[Vision2020] Islam, the path to WWIII?

[Taro Tanaka]

(This reply is dedicated to George Washington, who is spinning in his 
grave.)

As a nation, it's none of our business. Israel is no friend of Christians, 
that's for sure. There was more freedom to evangelize in Saddam Hussein's 
Iraq than there is in Israel. Israel has treated Arab Christians living in 
Palestine like total dirt, and America's premil Dispensationalists have 
simply ignored the plight of their Christian brethren in that country.

Then there is stuff like the following, which happens FREQUENTLY, although 
it is not widely reported in this country:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/732437.html

Anyway, I'm not rooting for Islam. Neither am I rooting for Israel. I'm 
rooting for every knee to be bowed in honor of, and every voice to raised in 
praise of, the Prince of Peace. And one of the things that followers of the 
Prince of Peace do is leave other countries alone when they are not 
attacking us. As an American Christian, the conflict between Jews and Arabs 
in the Middle East is none of my business.

I'm all for every American learning how to operate a high-powered rifle so 
they can spatter the brains of enemy attackers when they clamber up our 
beaches to invade our country. But we don't have any legitimate business 
attempting to impose "regime change" on Iraq or any other country. Precious 
American blood is being shed in an unrighteous war . . . which is not to say 
that I favor an immediate pullout either. Now that we have foolishly rushed 
in to where even angels fear to tread, we are more or less stuck there. A 
fine mess our immature Christian president got us into by listening to a 
bunch of neocons who thought they're smarter than what the Bible teaches. I 
hope I'm wrong, but I predict the day will come, if it has not already, when 
GWB rues the fact that he dumped Saddam Hussein. As atrociious as Hussein 
was, he is no worse and possibly a lot better than any alternative 
government that can be reasonably expected to rule that country. Secular 
democracy in Iraq? Yeah, right, when pigs fly. In the meantime, Iraq's 
Christians live in constant fear of the depredations of Shiite and Wahhabi 
extremists.

J Nixon says he would gladly pay a higher price for gas than for Israel to 
allow their dignity and soverignty to erode. Well, I repeat Israeli dignity 
and soverignty is not something that we have any legitimate concern with in 
this country. Let the Israelis worry about that. But since that's the way J 
Nixon feels, I hope J Nixon will please pay me the difference that I'm 
feeling at the gas pump, and in the across-the-board price increases that 
are impacting my ability to raise my children to be godly, productive 
Christians. Why should I, as an American Christian, have to subsidize the 
dignity and sovereignty of a country that is so antagonistic to Christians? 
Personally, I would just as soon have bought my oil from Saddam Hussein as 
from Kuwait or the Saudis, which have their own atrocious record on human 
rights, including oppression of Christians that is far worse than anything 
Christians experienced in Iraq under Hussein. The Wahhabist-instigated 
terrorism that we are seeing all over the world is fueld by Saudi oil money. 
If we had been buying our oil from Saddam Hussein instead of from Saudi 
Arabia, that, at least, is one outcome that we could have avoided.

All the Islamic nations, as well as Israel, have severe problems for us as 
Americans, especially if we are American Christians. (I recognize that those 
problems are not all the same in each country, although as a Christian I 
must say that the underlying cause is the same: their failure, as societies, 
to have a living relationship with Jesus Christ.) I'm not going to root for 
anyone -- it's none of my business. And neither is it J Nixon's or any other 
American's.

In the meantime, J Nixon, seeing as how you are happy to pay higher gas 
prices, may I have a mailing address to which I can send an invoice for the 
extra amount that I'm being forced to pay to subsidize Israel's "dignity and 
sovereignty"?

-- Princess Sushitushi

J Nixon writes:

[[  I, for one am ecstatic about Israel’s emergence out of the doldrums and 
the pacifistic approach to peace in the region. They have been stomped on 
for years, and usually turn the other cheek four or five times before 
reacting. (Israel’s mere existence as a nation rose from reaction.)  It’s 
just too bad that they are the only ones in the area that want peace, but 
are forced to react to the actions of Muhammad the war monger worshippers in 
dirty night sheets. If they (Israel) have any modicum of sensibility, they 
will bomb every nation in the region who supports terrorists (and they are 
off to a great start)
a huge parking lot would be an improvement. When people are intrinsically 
evil, what are your options?

  Go get ‘em Israel. I would rather pay high gas prices then for Israel to 
continue to allow their dignity and sovereignty to erode. Why must we fail 
to acknowledge the common thread in every battle in that area? Islam 
epitomizes evil. Simply a small thrust into the Koran will reveal this 
axiom. Eradicate Islam (or, at least the fundamentalists), it’s the only 
path the peace in the area ]]

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