[nickcarraway]

Didn't George W. Bush come up with that neologism?

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

It’s too late for the UK.

[cripplecreek]

Islam is incompatible with The USA constitution and polite society.

Its more a political system than it is a “religion” and should be treated as such.

[WashingtonSource]

Bump

[NELSON111]

The only peaceful people in Islam are the heretics. They are somewhat like "christians" who really aren't Christians and don't follow the scriptures, who say Jesus is a way and not the way.

Those who follow Islam to the letter seek to destroy. So, while there are peaceful people within Islam, they are so because they are heretics to their faith. Islam itself is violent...and only ignoramuses don't get it.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Islam is a religion of conquest and murder. Islam has invaded and destroyed HUNDREDS of local cultures and replace them with Islam.

[garjog]

I created a whole blog to reveal what Islam is about. Check it out. http://debatingislamquestionstoconsider.blogspot.com

[nathanbedford]

Islam obviously represents one of the two great threats to Western civilization. The other is the emergence of China which we expect will behave aggressively but in accordance with an rational assessment of their own national interests. Because Islam is not rational it is very dangerous.

Islam is not rational because for the most part it has failed to experience the enlightenment and the Reformation. It operates as though it were European Christianity in the 30 Years War. There is no conception of toleration which means at the individual level there is no golden rule. It also means that there is no scientific method but rather an authoritarian philosophy guided by superstition.

To declare that this distorted mind warp is a "religion of peace" is absurd but it was an understandable position for Bush to take. If one is trying to motivate his own nation and align allies in a multigenerational, intercontinental world war against militant Islam, it is understandable that Bush thought it better to call it a war on "terrorism."

That strategy has obviously failed and it is time to consider that Europe is about to be lost and, with Europe, the war against Islam itself. We have got to win the propaganda war which we are clearly losing and that means we have to describe Islam for what it is just as we had to fight the fellow travelers in our midst when it came time to accurately describe the horror of communism.

We might ask Israelis how it has been done since 1948 with some success, at least until now.

[Pollster1]

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/

Muslim terrorists are credited with 23,470 terrorist attacks since 9/11/2001. But you can’t generalize from those tens of thousands of terrorists and their hundreds of millions of supporters to all of Islam.

[Leaning Right]

Didn't George W. Bush come up with that neologism?

Yep. And Bush also said something else just as silly: The terrorists attacked us because they hate our freedoms. As if 9/11 happened because al qaeda didn't like my right to vote for county commissioner.

How can we possibly win a war when none of our leaders are willing to speak plainly?

[JimSEA]

Like tolerance, inclusiveness must be a two way street. Islam has repeatedly failed that test.

[ronnie raygun]

Governments support murderous cult

[aimhigh]

The phrase, “Islam is peace” is not defining Islam. It is redefining peace.

[DTA]

"Religion of peace" is Bushism like "never feed the hand that bites you" and many others.

W actually wanted to say - religion of pieces.