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December 22, 2008
Enough Is Enough Of Radical Islam
Enough is enough of radical Islam
by Ben Shapiro
Enough with the pseudonyms. Western civilization isn't at war with terrorism any more than it is at war with grenades. Western civilization is at war with militant Islam, which dominates Muslim communities all over the world. Militant Islam isn't a tiny minority of otherwise good-hearted Muslims. It's a dominant strain of evil that runs rampant in a population of well over 1 billion.
Enough with the psychoanalysis. They don't hate us because of Israel. They don't hate us because of Kashmir. They don't hate us because we have troops in Saudi Arabia or because we deposed Saddam Hussein. They don't hate us because of Britney Spears. They hate us because we are infidels, and because we don't plan on surrendering or providing them material aid in their war of aggressive expansion.
Enough with the niceties. We don't lose our souls when we treat our enemies as enemies. We don't undermine our principles when we post more police officers in vulnerable areas, or when we send Marines to kill bad guys, or when we torture terrorists for information. And we don't redeem ourselves when we close Guantanamo Bay or try terrorists in civilian courts or censor anti-Islam comics. When it comes to war, extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Enough with the words. Talking with Iran without wielding the threat of force, either economic or military, won't help. Appealing to the United Nations, run by thugs and dictators ranging from Putin to Chavez to Ahmadinejad, is an exercise in pathetic futility. Evil countries don't suddenly decide to abandon their evil goals -- they are forced to do so by pressure and circumstance.
Enough with the faux allies. We don't gain anything by pretending that Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are true allies. They aren't. At best, they are playing both sides of the table. We ought to be drilling now in order to break OPEC. Building windmills isn't going to cut it. We should also be backing India to the hilt in its current conflict with Pakistan -- unless Pakistan can destroy its terrorist element, India should be given full leeway to do what it needs to do. Russia and China, meanwhile, are facilitating anti-Western terrorism. Treating them as friends in this global war is simply begging for a backstabbing.
Enough with the myths. Not everyone on earth is crying out for freedom. There are plenty of people who are happy in their misery, believing that their suffering is part and parcel of a correct religious system. Those people direct their anger outward, targeting unbelievers. We cannot simply knock off dictators and expect indoctrinated populations to rise to the liberal democratic challenge. The election of Hamas in the Gaza Strip is more a rule than an exception in the Islamic world.
Enough with the lies. Stop telling us that Islam is a religion of peace. If it is, prove it through action. Stop telling us that President-elect Barack Obama will fix our broken relationship with the Muslim world. They hate Obama just as much as they hated President George W. Bush, although they think Obama is more of a patsy than Bush was. Stop telling us that we shouldnt worry about the Islamic infiltration of our economy. If the Saudis own a large chunk of our banking institutions and control the oil market, they can certainly leverage their influence in dangerous ways.
Enough. After the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, the plane downed in Pennsylvania, the endless suicide bombings, shootings and rocket attacks in Israel, the Bali bombings, the synagogue bombing in Tunisia, the LAX shootings, the Kenyan hotel bombing, the Casablanca attacks, the Turkey synagogue attacks, the Madrid bombings, the London bombings, and the repeated attacks in India culminating in the Mumbai massacres -- among literally thousands of others -- it's about time that the West got the point: we're in a war. Our enemies are determined. They will not quit just because we offer them Big Macs, Christina Aguilera CDs, or even the freedom to vote. They will not quit just because we ensure that they have Korans in their Guantanamo cells, or because we offer to ban The Satanic Verses (as India did). They will only quit when they are dead. It is our job to make them so, and to eliminate every obstacle to their destruction.
So enough. No more empty talk. No more idle promises. No more happy ignorance, half measures, or appeasement-minded platitudes. The time for hard-nosed, uncompromising action hasn't merely come -- it's been overdue by seven years. The voice of our brothers' blood cries out from the ground.
Wild Thing's comment...........
Bravo to the man that wrote this article. He nailed it.
Excellent article, I would only change the word radical . The so-called “moderate” Muslims are the “non-uniformed combatants” of Islamic jihad. I am no fan of any part of Islam and I have yet to be proven that followers of Islam would not turn on any of us if they had to make a choice. But besides that this is one heck of an article !!!!
I do have a slight criticism of President Bush and how he handled this war against these followers of Islam. Only slight, because I do think he did a thousand times better then anyone else has done from any country. And he truly loves our troops and they love him.
Here is what I mean about a slight criticism . He let the left co-opt the terms - the language - of the conflict. The president started out to go in that direction; his early speeches and comments talked about a long war that was global in scope. He did use the term Islamofascists I think only once and got reprimanded for it by the media. It is an equivocal internal “PC” dialog we carry on that they, the left, keep trying to force on all of us. The equivocality of the internal dialog is only one step less fatal than the acts of the jihadists themselves. It isn’t armed. In effect, we alternate between appeasing our internal dialog and appeasing our external enemy. Both are losing strategies. The PC police still believe that making nice with the enemy will solve the problem. Idiots.
The Book of Swords says that, if you're not a Muslim, you should be dead. That's their belief, that's their goal, and anyone who thinks otherwise like many of our politicians and citizens is a fool.
The Islamists do not care whether we still honor our own faiths or respect our own culture; as long as we do not accept theirs, we must be eliminated or converted. The "Religion of Peace" is in reality a Religion of Submission, and it means to impose its will by force, just as it always has.
......Thank you RAC for sending this to me.
RAC has a website that is awesome. 336th Assault Helicopter Company
13th Combat Aviation Battalion - 1st Aviation Brigade - Soc Trang, Republic of Vietnam
Posted by Wild Thing at December 22, 2008 02:48 AM
Comments
If you haven't already seen it, this is worth reading:
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2006/09/why-we-cannot-rely-on-moderate-muslims.html
Posted by: me at December 22, 2008 09:47 AM
I have always believed that the only good islamofacist is a dead islamofacist and if the rest of the muslim world doesn't like it, they can be dead as well. What a filthy cult islam is.
Posted by: cuchieddie at December 22, 2008 10:43 AM
Excellent article, we have far too much PC, even the president downplays the danger.
If it behaves erratic and is potentially dangerous then by all means label it so.
I personally learned a lesson in trust, we employed a few locals. Up north they were simple farmers and a few 'yards', never had a problem and they even gave us 'intel' and a few were like family.
Not so down south, we had Elephant Grass, too close to the living quarters for obvious reasons, so we hired a crew to cut it back, I caught one of them pacing off the distance to the backtracking radar unit, my CO stopped me from exercising my judgement, but I never trusted them again or allowed them near me. We enjoyed the blessings of Russian made 122MM rockets fired at us and Ky Ha as a result.
The stringent isolation that the muzzy world imposes on the rest of the world should be reciprocal, let it be known that any attacks anywhere will be dealt with harshly, Mecca and Medina will become a glass bottomed basin just for their being there. Deport any that are involved in domestic terrorism in any way, revoke any citizenship too, too friggin' bad if they die at the hands of their own as a result of their treachery.
Posted by: Jack at December 22, 2008 12:19 PM
Shapiro gets it. We are at war. A real war. A war for survival. It is beyond me why we pretend or forget otherwise.
Why do we not call the muslims out for what they are. Why do we deal with Saudi Arabia, the heart and soul of radical islam. Why, why, why do we let more and more muslims immigrate to America?
Eventually it will be up to the American populace to deal with islam. We may have to first defend our Second Amendment rights. Seems like common sense is no longer so common.
Buy more ammo!
Posted by: TomR at December 22, 2008 12:26 PM
Excellent post. How can we wake up the west to realize that we are at war with terrorists. Virtually all terrorists are Muslim. Perhaps all Muslims are not terrorists but they do not get out and decry the horror brought by these people and in effect are enabling them to continue. Islam was not hijacked by radical Islam but was handed it. Let's see the parallel that many people voted to defeat us from within by voting for this B. Hussein Obama team and letting prior and now newly elected anti-Constitutional stay in power.
Bob A.
Posted by: Bob A at December 22, 2008 04:35 PM
It has been reported that George Bush is considering making a farewell speech to the country. I respectfully suggest that he does give a speech just a few days before Barack Obama's inauguration and use Ben Shapiro's article (with due credit) word for word as his final message. In this way, and as a relay runner, he will pass the presidential number one priority responsibility baton of national security on to the next relay runner, Barack Hussein Obama. Tag! Obama is it. He can run the race to win, not run the race at all, or even drop the baton. However, the nation will know who had the baton of national security and should something bad happen who is responsible and gets all the blame.
Posted by: Les at December 22, 2008 07:13 PM
mr, Daniel Pipes is an excellent writer. Thanks for the link in your comment.
Posted by: Wild Thing at December 22, 2008 07:40 PM
cuchieddie, DITTO that!!!!
Posted by: Wild Thing at December 22, 2008 07:42 PM
Jack, I would have been the same way, I would never have trusted them after that either.
Posted by: Wild Thing at December 22, 2008 07:44 PM
Tom, that is exactly what will happen. It will end up that all of we the citizens will end up with the problem in our towns and cities.
Posted by: Wild Thing at December 22, 2008 07:46 PM
Bob A., I agree, I wish I knew what it would take to wake people up to the reality of Islam. It sure is hard.
Posted by: Wild Thing at December 22, 2008 07:48 PM
Les, oh wow wouldn't that be awesome. It would have me standing up and cheering.
Posted by: Wild Thing at December 22, 2008 07:50 PM
