Muslim Control

Here are three quick clips from the recent news...
From The Boston Globe...

''Our primary reason," the editors confessed, is ''fear of retaliation from . . . bloodthirsty Islamists who seek to impose their will on those who do not believe as they do . . . Simply stated, we are being terrorized, and . . . could not in good conscience place the men and women who work at the Phoenix and its related companies in physical jeopardy. As we feel forced, literally, to bend to maniacal pressure, this may be the darkest moment in our 40-year-publishing history."

From News.telegraph...

For the past two weeks, Patrick Sookhdeo has been canvassing the opinions of Muslim clerics in Britain on the row over the cartoons featuring images of Mohammed that were first published in Denmark and then reprinted in several other European countries.
"They think they have won the debate," he says with a sigh. "They believe that the British Government has capitulated to them, because it feared the consequences if it did not.
"The cartoons, you see, have not been published in this country, and the Government has been very critical of those countries in which they were published. To many of the Islamic clerics, that's a clear victory.
"It's confirmation of what they believe to be a familiar pattern: if spokesmen for British Muslims threaten what they call 'adverse consequences' - violence to the rest of us - then the British Government will cave in. I think it is a very dangerous precedent."

From Dawn the Internet Edition...

Pakistan on Monday sent out a pointed message to the United Nations and the European Union, particularly Denmark, to redress the damage caused by publication of blasphemous cartoons and demanded practical steps to prevent recurrence of such reprehensible acts.

Addressing a weekly news briefing here, Foreign Office Spokesperson Tasnim Aslam declared Pakistan expected the EU and the UN to take specific measures after the publication of the offensive cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), first in a Danish newspaper and then in other European publications.

“We want Denmark and other European governments to take action, practical steps that would stop from such events happening in future,” Ms Aslam emphasized.

“What we want from the European Union now is concrete steps. It’s not enough to say that in their society there is no tolerance for discrimination and they regret the hurt the cartoons caused. This needs to be backed up with laws,” she asserted.

“In this case we do expect the European Union to put in place some laws which would ensure that in future there are no such incidents,” the Foreign Office spokesperson said.

How can one read the above stories without seeing the obvious connective thread of 'control'? Control of media, of national, and of international law. Control through intimidation and threat.
Control is blood in the water.
I know I harp on the saying, ‘if you reinforce bad behavior, you get more of it’, but for God’s sakes are we all blind?
Because I can assure you our enemy is not. They see us all too well. They know we long for safety and peace. They know our media are cowards and hypocrites. They know the world community will be cowed rather than stand for what is right. They know all this and over and over they have gone about to prove it.
They have a taste of control, do we really think a taste is all they came for?
And how have we responded? With appeasement and capitulation. By bowing to intimidation. Through self blame and mutual understanding. With fear and self deception.
We need to see this for what it is, a war on Western ideals. And the using of those very ideals against us. The longer our heads stay imbedded in the sand, the more dire the future consequences.
There is blood in the water and the sharks have a taste. We must not let fear control our actions, the sharks won’t circle forever.