Wednesday August 23, 2006

I've Been Thinking:

August 22nd has come and gone.
Thankfully, this day will go down in history for being truly unremarkable.
Why should it have been anything else?
It corresponds to the 27th day of the Arabic month of Rajab, and Iranian President Ahmadinejad has been sending out ominous warnings that this day was coming.

Today is another pretty important date in the Islamic calendar.
This Arabic date dovetails August 22nd into one of the most significant events of Muslim history.
It was on this day that Muslim believers took back their holy city from outsiders, from the Christians. It was on this day, the 28th of Rajab 1187 that the Crusaders fell to Saladin in Jerusalem.

The metaphor is perfect.
NY and DC and LA be on alert. The modern-day Saladin (Ahmadinejad) is coming to free the modern-day Jerusalems (NY, DC, LA) and cast off the modern-day Crusaders (the West).
We've been warned.