civilizational struggle with radical Islam,
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There is only one Islam.
No modifier needed.
There is no moderate Koran.
Their “holy” book is where they get the idea that they must make every single person in the world submit or die.
Their prophet told them they must continue jihad until there is only Islam.
The only rational response to that threat is the eradication of the ideology.
There is only one Islam.”
Let’s discuss that a bit.
Clearly...in one sense, that is entirely true. All Muslims (not including nominal Muslims of course) are co-religionists, and will be have accordingly with respect to the infidel. Spot on.
However...there are also obviously intense rivalvies/factions which exist in Islam and who in fact are happy to kill each other when it comes to supremacy in a particular space (geographic, theological, etc.).
So...give those realities...what does a war against Islam generally even look like?
This is the part that I’m struggling with. We in the west, if we had to, could figure out how to go to war with whomever (Saudi Arabia, Libya, Yemen, wherever...) we can identify on a map. We can even do that to a certain extent with ISIS and that is what I think Trump is doing.
And in that context....we might even be able to subtly exploit “some” factions within Islam in order to defeat ISIS.
But then you have the problem of Isis sympathizers hidden in the west...and not just in Brussels or Amsterdam or Dearborn but all over.
In the real world, or in the old world of armies taking real estate and occupying it, defeating those enemies becomes more problematic.
So I agree entirely with those that say a shooting war is likely coming.
My difficulty is that I have a hard time seeing how that plays out exactly, because though Islam is one, as you note...but it is not one in that it is a place on the map that we could surround and bomb and take over, like Russia or China (which we do not need to do, because they are not actually expansionist and aggressive enemies).
Would love to hear anyone’s thoughts on that.....