Controlling the Islamic Threat to the West

American Thinker ^ | 6/25/2014 | Michael Curtis

[markomalley]

A greater effort must be made to control the threat of Islamic terrorism. Indifference to the threat, let alone acquiescence, is not an option for Western survival. An official British report published in mid-June 2014 illustrates the need for action.

With the military advances of the army of ISIS, now more than just a band of terrorists, and the capture of the towns of Mosul, Falluja, and Tikrit, the Western world is aware that an Islamic state, a modern-day caliphate, is rapidly being created in parts of Iraq and Syria. The brutal nature of that caliphate has been immediately evident with its murder of large numbers of Iraqi soldiers and its callous treatment of women. While the impetus for the war is against the feckless Iraqi regime of President Nouri al-Maliki, more important is its potential strategic use of the captured territory as a base for Islamic jihad against the West.

What is especially troubling is not simply the well-planned and organized nature of the ISIS' successful offensive, but that this organization, even more extreme than al-Qaeda, has attracted Islamic extremists from the United States and Western Europe. Its victory will doubtless attract even more individuals committed to Islamist values.

[I want the USA back]

The current administration isn’t showing indifference. It’s doing everything it can to help them along.

[ronnie raygun]

He has been cooperative in helping with the caliphate

[RginTN]

Too late. Western europe & the US has deemed criticism of islam as the threat. They’re ok with muslim clerics radicalizing muslims into violence. The left/islamic union is strong.

[Smokin' Joe]

What is especially troubling is not simply the well-planned and organized nature of the ISIS' successful offensive, but that this organization, even more extreme than al-Qaeda, has attracted Islamic extremists from the United States and Western Europe.

Let 'em go. Do not let them back in.

[BCW]

[GoDuke]

Our problem is stated in the title. Why are we trying to control the threat instead of eliminating it?

[biff]

Exactly, there is no religion of peace. They need to be hunted down and killed. It is the only way they recognize and respect. They have to realize we will perform these acts with impunity, we will not honor nor respect them in death.
P.S. to Allah, order up a bunch of virgins.