Teresita,

Thomas Jefferson had a completely different take on Islam than did his friend John Adams. Jefferson actually got a copy of the Qur’an when he was in London and READ IT. After he read the blueprint for jihad, when he was President of the United States he ended John Adams’ policy of appeasement and paying the jizya to the Muslim pirates. Jefferson decided that the only way to deal with those savages was to give ‘em the cold hard steel. I’m not making this up; this is all history. In fact, Jefferson and Adams apparently had some heated disagreements over the policy of paying off the Muslim pirates.

I’m glad Jefferson won that argument in the end. The major difference between those two men was that Jefferson undertook the project of reading the Islamic scriptures. It was that tedious, laborious task that made all the difference – and today it is because of our intellectual sloth and moral torpor that prevents the peoples of the West from understanding the true nature of the threat.

As usual, I agree with Zenster on this: Islam is not a religion and should be deemed a hostile political ideology. Once stripped of its current status as a religion, when people have properly digested and dissected it, we will be prepared and armed against it. It uses its current status as a “religion” within our legal system in order to further all of its strategems of jihad. As usual, it is the lawyers and politicians in this country who follow in lockstep the dumb academicians who provide cover for Islam. This has to stop.

I’m tired of reading the pap about some sort of rough moral equivalency between Islam and Christianity. As usual, people who fall into this trap do not know both of them at any substantial depth.