Monday, November 30, 2015

Interesting Speech

This is a speech from Marine Le Pen at the European Parliament.  Interesting…

https://youtu.be/BO29xfBJ6KQ

It still amazes me that the US wants to fight a “war on terrorism”.  We haven’t won a “War on…” anything.  Education, drugs, poverty, all a mess with a drain on the economy and obvious corruption, unconstitutional policies, and bureaucracy. 

Why in the war on terrorism do we still support the developers, funders, supporters, and recruiters of Jihad?  The US since the 1950’s has stirred foment in the Middle East.  Now we are affected by the blowback.

Most of the Christian sects had lived in the region since long before the Moslem conquest, and felt a perfect moral right to live in what was, after all, their home. In the Iraqi capital Baghdad, for example, half the 18th century population was Christian. The Assyrians of Northern Iraq claimed to have been converted to Christianity in the 1st century by Saint Thomas. In the mid-20th century they were a strong community – a true nation. Today there are almost none left. The survivors are in Sweden. In Egypt, the minority Copts, descendants of the original Egyptian population, held important positions in trade, the universities and in politics, with more than a few appointed ministers.

Throughout the region, the Jews were absolutely essential to society and commerce. Of course, Jews had lived in Iraq since the time of Nebuchadnezzar II. But they had also made up much of the population of Alexandria in Egypt ever since it was founded by Alexander the Great – it was in Alexandria that the Old Testament was first translated from Hebrew to Greek. Elsewhere, in all the great historic cities of the region – Cairo, Istanbul, Damascus, Aleppo – Jewish communities made up the network through which different peoples traded with each other.

Each community was an intrinsic part of the social system, and the result was a diverse and resilient society. Of course, once in a while there were problems, such as the Damascus pogroms at the end of the 19th century. But the authorities had little patience with trouble-makers, and quickly restored order.

Today, however, for the first time in history, there are no longer any Jews on the southern shores of the Mediterranean and, outside Israel, few in the Levant. Christians of all denominations have either disappeared, or are under severe pressure, with the Egyptian Copts facing daily attacks. The old social order has broken down completely. The question is: Why?

Interesting essays from John Mauldin’s Outside the Box Thanksgiving amid the Threats

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