Ahmadinejad’s overlooked message

“During his visit to New York this week, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attacked every basic assumption upon which Western civilization is predicated. Ahmadinejad offered up his attacks while extolling his vision of Islamic global domination.

Refusing to note his existential challenge to the Free World, the Western media concentrated their coverage of his trip on his statements regarding specific Western policy goals. His rejection of the UN Security Council’s authority to take action against Iran’s illicit nuclear weapons program; his championing of the Palestinian cause and Israel’s destruction; his denials of Iranian support for terrorism, and his attacks against the US were widely reported. So too, his insistence that Iranian women enjoy full rights and that there are no homosexuals in Iran received banner headlines.

…The thing of it is that aside from blind narcissism, there is a reason that the West ignores the dangers facing it. The Western media ignored Ahmadinejad’s message, just as it has insistently ignored the messages of bin Laden and Fatah throughout the years, because Westerners have a hard time believing that anyone would want to abide by the Islamic world view which denies mankind’s desire for freedom.

But no matter how ugly an ideology is, in the absence of real competition it gains adherents and power. The only way to ensure that jihadists’ demonic views are defeated is by stridently defending and upholding the fundamental principles on which the Free World is based. And the West hasn’t even begun to take up this challenge.

As a result, it has handed its enemies two victories already. It has demoralized its potential allies in the Islamic world, and it has failed to rally its own people to defend themselves.

In spite of what the West would like to believe, Ahmadinejad and his allies from Ramallah to Waziristan, from Gaza to Kandahar to Baghdad, are not negotiating. They are fighting. Rather than ignore them or seek to find nonexistent common ground, we must defeat them – first and foremost on the battleground of ideas.”

And the ultimate battleground comes down to how the women of this world are going to live. I love my faith because at every juncture during my time on this earth I have been taught the principles of freedom. I was taught by my parents that a great war was waged in heaven before the world was even created. The fight was over how we mortals we going to live here on earth.
Satan, or Lucifers plan was to enslave us and force obedience, thus ensuring every child of God made it safely back home.
Jesus Christs plan was for freedom. He proposed that we be given free will and choice about how we would live our lives. Then, knowing we would screw up royally as individuals, he offered himself as Savior to provide a way for us to repent and make things right, as individuals. We all have the responsibility to work out our own salvation during this probationary time on the earth.. The atonement was his offering to humanity to allow us to heal from the sins, hurts, and injustices that would result from mere mortals having freedom in a world of blood, war, and danger.
Heavenly Father allowed us as his children to fight it out, and one third of the hosts of heaven, billions of souls, decided Satan was on to something. So they followed him. Two thirds of the hosts of heaven, even more billions of souls, decided that Jesus Christ had the best plan and sided with him. Father cast satan and his followers out of heaven, and Life began on earth with our first parents, Adam and Eve. Did the battle go away? Heck no. It is raging right now in the hearts of men and women on this earth. In every home, community, school, work place, university, religion, country, and most importantly in the marketplace of ideas.
The fight between freedom and slavery rages.
I have sided with those fighting for freedom, for democracy, for individual rights, and sovereignty from those people, religions, and ideologies that deprive men and especially women of their rights of self determination.
And I am heartsick that so many Americans, even some of my freedom lovin’ mormon momma friends have allowed themselves to be seduced by political correctness when it comes to the various wars that are being waged in that marketplace of ideas. They spout the various lines that have been drum beat into their minds during years and years of socialistic education, and the more educated and longer time my friends have spent in university, the more difficult it is for them to see the various realities and fights for what they truly are.
I was talking to my best friend on saturday and we just hashed through everything once again. I praise her for her open mind and willingness to at least listen to me. As she talked about the incompatibility of muslim life with American Democracy and American Imperealism and questioned the American Military staying in Iraq for years to come, I asked her what she knew about Japan. Did she consider that the Japanese had a good solid democratic country? “Sure”, was the reply.
I challenged her to consider that without US help after WWII in setting up a Democracy, Japan would not have been able to establish itself as a thriving beacon of freedom in the orient.
I told her that as President Bush said in a recent address that elites in America believed the Japanesse women were too subservient to their husbands to learn how to vote and participate in the democratic process. And I asked her if Muslim women were any different from us or japanese women.
I bless her that she was listening and pondering my words. Her husbands family comes from Pakistan, and he has struggled mightily to assimilate into US culture. Her whole family is muslim on her husbands side and she loves them very much. Her husband is one of the best husbands and fathers I have ever known, and works very hard to provide for his family. He does not practice the muslim faith of his family, and has been very supportive of my friend living an LDS lifestyle and teaching it to their children. She was listening as I talked and it was joyful to at least have a chance to discuss without anger or blind spewing of the talking points so many have been fed by media and education.
I asked her, “don’t you think all women want the same thing? The right to keep what we work for, the right to give birth to our children unmolested, and then raise them with the teachings and values that are important to us?” She agreed. I told her I believe wholeheartedly in this struggle for freedom that is going on in Iraq and Afganistan. I think she understood my passion a little better, and it was nice, because so often I feel like people in my life dismiss me as a freedom fanatic.
Many of my friends in Boulder, even my mormon friends, I find unwilling to even discuss rationally political ideologies. It is very frustrating.
We have all been confused by the various ideologies that bash around the planet. I pray for the day when all of the blinders come off and the sugar coating of all that would seek to rob individuals, families, and nations of their sovereignty are exposed as the diabolical enemies to freedom that they are, and we have the courage to accept the truth and then live the way that we were destined with light and truth as the beacon of our lives.
It really does come down to a fight between freedom and slavery. I continually pray for our sisters in the middle east, that they will be set free to live the life they choose in terms of education, livlihood, marriage, children, and religion. I pray that all women will receive these tremendous blessings and opportunities the world over and that the men who love them will be able to provide for their families unmolested by crazy fanatics disrupting family life at every juncture.
Jenny Hatch