nephandi
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Joined: 9/23/2005
From: Cold and magickal Norway in a town near Bergen!
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Greetings
When I was a young girl I had a friend from Bosnia. We both liked to play computer games. One day we where going home to my place to play. We where riding our bikes. We had to go by a rather heavy traffic (for a small town of ca 4500 inhabitants) to get there. My friend insisted that I should go furthest from the cars. I was two or three years younger and he felt that when he had accepted the responsibility of accompanying a younger person, who was a girl to her home, then he had to make sure that I got there safely, and that if there was an accident the car would hit him not me.
Now that we are adults the logic is a bit flawed, he could not protect me from a car with his body, but he would try as a child of 15 or so, because he accepted responsibility for my safety and was willing to die for his responsibility.
When my mother left my father I was only a babe. My father said he would kill my mother and me. Mother fled with me to my grandparents house where my grandfather armed himself and stood ready to fight of the much younger man if he had to to protect his wife, his daughter and his grand daughter. During the war my grandfather was a resistance fighter, and he and grandmother did not start a family back then, they waited as he knew that if he was caught, it would affect his family. I am however quite sure that if the Nazi had come for him, he would have fight to the death to defend my grandmother.
It is not about whatever or not it is right to make insults towards Islam, it is about accepting responsibility for another person and then living up to that responsibility, when when it might cost a person his life. A got tread on this forum concerned the Titanic. Well when you read eye witness accounts of that event, most of the men tried to get their wives and mothers and sisters and daughters and other women in their traveling party onto the boats and then they stepped back, knowing full well it most likely would cost them their lives, but for them saving those they where responsible for where more important than saving their own lives.
The question is, have we in the West lost that, lost the will to accept responsibility and pay with our blood to uphold it, or are such bravery a thing of the past when a man who leaves a five year old, defenseless girl alone with a attacker with an ax on the hope that the police is right and the attacker would go just after him and not his family, when a man that leaves a five year old girl with hope and wishes and run to save his own hide are saluted as a hero. That is the question.
I wish you all well
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