When the people of the “American” colonies realized that the King of England was planning to use them as a bigger and better source of income for the British empire, the colonists made a decision – not a completely popular one, by the way – to put a stop to this effort to confiscate even more of their hard work and productivity. Notice I said this was not a 100% popular idea, confronting the King and saying “No.”
Here’s where that “No” took us, right into war. The Americans had had enough and decided to fight back and separate themselves from the King. The King, unfortunately, had no problem attacking and killing the Americans to keep a hold on this money-maker on the Continent of North America.
Here we are once again, in this century, confronted with a new type of king, one that wants to control the people but claims this time that’s the will of god. Truth be told, this new “king” has been warning us for hundreds of years that “god” has rules that need to be followed and there will be consequences if we don’t.
This “god” has a following and they call themselves Muslims. Some Muslims are content to just live their daily lives without any trouble, without any confrontations. These are the Muslims who are not interested in doing anything that would upset anyone else and just keep to themselves without all that struggling and killing.
But let’s ask ourselves how anyone – not just Muslims – spend their days, how they get food to eat, how they procure a place to live, how they clothe themselves – you know, just the basics of living outside of the caves like all of our ancestors. This is where humans are different than the animals. Animals went out and found their food, killed it and ate it and then went back to some sort of shelter, while humans did the same exact thing.
Animals had no “communities,” only families made up of their own offspring. That offspring went off eventually and hunted and killed their food and found new shelter, on and on it went.
When humans made the decision to form “communities” and work together in their efforts to hunt, kill and share the food, nature took a powerful overturning. Animals fought over the kill and so did humans. How little has changed!
What actually separated animals from humans was the confiscation of efforts, the stronger made the weaker do the hunting and killing and then took and ate what the weaker humans worked for. These were the first slaves, when the strong saw the benefit of forcing the weak to bring “home the bacon.”
Now we have a new wrinkle in the community, the “society,” as it were. There is a new “strong” people, a community that sees itself entitled to make another community share its efforts, its food and shelter with them and do it under duress. That duress, of course, is to live only by the rules and obligations of the new strong ones. The weak will always have the choice to fight and die or give in to the strong.
It always comes down to one thing, doesn’t it? Is it in your nature to be a slave or a slave owner? Islam claims you are to be the slave to its god, Allah. The mistake Muhammad and his followers made is that he broadcast the warning, actually had his followers write this down for his warriors.
So, once again, we have to decide for ourselves, each of us, on our own, who will we hunt for? Ourselves or the “new” strong ones. Is it worth the risk to ourselves and our children?
Again, it’s our personal choice.