Excellent article! I wish I could get my lefty family to read it. They’ve taken the lame-stream view that Muslims are just a poor oppressed minority in this country with no evil intent.
Great read, couldn’t have said it better myself.
“Al Queda” and the like - all their clones - are nothing other than the “violent” wing of the same fundamentalist Islamists as the Wahabi, the Iranian Mullahs, founding clerics of Hamas and Hezbollah, and supposed moderates like CAIR.
Their core objectives are the same and it’s not that they actually oppose the means used by their fellow violent, or non-violent brethren - as the case may be, its only that that’s not their role in the process.
It’s a giant global, geopolitical game of bad cop, goo cop.
The latter, Krauthammer insists, is “an ideology of a small minority which holds that the essence of Islam is jihad, conquest, forcing people into accepting a certain very narrow interpretation [of Islam].”
Krauthammer can't be very smart or "respected," if 240,000,000 primitives bent on mass murder is a "small minority."
And those are just the 20% that would welcome the opportunity to exercise the direct option if available.
"There are no parliaments or representative assemblies of any kind, no councils or communes, no chambers of nobility or estates, no municipalities in the history of Islam; nothing but the sovereign power, to which the subject owed complete and unwavering obedience as a religious duty imposed by the Holy Law. . . . For the last thousand years, the political thinking of Islam has been dominated by such maxims as “tyranny is better than anarchy,” and “whose power is established, obedience to him is incumbent.”
Bernard Lewis Essay, 1954, International Affairs