USA has many allies in the Muslim world..... Jordan, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Yemen, and as much as many of you don't want to admit it, Saudi Arabia.
What does bother me about Islam is the subjugation of women and the institution of Sharia law. Laws should not be based on religious text.
Moreover, I don't think women should be draped from head to toe. I like seeing women in miniskirts. However, if you travel to Dubai, Kuwait, Amman, or Cairo,(just to name a few) you will see exactly that.
So I do not belive that we are, or should be, at war with Islam. I do believe that we should be at war with terrorism. That's a whole 'nuther post though.
I do hate and despise repressive, autocratic, delusional, hateful belief systems that seek to subjugate the world and think of themselves as the unquestioned heirs to all of creation. If such a belief system is also characterized by a hatred of women, Jews, Christians, Buddhists and non-believers, all representational art, finds itself blowing up things because "allah told me to do it" and spews hatred to its own children and calls it education, I find that particularly reprehensible. Finally if such a belief system is populated with a core of 80%-90% supposedly decent people who say nothing about the small extremist fringe that behave like this, why that is something I find particularly reprehensible.
But I've got nothing against islam.
Your sentiments are those of the majority. The majority of westerners are not informed about their own history due to the lack of adequate historical programming on TV. If you could read a few good books, or rent a few informative videos about the history of ISLAMIC CONQUEST then we might all be safer.
As long as the past is forgotten and ignored, the future is a replay- a Tivo of the same old same old story of ISLAMIC CONQUEST.
What's so hard to understand about the Turks in Europe, the Moors in Spain and the advantages of a Christian culture over that of the suicidal islamic death cult?
Millions live under the umbrellas of Christianity and Isalm, respectively. Which would you choose if the sword was at your neck and you had no gun?
The soft-sell by liberals and the vanguard of Islam is the Rodney King "can't we all get along" mantra.
Check out the state of affairs in Britain. Those poor bastards are due for serious blood-letting due to their capitulation to "peace at any price".
England we see in old movies is dead. All that is left is the husk of impotent losers, lining up for their daily spanking at the hands of petty bureaucrats and policemen.
Rational thought when discussing Muslims is not allowed on Free Republic.
The thought police will get ya