With China and the rest to follow.

Marginalizing and killing off these true-believing Mohammedan maniacs is the work at hand for all freedom-loving people.

Pretending that they are merely non-denominational “extremists” fails to counter the central ideological thrust of their attack.

And ignores the need to undermine their recruiting tool: the Koran.

Fighting the effects and not the cause is suicidal silliness.

Which is the plan of the West so far.

Warring against “Terrorism” and not “Their Dogmas”.

Pu$$yfooting around the problem- which is rooted inside the Muslim “holy” book- leaves our side swinging blindly.

While the Jihadis plot efficiently and coldly and at their own pace.

Laughing at our leaders’ naive blather about a “religion of peace”.

Their model was a brutal warlord.

Their playbook is a military manual.

Enough with the p.c. tapdancing.

Open the Koran, and face it.

The emcee apparently joked several times about a Blair candidacy in 2008, which, sadly, would be completely unviable given the current bent of the Democratic Party even if it was constitutionally possible.

Gee, I’d almost have him as the Republican nominee if it weren’t for his European welfarism (even though, by European standards, he was fairly successful in reducing welfare dependency).

Well, Blair has been talking a good game since 9-11. His domestic record seems, shall we say, contradictory? Yeah, I think that’s about as polite about it as I can be.

Krydor on October 19, 2007 at 2:53 PM

Krydor,

I’m not so sure if it’s as much ‘contradictory’ as it is ‘disastrous.’ Those 12 years could have reversed what’s now happening to Britain, if he had acted.

And if you study the last 1400 years, that bears itself out!

It is Islam proper that we are fighting against!!

Not some allegded misinterpretation of it…

I think the Muslim swath is a RATHER LARGER SWATH as swaths go.

MB4 on October 19, 2007 at 1:02 PM

I agree completely. Islam is the only religion that mandates open-ended warfare and subjugation as religious duty. It is the worst religion ever.

Is Blair all we’ve got?

Hitler behaved rationally given his beliefs.

Stalin behaved rationally given his beliefs.

Ahmadinejad is behaving rationally given his beliefs.

MB4 on October 19, 2007 at 12:25 PM
You’re right on all three counts. I wouldn’t call any of those men “nuts”. Calling them “nuts” is too kind and gives them too much credit. It is willful, deliberate evil in each and every one of them. It isn’t a flaw in their ability to think and reason, but rather a flaw in their character…

I agree, “nuts” is a bit dismissive. “Evil” is a better description. The only thing good about it is that evil is predictable, while crazy isn’t. It would be nice if more people would catch on, because a bad outcome is entirely predicatble if evil goes unopposed.

Great swaths of Muslims, Christians, and Vegans (to name a few) fall under the shadow of condemnation with that trivial understanding, and that is precisely where they deserve to be.

Loundry on October 19, 2007 at 12:47 PM

I think the Muslim swath is a RATHER LARGER SWATH as swaths go.

thuja: What the problem with Huckabee in illegal immigration?

gabriel sutherland on October 19, 2007 at 12:06 PM

Huckabee supports what amounts to open borders, though I’m not sure that he has said it explicitly.

I believe that the issues of open borders and surrender to the muslims are closely linked. First, consider Europe’s mistake of importing enough muslims that some countries will turn Islamic with non-European majorities. Second, opposing open borders is saying that our culture is not worth protecting against mass invasion. When one supports open borders and thinks our culture is something we may toss in the trash, what reason does one have to oppose Islamification?

Hitler behaved rationally given his beliefs.

Stalin behaved rationally given his beliefs.

Ahmadinejad is behaving rationally given his beliefs.

MB4 on October 19, 2007 at 12:25 PM

You’re right on all three counts. I wouldn’t call any of those men “nuts”. Calling them “nuts” is too kind and gives them too much credit. It is willful, deliberate evil in each and every one of them. It isn’t a flaw in their ability to think and reason, but rather a flaw in their character. In the case of the world’s worst tyrants, it’s a devastatingly awful flaw.

I fully admit that speaking of “evil” and “character flaws” invokes a value judgment, so it’s fair that I reveal the value by which I judge the character of all people:

It is wrong to deprive any other individual of life, liberty, or property through force or fraud except in the case of self defense.

And by that value, I can easily condemn an entire ideology as evil. Any ideology which maintains it correct to deprive any other individual of life, liberty, or property solely for the sake of religious purity is an evil ideology. Great swaths of Muslims, Christians, and Vegans (to name a few) fall under the shadow of condemnation with that trivial understanding, and that is precisely where they deserve to be.

uh our enemies and most people on the right in the USA

zane on October 19, 2007 at 10:22 AM

Zane,

I just want you to know that I’ve changed my mind. Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is the real danger, as it has been in the past. When the crowds gather in your city and on your block, simply recite the shahada as instructed:

La ilaha illa Allah wa-Muhammad rasul Allah.

then join them against the “those who’ve lost their way,” and “those consigned to hell fire,” screaming, “Allahu akbar!” They are the true enemies of peace in the world. Those damn Zionists and Crusaders. There will be no peace until you succeed and shari’ah, the rule of Allah, reigns in the land.

No it doesn’t. It brings out the worst in Christians, again.

mram on October 19, 2007 at 12:27 PM

Where is that happening?

Practice makes perfect.

MB4 on October 19, 2007 at 12:14 PM

No it doesn’t. It brings out the worst in Christians, again.

Although I don’t think Islamists are nuts – they behave rationally given their beliefs.

forest on October 19, 2007 at 12:21 PM

Hitler behaved rationally given his beliefs.

Stalin behaved rationally given his beliefs.

Ahmadinejad is behaving rationally given his beliefs.

IMO, the real danger is from within. Fanatical nuts come and go, and with our tech superiority they don’t really stand a chance. Being destroyed from within on the other hand only needs to succeed once.

Darth Executor on October 19, 2007 at 11:15 AM

You got that right Darth. Although I don’t think Islamists are nuts – they behave rationally given their beliefs. Charles has an especially disturbing new post about the destruction of the UK. It’s complete with proposed pro-Islamic revisionist history, permitting immigration of people who are openly revolutionary, and allowing Iran nuclear weapons unopposed.

The rewriting of history always accompanies totalitarian movements. Even if nothing else can shake people from their torpor, proposals for revisionist history ought to do the trick. I hope…

against extremism however it manifests itself.

We know well and good where the “extremism” manifests itself. It is not spread out among various religions at random.

What the problem with Huckabee in illegal immigration?

gabriel sutherland on October 19, 2007 at 12:06 PM

See Tyson Foods.

The Crusades were not as peachy as you imagine them to be. In the end, it was Jews who got screwed over by the “Christian” soldiers.

mram on October 19, 2007 at 12:09 PM

Practice makes perfect.

Most beloved brethren, today is manifest in you what the Lord says in the Gospel, ‘Where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst of them.’ Unless the Lord God had been present in your spirits, all of you would not have uttered the same cry. For, although the cry issued from numerous mouths, yet the origin of the cry was one. Therefore I say to you that God, who implanted this in your breasts, has drawn it forth from you. Let this then be your war-cry in combats, because this word is given to you by God. When an armed attack is made upon the enemy, let this one cry be raised by all the soldiers of God: It is the will of God! It is the will of God!
- Pope Urban II

MB4 on October 19, 2007 at 11:47 AM

You just played into zane’s hands. The Crusades were not as peachy as you imagine them to be. In the end, it was Jews who got screwed over by the “Christian” soldiers.

Things were cool until new players demanding oil entered the fray. China and India, moreso China, are going to pulling the oil exporting nations in their direction for some time.

The real problem is that all the oil exporting nations are staffed by crazy people. The moderate is Putin. Not a good sign.

thuja on October 19, 2007 at 10:42 AM

You are exactly right. The real comparison to the 20’s and 30’s is how the left either caters to these people or sticks their heads in the sand with regard to the issue. And the general public’s attitude in wanting to remain isolationist and not deal with the problem that is coming closer and closer to our shores. (in the form of nukes or a bio-attack)

conservnut on October 19, 2007 at 11:05 AM

It is not just the left that caters and appeases. Neville Chamberlain was a Conservative Prime Minister and the crowd that cheered his “Peace in Our Time” speech were presumably mostly conservative. Currently, we see Bush’s aid Karen Hughes walk wearing a head scarf and carrying a book by Karen Armstrong. Karen Armstrong fantasizes a peaceful Islam as Karl Marx fantasized a worker’s paradise. And you can read above where MB4 quotes Bush saying nonsense about Islam.

I really only trust two Republican candidates to be able to deal with Islam in a reasonable way: Tancredo and Rudy. I fear the most of the rest are likely to respond like Bush. And then there is Huckabee. Given the logic Huckabee uses to justify his pro-illegal immigrant stance, I fear he would be no better than Obama in dealing with the muslims.