[secretagent]

To wit, with us it is war to the knife against any sect or power that does not leave its citizen's conscience's free. We do recognize one doctrine, in other words, that is to us anathema, and pronounce our fatwas against any who proclaim it, and will wage jihad against any who embrace that doctrine. The Islamic world would hear us much more clearly if we said so directly in clearly comprehensible terms, instead of Orwellian double-talk about "religions of peace".

I like this, but would pronounce the fatwas only against those who direct their violence against us.

[JasonC]

Glad anybody bothered to read any of it - lol. I can understand the perspective behind your quibble or modification, but I think it is out of place after the last year. It might have been reasonable to think, let foreign radical ideologues preach their hate as long as they are going after Africans, Indians, Israelis, and not after us. But surely it is by now clear that an international ideology of world wide dimensions is in arms against us already. And we will be a target of that ideology whatever we do, because we are in the way of its pretensions to eventually running the world. If your quibble amounts to not getting hot and bothered over, say, intolerance in Burma or Nepal, fair enough. If it is meant to imply there is any way the Islamicists could be got to leave us alone through some sort of contrite submission and non-interference with their rages, that is a delusion.