Again And Again . . .

The Saturday night massacre in Orlando provides yet another example of how ill-equipped we are to deal with sub-human foes. We are conflicted and confused, and are volunteering for suicide in our inability to distinguish the enemy from among a larger, friendlier population.

Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance at its core. One of the world's great faith traditions, it co-existed peaceably with Judaism in many locales, e.g., pre-El Cid times in Andalucia. And Talmudic scholars of the time, from the center of civilized Islam, exchanged thinking with Christian thinkers. Then came the reconquest, defeat for the Muslims, and humiliatingly cruel expulsion of Jewry by Queen Isabella and her clerical henchmen.

Today, with long historical memories, a vicious subset of Muslims is busy unleashing terror on the infidel West and on apostate (other) Muslims who would follow a better path if the Al Qaeda and ISIS animals would cease cutting off their heads. In the wake of one atrocity after another, our Federal protectors of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness quiver and quake at the prospect of offending the PC senstivities of soul-less killers, and refuse to wage war to the death on them. Meanwhile, an agitated (and often uninformed) general population is ready to expel, bar, and punish all Muslims, foreign and domestic.

I weep at future prospects, if we cannot muster the courage, the will, and the wisdom to call the enemy by name and dispatch its adherents, nor accept and embrace our spiritual kin and unite against the common foe. Until we get these things right, we are destined to suffer great loss, as a society and as co-religionists.