vengeance and mercy

Ralph Peters:

It isn't politically correct to say this, of course. We're supposed to pretend that Islam is a “religion of peace.” All right, then: It's time for Muslims to stand up for the once-noble, nearly lost traditions of their faith and condemn what Arab and Chechen terrorists and blasphemers did in the Russian town of Beslan.

If Muslim religious leaders around the world will not publicly condemn the taking of children as hostages and their subsequent slaughter — if those “men of faith” will not issue a condemnation without reservations or caveats — then no one need pretend any longer that all religions are equally sound and moral.

Islam has been a great and humane faith in the past. Now far too many of its adherents condone, actively or passively, the mass murder of school kids. Instead of condemnations of the Muslim “Jihadis” responsible for butchering more than 200 women and children in cold blood, we will hear spiteful counter-accusations about imaginary atrocities supposedly committed by Western militaries.

Well, the cold fact is that Western soldiers, whether Americans, Brits, Russians or Israelis, do not take hundreds of children hostage, then shoot them in cold blood while detonating bombs in their midst. The Muslim world can lie to itself, but we need lie no longer.

The tragedy in southern Russia occurred thousands of miles from the United States, but, in essence, that massacre happened next door. The parents, teachers and students kept for days without water or food in a sweltering school building before being butchered were our children, our sisters, our wives, our parents.

Gerard Van der Leun:

The enemy and those that harbor and support him would do well to look carefully at what is coming for them. The careful and caring Wilsonian policies of America are one thing. Russia is never quite so delicate or patient.

The last time the Alliance rose and moved as one to destroy not only the enemy, but the centers of the enemy's mass, the butcher's bill was terrible. The masters of terror now face a deadly dilemma — how to achieve their goals and sustain their power without unleashing on themselves and their captive populations the one war the west does best: total war.

The tragedy of the West is that the terror masters will not stop unless, magically, they can be removed from the men, women, and children they hide among, and be killed as individuals. But men such as these do not care about the slaughter of the innocents. Tribal and brutal they care only about the survival of themselves, their primitive creeds and religions, and their clans.

At the present moment, the West still cares, and cares deeply, about the innocents in which the Terrorists conceal themselves, but this will not and can not last.

Mercy: Donations for the families of the injured and orphaned are being collected by the International Foundation for Terror Act Victims.

The Foundation was formed in 2002, and is a US 501( c)3 public charity.