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Saddam's war against the Kurds was not a religious one as the Kurds were/are majority Sunni just as was the ruling elite in Iraq. But Kurds are Indo-Europeans, an Irani people. And they are spread over Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria.

Saddam just didn't like anyone who could oppose him. If you shut up and let him rule, he left you alone -- a common gangster

But the jihadis don't leave you alone, they'll kill you

We should supply weapons to assad to kill off the Saudi and Qatari sponsored alQaeda terrorist/jihadis...

All dictatorships have a psychological/physiological basis for their rule. Understand that and you can moderate, negotiate and manage a dictatorship. Fundamentally they're all megalomaniacs with god complexes. They draw strength via a crony elite who are granted political and economic perks for supporting the regime. Enemies are cruelly punished, often along with their entire families up and down the family tree. It just takes a few public and relatively precise attacks to get people in line (e.g. Democrats in urban environments or Obama/Clinton and the media for two ubiquitous American examples).

I share the above two examples on purpose. Our topic is Islam and its strict adherents, but Islam is more like liberalism/progressivism than most Americans realize. Both have a universal scope and worldwide area of operation. Both are without limits as to means as their ends are ‘righteous’. Both will terrorize, torture and kill to get their way. Lying in both is actually seen as a virtue as the enemy is of the ‘devil’ and deserves what they get.

Yet, when confronted one with the other they are naturally in conflict. The people being beaten, raped, tortured, imprisoned and killed in Egypt and Turkey are ‘liberal/progressives’. Note that the history of these two movements is one in which Islam's fanatics are more violent and more furious than liberalisms. Liberalism is softer and thus gives way to Islamism.

What makes American liberals so dangerous isn't just their very bad ideas, nor is it their tolerance for failure of those ideas and the real horror it inflicts on the ‘served’ populations. It is their superiority complex. They really believe they can manage radical Islam. This massive blind spot is deadly. It is really killing people as well as America.

Liberals have been poisoning the country for a long time, but because reality eventually hits Americans America can make course corrections. With Islam there isn't any course correction. Every act of appeasement, tolerance and compromise is simply an invitation, an encouragement to demand more. Muslims thought leaders and organizations have stated that they respect America, its Constitution and aren't working to change its institutions. Yet, they regularly opposed laws blocking Sharia enforcement at the local and state level. Why?

Liberals support Obama, despite the fact that he consistently supports Sunni Islam no matter what the human rights record, works against real liberty in the world, and prefers strict Islamists to secular Islamists at every turn. Their superiority complex makes them think they can manage Obama. When Sharia comes to America, and do not doubt for a moment that that's not the goal, liberals will be the first in line for beatings, rapings, imprisonments, torture and murder. That information isn't just from ancient history, but current events. Liberals don't see it. Their superiority complex isn't a shield, but a blinder.