Cahaya’s Rants

I watched two videos which were produced to counter Geert Wilders’ Fitna. The first video was nothing more than repeating the conspiracy theories of th 9/11 truthers.

The second one called Schism, available on Metacafe, quotes a few Old Testament verses where God told the Jews to kill and annihilate the Amalakites followed by a video of what appeared to be American soldiers and Iraqi soldiers beating up on their prisoners. That video was followed by another video showing a Christian woman declaring “This is war!” to a group of people and an interview of a couple of children from that same group of Christians explaining why they were not afraid to fight this war.

This attempt to equate the Bible passages and certain acts by soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan and a Christian group’s call to war, is pathetic! First of all there are no Amalekites today, whereas there are still infidels that the Koran teaches to kill. Secondly, how convenient to use an excerpt of a Christian meeting calling the believers to take up their shield and go to war, and taken totally out of context!

Rightly or wrongly the American military is in Iraq and Afghanistan because of the country’s policy on the war on terror. They are not there because they believe they have to annihilate a group of people because God had told them so. If that was the case, Iraq and Afghanistan would have been blown up to smithereens and back to the Stone Age in the early days of the war.

As to the featured Christian group’s call to war, it has nothing to do with going to battle against anybody. Whoever came up with this video thinks that he can mislead ignorant people into thinking that Christians are violent and should be feared. That is so laughable! The battle cry called by Christian group is a battle cry against the “principalities of the air”, the “prince of darkness” etc. The Christian’s journey is a constant battle and struggle against the flesh and against temptations.

Only an ignorant person who is already anti-Christian, and of course the Muslims who needed to feel good again about themselves after being “insulted” by Geert Wilder, would believe that the two films proved that the West and Christians in particular are evil and out to destroy Islam and Muslims.

The one thing that is proven from the barely known production of these two videos (there could be more out there) is that the West and Christians will not riot and kill because they felt insulted or were offended.

That contrast in itself should be cause for reflection.