“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the faith: all know how to die but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.”
--Winston Churchill
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| Christopher Stevens |
This was sent to me from Randy Sheets; it is absolutely brilliant:
Christopher Stevens Feeds the Crocodile
By Daniel Greenfield
[It was originally published in Front Page Magazine]
Winston Churchill once said, “An appeaser is one who feeds a
crocodile hoping it will eat him last.” On September 11, Christopher
Stevens, a career diplomat, became one of the first Americans in Libya
to feed the crocodile of Ansar Al-Sharia and learned too late that while
appeasers may hope to be eaten last, they are often eaten first.
Christopher
Stevens was a Middle Eastern diplomat who typified the new breed going
from the University of Berkeley and the Peace Corps to desks in Saudi
Arabia, Egypt and Syria. He taught English to Moroccan children in the
Peace Corps and helped Palestinian Arabs in the East Jerusalem
Consulate, which has a firm policy of pretending that Israel does not
exist.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said of Christopher
Stevens that he “made other people’s hopes his own” and that may serve
as a fitting eulogy both for Stevens and for the disastrous foreign
policy of making “other people’s hopes” our own that brought on the Arab
Spring.
Stevens, like Clinton and Obama, made the hopes of
Islamists his own and they repaid him for it, just as Afghans repaid
America for supporting them against the Soviet Union, as Lebanon and
Somalia repaid America’s peacekeeping efforts by killing American troops
and on down the litany of gratitude in bombs and bullets that have come
America’s way from the Muslim world.
“He risked his life to stop
a tyrant, then gave his life trying to build a better Libya,” Hillary
Clinton said, but if anything his murder exposed the lie that there is a
better Libya now than there was before Hillary and he intervened in
Libya. Clinton’s eulogy comes perilously close to conceding Stevens’
real mission and the degree of American intervention in the overthrow of
Gaddafi.
Stevens was the connection between the Islamist
Benghazi rebels and the Obama administration’s illegal war to overthrow
Gaddafi. His mission, like the true mission of the war, was secret, and
the consulate, marginally fortified and devoid of Marines, reflected
that secrecy. Stevens did not think that he had anything to fear from
the Islamists because they were his friends.
In the Wikileaks
cables, Stevens cheerfully described fighters who saw “resistance
against coalition forces in Iraq” as “an important act of ‘jihad’” and
local businessmen who took pride in the number of suicide bombers who
had come out of the area. For years he had walked safely in their
company without understanding that he was just as much of a target as a
Marine in Baghdad, but without the training, the weapons or the survival
skills.
The only reason Christopher Stevens had lasted this long
is that the jihadist fighters had known a useful man when they met him.
And Stevens proved to be very useful, but his usefulness ended with
Gaddafi’s death. Once the US successfully overthrew Gaddafi and began
focusing on stabilizing Libya, Stevens ceased to be a useful idiot and
became a useless nuisance. Attacks soon followed on the Benghazi
consulate and on other consulates as well, but the Marines were not
brought in and Stevens continued relying on local goodwill to secure his
offices. It was only a matter of time until the attackers got through.
Clinton,
her State Department and its media allies appear unnaturally eager to
paint Christopher Stevens as an American martyr to the cause of Libyan
Islamism, a kinder, gentler Rachel Corrie who willingly died so that the
Islamists might have their dream of an Islamic state in Libya.
We
will of course never know what was going through Christopher Stevens’
mind on September 11, 2012, as he battled the choking smoke,
experiencing what so many New Yorkers had experienced on September 11,
2001. Like them, he was faced with a terrible dilemma, a choice between
remaining in the fire and committing suicide by going outside.
Many
in the World Trade Center chose to jump to their deaths, but
Christopher Stevens chose to remain inside and die rather than face the
tender mercies of his attackers. Stevens had spent enough time in Libya
to have seen what the jihadist fighters did to their captives and must
have known what horrors he could expect at their hands. The photos that
have been released, along with claims by Libyan jihadists that they
sexually assaulted his corpse, suggest that he made the right choice.
And perhaps in those final moments, facing that terrible choice,
Christopher Stevens finally understood the true horror of the Muslim
world that he had fallen in love with as a Peace Corps volunteer.
“He
was an avid student of Islam and the Middle East, and consistently
strove to build the proverbial bridge between our two cultures in the
face of sometimes overwhelming antagonism and bitter misunderstanding,” a
friend from the diplomatic service tells us. But though Christopher
Stevens may have studied Islam, he had learned very little about it, and
so his final lesson was the bloody one that Westerners who never really
learn what Islam is about end up receiving.
“The world needs
more Chris Stevenses,” Hillary Clinton said, but does it really? Does it
need more tall dead blond Americans lying bloodied in the gutters of
Muslim cities? Does it need men who give up the hopes and dreams of
their country to take on the dreams of their enemies without ever
realizing where the fatal road of those dreams leads?
Stevens’
former Peace Corps colleague says of him, “Chris devoted his career, and
life, to improving relations between the Arabic/Islamic world and the
West.” That he did and he died doing it, losing whatever career or life
he might have had if he had not embarked on a futile errand to make the
Muslims who killed him and paraded around his body like him. And like
all those who have died over the years in the same cause, the effort was
to no avail.
“It’s especially tragic that Chris Stevens died in
Benghazi because it is a city that he helped to save,” Obama said,
repeating the same lie that he used to drag America into his illegal
war. Benghazi was not in any need of saving, it was the Americans who
came to Benghazi, like Chris Stevens, who needed saving.
That is
the terrible blind spot in our vision which, like Christopher Stevens,
tells us that we need to save the Muslims who hate us, rather than
showing us that we need to save ourselves.
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