Reading a Newspaper

Old fashioned but true! I like to read a newspaper, actually hold the paper in my hands and get newsprint on my fingers. And so today, having been able to get a respectable newspaper and find a nice breakfast place, I sat and read the paper. Interesting with the November elections so close at hand that I found many articles and editorials discussing the seemingly slow "invasion" of Islam into Western Europe. Recently I recommended a post at Steve's Hodgepodge regarding Kosovo. Today, allow me to recommend several editorials from the Washington Times. I'll give the titles and the writer's name.

1) Jihadists and Jews, Is Hezbollah like the JNF? by Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen - One quotation from the editorial will suffice "Although the U.S. Constitution provides protections for religious freedom, it most certainly was never intended to protect religiously sanctioned or encouraged war in or against America." The editorial concerns the efforts of Susan Estrich et al to use the Constitution to protect the fellas who raised money to arm jihadists. We need to get our heads on straight about the use of our laws to destroy our way of life. Decadent though we may be, it is our right. 2) From swords to bombshells, Where are the roots of Islamist violence? by Suzanne Fields - According to Ms. Fields, "Muhammad proselytized with violence and used violence to consolidate conquest." Ms. Fields' op-ed is important in appreciating the use Muhammad put to "cloak political ambitions with a religious aura," writes Mr. Karsh as quoted by Ms. Fields. 3) No end in sight, But U.K. soldiers want out of Iraq, by Paul Moorcraft - General Sir Richard Dannatt is quoted as talking about his Christian values, and "the moral vacuum that allows radical Islam to flourish in Britain." 4) Gallic intifada by Arnaud de Borchgrave - In America we have much to complain about regarding the bias of our news media and the harrangue of the nightly (er 24-7) news "shows". The crime moves from target to target. The sorrow is that our news media is doing little to inform us about the anti-Jewish incidents that are occurring in France. "The metropolitan Paris police tabulated 10-12 anti-Jewish incidents per day in the last 30 days throughout the country." Further, "that Islamicization is in Franch to stay with 25 percent of France's under-20 population Muslim (40 percent in some cities)." And "there are an estimated 6 to 8 million Muslims among France's 62 million and Islam is now France's second religion...More than 50 percent of France's prison inmates are Muslims."

As I am reminded, we have freedom of religion in the United States. And so we do; however, we also have the separation of church and state. We must be reminded that in Islam, the "religion" is the state. There is no separation of church and state. A time will come when the idea of multiculturalism will be "killed". Will it be killed on the sword of Islam or will it be killed by those in Western Civilization who realize that their culture is not at risk, it is threatened by a tyranny under the guise of "religion"? For that is surely the best way to defeat the West, use our tolerance and our laws against us to tie us in knots. Not an especially grumpy Beach Girl today. Just knowing that a time will come when we are forced to defend ourselves here on our own soil. Hopefully, we will not go the way of France. And to my friends in Italy, I think of you and pray for you as well. Today, I bought a beautiful journal from Italy with a fine, embossed leather cover. It is for keeping my notes on the 910 Group. One of my colleagues laughed at me and said, "You actually write? On paper?" Yes, like reading a newspaper, I enjoy the touch of the pen in my hand. With the newspaper, I feel connected to the writer and I have a sense of their sometimes urgency to warn, to cajole, to entreat. We must appreciate that Islamic Imperialism is unlike anything we have faced in some years. Hitler and his Nazi party overcame Germany and threatened all of Europe. The West aligned itself and faced Hitler's army on the battlefield and in the oceans. Islamic leaders are "hiding" behind the jihadists, allowing them to do the work of terrorizing the citizenry of nations. "It can't happen here" has been said before. Yet, happen it did. Where are our news media? Why are they not telling us of the Muslim violence in nations such as France? Bad for tourism? Because the news media, or some outlets, are partially Saudi-owned? Should a foreign national be able to own an American news outlet? Are transnational corporations killing us all? Read Caravans. There is beauty in Islam (if you are male). Where is NOW against the servitude of women in Islam? Where is Planned Parenthood preaching it's message of abortion-on-demand to Muslim women? Strange times, eh, when abortion groups want young girls who may have been raped taken for abortions without the involvement of the parents of the girls, who, by the way, are the grandparents of the unborn child. Strange times when some women in America go around "covered" and others dress so radically that even non-pruds blush. Well, enough of the Beach Girl rant for today. God bless you and God bless our nation and Western Civilization - "warts and all."