| "paranoid approach personified by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s" Just because McCarthy was paranoid doesn't mean that there weren't communists in our government as he proclaimed. Remember, even the Soviets claimed the Rosenberg's were on their payroll. I disagree with this author. He's claiming there is a political Islam separate from religious Islam, and that's a mistake. He is thinking with his secular westernized brain. Islam is a religion, a political unit, a government and a way of life all rolled into one package. Americans have no problem separating religion from government and freely submitting themselves to the rule of law as the overruling entity. Our laws are based upon Judeo-Christian philosophy and thank goodness not the Koran. Could you imagine the 1st amendment under the philosophy that non-believers are to be killed and anyone converting from Christianity to Hindu is to be killed! What the author is saying would be sensible if Muslims placed the Koran second to the laws of the land, but they are one in the same. He argues that Hamas was elected in a democratic fashion. Okay, I have no problem with that, but if the people elect a bunch of mobsters (or maybe I should say, more mobsters) and their administration writes laws that say it's okay to steal, run prostitution rings, rackets schemes and pump our children full of crack... is that a government that should be respected? Democracy as Americans define it means much more than the will of 51% of the people. That's why we are a republic not a democracy, and why we shouldn't accept groups as Hamas as a government. |
