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Religion of Conquest

Posted by TomD on Tuesday, August 29, 2006 3:51:29 PM
 

While there may be hundreds of millions of peaceful Muslims in the world, the fact remains that Islam is and always has been a religion of conquest. From Muhammad's first setting out from Medina to conquer Mecca to the present day, Islam has always sought to subjugate the infidels. This passion continues to this day, and if you can't conquer or convert them, the next best thing is to kill them. The history books are full of examples of Muslim conquests, from Muhammad's conquest of the Arabian Peninsula by his death in 632, to the battle of Yarmuk in 636 that led to the conquest of Egypt and Syria. When Muhammad bin Quasim conquered Sindh in the early 8th century, the conquest of the Indian subcontinent began reaching its peak in 1526 when it ruled almost the entire region. The conquest of Constantinople in 1453 brought an end to the Byzantine Empire at the hands of the Muslim Turks. They laid siege to Vienna in 1529, and attempted to conquer it again in 1683.

For people who say that the Muslims have not contributed anything to science, mathematics, art and architecture, they are simply ignorant. The issue is that Muslims have made very little contribution in the past 800 years, because their still living 800 years ago. They have the mental state of a person living in 1200, not 2006, and it is stagnating them and not allowing them to progress as a people that see the world as one that no longer lives in the 13th century and no longer lives by 13th century rules.

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Just Think for a Minute

Posted by TomD on Wednesday, August 02, 2006 11:19:59 AM
Many people are talking about how they are dis-satisfied with the Republicans and the way they are running the government.  The Democrats are relying on this  for the upcoming elections.  They believe that if people are unhappy with Republicans, they must be happy with Democrats.  I ask people to just think about a couple of things: do you even know what the Democrats would do different, and are you mad at Republicans because you don't like what they stand for, or because you don't think they are following what they say they stand for.  I am as mad at the Republican Congress and the Republican Administration as anybody, but I am mad at them because they have become too much like the Democrats, the last thing I want to do is put actual Democrats in charge.  The answer is not to kick the Republicans out and give control to the Democrats, the answer is to make the Republicans accountable.  We stand a chance of moving the Republican Party back to the party of fiscal responsibility, low taxes, family values and strong national defense.  Do you really think you can accomplish that with the Democrats.  There are any number of ways that people can show their dis-satisfaction with the Republicans currently in power, but I believe the worst among them is to cast a protest vote in November.  If you really want to change things, vote in the primary for the candidate that holds your beliefs, write your representatives in Congress to voice your opinion, start a blog on Townhall to voice your opinion to everybody, but please, please do not think that the answer to your problems is to put the Democrats in control of Congress.
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The True Meaning

Posted by TomD on Monday, July 24, 2006 1:27:51 PM
 George Santayana: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (From "Life of Reason" (1905))

I am often amazed at how misused this quote is, and also how misquoted it is.  More  often than not somebody will substitute the phrase "do not" for "cannot", and misapply the quote to try to make their argument that history repeats itself and we better know how to deal with it this time.  The truth of the matter is, is that the quote is about advancement.  If you cannot remember what you have learned, how can you learn something new.  If you must constantly learn how to draw a letter "A", then how will you ever learn how to write a story.  The ability of man to retain what he has learned without repetition is what has allowed mankind to achieve many of the great advancements in our history.  It may be true that history repeats itself, pure chance will see to that, but do not use a quote that does not apply to try to make your argument. 
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Little Else They Can Do

Posted by TomD on Monday, July 24, 2006 11:06:16 AM
It seems to me that there is little else that Israel can do but fight Hezbollah and Hamas with unrestricted arms.  How do you deal with organizations whose only purpose is to kill your people and destroy you.  There can be no compromise with people like that.  The terrorists don't want a homeland (they could have had that long ago), they don't want to live in peace (Israel would do nearly anything to achieve that), what they want is for Israel to be wiped off the map, and for all of her people to be destroyed.  These are not the kind of people that you can reason with.  How do you negotiate with people that only want one thing, you either give it to them, or you don't.  Giving in to them is out of them question, so that only leave one result, you must fight them.  In the past there have been "compromises" between Israel and the terrorists, but all these truly were, were the delaying of the terrorists next attack, because there will always be a next attack.  The only way for Israel to achieve a relative lasting peace is through the complete destruction of Hezbollah and Hamas, there can be no compromise, and there can be no other course of action, therefore there is little else that Israel can do.
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The Real Culprit

Posted by TomD on Monday, July 17, 2006 10:50:48 AM
For those that believe that events in the world are unrelated and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict does not concern us, I ask them to consider the following. Is it is really just coincidence that Hezbollah has launched this attack on Israel just at the time where pressure by the international community is beginning to mount against their sponsors in Iran?  Iran is the real culprit behind all of these actions, in my opinion and the opinions of a great many others.  Iran could be looking for a couple of different things; a diversion from their nuclear actions so that the world will forget that they're out there, and second, the hope that somebody will come to them and ask them to exert their influence over Hezbollah and Hamas to stop the attacks, and in return gain concessions from the West.  I believe that both of these traps we can not afford to fall into.  To forget about Iran is to let them continue to develop their nuclear program without interference until it's too late, and to ask their help is to once again give in to blackmail that will continue a cycle that will not be broken until somebody stands up.
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