[Tolik]

George Weigel is not a typical Newsweek lefty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Weigel

 

[Tolik]

Nailed It!
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[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

It’s simple.

Liberalism is a suicidal form of mental illness.

[Rummyfan]

Believe I heard him on Laura Ingraham’s show this week.... Surprised he’s in NEWSWEAK.

[EdReform]

Ping

[onedoug]

The enemy is pan-islamism and it must be destroyed. Totally.

Now, how many muslims are pan-islamist?

[Jeff Head]

We are in a long-term, protacted war with radical Islam.

One of their war strategies is Jihad...but that is not all we fight. There are other military components (ie. state sponsored insurgents, state armies (Iran), and non-suiicide terror attacks).

There are also economic and political components where even states that we ally with have large componenets of their population who support the fight against us (Pakistan, Saudie Arabia, etc.) and other more radical states (Syria, Iran, Palistinians) use their influence directly in favor of the fighting forces we face.

There is also a cultural component that squashes any dissent within their own ranks to the point where very, very few so-called moderates (if there is such a thing) are willing to risk fatwahs against them by denouncing radical Islam.

And the reason is that what we call radical Islam is really fundamental ISlam becaus ethey all know, both the ones actively fighting us through all these different avenues, and the more moderate ones, that these enemies are literally doing what the Koran and Mohammed told them to do.

[Carry_Okie]

That is what we are fighting: jihadism, the religiously inspired ideology which teaches that it is every Muslim's duty to use any means necessary to compel the world's submission to Islam.

Only on the surface. Bolshevism instigated fighting Jihadism nearly a century ago. It is meant to exhaust us, leaving us open to a choice: defeat or the suffocating embrace of global government.

[EdReform]

The jihadist merchants of death must be defeated morally as well as militarily. Doing so offers the American people the opportunity for national self-renewal and the chance to defend the cause of human dignity throughout the world. The stakes—the future of freedom—are very high indeed. It's past time for those who would lead us to acknowledge that.

Not according to the Dhimmicrat Party: Obama wants summit with Muslim countries

[monday]

“That is what we are fighting: jihadism, the religiously inspired ideology which teaches that it is every Muslim’s duty to use any means necessary to compel the world’s submission to Islam. That most of the world’s Muslims do not accept this definition of the demands of their faith is true...”

I see no evidence that most Muslims do not accept this definition. Even Muslims that do not engage in Jihad admit that by not doing so they are in essence, being bad Muslims, because this is indeed what Islam teaches them that they must do. This article comes close to naming civilization's enemy, but still misses it. Civilizations enemy is the ideology of Islam, not just those who practice Jihad, but those who teach it, and those who follow it. Muslims.

[RightWhale]

The problem is they are taking the concept literally rather than metaphorically. That happens a lot among illiterates.

[swarthyguy]

The primary protagonists and supporters of Jihad are from the Wahhabi/Salfi and Deobandi schools of Islam.

Both are firmly ensconsed and supported by our ally, Saudi Arabia and enjoy widespread support in Pakistan.

If we had the stones to take it to the Saudis, we could cut off the funding and starve jihadis not only in Pakistan but in many other places.

Instead, Abu swaps spit and holds hands with Saudi rulers.

Some effing war. On a tactic, no less.

Yawn.

[neverdem]

BTTT!

[knighthawk]

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