Mani (Mainstream): Hi, Modi. Ready for a coffee break?
Modi (Moderate): You bet. The usual place?
Mani: Fine with me. What is going on with the Americans and Turkey? I thought they were fast friends.
Modi: They were, since World War I.
Mani: Back that far?
Modi: Yes. It seems that the Turks were part of the Central Powers, and when Germany went berserk with their submarines, the Democratic Party and their president, Woodrow Wilson, were forced to declare war on the Central Powers—except for Turkey.
Mani: What?
Radi (Radical): Good morning. You were saying, Modi?
Modi: The Democrats, as usual, were trying to stay out of the war, even though their bosom buddies, Europe, wanted them in to help. Remember now how the Democrats were condemning President Bush for acting without Europe? They forget that this president invited Europe to jump in. When Wilson declared against the Central Powers without Turkey, Europe went nuts. They had their hands full and needed help with Turkey.
Radi: Aha! The Democrats were scared out of their wits by Turkey, a Muslim power.
Modi: Actually, you are right, Radi. The Dems were afraid of any country in the Middle East. Even when Turkey was committing genocide against the Armenians, the American people were up and screaming for the Dems to declare war, but they refused—and they had people on the spot providing reports of the atrocities going on against men, women, and children. Whole villages were slaughtered, and the United States was seen by the world as cowardly because Wilson continued to say no, just as they do now with respect to Darfur. But the United Nations refuses to take a hand in Darfur.
Radi: Ha! It is right, though, that the Arab-speaking Janjaweed make short work of the Christians there. I hope they kill them all. They had their chances to convert to Islam! Now they will all burn in hell forever. Behead them all!
Mani: As the King of Spain said to Hugo Chávez, Radi, SHUT UP!
Modi: Besides being generally afraid of the Middle East, Wilson also relied on what his State Department was telling him. They were afraid that all the time and work they spent in Turkey and the Middle East would go to waste if the U.S. declared war on Turkey. And of all people from whom to take advice, the Dems listened to the American missionaries on the scene. They failed in the Middle East to convert Muslims but at least succeeded in building and running schools.
Mani: It seemed as if the Democrats and the president were listening only to the people who told them what they wanted to hear.
Modi: You can say that. They are still doing it. The American people wanted war with Turkey and so did the newspapers and Theodore Roosevelt, the former president. The Dems simply ognored the people. Just as Iran has never forgiven the American administration for the Muhammad Mossadegh affair, many European states have not forgiven them for not declaring war on Turkey.
Mani: Did America take part in the peace talks at Versailles?
Modi: Nobody listened to Wilson, and they told him what he could do with his Fourteen Points. Because he did not declare war on Turkey, he could not prevent the Europeans from cutting up the Muslim nations into the mosaic the Europeans wanted. And he could not prevent the Europeans for laying the economic and political groundwork that gave rise to Hitler.
Mani: I see what people mean when they say a coward dies a thousand deaths, a hero dies but once. America is dying the death of a thousand cuts now because of the cowardice shown by one political party in not taking a stand to prevent the massacre of hundreds of thousands of unarmed Armenians and then in so obviously leaving the Ottoman Empire out of their declaration of war against the Central Powers.
This failure also caused the horrible deaths of more than a million of the Armenian people; it caused crises in the Middle East thereafter and resulted in the rise of Nazism.
Modi: You are right. British Admiral Lord Nelson once said that “England expects every man to do his duty.” It is a very simple statement but very direct and very effective. It would be a good rule for the world for every person in the world to do what he is supposed to do, the way he is supposed to do it. We cannot refuse to do something simply because we are having a bad day or because it is difficult or because no one else seems to care. You know, the Democrats tried to bring the original Armenian massacres up again in congress. Those dupes must not know it was a trap! They did not know that once the story was out, the entire world would know what cowards they were back then also.
Mani: Modi, perhaps we can go to the imams and tell them that. As hard as life always was for our Most Beloved, he always did what Allah had in mind for him to do. Nowhere in the Qur’an do I read that Allah admonished him for not doing what he was supposed to do.
Modi: You forgot, Mani, He did admonish him for taking the easy way out in order to save some lives and make things easier for his people[1]. Our Most Beloved learned from that, that ONE HAS TO DO THE RIGHT THING NO MATTER WHO IT HURTS AND HOW MUCH ONE HAS TO LOSE.
Radi: How dare you say such things about our Most Beloved? Our Most Beloved was perfect in every way! His is the only life that must be emulated by all of us.
Modi: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." (Shakespeare, Hamlet.)
Radi: Why are you calling me Horatio? What are you talking about?
Mani: You ignorant nut!
Modi: Radi, if you would cooperate, we would all go to an imam of honorable reputation and respected knowledge and be his student for a week to learn our religion the way it should be learned.
Radi: Ha! You want to brainwash me. I have already learned my religion from someone well known and respected for his knowledge.
Mani: You were? Who was that?
Radi: Ali ibn Nadr Baghdadi taught me.
Modi: You must be kidding, Radi. He was a thief and murderer. He was hanged five years ago by his village. He was also a spy for Saddam.
Radi: He was a reformed thief.
Modi: Yeah, after they cut off a hand and foot!
Radi: But he knew his religion well.
Modi: He hussled food and drinks. He would tell anybody anything they wanted to hear, as long as they paid. Oh, Radi, you really do need to see this imam. You paid that one-hand, one-foot, lying creep to make you into a monster.
Mani: Yes, Radi. I think you should join us in our quest for advanced knowledge.
Radi: On one condition.
Radi:)
Modi:} (All together) YOU PAY!
Mani)
HJS
NOTE: There are many great books about the Turks, Armenians, and President Wilson. The latest and one of the best is Michael B. Oren’s POWER, FAITH, and FANTASY. HJS
[1] Then Gabriel came to the apostle and said , "What have you done, Muhammad? You have read to these people something I did not bring you from God and you have said what He did not say to you." (Ibn Ishaq, p. 166)
Modi (Moderate): You bet. The usual place?
Mani: Fine with me. What is going on with the Americans and Turkey? I thought they were fast friends.
Modi: They were, since World War I.
Mani: Back that far?
Modi: Yes. It seems that the Turks were part of the Central Powers, and when Germany went berserk with their submarines, the Democratic Party and their president, Woodrow Wilson, were forced to declare war on the Central Powers—except for Turkey.
Mani: What?
Radi (Radical): Good morning. You were saying, Modi?
Modi: The Democrats, as usual, were trying to stay out of the war, even though their bosom buddies, Europe, wanted them in to help. Remember now how the Democrats were condemning President Bush for acting without Europe? They forget that this president invited Europe to jump in. When Wilson declared against the Central Powers without Turkey, Europe went nuts. They had their hands full and needed help with Turkey.
Radi: Aha! The Democrats were scared out of their wits by Turkey, a Muslim power.
Modi: Actually, you are right, Radi. The Dems were afraid of any country in the Middle East. Even when Turkey was committing genocide against the Armenians, the American people were up and screaming for the Dems to declare war, but they refused—and they had people on the spot providing reports of the atrocities going on against men, women, and children. Whole villages were slaughtered, and the United States was seen by the world as cowardly because Wilson continued to say no, just as they do now with respect to Darfur. But the United Nations refuses to take a hand in Darfur.
Radi: Ha! It is right, though, that the Arab-speaking Janjaweed make short work of the Christians there. I hope they kill them all. They had their chances to convert to Islam! Now they will all burn in hell forever. Behead them all!
Mani: As the King of Spain said to Hugo Chávez, Radi, SHUT UP!
Modi: Besides being generally afraid of the Middle East, Wilson also relied on what his State Department was telling him. They were afraid that all the time and work they spent in Turkey and the Middle East would go to waste if the U.S. declared war on Turkey. And of all people from whom to take advice, the Dems listened to the American missionaries on the scene. They failed in the Middle East to convert Muslims but at least succeeded in building and running schools.
Mani: It seemed as if the Democrats and the president were listening only to the people who told them what they wanted to hear.
Modi: You can say that. They are still doing it. The American people wanted war with Turkey and so did the newspapers and Theodore Roosevelt, the former president. The Dems simply ognored the people. Just as Iran has never forgiven the American administration for the Muhammad Mossadegh affair, many European states have not forgiven them for not declaring war on Turkey.
Mani: Did America take part in the peace talks at Versailles?
Modi: Nobody listened to Wilson, and they told him what he could do with his Fourteen Points. Because he did not declare war on Turkey, he could not prevent the Europeans from cutting up the Muslim nations into the mosaic the Europeans wanted. And he could not prevent the Europeans for laying the economic and political groundwork that gave rise to Hitler.
Mani: I see what people mean when they say a coward dies a thousand deaths, a hero dies but once. America is dying the death of a thousand cuts now because of the cowardice shown by one political party in not taking a stand to prevent the massacre of hundreds of thousands of unarmed Armenians and then in so obviously leaving the Ottoman Empire out of their declaration of war against the Central Powers.
This failure also caused the horrible deaths of more than a million of the Armenian people; it caused crises in the Middle East thereafter and resulted in the rise of Nazism.
Modi: You are right. British Admiral Lord Nelson once said that “England expects every man to do his duty.” It is a very simple statement but very direct and very effective. It would be a good rule for the world for every person in the world to do what he is supposed to do, the way he is supposed to do it. We cannot refuse to do something simply because we are having a bad day or because it is difficult or because no one else seems to care. You know, the Democrats tried to bring the original Armenian massacres up again in congress. Those dupes must not know it was a trap! They did not know that once the story was out, the entire world would know what cowards they were back then also.
Mani: Modi, perhaps we can go to the imams and tell them that. As hard as life always was for our Most Beloved, he always did what Allah had in mind for him to do. Nowhere in the Qur’an do I read that Allah admonished him for not doing what he was supposed to do.
Modi: You forgot, Mani, He did admonish him for taking the easy way out in order to save some lives and make things easier for his people[1]. Our Most Beloved learned from that, that ONE HAS TO DO THE RIGHT THING NO MATTER WHO IT HURTS AND HOW MUCH ONE HAS TO LOSE.
Radi: How dare you say such things about our Most Beloved? Our Most Beloved was perfect in every way! His is the only life that must be emulated by all of us.
Modi: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." (Shakespeare, Hamlet.)
Radi: Why are you calling me Horatio? What are you talking about?
Mani: You ignorant nut!
Modi: Radi, if you would cooperate, we would all go to an imam of honorable reputation and respected knowledge and be his student for a week to learn our religion the way it should be learned.
Radi: Ha! You want to brainwash me. I have already learned my religion from someone well known and respected for his knowledge.
Mani: You were? Who was that?
Radi: Ali ibn Nadr Baghdadi taught me.
Modi: You must be kidding, Radi. He was a thief and murderer. He was hanged five years ago by his village. He was also a spy for Saddam.
Radi: He was a reformed thief.
Modi: Yeah, after they cut off a hand and foot!
Radi: But he knew his religion well.
Modi: He hussled food and drinks. He would tell anybody anything they wanted to hear, as long as they paid. Oh, Radi, you really do need to see this imam. You paid that one-hand, one-foot, lying creep to make you into a monster.
Mani: Yes, Radi. I think you should join us in our quest for advanced knowledge.
Radi: On one condition.
Radi:)
Modi:} (All together) YOU PAY!
Mani)
HJS
NOTE: There are many great books about the Turks, Armenians, and President Wilson. The latest and one of the best is Michael B. Oren’s POWER, FAITH, and FANTASY. HJS
[1] Then Gabriel came to the apostle and said , "What have you done, Muhammad? You have read to these people something I did not bring you from God and you have said what He did not say to you." (Ibn Ishaq, p. 166)
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