Thanksgiving tragedies: India

In his seminal work, America Alone, Mark Steyn records a quip he made after 9-11 "...that these days whenever something goofy turns up on the news chances are it involves some fellow named Mohammed." He intended it to be simply a throw-away line, a bit of humor, but there's truth in jest, he realized. He then goes on to list a dozen major terrorist attacks beginning with 9-11 and marching to the present where one of the chief terrorists was, you guessed it, named Mohammed.

It's not the name he's indicting. It's the motivation behind the name. That motivation is Islam and it's hostility toward the civilized world.

Call up any news web-site today and the headline will be about the concerted acts of brutality in India. One of CNN's linked articles had as its title "Who is to blame for the Mumbai attacks?" Wouldn't it have been nice if CNN had maintained this distanced sense of objectivity during the presidential election? I'll give them a hint. I bet one of the dudes' names begins with an M.

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Once again terrorist motivated by their Koranic convictions are unleashing their genocidal wrath on things western, things Christian, things Jewish. Early reports had the gunmen checking passports looking for westerners. As of this typing, the butchers have slaughtered 125 people.

A religion of peace?

Ever the expert of international intricacies, Deepak Chopra gagged up his thoughts to Larry King.

The situation is complex, Larry, because it could inflame to proportions that we cannot even imagine. It has to be contained. We now recognize that this is a global problem, with only a global effort can solve this."

(Okay, so far. I am a bit surprised that the Deep-one is only now recognizing it as a global problem. Sorry for interrupting...)

"And you know, one of the things that I think is happening is that these militant terrorist groups are actually terrified that Obama's gestures to the rest of the Muslim world may actually overturn the tables on them by alienating them from the rest of the Muslim world, so they're reacting to this."

(Um, the Muslim terrorists (the adjective and noun seem to be side-by-side quite a lot these days) don't like overtures of peace and cooperation? I think he's right but he has no clue why. Back to the countdown...)

"You know, there's 1.8 billion Muslims in the world. That's 25 percent of the population of the world. It's the fastest-growing religion in the world."

(Oominous and true statistics)

We cannot, if we do not appease and actually recruit the help of this Muslim world, we're going to have a problem on our hands."

Whoa, Nelly! (apologies to Keith Jackson). Look up appeasement in the encyclopedia (dating myself...Wikipedia) and you'll find a picture of Neville Chamberlain or a map of France.

Chopra's recent work on Jesus Christ has further muddied the man's mind. He, like many folks, took Christ's words, especially His Sermon on the Mount,* and conformed them to his own thinking, his own philosophies thereby distorting them beyond any biblical recognition. Chopra's painted a Strawberry Fields Forever Jesus who would like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony. That's not Him.

And so the world peers in on more murder perpetrated in the name of Allah and wonders "What's goin' on?" The average Joe recognizes the threat and wonders how long it will be before the rapidly growing virus within our own shores erupts into an incurable plague.

Could you pass me a drumstick?

*For an exceptional audio treatment of the Sermon on the Mount, follow this link. The messages that begin "SotM" deal with the Sermon on the Mount. Pastor Counterman is currently one-third the way through Chapter 5 of Matthew (the SotM) going through chapter 7.