year history of violent Islamic extremism that lives by exactly
those words.
