Proselytizing For A Scarier Tomorrow
May 30, 2008
As we approach the seventh anniversary of 9/11 people still ask why. For many there will never be an acceptable answer. Not because there aren’t a lot of really good answers out there, but because their thinking is too confined to let them believe. When the next big attack on us comes, and believe me it will one day, these same people will be just as unable to believe they could be responsible for it.
I won’t say we deserved to be attacked in that manner. Those individuals who died had done nothing to deserve what they got or at least how they got it. We, as a political entity, had earned a big response. If you want to know why Muslim political entities be they the legitimate state, political faction, or terrorist group, then you need look no further than Yahoo.
FALLUJAH, Iraq — At the western entrance to the Iraqi city of Fallujah Tuesday, Muamar Anad handed his residence badge to the U.S. Marines guarding the city. They checked to be sure that he was a city resident, and when they were done, Anad said, a Marine slipped a coin out of his pocket and put it in his hand.
Out of fear, he accepted it, Anad said. When he was inside the city, the college student said, he looked at one side of the coin. “Where will you spend eternity?” it asked.
He flipped it over, and on the other side it read, “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16.”
“They are trying to convert us to Christianity,” said Anad, a Sunni Muslim like most residents of this city in Anbar province. At home, he told his story, and his relatives echoed their disapproval: They’d been given the coins, too, he said.
When we pull shit like this it doesn’t win the hearts and minds of the people we conquered, it pisses them off. I know many of you are going to say it was the Marines duty as Christians. Well get it through your fucking heads, the people who flew airliners into skyscrapers or suicide bomb our people every day think that is their religious duty as well.
Now the military will tell you flat out that proselytizing of any kind of any religion is against the Uniform Code of Military Justice, but I doubt anything will be done to those responsible for this. The military simply is too pro-Christian to let anything horrible happen to them. Of course then again someone in the administration could decide to make them the sacrificial lamb as they have done any number of times to the average American.
It isn’t just our proselytizing of religion that makes their reactionaries angry, it is our culture. If we simply said here is your money please deliver the oil on time at this price we would seldom have a problem with them. We don’t however. We continually stick our noses into places they simply don’t belong and tell other people how they should act. That doesn’t promote change, that pisses people off, It pisses them off enough they will fly airliners into sky scrapers.
I have said it before there is a solution, but too few want to embrace it. We don’t change their culture by rushing in, changing the leadership, putting Starbucks on every corner, a Fredericks of Hollywood in every mall, and a church on every block. We affect change by opening our doors and laying out a welcome mat for these people. Hell we give them a ride home if they want it. Once they’re here every religion in the country can knock on the door and hand them what ever kind of crap they will take. They will become Americans soon enough, even learning to tell you where to stick your copy of the Watch Tower. Those changes will eventually make their way back to the countries of origin where change can happen from within just like it should. But alas too many people are afraid of being minorities, especially the more affluent white people of America, who always want to export American ideology.
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You are right. We may never have all of our questions about 911 answered. But maybe we should start with some of the questions the surviving firemen raised about some rather strange things they saw in those buildings that day.
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