social responsibility to a free world

Submitted by trans-parere (Canada), Apr 21, 2008 at 23:46

Dear Mr. Brand

A commendable first post on the abridged history of Islam.

However, on the subject of terror financing via petro dollars and turning to alternate fuels to terminate Arab complicity. No. It sounds good and given an advance in technology, any move to being energy self-sufficient is a blessing. However, a disenfranchised, thwarted religious imperative would again leave the world to feed and cloth and provide for this religion and eventually Homegrown jihad would breakout all over the world where this religion has migrated, and ghettoised.

Right now Islam as religion is the loser's drug of choice. It has carte blanche as scary shit that will freak out your nieghbour and strike fear into your enemies, turn your moms hair gray and have your father disown you. Naturally it's not true but, many have bought the propaganda and most have returned to non-thinking. Like the American election for a Democrat leader. Hillary and Barrack. It's not about leadership. It's about victims and race and gender and who should be leader determined by some fuzzy leftist moralism.

And just like that election isn't about political representation. Islamist are not about religion. But power and even more than power, they are about the destruction of the idea of freedom and the ideas of free men. In my opinion the only way to defeat the Islamist is to defeat authoritarian totalitarianism world wide. Where they desire a world wide caliphate we must ensure world wide democracy. Each and every person must be saved from dictatorship and be let free to stand as an independent being free from any enslavement. No matter that be an enslavement of the mental or physical nature. It's all one.

Cheers

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