Islam Hates

    I was on the treadmill last night when the guy next to me, a teacher at a private school. told me about the Islamists slitting the throat of a priest. "Why did they do that to an 84 year-old man?" he lamented."
    "Because they hate," I replied.
    I could have pointed to Brigitte Gabriel for the answer. This is what she wrote: "There is a three-word answer that is both simple and complex: because they hate. They hate our way of life. They hate our freedom. They hate our democracy. They hate the practice of every religion but their own. They don't just disagree. They hate." This is from Brigitte's book, aptly titled, Because They Hate.
What's the basic reason for their hate because these are absurd things to hate? Where is the fountainhead of  hate that started this hell on earth? If I knew maybe I could work for the CIA. Maybe it all started with the blistering, hot weather in the desert. Combined with tremendous lack of resources (before oil was discovered) which were constantly fought over. Combined with men who had to be away from their women, leaving them open to rape and kidnapping, These men would worry that their wives and families would be gone, either killed or sold into slavery by the time they returned from their attacks. For their wives and young sons, that slavery would mean not only work slavery but rape slavery. You would be a man or a woman and you have all this eating at you
and you would be full of hate, it seems. Then you just start blaming others, hating them and wanting to torture, rape, mutilate, enslave or kill "the other." To spread your hate, you merely find people who are suffering, convince them not to get educated, hold any job available and climb vocationally, and live a stable life, especially within a marriage and making it work, but convince them that it's "the other's fault." You also structure their lives with five prostrate prayers each day and a million dos and dont's to keep them busy and teach submission to them. Am I hired, CIA? Oh, we have a president who says it's anything else but Islam - guns, Republicans, Putin, anything but Islam! Yeah. He's not going to let his employees fight Islam on the battlefield of ideas and values. We'd win there.
    I wrote that I changed the sign on the back of my truck to "Be Armed And Able To Save USA."
I got a compliment about it a while ago in the parking lot of the cafe.
    Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va.
    The measure of a man,
     Is not what he says,
     But what he does,
     And what he allows,
     Others to do in his presence.
         - Navy Seal Instructor