The writer has forgotten that Extremist Islam, like extremist Fascism, is not malleable to change. Marxism never was from the start.
There are a small number of Moslems who do not advocate the extermination of the only Jewish nation in the world, but if they speak out, they will be vilified, ostracized or killed. That is the major difference between the civilized and the rabid animals with two legs.
Communism will jail you, torture you, make you disappear, or just outright kill you. However, it has been overthrown in a number of countries, yet the capital of Marxism in the Western Hemisphere still lies 90 miles off of our shore. We blew its liberation decades ago. It’s offspring rule in Venezuela and again, in Brazil.
We lacked the will to take out Fidel when we had the chance. It set the stage for our political failure to save Indochina from communism.
I was, perhaps, the only journalist, if not person, to warn Congress about the coming genocide in Cambodia in July 1974 and April 1975. I was shone a Secret document about the Khmer Rouge occupation in one region of Cambodia, and it was the precursor of things to come.
I lost new acquaintances there, people I had met, eaten with, interviewed and written about as an accredited journalist there and in So. Vietnam.
I had already created, collated and written some of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee’s last volume in “The Human Cost of Communism” series (in Russia, by Robert Conquest, and in China, by Prof. Richard Walker, 1970-72).
I tried my best to warn people of what was coming to those people if we abandoned them. I wonder if anyone tried to help.
Finally, all my grandmother’s side of the family who remained in What is now Lvov, Ukraine - men, women, children, babies- were taken out to a sandpit on the edge of Lemberg/Lvov/Lviv, and shot to death.
I know genocide and this is what hardcore Islam is all about. This is what Israel faces today, not only from Iran, Hamas, etc., but also from their Fifth Columnists in the Free World, especially the US, but also from our dupes and Marxists here in academia, the media, radical churches and from black anti-semitic/neo-Marxists and con artists.
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it!
Welcome to Santa Cruz where Israel’s and America’s imported and native-born citizens are working night and day to destroy Israel, America, and Freedom as we know it throughout the world, aided and abetted by the Left, power hungry Democrats, and the stupid who live on our blocks.
The Old Red Mole and the Green sword of too much of Islam NEVER SLEEP!
Neither should we.
Long live America, Israel and Freedom for all peaceful people’s of the world.
That is very sobering.
Good post!!!!