"Moral weapons"

Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Jul 23, 2007 at 18:21

Hi, Chris G. !

Thanks for your prompt reply !

> I never said I had any issue with the use of Greek fire. I was thinking more of genocides by the Japanese Empire, the Nazis, The Maoists, the Stalinists, etc...

Who in his or her right sense hasn't any issue with genocides? The only problem is though that usually it is the losers' crimes that get publicity and censure. May I hope therefore that you include in your list also the Moslem Turkish genocides committed against the Armenians and Greeks ? 99%Moslem Turkey and its "friends" will never admit it.

> As far as Muslim barbarity I recall certain Christian crusaders sacking their fellow Christians at Constantinople as well as massacering both Muslims and Jews in Jerusalem. The Muslim rule over Jerusalem wasn't nearly as barbaric back then as was Christian rule before it.

We in the civilized world are quite aware of the crimes committed in our historical past. Owing to our Enlightenment we have long recognized and considered those things for what they are - crimes. Our libraries are full of relevant literature.

Now can you show me instead over there -in the barbarian unenlightened Moslem world - any studies, monographs, collections of documents and records, memoirs, novels, dramas, movies etc. written or made by leading Moslem scholars and intellectuals exposing the bloody, criminal, fraudulent, genocidal past of Islam? Give me a simple title and I'll be grafeul to you for the rest of my life.

> I also by the way am not applying "moral" weapons. I am talking about understanding how to manipulate and control the path of an entire religion.

I think I understood your point pretty well. I apologize for misapplying the term "moral weapons" which still seems to be a widespread and dangerous sort of weaponry used against our civilization by a variety of its opponents and haters including those brought up and nursed in it.

Best,

Ianus

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