Publicly name the enemy or perish!!!

Submitted by Jaladhi (United States), Jun 21, 2008 at 18:22

Steve, you have nailed the truth in your post!

You wrote:"What if the enemy is Islam itself? Then it is Dr. Pipes and others that actually fear identifying the true enemy because this truth is too difficult to imagine, much less acknowledge. President Bush says the "terrorists" ("Islamists") are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself."

You are absolutely right. Islam is the Enemy No. 1 of human beings. But don't count on our PC correct leaders and media to say that in public lest we offend the enemy.

Again:"Could it be that the jihadists and those good Muslims that support violent jihad constitute authoritative Islam? Thus America and the west are at war with Islam; not "Islamism."

It is absolutely the case. Muslims, the followers of Islam, are fighting against the rest of the non-Muslim world. Islamism is not fighting this war, it's the followers of Islam who are carrying out jihad against us. Jihad is always violent, that is how it has been carried out for last 1400 years and still continuing today.

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