Op-ed: Changing the Realities of
History By: Diane Sori/ The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on CPR Worldwide Media www.cprworldwidemedia.net
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” - George Santayana, philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist
On February 26, 2001, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar issued a
special edict ordering the destruction of all non-islamic statues and
artifacts. A month later, after having stood untouched for 1700
years, the two Buddhas of Bamiyan...one more than 170 ft. tall and the
other 115 ft. tall...were destroyed after being blown up by the Taliban in Afghanistan, thus
setting the stage for ISIS to follow suit a decade later.
Fast forward to March 2102, when in acts called, “a deliberate targeting
for ideological reasons,” ISIS thugs bulldozed the ancient Syrian city
of Bosra and the 11th-century Crusaders castle 'Crac des
Chevaliers'...and Jabhet al-Nusra destroyed the eighth-century minuet of
the Great Mosque of Aleppo in an effort to place blame on Bashir
al-Assad's forces and turn the tide of the Syrian Civil War in the
'supposed' rebels favor...all considered by UNESCO to be 'World
Heritage' sites.
In July 2014, an ISIS video showed the actual destruction of
Jonah's Tomb in Mosul. Located inside a Sunni mosque called the Mosque
of the Prophet Yunus...'Jonah' in Arabic...the Tomb was singled out for
destruction because of its special meaning in Christian tradition and
its destruction served as a slap in the face to the few Christians still
living in Iraq as well as to the entirety of Christian heritage in
the region.
And earlier this year, ISIS thugs first destroyed artifacts housed at
the 'Mosul Museum' in Iraq, moved on to the 3,000-year-old ancient
Assyrian city of Nimrod, and then onto Palmyra “an oasis in the Syrian
desert.” In their destroying Nimrod and Palmyra...the excuse used was that, "These
antiquities and idols behind me were from people in past centuries and
were worshiped instead of God (allah). When God Almighty orders us to
destroy these statues, idols and antiquities, we must do it, even if
they're worth billions of dollars," according to one who engaged in said
acts...acts that even the U(seless) N(ations) deemed 'war crimes.'
And this just touches upon the surface of what ISIS, the Taliban, and
their fellow assorted thugs have destroyed in the
name of islam. Seeking to destroy the tangible and material record of a
past they find an insult to allah...by their destroying said
evidence of Christian history in both Iraq and Syria, a cultural coupled
with an ethnic cleansing of sorts is taking place as minority
populations and their heritage sites are being erased from the earth.
Cultural
and ethnic cleansing NOT unlike that which happened a mere
75-years ago when Adolph Hitler and his SS Nazi thugs tried to
eradicate...tried to exterminate...the entirety of the Jewish people
along with all tangible
evidence that Jewish life ever existed in Europe. Hitler's scapegoating
of Europe's Jews was then...as is ISIS' goal today against all
non-muslims
especially Christians...both politically and religiously expedient for
by erasing the history of an entire people...erasing their tangible
presence...Hitler then and ISIS now are and were aided in their
unyielding quest for
power.
And that quest for power can now sadly be seen here in our own country
as minorities seem to be ruling over the majority...sanctioned along with
consent given by a government that caters to the will of a few, and it's
all in the name of political correctness. Afraid to step on the toes of
those behaving badly...both of the black and of the muslim
persuasion...America has now acquiesced to a changing of our own history
by first demanding a rewriting of American history and know some are
calling for American history textbooks to be rewritten...and then by
destroying the very tangibles that are the witnesses to that history.
And it started with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, who, in June 2009, said in a
speech in Cairo that, “I know that Islam has always been a part of
America’s story,” words he repeated again in a 2010 statement marking
the start of Ramadan when he said that, "Islam has always been part of
America." And in a 2014 statement marking the end of Eid, Obama said the
holiday "also reminds us of the many achievements and contributions of
Muslim Americans to building the very fabric of our nation and
strengthening the core of our democracy."
Trying to rewrite American
history through lies... what else...Obama forgets that during the early
years of this country America was at war with the Barbary
Pirates...muslim pirates...who were seizing American merchant ships and
holding their crews for ransom unless the U.S. paid tribute to the
Barbary states muslim rulers. NO...islam and muslims were NOT part of
the “fabric of our nation” nor did they “contribute” anything then nor
do they “contribute” anything now that qualifies them to be a part of
“America's story” unless one sees 9/11 as an islamic “achievement.”
Rewriting American history in the name of political correctness now
being tempered with a dose of 'collective white guilt' has again,
through the
actions of Barack HUSSEIN Obama and crew, reached a new low as it seems
all reference to slavery and the Civil War are being erased from
American
history and American consciousness. And it started with the June 18th
murders in
Charleston, NC when nine people died in a shooting spree at a historic
black
church. When a picture of the shooter surfaced...white shooter Dylann
Roof...showing him holding a Confederate flag...and when following the
shooting
Roof said, “You rape our women and you’re taking over our country,” the
formation of an idea coalesced in the minds of black racists who feed
upon the old hatreds for their own personal gain, and for those who use
political fodder to pander for votes.
And so the deaths of the nine church goers became the catalyst to play
upon the 'supposed' white guilt over slavery...and remember NO one alive
today owned slaves. Starting with South Carolina Governor Nikki Halley
falling from political grace as she pandered for black votes, Halley had
the 'stars and bars'...actually a Confederate battle
flag...removed from South Carolina's Capital House Grounds. And this was
followed close behind by a nationwide call to remove any and all
symbols of the Confederacy from public parks, buildings, license
plates, Internet shopping sites, and retail stores.
To date, in Charleston, the board that governs the Citadel...the state’s
173-year-old military academy...voted 9 to 3 to remove the Confederate
Naval Jack from the campus chapel, and in Tennessee, political leaders
from both parties said a bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest...a Confederate
general and an early Ku Klux Klan leader... should be removed from the
State House. In Virginia, Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe ordered
that the Confederate flag NO longer appear on license plates with political
leaders in Maryland, North Carolina, and Tennessee vowing to do the
same. And in Minnesota, black activists demanded that a lake named after
John C. Calhoun...a senator and vice president from South Carolina who
was a proponent of slavery...be renamed.
Also, messages were painted on
Confederate statues in Charleston, Baltimore, and Austin, Texas, that
read, “Black Lives Matter.” And recently both Amazon and eBay announced that they would
NO longer allow Confederate flags and/or Confederate themed merchandise
to be sold on their on-line sites, and Walmart and Sears have already
pulled Confederate themed apparel and merchandise from both their online and retail
stores.
And in Harrisburg PA, the City Council voted to permanently close the
doors of the Civil War Museum, resulting in valuable and delicate
artifacts being placed in storage. However, black activists
and a few white bleeding heart liberals disguised as workers took it
upon themselves to destroy what they called "shrines to racism, bigotry,
and hate," and of their own volition and without authorization
took...actually stole...numerous Confederate artifacts and burned them
behind the building, out of sight of the museum staff. And when finished
and safely off site they sent an email to the museum director claiming
that thanks to their "righteous" effort "white racists" will have one
less "depraved" memorial where they can "worship the ignorance of those
whom history should completely forget." In closing they added that "to
continue to allow the existence of the last few physical remnants of the
Confederate States of America is an appalling failure of social
morality."
Pray tell me what is 'moral' about destroying private property that does
NOT belong to you...all it does is prove that a certain segment of
those behaving badly still hold today's whites responsible for sins that
happened long ago
(forgetting that it was their own tribal chiefs who first sold them into
slavery)...and these are the same folks who have crossed the line into
trying to rewrite
American history as per how they deem American history should be
written.
And as these same folks continue demanding reparations for
slavery that happened a century and a half ago...and as they continue
trying to erase the atrocities of a war that divided our nation...a war where brother fought against
brother...and doing so by destroying mere tangibles...know that their actions actually
mimic the actions of the afore mentioned ISIS and SS Nazi thugs. And while said
actions might destroy some of the physical tangibles of history NOTHING they do
can change or erase the realities of history. Historical memory always remains
and it's up to us how we chose to view or NOT view our past.
So when the Confederate flag brouhaha eventually dies down...as it
surely will...just know that the Confederacy has now won the battle for
America's conscious for true red, white, and blue Americans do NOT like
their history...whether that history is black or white, good or bad...to
be rewritten to cater to those who behave badly or those who cater to
those behaving oh so badly.
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