27 December 2011

Il Giornale, December 27 2011

 

The truth is that we don't want to know the truth. For us the word war has been erased from history by our sense of guilt and the Western mind specially abhors the concept of war of religion, a challenge against the very principle of freedom of opinion. It doesn't want to hear about it even when the war declaration is clear and present, when it's as broad as all the planet and when it unrepentedly flies the banner of the massacre of innocents, even of terrorism against worshippers, one of the worst forms of violence. In fact, according to the universal tradition people in prayer are sacred. In literature and history, the houses of God are the last shelters for defenseless creatures. The West has remote memories of the wars of religion, in particular the infamous Medieval crusades. Later religious wars were invoked to mask power clashes between kingdoms and dynasties, horrific forms of racism, greed for wealth and land. But neither Christians norJews must tolerate that during the current Christmas celebrations, somebody killed one hundred people inside a church as it happened in Saint Theresa in the town of Madalia,Nigeria, 45 kilometers from Abuja, and in Jos, the main city in Plateau State and later throughout the Country.
 

Similar attacks around the world hit the headlines every day (Ethiopia, Egypt, Indonesia, Turkey, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, Kashmir, Algeria, Kenya, Afghanistan...) In addition to the Nigeria killing spree, here comes the news of twenty people massacred in Afghanistan during a funeral in Taloqan where the main target was Mutalin Bik, the head of the police a man that fought against the Talibans and against religious extremism. In the last few years, this sort of news has taken us along the way of a head-on clash, and still the Church doesn't dare protest with determination, because this has a negative impact on the relationship with Islam: when a terrible attack was organized against the Copts in Egypt with dozens of victims during the 2010 Christmas celebrations, the Pope moved to mildly defend the Christian community. The Al Azhar University, therefore, severed any relationship with the Vatican, defining this defense an "insult" and the politicians judged it an unwelcomed intrusion. Whoever dares denounce these current events is immediately labeled as islamophobic: this kind of propagandistic reaction is a tipical part of the declared war against whoever tries to oppose the war of religion that the islamists are certain to win. Nowaday, nevetherless, it is all too clear that that a deadly challenge pits extreme Islam against other religions. In Nigeria it's called Boko Haram, which means "Western habits are sinful" in the Hausa language.

But there are many other groups that want to defeat Christianity and Judaism to build the Universal Caliphate that, in their perception of history, lasted until the end of the first World War. The use of violence is considered, accoording to the sacred texts, as an indispensible tool. The Jihad is ready to use it against the infidels, against the converts, against the women who do not adopt the sharia, .This is the formula used for the first time in 1998 by Osama Bin Laden when he issued a political manifesto to declare war against them. At that time, this sounded to our ears as an almost childish definition. But it did capture the souls of both the Sunnis (which Bin Laden belonged to) and the Shiites (think of Ahmadinejad's reiterated mementos of the intrinsic enmity with the West). The result has been a horrific bloodshed. It will not be appeased and it will not listen to any proposal or flattery.It is dictated written in the duties of any goos son of Islam, in their view, and it iscontinuosly repeated in the speeches of extremist Imams which sometimes receive some
opposition from a few brave moderate people: , Fait them until idolatry is no more and Allah's religion reigns supreme. >, , < When the sacred months are over, slay the pagans wherever you find them. Capture, besiege, and ambush them".

Thre are many more and even worse commandments. These commandments pushedLaskar Jihad to call "pigs" the ten thousand Christians killed in Indonesia between 2000 and 2002, and lead Hamas to write in their charter to kill until the last Jew when he will hide behind rocks and trees. It's a great army that has forced most Christians to flee the Middle East, now a real hell for Christians, a minority group in the hands of army that declares war.