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Why We’re Losing to Radical Islam
The Wall Street Journal ^ | Jan. 14, 2015 | NEWT GINGRICH

Posted on 01/15/2015 8:09:52 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

The United States has been at war with radical Islamist terrorism for at least 35 years, starting with the November 1979 Iranian seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and taking of 52 American hostages. President Jimmy Carter , in his State of the Union address two months later, declared the American captives “innocent victims of terrorism.”

For the next two decades, radical Islamist terrorism grew more powerful and more sophisticated. On Sept. 11, 2001, a remarkably sophisticated effort by Islamist terrorists killed nearly 3,000 Americans in New York City, Washington, D.C., and western Pennsylvania.

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1 posted on 01/15/2015 8:09:52 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Please don’t waste time on articles locked behind gates.


2 posted on 01/15/2015 8:11:17 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: Chickensoup

Answer, we just don’t kill enough of them. Time to get serious about death.


3 posted on 01/15/2015 8:13:20 PM PST by shankbear (The tree of Liberty appears to be perishing because there are few patriots willing to refresh it.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Answer: we have no culture because its been destroyed by leftists. There is not one example of a godless society surviving beyond a century in all of human history. And since America now criminalizes Christianity, the religion of pieces will crush us in every battle.

The truth.


4 posted on 01/15/2015 8:15:13 PM PST by Viennacon
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To: MinorityRepublican

There is no such thing as Radical Islam.

Just Regular Islam.


5 posted on 01/15/2015 8:17:41 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Because we are not fighting radical islam.


6 posted on 01/15/2015 8:18:56 PM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: All

But, I know a muslim and she’s really nice. /s


7 posted on 01/15/2015 8:20:23 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (Obama voters are my enemy. And so are republican voters.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

We’re loosing because we don’t have a president that wants to fight islam.


8 posted on 01/15/2015 8:26:45 PM PST by Parmy
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To: MinorityRepublican

Because we refuse to fight back.

We were losing teh Cold War, too — badly — until President Reagan and Prime Minister Thatcher came along.


9 posted on 01/15/2015 8:28:25 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

We need more gun laws....yeah, that’s the ticket.


10 posted on 01/15/2015 8:43:07 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: Chickensoup

And written by washed-up blow hard too damned stupid to recognize that the problem isn’t with “radical Islam”. It is with basic Islam.


11 posted on 01/15/2015 8:55:48 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: MrEdd

So true!


12 posted on 01/15/2015 9:01:14 PM PST by noinfringers2
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To: P-Marlowe

Duke University just ok’d PUblic Muslim call to prayer every Friday...beginning I think tomorrow...it will be on the loud speaker for 3 minutes....

With our Universities as targets by the Muslim Brotherhood...via the Students Muslim Organization the arm of the Muslim Brotherhood operating on every campus, It won’t be long before we’re going ‘to hear’ it ringing across our nation.

IMO it’s a call for everything that opposes Christianity.....”darkness” is coming.


13 posted on 01/15/2015 9:05:50 PM PST by caww
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I’ll save everybody the time it takes reading the article: The left.


14 posted on 01/15/2015 9:08:12 PM PST by Captainpaintball (Immigration without assimilation is the death of a nation)
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To: Captainpaintball

Thanks—brevity is the soul of wit.


15 posted on 01/15/2015 9:08:55 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: caww

Duke cancelled the Muslim sing song—lots of blowback.

We’ll take the victory.

Hopefully some multicultural dunderhead got his butt reamed—but then again, they might like that kind of thing.


16 posted on 01/15/2015 9:11:18 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: P-Marlowe

Exactly, which means we will have to get the “moderate” Muslims upset.


17 posted on 01/15/2015 9:12:30 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: exit82

I didn’t see that they cancelled though I heard there was indeed blowback...be certain they will try again. Muslim Brotherhood is behind this.

Thanks for the update...that was marked to begin tomorrow I think.


18 posted on 01/15/2015 9:14:30 PM PST by caww
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To: MinorityRepublican
#1 Because we are unwilling to take targets out where they were which would have caused lots of noncombatant casualties.

#2 Being politically correct: Radical Islam is actually 92% IMO of Islam and if you go after the issue like that you have an instant world war and maybe we can't do that without the rest of the world.

#3 We don't go after Iran direction or other countries like Pakistan for fighting proxy wars against us.

#4 Our open are going to get us killed.

19 posted on 01/15/2015 9:16:11 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: caww

Here’s a link:

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-duke-university-muslim-prayer-20150115-story.html


20 posted on 01/15/2015 9:16:35 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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