That's my response to Osama who "invites" us all to embrace Islam as a means of getting his followers to stop killing us.
Of course, that's right after he tells us that we should go read books by those who say we're being attacked and targeted for death because of our policies not our faith or lifestyles.
And, if that's not schizo enough for you, he also attacks the Democrats for not living up to their campaign promises to get us out of Iraq!
But the money quote of the whole tape was this one:
"To conclude," bin Laden says, "I invite you to embrace Islam." He goes on to say: "There are no taxes in Islam, but rather there is a limited Zakaat [alms] totaling 2.5 percent."
And of course now there are people running around (mostly on the left) saying "SEE, we told you it's the policies STOOOOPID!" We'll be hearing a lot of that, people using Osama's words to justify their calls for retreat, to support their claims that Bush has made us less safe, and to impress upon us that we are the evil imperial satan that Osama says we are!
OK, so what about all this "convert to Islam or die" stuff? Is that just our penance for having lousy policies? Isn't it enough to get out of the region? Oh no? We have to convert too?
"NOOOO!" The leftards will tell us. "OH NO, of course we should not embrace something that would demonize (and execute) gays and lesbians, enslave women and practice rampant discrimination! Perish the thought! We should just get out of the region and stop pursuing our own interests there!"
Um, OK...So he's right to demand that we forego our own political interests, but wrong to demand that we forego our own spiritual ones? What if Osama disagrees?
I think we all know the answer to that one won't be forthcoming any time soon. In fact, I doubt we'll hear much about the gracious (yeah, as-in "engraved in blood") invitation extended to us to join this psychopath and embrace his satanic death cult of a "religion." It doesn't fit the "SEE, we told you it was all our fault!" meme now does it?
The liberal press and the asshats who follow it (or lead it, as the case may be) will completely miss the irony of their situation and will cherry pick from Osama's words to ensure the American People wake up tomorrow and feel most afraid of their own country. Meanwhile, Osama in return will do the exact opposite--he'll continue to sit in his cave and find new and different ways to say that everthing we do--whatever that might be--is a mistake, and when he does, there will for sure be Americans right there to cheer him on for doing so, willing to take any negative thing he says about this administration or the war in Iraq by itself as a sane and rational thing to say, even for a psycho. And of course, those of us on thie right (as in "correct") side of the fence will continue to argue the opposite, and the net result? Disunity, disharmony and ultimately, if they do strike us, CHAOS.
Because folks, the only thing this monster cares about is destroying us. If he has to pretend to like some of us better than others, or that there is a way we can redeem ourselves in his eyes, so be it, all the better to drive a wedge between us.
The thing to do, the one thing we have never done, is hang together, whether we agree politically or not. This is OUR country, OUR democracy, OUR way of life. Are we going to stick up for it, or are we going to allow someone else to use the freedoms it affords them to destroy us from within?
Only time will tell I suppose....Time, or Newsweek (or the NYTimes, or ABC or NBC or CBS, etc. ad infinitum....)
Posted by insomnomaniac at September 8, 2007 12:40 AM | TrackBack