Why we can't win

Submitted by Michael Martin (United States), Jan 9, 2007 at 00:47

The chance to defeat Islam once and for all passed us by 1400 years ago. The tribes of Arabia couldn't do it, Mohammad's own family couldn't do it, the Jews in Yathrib couldn't do it, the Roman Empire couldn't do it, and the Persian Empire couldn't do it. If we couldn't defeat a handful of poor barbarians from the desert, how do we plan on defeating 1.2 billion of their descendants now?

If the West really wants to finish Islam off, they better fully mobilize themselves to do it (like in WW 2) rather than this half-ass proxy conflict (and push every "moderate" Muslim into the hands of the Islamists).

Even then, I am not sure if we can defeat Islam. Slow it? Maybe. Defeat it. No.

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