and not take forceful action against it—??
Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran’s on the table....
But I do think he broaches the Islamic incursion here in the USA with too much tolerance. The new attorney general recently said that when he came into office he was stunned at how much jihadi activity the FBI JTTF’s are monitoring inside the US right now. The would-be terrorist groups and cells gain a foothold in part because umbrella Islamic organizations ISNA, MSA, and others get all kinds of protection as religious organizations do in America. If the IRA had come here under a slightly altered guise (say, the Irish Brotherhood), claimed religious standing, and then began bombing Protestant targets in the midwest or south in the name of radical Catholicism, well, how much would anyone care that Catholicism actually is a religion of peace?
You start knocking down buildings, shooting up malls or synagogues, hijacking planes, mailing anthrax, plotting to collapse the Brooklyn Bridge or blow up the tunnels, hey, why is there even a conversation about “religion?” If I’m Bush I say something like, “Forget religion. This is about war. Enemies are getting here in the guise of the Muslim faith and with the backing of Muslim organizations overseas and here, and until the Muslims here and abroad can assure me this has stopped happening, forget it. Nobody is coming in here from [and then read the list of the 35 or more countries where Islam is predominant].”
Instead, we put Poland on a list that was stricter than Saudi Arabia in terms of foreigners obtaining a visa. That’s not my idea of being “forceful.”
BTW: I love that map you posted from Emerson. If that doesn’t say it all, I don’t know what does.