Gathering storm...

Submitted by donvan (United States), Aug 28, 2010 at 10:18

"We are not at war with I'slam.." so declares, with one voice, the political class in the West. Yet we have been in the business of killing Mu'slams in Kuwait, Iraq, Afganistan, Pakistan. Of course the fact that we deny that I'slam is the ideology of wars in the past decade or longer, raises an interesting and comforting notion; perhaps we are as deceptive as the I'slamics! Obviously, "I'slam" as we currently understand the term cannot co-exist within a modern, globalized, interconnected world. The dogma and the inability to compromise has doomed "I'slam". Perhaps some mollified, weakend, "I'slamic lite" ideology sans the exhortations to violence may emerge, but this is unlikely. Sunni/ Shia violence is unavoidable in Iraq. Afganistan is too expensive with the best outcome we can hope for fails the 'cost benefit' analysis. We are at war with I'slam, and its destruction is called for.

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