[appalachian_dweller]

Okay. You call them naive. I call them simple. Sometimes things are be too simple for folks to understand.

All I've seen you do on this thread is criticize and berate others and it's becoming more than just a bit irritating.

What brilliant plan have you got?

[kosta50]

You need to deflate that ego of yours a little, my friend, and stop taking things so personally. Jan of Colorado suggested we "expose and destroy" Islam. Is that a responsible "solution"? The reality is that there is one billion of them in this world and growing. We have no control over it; genocide is not an option. And this kind of "criticism" irritates you?

I am not opposed to more controls, but we don't live alone in this world. The world would have to cooperate and so far we have done nothing but piss the world off. UK, France, Italy, Germany and other European countries have large numbers of Muslims (in part brough there by our pressure to create a "multiethinic" society like ours -- a philosophy that has its roots elsewhere, but that's another subject), so they won't go along with that. And with all the Muslims in the world surrounding us in our Fortress, what will that do? We can't "go it alone." That's the kind of thining that got us into this mess to begin with.

Also, you can't outlaw a religion! Christianity was outlawed and persecuted for 300 years and all it did was grow and grow until it finally took over.