First let me say, I am BAAACKKK and I am mad! and worried. It has been a very long time since I blogged, but I feel so strongly about this topic, I could not hold back one minute longer. So here goes:
When will the world wake up to the threat that radical Islamic terrorism poses to life on earth? Will it take a 9-11 type of
terrorist act in every country for people
to wake up to this
reality? Will
it take a nuclear bomb being deployed by some nut case against a civilized country
for people to feel they have had enough?
These terrorists mean
to kill every person in the world who does not believe in Sharia law and who does believe in their version of Islam.
PERIOD. There is no gray area here.
Sticking your head in the sand and saying we should try to “compromise” with
these forces of evil is just ignorant of the facts. They do not want to
compromise. There is no intermediate position for radical Islam. It is my way
or the highway, the “highway” being a beheading or bullet between the eyes. Elizabeth Warren was interviewed
in the last few days and said we should be finding a way to compromise with
ISIS! What is that woman smoking? How do you compromise with a group that doesn’t
have any other agenda than to kill anyone who is not a radical Muslim? She
scares me almost as much as they do!
Radical Islamic
terrorism has been going on for decades. It started as a trickle, but
those incidents were no less horrific and deadly. Think the 1972 Munich Olympic
Games; Black September, a Palestinian terrorist group kidnapped 11 Israeli
Olympic athletes and killed them. Think the Raid on Entebbe in 1976- the terrorist
group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
hijacked an Air France jet that was heading from Athens to Paris; they let the
non-Jewish passengers go and kept the Jewish passengers as hostages. The
Israeli Defense Force (IDF) planned and executed a raid to rescue the remaining
passengers at Entebbe Airport in Uganda, where the hijacked plane had landed.
These incidents were anomalies and were 4 years apart. I remember, as a teenager
at the time, how scary and other worldly those incidents seemed to me. Those things
happened far away and couldn’t hurt me because I live in a safe place, the USA.
I am so sorry to say that radical
Islamic terrorism has grown incrementally over my lifetime, and
now seems to be growing exponentially. It has struck us here in the USA, just as it
has stuck on every continent save for Antarctica.
Every time I see the news, there is some offshoot
of radical Islam bringing terror down on innocent people just trying to live
their lives. First it was Yasser Arafat
and his PLO, then it was Hezbollah, now we have Al Qaeda, the Taliban, ISIS,
Boko Harum, Hamas, Jemaah
Islamiya, Islamic Jihad, Al Shabaab,
Ansar al Islam, and this is not a complete list. This is just the tip of the
terrorist iceberg. It is an iceberg indeed. We hear these names; we see the
attacks and read the accounts of what happened. The scary part is that there
are groups and members of those groups that have yet to show their horrible
faces. They are “underground”, or beneath the water, like the largest part of
an iceberg. We can’t see them, we don’t know anything about them, yet they are
waiting, watching, and planning to attack us in the worst way they can, to
inflict the most damage and cause the most casualties. They will stop at nothing short of complete annihilation.
Think Hitler, only on a worldwide scale, and against more than one group of
people.
I can’t for the
life of me understand why most people are so apathetic about this global
threat. I have 2 children that are young
adults growing up in this scary world. It is a much scarier place than when I was
growing up. I worry about what the future brings, but I
worry more about them than myself or my generation. There are so many forces of evil out there,
and they are not afraid to die. That is the difference. The bad guys of yesteryear did not want to
die. They wanted to get away with their crime, or atrocity, but they wanted to
live. Hitler wanted to live. The Unabomber wanted to live. Timothy McVeigh
wanted to live until he got caught, then he wanted to be executed. The radical
Islamists don’t care at all if they die, if their parents, children, spouses,
or friends die, in fact they welcome it.
Remember all of those virgins that are promised to them in heaven!
How does a
civilized society fight against that ideology?
It turns basic human instinct on its head. One school of thinking is let’s
give them what they want. They want to die, we will make it happen. My base instinct puts forth that train of
thought. Why deal with these monsters.
Why not just kill them all? I don’t know
if we would ever be able to sort it out enough to kill every radical Islamist
worldwide without taking a substantial
number of innocent bystanders with them. It is a comforting thought, to be rid
of this filth, isn’t it?
So if we are not
killing them all, how can we deal with this plague of radical Islam? I am not
sure, but I know sticking your head in the sand, singing Kumbaya, trying to
offer an olive branch, and holding hands, wishing for peace will not cut it. You
may call me pragmatic, but I call myself realistic. Remember that Israel has given land for peace
and we see how far that went toward convincing Hamas and the Palestinians to
live in peace with the Israelis.
Trying to use
diplomacy with radical Islamists is like trying to use a bucket to hold back a
tsunami. There is a tsunami of hate, rage, and radicalism aimed at all of us in
the civilized world and if this world does not wake up to the magnitude of this
threat, they will be forced out of bed with a bomb going off in their city.
I do believe we
should be doing the following to at least minimize the threats to our homeland
·
Profile,
profile, profile at the airport, at stadiums, at train stations, at all large
gatherings of people. I do NOT believe in political correctness anymore. We
must look at those people who are more likely to want to harm us. Leave the little
old ladies and babies alone at the airport. Look at the young Arabic looking
men and women coming from countries where there are large swaths of terrorists
looking to wreak havoc. By and large, those are the people who pose a threat to
us. Do it the way it is done in Israeli airports and that will cut down on our
threats.
·
The
Dept. of Homeland security needs to get real. Forget threat levels of green,
yellow, orange, red. We are at RED people, 100 % of the time. The threat of an
attack is imminent at any time. If September 11th showed us
anything, it showed us that. We have no way of knowing if we are safe or
not. We are never going to be code
green, never were. Focus on what you can
do to lessen the likelihood that another attack will occur at home. Eliminate
visas from countries that harbor terrorists. Keep that terrorist watch list
current and share it with other countries. Do not allow anyone on that list
into the USA. Never!
·
PLEASE LOCK DOWN OUR BORDERS. I cannot write
this in large enough print. Use all branches of our military to secure our
borders, both North and South. This seems like a no brainer. I am not happy
about all of the people streaming in to claim their freebies and wreck our
economy but I am even more concerned about terrorists floating in with them
unnoticed. Neither political party has the stones to do this, but we have to
put politics aside and think of us first.
Mexico jails a US Marine for accidentally entering into their country
and he has been held in a Mexican prison for MONTHS in squalid conditions!! Thousands of people sneak across our borders
daily and we offer them 3 hots and a cot(and medical care, a lawyer, a place to
stay long term) No wonder they come. They get treated better as fugitives here
than as citizens there!
·
Our
politicians have to stop worrying about politics, polls, and reelections and
start worrying about our future. We need to have national ID cards that are not
able to be hacked in any way. You should have to use them to vote, to receive
any kind of government benefits, open a bank account, get your social security
check, rent an apartment, get in and out of the country. People here illegally
need to wear tracking ankle bracelets.
We need to know who is here, why they are here, and what can they do for
us, not have to worry about what are they going to do TO US!
·
Create
a coalition of countries that want to combat terrorism and share information
within this coalition. It seems like some countries are currently more on board
with this idea than others. If we all
work together, dismantling their ability to harm us is a more attainable goal. I realize some countries and some leaders can’t
be trusted, i.e. Iran, North Korea; those are countries that would more likely
strike us than warn us of an impending strike anyway.
·
Cut off any US aid to foreign countries that harbor terrorists. PERIOD. I know we get
oil from some of these countries, we need to get our oil and other energy
elsewhere. Terrorists get money for their operations and weapons from selling
oil and from selling drugs, mostly opium for heroin. We need energy
independence and we need it yesterday.
So to the US government I say, frack if you have to, drill baby drill if you
must. It is imperative for us to reject Middle East oil now! This is an economic and national security
issue rolled into one.
Radical Islam is just another version of religious
oppression that has plagued mankind for centuries. My God is the one true God,
and all other religions are invalid. That is the theme of all of this strife
and terrorism. I find it pretty sad that
in this day and age we as humans have not learned to live and let live, as long
as we leave each other alone. We live
in such technologically advanced times, yet the “mine is the only true religion”
mindset is so backward and destructive.
Radical Islam adds the dimension of subverting women. As
a woman, I would love to see women in these strict Muslim countries rise up, each
one grab a rifle, hide it under their Burkas
and blow away any man, husband included, that tries to abuse them, stone them,
rape them, degrade them. They should be
able to go to school, drive, vote, be seen in public alone, and feel safe in
their own house.
I know the more liberal folks might disagree with some or
even all of my stances but I am ok with that. Intellectually, I feel these
strategies are the only way forward for us to lessen the threat that terrorism
poses not just to living but to living our way of life.
Ask yourself this, will negotiating with a terrorist
group or paying ransom of sorts to a terrorist group lessen the likelihood that
another terrorist group will spring up wanting concessions and money ? Will
allowing a free flow of immigrants through the gates of the USA help keep us
safe and help us to identify who may be here to harm us? Will stopping and frisking my granny or your
2 month old baby at the airport find a terrorist that is planning to take down
a plane or pilot one into the next skyscraper target? Will continuing to send financial aid to terrorism
sponsoring countries help cut down on the number of terror attacks that we are subject
to? Will continuing to buy oil from Saudi Arabia help us convince them to
police their own country and prosecute those terrorists that are now training
to kill Americans? The answer to all of
these should be a resounding NO. Put
liberal and conservative aside. We are Americans, we want to stay Americans and
we want to live the life we have come to enjoy here in America. If there are powers that seek to
destroy our way of life, I think it is a life worth making changes and fighting for.
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