![]() Political and military actions are important. Without changed hearts and congruent underlying values (including a modicum of restraint on our part), our strategies not only fail to contain terrorists but make it very difficult for moderate Muslims to side with us. We seem not to have grasped that things like freedom of speech and expression, and democracy, although necessary for human flourishing, are not sufficient. More recently we placed our bets on democracy - another safely secular option - and got the likes of Hamas in Palestine, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. The West redrew borders and cavorted with unsavory dictators like the Shah of Iran, Saddam, Mubarak and Assad because they held out the promise of maintaining secular political and economic structures, while marginalizing or controlling the more divisive expressions of Islam. Our secular bias is also implicated in the historical roots of these problems. And our response to ISIS primarily with remote-controlled drones and bombs (costing approximately $750,000 per strike) reveals our trust in technology and riches. Our inability to constrain in-your-face sexuality exposes our near-worship of freedom of expression. Our differing reactions to the Hebdo and Nigerian atrocities hint that we might value the right to insult more than we value justice for voiceless victims. Together, these incidents reveal something important. ![]() Extremist Muslims respond by countering this arrogant cultural assault (against which they have no power) with the primary power available to them - physical violence. VISSER THE BRAVE PORN TVAnd recreational sex and “Fifty Shades of Grey” “mommy porn” invades homes worldwide via the American-invented Internet, TV and movies. The French ban the burka but protect the right to public nudity. American men and women abused Muslim men in the Abu Ghraib prison and the U.S. Charlie Hebdo’s mockery of Mohammed goes back many years, including issues that portrayed him in demeaning or pornographic poses. Terrorist actions are inexcusable, but we must recognize that some of this violence is fallout from Western decadence and arrogance. And World Watch Monitor reports that the post-attack issue of Charlie Hebdo sparked fatal rampages and the damage or burning of as many as 70 churches in Niger, as well as violent protests in Pakistan, Algiers and Jordan. According to the Nigeria Social Violence Dataset, Boko-Haram-inspired violence in that country has led to the deaths of at least 5,000 innocent people in the past five years, and six times this number over the past 15 years. In Syria, ISIS spray-painted Christian homes with the Farsi letter “n,” identifying their occupants as targets for extremist looters, arsonists, rapists and killers. Why does the West seem helpless as Muslims, Christians and Jews all over the Middle East are killed by Muslim extremists? Nearly 1 million Christians have fled Iraq since Saddam was ousted. Unfortunately, it took gruesome executions (Moaz and the beheadings that preceded his death), the loss of “one of our own” (Kayla), and assaults on freedom of speech (Hebdo) to galvanize public opinion. ![]() Tasting their first defeat of the season, Attram D’Visser will be looking forward to getting back to winning ways ahead of the next round of games.Īttram D’Visser will face New Life Fc as MSK Zilina hosts Thunder FC on matchday three in the division two league.But far more damaging attacks by militant Muslims have killed thousands of innocent people with little or no White House acknowledgment or public outcry. MSK Zilina has won two out of two matches this season already after beating Immigration by a lone goal on matchday One. The game was halted for some few minutes after all flood lights on the field went off as a result of a heavy downpour. ![]() The game was tumultuous, difficult and controversial for both clubs. ![]() MSK Zilina Africa FC’s midfielder, Moses Parker pulled parity before the interval before enterprising attacker, Maxwell Opoku who displayed a man of the match performance on the day came back to score twice in 65th and 90th minutes to put his side in a comfortable lead grabbing all points at stake for his side. Attram D’Visser FC drew first blood as attacker, Kingsley Sakyi fired home from close range in just four minutes into the game. ![]()
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