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There’s an interesting discussion going on at Mrs Du Toit’s place.

I have participated somewhat, though I am loathe to do so. I consider it rude to be too snarky in anyone’s blog, let alone the Esteemed Mrs Du Toit.

Here’s the thing: when I was in seminary we spent the better part of a year studying Islamic cultures and reading the Koran. I still read the Koran regularly.

There is a large movement by the MSM to humanize Islam, to make it seem a peaceful religion. Frankly, I’m not buying it, and you shouldn’t either.

Mrs Du Toit speaks about Religion being a motivator in the way poor people choose their paths in life. In this country, in MANY countries, people look to their spiritual advisors and live lives of industry and devotion. There’s a huge difference in Islam.

In islam, there are still people who live lives of industry and devotion; however, their industry is based on the practice of deception, there are no disincentives to treat unbelievers any way they want. I have seen this in several circumstances, and I can tell you, the muslims in the specific instances I experienced were wastes of human flesh, the worst, the very worst, people I have ever met. No member of any other religion has EVER treated me with the outright disrespect of these guys- and ONE of them mistreated my company so badly that we lost a huge order (several millions of dollars), and then moved to another company to do the same thing to us AGAIN. Good news is, our work and our reputation got us back into both of those companies afterwards, and they are now loyal customers, who bemoan the time they had those specific employees. They were neither poor nor specifically well off, there was NO OTHER MOTIVATING FACTOR FOR THEIR BEHAVIOR aside from their belief system.

Here’s my concern: In every country where Islam has reached critical mass, they have attempted to impose sharia and murder or enslave or subdue any other population. In some of these areas, christianity and other beliefs are tolerated (barely) but in most there is clear disdain for, and attempt to remove, any infidels. Look at ths site, and tell me what you think. Tell me if these are peaceful people who can coexist with everyone else.

Update: Mrs D puts a copy of a tattered koran in the same post as a pile of burnt Hebrew prayerbooks.

Two issues are at work here.
1: The hebrew religion, by the era of Krystallnacht, was already a peaceful religion with a peaceful history. Islam is not. And has never been.
2: No hebrew prayerbook has ever included the passage “When you confront in battle those who disbelieve, slash their necks until you have routed them and then secure the rest with firm knots”. This is not an isolated passage of the koran but it’s constant and repetitive message. Read it for yourself.

I have no tolerance for those who would force their religion upon me, be it scientology, calvinisim, buddhisim, or atheisim. Alone among the worlds religions, Islam expects surrender or death. I’ll tolerate anyone who lives their life in peace and woships according to their own desires with no designs upon me. Islam has proved through it’s history that it has designs upon everyone, and it’s core tenets urge it’s believers to expand until everyone is a muslim or dead.

Any feeling that Islam can be tolerated without being completely neutered defines naivete. So long as agents of Islam have the ability to wage a terrorist war they will do so. If anyone can prove otherwise, I will bundle up my guns and hand deliver them to a blast furnace to be destroyed, and then become a democrat.

I’m not going to hold my breath.

To a mechanic, there is nothing more ubiquitous than the red shop rag. I have, probably, three thousand. I package them in old Wal-Mart bags and when they are all filthy, I wash them at a work clothes washer at a laundromat.

I have them everywhere. They show up in my sock drawer. I always roll one up and tuck it behind the battery in the truck, so I can check oil. I have a dozen with a tube of waterless hand cleaner in the truck’s emergency kit. They line the drawers of my toolbox. They wrap, oily, around pistols and gun parts.

When dad died, the boys at Ford, not without some ceremony, presented me with his toolbox and the contents of his locker. Toolboxes are very personal, and contain the tools that person finds most useful, in the specific job they do. Like my father before me, I work in automation, only the type of automation he used was a full generation behind what I do, and the gap widens daily.

Anyway, I took the keys to dad’s toolbox and opened it, packed a few of my own extra or large tools in the toolbox, and slid it down to the basement where it rests, most of the time. Yesterday, one of the things I needed out of dad’s toolbox was a slidehammer I put there a year or so ago, and as I pulled it out, a red rag fell out onto the floor.

I picked it up- because it had clunked softly as it fell, which red rags just don’t do- and unrolled it to find dad’s pipe.
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As a parent I am unwilling that any mother’s son die. Any. Ever. Even islamofascists. Life is too short to cause anyone more grief.

Ms Sheehan, contrary to what she says, Is not grieving for her child. She stopped caring about her child at all, when she decided he had gone to fight for “the Fuhrer”. Now, in Crawford, she holds up signs asking George Bush why HE killed her son, demonstrating her total disconnect with reality.

Michele Malkin does this in more detail, more clearly, than ever I could, but I’d like to discuss something with Ms Sheehan, should she ever decide to show her face in my lowly blog:

We have been extremely patient. We have given muslims all over the world, every possible chance to stop killing innocent people. They have not stopped killing innocent people. We have to stop them from killing innocent people before they kill everyone. It is their aim to kill everyone. If you cannot understand this simple fact, you need to pay more attention and stop drinking the koolade.

Speaking of drinking the koolade, Here’s something that needs some clarification. You cannot support the troops unless you support their comander in chief. You can disagree with him, but if you support the troops, you support their boss. Don’t support Bush? you don’t support the troops. Period. Clear?