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Enough of Radical Islam
Creators Syndicate ^ | December 3, 2008 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 12/03/2008 8:08:58 AM PST by UltraConservative

Enough with the pseudonyms. Western civilization isn't at war with terrorism any more than it is at war with grenades. Western civilization is at war with militant Islam, which dominates Muslim communities all over the world. Militant Islam isn't a tiny minority of otherwise good-hearted Muslims. It's a dominant strain of evil that runs rampant in a population of well over 1 billion.

Enough with the psychoanalysis. They don't hate us because of Israel. They don't hate us because of Kashmir. They don't hate us because we have troops in Saudi Arabia or because we deposed Saddam Hussein. They don't hate us because of Britney Spears. They hate us because we are infidels, and because we don't plan on surrendering or providing them material aid in their war of aggressive expansion.

Enough with the niceties. We don't lose our souls when we treat our enemies as enemies. We don't undermine our principles when we post more police officers in vulnerable areas, or when we send Marines to kill bad guys, or when we torture terrorists for information. And we don't redeem ourselves when we close Guantanamo Bay or try terrorists in civilian courts or censor anti-Islam comics. When it comes to war, extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Enough with the words. Talking with Iran without wielding the threat of force, either economic or military, won't help. Appealing to the United Nations, run by thugs and dictators ranging from Putin to Chavez to Ahmadinejad, is an exercise in pathetic futility. Evil countries don't suddenly decide to abandon their evil goals -- they are forced to do so by pressure and circumstance.

Enough with the faux allies. We don't gain anything by pretending that Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are true allies. They aren't. At best, they are playing both sides of the table. We ought to be drilling now in order to break OPEC. Building windmills isn't going to cut it. We should also be backing India to the hilt in its current conflict with Pakistan -- unless Pakistan can destroy its terrorist element, India should be given full leeway to do what it needs to do. Russia and China, meanwhile, are facilitating anti-Western terrorism. Treating them as friends in this global war is simply begging for a backstabbing.

Enough with the myths. Not everyone on earth is crying out for freedom. There are plenty of people who are happy in their misery, believing that their suffering is part and parcel of a correct religious system. Those people direct their anger outward, targeting unbelievers. We cannot simply knock off dictators and expect indoctrinated populations to rise to the liberal democratic challenge. The election of Hamas in the Gaza Strip is more a rule than an exception in the Islamic world.

Enough with the lies. Stop telling us that Islam is a religion of peace. If it is, prove it through action. Stop telling us that President-elect Barack Obama will fix our broken relationship with the Muslim world. They hate Obama just as much as they hated President George W. Bush, although they think Obama is more of a patsy than Bush was. Stop telling us that we shouldnt worry about the Islamic infiltration of our economy. If the Saudis own a large chunk of our banking institutions and control the oil market, they can certainly leverage their influence in dangerous ways.

Enough. After the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, the plane downed in Pennsylvania, the endless suicide bombings, shootings and rocket attacks in Israel, the Bali bombings, the synagogue bombing in Tunisia, the LAX shootings, the Kenyan hotel bombing, the Casablanca attacks, the Turkey synagogue attacks, the Madrid bombings, the London bombings, and the repeated attacks in India culminating in the Mumbai massacres -- among literally thousands of others -- it's about time that the West got the point: we're in a war. Our enemies are determined. They will not quit just because we offer them Big Macs, Christina Aguilera CDs, or even the freedom to vote. They will not quit just because we ensure that they have Korans in their Guantanamo cells, or because we offer to ban The Satanic Verses (as India did). They will only quit when they are dead. It is our job to make them so, and to eliminate every obstacle to their destruction.

So enough. No more empty talk. No more idle promises. No more happy ignorance, half measures, or appeasement-minded platitudes. The time for hard-nosed, uncompromising action hasn't merely come -- it's been overdue by seven years. The voice of our brothers' blood cries out from the ground.


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: islam; jihad; mumbai; shapiro; terrorism
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To: DieHard the Hunter
I agree. I recall the (unproven) story about an army general in the Philippines fighting Muslim rebels who captured 50 of them, executed all but 1. He covered the bodies with pig's blood, entrails, and pig carcasses and then buried them. He let the one Muslim go to tell the others that they would receive the same fate should they be caught. The insurrection ended.

This is the kind of nastiness that has to be done to stop this, but the US people lack the stones to do what needs to be done. And without backing by the people, the politicians have even less of a spine for what needs to be done.

21 posted on 12/03/2008 9:08:28 AM PST by econjack (Some people are as dumb as soup.)
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To: UltraConservative
The time for hard-nosed, uncompromising action hasn't merely come -- it's been overdue by seven years.

President Bush, along with Condoleeza Rice and others on his team, undertook the challenge of Islam and the middle-east, when they decided to try to topple Saddam and his rule back in 2002.

However, back then, Bush and company decided to hide his true intentions by using excuses such as WMDs and Saddam's threats to the neighboring countries.

The war in Iraq and on Saddam was intended to try to change the entire dynamics in the middle-east by establishing a democratic foot-hold in the area. The belief was back then that, democracies do not attack neighbors and do not start wars, and that once one country was established as a working democracy, others in the region might be tempted as well to follow the example.

The middle-east has not had a lasting peace for thousands of years. Only when the entire dynamics of the region, perhaps even including the elimination of Islam as a religion, will the region start on the way towards long-lasting peace.
22 posted on 12/03/2008 9:09:27 AM PST by adorno
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To: UltraConservative

Bravo to this guy!

He says in refreshing plain language what time it is and what needs to be done.

Let’s roll.......


23 posted on 12/03/2008 9:20:04 AM PST by Emperor Palpatine ("I love democracy. I love Free Republic")
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To: ryan71
You (and many others, too) need to understand the following.

This is a war of civilizations; moreover, it is The War of civilizations: a battle between light and darkness, freedom and slavery, knowledge and ignorance. That many people in the West have not yet figured this out, or come to accept it, or are afraid of the truth, is immaterial.

In fact, Western Civilization as we have known it has been abandoned by significant segments of the population who still enjoy its benefits. Radical Islam is not merely targeting Christians, but all "infidels": Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and atheists as well, regardless of whether they still accept the value and superiority of their native culture.

The Islamists do not care whether we still honor our own faiths or respect our own culture; as long as we do not accept theirs, we must be eliminated or converted. The "Religion of Peace" is in reality a Religion of Submission, and it means to impose its will by force, just as it always has.

24 posted on 12/03/2008 9:24:50 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (Liberty has few friends, many enemies, and no adequate substitute.)
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To: UltraConservative
Enough. After the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, the plane downed in Pennsylvania, the endless suicide bombings, shootings and rocket attacks in Israel, the Bali bombings, the synagogue bombing in Tunisia, the LAX shootings, the Kenyan hotel bombing, the Casablanca attacks, the Turkey synagogue attacks, the Madrid bombings, the London bombings, and the repeated attacks in India culminating in the Mumbai massacres — among literally thousands of others

— it's about time that the West got the point: we're in a war. Our enemies are determined. They will not quit just because we offer them Big Macs, Christina Aguilera CDs, or even the freedom to vote. They will not quit just because we ensure that they have Korans in their Guantanamo cells, or because we offer to ban The Satanic Verses (as India did). They will only quit ...

They will only quit when they are dead. It is our job to make them so, and to eliminate every obstacle to their destruction.”
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Too true. For real. This is exactly how it is.

We are ___________ fill in the blank; if we do not realize and accept the facts/truth. To our own destruction.

25 posted on 12/03/2008 9:27:35 AM PST by geologist (The only answer to the troubles of this life is Jesus. A decision we all must make.)
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To: andy58-in-nh

Religion of Submission

the ‘progressives’ have sooo much in common with them


26 posted on 12/03/2008 9:33:50 AM PST by griswold3
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To: RasterMaster

“There are no “moderate” muslims....they’re ALL radical.”

The so-called “moderate” Muslims are the “non-uniformed combatants” of Islamic jihad.

One doesn’t need a weapon in order to “support the troops”.

- John


27 posted on 12/03/2008 9:35:29 AM PST by Fishrrman
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To: ryan71

The left sides with Islam in its fight against the truth of Christianity.

They are working for the same “father”.


John 8:44
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.


28 posted on 12/03/2008 9:38:18 AM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: griswold3
the ‘progressives’ have sooo much in common with them

So they think. Wait until they find out that Godless hedonists are first on the Muslim hit list.

29 posted on 12/03/2008 9:39:38 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (Liberty has few friends, many enemies, and no adequate substitute.)
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To: UltraConservative

Mr. Shapiro nailed it big-time!


30 posted on 12/03/2008 10:02:09 AM PST by Convert from ECUSA (RINO = Big government, blue blood, country club Vichy Republicans)
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To: UltraConservative; HollyB
They don't hate us because of Britney Spears.

Though I must admit that BS is one of the two acceptable reasons for hating the US. The other is Paris Hilton
31 posted on 12/03/2008 10:10:51 AM PST by Cronos (Ceterum censeo, Mecca et Medina delenda est)
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To: gracesdad

The way to do it is to nukeMecca and Medina. once that is done, the entire edifice crumbles.


32 posted on 12/03/2008 10:12:59 AM PST by Cronos (Ceterum censeo, Mecca et Medina delenda est)
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To: UltraConservative

Yep: Islamofascism is the great evil of today with the Rooskies, Chinese, and Chavez coming near the top of bad guys. Will Obama stand against them all? That is also the big question. As to Muslims here in the USA; unless they denounce all Islamofascist terrorists, they are not , not, not good American citizens and they do not mean PEACE.


33 posted on 12/03/2008 10:26:54 AM PST by phillyfanatic ( iT)
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