jeffno-Not to put too fine a point on it, but was it the “fable” of the “clash of civilizations” that resulted in the estimated 280,000,000 unbelievers killed by Muslims during the last 1,400 years, or the estimated 17,000,000 slaves, captured by Muslims, who survived to be sold in Muslim slave markets (slavery that still exists in some parts of the Umma today), was it the “fable” of the Muslim Barbary Pirates that forced our newly formed Congress to pay somewhere between 10% and 20% of our entire government’s budget each year between 1780 and 1800 to the Pirates as “protection money,” tribute, Jizya, until our newly formed Navy and Marines went to Tripoli and destroyed them? Was it a “fable” that blew a hole in the ship and killed our sailors on the USS Cole, killed hundreds of our Marines in their Marine encampment in Lebanon, dragged our dying soldiers through the streets of Mogadishu, bombed our Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and destroyed the Twin Towers and killed 3,000 people? Did the “fable” of the “clash of civilizations” have absolutely nothing to do with motivating Maj. Hasan to scream “Allahu Akbar” as he killed 13 fellow servicemen and wounded another 30 a few months ago? Was it not, in fact, this very “fable” of the “clash of civilizations” that the Times Square bomber thought he was acting as the agent of when he constructed and placed his car bomb?
