Ah, to be Amish
Friday, February 24th, 2006What is it that Muslim’s fear so much? Why do they wail and gnash their teeth so? How come they can’t just go about their business, but must convince, kill, or convert the world when it conflicts with their truth? First they are ignorant. Second, they are just plain wrong. Maybe that’s what they’re afraid of.
I know of a group that lives in what is alleged to be the most decadent nation on the planet, the US of A. They live right smack in the middle of Satan’s den. They live quiet ascetic lives the likes of which The Prophet would envy. They shun our way. They shun our materialism. They shun technology. They support each other and seem to live happy peaceful lives doing what they like. For their way to exist, they don’t need to rail against the infidel. They are comfortable in their own skin.
One the other hand when what you believe isn’t natural to you, when you have doubt, when you are fearful and craven, then everything is an attack against your foundation of belief. Television is an attack. Books are an attack. Liberalism is an attack. Politics is an attack. Women are an attack. They are attacking us. They wish to tear us down, but quietly in places you don’t like to admit, your house is already in tatters. Please, I pray to God, let them not see the poor condition of this place in which I dwell. Perhaps if I tear out their eyeballs, they will not look upon me. Then my state of shame will not be true.
Pay Attention, Islam
Perhaps Muslims could take a tip or two from the Amish. Here we have a religious community that has sworn off most of America’s way of life. They live amongst us, and have done so for hundreds of years. We don’t bother them. They don’t bomb us. They farm, make furniture, clothes, trade with locals, and generally lead happy lives. You do what you do, they say, and we’ll do what we do.
That’s true belief. That’s the comfort of knowing who you are, not basing your self identity on what others are doing. Live and let live.
Of course, ALL the fundamental sects could take a lesson or two from the Amish. I’ve not ever had an Amish person bother me on a Saturday morning with their literature. I’ve never heard of an Amish suicide bomber. I’ve never heard of a white supremacist Amish hate-monger. They don’t appear on the 700 club. They don’t make hateful statements against the victims of hurricane Katrina. They don’t call for the destruction of the Infidel. They don’t protest at the funerals of soldiers or the deaths of AIDs victims.
They just go about their business, doing God’s work as they see fit. And here in America, we let them.
And we’d let you *@*#&% Muslims go about your business too, if you’d just stop BLOWING SHIT UP AND MAKING A NUISANCE OF YOURSELVES.
Why can’t you be more Amish?