Submitted by Yonason(United States), Jan 31, 2003 at 00:19
There are 22 Muslim Arab countries in the Middle East. Although some are better and some are worse, each is a totalitarian dictatorship. Yet despite the desperate need for reform in them, their citizens come here and lecture us about 'human rights' and 'democracy,' while remaining deafeningly silent at home.
While my father was fighting the Japanese with the First Marines at Guadalcanal, and his brother was fighting the Germans at the "Battle of the Bulge," theirs were fighting with Rommel to make the Middle East safe from "al Yahud" for "der furer;" and they would teach us the meaning of democracy and freedom? The nerve!
They demand their 'rights' according to our system, which, curiously enough, they are striving with all their might to conform to their "noble Islamic ideals." Not only that, but we are berated for daring to defend the rights of our citizens when violated by their home governments. They claim the 'right' to be enraged by our words of rebuke, but we have to patiently endure their murderous rage.
For the last 2 years, since the Arabs began their war on Israel in earnest, I've been following the way they operate. It is the same all over the world. They play the same game everywhere they go. From Israel to the Philippines, and from India to the Sudan, they terrorize the locals, and when the indigenous people have had enough and fight back, the itinerant terrorists play the victim whose 'rights' have been violated. They muster world sympathy, and get others (us) to fight their dirty battles, steal land that isn’t theirs, and in is so doing we share their guilt. Their worldwide enterprise is masked as isolated "regional conflicts." They keep our eyes focused on the trees so we won’t see the forest, as they try to burn it down, tree by tree, with us supplying the matches.
It's no surprise that the world is taking so long to figure it out. This behavior is so malevolent that it just doesn't occur to us that it is possible. Unfortunately it is, and now they have begun to light their fires here. We must wake up, and they must be stopped: everywhere, berfore it's too late!
Yonason
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