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For Your Freedom and Ours?

During the Partitions of Poland and through World War I, a common motto for Poles in exile was Za wolność Waszą i Naszą (“For freedom: yours and ours”).

The phrase was adopted by these Poles as they fought for freedom on behalf of their adopted countries. Poles fought in various independence movements all over the world, including the American Revolution. Check out the article For Your Freedom and Ours by Arthur Chrenkoff at the Polish Legion of American Veterans website.

Having this as background makes you wonder what we are fighting for in Afghanistan and other such places. To wit:

Christian Convert Vanishes After Release

On Monday, hundreds of clerics, students and others chanting “Death to Christians!” marched through the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif to protest the court decision Sunday to dismiss the case. Several Muslim clerics threatened to incite Afghans to kill Rahman if he is freed, saying that he is clearly guilty of apostasy and deserves to die.

“Abdul Rahman must be killed. Islam demands it,” said senior Cleric Faiez Mohammed, from the nearby northern city of Kunduz. “The Christian foreigners occupying Afghanistan are attacking our religion.”

If you’d like a real oxymoron, take a look at this World War Two poster by Norman Rockwell:

Rockwell - Save Freedom of Worship

2 thoughts on “For Your Freedom and Ours?

  1. If you’d like a real oxymoron, take a look at this World War Two poster by Norman Rockwell

    Quite. So that’s how FDR’s government sold the war to the public while siding with the USSR, giving away Poland.

  2. No, no, we were just supporting the USSR’s right to fight against the opiate of the masses.

    Too bad, Polish Masses killed them. God has a funny way of getting His will accomplished.

    Also, I looked really hard and couldn’t find any secular humanists in the picture – appears everyone is … praying. 🙂

    Oh, and a quick check on the lead up to Poland’s involvement in Iraq has the Bush administration touting the statement “For Your Freedom and Ours” in many speeches.

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