Whose side are YOU on?

Some of you know me, many of you have met me briefly on the counter rally line at any number of Northeast events this past spring, most of you don't know me from squat. Like any real Vermont'a, when I commit myself to something, it's all or nothing. There are no half ass commitments, or "ok, I'll do this...but not this" type of attitudes.

So it is with the GoE, and while I have no idea what it is that I'm doing here, I'm learning along the way thanks to some wonderful mentoring from some great people and true American hereos. These guys and gals are the reason I'm involved as far as I am.

The focus of GoE has shifted since I first became involved. What started out as simply a group of (mostly) vets going to DC to protect The Wall, has evolved into a full on troop support organization. We have lost some people along the way, we have gained others. What we are trying to do is important and necessary. I shudder to think what the consequences will be if we don't get the backing for our military men and women in September to continue their mission.

You only have to read the news, and not even the entire articles, how about just the headlines from the past 24 hours?

• 20 beheaded bodies found in Iraq http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070628/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

Israeli troops battle Fatah militants
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070628/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians

OR this:

"Muslims need to recognize that we distinguish between traditional Islam and the radical Islamists who want to use it as a means of seizing power and imposing a totalitarian vision on other Muslims," Mr. Phillips said.
Then, last August, Mr. Bush referred to "Islamic fascists" after British authorities foiled a plot by Muslim terrorists to blow up several airplanes bound for the United States.

"This nation is at war with Islamic fascists who will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom, to hurt our nation," he said on Aug. 10, 2006.

Peter Singer, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said that term was overly provocative, and was interpreted by many Muslims as a criticism of Islam itself.

"Why do you think we haven't heard it again since then?" Mr. Singer said.

White House spokesman Tony Snow yesterday reaffirmed that the president views Islam as "a religion of peace."

"He also believes that it has been hijacked, in some cases, by people who use Islam as a shield for murdering people, who use it as a way of spreading terrorism, rather than tolerance," Mr. Snow said.

A senior White House official said the president shifted away from using the term "Islamic fascists" because he did not think it helped him contrast radical Muslims with moderate Muslims.

A recent study found that there is substantial sympathy for Islamic terrorism among Western Muslims, including those in the United States.

The Pew Research Center found that 26 percent of 18- to 29-year-old Muslims in the United States think suicide bombings are sometimes justified to defend Islam.

Radwan Masmoudi, founder and president of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, said that he was disturbed by those findings, but added that such views are "not reflective of who we are or what our religion teaches."


Maybe it isn't, but the jihadists are saying that it is, and making recruits on that basis. More than a simple denial is needed from Radwan Masmoudi and others like him, if this is ever going to stop.

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OR:

"There are only two options for Muslims; to win or to die"
Not, in this view, "to coexist peacefully as equals with non-Muslims on an indefinite basis."

More efforts to impede the anti-jihad resistance by playing on Western phobias about "bigotry": "West funds elite unit to destroy Islam: hardliners," by Mark Forbes for the Brisbane Herald (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist):

INDONESIAN Muslim hardliners have called for the Australian-backed anti-terrorism squad Detachment 88 to be abolished because they say it is financed and trained by foreign countries to destroy Islam.
Islamic leaders including the cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, the alleged former leader of the terrorist network Jemaah Islamiah, and lawyers for terrorist suspects recently arrested by the squad, made the demand at a press conference yesterday.

Throwing down the gauntlet to authorities after the capture of two JI leaders, Kholil Ridwan, of the Islamic Community Forum, said Detachment 88 was a US tool to "stigmatise Islam".

"We call on the Indonesian Government to stop co-operation with the United States and its allies in the global war on terror," Mr Ridwan said. "The United States' war on terror, with the help of its sheriff, Australia, and deputy sheriff, Singapore, is a war against Islam."


It most certainly is nothing of the kind. But this just shows that all the blather about the Religion of Peace, and all the efforts to emphasize that this is not a war against Islam, have accomplished nothing. We would have been much better off had Western leaders spoken forthrightly about this effort as a defense against the global jihad, and called upon peaceful Muslims to reject the ideology of the jihadists, instead of ignoring it and denying it exists.

Bashir denied terrorists existed in Indonesia, saying: "Those who did bombings, they are just doing counter-terrorism. They are holy warriors to defend Muslims terrorised in other countries." The real terrorist was America, he said, though it was a mistake for bombers to target peaceful areas....
Dujana told CNN the group would continue its fight for Islamic rule but he wanted it to limit civilian casualties....

A team of 13 lawyers will today file a lawsuit demanding Detachment 88 be disbanded on behalf of Muslim activists who say they have been wrongfully arrested. "We don't want any more arrests taking place," said one lawyer, Munarman.

He said the unit was torturing holy warriors who were trying to defend Islam.

Bashir warned all Muslims against helping the squad. "We know that Detachment 88 is a tool of Americans and Jews and any Muslim who helps infidels is an apostate," he said....

All Muslims should fight to create an Islamic state, he urged. "There are only two options for Muslims; to win or to die."


The entire non-muslim world is under attack. Don't think that we are not. Personally, I don't relish the idea of wearing a burka, in fact there is NO ONE in this world that will make me.

I will fight to defend the freedoms that my grandfather and father have fought to retain. I will fight to support those who are fighting for us. I will not lose focus of what the GoE stands for. I will NOT allow my daughter to live in a muslim state. I have raised her to be a strong, independent AMERICAN woman.

We can not lose. Wake up America. Burying your head in the sand does not make this threat go away. Chanting "peace" in the street is not going to sway the desires of the islamic nation. And their desire is world domination. What color do you want YOUR burka ladies? How will you feel when the events that are happening all over the world as a result of jihad are happening dailey in YOUR neighborhood? How will you feel when it's YOUR child that a suicide bomb is strapped to?

"That won't happen here". Ummmm.....yeah. WAKE UP! If you don't want that to happen here, SUPPORT OUR MILITARY. They are the ONLY ones standing between them and us! Pelosi, Reid, Clinton(s), Obama, Kerry, Gore, Dean (list goes on to include 99.9% of politicians in BOTH parties) will not be standing up with you if terrorists come knocking in your neighborhood. You can trust that. They will be hiding out, saying "oh my...we should have listened", and "but WE supported you! you said you would leave us alone if we pulled out of Iraq".

Grow up America! This is NOT a game of Risk.

NOT IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD........NOT ON MY WATCH........

I choose the side of victory for our military. Which side are you on?