Wake up, we are at war! We are all Jews now.
am 15.08.2005 von http://lawjustice.blogspot.com
Dwelling a bit more on the subject of my previous post, I found (via the foreign press overview Iskander of 9/8/2005) an article Wacht auf, wir sind im Krieg! written by the Dutch writer Leon de Winter, published in Cicero, Magazin für politische Kultur (in German).
It is very worthwhile reading !!! I recommend it.
Among other things, Leon de Winter criticises the fact that there are still some (I add: leftist and politically correct) people who still didnt get the wake up call, and think that western society deserved the terrorist attacks and that everything will get better once the west changes its behaviour towards islam as a whole. Even recently, after the terrorist attacks in London, you could read such (but in my view false and self-destructive) comments in our newspapers (e.g. Jean Vanempten in De Tijd, and others)
De Winter writes :The
islamist
hates us because we are different. Because we are different, we are the enemy. Because we are his enemy, he wants our fall. We have no choice: when he declares us his enemy, we must defend ourselves. [own translation]
He refers to the fact that a lot of Jews - mostly very common enlightened citizens in democracies- were at the time not capable of thinking the unbearable and to recognise evil. They let themselves being transported. And now again, an unbearable thought emerges: we, people in the west, have an enemy. He wants our fall. After the 20th century catastrophies, there is again an ideology that wants to …
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