CAIRO -- Libyan officials say the U.S. ambassador and three
other Americans have been killed in an attack on the U.S. consulate in the
eastern city of Benghazi by protesters angry over a film that ridiculed Islam's
Prophet Muhammad.
The officials say Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed
Tuesday night when he and a group of embassy employees went to the consulate to
try to evacuate staff. The protesters were firing gunshots and rocket propelled
grenades.
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The movie that prompted this violence was the exercise of
free speech. However, the people, an
Israeli-American producer, 59 actors and about 45 people behind the camera,
making the movie are located in California.
Standby California.
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We in the west have little, if any, understanding of how
such irrationally violent religious fanaticism works; let alone how it can
exist.
One hundred years ago an incident similar to the attack on
our embassy in Libya would have resulted in a declaration of war on the
offending nation.
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Obama has not issued a statement; U.S. State Department
representative Victoria Nuland said the U.S. condemned the attack "in the
strongest terms".
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Out of fifteen central mid-east nations, three are Islamic
theocracies (Iran, Syria, and Egypt), three more will soon become Islamic
theocracies (Iraq, Libya, and Somalia), and three more can be seen as in danger
of joining the cause (Jordan, Yemen, and Oman).
Of the remaining six, five are not Islamic theocracies but are heavily
Islamic in population and government.
Israel, of course, is not an Islamic theocracy.
What does this mean?
It means that most probably within my lifetime (I am 67) we will see a
radical Islamic empire starching from Libya to Iran and Egypt to Somalia. I would not be very surprised to those
nations merge into something like the United States of Islam.
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I have only one idea how to personally deal with the
situation (see my article titled Are
You Ready For Anything? of 31 August in Scope Magazine). As to how we, as a nation, should respond my
ideas go beyond speeches and platitudes.
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