Name the Enemy First

Submitted by Jaladhi (United States), May 1, 2006 at 12:02

You wrote: "Can someone tell me why this has not been done yet? I see Westeners getting really tired of this whole fight, and the way it is being waged, we need decisive leadership. We need to set the time frames and win - enough of being nice to an enemy that wants us all dead, enslaved or converted to Islam!!"

To win this war, our leaders have to declare and name honestly who is the enemy and not pussyfooting around. They have to discard some of the popular slogans such as Islam is "a peaceful religion" and has been hijacked by few extremists, and this is a war on terror and it will take years to fight it. We all know better that this is not true. The enemy is brutal as we see his everyday actions resulting in deaths of scores of innocent people throughout the world. Not only they are killing non-Muslims, even the fellow Muslims are not spared such as in Iraq, Darfur, Afganistan, Pakistan etc. And our leaders are still calling Islam a religion of peace!!!

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