[JamesP81]

I'm glad someone sees it my way.

A large part of Islam declared war on the west. However, our concern is catching and killing terrorist crazies. Just because they do it because of their religion does not concern us from a legal standpoint. It has its uses in identification (read: airport security profiling is not a bad thing), but we aren't getting these guys for their relgion; we're getting them because they're the badguys. Why they're the badguys is important, but it doesn't change the necessary response.

We have the military capability to crush anyone. All we need is the will to do it. Take Iran for example. When we go to war with them, they are going to plaster pictures of women and children blown to pieces on the evening news, so be ready for it. We need the resolve to complete the mission in the face of this propaganda, no matter how dire it looks. We cannot allow jihadist crazies to use our own sense of decency against us.

[Fishrrman]

JamesP81 writes:
we aren't getting these guys for their religion; we're getting them because they're the badguys.

James, they are badguys BECAUSE of "their religion".

Their "religion" is _more_ than mere religion, as we of The West regard religion to be. It is an all-encompassing theocracy which seeks to control not only one's religious beliefs, but worldly behavior. And it tolerates NO non-believers or dissenters.

One of the most famous dictums of The Bible is the refrain that we must "render unto Caesar what is Caesars, and unto God that which is God's". This makes a clear distinction between our material world of existence, and the afterworld promised to come.

Islam MAKES NO SUCH DISTINCTION. To Islam, the world of "Caeser" (read: "Mohammed", the worldly prophet) and "God" are inseparable, one and the same. To live under Islam is to live under Mohammmed. It's his way or "the highway". But - there is no highway in Islam. What do they do with dissenters and openly displayed symbols of Christianity in Saudi Arabia?

So long as Islam exists, there are going to be more and more of your "badguys". And hundreds of millions who either openly support them or, silently, accede.

- John