Like a lot of news junkies, I almost always reach for my phone as soon as I wake up. I'm not proud of it. But, in that respect, this past Sunday was no different than any other. What made it different, but sadly all too familiar was what I saw when the light from that little screen hit my face. The news I was squinting to see was that there had yet again been an attack on innocent people in the name of Islam. I would later find out that at least one evil monster had entered a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida and murdered almost fifty carefree revelers and wounded over fifty more. Like all decent people, I was devastated. But that devastation would soon be transformed into an even farther reaching disgust. It took no time at all before the anti-gun opportunists started using the dead and injured as ammunition (pardon the pun) in their ongoing battle against the second amendment. Their opinion seems to be that there are no bodies too fresh to be used as gun control propaganda. In this, as in all acts of evil, they lose total sight of some very key truths. The first being that guns are not capable of having intentions, evil or otherwise. They can be just as powerful a force for protection as for death. The second being that real evil does, in fact, exist. The third is that (in this case anyway) a hate crime can also be a terror attack. And finally, that as much as they want to demonize Christianity as the religion that hates gays, the real hate is coming from one place, and it's Islam.
As I'm following the news coverage, I find that (totally unsurprisingly) the commentary not so slowly, but ever so surely moves to the weapon used as opposed to the motive behind the attack. The peanut gallery is absolutely rabid with its desire to show that if this person (I won't use his name) had been unable to buy his gun, surely this attack would never have taken place. They are sure that the best way to keep bad things from happening is to totally disarm law abiding citizens. Make no mistake. That is indeed what they want to do. Because as much as this guy was on people's radar, he had not, up to that point, committed a crime. So any background check on him would have cleared him to purchase any legal gun. The anti-gun crowd thinks that's the whole point. There should be no background check at all. The type of weapon he used should be totally illegal for anyone to own. There, problem solved, right? Wrong. There are these things called the second amendment and due process. Yeah, American citizens have the right to be armed and the right to not be treated as criminals unless there is evidence that they are. Both of those are clearly violated if a US citizen is denied a weapon when he has no criminal background. Period. There is also the issue of illegal guns. What? Well, why should anyone think that a person who is more than happy to commit mass murder would have any moral opposition to buying a black market gun? Think about it. Making guns illegal for everyone only disarms the good guys. Bad guys don't care about laws. Get it?
Another theme that the talking heads seem to be totally fixated on is, why? I think we all get that. Of course, we want to know why a person would go on a murderous rampage. If we had the answer we might be able to stop it from happening again. Or so we like to think anyway. But with this guy, they actively push aside the flashing neon lights of evidence about his motive and start looking for other reasons. He goes on to everyone he knows about is radical Islamic beliefs, he's been investigated twice by the FBI because of them, his father is a radical Islamist, he worships under a radical Imam and he calls 911 to declare is allegiance to ISIS. But that can't be it. It must be something else. Like maybe he's gay and his personal self-loathing is what pushed him to do it. There's lots of evidence that he was. Trying to pick up guys and using gay dating apps does seem to point in that direction. So maybe he was. Maybe he did hate himself for it. But, hello!? I mean really. He did all but leave a note telling the world what his mind set was. Why can't the liberal press just call a spade a spade? That's the 'why' I'm focused on. My best guess is that moral relativism has run so rampant that these people just can't admit that he was motivated by an evil ideology. That would mean admitting that there really is a spectrum of good and evil. Right and wrong. Doing that would throw so many other stanses into question. They just arn't ready to go there.
Now we can't talk about this attack without mentioning that it was against a nightclub that catered to gay patrons. So what? People are people. Victims are victims. Yes, that is true. But come on, this club was targeted because it was a gay club. Anyone with brains knows that. So if there were no other elements, it would be classified as a hate crime right away. And rightly so. But the shooter going on about Islam has gotten some people a little confused. Terrorist act or hate crime? Which one is it? At the risk of sounding like a jerk, it's both morons. Show me a terrorist attack that was not motivated by hate and I'll show you the corpse of Jimmy Hoffa that I keep frozen in my basement. Seriously. Why is this even being talked about? The 'either-or' of it is ridiculous.
The final madness that is being thrown around (mostly on the interwebs) is people going after Christians and conservatives as if this act of heinous murder was their fault. Anytime someone comes out and says 'this was an act of Islamic terrorism' there is someone else right there to tell them that's a bigoted thing to say. Even some in the LGBT community are jumping to the Muslims defense. Which is one of the most wack-a-doodle things ever, if you really think about it. Yes, there are a lot of Christians/conservatives that are not, shall we say, huge fans of the gays. But, come on! It is an actual tenant of the Islamic faith that being gay is a sin to be punished by death. In Islamic countries, gays are put to death every day. But here in America, what really works our gays up into a tizzy is not having a cake made for their wedding by the shop of their choice. Oh, the humanity! Being slaughtered en mass is apparently A-Okay. What?! When did we all fall down the rabbit whole? At this point, I'm just waiting for my invitation to the Mad Hatter's tea party.
Okay. So, here's what really happened. Islam is an ideology of hate and domination. Maybe there are good parts of the Koran, but sorry, I'm stuck on all the killing, raping and servitude. Any "good" Muslims need to break from this madness now. Have a reformation and expunge this evil madness from your teachings. If you do not, you make it clear where you stand. People who follow the Koran to the letter are a danger to everyone. This has been shown time and time again. This guy used guns. But they use guns, bombs, knives, fire and anything else they can. The only way to push this evil back is to call it what it is and arm ourselves to the teeth. Everyone, us and them, needs to understand in no uncertain terms that we are serious. We will not be their victims. Fifty people will never go home again. But they are only the latest. This ideology's victims should not be used as pawns in a PC game of misdirection. It's an insult to their memories, and it only emboldens our enemies. Truth doesn't care about what is easy to face. It only cares about reality. This will happen again. And again, and again. They will not stop until they are made too. That's our job. Are you ready?
VOH
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/homosexuality.aspx
No comments:
Post a Comment