Too optimistic

Submitted by Ephraim Lior (United States), May 20, 2014 at 17:14

The last paragraph sounds somewhat strange. As I understood you correctly you allow a possibility, rather small one, that Islamism will acquire a human face. It seems oxymoron. Either Islamism is a religio-political movement aiming to establish the world Caliphate with sharia law, or it is something else, with human face but not Islamism any more.

The dilemma you are offering to entertain is whether Islamism will persist, winning militarily or democratically or both, or it will cease to exist, losing militarily or democratically or both.

What can make us lose to Islamism is our state of denial that it can win, lack of understanding what we are dealing with, politically correct unwillingness to adequately assess and recognize the enemy, deriving from the epidemic spread of liberal ideology.

Slogans like "No Pasaran!" are not reliable shields against evil. Should Hitler have atomic bomb the outcome of WWII could be different. Islamists either have it or will have it in the near future. Our government seems to be determined to allow it.

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