"Convert or Else"
Fox News has a new report (Al-Qaeda’s # 2 releases new video calling for Americans to convert to Islam) that makes one wonder why anyone thinks that Al-Qaeda can be talked to. How do you compromise with a group that wants you to either convert or to die? How do you give in half way?
Here is another statement from the tape:
"Instead of killing yourself for Bush ... why not surrender to the truth (of Islam), escape from the unbedlieving army and join the winning side. Time is running out so make the right choice before it's too late,
"Time is running out"?
Here is another statement from the tape:
"Time is running out"?
posted by John Lott at 4:00 PM
2 Comments:
Yeah -- agreed. How do you begin to negotiate with Hizbollah, for example, when their goal is to obliterate Israel? What do you offer them? Do you say: "Obliterating all of Israel is too much . . . how about if you only obliterate 20% of Israel, and in return we'll offer you an incentive package consisting of . . . "
And if Hizbollah decides to negotiate, do you concede another 10% of Israel?
On a related issue. Mark Steyn has an excellent column here: http://tinyurl.com/55tnu
Key graffs:
"The moment the men were released, the Western media and their colleagues wrote off the scene as a stunt, a cunning ruse, of no more consequence than yelling "Behind you! He's got a gun!" and then kicking your distracted kidnapper in the teeth. Indeed, a few Web sites seemed to see the Islamic conversion routine as a useful get-out-of-jail-free card. . . .
"[F]or the Fox journalists and the Western media who reported their release, what's the big deal? Wear robes, change your name to Khaled, go on camera and drop Allah's name hither and yon: If that's your ticket out, seize it. Everyone'll know it's just a sham.
"But that's not how the al-Jazeera audience sees it. If you're a Muslim, the video is anything but meaningless. Not even the dumbest jihadist believes these infidels are suddenly true believers. Rather, it confirms the central truth Osama and the mullahs have been peddling -- that the West is weak, that there's nothing -- no core, no bedrock -- nothing it's not willing to trade."
Brian
Dear saturdaynightspecial:
Thanks for the comment. But can you give me one example where Christian group in the US that is threatening to eliminate those who don't convert ("Christians in the US will talk the same rhetoric involving proselytizing")? I do agree with you though that if Israel were given the freedom to do what it thinks best there wouldn't be much of a problem.
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