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All the orthodox, traditional Islamic scholars consider the most authoritative ahadith to to be the first two ones compiled: Bukhari and Muslim. Those two also most well track the Qur’an’s teachings. The Qur’an is dualistic (hat tip: Bill Warner)with the Medinan revelations abrogating, but not abnegating the earlier Meccan “revelations.” Another authoritative source for Islamic orthodoxy is the Sira, since Muhammad is considered The Perfect Man and imitation of his deeds and words puts the Muslim on solid footing.

The bellicosity of the Medinan “revelations” is beyond dispute. The surahs from that period most ardently enjoin jihad against the unbelievers, and apportions stern invective and punishment of them.

It is the dualistic nature of Islamic scripture (Qur’an) and traditions (ahadith) that provides the practitioners of taqiyya the ammunition they need to call people like me ignorant Islamophobes, and to seduce the credulous ill-informed populace.

One parting shot. The “Surge” worked because we backed it up with the mailed fist. The Iraqi military was not yet quite up to the task and the political process was hedging its bets to see who was going to win. The “Anbar Awakening” was a combination of realizing who the stronger horse was and that the agitators were simply destructive thugs. For anyone to suggest that the U.S. military contributed only a minor or footnote role is to be breathtakingly ignorant of how war plays out and how they are resolved.

This is why it would be a disaster for our nation if that long-legged mack daddy was to occupy the Oval Office. The ONLY good thing that would come out of it would be the hard lesson it would impart to a lazy, mentally defective, or intoxicated-with-the-Left populace.