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October 13, 2001
by David A. Yeagley, Ph.D.
If Muslims want the world to believe that Islam is a religion of peace, Muslims themselves must kill all Islamic terrorists. Muslims must seize the terrorists and their organizations, and eradicate them. It's quite clear, as of September 11, the American government will never again declare war on anyone, no matter how grievous the offense. The slaughter of thousands of innocent American civilians on our own land wasn't grievous enough. Our government may come through on some threats, but we'll never defeat terrorism. Muslims alone can destroy these evildoers. Muslims themselves must demonstrate the love of peace they profess. There are terrorists here in the United States, but our government won't do anything about it. Our government seems paralyzed by the liberal rhetoric of litigation. In the name of equality, terrorists are allowed a place here in the United States. It's their right to condemn us, and to plan our destruction. Our liberal courts are focused on the legal rights of terrorists. Their rights are more important than American lives. This is why America can't declare war on terrorists, but only on terrorism. It's the idea that's wrong, not the person! What wonderful discernment. Neither will America declare war on any country that harbors terrorists. That would mean declaring war on America, because there are terrorists here, too! The CIA and FBI have lists of them. Even Muslim countries like Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, all have lists of terrorists. Everyone knows who they are, but no one will eliminate them. America makes excuses. "Justice" is the goal, not blind "revenge." Thus emasculated liberals morally seduce anyone from effective action. Israel's list of terrorists is the most complete and accurate of all, but the United States never allows Israel to annihilate its enemies. Israel instead patiently bears hit after hit after hit. Blind retaliation would cause worse trouble, they are told. Like the attacks on America? Was the WTC disaster "worse trouble" for resisting terrorists? This is war. Liberal "rights" are temporarily suspended. The object of war is victory, not a trial to prove the enemy attacked us. The enemy must be destroyed, or we might not have a court house left. Shall we act decisively, or await more slaughter of our people? Liberal America indulges terrorists. In 1989, at the Myriad Convention Center in Oklahoma City, we saw the largest Muslim militant group ever assembled, exercising its American freedoms. Hezbollah and Hamas were here. They weren't violent. They were just raising money. We can't expect to eliminate all Islamic resentment of America, especially when liberals encourage it. But can we expect Muslims to at least share some of the responsibility for solving the terrorist problem? Instead, we see many of their leaders complaining about being victimized by "racist" Americans. There seems to be a confusion among some Muslims as to just who the enemy is. Perhaps Americans themselves are partly at fault for this confusion. Just what sort of example are Americans setting, in terms of warlike resolve? As a Comanche Indian, I am particularly bewildered by America's refusal to destroy the enemy. America never hesitated to declare war on Indians! Indians were considered terrorists. America spared no means to kill us. In Texas, for example, "most Indians were exterminated or brought to the brink of oblivion by Spaniards, Mexicans, Texans, and Americans who often had no more regard for the life of an Indian than they had for that of a dog, sometimes less," says W. W. Newcomb in The Indians of Texas, 1961, p.334. Notwithstanding the Comanches' long dominance of the Santa Fe Trail, the last of us were subjugated in February of 1875. Only 1,597 could be officially listed." Our food supply had been eliminated. Buffalo were slaughtered by government order. Then our transportation was eliminated. Over 1400 Comanche horses were captured by Col. MacKenzie in the Palo Duro Canyon (Texas panhandle), then slaughtered. The winter and white man's diseases did the rest. We Indians were practically eradicated -- on our own land. Don't tell me America can't be brutally effective when it wants to be. Shall I conclude that our government values Muslim terrorists more than American Indians? I call on American Muslims to prove their allegiance to America. Indeed, as a Comanche Patriot, I demand it. Muslims, here's your chance to be American heroes. Destroy the enemy. Destroy the terrorists. But don't say you love peace, and allow terrorists to hide behind you. You can't have it both ways, or you are the enemy, too.
Dr. David A. Yeagley teaches humanities at the College of Liberal Studies, University of Oklahoma. His opinions are independent. He holds degrees from Yale, Emory, Oberlin, University of Arizona and University of Hartford. He is a member of the Comanche Tribe, Lawton, OK. E-mail him at badeagle2000@yahoo.com. Feel free to respond to this article in The Radical Academy Forum.
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