Islam is a motivating force for them as well and they interpret its warlike suras, as the original Afghan mujahideen did, as calls to fight against tyrants. Calls to war shouldn’t really be problematic unless one is a pacifist or ashamed of our revolutionary history.
Talk about “tripe”. Equating our revolutionary humanist enlightenment American revolution with the likes motives and tactics of the mujahideen is grotesque.
as the drooling Serbian mobs do.”
Talk about “ignorant and bigoted diatribes”
you are as wrong as the Muslims who take offense when Islamism is denigrated for the repulsive ideology it is.”
Sounds like you and me are pretty much on the same page viz. Islam — so why call me all kinds of mean names?
Also, you ignore my main thrust which is that we’ve simply replaced hideous Islamic tyrannies for slightly less (for the time being) fascistic Islamic regimes. How much time before these so-called “peace-loving Muslims” revert to type and begin funding their own sundry Jihads to terrify and spread Islam? Afghanistan has little avenue for the same kinds of massive revenues that Iraq presents, yet their narco-dollars are going to fund Jihad both within and without Afghanistan — the local governement does very little to stop it. In addition, Islamic Sharia forms the core of the new Afghanistani Constitution — and already there have been troubling signs that “apostates” or those who “insult Islam” do so at risk for their lives. This is a country WE installed, and self desribed “Islamic Republic”. Their “friendship” with us, such as it is, is only temporary. When we leave, the open hatred contempt and double dealing will only intensify, and Afghanistan will revert to a terror center. I guess you’re choosing to remain willfully ignorant of the trajectory of Sharia in Afghanistan, or you wouldn’t make such weak and credulous arguments.
Further, please don’t trot out desiccated old silliness like the “Muslim scholars centuries before the European enlightenment” were all fuzzy and brilliant and so much better than us when we were living in caves… Who cares what the Muslims did, or more accurately, what Marxist prevaricators and their Islamist triumphal apologist friends propagandize that the Muslims did, 800 years ago? The Muslims themselves all admit that the so-called (and much overrated) “gates of itjihad” were slammed resoundingly shut forever.
I don’t mean to be rude, but it is you,, Mr. Strawn, who is spouting a bunch of swill.
