The media is wrong about the Muslim nations!

They have to be.

From the Phillipines to Chechnya to Iraq to Saudi Arabia to Israel to the genocidal killing fields of the Sudan, those Islamic fundies are doing an amazing amount of killing of noncombatant non-Muslim innocents, all of which they justify as holy and sanctioned by Allah.

Since it isn't holy, since, as far as what I have been told, the Koran is a book of love, and Islam is all about compassion and helping your neighbor, there must be some Islamic government or high-level religious spokesperson (make that spokeman) who is speaking out against all the killings, the suicide bombings, the downing of planes, the kidnappings, the torture, and the beheadings.

But I see none anywhere. So it must be the media who is deceiving us. There must be some conspiracy to misrepresent the fundamentalists and the completely hide from us the condemning response by the leaders of Islam to the killing of thousands of non-Muslims at the hands of these fundamentalists.

The media must be holding back.

They must be.

Right?

Just this far away from Hate

We all know about the "Psalms that Nobody Reads." The ones in which the psalmist rants about how his enemy should be mangled and killed, how the Lord should smack them around, and that there should be no mercy for them.

I know how the psalmist feels. After yet another attack on innocent victims by Chechnyan separatists, I've come as close to actually hating people as I can remember.

It's not enough apparently for them to round up innocent people in a Moscow theatre several years ago. It's not enough to detonate themselves in downtown Moscow killing more innocents. It's not enough to down two planes full of unaware families who thought they were on their ways to vacations or business trips.

No, now these Satan-possessed "people" take over a school full of kids, terrorize them and their mons and dads and teachers, starve them, deprive them of water, and then ultimately kill - at last count - more than 350 of them.

Do I presently care that more than 20 of these non-humans were killed in the ensuing battle. No. Maybe later by God's grace I will. But not now. Now - and this sort of scares me - I wish I had been one with them in my sights. What scares me the most is that I don't think I would have hesitated pulling the trigger.

I can relate to the Pslamist now after these last years of watching brainwashed mindless, soulless terrorists the world over taking innocent life. I know exactly how those writers felt when they called for the righteousness of God to obliterate the evil. Now I have to work on the "love your enemies" part. That will be my greatest challenge as things are definitely not going to get better. God grant me that.

But as for now, if I had a rocketlauncher...