[junta]

Mr. Steyn is certainly (with good cause) harsh on the Islamicists, but I have a prediction for him; After we occupy Iraq all the neo-Liberals at places like TNR will turn up the volume on people like Steyn, Coulter for their supposed intolerance for the "good muslims" while his allies the neo-Conservatives will have better things to do than defend him (her), themselves looking for "good muslims." Such are the vagaries of Middle Eastern politics and woe to the people of the United States that such hucksters control our levers of power.

[Inkie]

In contemplating this return to stricter Muslim codes, I am struck by the fact that so many westerners are returning to their traditions also, either through renewed Christian practice, return to more traditional Judaism, etc. If this is part of a trend of the young becoming more religiously traditional, then it more or less proves that Islam is fundamentally a violent religion. Those returning to Christianity and Judaism are trying to develop their relationship with G-d by knowing Him and becoming better people and helping our fellow men. Islamofascists know their god by becoming worse people and killing their fellow men.