Agreed. Thank you for the discussion. Interesting. :)) No extreme is beneficial when peace is at stake. It angers me, the last semi-presidential administration, to allow a muslim extremist such as Alia Isetbegovich to be the president of Bosnia when in 1956 he wrote a book in which he sated that the Balkan region must be rid of all non-Muslims. If his intent is to use whatever means necessary to achieve his destructive goal how was he seen as an officer of Democracy, civil rights, and peace? It's sick policies like these which fuel the hatred we later have to send "peace" keepers in to stop. We have had a failed foreign policy for 8 years and unfortunately I believe much of the world is reacting to it negatively.
Your right, Islam and the West have little conflict with one another, directly anyway. But wait. We have yet to border an Islamic nation and we have yet to see a giant Islamic majority in the US.
the reason why I bring up the Balkan region is because it an excellent example of Western political failure. There, Islam and Christianity are at a front with on another, causing this friction. The Easter Orthodox Church has experienced the full force of Islam to the amusment of the Western cousin.
Yes, I agree with you completely. Our policy in Bosnia is totally screwed up. If you ask me, we should have let the Serbs and Croats ship off all the Mohammedans in the Balkins to Albania.
I also agree that Islam can only be peacefully coexisted with when it is at arm's length. That's why we should have as little to do with the Islamic world as possible.