Posted on 06/19/2006 2:38:22 AM PDT by croak
The collision happened years ago however our leaders and MSM are too PC to address it in the manner needed to defeat a hate cult bent upon our total destruction or assimilation. They have no middle ground and we should fight them as such.
Collision Course?
Oh, I dunno bout dat--have you heard of the new Quantico Mosque?
http://www.furl.net/item.jsp?id=9356950
America is unquestionably on a collision course with Islamic fundamentalism
Yep. I just hope everyone remembers who drug us to this fight before it's all over.
Rock up.
The author nails this one. It is perfectly possible for the ulema to make such a pronouncement - that is, after all, their function, to interpret Islamic law in the light of modern challenge. The Ottoman empire made such an accommodation, but the new fundamentalist interpretation of Islam rejects the Turkish influence and aims for the days before the Arabs lost control. The Turkish solution to this little problem was to crush the Arabs militarily. It isn't obvious to me that that was an unwise course of action.
It doesn't mean war against all of Islam unless the ulema make it so. They take a genuine physical risk in opposing violent, armed fanatics and we should appreciate that. And many of them actually agree with the fundamentalists, and as long as they do so there will be war because that only takes one side, not two.
What will no longer happen is business "as usual" - that is, a constant encroachment and testing of the boundaries and wild screaming that any reaction on our part is unprovoked aggression, imperialism, colonialism, or whatever other buzzword of the moment might be. That works fine in the press but the fight is moving to the battlefield where it doesn't make the speaker bulletproof. For the U.S. the days of taking it are over, and Islam will either have to recognize that as a whole or be plunged into a real fight that will be much worse than that visualized by scimitar-swinging fantasists. For Europe? Well, for Europe the days of encroachment, subversion, and intimidation are still very much alive.
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