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July 4, 2006
Some Fourth Of July 'Food For Thought'
Here's some "Food For Thought" from Hugh Fitzgerald at Jihad Watch to go along with America's Fourth of July celebration:
... try to do the following. Try to imagine a member of CAIR, or anyone who claims not only to be a Muslim (and some do it out of habit, out of filial piety, out of fear of social ostracism or worse, even though they are nothing more than "Muslim-for-identification-purposes-only" Muslims), but to believe in what Muslims are taught to believe. For they are taught to believe that the source of legitimacy of any government lies not in the people, which is what the Declaration of Independence declares, but in the will or whim of Allah (as interpreted by men often in terms expressed for their own purposes and agendas). And that will is expressed in the Qur'an, and through that most important figure, Muhammad, in the Hadith. And they are taught that men are to be slaves of Allah, not free men. And they are taught that the collective of Believers, the umma al-islamiyya, is what matters, and to which Muslims must owe their sole loyalty, and certainly not to an Infidel nation-state.Read it all...When not fussily moving the coals around at a barbecue, and wondering if you correctly counted the paper plates ahead of time, and whether or not a thunderstorm will cut short the fireworks tonight, or make getting home from them a drenching prospect, consider the Founders, and their mental makeup, and that of all the others who created the United States from the earliest days, to the present. And then consider the cloud of knowing, in the minds of the unwary and ignorant, the too-ungrateful or too-uncomprehending recipients of that legacy, and how that cloud of unknowing threatens storms that will put out not only fireworks, but what those fireworks are intended to celebrate. Food, and not merely Fourth-of-July barbecue food, for thought.
- (Emphasis mine)
- as interpreted by men for their own purposes and agendas.
Posted by Richard at July 4, 2006 3:48 PM
