another glance at some Islamic "love" for the West

Response to a friend upon viewing video:

Video - An Alarming video every Westerner should see - tangle.com


Unfortunately consistent with my readings & feelings. I googled Abdallah Fahd Abd Al-Aziz Al-Nafisi and got results showing that the video shows excerpts from a speech by Kuwaiti Professor Abdallah Al-Nafisi, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on February 2, 2009 - all kinds of links such as the transcript :

http://mychristianblood.blogspirit.com/archive/2009/03/23/kuwaiti-professor-abdallah-al-nafisi.html )

Interesting to jump through if you've got to the time . I agree - let’s not be naive regarding what we’re dealing with. Paraphrasing the “good” professor’s comments on Israel, let’s face it, Christianity (the West – despite Obama’s comments, Christianity and the West are pretty synonymous , don’t you think?) and Islam are incompatible. They consider us infidels which can ultimately be justifiably exterminated – let’s not paint it all pretty and rosy – that’s their core belief despite what might be said to the contrary. The only way I will believe different is if I see the true Muslim community (not the U.S. watered down, politically convenient black pseudo-Muslims or Americanized muslims that conveniently want all that’s good from this country while conveniently disregarding the pure venom that exists in their brothers overseas), but the true Middle East Saudi/Gulf Region Muslim, decrying/condemning terrorism and any such talk such as what was done on this video. Something tells me this won’t happen. Perhaps I’m just cynical and close-minded. Or perhaps I’m a realist. Difficult to wrestle this when I actually know good people who are muslims – but the core beliefs are the core beliefs and the good professor was very candid about them as are many other scholars on a regular basis. How are we supposed to contend with this – we who ultimately believe in goodness, justice, fairness, etc......always giving others the benefit of the doubt.

I’m reading a book now called “Sole Survivor “ by Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell which discusses his experiences in Afghanistan. Really something to read. Talks about the training to become a SEAL , etc. What is really striking me hard is the concept of Rules of Engagement that have been established by “suits” in Washington D.C. that are essentially castrating our armed forces in the face of this vicious enemy. They essentially have to wait until they are getting slaughtered before they can retaliate in fear of being prosecuted in federal courts upon their return to the USA for war crimes, etc.. Unbelievable. They literally have to second guess everything so that the liberals on this side don’t have anything to press charges on. The Taliban know this and happily exploit it as the huge weakness that it is using civilians as shields, then broadcasting any our our troop’s transgressions on “Al Jezeera” TV for the whole world to condemn, etc.... unbelievable.