Well, I'm not on the ping list, but I just wandered across this. I think Islamic terrorism is certainly a threat, but they don't really dominate a lot of that land you mentioned. And I looked up this Islamic State of America site; it seems pretty moribund.
Their list of what must be accomplished seems odd:
1. Teach tolerance and acceptance to the children - Achieved
Actually, that's a natural and naturally evolving part of our culture, so I don't think they had anything to do with it. If anything, their children are likely to be infected by it. The kids probably won't mind, either.
2. Create acceptance for a plurality of gods –Achieved
Again, that's part of our culture. They didn't have anything to do with it, and it renders us more resistant to falling under the sway of anyone’s absolute sense of religious fervor, not less. Plus, it's hard to imagine a real fundamentalist Islamicist advocating that when their whole religious sense is centered around what they would consider to be the one true God.
3. Gain sympathies and eventually acceptance in Hollywood -Achieved
Okay. Sure, maybe they can claim to have done that.
4. Register 100,000 Muslim voters -Achieved
I hate to break it to them, but they're going to need a heck of a lot more than that.
5. Get “acceptable” Islamic’s elected to congress and senate -Achieved
They've got what—one or two? I'd hardly call that achieved.
6. Win the war in Iraq at all costs -Close
Actually, they're not close. We obviously aren't going to be leaving behind the kind of closely allied government many Americans might have imagined when we took over. But they certainly haven't won. At worst for us it's just a mixed bag. Lots of things in life are.
7. Recognition for Islamic holidays -Achieved
Not really. We may have a stamp for Ramadan, but I don't recall any government offices, schools or businesses being closed. And they have a lot more holidays than just Ramadan. Do you think the average American can name even one of those?
8. Get Barack Hussein Obama elected as President -Achieved
Again, I don't really think they can take credit for that. That's like me leaning up against a building during an earthquake and then being amazed by my own strength when it falls.
9. Achieve application of shariah law –Close
Yeah, right. (roll eyes)
10. Enact zakat— Close
Again, yeah, right (roll eyes). But I will admit to actually knowing what zakat is.
11. Seat judges that will remove common law— Achieved
Common law? And that's supposed to mean what exactly? And how many judges have they actually seated? I think the answer would be a big, fat zero.
12. Prepare for militant take over if necessary— Unknown
Judging from their performance on the previous 11, I suspect it will be necessary. And I would give them a chance of slim and none without the slim.
Just my thoughts. Again, it's certainly a real security issue on a number of fronts, but having fought in the Cold War and lived with the specter of nuclear annihilation from the Soviet Union, the threat of an Islamic State of America being realized seems like some pretty weak tea.
Please point out which land they do not dominate, that I said that they did.
Muslims to not have to enact change through our laws yet. They do it on the ground by constantly whining about what needs to be changed to suit their religion. Comparing this enemy to that of the Cold War, is not really a vaild comparison. Muslims are slowly taking over the word through the political aspect of Islam. If things do not change, it is just a matter of time until they takeover the West.
Iraq is now a Christian persecuting country, I do not consider that a great victory. Also the Sunni vs. Shiite feud took 69 lives today. That feud is not going to go away because the infidel wants it to. When the troops leave, it will only get worse.
"I think Islamic terrorism is certainly a threat, but they don't really dominate a lot of that land you mentioned..." The problem is they think on a different timescale than the average westerner. We often see political change in years, or decades - they often think back 100's or over 1000 years to the examples of islamic expansion and territorial conquest of vast tracks of territory across the globe after they crawled out of the Hijaz.
What you see them attempting to do in the US now, using ikhwan fronts and methods, is marking territory in the way a dog would pee on a tree. Once they can establish a history of "muslim settlement" and of compliance to sharia in a geographical location, it (in their eyes) justifies the next stage - acquisition of physical territory.
In decades or centuries to come, they will point to the areas where muslims lived, practiced sharia, or shared a keg of camels p*$$, and use it to justify land that was claimed, and this it would be an obligation to wage a violent jihad over.
You already see this second phase starting in EUrabia - muslim only areas, no-go zones for the kuffar.
After thru their own long history, WWII, the threat of the Soviet Empire and nuclear annihilation, I would guess the average EUrabian did not think islamic immigration (even just 2-5% muslims) would allow them to be dictated to by believers of a barbaric 7th Century ideology.
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