Sunday, October 01, 2006

The Awakening Continues: Muslims Want to Destroy America and the West

The Western world continues to awaken from its self-induced delirium regarding the nature of Islam and the threat we face. Jonathan Last, writing in the Philidelphia Inquirer today, is another liberal who has embraced an unpleasant reality: the Muslim world intends to conquer us and impose Islamic religious law over all the world. This has been their goal for 1300 years and there is plenty of history to support it.

There are still many who seek refuge in self-deception and denial. There are those who think that Islam is a "great religion" that has been hijacked by an extremist minority. Sorry, but that's just not true. There are still others who believe that the Muslim world's violence towards the West is the result of legitimate grievances. That's not true either.

What is true is that Islam is a totalitarian, expansionist ideology that seeks our deaths or our submission.

Read Jonathan Last's article if you read nothing else today.
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One Last Thing: Post-9/11 conflicts rooted in history

It's not just Afghanistan, Iraq and a "war on terror." It's
the West vs. the Islamic world, a clash that has never abated.

By Jonathan Last

Soon after 9/11, the Bush administration labeled the conflict into which it plunged this country the "war on terror." But this is no more descriptive than calling the fight in Iraq a "war on IEDs." The more pressing question is: Are we, or are we not,
engaged in a larger clash of civilizations?

If the answer is "We are," the clash long predates 9/11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and George W. Bush. It predates America itself. It is a clash between Western civilization and the Islamic world.

If we accept that this is a clash between civilizations, two questions face us: How does this change our thinking? And the painful one: What do we do about it?

Read the whole article here.

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