The very "un-PC" truth

It's been about a week now since the 9.0 earthquake and subsuquent tsunami were unleashed upon Asian and African countries. The death toll has been going up exponentially on a daily basis, now standing somewhere around 150,000.

Though too slow for some United Nations bureaucrats eager to redirect the spotlight away from the oil-for-food investigation, George Bush has to this point pledged $350,000,000 dollars of US tax payer funds to aid in the "global relief effort". Despite being called "stingy" by Jan Egeland, it seems that only Japan will contribute more to the cause than us.

John Kerry lost the last election despite receiving more votes than any man before him had ever garnered in a Presidential election. Unfortunately for Kerry, he now stands at #2 on the all-time list for votes received. More amazing to me than George Bush's presumption of a mandate is the willingness of "rank and file" Republicans to support his international socialistic policies.

I contend that socialism is bad policy in all forms, and clearly money being spent to help the victims of the recent disaster via the US Agency for International Development, the Department of Defense, or the funds we ship off to UN racketeers annually amount to nothing short of international socialism. And of course, as is true every time socialism is implemented among people, there are those who claim they aren't getting enough. The leeches claim that enough wealth isn't being transferred from the producers to the consumers who didn't earn it.

Now don't get me wrong, I do think that a compassionate American society should reach out a helping hand the hungry and homeless in Asia and Africa who have done nothing to deserve this terrible destruction that they were unprepared for and unable to prevent. However, I have yet to find the relevant passage in the United States Constitution which transfers the power to make charitable donations to worthy people from me to the United States government.

Just think how far that money could have gone towards erecting a wall between the United States and Mexico. I have no idea, but it sounds like a start nonetheless.

Part of George Bush's strategy in fighting the "War on Terror" has been to proclaim that muslims are not the enemy at large, only those who murder innocent Americans (and Jews). It seems clear that Bush's tsunami aid is more about buying friends than humanitarian aid.

Let us now examine who comprises the nations affected by the tsunami and the current state of affairs in those places.

Thailand:
According to our very own CIA, "Thailand is currently facing armed violence in its five Muslim-majority southern provinces."

Sri Lanka:
According to the BBC, "Sri Lanka's Muslims are warning of a militant backlash as increasing tension between them and the Tamil community in the east of the country fuels feelings of frustration and anger.
There is real concern among Muslims that a peace deal between the Sinhalese-majority government and Tamil Tiger rebels will mean they come under Tamil control and that their interests will be ignored."

Human Rights Watch doesn't identify the "ethnicies" of the fighters, but says "Human Rights Watch said today that ethnic violence in Sri Lanka would continue to escalate without decisive government action against those responsible for a prison massacre last week. The international monitoring group also called on all groups involved, including the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), to refrain from retaliatory attacks."

[They would be retalliating against Sri Lankan muslims who have threatened and carried out violence to avoid coming under the rule of the Timalese.]

Indonesia:
Another story from the BBC says "Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim nation, and support from the main Muslim groups is crucial for the government's stability.
The majority of Muslims in Indonesia are moderates, but small groups of radicals have come to prominence over their involvement in sectarian unrest, or for taking part in raids on nightclubs."

[Remember the Bali nightclub bombing?]

Somalia:
From the United States Department of State, "The country has a total area of 246,200 square miles, and its population is approximately 7,253,137. Citizens overwhelmingly are Sunni Muslim. There are a small number of non-Sunni Muslims. There also is a small, extremely low-profile Christian community, in addition to small numbers of adherents of other religions. The number of adherents to strains of conservative Islam is growing. In 2000 the number of Islamic schools funded by religiously conservative sources continued to grow (see Section III)."

[Sunni Muslims, think Iraq. Think Mogadishu.]

Burma:
According to a Frontpagemag.com article, "Abdullah Azzam – who had taught bin Laden at King Abdul Aziz University in Saudi Arabia and continued to serve as his theological mentor when they were both in Pakistan in the 1980s – has an impressive wish list of formerly Muslim lands to be re-conquered: “This duty will not end with victory in Afghanistan,” Azzam stated. “Jihad will remain an individual obligation until all other lands that were Muslim are returned to us so that Islam will reign again: before us lie Palestine, Bokhara, Lebanon, Chad, Eritrea, Somalia, the Philippines, Burma, Southern Yemen, Tashkent and Andalusia [southern Spain].”

[Apparently Burma is somewhere behind Israel on al-Qaeda's short list of occupied territories.]

Human Rights Watch makes Burma's muslim minority out to be innocent targets of majority populations. If al-Qaeda is trying to reclaim land they think is rightly theirs, aren't the Burmese people justified in defending their homeland from foreign invaders?

Maldives:
According to the President of Maldives, "Highlighting that the Maldives was a one-hundred percent Muslim country and that the people were true believers in Islam, the President noted that everything takes place by the will of the Almighty Allah, and that people must accept that, in life, there were moments of happiness and sorrow."

[So is Allah wiping out moderate muslims to make way for the radicals to take over, or the other way around?]

The President went on to say, "The President said that the nation could, with the grace of Allah, recover from the devastation through a concerted national effort, coupled with massive foreign assistance."

[So they'll accept aid from infidels, unlike the Sri Lankans who rejected Israeli aid workers?]

I happen to think it might just be possible that Mother Nature achieved in a few hours what would have taken Marines and soldiers years to accomplish. Let us be thankful and let us get back to ridding the world of radical islamists.

It seems to me that the muslims who should be deported from America and Western Europe can now move to some of these countries as space has been cleared for them.