War on Islam

Submitted by Romesh Chander (United States), Dec 26, 2006 at 11:50

War on Terror is the wrong name and wrong war. It should be the War on Islam; not war on radical islam, because, Islam (and according to Islamic fundamentalists), ISLAM IS BASICALLY RADICAL. Muslims consider that crusaders & jews have declared war on Islam; but we have really not declared war on islam, and that is where the problem lies.

We should declare War on Islam. This will require a total change in straegies and tactics. This war cannot be fought by military using its hardware. It will require the same kind of tactics as used by the islamists (box-cutters, suicide belts, etc). Just recruit muslims in their own countries and use them to produce death and destruction in their own countries. Stop all immigration from muslim countries, limit trade to muslim countries to necessities and nothing else, stop all movement of money to muslim countries. Same way, develop new (soft) methodologies to confront the islamists. Yes, this will lead to some lives lost; but then we are already losing lives and not achieving anything.

Stop being Mr Nice Guy. Develop mistrust of muslims in western countries and act accordingly. Don't give democratic privileges to lawful islamism.

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