Hat tip to Atlas Shrugs
This is a cross-post from Atlas Shrugs. It features a video showing an imam from the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem threatening President Obama with death for the killing of Usama bin Laden.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/
I am not a big fan of President Obama, but I concur with Pam Geller here. He is our president, and when some nose-picker like this threatens him, we stand with our American president. We need to stop the aid and money we are sending to these yahoos. It doesn't matter what we do; they still hate us.
At this point it would be a very easy proposition for the IDF to simply occuply and dismantle the mosque. Don't think I really agree with doing that, but I must admit that the thought has crossed my mind. The "Palestinian" people are more or less supporters of Bin Laden and CO. and therefore any sympathy I had for them is long long gone.
ReplyDeleteI realize I am beating a dead horse here.
I lost sympathy for them sometime in the late 60s with all the skyjackings. Or was it the 72 Olympics in Munich?
ReplyDeleteWhat exactly is the money "we " are sending to "these yahoos."
ReplyDeleteThis kind of broad sweeping generalization is a bit like whipping up a mob to kill several United Nations employees after a specific individual yahoo in Georgia burned a Qu'ran.
He wasn't "the Americans" and this Imam isn't "the Palestinians." Anyway, unless you are proposing a complete and thorough genocide of EVERY "Palestinian," which I'm sure you are not, we are going to have to live with, even work with, "those people" in some fashion. Somehow, members of the Irgun who weren't executed by the British found it possible to run for office and even get elected in due course.
Nope certainly am not advocating any type of unspeakable action, but I do find it hard to take when I remember vividly the images of "Palestinians" dancing in the streets after the attacks on our nation. Hard to have sympathy after all that. Of would you not agree?
ReplyDeleteI would have a hard time summoning up sympathy for any individual identified as having been one of those dancers in the streets.
ReplyDeleteSimilarly, if a certain self-styled pastor from Georgia strayed into Kabul and was torn limb from limb, I would have difficulty feeling much sympathy for him. But I feel differently about UN employees who were in fact murdered for being "one of them" who burned the Qu'ran. They didn't. He did.
We need to sort these things out, and insist that others make such distinctions also.