Of course, we could have avoided these draconian measures by less drastic measures immediately after 9/11 - halting all immigration from Muslim countries, deporting without trial any suspected Jihadists, stopping Mulsim recruitment in prisons, and bombing those minaret-machinegun forts in Baghdad, just to name a few.
Anyone who cannot see clearly now that the liberals 'tolerance' has got us in one hell of a mess is a 'pinhead' for certain. Or illiterate. Or both.
That proves how weak Islam is. I can't think of any other religion that carries that kind of dogma. I was reading about how the few remaining Jews living in Yemen were being evacuated by the help of the USA and others, because of local Islamic intolerance for them. Logically, these Jews are so few in number that the bear no threat. But since Islam has this embedded institutional inferiority complex they can't tolerate this microscopic Jewish population.
Islam is the most legalistic institution on earth. So, it must keep a foot on the necks of the people under its power or else the whole thing falls apart.
I would suggest a name for this would be a"spiritual iron curtain".
“In surveying the cultural carnage in the wake of the worst terrorist attack on a military installation in US history.”
Not even close, Pamela: check your facts.
TC
I might consider Ralph Peters a leader in this. He tells it like it is.
Stop calling this abomination a religion. It is a world-domination political movement, carrying out its expansionist goals through murder, cleverly disguised as a religion.
Good news is that yesterday, Rush Limbaugh threw the gloves down early on his show and told it just like it is about Islam and violence. How refreshing!
We're turning into effete, humanistic Europeans. (Or roughly half of us are.)