[Brian Allen]

The extent of the worldwide Muslim population is not generally appreciated in the United States. Muslim rebels threaten the stability of the Philippines. Indonesia, with 200 million people, is a Muslim giant, albeit a largely sleeping giant. China faces Muslim pressure in its western region, as Russia does in Central Asia and nearby republics. Witness the protracted war waged by the Chechnyans.

The [Clinton "administration"] in an act of incredible folly [?] supported the Muslims in Bosnia and Kosovo, thereby giving Muslims an historic opportunity to renew their penetration of the Balkans at the expense of the Christian Serbs and Croats.

The Europeans, for their part, seem unmindful of the danger-even though Muslim revolutionary fighters were brought into the Balkans to help establish bases there. Europeans seem to have forgotten that their ancestors had to fight for hundreds of years to prevent the Muslims from controlling all of Europe, the remains of the old western Roman empire.

[Brian Allen]

Ping

[KeyLargo]

See the homegrown muslim terrorists live at CSPAN2 now: http://www.c-span.org/watch/cspan2.asp

[onyx]

Bookmarked.

[F-117A]

The [Clinton "administration"] in an act of incredible folly [?] supported the Muslims in Bosnia and Kosovo, thereby giving Muslims an historic opportunity to renew their penetration of the Balkans at the expense of the Christian Serbs and Croats.

Amen!

[Mr. Mulliner]

Bumped and bookmarked...and likely e-mailed out. Thanks, Brian.

[jennyp]

Given the relativism of the contemporary liberal world, one has to wonder whether it will be possible for the West to develop the siege mentality that may be necessary to prevent a new Islamic conquest. The acquisition of such a mentality runs counter to everything that Westerners bought into in the latter half of the twentieth century. One of the underlying assumptions of the liberal Western world is that all people are essentially good and that all problems can be solved by sweet reasonableness, with economic advantage being a major force for different groups finding common agreement. These notions are contrary to several millennia of human experience and ignore the bloody, protracted character of conflicts between civilizations.

A lot of us are starting to appreciate the long-term danger of the Islamic world - that they have replaced the Communist world as the main evil force in the world. But I don't think the West had gone soft because of (generic)liberalism, it's just that once Communism collapsed it looked like liberal Western-style philosophy had won.

We all just kind of ignored the Muslim threat. (We never even gave it a thought until 1979 & Iran.) But I think we'll be able to get over the fact that the new Western idyll was cut short after beating the Communists. If another seige is necessary for this century against religious totalitarianism like it was against CommuNazi totalitarianism before, so be it.

IOW, in the long run I'm not worried at all. We will win the long term battle. Islam cannot thrive in a modern world.

[mississippi red-neck]

Great read! Good post.

[truth_seeker]

Ultimately, it required that an atomic bomb be used to humble the Japanese. It was necessary for the Allies to invade the heart of Europe to defeat Hitler's Third Reich. Fortunately, the moral stamina of the Americans and the Allies was immense at the time.

Survival instinct, just as much as "moral stamina." Folks didn't want to be subjects of Germany or Japan, who had declared war against us.

Radical Islamists have effectively declared War against the US (and I suppose anyone who allies with us). Bush and Blair should just come out, and say this, plain and simple. They should give a little history lesson, running down the litany of terroism, by Muslims, across the world.

They should throw down the challenge to every nation, to pick sides. Then start fighting the war, without reservation.

Thus far, it appears to be only vague, half-measures. But it will come to be more, far more, than that. Atomic at some point, because these folks unerstand power and destruction, and nothing less.

[Brian Allen]

Something for the Aussies to contemplate while their "islamic peace organizations" are talking of a "holy" peace! [Events of the past few days seem to indicate that Helen Clarke already DID her homework]

FReegards -- Brian

[MarMema]

Bump for a good post. Also see a piece written in 1988, I think, by James George Jatras called Islam Resurgence and American Collaboration...hope I have the title right....