Until the power shift from Christian to Muslim (about 1970), the Christians in Lebanon never entertained the thought that their Muslim neighbors, doctors, teachers, soldiers, political leaders, etc., would ever murder them, torture them, bomb them, and blow-up their villages, towns, and cities. However, history shows that the very trusting and terribly naive Christians, and other non-Muslims of Lebanon and elsewhere in the region, tragically learned otherwise!
And, for many, learned at the cost of their homes, businesses, schools, churches, freedom, liberty, and lives. As rape, murder, kidnapping, mutilation, and extortion, were among common occurrences. When, for example, during the 1975-1990 Lebanese Civil War, Lebanese Muslims and Lebanon-occupied Palestinians declared jihad on Christians. A fate likewise suffered by many Muslims in the region who refused to fully embrace radical/militant Islam ideology. A brutal Civil War resulting in an estimated 250,000 fatalities and an exodus of some one million people. With, as of 2012, about 76,000 people reported still displaced within Lebanon as a result of same war.
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NOTE: The above two paragraphs are not the mindless spewing of opinion/fiction, but rather well intended sharing of some crucial “historical reality” . . . increasingly relevant to the “here and now” . . . and copied from pages 64 – 65 of a Year 2016 published book titled, “Killing Life, Liberty, & Pursuit of Happiness”: “Ancient-Rooted Evils” – Waging World War III Against 21st Century Civilization!” As in YR 2026, and result of years of voter ignorance and/or informed intent, etc., a most disturbing and threatening array of advocates of socialism / communism / radical-Islam / Sharia-Law / etc., now occupy hundreds of positions of power and influence throughout U.S. local / state / federal government!
And, as an aid to anyone suffering from having too much time on their hands, and/or from just having a day going much better than one can any longer tolerate . . . “copied below” is a bit of the rest of the story.
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LEBANON — one of many “A CANARIES IN THE COAL MINE!”
“A simple definition of an “alarm” would be something that provides a clear “warning” of possible or impending threat to that which we truly value.
Legend (more likely, reality) has it, that prior to modern-day ventilation systems being used, miners working in early coal mines would bring along a caged canary, especially when working in new mine tunnels. Canaries, being real sensitive to methane and carbon monoxide, made them ideal “alarms” for dangerous, life-threatening gases. A bird that kept singing indicated a safe air supply; whereas a dead canary called for swift evacuation to safety!
There are, so to speak, “Canaries in Coal Mines” all around us that have stopped singing! Providing too-often “unheeded warnings” that our also too-often “taken for granted” Rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, are at serious risk!
“Lebanon” is one such “Canary in the Coal Mine”— one such most-crucial and too-often UNHEEDED WARNING! A relatively small country, about 135 miles in length and 25 to 50 miles in width. Situated with a Mediterranean coast on its West; Syria bordering it on the East and North; and Israel on the South. Blessed with pristine beaches; snowcapped mountains; an ideal Mediterranean climate most of the year; with major industries including, but not limited to, seaport shipping, banking, tourism, and agriculture. A once unique sanctuary of religious liberty and freedom, now surrounded and occupied by Islamic tyranny and oppression.
At the end of World War I, the League of Nations gave France control over Lebanon and its neighbor Syria. In 1920 France divided Lebanon and Syria into separate colonies, with borders that separated the mostly Muslim Syria from the mix of religious communities in Lebanon, where Christians were at that time dominant.
At around that point in time Lebanon’s population was estimated to be about 55 percent Christian and 45 percent Muslim.
By about 1970 the Christians in Lebanon had become the minority and the Muslims the majority. All in the relatively brief span of less than 30 years since obtaining independence from France! The reasons for this rapid population-shift to a Muslim majority are many and complex. Such as, but not limited to:
(1.) Lebanon’s acceptance of several waves of refugees. For example, acceptance of some 180,000 Palestinian refugees in connection with Israel’s declaration of independence in 1948-49; followed by another wave of refugees from the 1967 Arab-Israeli Six-Day War; followed by yet another wave of Palestinian refugees resulting from Jordan’s King Hussein’s 1970 order to his army to expel the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from Jordan. It is noteworthy (and most unfortunate for Lebanon) that, out of twenty-two Arab countries, Lebanon was the only one willing to open its borders to this “third-wave” of Palestinian refugees.
(2.) The imbalance between Lebanon’s Muslim and Christian marriage practices and birth rates. Typically, Lebanon Christians would marry one spouse until death did they part, and have two to four children. While, on the other hand, the Muslims’ Islamic religion allowed up to four wives at the same time, and permitted husbands to end a marriage by simply declaring “you are divorced” three times in a row. The result being, many Muslim children from many Muslim wives.
[The above examples leave little question why 2015 Pew Research Center reports project that, between 2010 and 2050, the Muslim population will grow more than twice as fast as the overall world population. And, in the second half of the 21st century, Muslims are expected to surpass Christians as the world’s largest religious group. A population shift driven in large part by Muslims having more children than other major religious groups. For example, Muslim women are typically having an average of 3.1 children, whereas Christians average 2.7, and the average of all non-Muslim women being only 2.3. Hence, Islam is the fastest growing religion all over the world.]
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It is to our ultimate demise that we ever forget or be complacent about the threat posed by radical-militant Islam / Sharia-law. Yet another critical reason why we must practice as-required due diligence to ensure that we are truly aware of: who we elect to positions of power and influence within all levels of our government; who we let enter through and remain within our borders; and regarding all levels of our educational systems—who is teaching our children, and what are they being taught! Again, at stake, nothing less than our nation’s ultimate survival and our too-often taken for granted liberty, freedom, and gift of life!
If the message herein and happenings around the World and within our U.S. borders are not a sufficient wake-up call, there is a wide selection of fact-based readings available about this looming menace that should awaken even the most complacent or terminally-in-denial among us. Such as: (1.) "Because They Hate," by Brigitte Gabriel; (2.) "Killing Life, Liberty, & Pursuit of Happiness," by William James Moore; and an array of other sources. Please Note . . . this posting is NOT pushing any particular fact-based information source . . . but however a most crucial heads-up warning about the existential threat of Radical Islam!
One’s “source” of factual enlightenment is NOT what matters. What DOES however matter beyond description by words, is one’s dedication to seeking truth, recognizing and accepting reality, and responsibly applying the knowledge and wisdom gained therefrom.
---William James Moore
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“Killing Life, Liberty, & Pursuit of Happiness”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1537570900
