No actually, you cannot win this terror war.
Every day that Salman Rushdie, Matt Stone, Trey Parker, Ayaan Hirsi-Ali, and others like them continue to publish we win another victory in our ongoing War on Terror.
This:
http://www.amazon.com/Satanic-Verses-Novel-Salman-Rushdie/dp/0812976711/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_3This is why we are fighting. I haven't read it, but I
can, with a couple of mouse clicks and a credit card. That's what this war is all about.
Whenever we might find ourselves beginning to doubt whether the price is worth it, whether we can win, whether the religious fanatics are just too devout, too committed, too ruthless for us to continue the fight, we can find renewed strength from a simple visit to our local bookstore. There on the shelves are the whole and unadulterated visions of their authors and publishers made real with ink and paper unstained by the taint of religious censorship.
Those books are there, even those that condemn the fight to preserve them, because our heroes, heroes like Todd Beamer, Paul R. Smith, and David Petraeus, fight, fought, and sometimes died protecting those freedoms. They form an unbroken chain all the way back to Martin Luther's 95 theses -- another time of religious darkness whose heroes' actions were measured in words on pages.
As for Israel internal policy, let's say that each and every human right movement are condemning it.
In between fawning over their collections of Nazi memorabilia.
“VERY nice Hitler signature selection”
"That is so cool! The leather SS jacket makes my blood go cold it is so COOL!”
-- Mark Garlasco, Human Rights Watch "Israel Expert"
But I will let you in your dream world were you "fight the good war" on the "bad guys".
The life of letters is often abstract, but it is also said the pen is mightier than the sword. While in the long arc of history that has proven to be true, the pen needs to call for backup now and again.
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Topic: Geert Wilders (Read 10196 times)