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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-10 11:51 AM
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5 Steps to Re-Launching the Crusades
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-asghar/mission-nearly-accomplish_b_709226.html


Rob Asghar
September 9, 2010 03:04 PM

Mission Nearly Accomplished: 5 Steps to Re-Launching the Crusades

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So here are a few handy tips for how to start a holy war against Islam:

1. Desecrate the symbols of the people you've been trying to liberate. Machiavelli said that you can earn the unending enmity of the people whose land you occupy if you rape their women or violate their altars. So let's burn some Qurans! Okay, General David Petraeus has loudly cautioned that a Florida church's plans to burn Qurans on 9/11 will endanger U.S. troops, which was what it finally took for mainstream Republicans to second-guess those plans. But all these wimps need to realize that Crusades are a serious business.

2. Tell Muslim Americans that you love them but hate their religion. The "love the sinner but hate the sin" tactic is a sure-fire winner: It's allowed millions of people to marginalize generations of gay people without feeling even a tinge of guilt. So if you tell your Muslim neighbors, "I'm sure you're a great person, but your religion is evil and will eventually incite you to violence, so I better hit you first," they'd be foolish to see you as anything but a saint. And if they don't treat you as a saint, just remember that you're in a holy war.

3. Be selective in how you define terror. When a white man flies into the IRS as a protest, that's not terrorism. When a white man slashes a Muslim cabbie, that's not terror. But when a disturbed Muslim causes damage, be sure to call it an organized global conspiracy.

4. Ignore 20 centuries of crimes and mishaps perpetrated by those professing to follow Jesus, including backward and repressive societies that existed at least 17 centuries into Christendom. (That's longer than the existence of Islam, for those keeping count.) Ignore the great John Calvin running Geneva in a way that the Taliban would have envied. Ignore two millennia of anti-Semitism (especially now that conservative evangelicals have decided that Jesus wants the Jews and Israel to thrive before he comes back and judges them for not being more like conservative evangelicals). Ignore Biblical accounts that glorify the genocide of the Canaanites as the only way that God could get his plans started. Just keep asserting that Islam has a unique monopoly on religious violence and bigotry.

5. Exploit the utter cowardice, the craven silence of Christian leaders who know better but won't speak up. They know that Jesus and the apostle Paul would not take the position of a Newt Gingrich or a Sarah Palin, but they frankly have construction fund drives and annual pledge drives to attend to, and there's no point in jeremiads directed toward the congregants who bring home the manna. A few exceptions exist, granted, but thankfully they're too few in number to prevent a good, old-fashioned new Crusade.
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-10 12:07 PM
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1. Too accurate.
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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-10 12:14 PM
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2. Every word of this rings true, unfortunately.
Edited on Sun Sep-12-10 12:17 PM by leveymg
Particularly, the image of John Calvin riding on the back of a Toyota pickup truck with an AK-47 in his hands, and Jesus and Paul signing funding appeal letters to the better-heeled members of the Congregation.

Wickedly clever :evilgrin: And, certainly funny enough to get the author burned at the stake in Geneva in 1557.

Go nail it on a door. Who says G-d doesn't have a sense of humor?

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Desertrose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-10 01:22 PM
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3. Hmm...it's like too many already following these tips.
Edited on Sun Sep-12-10 01:23 PM by Desertrose
Scary.

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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-10 02:29 PM
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4. and I suppose
if there had been a 'media' they would have sponsored the original crusades also.


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azul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-10 06:44 PM
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5. When the Taliban took target practiice on Buddhist shrines
and destroyed their sacred images, the entire world regarded them as barbarians....
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Xenotime Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-10 06:56 PM
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6. That is their battle plan.
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MellowDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-10 07:01 PM
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7. There ain't going to be a New Crusade....
and your conspiracy theory of Christianity just looks ridiculous. Yeah there are ignorant people out there when it comes ot Islam, but they aren't the majority, and they aren't all Christian (just take a look at Europe, where atheists abound). And it doesn't help that there is a rather large ignorant Muslim contigent to keep the fireworks going (burn the Quran? We'll KILL you!) The government policies of the US in the Mid-East are not tied to Christianity, they are tied to secular policies of neoconservatism and economic interests. Which, by the way, the Crusades were as well (mainly secular that is).

As for the "define terror" thing, it's usually only called terrorism when the person is not acting individually, but rather as part of a larger organization. Hence the Ft. Hood shooter not being referred to as a terrorist by the MSM and generally being ignored, as well as the IRS plane guy. And as it is, how the MSM defines terrorism is a reflection of the secular monied interests, not religious interests. So some guy running a plane into the IRS isn't going to get the MSM up in arms, that's for sure. Hell, some of them probably rooted for him. And some Muslim killing serfs at a recruiting station won't do much for them either. Now, target a banker, or worse yet, reporters, then you got yourself some genuINE terrorism going on.

As for your historical rant on Christianity, it's completely irrelevant, since the way Christinaity was then is where a lot of Islam is NOW. And that's quite an important distinction. Yeah, there is a difference between Christianity and Islam today, in general. Christianity has become much more tolerant and adapted to the culture of developed nations. It's something that leaders of Islam might want to look into and which some are trying to do.

I can't think of any theocracies in the world that are Christian. But I know of a secular government that banned minarets.
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