Wahabism Delenda Est!

Aaron, the Liberal Slayer, brought up something in his comment to a previous post:

Religious folk should read Samuel II carefully concerning the reason King Saul was stripped of his monarchy.

It is not Wahabism. It is Amalekism. And it still exists today.

I don't pretend to be a religious person. What faith I have, is my own, and I feel no need to profess or otherwise spread the word. I will leave that to others who feel the vocation.

But I am always out to learn. And Aaron provided the opportunity. So, I went looking. I came upon this bit regarding Torah study - and in this particular case, Deuteronomy.

Amalek represents all those who take advantage of and prey upon the weak and the disadvantaged, overpowering them through strength and brute force. Over the centuries his name changes, but his motto remains the same: "Might makes right." He aims his poisonous hate toward the weakest members of society - the stragglers, the lame, the blind, the old. Amalek's spiritual heirs created concentration camps and gas chambers.

I see Aaron's point. I'll say this, however. We can't kill it all, all at once, everywhere. So, for right now, I'll settle for the Wahabist strain of it.

Of course, you realize that the average lefty is going to say that passage describes any conservative.

Which goes to show they don't understand us conservatives.

But that's a d-uh statement.

The difference between you and I, lefty, is that I want to teach the guy to fish. You want to hold him back and just give him fish, so he remains dependent upon the Borg Collective.