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To: gogogodzilla
...how else would you go about removing it from the world?

The question on the table is, though -- is the only way to deal with radical Islam to kill all Muslims, as knarf apparently recommends?

I don't know about you, but I don't see genocide as being a particularly rational or moral approach to dealing with a certain ideology. Indeed, if you really want to talk about toxic 'memes,' it's difficult to conceive of one more morally repugnant than the sort that relies on genocide as a solution to human problems.

The real path to dealing with radical Islam, is to drag the rest of the Islamic world into modern times and modern morality; and that especially applies to freeing Islamic women. Christianity offers a splendid means by which that can occur, but even just plain western entertainment and television is probably fatal to the more barbaric aspects of the Islamic world.

And, in fact, that is exactly what is happening -- which is what animates the essentially reactionary radical Islamofascist movement.

64 posted on 10/11/2010 7:26:19 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: r9etb
The real path to dealing with radical Islam, is to drag the rest of the Islamic world into modern times and modern morality; and that especially applies to freeing Islamic women. Christianity offers a splendid means by which that can occur, but even just plain western entertainment and television is probably fatal to the more barbaric aspects of the Islamic world.

I guess the real question is whether Western civilization has the time and money to follow your suggestion... or whether Islam will force us to use quicker, but ultimately much more bloody methods to remove the 'Islamist way' meme from the world.

65 posted on 10/12/2010 2:32:15 AM PDT by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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