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What About Guarding Our Values?

AF_retiree_2001 Wrote: Aug 06, 2010 11:11 AM
Read the history of Islam, not the bleached "retelling" by leftist academics, read the contemporary accounts of those that encountered the 'religion of peace" over the centuries. When it is a minority, Islam is peaceful, like the lamb. When it nears parity, it lights fires of protest, and when Islam dominates blood flows in the streets. It has been this way for over a thousand years, PBO and the rest ARE NOT GONNA CHANGE IT! Thousands of American Deaths WILL NOT CHANGE THIS. Educate yourselves. If anything, learn what VALUES are espoused within Islam and tell me if you can 'live' with it.

"Live our values," Gen. David Petraeus wrote recently to troops in Afghanistan. "This is what distinguishes us from our enemies."

Unfortunately, this is also what distinguishes us from many of our "friends." This culture-chasm is what makes the infidel struggle for hearts and minds across Islamic lands so recklessly, wastefully futile, something I was once again reminded of on reading Time magazine's cover story featuring 18-year-old Aisha. Aisha is a lovely Afghan girl whose husband and brother-in-law, on instructions from a local judge and Taliban commander, sliced off her ears and nose and left her dying to set an example for...

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