Most Americans and Europeans only know how to enjoy their freedom

Submitted by Ken Besig (Israel), Oct 5, 2007 at 03:52

The title above is really a quote I read on the internet from a white, Christian, single male from the Netherlands when asked why he was emigrating to America.

He stated that he like many of his generation had only learned how to enjoy his freedoms but he had never been taught how to fight for them and defend them.

This strikes me as the mind set of the West today. Never having known an Adolf Hitler, they throw the word Nazi around at anything that they oppose. Never having known a Joseph Stalin and his murderous gulag, they accuse their own governments of fascism. Never having really understood the intrinsically evil nature of communism and how it cannot tolerate any human rights or freedoms at all, they either ignore or forget the Viet Namese boat people, the murderous so call reeducation centers the North Viet Namese established in the South after the US gave up the fight, or for that matter the Khmer Rouge killing fields in Cambodia. Never having known that real white slavery, the murder of women, and the absolute denial of political or economic freedom is endemic in the Moslem world, they cannot conceive that such things could exist and might even be imposed on them. In fact never having known anything but economic prosperity, freedom of expression, real democratic freedom to vote, and real freedom from government oppression many in the West almost have to make these things up to experience them.

So now it is Islamic fascism and it's terror weapon that they have only barely been acquainted with and cannot understand and fight. Indeed, many in the West say they believe that the President of the United States and his covert services carried out the 9/11 attacks with the plan to impose a fascist government on the country, and as an excuse to conquer the rest of the world, especially the oil rich Persian Gulf. Much like the Comintern propaganda apparatus in the 50's and 60's which depicted a bloodthirsty capitalist America where the minority rich figuratively sucked the blood and livlihood of the majority poor, the well financed Arab and Islamic terrorist propaganda machines have found that there are willing dupes throught the West to repeat these horrible lies until they become accepted, as at least part of the landscape, if not actually credible.

And even in my country, which has suffered more than any other from the Islamic terrorists, we even have Jewish university professors and journalists, not to mention just ordinary Jewish Israelis who will tell you with a straight face that the open, democratic, and human rights and freedom promoting Israel is a fascist apartheid state where no one is free.

This will be a difficult mindset to change, and for some it will never change. Still, there is justice in the world, and the truth will eventually win out, but it may be at a very very high price in human lives.

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