by WhatNoise

Created on: February 19, 2007   Last Updated: April 19, 2007

Having read many of the articles on this topic, and with particular interest the article of Servant-Father Francis-Maria Salvato, a thought occurs to me that fills me with despair.

War will exist in the Middle East as long as Islam hates all infidels and as long as Jews exist. Regardless of Mr Bush, or Mr Blair and their reasons or their failings in the eyes of Americans and Britons alike... war will continue, in spite of them and despite them.

To an outsider, Mr Bush is evidently not the sharpest tool in the box...but Americans elected him...twice! In England, we found it extraordinary that a man like Mr Bush would be elected. What ever his failings...and there are many...Americans re-elected him in my opinion, because of 9/11, because of a terrorist attack that stems out of Islamic fundamentalism.

For as long as anyone can remember, Islamic fundamentalists focused their rage on Israel, with wars and bombings and suicide bombers. And all the while the rest of the world expressed its outrage at Israel, portraying them as the aggressor in their fight for continued survival in the Middle East. But nobody ever took the threat seriously.

But lets not forget! Islam hates the infidel, and that means anyone who is not a Muslim. Fundamentalists preach the global spreading of Sharia Law by violence and destruction, and hope that sooner rather than later, we will all come under its rule.

Visualizing peace and harmony is not going to stop the spread of fundamentalist Islam. By engaging Western powers in wars like Iraq and Afghanistan, fundamentalist Islam is ensuring that our soldiers are spread thin on the ground, and that we will wear ourselves out and exhaust our resources and our will. By that time the likes of Iran will finally have nuclear weapons, and the status quo will crumble.

I am in no way a supporter of Mr Bush, but I think he has the right of it when he says Iran is a threat. Mr Achmidinajad is more extreme in his views than most of us can imagine. This man announced for all the world to hear, his intention to obliterate Jews from the Middle East at the first opportunity.

Dr King was a great man in a time very different from the one in which we find ourselves today. I think even he would be hard pressed to preach love and peace in the face of 9/11 and suicide bombers...Americans (and the rest of the world) may think that Israel is a far off place, the extermination of which, while horrible, will remain in a far off place. But the hatred of fundamentalists like Mr Achmidinajad will reach around the globe, with nuclear weapons to back him up.

Servant-Father Francis-Maria Salvato can preach love and peace to peace-loving people to great effect, but what will he say to those Islamic fundamentalists who despise your 'blue jeans and Coca Cola' hedonistic lifestyle enough to kill themselves in order to destroy you?

Peace in the Middle East? A pipe dream of Western religious fanatics who have their heads buried in the sand?

Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel between 1969 and 1974 once said:

"We don't hate the Arabs for killing our children, we hate them for forcing us to kill theirs. There will never be peace in the Middle East until the Arabs love their children more than they hate us...!"

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