If we were at war with Islam you’d know it. We are at war with a radical, extremist faction of Islam, not all of it.
It is a religion largely trapped in the past and ruled by autocrats who’ve kept their people ignorant, desperate and poor. Once they’ve tasted freedom they rarely go back.
A religion with billions of adherents will get some percentage of radical nuts and ignorant fools, but if all billion of them were at war with civilization you’d be on the front lines yourself.
Yeah. I have to agree. There are instances win they do revert to something, but it's rarely if ever of their own free will. Usually, it's an economic collapse followed by a strong-man takeover.
I think Iraq will emerge as a fairly secular country with religious underpinning that are based on Islamic principles. Nothing wrong with that. We're a secular country with religious underpinnings based on a Judeo-Christian principles.
Ultimately, I believe Iraq will set an example that other Islamic countries can follow - they can have countries with Islamic principles, but will be democratic in operation. This will mark the end of the Islamic terrorist threat.
Just not true.
You think of "war" as all out conventional warfare. Islams war is for total domination with little exchange of gunfire. Turkey is becoming more radicalized so is Pakistan and Africa as a whole.
Enclaves of Muslims are growing in every democracy in the world.