In Amazement and Despair (a diatribe)

 

 

From: Oxsan
Date: 30 Sep 2001
Time: 19:07:20

This morning on TV I heard a General say that there were probably 50,000 Muslims immigrants and visa visitors in the U.S. who would gladly join a campaign of terror in the U.S. if they had determined and forceful leadership and a laxity of U.S. security to assist their decision. Less than a week ago I heard more or less the same message from a Justice Department spokesman except that he said "more than thirty thousand". Some of these people have been in this country for fifteen years. Despite these things there is an outpouring of concern for the Muslims in this country that is very difficult for me to understand. I heard Katie Couric ask a person she was interviewing "How are you going to escape the charge of profiling of which you have been so often accused?". Several times I have heard prominent Muslim clerics intoning "Islam is a religion of peace". I have heard media gurus by the dozens and cabinet members and the president stressing that we are not at war with the Islamic countries but only a few hoodlums.

I don't know what it is about the American character that demands that all the people in the world love them. Whatever it is will be doomed to disappointment. Islam does not love you, Yank. They like your Pepsi, your cars, your boats, your movies, your Playboy magazines and good Kentucky bourbon but they hate your guts - and they would be delighted to kill you - men, children and the ugly women. And not only the Muslims. There are a few others that share that feeling.

I have read the Koran, more than once. I have spent some time in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt, Israel, Jordan and in Muslim sub-Saharan Africa. I have asked these people what they thought of the U.S.. If I knew them very well they told me the truth - they hate us. And they feel that it is a religious duty to kill us. Why? Because we are Christians. The Islamic people may not be great historians but they can tell you a lot about the transgressors of the Crusades. And generally speaking I believe what they say. We plundered their countries. We defiled their sacred places. We broke our word solemnly given. But you say, these were not Americans! True, but they were Christians , weren‘t they? The ironic thing about the Crusades is that if the Crusaders had come unarmed and in peace they would have been welcomed as tourists with typical near Eastern hospitality.

But what is bad about being American? We are arrogant. We believe that everything we do is right and blessed by God, call Him what name you will. We tell the Muslim how he must treat his women. He must educate them, allow them freedom of movement, cease clitoral and labial circumcision, allow women to read, write and vote. The religion of the Muslim teaches him differently, but we even send the Presidents wife and daughter over to teach them how to live. To the Taliban and to many other Islamic governing groups the way they treat their women is none of our business and civil rights in Syria are what the Syrians say they are not what we say they are. We even have a NATO partner, Turkey, that is more moderate than the other Islamic countries but does not have laws of habeas corpus, and does not prohibit torturing prisoners to obtain confessions. It is said that the Turkish police believe that, "It is better to rub red pepper into some poor fool's eyes in the shade of a tree and get a confession than to chase suspects in the hot sun."

In addition to being arrogant and Christian (whether we are or not we appear to be), we are rich and successful. Most Americans, even those who travel the world over, never see the real country they visit. The tour company, the in-country host or someone will surely steer you away from the appalling poverty and filth of a Sudan, a Somaliland, a Pakistan, an Afghanistan or even a Brazil or Mexico. Northern Teheran looks very much like a part of Rome or Chicago, but down south of the Suq people live in cardboard houses and use the streets for sewage disposal. Are there places like that in the U.S.? I am sure there are a few, but I have been in all fifty states and I have never seen any of them. Living in such abject poverty makes people hate America just because its citizens are so rich.

But the real point of all this is why do we let these people into the country? Why do we teach them at our colleges and universities and give them all of the tools to compete with us in the world market? Why do we let them have drivers’ licenses? Why do we let them have special licenses to drive trucks containing hazardous materials? Why would we let one of them buy a crop duster airplane? Why would we sell 250,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate fertilizer to one of these immigrants? That would just about level Dallas. Yet one of the 480 near-eastern Muslim immigrants currently detained by the FBI had made an attempt to buy 250,000 pounds of Ammonium nitrite fertilizer and you know what? He didn't even own a farm. The only reason he did not get the fertilizer was because the dealer was low on supply. And Mohammed Atta who piloted one of the planes into the WTC had made inquiries in northern Florida about buying a crop dusting plane. Does it worry you just a little what he wanted to spread with it? Biological warfare has been around a long time.

But I'll bet that this next fall there will be the usual line up of foreign students for entry in colleges and universities that will get their visas. Some of those with Muslim backgrounds will probably replace the 19 or 20 lost in the WTC project. The al-Qaeda will be whole again and will plan the next project whether or not Usama bin Laden is handed over to the U.S. What we have got to do is stop them coming here, or at least try. Or is it too much to ask our Immigration and Nationalization people to at least keep track of the immigrants? If they came in on a student visa can't we at least see that they are attending school or back they go to the desert. And if they are on a five year visa can't we see that they go back at the end of five years? I once entered Portugal at Badajoz and the immigration officer failed to stamp my passport When I got to Lisbon and surrendered my passport to the hotel clerk as is the requirement throughout most of Europe two officers of the Guarda Civil accosted me and asked when and how I got into the country. In America the police don't check up on your passports, now do they?

It is difficult for me to understand why Americans welcome with such open arms the hordes of people who are enthused about killing them off. This is not about the potato blight like the waves of Irish immigrants, this is because their religion promises them an instant translation to paradise if they kill an enemy of Islam.