WHY..

Submitted by DONVAN (United States), Mar 16, 2007 at 08:52

Most non-Muslim people who have looked at the Islamic problem understand the genesis, methods and objective of Islam and the role that even the not- currently- violent- Muslims play in the advancement of the Islamic agenda. The elites of the non-Muslim world have focused on not targeting "Islam" not because of a fear of the ideology, but because to attack Islam directly would, in their judgement , provoke support and sympathy by the socialist left.

The war on "Terror" is of course, in fact, a war on Islam, because Islam cannot exist without "Jihad" which is the concept of forced subjugation. The danger is that the political and cultural forces of the Muslims may move faster and consume the West with demographics and unified political action. We see this in Europe and Holland especially where some politicians are preparing for the eventual Islamic take over. The real danger is that the Islamics will NOT resort to violence. So long as we can point to the demonstrably violent nature of Islam, we have an enemy to defeat, should the Islamics renounce the violence, the West would be subsumed even faster.

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