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<blockquote data-quote="la4angus" data-source="post: 29677" data-attributes="member: 132"><p>Below is an editorial from Sunday's edition of a Florida newspaper</p><p>located</p><p>> in Florida's panhandle. Someone who reads this paper thought that the</p><p>> editorial was worth a wider distribution and retyped it to send out over</p><p>the</p><p>> Internet.</p><p>> ></p><p>> >Phil Lucas, the paper's Executive Editor, wrote this article published</p><p>in</p><p>> The News Herald, Panama City, Florida, Sunday April 4, 2004.</p><p>> >His e-mail address is plucas@p....</p><p>> >The News Herald web site is found at <a href="http://www.newsherald.com/" target="_blank">http://www.newsherald.com/</a></p><p>> ></p><p>> >Up Against Fanaticism</p><p>> >By Phil Lucas,</p><p>> >Executive Editor,</p><p>> >Panama City New Herald</p><p>> ></p><p>> >If straight talk of savagery offends you, if you believe in ethnic and</p><p>> gender diversity but not diversity of thought, or if you think there is an</p><p>> acceptable gray area between good and evil, then turn to the funny pages,</p><p>> and take the children, too. This piece is not for you.</p><p>> ></p><p>> >We published pictures Thursday of burnt American corpses hanging from an</p><p>> Iraqi bridge behind a mob of grinning Muslims. Some readers didn't like</p><p>it.</p><p>> ></p><p>> >Mothers said it frightened their children. A woman who works with</p><p>Muslim</p><p>> physicians thought it might offend or endanger them.</p><p>> ></p><p>> >Well, we sure don't want to frighten, offend or endanger anybody, do we?</p><p>> >That's just too much diversity to handle. I mean, somebody might get</p><p>> hurt.</p><p>> ></p><p>> >We could fill the newspaper every morning with mobs of fanatical</p><p>Muslims.</p><p>> >They can't get along with their neighbors on much of the planet: France,</p><p>> Chechnya, Bosnia, Indonesia, Spain, Morocco, India, Tunisia, Somalia, etc.</p><p>> etc. etc. Can anybody name three ongoing world conflicts in which</p><p>Muslims</p><p>> are not involved? Today, where there is war,there are fanatical Muslims.</p><p>> ></p><p>> >We might quibble about who started what conflicts, but look at the sheer</p><p>> number of them. One thing is sure. Muslim killers started the one we are</p><p>> in now when they slaughtered more that 3,000 people, including fellow</p><p>> Muslims, in New York City.</p><p>> ></p><p>> >Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state and feckless appeaser</p><p>> who helped get us into this mess, said last week Muslims still resent the</p><p>> Crusades. Well, Madam Albright, if Westerners were not such a forgiving</p><p>> people, we might resent them too.</p><p>> ></p><p>> >Let's recap the Crusades. Muslims invaded Europe, and when they reached</p><p>> sufficient numbers, they imposed their intolerant religion upon others.</p><p>We</p><p>> battle to their homeland. The fight lasted a couple of centuries, and we</p><p>> bottled them up for 1,000 years.</p><p>> ></p><p>> >Now, a millennium later, Muslims have expanded forth again.</p><p>> >Ask France. Ask England. Ask Manhattan. Two-and-a-half years ago</p><p>> fanatical Muslims laid siege to us. We woke up to the obvious. Our</p><p>> president announced it would be a very long war, then took the battle to</p><p>the</p><p>> Islamic homeland. Sound Familiar?</p><p>> ></p><p>> >Let's consider the concept of a "long war."</p><p>> >Last time it was 200 years, give or take. Anybody catch Lord of the</p><p>> Rings? You know, the good part, the part that wasn't fiction, the part</p><p>that</p><p>> drew us to the books and movies because it was the truest part: the</p><p>titanic</p><p>> struggle between good and evil, between freedom and enslavement, between</p><p>the</p><p>> individual and the state, between the celebration of life and the</p><p>> worshipping of death.</p><p>> ></p><p>> >That's the fight we are in, and it never ends. It just has peaks and</p><p>> valleys.</p><p>> ></p><p>> >There may be a silent majority of peaceful Muslims - some live here -</p><p>but</p><p>> that did not save 3,000 people in the World Trade Center, the million</p><p>gassed</p><p>> and butchered in the Middle East, the tens of thousands slain in Eastern</p><p>> Europe and Asia, the hundreds blown to bits in the West Bank and Spain, or</p><p>> the four Americans shot, burned and hung like sausage over the Euphrates</p><p>as</p><p>> a fanatical minority of Muslims did the joyful dance of death.</p><p>> ></p><p>> >Maybe we are so tolerant, we are so bent on "diversity," we are so</p><p>> nonjudgmental, we are so wrapped up in our six-packs and ballgames that</p><p>our</p><p>> brains have drained to our bulbous behinds. Maybe we're so addled on</p><p>> Ritalin we wouldn't know which end of a gun to hold. Maybe we need a new</p><p>> drug advertised on TV every three minutes, one that would help us grow a</p><p>> backbone.</p><p>> ></p><p>> >It doesn't take a Darwin to figure out that in this world the smartest,</p><p>> the fastest, the strongest, and the most committed always win.</p><p>> >No exceptions.</p><p>> ></p><p>> >Look at your spouse and children. Look at yourself in the mirror. Then</p><p>> look at the pictures from the paper last Thursday. You better look at</p><p>them.</p><p>> Those are the people out to kill you.</p><p>> ></p><p>> >Who do you think will win? You? Or them? Think you can take your ball</p><p>> and go home and they will leave you alone? Read a little history.</p><p>> >Start with last week, last month, last year, and every other year back</p><p>for</p><p>> half a century.</p><p>> >Then go back a thousand years. Nobody hides from this fight.</p><p>> ></p><p>> >Like it or not, that's the way it was and that's the way it is. But</p><p>many</p><p>> Americans don't get it. That's why we published those pictures.</p><p>> ></p><p>> >If they jarred you off the sofa, if they offended you, if they scared</p><p>your</p><p>> children and sent you into a rage at mass murderers or heartless editors,</p><p>> then I say, it's a start.</p><p>></p><p>></p><p>> TCM</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="la4angus, post: 29677, member: 132"] Below is an editorial from Sunday's edition of a Florida newspaper located > in Florida's panhandle. Someone who reads this paper thought that the > editorial was worth a wider distribution and retyped it to send out over the > Internet. > > > >Phil Lucas, the paper's Executive Editor, wrote this article published in > The News Herald, Panama City, Florida, Sunday April 4, 2004. > >His e-mail address is plucas@p.... > >The News Herald web site is found at [url=http://www.newsherald.com/]http://www.newsherald.com/[/url] > > > >Up Against Fanaticism > >By Phil Lucas, > >Executive Editor, > >Panama City New Herald > > > >If straight talk of savagery offends you, if you believe in ethnic and > gender diversity but not diversity of thought, or if you think there is an > acceptable gray area between good and evil, then turn to the funny pages, > and take the children, too. This piece is not for you. > > > >We published pictures Thursday of burnt American corpses hanging from an > Iraqi bridge behind a mob of grinning Muslims. Some readers didn't like it. > > > >Mothers said it frightened their children. A woman who works with Muslim > physicians thought it might offend or endanger them. > > > >Well, we sure don't want to frighten, offend or endanger anybody, do we? > >That's just too much diversity to handle. I mean, somebody might get > hurt. > > > >We could fill the newspaper every morning with mobs of fanatical Muslims. > >They can't get along with their neighbors on much of the planet: France, > Chechnya, Bosnia, Indonesia, Spain, Morocco, India, Tunisia, Somalia, etc. > etc. etc. Can anybody name three ongoing world conflicts in which Muslims > are not involved? Today, where there is war,there are fanatical Muslims. > > > >We might quibble about who started what conflicts, but look at the sheer > number of them. One thing is sure. Muslim killers started the one we are > in now when they slaughtered more that 3,000 people, including fellow > Muslims, in New York City. > > > >Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state and feckless appeaser > who helped get us into this mess, said last week Muslims still resent the > Crusades. Well, Madam Albright, if Westerners were not such a forgiving > people, we might resent them too. > > > >Let's recap the Crusades. Muslims invaded Europe, and when they reached > sufficient numbers, they imposed their intolerant religion upon others. We > battle to their homeland. The fight lasted a couple of centuries, and we > bottled them up for 1,000 years. > > > >Now, a millennium later, Muslims have expanded forth again. > >Ask France. Ask England. Ask Manhattan. Two-and-a-half years ago > fanatical Muslims laid siege to us. We woke up to the obvious. Our > president announced it would be a very long war, then took the battle to the > Islamic homeland. Sound Familiar? > > > >Let's consider the concept of a "long war." > >Last time it was 200 years, give or take. Anybody catch Lord of the > Rings? You know, the good part, the part that wasn't fiction, the part that > drew us to the books and movies because it was the truest part: the titanic > struggle between good and evil, between freedom and enslavement, between the > individual and the state, between the celebration of life and the > worshipping of death. > > > >That's the fight we are in, and it never ends. It just has peaks and > valleys. > > > >There may be a silent majority of peaceful Muslims - some live here - but > that did not save 3,000 people in the World Trade Center, the million gassed > and butchered in the Middle East, the tens of thousands slain in Eastern > Europe and Asia, the hundreds blown to bits in the West Bank and Spain, or > the four Americans shot, burned and hung like sausage over the Euphrates as > a fanatical minority of Muslims did the joyful dance of death. > > > >Maybe we are so tolerant, we are so bent on "diversity," we are so > nonjudgmental, we are so wrapped up in our six-packs and ballgames that our > brains have drained to our bulbous behinds. Maybe we're so addled on > Ritalin we wouldn't know which end of a gun to hold. Maybe we need a new > drug advertised on TV every three minutes, one that would help us grow a > backbone. > > > >It doesn't take a Darwin to figure out that in this world the smartest, > the fastest, the strongest, and the most committed always win. > >No exceptions. > > > >Look at your spouse and children. Look at yourself in the mirror. Then > look at the pictures from the paper last Thursday. You better look at them. > Those are the people out to kill you. > > > >Who do you think will win? You? Or them? Think you can take your ball > and go home and they will leave you alone? Read a little history. > >Start with last week, last month, last year, and every other year back for > half a century. > >Then go back a thousand years. Nobody hides from this fight. > > > >Like it or not, that's the way it was and that's the way it is. But many > Americans don't get it. That's why we published those pictures. > > > >If they jarred you off the sofa, if they offended you, if they scared your > children and sent you into a rage at mass murderers or heartless editors, > then I say, it's a start. > > > TCM [/QUOTE]
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