Madness is as madness does!
Photo courtesy of The Jerusalem Post
"The whole world is moving towards God," Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has written to his American counterpart George W Bush. "Would Your Excellency not wish to join?"
Initially, the letter was supposed to be a private message from the Islamic Republic to the Bush administration. But once Washington had dismissed it as irrelevant to the issues at hand, its text was leaked to reporters in Teheran.
To some in Washington, Ahmadinejad's epistolary exercise may look like another of his quirks. But it is based on a long historic tradition and fits into a framework of religious practice developed by Muslims over the past 14 centuries. Eye of the Storm: Reading between the lines by Amir Taheri
Mark Alexander
7 comments:
And the clock keeps ticking towards midnight as the ways, means and aspirations of man are exposed for their folly! What an edifying spectacle as we approach the chasm.
Yes, and what a fool it makes of those leaders and politically correct liberals and multiculturalists who think that Islam is just another religion, and one of love and peace and tolerance to boot, and one which has been hijacked by the Islamists and members of Al-Qaïda!
We are going to have to bite the bullet sometimes soon, or else all will be lost.
Bring on the real leaders! Throw out the apologists! And let the sparks fly! There is too much at stake to do otherwise.
We need to show these people who is BOSS! This is no time to show mercy; or as Mrs Thatcher would say: It's no time to go all wobbly.
Ahmadinejad is not a madman. He's a devout Shi'ite.
The West doesn't want to accept the reality of what he is!
Bring on Harry Truman -- or his equivalent -- to deal with this criminally-insane wacko! Oh for just one strong leader in the West....
Always:
Ahmadinejad is not a madman. He's a devout Shi'ite.
That's what I mean! By any civilized person's standards, Ahmadinejad is a madman. I don't judge people by Shi'ite standards; rather I judge them on something quite, quite different: Christianity.
Hitler wasn't mad by Nazi standards either; but had I lived at that time, he would have been considered so by my own.
The West doesn't want to accept the reality of what he is!
I agree with you on this one.
UIP:
Bring on Harry Truman -- or his equivalent -- to deal with this criminally-insane wacko!
Agreed!
Oh for just one strong leader in the West....
Yes, where is he?
Ahmadinejad indeed is not a madman. After studying the West, he knows which buttons to push and how far to push. Understanding his Shi'ite constituents and the Mullah leadership, manipulating the West and the Shi'ia, he hopes, to his advantage. But, as the write has pointed out in article, men of his ilk must fall, as they are neither self-sustaining, nor will their exploited bases forever tolerate the repressive conditions created by their polices: societies need to go through a sustained period of peace, quiet and prosperity in order to recuperate and regroup before the next round of hostilities, even in the Middle East.
But the world will never be free of men of his kind. As we speak, South American populist leaders are exploiting their populations in the same manner. The only differece is that they are not Muslim, for adding Islam exponentially increases the danger to non-Muslim citizens within the borders and all neighbors, for Islam is an ideology founded on war, expanded through war, and must sustained through war and oppressive techniques. This is an inconvenient lesson in history which self-deluded Muslims have forgotten or choose to ignore.
The world is a dangerous place. The highest ideals of mankind are exhibited in the Person of Jesus, but Christ man must struggle with the phenomenon we call human nature, and the nature of humankind is violent competition.
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