[Lando Lincoln]

Lando

[thoughtomator]

Must an entire American city lie in smoking ruins, or its population lay dying in the streets from some plague, before we get serious?

At this point I'm not even sure that that would be enough to call the Muslims out for the Nazis they are.

[trisham]

Because of the brutal violence of those warriors against jihad, we in the West today enjoy the luxury of cynicism, cheap irony, effete tolerance, and hedonism. We moral dwarves stand on the shoulders of those giants and spit on their heads, thinking our ingratitude is really an intellectual sophistication superior to the primitive superstitions and naïve ideals that have made our lives of freedom and prosperity possible. Meanwhile jihad by other means -- demography, immigration, terrorism, the oil weapon -- continues apace, at least until the time when a nuclear, chemical, or biological weapon falls into the hands of a modern jihadist and we are returned to the sort of slaughter our ancestors suffered for centuries. Maybe then we'll wake up.

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Chilling words.

[GailA]

BTT, Bob is one of my favorite writers.

[BayouCoyote]

2nd great post today, LL. thanks

[mark502inf]

When a supposedly Christian fundamentalist nutcase, Eric Rudolph, bombed U. S. abortion clinics and gay nightclubs, he was forced to live a marginal, virtually reclusive life hiding in a remote rural area.

Not so Muslim terrorists, who arise from even from the upper classes of Muslim nations by the tens of thousands, and find vast social infrastructures of sympathizers -- including governments -- throughout the Islamic world eager to shelter, support and protect them.

Great "compare & contrast".

Where are all the Buddhist terrorists

Well, there were a lot of true-believing, murdering, raping, atrocity committing and suicide-attacking Japanese Bhuddists in WWII. And similarly there were ideology-driven Holocaust-committing, war-starting Germans on the other side of the world. Both countries turned it around and are filled with pretty normal people now. It took complete subjugation, to include using two nukes, to make it happen, but happen it did. And both the Japanese and Germans had more and better fantaics than we are facing now. The same reorientation of attitudes can happen in the Muslim world--the question is what must occur to spark it?