Gary Bauer's email today re: Bombay bombings

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary Bauer


Bombings In Bombay

There are breaking reports out of Bombay, India, of a series of explosions ripping apart commuter trains during rush hour. As many as seven explosions are being reported and more than 100 people are feared dead. Here is a quote from one Associated Press story describing the carnage: “Indian television broadcast video of badly injured people sprawled on tracks and being carried to ambulances. Witnesses reported seeing body parts strewn about the stations.” At this time there are no claims of responsibility, but it fits the familiar pattern of atrocities committed by Islamofascists in Madrid and London, and, of course, buses are frequent targets in Israel.

This kind of wanton death and destruction, no longer isolated to the Middle East, cannot simply be excused as merely the actions of a repressed minority. It cannot be blamed on poverty or justified by disagreements over foreign policy. It is evil. This bloodlust was put on display once again when Al Qaeda released an Internet video showing the mutilated bodies of two American soldiers killed in Iraq last month. These soldiers were ritually slaughtered according to the dictates of radical Islam – the same ideology that preaches it is okay, in fact honorable, to “kill the infidel.” As they have done many times before, these terrorists are now using the gruesome evidence of their inhumanity to recruit others to their cause of jihad.

And where does this twisted concept of jihad come from? You may recall that I mentioned a report about six weeks ago from the Center for Religious Freedom. NBC Nightly News devoted a segment of its broadcast last evening to the Center for Religious Freedom’s report exposing the hate directed against Christians and Jews that still fills Saudi textbooks five years after September 11th. NBC noted that the Saudis, not content with poisoning the minds of their own children, have been exporting edited Korans that single out Jews as having “strayed from God’s laws.” There is also news today that remnants of the Taliban have stepped up their attacks against schools – particularly those that educate girls. In the last four months, more than 120 schools have been torched.

While the radical Left in this country obsesses about the “religious right,” there is a war being waged against all of Western Civilization. Those on the Left who deny this war even exists, or, worse, actually blame us for causing it, naturally have no plan to protect the nation from an enemy so determined to kill us. They insist we are losing in Iraq. But our military certainly has not been defeated. The Iraqis have a freely-elected government now. Our nation is still thriving. By what measure are we losing? Some may be losing their nerve and losing their will to fight. There have always been defeatists in every conflict in every generation. My prayer is that we would ignore the voices of surrender and muster the courage to prevail once again.



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