March 26, 2007
Daniel Lipinski
Congressman – Illinois 3rd
1717 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Mr. Lipinksi:
The Congress of the United States has made me so angry that I’m writing this
letter at 2AM on Monday morning 26 March.
I can not believe… my mind is still processing this… I can not believe that the
House of Representatives have passed the atrocity that is HR1591. In your
statement you write:
“In particular, I am glad that this bill provides $750 million to SCHIP,
enabling children in Illinois to continue to receive quality health care. And
the $400 million in funding for LIHEAP will help many of my constituents heat
their homes throughout the winter."
What?!
You are GLAD that a bill that hands over Iraq to Al Qaida in 2008 contains more
than $1,000,000,000 in pork for Illinois. Blood money, Congressman… the
bloodiest. I am distraught that I’m represented in the Congress of the United
States by someone who is GLAD that he was bought off by the extreme Left in
Congress.
Congressman, do you know anything about the enemy we face? Do you? The ONLY
people you should be (as your statement put it) “pressuring” is the vast array
of Jihadis who are running wild all over the Earth. But no, you want to
“pressure” the President.
No matter what the faults of President Bush are… and there are many… do you
think he needs more pressure? And Pressure from craven politicians from Congress
no less.
Why is no mention of our enemy to be found in your statement, Congressman? Or is
the enemy the President?
The Sunni and Shiite Islamic Jihadis are absolutely determined to destroy us.
They state this themselves as much as they can. They are not motivated by
economics, technology, or some secular Marxist ideology.
They are devout followers of their religion. They believe in the core of their
hearts and minds that they are working toward the betterment of mankind by
destroying us. Their religious faith is what propels them and fills them with
confidence.
Al Qaida and others have explicitly stated they are relying on Anti-American and
Leftists domestic groups in the United States to emasculate the US. You , sir,
are the tool they are relying on. You’re glad?
Are you glad that you’re validating their religious faith? YOU are contributing
to their confidence that Allah will bring us down just as Allah brought down the
Soviet Union.
Islam has been at war against the world since 622AD. Do you think they’re not
going to wait ONE MORE YEAR for us to leave Iraq… just as the Soviet Union left
Afghanistan and then fell out of existence.. and feel they have defeated a
second Superpower?
This is going to cause an EXPLOSION in Islam. They are going to go into such a
frenzy of religious revival, the blood will be flowing from all quarters of the
Earth.
Congressman: You and your party will have contributed to untold destruction
because you caused the US to back down. Back down to Jihadis! Jihadis who
destroyed Persia… Jihadis who destroyed Byzantium and Constantinople. Jihadis
who have been savagely brutalizing the Israelis.
Why Congressman..? Why? Please don’t tell me that you hate Republicans so much
that you have to offer up the country as a sacrifice. I hope you’re not one of
those people.
This is a map of Jihadi attacks around the world since 2003. 4,454 attacks with
28,957 dead.
Your vote has confirmed to the Jihadi that it is only a matter of time before
the United States is completely neutralized and their effort at imposing Sharia
upon the world is a certainty.
I think Bridgeview is in your district. Our little local hotbed of Islamic
terror. I scanned through your press releases going back to 05 and I don’t see
any messages about any involvement with that community. I infer from that and
your enthusiastic support of this bill that perhaps you are not aware of the
basics of Islam.
Congressman, I’m an Italian-American male, 32 years old now. Grew up in
Bridgeport, went to High School in Oak Lawn.
I knew as much about Islam as anyone else… which is to say.. nothing. In the
90s, I was living in Hong Kong and an English ex-pat asked me what I thought
about some strange Arab guy Bin Laden.
Tuff tuff.. I told him it’s absurd that anyone should give him any attention,
he’s a media creation and that’s all. Later that year two US embassies were
destroyed. I was determined to find out why I had dismiss the man… what did I
not know that I should have known? That required learning about Islam.
Islam is more than the standard personal faith that most religions are. Islam is
also a Totalitarian Military-Political System that will tolerate nothing other
than itself. And will use any means (nothing is too extreme) to spread itself.
I have the misfortune of working in the Sears Tower… any out of place noise in
that building causes me to go through my internal “have we been attacked”
checklist. I do not feel any more secure with that travesty that you voted for
Please learn about Islam and undo the damage you and your party have done. Below
my name I will leave you with some words about Islam that men far greater than
myself have spoken
Sincerely,
John Quincy Adams wrote:
In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of
the lineage of Hagar [i.e., Muhammad], the Egyptian, combining the powers of
transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the
fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven,
and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth.
Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one
omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that
he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of
Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he
humbled it to the dust by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion
to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human
felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the
allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war,
as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS
DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF
HUMAN NATURE (Adams's capital letters)… Between these two religions, thus
contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged.
The war is yet flagrant… While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false
prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon
earth, and goodwill towards men."
Lord Tebbit wrote:
"The Muslim religion is so unreformed since it was created that
nowhere in the Muslim world has there been any real advance in science, or art
or literature, or technology in the last 500 years"
Vernon Richards wrote:
"The true Islamic concept of peace goes something like this:
"Peace comes through submission to Muhammad and his concept of Allah" (i.e.
Islam). As such the Islamic concept of peace, meaning making the whole world
Muslim, is actually a mandate for war. It was inevitable and unavoidable that
the conflict would eventually reach our borders, and so it has."
Andre Servier, 1922 wrote:
“Islam was not a torch, as has been claimed, but an extinguisher.
Conceived in a barbarous brain for the use of a barbarous people, it was - and
it remains - incapable of adapting itself to civilization. Wherever it has
dominated, it has broken the impulse towards progress and checked the evolution
of society.”
Theodore Roosevelt wrote:
“The Greeks who triumphed at Marathon and Salamis did a work
without which the world would have been deprived of the social value of Plato
and Aristotle, of Aeschylus, Herodotus, and Thucydides. The civilization of
Europe, America, and Australia exists today at all only because of the victories
of civilized man over the enemies of civilization, because the victories
stretching through the centuries from the days of Miltiades and Themistocles to
those of Charles Martel in the eighth century and those of John Sobieski in the
seventeenth century.”
“During the thousand years that included the careers of the
Frankish soldier and the Polish king, the Christians of Asia and Africa proved
unable to wage successful war with the Moslem conquerors; and in consequence
Christianity practically vanished from the two continents; and today nobody can
find in them any "social values" whatever, in the sense in which we use the
words, so far as the sphere of Mohammedan influence. There are such "social
values" today in Europe, America, and Australia only because during those
thousand years the Christians of Europe possessed the warlike power to do what
the Christians of Asia and Africa had failed to do - that is, to beat back the
Moslem invader.”
David Selbourne – The Losing Battle with Islam:
"Of course, there are distinguished precedents even for the
bleakest and coarsest of these judgements. To Montesquieu in 1748, Islam’s
‘destructive spirit’ spoke ‘only by the sword’; to Schopenhauer in 1819, the
Koran was a ‘wretched book’ in which he had ‘not been able to discover one
single idea of value’; to De Tocqueville in 1843, Islam was ‘deadly’, ‘to be
feared’ and a ‘form of decadence’". –
Winston Churchill, wrote in 1899:
“The religion of Islam above all others was founded upon the
sword … Moreover it provides incentives to slaughter, and in three continents
has produced fighting breeds of men – filled with a wild and merciless
fanaticism”.
John Quincy Adams who wrote in 1829:
"The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny,
that Mahomet is the prophet of God. The vanquished may purchase their lives, by
the payment of tribute; the victorious may be appeased by a false and delusive
promise of peace; and the faithful follower of the prophet, may submit to the
imperious necessities of defeat: but the command to propagate the Moslem creed
by the sword is always obligatory, when it can be made effective. The commands
of the prophet may be performed alike, by fraud, or by force".
John Wesley (1703-91) who wrote,
"Ever since the religion of Islam appeared in the world, the
espousers of it...have been as wolves and tigers to all other nations, rending
and tearing all that fell into their merciless paws, and grinding them with
their iron teeth; that numberless cities are raised from the foundation, and
only their name remaining; that many countries, which were once as the garden of
God, are now a desolate wilderness; and that so many once numerous and powerful
nations are vanished from the earth! Such was, and is at this day, the rage, the
fury, the revenge, of these destroyers of human kind".
Hilaire Belloc who wrote in 1938:
"Will not perhaps the temporal power of Islam return and with it
the menace of an armed Mohammedan world, which will shake off the domination of
Europeans -- still nominally Christian -- and reappear as the prime enemy of our
civilization? The future always comes as a surprise, but political wisdom
consists in attempting at least some partial judgment of what that surprise may
be. And for my part I cannot but believe that a main unexpected thing of the
future is the return of Islam".
Bishop Fulton J Sheen who wrote in 1950:
"Today (1950), the hatred of the Moslem countries against the
West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen have
not yet taken it into account, there is still grave danger that the temporal
power of Islam may return and, with it, the menace that it may shake off a West
which has ceased to be Christian, and affirm itself as a great anti-Christian
world Power".
Patriarch Cyrus of Alexandria, while negotiating the surrender of
Alexandria to the Muslims, 640 AD:
"I am afraid that God has sent these men to lay waste the world".
Gregory Palamus of Thessalonica, 1354:
"For these impious people, hated by God and infamous, boast of
having got the better of the Romans by their love of God…they live by the bow,
the sword and debauchery, finding pleasure in taking slaves, devoting themselves
to murder, pillage, spoil…and not only do they commit these crimes, but even —
what an aberration — they believe that God approves of them. This is what I
think of them, now that I know precisely about their way of life.".
William Eaton, US Consul to Tunis, wrote in 1799:
"Considered as a nation, they are deplorably wretched, because
they have no property in the soil to inspire an ambition to cultivate it. They
are abject slaves to the despotism of their government, and they are humiliated
by tyranny, the worst of all tyrannies, the despotism of priestcraft. They live
in more solemn fear of the frowns of a bigot who has been dead and rotten above
a thousand years, than of the living despot whose frown would cost them their
lives…The ignorance, superstitious tradition and civil and religious tyranny,
which depress the human mind here, exclude improvement of every kind…"
And how about this quote from Ayatollah Khomeini from 1942:
“Islam makes it incumbent on all adult males, provided they are
not disabled and incapacitated, to prepare themselves for the conquest of
[other] countries so that the writ of Islam is obeyed in every country in the
world. But those who study Islamic Holy War will understand why Islam wants to
conquer the whole world…. Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam
counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless. Islam says Kill all the
unbelievers just as they would kill you all! Does this mean that Muslims should
sit back until they are devoured by [the unbelievers] Islam says Kill them [the
non-Muslims], put them to the sword and scatter [their armies]. Does this mean
sitting back until [non-Muslims] overcome us Islam says Kill in the service of
Allah those who may want to kill you! Does this mean that we should surrender to
the enemy Islam says Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in
the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword!
The sword is the key to Paradise, which can be opened only for Holy Warriors!
There are hundreds of other [Koranic] verses and Hadiths [sayings of the
Prophet] urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all that mean that Islam
is a religion that prevents men from waging war I spit upon those foolish souls
who make such a claim.” - Ayatollah Khomeini
In defense of the UK, Winston Churchill 1941:
You cannot tell from appearances how things will go. Sometimes
imagination makes things out far worse than they are; yet without imagination
not much can be done. Those people who are imaginative see many more dangers
than perhaps exist; certainly many more than will happen; but then they must
also pray to be given that extra courage to carry this far-reaching imagination.
But for everyone, surely, what we have gone through in this period - I am
addressing myself to the School - surely from this period of ten months this is
the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing,
great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour
and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming
might of the enemy. We stood all alone a year ago, and to many countries it
seemed that our account was closed, we were finished. All this tradition of
ours, our songs, our School history, this part of the history of this country,
were gone and finished and liquidated