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| The West is Lying to Itself about Peaceful Islam |
| 2007-09-29 |
| There is a reason that the West ignores the dangers facing it. The Western media ignored Ahmadinejad's message, just as it has insistently ignored the messages of bin Laden and Fatah throughout the years, because Westerners have a hard time believing that anyone would want to abide by the Islamic world view which denies mankind's desire for freedom. But no matter how ugly an ideology is, in the absence of real competition it gains adherents and power. The only way to ensure that jihadists' demonic views are defeated is by stridently defending and upholding the fundamental principles on which the Free World is based. And the West hasn't even begun to take up this challenge. As a result, it has handed its enemies two victories already. It has demoralized its potential allies in the Islamic world, and it has failed to rally its own people to defend themselves. In spite of what the West would like to believe, Ahmadinejad and his allies from Ramallah to Waziristan, from Gaza to Kandahar to Baghdad, are not negotiating. They are fighting. Rather than ignore them or seek to find nonexistent common ground, we must defeat them - first and foremost on the battleground of ideas. |
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |
| #7 "The man believes God is with him" Then the sooner he meets his god - in HELL - the better for all concerned. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2007-09-29 23:23 |
| #6 Ahmadinejad is not interested in convincing the US government or even the majority of Americans to convert to Islam. He is interested in convincing adherents of totalitarian Islam and potential converts to the cause that they are on the winning side. Even this is, I think, still stuck in Western realpolitik thinking. While I have no doubt he would be happy to bolster support amongst adherent of totalitarian islam - as if there was another kind of islam - his primary purpose was to deliver the traditional appeal to the kufar to convert or face annihilation. The man believes God is with him; everything else is secondary. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-09-29 23:19 |
| #5 ...Ahmadinejad and his allies from Ramallah to Waziristan, from Gaza to Kandahar to Baghdad... The real problem we're having is that Dinnerjacket and Co. also have allies in Manhattan, Hollywood, San Francisco, DC and every newsroom and faculty lounge in the country. |
| Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2007-09-29 18:32 |
| #4 Sea, that's what they say, that's what they always say... First law of thermodynamics clearly states: There is no free lunch! |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-09-29 16:53 |
| #3 The only way to ensure that jihadists' demonic views are defeated is by stridently defending and upholding the fundamental principles on which the Free World is based. Instead, we are treated—both here and abroad—to deafening silence from our political and religious leadership. It is difficult to imagine a more sincere betrayal of liberty and freedom's most basic tenets. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-09-29 16:48 |
| #2 Money for nothing and your chicks for free. What's not to like? |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-09-29 13:05 |
| #1 It's too bad Communism started failing thousands of years ago because that would be a perfect counter-point to "Westerners have a hard time believing that anyone would want to abide by the Islamic world view which denies mankind's desire for freedom." |
| Posted by: danking70 2007-09-29 12:33 |