Is Europe being run by Cowards?

A very straight-forward and striking article has surfaced in Australia's national daily newspaper, The Australian.
On August 1st, a writer for the Australian Mathias Doepfner,wrote that Europe has weakened itself through appeasement.
In his article, he says:

Europe still hasn't learned. Rather than protecting democracy in the Middle East, European appeasement, camouflaged behind the fuzzy word equidistance, often seems to countenance suicide bombings in Israel by fundamentalist Palestinians.

Similarly, it generates a mentality that allows Europe to ignore the almost 500,000 victims of Saddam Hussein's torture and murder machinery and, motivated by the self-righteousness of the peace movement, to harangue George W. Bush as a warmonger.

This hypocrisy continues even as it is discovered that some of the loudest critics of US action in Iraq made illicit billions - indeed, tens of billions - of dollars in the corrupt UN oil-for-food program.

Today we are faced with a particularly grotesque form of appeasement. How is Germany reacting to the escalating violence by Islamic fundamentalists in The Netherlands, Britain and elsewhere in Europe? By suggesting - wait for it - that the proper response to such barbarism is to initiate a Muslim holiday in Germany.

He goes on to say:

Instead of defending liberal values and acting as an attractive centre of power on the same playing field as the true great powers, the US and China, it (Europe) does nothing. On the contrary, we Europeans present ourselves, in contrast to the supposedly arrogant Americans, as world champions of tolerance, which even Germany Interior Minister Otto Schily justifiably criticises.

I have talked to many people here in America who are fed up with the attitudes. Attitudes that smell of isolationism, arrogance...and appeasement. That overall belief that since we are WAY over here in the strongest nation in the world, we are untouched by what's happening in those "foreign" countries. When we are faced with a direct attack or affront, most Americans fight back, some don't. Some prefer to appease. Some prefer to "understand" the Terrorists and offer consilatory gestures to sooth their feathers.
From what I read in this article, America is a proud nation but it stands to lose its courage through cowardice in dealing with terror. This is NOT the way to go.

Doepfner summed up the overall attitude of Europe in his final paragragh.

These days, Europe reminds me of an old woman who, with shaking hands, frantically hides her last pieces of jewelry when she notices a robber breaking into a neighbour's house. Appeasement? That is just the start of it. Europe, thy name is Cowardice.

I hope this will label will not be hung on us. Europe needs to "Grow a Pair" and America had best check its Big Brass Balls every now and then to make sure they are still there.

11 Year Old Charged Felony for Throwing a Rock?

Give me a freaking break!
An 11-year old girl in Fresno, California (big surprise) was handcuffed and taken to juvenile hall for hitting another kid in the head with a rock. Granted, being hit in the head is not good but to be thrown in jail? C'mon.
If they had these Gestapo cops in my neighborhood when I was a boy, I would still be locked up. We threw rocks at each other all the time.
One time, my cousin and I were having a rock fight with some other kids. We threw rocks blindly over a building at each other. You didn't see the kids, just the rocks. I threw one over the center of the building, then I heard a "WHAHHH!" from the other side. I guess we won.
A few days later, my cousin and I were throwing rocks in a canyon (this is in the Texas Panhandle.) I stood up right in front of Bobby just as he was throwing...smacked me right in the back of the head! I still have a scar from that.
Hell, we would have regular BB-gun fights and not think anything of getting shot in the forehead with a BB. If we didn't have BB-guns we would throw firecrackers at each other.
It was fun. We didn't go to jail for it!
GEEZ

Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali

This person is a woman but she has a huge pair of brass ones for telling it like it is concerning the Islamists of the Shari’a-based societies and the teachings of Mohammed. As a result, she lives under constant threat of death.
Now, doesn't the idea of a group of people threatening someone with death by just exercising her freedom of speech tell you something about this so-called "Religion of Peace?" Here is an excerpt:

The terrorists, and the Shari’a-based societies to which they aspire, have an entirely different philosophy. Humans are born to serve Allah through a series of obligations that are prescribed in an ancient body of writings. These edicts vary from rituals of birth and funeral rites to the most intimate details of human life; they descend to the point of absurdity in matters such as how to blow your nose, and with what foot to step into a toilet. Muslims, according to this philosophy, must kill those among them who leave the faith, and are required to be hostile to people of other religions and ways of life. This hostility requires them to murder innocent people and makes no distinction between civilians and the military.

Thanks to Little Green Footballs for the info.

Muslims and the Nazis - The Origin of Al-Qaeda

First you say, "No, that can't be, Islam is the religion of peace." Then you come across the speech by John Loftus, Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General at NavySeals.com . and you find this article by Chuck Morse way back in March, 2003, and you say, "Yeah, that makes sense." As you read, you will also see that Saddam Hussein has a connection. One of the original founders was Hussein's Uncle. Gotta keep it in the family.

Quite a legacy from the Muslim Brotherhood to Al-Qaeda. And yes, typing the words, "VANNA" and "NAZI" in a search engine, and doing the search, does yield some interesting information on this topic.