Islam by another name

Submitted by Tim Long (United States), Nov 10, 2009 at 16:52

"Perennial Jihad" is just another name for Islam. Has any Muslim publically condemned Jihad? Has any American Muslim convert, especially black Muslims, ever openly condemned Jihad? By not doing so and sitting silent, they give tacit approval and therefore aid and encourage its continuation. The biggest mistake the West makes is deluding itself into thinking Muslims, as a group, can be bribed away from their Jihad mindset by the comforts and knowledge that Westerners value. Some grafts are rejected by nature. If a "perennial Jihad" were a plant, it would behave like a venus fly-trap, and the free individual would be the fly.

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