You are a pleasure.

Submitted by kman (United States), Nov 17, 2008 at 21:22

Dr. Pipes is hugely blessed in knowledge and wisdom. I wish he saw a little further into the reality of Islam. The Muslims delude themselves and seek to force all humanity to buy into the same delusion in both religion and the truth of history. We can't negotiate peace with any portion of Islam whether "peaceful", "moderate", or radical.

Amongst many other venues in mankind's history, Islam proved who they were in the Barbary Coast Wars back in the United State's early years. As with then, Islam will negotiate when cornered and then push wherever else they can in whatever way brings victory. They sign a worthless treaty and give it no thought when it suits them.

A rare few, anymore, know much history at all. We will die by that ignorance just as every other nation in history died when reaching the same state of ignorance, self-indulgence, and absolute sell-out to morality. In the latter, we have just a scant little distance to travel.

We are close to there.

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