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Radical Islamists, not Islam, is the enemy. The religion is in desperate need of a reformation, that is true. It is too easily corrupted and exploited by those who acquire power through secular despotism and indoctrination of chronically poor, oppressed and uneducated followers. Islamic societies are too often ruled by royal and cleric despots fomenting a diseased cultural more built on deprivation, racist hate, imagined seige and insult and institutionalized poverty and oppression. Islam is a powerful opiate that oppressors exploit within the desperate and ignorant.

Muslim belivers who have assimilated into modern civilizations and political states ... in the U.S., U.K., Canada and Israel to name a few ... have enjoyed great religious experession, community cohesion and relatively peaceful pursuits of prosperity and well-being. They are vital, lawful and positive members of the communities in which they live. That's the outcome when Islam is practiced in a milieu of modernity. It's all good.

The emotion and passion of the Arab "street" is fickle and easily influenced. Arabs are world class smart and savvy, they'll go along with the best program that feeds their cultural imperative for respect and ritual tribute, but most importantly keeps them alive long enough until Allah wills that they prevail over their oppressors some future day. They go along to get along.

But, they are still primarily creatures of their history. Nomads by geographic necessity. They were Tribal and monarchial as a tool for order and survival. Their resource-free birthplaces have rendered them merchants, brokers, traders and often violent theives by necessity. They don't know production, long term investment and invention. They'll always struggle with democratic institutions and secular tradeoffs. The Western quasi-religion of diversity and enlightened tolerance will never be popular over there. They distrust, verify, then distrust again. They're nature will always be, like the Spainiards said of the Moors, "at your feet or at your throat." So what? As long as they disabuse themselves of any notion or access to kill US, I can live with the Arab Street jibba jabbing insults at us and dancing around cluelessly when summoned. They go right back inside their apartments, grab a Pepsi Cola and box of Ritz Bitz and watch Xena, MTV or Baywatch.

Islam cannot be eradicated by the forceful influence of outside forces. Islamist terrorists, their funding and logistic networks, and those States that sponsor these trans-national ambush murderers can. That's what we're doing.

Islam is the enemy!

As you seem incapable of coherent thought, it’s probably unfair to expect you to possess the emotional maturity and self-knowledge necessary to experience shame.

Would a translation of this article from English to Fortune Cookie help you understand it better?

Or do you respond the way you do because you’re hooked up to a machine, like Stephen Hawking, except the communication program you're using is limited to just a few Sound Bites?

I’ll take another “Islam is the enemy” as a yes.