"We are at war"

Via Michael

While following some links this morning I came across the words Ehr Kumt and in turn that lead me to a sermon given by Rabbi Shalom Lewis in Atlanta and worth the long read. Below are selected sections of that sermon. Ehr Kumt in Yiddish means "He's Coming" and was part of a sermon delivered in Lithuania by a Rabbi prior to WWII in a message about Hitler. My friends "He" is already among us. "He" is evil and he exists in Obama and those like him who apologize to our enemies as they work to destroy us. "He" is those who call us the enemy for trying to restore the Constitution, the Rule of Law and Liberty among the People. As in the past "Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace– but there is no peace. The war is actually begun!". Do not fool yourselves we are already at war and the enemy has brought the war to us. As it is now so it always has been. We may well soon have to decide if we fight or if we live as slaves that is if it is already not too late. Understand that our masters are not just in league with the enemy, they are the enemy...

Ehr Kumt

"We are at war. We are at war with an enemy as savage, as voracious, as heartless as the Nazis but one wouldn't know it from our behavior. During WWII we didn't refer to storm troopers as freedom fighters. We didn't call the Gestapo, militants. We didn't see the attacks on our Merchant Marine as acts by rogue sailors. We did not justify the Nazis rise to power as our fault. We did not grovel before the Nazis, thumping our hearts and confessing to abusing and mistreating and humiliating the German people. We did not apologize for Dresden, nor for The Battle of the Bulge, nor for El Alamein, nor for D-Day.

Evil - ultimate, irreconcilable, evil threatened us and Roosevelt and Churchill had moral clarity and an exquisite understanding of what was at stake. It was not just the Sudetenland, not just Tubruk, not just Vienna, not just Casablanca. It was the entire planet. Read history and be shocked at how frighteningly close Hitler came to creating a Pax Germana on every continent.

Not all Germans were Nazis - most were decent, most were revolted by the Third Reich, most were good citizens hoisting a beer, earning a living and tucking in their children at night. But, too many looked away, too many cried out in lame defense - I didn't know." Too many were silent. Guilt absolutely falls upon those who committed the atrocities, but responsibility and guilt falls upon those who did nothing as well. Fault was not just with the goose steppers but with those who pulled the curtains shut, said and did nothing.

In WWII we won because we got it. We understood who the enemy was and we knew that the end had to be unconditional and absolute. We did not stumble around worrying about offending the Nazis. We did not measure every word so as not to upset our foe. We built planes and tanks and battleships and went to war to win….. to rid the world of malevolence.

We are at war… yet too many stubbornly and foolishly don't put the pieces together and refuse to identify the evil doers. We are circumspect and disgracefully politically correct.

Let me mince no words in saying that from Fort Hood to Bali, from Times Square to London, from Madrid to Mumbai, from 9/11 to Gaza, the murderers, the barbarians are radical Islamists.

To camouflage their identity is sedition. To excuse their deeds is contemptible. To mask their intentions is unconscionable...

We must be diligent students of history and not sit in ash cloth at the waters of Babylon weeping. We cannot be hypnotized by eloquent-sounding rhetoric that soothes our heart but endangers our soul. We cannot be lulled into inaction for fear of offending the offenders. Radical Islam is the scourge and this must be cried out from every mountain top. From sea to shining sea, we must stand tall, prideful of our stunning decency and moral resilience. Immediately after 9/11 how many mosques were destroyed in America? None. After 9/11, how many Muslims were killed in America? None. After 9/11, how many anti-Muslim rallies were held in America? None. And yet, we apologize. We grovel. We beg forgiveness."


The mystifying litany of our foolishness continues...

Everything we are. Everything we believe. Everything we treasure, is at risk...

My friends - the world is on fire and we must awake from our slumber. "EHR KUMT."

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