Posted on 11/17/2006 6:13:30 PM PST by mirkwood
Turn on Fox News now. A very good terrorist study hosted by ED Hill.
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I did some research and found out that Tony Snow used to be here and that got me wondering.
Actually talking with the President would have been very neat, but thanks anyway for answering.
I'm watching it now.
I don't think i'm going to see or hear anything that will surprise me. But I'm sure I'll see and hear some things that will make my blood boil!!
...feel a stroke coming on....:)
No, that is not an accurate statement. The number of Muslims who are actively trying to kill Americans is less than the number of Muslims who are actively trying to kill other Muslims who are actively trying to kill Americans. The Afghan National Army, the Iraqi Army (less some rogue elements), Coalition troops from Bosnia and Kazakhstan, military and intelligence operatives from Jordan, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman; don't they count?
I watched the entire movie "Obsession-Radical Islam's War Against The West". It's a must for every American to see.
The correlation between today's Islamic radicals and Hitler's Nazi regime is chilling. I've read that this powerful message "Obsession" brings is so politically incorrect, major theatres are refusing to screen it.
I feel cheated by our MSM. They have let us all down by not showing us the true threat we're facing today. Yes, I blame them for keeping us all in blissful ignorance.
I've argued with many liberals on this threat. They call me a spreader of paranoia and that's it's nothing more than a scare tactic dreamed up by right-wingers. They continue to keep their heads buried in the sand.
Our nation has become divided and that's also what the terrorist wanted. As they continue to spread lies in the middle east against the US and Israel, and hatred spreads further, much of America will remain in the dark until we're attacked again. And we will be.
Very very good point, maybe better than you know: if even ONE percent of the billion Muslims on the planet would like to see us dead, that equals a far higher number than the miniscule fraction of one percent of the 99% that are "peaceful" and yet do NOTHING to rein in their murderous minority.
There are between 100 million and 125 million jihadists, based on which estimate you believe. That far outnumbers any number of coalition troops anywhere.
How is it we are still alive?
Check This Out
http://www.durhamrepublicans.org/obsession.html
What is with the incessant, looped music track? I know it is supposed to heighten suspense and create a sense of urgency, but the volume was distracting and made the narrative hard to listen to. Frankly, I can do without the noise.
I am in a constant state of amazement that so many freepers are still not aware or awake.
Isn't the problem how the Koran is interpreted?
I know many Muslims who only follow the "five pillars" and say to heck with not only Sharia and Jihad, but even dietary laws; i.e. they drink beer and eat pork. Are they somehow not "real" Muslims, or less legitimate than Islamists?
If your answer is, "yes," then do you say the same thing about Jews, i.e. that only the ultra-orthodox who follow all the laws concerning diet, dress and behavior are "real" Jews and that the millions of reformed Jews and other less than ultra-orthodox are somehow not really (and religiously) Jewish?
Even among conservative and traditionalist Muslims there are many who, for instance, adopted a kind of "dispensationalist" (to translate to Christian terminology) interpretation of Sharia and other such matters related to religion and state. IOW they believe that the close association between religion and state that was instituted in Mohammad's time (and which Islamists treat as mandatory for the present and for all time) was in fact meant as an extengency for that time and place, and that religion and politics should be separate in the modern world. Even some dissident (but otherwise conservative) Iranian mullahs accept this interpretation.
Are these people not real Muslims?
In sum: Why the hell do you want to effectively, even eagerly, ENDORSE Islamists as holding the correct, sole and monolithic interpretation of Islam; especially when doing so can only assist our enemy in marshalling their forces, and dispirit or deligitimize their own internal foes?
Geez. We have to deal with our own deadly "fifth column" which our enemy actively promotes. Why assist the enemy in undermining the legitimacy (by denying even the reality) of their "fifth column"? We should be promoting (or at least quietly helping) anti-Islamist Muslims, not for God's sake helping our enemy in relegating them to the status of "unpersons".
No. (That argument would in any case be moot in liberal, Western democracy.) As I mentioned there are for instance imams even in Iran who hold this position, and for obvious reasons are thereby in opposition to their government. But continue to pretend they don't exist or don't matter. That will it just that much easier for Iran, who of course is one of our main enemies, to kill, arrest and suppress them.
Ask CAIR - which is supposedly "moderate"
I agree that CAIR are fake moderates. Indeed I agree, even insist on emphasizing the fact, that there are MANY fake moderates. (The same was true, btw, during the Cold War.) The existence of fake moderates is no reason to ignore and undermine real moderate (or otherwise anti-Islamist) Muslims. Indeed the existence of fake moderates -- the fact that our enemy feels a need to co-opt, subvert and neuter the moderate stance -- only points that our enemy fears the potential influence of moderates, else why bother with the charades?
I want to encourage, buildup and legitimize what my enemy fears. I continue to be amazed that many freepers instead choose to legitimize and endorse the Islamist claim that theirs is the only legitimate and possible version of Islam. Why advance the propaganda of our enemy?
Again, so (on such naive appraisal) do MOST Jews and MOST Christians wrt their religious writings. Yet we don't pretend that ultra-orthodox Jews and primitivist, fundamentalist Christians are the only "real" Jews and "real" Christians, and that the majorities who "ignore" (or, for the less naive, differently interpret) "major sections" (e.g. 99% of the Mosaic Law) of their religious texts are phony moderates, inconsequential and don't legitimately represent their religion.
Glenn Becks special was better. It was on again at 7 tonight. it may come on again at 9 or midnight.
You could have said the same thing, at some point, about Andrei Sakharov, Lech Walesa, not to mention thousands and thousands of other Soviet/Communist dissidents (most nameless) during the Cold War. Does that mean we shouldn't have made every effort then to legitimize and build them up? So why do you counsel the exact opposite strategy: lumping dissidents with our enemy, pretending they don't exist, and thereby making it easier for our enemy to marginalize and intimidate his own "fifth column"?
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