Moderate Imperialism

Submitted by Arlinda M. DeAngelis (United States), Jan 2, 2003 at 12:26

A little imperialism is good.

Islam is an imperial theocratic political belief system which looks to rule the world with one book. Its goals are to dominate, oppress and obliterate both its adherents and those that believe otherwise. Islam is about power of the few over the many and the many are expendable. Moderates or even those that seek conversion to this religious enslavement can only be moderate or a convert under a free democratic system. The democratic system that allows them moderation and conversion is threatened by the oppression of the so called religion they espouse. Moderates and converts had better think seriously of what they are about to give away or have already given away. Even a little oppression or enslavement threatens a free and democratic way of life.

Elie Wiesel said that enslavement is such an abomnation that it is just as wrong for the enslaved to seek their own oppression as it is for the enslaver to seek the oppression of others. Freedom and democracy are the truths which have brought mankind life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. There can be no peace without democracy. To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, a wish for peace without democracy is a wish for what never was and never will be.

Moderate Islam is an oxymoron. Imperialism and all that it destroys rules Islam. All great wars in which nations and people have destroyed themselves and those that opposed them have been about imperialism and the oppression it brings. We will either fight this war now or our children will have to do it for us. Those that died for us in all the World Wars fought for freedom and we have an obligation to keep the world a free and safe place. We as a democratic and free people cannot walk away from this battle of freedom against oppression or it will come back and enslave our children.

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