The Religion of Peace and other Fairy Tales

It never ceases to amaze me how Europeans can pretend to be so smart and civilized and advanced. But then again, how can they be so crass and insensitive and, let’s face it, stupid?

I rarely fling my net outside these United States in search of stupidity perhaps because I don’t usually have to but, this week the shoal of was too monstrous to ignore.

One occasion was the release of Abdullah Al-Megrahi from a Scottish prison.

There is no doubt in my mind that Al-Megrahi didn’t perpetrate the Lockerbie outrage alone but just because he wasn’t the only one to pull a gun, aim it and pull the trigger doesn’t mean that he didn’t commit murder.

Now he sat in jail for 8 years I think but, before that, he was free for more than 10 years after the crime. He and his fellow conspirators killed 270 people. There were families with little kids. There were a whole bunch of young students from Syracuse University. What may they have achieved if their lives had been allowed to bloom? And let’s not exclude millions of unborn embryos that may have evolved to do all kinds of wonderful things.

But none of those will now happen will they?

One can only hope that the Scottish doctors were better at their jobs than the Scottish government and that their diagnosis was accurate. And, as an afterthought, one can only hope that the Libyan doctors do not prescribe adequate doses of pain-killers. A second afterthought is that a fitting end for this animal would have been to launch him aboard one of our drones and then explode it at about 6000 feet.

Clearly the anger triggered by the release was exacerbated by the hero’s welcome accorded to Al-Megrahi on his return to Libya. When I saw it I was reminded of the joy in the streets of Gaza after the events of September 11. How about you?

And there are practical aspects too. Let's assume that the man is, indeed, terminally ill although on video he appears able to walk and function without assistance. He has nothing to lose so what would deter him from committing a further act of terrorism while he still can?

For the last week or so, there have been rumors that the perfidy may have had commercial ramifications because of a trade deal of some kind between the UK and Libya and now the British press is reporting that there may have been US involvement as well.

An Obama disciple reminded me that I should mention that he is reputed to be “very angry” at the release. My first reaction was that even a stopped clock is right twice every day but then I thought a little longer and remembered his attempts to “apologize” to the Moslem world on every occasion especially his near-blasphemy of seeking equivalence between Israel’s determination to protect itself from Palestinian attempts at murder and the Holocaust.

Elsewhere in Islam, a Malaysian court has sentenced a young woman to be caned for the heinous crime of drinking a beer. But, because Allah is merciful and so are his mortal agents, the punishment will not be carried out until after the end of Ramadan.

Closer to home, a Florida court has ordered that a 16 year-old runaway girl from Ohio be returned to the bosom of her parents even though she protests that she fears being killed in accordance with the directives found in the Holy Koran. Her crime? She has converted to Christianity.

Allah Akhbar!!