[Pyro7480]

You're exactly right to use that term. We must distinguish between ISLAMISTS and the freedom-loving Muslims. Islamism must be destroyed.

[agrandis]

The only freedom-loving Muslims I have ever known of are three friends. One is Egyptian, one Pakistani, and one Lebanese. The Egyptian is a confused atheist in private, but an avid Muslim when he is around oher Muslims (there is INTENSE peer-pressure). The Pakistani avoids other Muslims, and is pretty much a Deist. The Lebanese is a wild man who lives in an area where there are few Muslims, and does not practice his religion. When I was in graduate school, I made casual friendships with several other Muslims, who were serious about Islam. NONE of them had ANY affection for the United States, and three or four of them I would report to the FBI, if I knew they were still in the country today.

All three of my friends would back up what I am saying. I know this, because we talk about it often. Islam is not a religion with a commitment to feedom. It is a religion that teaches its spread by military means. The percentage of the Muslims here on student or work visas who have complete sympathy with Al-Queda is much higher than most people realize, it seems to me.

It is not an accident that Latin American culture is based on Catholicism plus local Indian superstitions, North America is based on a peculiar brand of non-Popish Christianity with its cradle in Great Britain, India is based in Hinduism, and the Middle East, Central Asia, and parts of Africa and Southern Asia are based in Islam, etc. Religion is the base of ideas, and ideas are the base of the history of a nation. These things are not random. Islam, in all its forms, is not friendly to the ideals articulated by James Madison. It is based on a completely different worldview. For that matter, Oprah Winfreyism is not compatible with those ideals, either.

As I always say, one of the big causes of 9/11 is the widespread and increasingly unchallenged, irrational idea that no culture is any better than any other culture.

We can admit this, and still condemn persecution of Muslims amongst us. It is not Christian, or American, to act with malice towards American who are Muslims. We don't have to lie to ourselves and to the public at large about the origins and ideals of Islam, and pretend it is something it is not, in order to hold to this precept of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all Americans.

[BOOTSTICK]

Unfortunatly, freedom and democracy are incapatable with Islam. The author makes the same foolish mistake that we made by defending the Muslim factions in the Kosovo war. When you allied with Muslims, chances are you will eventually get burned. Read the Koran, and know that the only difference between the Islamists and the so called "moderate" muslims, are the lenth of their beards.