The elections in Iraq on January 30, 2005 continue to prove the insurgents are not crazy. They have a cause for which they are fighting and we, the people of the United States, are part of that cause. Can you imagine a more shocking picture than for one of the buildings, where Iraqi people living in the United States were voting, to explode, killing and injuring hundreds of people? I cannot!
Since no terrorist activity ocurred what conclusion can we draw? There can be only two alternatives. Either the enemy we fear so much are not able to carry out such a criminal act or they do not care to carry it out. Allowing that anyone with enough determination can destroy a building as long as they are willing to put forth the effort it must mean the "bad guys" have no interest in carrying out such acts within the borders of the United States.
A few years ago a survey was taken concerning why peoples of other countries hate us at a time we think they should love us. Some of the conclusions of that survey showed that those people did not like the influence the West has on their cultures, their children, their way of life etc. I imagine if the survey was given to Christians within the borders of the United States the results would be quite similar.
Look at the beginning of the Arab people.
Ishmael was Abraham's oldest son, by Hagar the concubine He was born at Mamre, when Abraham was eighty-six years of age. At the age of thirteen he was circumcised. (Wouldn’t that make you mad?) He grew up a child of the desert, wild and wayward. On the occasion of the weaning of Isaac his rude and wayward spirit broke out in expressions of insult and mockery and Sarah told Abraham to “Expel this slave and her son.” Abraham dismissed Hagar and her son with no more than a skin of water and some bread.
Ishmael settled in the land of Paran, a region lying between Canaan and the mountains of Sinai; and “God was with him, and he became a great archer”. He became a great desert chief, but of his history little is recorded. He was about ninety years of age when his father Abraham died. On this occasion the two brothers met after being long separated. Isaac with his hundreds of household slaves, Ishmael with his troops of wild retainers and half-savage allies, in all the state of a Bedouin prince, gathered before the cave of Machpelah, in the midst of the men of Heth, to pay the last duties to the 'father of the faithful,' ”. Of the later events of his life little is known. He died at the age of one hundred and thirty-seven years, but where and when are unknown. He had twelve sons, who became the founders of so many Arab tribes or colonies, the Ishmaelites, who spread over the wide desert spaces of Northern Arabia from the Red Sea to the Euphrates, “their hand against every man, and every man's hand against them.”
What has changed? Looks like history continues….
Since no terrorist activity ocurred what conclusion can we draw? There can be only two alternatives. Either the enemy we fear so much are not able to carry out such a criminal act or they do not care to carry it out. Allowing that anyone with enough determination can destroy a building as long as they are willing to put forth the effort it must mean the "bad guys" have no interest in carrying out such acts within the borders of the United States.
A few years ago a survey was taken concerning why peoples of other countries hate us at a time we think they should love us. Some of the conclusions of that survey showed that those people did not like the influence the West has on their cultures, their children, their way of life etc. I imagine if the survey was given to Christians within the borders of the United States the results would be quite similar.
Look at the beginning of the Arab people.
Ishmael was Abraham's oldest son, by Hagar the concubine He was born at Mamre, when Abraham was eighty-six years of age. At the age of thirteen he was circumcised. (Wouldn’t that make you mad?) He grew up a child of the desert, wild and wayward. On the occasion of the weaning of Isaac his rude and wayward spirit broke out in expressions of insult and mockery and Sarah told Abraham to “Expel this slave and her son.” Abraham dismissed Hagar and her son with no more than a skin of water and some bread.
Ishmael settled in the land of Paran, a region lying between Canaan and the mountains of Sinai; and “God was with him, and he became a great archer”. He became a great desert chief, but of his history little is recorded. He was about ninety years of age when his father Abraham died. On this occasion the two brothers met after being long separated. Isaac with his hundreds of household slaves, Ishmael with his troops of wild retainers and half-savage allies, in all the state of a Bedouin prince, gathered before the cave of Machpelah, in the midst of the men of Heth, to pay the last duties to the 'father of the faithful,' ”. Of the later events of his life little is known. He died at the age of one hundred and thirty-seven years, but where and when are unknown. He had twelve sons, who became the founders of so many Arab tribes or colonies, the Ishmaelites, who spread over the wide desert spaces of Northern Arabia from the Red Sea to the Euphrates, “their hand against every man, and every man's hand against them.”
What has changed? Looks like history continues….
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