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To those who cannot tell the difference between a Terrorist and a Freedom Fighter:

There are people who are opposed to Western Civilization, freedom and democracy. These people only use terms like freedom and oppression to manipulate their subjects and followers, cloud the thinking of their enemies, and sap the will of the West.
1. They are dictatorial in nature, no more interested in the well-being of their people than what it takes to maintain their own political power.
2. They are terrorists like Osama bin Laden, governmental leaders like Saddam Hussein or the Taliban. When their voices, like the official newspaper of Egypt, publish articles on how Jews use the blood of Gentiles to make matzah, when the most popular songs of the country are hits like "I Hate Israel," when they swear that they will settle for nothing but the complete destruction of Israel and the United States, when school children are taught that their greatest heroes are 12-year old suicide bombers, then you can understand the nature of your enemy.

3. They have bullets with your name on them.
4. They want you dead.
5. They don't want your empathy.
6. They don't want your money.
7. They want you dead.
8. They want your family dead.
9. They want your house burned to the ground.
10. They will not negotiate.
11. They will not stop until they have succeeded. And all of this debate about who is a terrorist and who is a freedom fighter is nonsense.
12. They don't care how much you feel for their condition. They don't care whether you try to understand them.
13. They will use your efforts to understand and care for them in order to get you to let down your guard, so they can destroy you and everything you believe in.

14. If you sympathize with these people, if you think they have a legitimate cause, if you counsel holding back yet again, know whose side you are on, what you are arguing in favor of. You are willing to sacrifice
nothing less than Western Civilization itself, its freedom of thought and expression, its democracy, science and learning, so that some maddened fanatics can reign blood and horror upon the earth, subject their own people to abject slavery, and bring society to a despotic barbarism unlike anything that has ever existed on earth. And if this is what you support, you are no friend of mine. You are a traitor to your own professed beliefs, to your country, and to your family.