Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Thoughts on the Cease-Fire

Bruce Thorton sees the cease-fire as evidence of the West's moral confusion:

In the long term the West loses, for once more it has allowed the jihadists to manipulate our weaknesses to achieve their aims.

On the other hand, many of those who have suffered because of the conflict are now able to receive the aid they desperately need. A concern for the suffering of innocents was one motivation for the Holy See's plea for a cease-fire. The call by Benedict XVI for prayers and fasting did not go unheeded. Indeed, such spiritual weapons as these are our best hope in this larger conflict with evil.

To what extent the Holy See recognizes this evil, however, is unclear. This leads us back to Thorton's proposition that to those who are threatening us "we Westerners have three options: die, convert, or live on as oppressed dhimmi." Western civilization, which owes its existence in the main to the Catholic church, now needs the church, more than ever, to recognize the evil that threatens it and support those who are fighting to save it.

Here's hoping the words of Israel's Ambassador to the Vatican, Oden Ben-Hur, sink in.

"The greatest Christian response to the Muslim threat will be to show the force of good over evil, to embrace this area," he said.


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