On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: “This notion of let’s blame the British, the colonialists, for our condition. This is the reason we have millions of people supporting the idea that you slit throats in the name of Allah?
“You never hear the Indians complain about British imperialism. It had a longer period of colonial rule than any of the Arab countries. How did the Indians create a democratic country? How did India have such a goofy foreign policy?”
“If India, Brazil, Russia, China are a new force in the world, they are not a force for good.”
Dennis just watched the movie Of Gods and Men. “All they [the seven Christian monks] did was good for the Muslims around them. Then you have men whose lives are devoted to slitting the throats of innocent people.”
According to Wikipedia: Of Gods and Men is a 2010 French drama film directed by Xavier Beauvois, starring Lambert Wilson and Michael Lonsdale. Its original French language title is Des hommes et des dieux, which means “Of Men and of Gods” and refers to a verse from the Bible shown at the beginning of the film. It centers on the monastery of Tibhirine, where nine Trappist monks lived in harmony with the largely Muslim population of Algeria, until seven of them were kidnapped and assassinated in 1996 during the Algerian Civil War.
Largely a tale of a peaceful situation between local Christians and Muslims before becoming a lethal one due to external forces, the screenplay focuses on the preceding chain of events in decay of government, expansion of terrorism, and the monks’ confrontation with both the terrorists and the government authorities that led up to their deaths.
