There will be peace when the surviving Muslims repudiate jihad and dhimmitude.
How many do we want to survive?
This is not a question for us to answer, it is a question for the Muslims to answer.
The question for us to answer is: are we willing to submit, in any way, to Islam? The answer to that question is not no, it is HELL NO!
This is precisely what the jihadists tell us, what fourteen centuries of Islamic theology and jurisprudence tell us, what the Koran and Hadith tell us. Yet we smug Westerners, so certain of our own superior knowledge that human life is really about genes or neuroses or politics or nutrition, condescendingly look down on the true believer. Patronizing him like a child, we tell him that he doesn’t know that his own faith has been “hijacked” by “fundamentalists” who manipulate his ignorance, that what he thinks he knows about his faith is a delusion, and that the true explanation is one that we advanced, sophisticated Westerners understand while the believer remains mired in superstition and neurotic fantasy.
What words of incredible wisdom ! Fascinating how the port deal apologists call everyone who questions it a 'racist' or a 'bigot' while it is they who reek of Great White Father condescension in assuming that their 'little brown brothers' admire and worship them and want to be just like them. They babble about the 'racism' of people who take it for granted that Muslims have their own value and priorities while they flatter themselves with the assumption that jihadism is a Muslim misunderstanding of Islam and they have some profound cultural and moral influence over the Muslim world. It is the height of arrogance to say that the Salafists have 'hijacked' Islam. The Salafists are pure Islam. We can't define Islam.
That's all I need to know about Islam.
These people will never be our "friends."
Begs the question what are we now doing in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Both these countries are Muslim and will continue to be so after we have left.
The goal of toppling Saddam achieved.
The question of WMD well whether they existed, or are in Syria under the control of either the Russians or some group are no longer under Saddam.
Iraq's infrastructure for creating WMD is wrecked.
So if we are in Iraq nation building then the answer has to be yes, otherwise we are wasting our time being over there.
'Good Question' PING
Interesting read, thank you.
The religion itself with the false prophet himself as it's spiritual leader IS the problem!
What do we think about a man who has his detractors killed and then "mercifully" FORGIVES the killers?
Personally I choose Jesus. WAY better prophet and role model. I believe He would call out the sins of the REAL infidels..and yes they would kill him again.
There are plenty of unfree countries that are helping us with the War on Islamofacism, and plenty of free ones that aren't. France anyone?
Strategy and freedom are orthogonal.