This article is a crock. The biggest mistake is to think there is a “war” in the first place. The reality is, there are some fringe groups in most every evangelical religion that are willing to kill to prove their point. The solution to this problem does not require a different language, and it does not require ‘faith’ in the religious sense of the term.
In fact, what would be most helpful would be to use reason and enlightenment to help resolve the underlying issues that drive the fanatics. Insisting on a war, and couching the war in religious terms, is simply a recipe for continued and amplified disaster.
If we lead by example, and persecute our ‘enemies’ with the ‘language of faith’ as our tool, we only embolden these fanatics to do the same. Better to make friends.
How about cultural exchange, education, and public works, to improve the lot in life of the muslim world, and take away the poverty and desperation that makes recruiting jihadis so easy? Is that just too secular? Not enough ‘language of faith’? Not the ‘war’ you would prefer to wage?
Fighting fire with fire is a sure way to burn down the house, folks. Better to remove the oxygen &/or fuel, and let the fire suffocate.
