Quote Originally Posted by JMS View Post
It is this very contempt and cynicism that brings down nations! Wars do not bring down nations. government does not bring down nations. the death of hope and the birth of contempt brings down nations! Hope will drive us upward and onward to better things no matter the circumstance while contempt and cynicism will bring us to the depths of hell! and you know what? We all have the choice! Our future depends not on our government or our neighbor, but on each and every one of us! Our attitudes shape our actions and our actions shape our future!
Many nations lay at the feet of contempt while our nation is still young and hasn't completely given in to contempt! We still have hope! Lets not whittle away at that hope any further !!

Now that hits the nail on the head!

This is the very reason that I'm not offended when a foreigner burns our flag, but when an American does I get all riled up...
Regardless of how you feel about the war, it is the duty of every one of us to support thos soldiers. They didn't start the war, but they are sent to fight and die while Hillary Clinton and Dianne Feinstein announce to the world that we are losing the war and they are dying for nothing... Talk about demoralizing.

My comments about attacking Iran are harsh, and yes extreme, but we have to fight these terrorists at their source. If we can't attach them to a specific country, then we have to go after the leadership of the organisation. If that means assasinating religious leaders, then so be it.
Maybe Israel has the right idea... Fighting terrorists with covert counter terrorism. kill the leaders in anonymous car bombing attacks...

I don't know, but the free world is going to need a wolf to step in and fight back, and the longer it takes, the more drawn out and violent it will be.
If the hippies in Berkley get their way, we will all lose. Freedom isn't free. and hugging trees or singing "coom-bye-a" isn't going to stop the fighting.


As for wearing a distasteful effigy of Jesus in the USA, you will get dirty looks, nasty comments, and possible a bloody nose(not likely) but you will not encite a riot, or get anybody killed.
That particular effigy og mohammad was published in a Swiss? newspaper, and it incited riots, and Muslim clerics called for the death (murder) of the artist, and publisher of the newspaper...
There are many out there who claim that Islam is a peaceful religion, but I just don't see it... I've never heard of The Mormon church calling for the assassination of anyone who offended them... I'm pretty sure the Pope doesn't have a hit list...
In fact I'm not aware of any other religious group that promises anyone a bunch of brown eyed virgins if they die for this reason or that...
And yes I'm generalizing, I know there are many groups in Islam, but the extremists are winning...
I have a very good friend who is an Iranian born Christian. His whole family fled after the fall of the Shaw. Man has he got stories... his uncle was stopped in the street by those nice peace loving Islamists, and asked if he was christian or muslim... he took too long so they shot him 9 times. He crawled 3 blocks before he died no one would help him, he wasn't muslim.

Saudi Arabia our good friends don't like christians either... If you are caught teaching christian beliefs over there you are sent to prison, if you are a citizen of that country and are caught with a copy of the bible, you are executed. If you wish to be a cetizen you have to convert to Islam, and they are the ones setting up these schools around the world and middle east that teach the most extreme forms of Islam.
What do you do?