Peace, Love, Death

By Douglas V. Gibbs

In the movie "Miss Congeniality," as Gracie, the FBI agent pretending to be a beauty contestant, stood on stage with a microphone against her lips, she explained why it is important for there to be tougher sentences against criminals. The crowd was silent, aghast at the harshness of the undercover agent's recommendations. She realized she was losing with the audience, and put on her best fake smile.  "Oh," she added, "and World Peace."

The crowd went wild; after all, doesn't everyone want world peace?

Biblical text says, "Blessed are the peacemakers."  War, after all, is horrible, even if it is something that goes back to the beginning.  In fact, the murder of Abel by his brother Cain, in Genesis, reveals that at the very beginning of time violence was in our nature.

Peace and love are commandments, as well. Are we not to love our enemies?

Loving our enemies, however, does not mean appeasing their wrong doing, or lying down in weakness as they orchestrate their own violent rampage.

The desire for peace, as much as we wish it to be, is not a condition sought by everyone.  There are those in the world that use violence as a tool, and even relish in the opportunities for violence.  They have a blood-lust, truly believing that their violence, that bringing chaos to the world, is the only way for their aims to be met.

We can wish for peace with people that have that violent mindset all we want, but it will not result in peace.  Appeasing evil only results in death. Evil seeks domination through violence, but is willing to shroud itself in mock peace to find that violence.  To lay one's defenses down is to welcome slavery to that violent enemy.

"Peace through Strength" is a phrase made popular by President Ronald Reagan.  He believed in retaliating when evil strikes.  The liberal left supports appeasement, and the laying down of arms, to achieve peace. Liberalism's concept of pluralism blurs the boundary between good and evil, and teaches that if we just become friends with our enemy, we will all come to appreciate the love, and peace will spring up.  The problem is, that tactic fails every time it is tried, and now is often exploited by our enemies because they know of the liberal left's willingness to curl up and not fight back.  Evil does not care if you are trying to like them.  Evil will see that kind of appeasement as weakness, and will be emboldened to strike harder, and more frequently.

The Arab Spring is a prime example of the liberal policies regarding an enemy ideology going wrong.  Democrats believe if a group is hostile, seeking to wage violence, there must be an outside cause. The assumption by the liberal left is that it must be something America did, so they go into apology-mode hoping to convince Islam that we are not their enemy.

The problem is that there is no convincing that can be done that can make Islam act peaceably towards us.  Their hate has nothing to do with anything except their evil ideology taught to them from the words of the false prophet Muhammad.

The "Religion of Peace" thing is a lie, or at best, a misunderstanding.  Islam has no intention to be at peace with non-Muslims, or at least they have no intention in the long run. Peace is achieved, according to the Muslims, when the whole world bows to Allah.  But they don't believe that can be achieved by evangelism, or peaceful conversion.  The caliphate will rise through chaos, and peace will be achieved by the sword. Violence is their tool for domination, supremacy, and peace.  Death is their final goal - death to all that oppose them.

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