'These People Are Animals' ... and we wonder why there is a jihad?
'These People Are Animals' is what Glenn Beck is screaming on his show now.
Do these people not know they are endangering Americans and Christians all over the world?
I was in Indonesia, on a small island, I'd been taking small boats down through the chain of islands away from Bali. George Bush was President and then he insulted the Muslims. Another Jihad was called against us. I thought I was safe on my tiny island until the owner of the place I was staying came up to us and said, "Do you have knives?"
Knives? A Swiss Armny knife. Not much else. He tells us, "They just burned all the Christians on _____________." (The island next to us that we could see across the straight). The missionaries had fled to a camper with their children and had been burned alive.
The owner of the place we were at told us. "They may come here tonight. YOu must be ready to run". The walls of our little cabana were made out of woven plant fronds. Beautiful but no stronger than a woven placemat. "If you hear anything, cut the back wall, run into the forest and do not come back." He told us. The ferry would be there in the morning. He would get us there if he could find us.
I think he spent the whole night in a tree outside our cabana. There were few westerners this far out into the island chain. He knew we were a target.
We stayed up the whole night, every once in a while there were noises, things that frightened us. The next morning the man had friends hide us in our car and drive us to the ferry. Other Westerners were showing up, also with local people shepherding them to the safety of the boat. At the worst of times, regardless of them being a target now for helping infidels, the Muslims of the island did their best to help us.
President Bush's words had caused a Jihad. He probably earned some votes for being so nasty to the Muslims. Of course, little missionary kids in Indonesia were burned alive so that Bush could continue his war of words and religions.
And that is always the case with these hate mongers. Their freedom of speech protects them here, but people all over the world pay the price. And, believe me, an American in Indonesia that gets their throat slit, nobody in America hears about it. We are insulated here. We don't think our mean words and wars have any consequences to the average American. But it does.
Those mean words are seeds. Little bitty seeds of hate. When you are dirt poor, barely surviving, all you have sometimes is God. Many people's lives are so terrible on this earth that all they can do is pray and dream of God and heaven. Their prayers mean more. Their belief is more important to them. If they don't defend their God, then they have nothing.
Nothing.
Just like the dead missionaries and their kids. Just like our Ambassador. They too now have nothing.
But Mitt Romney has something he thinks. He thinks he has more votes. That makes it worth it. Glenn Beck has something, more hate and for him that is success.
But they don't pay the price for their hate. They never pay the price for their hate.
I say send Glenn to Cairo, get him a soapbox, let him defend his own words to the people he is talking about. Let him finally see what beautiful blossoms his little bitty seeds of hate turn into.
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