Great. So they can start killing my son when he gets old enough. A dutch politician has had a fatwa leveled against him by an Australian muslim. Niiice.

Where does this all end?

When is it ok, when will it be ok, to kill a religion?

I know that there are billions who practice the muslim faith. And I know that there are only millions that want to use the fanatical aspects of it by controlling the world (Sharia Law) and by issuing death proclamations (Fatwa) and wage war on the rest of us (Jihad).

When is enough, enough? As a people, should we allow this? As a people, should we accept this?

We defeated Nazi-ism in the 1940’s. It was a political movement and a faith. It had ceremonies and figure-heads, it had its high priests and its hierarchy. Just because a religious movement has been around longer than another, we should instill respect, solely based upon age? If that were the case, druids would be sitting on top of the world and it’d be ok to paint oneself blue and dance nude daily.

When can we sit down and rationally discuss the defeat of an enemy? We didn’t pick this fight. History did. Centuries past, we were safe only because distance was the limiting factor in this religious war. The Crusades has not ended. The battlefield though, has changed. Where noblemen of both faiths faced each other on the field of battle, now cowards strap bombs and use children as shields, they hide in caves and use passenger planes to attack buildings. They hijack drug trades and poison our side with drugs, lies and half-truths. They appease the weakest of us with false promises of tributes in stone, monuments and buildings that will build bridges between the two sides, while all the while, creating a monument to their small victories under our own noses.

This current “war” will not end well. Our leaders seek appeasement, they seek temporary solutions to age-long problems. We have started this current fight the wrong way and are executing it in a manner that will only secure our fate. Oh, our hearts are in the right place, and we are careful not to harm the sensitivities of those we battle. It would be a travesty to hurt the feelings of our enemies.

If we want to win this fight, this war, we must not secure the field of battle just for an election cycle. We must secure it for generations. We must hit them harder than they hit us. We must hurt them five-fold for the merest slight that we receive. We must beat a religion. We must defeat a political belief system that includes their “god”.

Apologies for those of you who read this with current sensitivities. When I look at my children though, I want to see scholars, poets, inventors, leaders. Not another generation of soldiers.

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About the author: Mike Russell is a Ninja/fighter pilot/ astronaut with x-ray vision who likes to make up stuff about the author when his wife isn't looking. Email Michael F Russell: mikerussellus@yahoo.com



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