Another flip-flop from the Philippines, and appeasement comes out on top. This is a manifestation of a pseudo-humanitarianism: in the name of saving this one man’s life, which is definitely worth saving, they are willing to condemn many others to deaths that will come from newly emboldened Islamic radicals who are ready to commit violence to achieve their purposes — particularly when they see that that violence accomplishes those purposes quite well.
The Philippine government deserves the harshest possible judgment from history. It deserves nothing but the disgust and condemnation of free people. Some new Dante is needed to write the sorry story of the Chamberlains, the Zapateros, and the Gloria Macapagal Arroyos, along with all the other besotted do-gooders who brought Peace to Our Time. But such may not emerge until some distant future when the Dark Ages of the Sharia rule that is sure to come to the Philippines and elsewhere begin to recede.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The Philippines said on Monday it would withdraw its troops from Iraq as soon as possible to save a Filipino hostage threatened with death by militants.
CNN quoted unidentified Philippine officials as saying they expected truck driver Angelo de la Cruz to be released on Tuesday, but no independent confirmation was available.
Al Jazeera broadcast footage of Philippine deputy foreign minister Rafael Seguis reading out a statement, which the television station translated into Arabic, shortly after the expiry of a new execution deadline set by the militants.
“In response to your request, the Philippines … will withdraw its humanitarian forces as soon as possible,” Seguis said according to the translation of the statement, addressed to the Islamic Army in Iraq group holding 46-year-old de la Cruz.
“I hope the statement that I read will touch the heart of this group,” said Seguis. “We know that Islam is the religion of peace and mercy.”
And let this new Dante consign Rafael Seguis to a circle of hell reserved for self-deluded fools, babbling about Islam the religion of peace and mercy in an appeal to a bunch of cutthroats (literal ones) who reserve their peace and mercy only for fellow believers, but who will gladly accept the bumbling, ignorant submission of Rafael Seguis and others like him as a welcome new indication of the pusillanimity, weakness, and utter spiritual exhaustion of what was once the Christian world.
Maybe Rafael Seguis is vying for the honor of being the one, danegeld in trembling hand, to welcome the new leaders of the Islamic Republic to Manila, once the Moro Islamic Liberation Front crushes once and for all the cowed and rudderless forces of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and her coterie of unready appeasers.