[ml/nj]

This is the only issue in this or any election likely to occur during our lifetimes. The candidates who understand should get our votes regardless of party affiliation.

ML/NJ

[tet68]

At least we have something to look forward to.

[neutrino]

I see the Religion of Peace and Love hasn't changed a bit in the last thousand years.

[Enterprise]

In the year 2001 the religion of peace attacked the United States. President George W. Bush subsequently opened up a huge can of whupass. Sadly, the Democrats are trying hard to seal the can.

[Mr. Mojo]

We need to take heed.

[livius]

Agreed. However, the Dems are NEVER going to be on the side opposing Islam, so I think our party options are limited!

Pity nobody reads the Durants anymore.

[jocon307]

Agreed, Islam rides again, to be stomped out, this time probably permanently.

[Cacique]

The huge problem is that the left does not see a civilizational distinction, thus they are promoters of cultural relativism and multiculturalism(no culture is superior in their view, all cultures are equal). Dedicated to the Gramscian concept that in order for the new socialist order to succeed we must destroy the present order. To that end they will invite any and all groups congruent to that end, including the Muslims.

Their illusion as it has been of all elites is that they will be in charge of the new world order rather than it's victims.

That is the mistake that elites have always made throughout history and they will end UPI destroying western civilization and be the first victims of those that will replace us.

The great clash will not be between the west and islam. This is a sideshow, the west is already finished a victim of it's own decadence and nihilistic traits. The real clash will be between China and Islam to rule the world.

The Muslims discovered long ago, that the real weapon of mass destruction is the womb. The will simply populate the world without firing a shot. They are colonizing us and infecting our culture but our myopic leaders seem to view it as a military problem rather than a cultural one while they push for amnesty for the invaders and global free-trade and government.

We are living through the last days of our western culture. Rome too was a world power shortly before they were conquered from within.

[fella]

A long time ago I read a British book from the 30's about the history of islam. From the descriptions of muhamads death docters said that he most likely died in the advanced stages of a brain deteriating std. Does anyone have any information on that?

[2banana]

Don't forget Tamerlane, one of many Islamic invaders of India (1398), and when he took Delhi he made a pyramid of a hundred thousand heads!

[Warlord David]

When the muslum do destroy this nation, because of liberal left thinkers and leaders. And their demoralization of this country. May the Lord have mercy on them who follow him. Has for the liberal left and the right that thinks like the left, may the muslums have no mercy on them. I do not look forward for that day. But that day is closer than most would want it to be.

[VOA]

This is the only issue in this or any election likely to occur during our lifetimes.
The candidates who understand should get our votes regardless of party affiliation.

Simple voting guide:

Dubya: Will call Islam a "Religion Of Peace" in public.
Will then kick the @$$es of the Islamics who have it coming.

Kerry (and any Democratic Presidential Candidate):
Will call Islam a "Religion Of Peace" in public.
Will believe it in private and appease Islamics who'd like to have his head on a platter.

[miltonim]

Muhammad-inspired persecution of Christians, Jews and all non-Muslims continues...

Mohammed, The Mad Poet Quoted....

[JimSEA]

In addition to Will Durant's monumental work, I particularly enjoyed John Keay's India: A History. Keay is far mor sympathetic to Islam but comes to the same conclusion as Durant. Of particular interest to me were the section on several Mughal Emperors who were fairly benign. Without exception, they were those who drifted away from an Arab / fundamental interpretation of Islam. The Muslims sacked a plundered well but really brought little else.

[Dajjal]

Religion of Peace bump

[PGalt]

Thanks for this post. History and comments bump!

[Quix]

FAR TOOOOOOOO TRUE!

[Cronos]

The Moslem Conquest (of India)

That's supposed to have been the greatest genocide ever with more than 100 million killed.

[kotbmohammed]

What you have told us in your essay is the history of India in the post Islamic era, however Islam had spread to India and the land of today Pakistan only by written messages during the Reign of the Umayyad Caliph Omar Ibn Abd ElAziz who was commonly known as the Fifth wise caliph. After the spread of Islam in the Indian sub content, India experienced a long period of stability which stayed from the Umayyad dynasty to the middle of the Abbasid dynasty. After that India was drawn into a period of civil unrest and multiple revolutions which was so bloody like what you have mentioned, however you can not blame Islam for this you can only blame those crazy Sultans who done those cruel unbelievable acts, we can not blame the Christianity for bombing Hiroshima by the atomic bomb, but of course we can blame Truman for this, I hope I am clear about this. You can blame persons but you can not blame the Islamic faith itself.

[Enchante]

"civilization is a precarious thing, whose delicate complex of order and liberty, culture and peace may at any time be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within."

52% of US voters have just proved themselves wholly incapable of understanding such vital facts. A large majority of the "civilized" world continues to hate President Bush with a feverish passion reserved only for the defenders of civilized humanity -- while the "enlightened" liberals regard the bloodthirsty jihadists as mild annoyances, right up until the moment when "they" happen to be coming down the hallway of your hotel or restaurant slaughtering everyone in their path.......

[Citizen Tom Paine]

War is the art without which other all other arts can’t exist. Unfortunately, war appears to be a condition of mankind.