Posted on 02/26/2026 5:19:00 AM PST by MtnClimber
As someone who regularly examines culture and politics, I often write about problems and, on occasion, offer solutions. Sometimes the solutions are relatively straightforward and obvious
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The reality is, while Islam is most certainly a religion, it is also something else. It is a theology of conquest and subjugation. From its very beginning, Islam was about conquering and conquest, through any means necessary, including deception.
On a daily basis, we hear Muslim “scholars” and others speak in the streets, on college campuses, and online, among other places, telling us that Islam will basically take over. Even in high schools, they are welcomed to proffer Sharia.
And that gets to the crux of the problem. At its very core, Islam is incompatible with Western civilization. It does not believe in freedom of speech. It does not believe in freedom of religion. Women are second-class citizens, and non-Muslim women fare even worse.
All of this might just be an exercise in navel-gazing if it were not so deadly. Since 9/11, there have been more than 64,000 Islamic terrorist attacks around the world. Most were actually in Muslim countries, particularly those with American troops on the ground. But not all. Here in the United States, since 1994, there have been a total of 740 Islamic terrorist attacks or plots disrupted, while in Europe between 1994 and 2021, that number was 367.
It’s not just a terrorist-attacks numbers game, though. Across Europe, they’re seeing what happens when Muslims reach just 5% of the population. In France, over half of young Muslims want Sharia law; in Austria, a court made Sharia legal; while in the UK, Muslim rape rings were allowed to rape thousands of young white girls for more than a decade because the authorities were scared of being called racists.
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Islam is not compatible with Western Civilization. The most humane thing to do is to send them back to their muslim country.
"MUSLIMS" ....A mass of people who carry a "holy" book that says to murder all Jews and Christians who won't bow to their prophet.
And now we're flooding them into our country and even putting them into our government!
Can American citizens be more stupid or are we trying to destroy ourselves, AND the future of our kids and grand-kids???
BTW - That first Muslim president Obama said he "had a plan for America" .... and it was NOT for our good. And now they're trying to carry it out!
This is not complicated,
“Does America have a duty to tolerate that which threatens it?”
NO, no one or thing has a duty to tolerate that which wants to destroy it, expecting otherwise is exactly what creates abused, failed relations, expecting the thing to just accept the abuse. No one or thing has any inherent right to destroy that which is not theirs.
How is this even debatable, imo another example of being educated beyond the intelligence needed to understand the subject.
NO!
“Tolerance” and “Diversity”
BUMP!
Any Muslim will tell you that Sharia Law outranks the US Constitution.
Islam is a political system even more than it is a religious system. They would replace everything America is, if they could.
Remember that “Popper’s Paradox” is always invoked by progressives as a reason to silence “farrightwing extremists”.
President Theodore Roosevelt helped ban Muslim immigration to the United States with the Immigration Act of 1907, which banned “polygamists, or persons who admit their belief in the practice of polygamy.”
It was effective.
https://www.meforum.org/islamist-watch/when-teddy-roosevelt-banned-muslims-from-america
This is not new. Thomas Jefferson realised this would be a problem when he had to deal with the Barbary Pirates but back then, we had an ocean to separate us. With air travel, that’s no longer the case. We need to very carefully choose who we want in this country.
Another way of putting the question: Is the Constitution a suicide pact?
Imagine a teenager taking over the world and decreeing that anything that was originally written in cursive is Haram. It's that level of eradication, authorized.
“...while Islam is most certainly a religion...”
The writer lost me with this part of his entry. If it is determined that islam is a religion, then is satanism and other groups like the Byzantine Empire a religion or a cult. The difference to me is that the only predominant religious group that has never grown out of violence for their God is islam.
They are willing to die for their God, not their customs, because everything they confront is for their God and not themselves. They are never insulted as they are willing to live in standards that other religions have progressed past as they are destructive and not progressive. They are never focusing on forward-thinking, sustainability, inclusive living, or aiming to improve individual well-being and social equity. And violence is their only resort to reach their goals of domination. And no country or religion in history has accomplished those goals without it. So it is distasteful and scorned. Kind of feeding it’s own cruelty as it searches for answers to their domination.
wy69
War with Islam.
Not if.
Ethno-Religious relocation. Some religious-ethnic groups are incompatible with free societies. Saudi Arabia has lots of open land
Good points
Firstly, no.
Secondly, while this post-WWII "paradox" is still being debated, Popper said clearly:
"[...] But we should claim the right to suppress them [intolerant ideologies] if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols." [ Wiki, as source ]The quote rather well can be used to picture "debate" with an ardent Muslim, though so often Muslims prepared for "dawah" are not prepared to discuss with someone more informed than is he. Debate so easily becomes "denouncing" debate, to the point of violence.
This is true of the Left, when one looks to Marcuse, as one example, a gift from the post-WWII era of Frankfurt School Marxists through to Columbia, and then on into academia around the nation. "Repressive Tolerance" was then a word game, as is Popper's to my view, from Marcuse:
Repressive Tolerance Marcuse, circa 1965.Another reason to conclude that today's Left is so easily an ally of today's Western Islam, and both are so represented in the Democrat Party, alongside pathological lunacies like transgenderism and rampant abortion and others.
Therefore, and to include the Democrat Party, "...does America have a duty to tolerate that which threatens it?" No. Plain and simple. No.
Just don’t let them into the country , same as Hindus.
They don’t belong here in the first place .
No. Next question.
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