[ex-Texan]

Islam is a satanic cult dedicated to torture, rape and murder and it goal is to rule the world. 'Nuff said.

[bootless]

"Is Islam a religion of peace?"

No.

[RLK]

To portray Islam as anything more than murderous madness is to perpetuate a myth that allows it to continue it's murderous madness.

[ctnoell]

I'm right wing, but not part of the "religious right". But I stand 100% behind the comments of Robertson, Falwell, and F. Graham. Islam is not about peace! Islam is about intolerance, murder, revolution, and conversion with the threat of death if refused. Contrary to what Buchanan said, I'm all for a holy war! Re-start the Crusades, let's sack every Muslim in Mecca and Palestine, and retake the oil fields in Arabia that America discovered and developed! America and Israel first!

[gorebegone]

Here's how much of the world is enslaved by islamism.

if the image is missing squeeze your mouse here: http://www.wadsworth.com/religion_d/special_features/maps/matthews_world/content/map_01.html

[ikka]

In the last century, America was threatened by a global communist revolution. Avoiding all-out war, we outlasted it.

The USSR is still pretty much intact. A guy who headed up the KGB is its President.

India continues with its socialistic ways; South America keeps electing commies too.

And here in the USA we have income taxes, gun registration, loss of the 4th amendment and property rights infringements out the wazoo.

So, I think Pat Buchanan is whistling past the graveyard on this one.

[Bobby777]

And not all the causes for which Muslims fight -- independence for ... Palestine, -- are inherently unjust or evil.

spoken like Yasser Arafat or Colin Powell ... a deliberate lie ... the evidence is overwhelming to the contrary given the deaths and maiming in the 2+ year old Intifada ...

[Mr. Mojo]

"We will reject the kind of comments ... where people in this country say that Muslims are responsible for the killing of all Jews" - Colin Powell

Fancy semantics there, Colin. Of course Muslims aren't responsible for the murder of ALL Jews. ....Just the ones that have been murdered.

Or perhaps the good General meant that Jews are sometimes murdered by people other than Muslims. Undoubtedly true, but I'd imagine those statistics to be somewhere in the vicinity of 99.999% Muslims, .001% non-Muslims.

[Mr. Mojo]

"Around the world are a billion Muslims, only a tiny fraction of whom are waging jihad against Christian minorities or their own rulers." - Buchanan

A tiny fraction? 1% in a tiny fraction, and 1% of 1 billion in 10 million. (1% is the figure that a "moderate" Muslim used recently in an interview on FOX News when estimating the percentage of Jihadists within Islam). That's a lot of Jihadists.

[ChadGore]

Is Islam a religion of peace?

Not in my lifetime, no.

[Mr. Mojo]

"Should Arafat become president of Palestine, he will face an Islamic party more rabid than the religious parties Sharon must cope with." - Buchanan

Some ultra-orthodox Jews that Pat speaks of may very well be rabid (as in extremely opinionated and dogmatic), but with VERY few exceptions, are a non-violent lot. The same obviously can't be said for hardcore Islamists.

[Mr. Mojo]

"Islam is in a revivalist phase."- Buchanan

That's sure a nice way of putting it, Pat.

[EternalHope]

I understand what the Bush administration is trying to accomplish, and I hope they succeed. We do not want to take on all of Islam unless we have no other choice. Indeed, as a civilized nation, we have a duty to try to avoid such a war.

The evil part of Islam is manifestly NOT a religion of peace. The evil ones are seeking to gain control of the entire religion. We should not make it easy for them to do so.

Hopefully, the evil part is not the majority (we do not know). However, even if it is not the majority, the evil part is already strong enough that most of the rest of Islam is afraid to speak out.

Now is not the time to give the Islamic extremists more fuel for their insane fire. Our own religious leaders have a duty to consider their words carefully.

The day has come when a pimple of a dictator like Saddam Hussein can make biological weapons capable of killing millions. The stakes are very high. Let's not make it easier for the evil ones.

[Cindy]

Question: "Is Islam a religion of peace?"

Answer. Look at history. Look at facts. The facts are an open book.

[Johnny Shear]

In the last century, America was threatened by a global communist revolution. Avoiding all-out war, we outlasted it. And we can outlast this Islamist revolution. What we must avoid is a war of faiths, a war of civilizations between Islam and America. And those who propagandize for such a war are the unwitting or willful collaborators of Osama bin Laden.

Uh, ohhhhhh......The "It's a religion of peace" uttering bigots around here aren't going to like THAT bit of truth! And coming from one of their own???

No...Those wanting a holy war aren't going to like that at all.

[lavaroise]

That Mohammed was a man requiring special privileges such as marrying 6 year old girls and that Islam tolerates such privileging hedonism in their own nations, we can see who is really decadent, despite the West's decadence: it is Islam.

[Dajjal]

HAPPY RAMADAN!!!