That phrase about polishing something you can’t polish comes to mind.
1) nuke Mecca
2) send in the Christian missionaries
Repeat as necessary
Who comes up with ideas such as these?
“Reform” someone else religion which you find detestable?? Meanwhile, welcome the proliferation of same in your own country (while they would butcher you if you asked for the same in their country) and consistently excuse not just the *bad*; but murderous, savage, terroristic behavior of 1% or .1% or even .01% of them and continuously make all sorts of accomodations to folks who openly hate us?
WTF for? What’s the upside?
In that context, they and the world will find that, no matter what they do, understanding and accepting who Jesus was/is will be the only way for them to escape the trap that Satan has caught them in.
There is NO other way out of the trap.
It can not be reformed - it’s fundamental tenets are evil.
You cannot reform Islam.
All I need to know about Islam I learned on 9/11. Muslims won’t change Islam because they don’t want it to change from the 7th century religion of conquest and rape that it is.
You can’t reform islam without rewriting the koran.
“A moderate Muslim is by definition a LAPSED Muslim”
The VERY first thing is for the powers that be and the population in general to start calling a spade a spade.
As long as the loyal congregation of the church of Political Correctness keep living their lives scared to death of offending the very people that want to kill them, it will never be addressed.
I don’t understand it...
Liberals will take God’s name in vain and praise Muhamed.
They praise the one that wants to kill them and curse the only one that can save them from death.
The question, therefore, is whether Islam may be treated the same way, and the answer before the advent of violent, militant Islamic extremism was yes, or at least more or less as a working compromise for societal comity. It appears that the answer is now no, if Greenfield is correct and jihad is so incorporated into its canon that it cannot be modified or extracted.
That's a pity, because it strikes at the heart of Western culture's hard-earned principle of toleration. That principle was regretfully disregarded when both Nazism and Communism went through violent subversive stages. That is now decried on the Left as an overreaction and labeled McCarthyism; I believe, on the contrary, that it was both justified and effective.
But it is no small step to declare Islam inherently, irredeemably violent and to suppress an entire religion. That activity strikes at the founding principle of toleration and freedom of worship. If it's that or bodies in the street there isn't really any ideal choice and there may not even be any good one.
I regularly post Greenfield’s blog posts. This one is at: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3218276/posts
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Lou
Islam can’t be reformed. The best we could hope for is to destroy muslims’ faith by discrediting their powerless false god; do that by blowing every muslim holy site off the map. If that fails to dissuade them, there is only one solution left.