Dear Ishmael

Irreconcilable Differences

J. D. Pendry

Dear Ishmael:

I’m sitting here on an oak tree stump contemplating our relationship. It’s snowing here today. I just hitched up my bibbed overalls and pulled my hat down around my ears. It’s an old wool hat with earflaps. Probably doesn’t come in a turban model. Bibbs are comfortable britches Ish. You should try them. We wear them a lot up the holler. They’re somewhat stylish with big ole pockets that’ll hold a bunch of stuff. This old tree stump is a peaceful place to sit and think except when the neighbor’s dog gets to barking. He’s been known to bark at the shadow caused when a cloud passes in front of the sun. The squirrels torture him relentlessly. He chased the mailman once and got pepper sprayed for his effort. He squalled like he was dying. Mailman’s been safe ever since, but he still keeps a close watch.

I have a question for you Ish. The Imams have twisted your drawers into a bunch over some silly cartoons. They created the worst ones themselves, by the way. They, conspiring with some despotic leaders from your chunk of planet Earth, used them to play you like an old banjo for their own gain. It worked too. Didn’t it? Here’s my question for you Ish. Who was it exactly, that put the bomb in your prophet’s hat?

Was it the PLO’s, Back September faction, when they murdered the Israeli athletes in Munich? Was it the Hitler clone that’s now the President of Iran? Did he do it when he was the leading terrorist that took hostages and held them in the American Embassy in Tehran? Was it the Ayatollah Khomeini when he condemned Salman Rushdie to death for writing a story? Was it Islamic Jihad when they bombed the US Embassy and US Marine barracks in Beirut or when they kidnapped and murdered William Buckley there? Was it the Hezbollah terrorists? When they murdered US Navy Diver Robert Stetham while hijacking a Trans World Airlines flight? Was it Abu Abbas when he shot a wheelchair bound helpless old man and threw him into the ocean? Was it Palestinian Hamas’ repeated murdering of innocent civilians? Was it when your brothers bombed Khobar Towers? Was it when Bin Laden supporters bombed the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the USS Cole in Yemen? Was it when 19 of your brothers in the name of your prophet and God murdered more than 3000 innocent people? Was it your brothers praising God while beheading defenseless hostages? Was it when your brave brothers attacked a Russian elementary school and murdered helpless schoolchildren in the name of your prophet? Or, was it a Danish cartoonist?

The EU and UN have now submitted to Islam by apologizing to you for an expression of free speech. They join our so-called American mainstream news media who have also submitted. They're like you. Neither is able to think for themselves and is not particularly satisfied with their own lot in life. Because of that, they must glom on to someone else's worldview – follow the sway of the group they view as “mainstream.” They huddle together not because they respect you and not because they’re truly sorry, but because they’re gutless and afraid. Here they bash our country, our President and humiliate the Soldiers who'd die defending the freedom of speech they enjoy. The freedom of speech they surrendered to you without as much as a whimper. Like you, all of them enjoy bashing Christians and Jews. They mock Jesus Christ by placing a crucifix into a jar of urine and calling it art. We don't riot, burn down their newsrooms and embassies or threaten to behead them. Instead, we pray for their souls, just as we do for yours. You see Ish; the God many of us accept is a peaceful, merciful and charitable God. He’s stronger than any cartoonist’s caricature or some loathsome miscreant who offers us his cowardice and biases poorly disguised as apologies, art or news stories.

You’re in a predicament Ish, led there by men professing to be interested in protecting you and your religion. They’re wealthy men – and well fed too, by the looks of them. They sit safely, many of them living high in the same Western countries they profess to hate, and send you out to die with the promise of paradise in return for killing yourself while committing murder. I guess I might embrace the promise of paradise too if I had no job, no hope and lived in a sewage ridden slum, convinced by my so-called spiritual leaders to blame my quandary on other countries and religions and not on the direction their leadership has taken me and my country.

In the coming days, weeks or months you’ll have to use that God Given free will of yours to make some choices. The most important one is whether you and I can overcome our differences and live together on this planet. Frankly, I have to tell you it’s not looking too good for that possibility right now. Up the holler here and in the streets of our cities, we are not your enemy. Your enemy resides within. We don’t care who, how or even if you do worship. We do care, however, if you insist we do it as you do it or that we change our laws and beliefs to suit you. Don’t believe that because some news editor, EU or UN spokesman is hiding under his bed in a fetal position that the rest of us are too. You see, those old media folks don’t speak for most of us and the EU and UN speak for practically no one. They only delude themselves and you into believing they do. Thank you for pointing out for all Americans and Western civilization what hypocrites they are and to pointing out for them that responsibility accompanies freedom.

Your leaders are pumping you up for war against the most powerful manmade forces on this planet. If your leaders continue to propel you forward on this cultural collision course, many of your brothers will get the chance to see if paradise truly awaits them without ever having the opportunity to demonstrate their prowess as warriors. Even those in the West who profess no religious faith have something in common with those who do. We all love our freedom, our homes, our families and most of all our God Given free will to choose our own path. We will not forfeit any of those to you.

After centuries of battle, it’s clearer each day that you and I may not be able to reconcile our differences and live together on this planet. Maybe we’re not meant to. As the battle nears, some will cower to your threats, some will try to appease you, but most of my brothers and sisters will put every ounce of their souls into your complete destruction.

Sincerely,

Your brother, Isaac

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J. D. Pendry is author of The Three Meter Zone.

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