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…"jihad," a militant struggle to be waged against the world of "apostasy, unbelief, and heresy.".

No, no, no, jihad only means a struggle, like an internal one to find peace with oneself. I know this because I heard the lawyer for the Arabic student at UVA who wrote the letter to his brother who was detained by U.S. authorities on suspicion of trying to carry out a terrorist attack on Israel 2 weeks ago.

To hear these writers, one would think that there were some overt, hateful overtones to the message of islam. But this can’t be the case! islam is a religion of peace. I know this because W says it again and again.

muslims are our friends. Let them in the U.S. unfettered by visas and restrictions. Train them in our Universities, trust them with our secrets! Then they will come to love us even more…

"Kill the disbelievers wherever we find them" (Koran 2:191)

"Not to make friendship with Jews and Christians" (Koran 5:51)

"Remember Allah inspired the angels: I am with you. Give firmness to the believers. I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers: you smite them above their necks and smite all their fingertips off of them." (Koran, 8:12)

islam, the religion of peace…

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

In Mr. Kepel's view, Islamism is a political ideology with little in common with religious faith...In most cases, jihadist doctrine spreads in an ideological vacuum created, in part, by acute privation and educational neglect.

Wrong on both counts but nice try at apologetics. How about in the absence of utopian Communist hegemony, Islam and the Left have joined forces and found a convenient base from which to motivate, employ, exhort its exceedingly high numbers of overeducated socially excluded ignorant youth who have no futures in Islamic countries.

It is no accident that Islamism - the political ideology which exploits the Islamic "religious" code in order to gain power - has only in recent years formed the foundation of a protracted war with the west and all that the West stands for. There is money, perceived oppression, and socialist ideological thought which appeals to former leftists who have no home since the Soviet breakup. Taking away the money (what we can do by cutting off the money flow to the Saudis)would go a long way in undermining this fanaticism.

"By Mr. Rashid's reckoning, tens of millions of dollars flow to Central Asia's Islamic radicals every year. Inevitably, impoverished residents of Central Asia are drawn to the guerrilla movement with promises of salaries of up to $500 a month, close to the region's average yearly wage."

Let's see, Drug Prohibition is first unconstitutional. Second, the WoD has created a high crime rate, devastated millions of American families and destroyed hundreds of neighborhoods. Third, the WoD has lead to a sustained attack on freedom in this country in the form weakening of privacy, intrusions on our persons with urine drug testing, hyper-aggressive police actions and a sustained attack on the Second Amendment. Fourth, the WoD has lead to government corruption from the top, President Bill Clinton to the lowliest prison guard.

Now, the War on Drugs has become and National Security threat with the massive financing of Islamic Terrorists, first in Afghanistan, where opium now funds the Warlords and now in Central Asia.

Let's increase our freedom cut crime and improve National Security, END THE WoD's.