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From the Other Side of the Edge….
Political Correctness, and Religious Arrogance, …the World’s Tragically Evil Twins
By Joe Facinoli

On the one hand, today we are being told, taught, and fairly beaten into submission with the idea, that every culture, person, and lifestyle which we might encounter, …should be treated with unquestioned respect and acquiescence, no matter how different, conflicting, disagreeable, and/or repulsive, …they may be to us.  

Political Correctness run amok, …engrained in every part and morsel of our society, and lives these days, …but run amok, nonetheless.  

On the other hand, we are told by every major religion and belief system, in one fashion or another, that their “God” is the only God, and that all who do not believe this basic tenet are, …well, …frankly less human, less entitled to any benefits attached to same, and certainly, …lesser in the eyes of “God”.

Religious Arrogance at its finest, …or worst, …and it’s been this way for many millennia.   


Polar opposites by definition, …these two societal scourges and pariahs, …but they are joined at the hip, and irrevocably intertwined, …by their clandestinely evil natures.   


One says that we must accept all who appear before us, …and not only allow these fellow travelers whatever life decisions they might have made, but then accommodate and include those choices into our own lives, …regardless of our own beliefs.   

And for good measure, the core principle of Political Correctness is that we should never speak, nor act disparagingly of anyone’s heritage, choices, and/or beliefs, …in even the slightest way.  

In fact, we should never go so far as to even imply that we do not agree with, nor that we might not accept anything, that any other person, …anywhere, …might do, believe, or say.  

PC has spoken, so you’d best take heed, …and pay careful attention.   

For it has been dictated, that we should go through life wearing soft velvet, kid gloves, …and treat everyone in it like they were the most fragile of eggs, ready to break at the most trivial word, or delicate provocation. 


But on the opposite side, we have all the world’s major religions, each telling any who will listen that if you don’t believe in them, then you don’t matter, …and that you are surely destined to rot in whatever Hell they have concocted, if you don’t shape up and get with their program.   

Too many of them go even further, telling any in earshot, (whether they care to listen or not), that they will be punished right here on this Good Earth, …should they choose not to leave the “dark side”, and capitulate to the beliefs of the “One and Only Way”.   

And over the centuries, each and every one of these theologies and liturgies has spent considerable time and effort “convincing” their non-believers,  …that they should.   

Going through life, and history, with heavy leather gloves, wrapped around a sledge hammer, as a way of “reminding” us that we are all heathens and sinners, unless we believe their way.   


The worst possible kind of cultural pairing, these two “philosophies”.   

A few strong and brutal groups of killers (and worse), in the name of a brutal and condescending religion, …pillaging and plundering their way through all society, in the name of some arbitrary, man-made god (as they all are, really), whose instructions seem to include whatever the “followers” want them to say.  

Then these offenders are made credible, and untouchable, by the creed which says we cannot judge, muchless punish nor prevent, these hideous (and worse) actions and practices, for fear we might not understand them, nor judge fairly.   

The fatal and tragic definition of a “Catch-22”.   

Which, …given our present cultural and political choices, …means:   No Way to Win.   


Bringing us to present day Islam, …and to Paris, which followed Sydney, and Madrid, and London, and so many mass murders of non-followers and non-believers, and poison gas in subways, and beheadings on camera, and machine gunnings of journalists and cartoonists, …and so much individual torture, and cultural suffering.  

And of course, ….9/11.  

It’s not going to get better, …not for a very long time.    Not until the world’s leaders decide to stop talking, and posturing, and condemning, and preaching, …and start acting like leaders, …in the best interest of those who chose them to lead.  

We need leaders like Reagan, and Thatcher, …again.    And those of the “Greatest Generation”, …not so long ago. 

There are ways to deal with this threat, however it originated, and from wherever it comes.   

We’ve done it already, …in World War II.    

Seems like a long time ago, but the principles are the same today.   No one has the courage to do it, however, …worrying too much about “collateral damage”, and political “fallout”.  

We are truly in the same place now, as when Hitler, and Japan, seemed to be unstoppable, and had all the leverage on us.   

We let them get to that point, by political inaction, and capitulation, and “appeasement”, before the world finally had had enough, and agreed that they must be stopped, …at all costs. 

And that’s where we are now, …no matter what the world’s leaders pontificate.  

These “extremists” will stop at nothing, and as we have seen, actually want to become martyrs for their god, for their cause, and for all its self-serving teachings. 

Think massive troop strength advantages, brutal recriminations, and unmerciful pursuit and “disposal” of these supposed extremists.   

They neither know, nor understand, any other way.

Islam is not a country, and there are 1.6 billion practicing Muslims in the world, but if each despicable, unholy event they do is met with something worse, then sooner or later, the tide will turn.   

Those who live by the sword, especially at the behest of some false and ruthless god, truly need to be dealt with by the same harsh sword.    Until all who live that way are gone, or have seen the light.   

A lot of innocents will die, but it needs to be done this way.    They have forced our hand, …and we have let them take us to the unfortunate place where we now find ourselves.  

We cannot keep giving in to them, and blaming brave writers for “going too far” in poking fun, or telling the truth, about this religion, its holy book, and the deity who supposedly inspired it.  

Only Israel today has the guts to take the actions necessary.  

We all need to follow their lead, or else we will be following the dictates of some “others”, …who, …I can assure you, will NOT be very polite and friendly.  


Joe Facinoli
--Joe can be reached at:   joefacinoli@gmail.com
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