I've said it before – sooner or later, there is a war coming to the West and it will be caused by our unwillingness to recognise the nature of the beast that faces us. Islam accepts parity with no other creed and regards all other gods or religions as offensive to Allah which must be eliminated. Common sense, reason etc have nothing to do with it: it's a matter of blind faith trumping everything.
We are all familiar with the mantras -- It's always better to talk about things. Let's negotiate. Lets discuss this reasonably and I'm sure we can resolve it. Let's find a middle ground. We can both find a mutually acceptable solution. Are we not all brothers? Etc etc etc. It won't work. The sooner we get real, the better.
The real enemy of all of us is, quite simply, religion itself. Again. The massacres during the Crusades were a part of the Christian response to the Moslem massacres during the Moslem takeover of the eastern Mediterranean. If it's not Jew versus Moslem, it is Moslem versus Christian, one Moslem sect versus another one, Catholic versus Protestant, one type of Protestant versus another......and so it goes on – over and over again. More people are murdered/tortured/persecuted/vilified in the name of so-called loving, caring and compassionate gods than you can shake a stick at. All religions necessarily and explicitly require unquestioning belief in something that has no supporting evidence.
Israel, Jerusalem in particular, somehow sums it all up. You've got touchstone religious symbolism for the Christian churches, Judaism and Islam all in one and the same spot, all relating to different gods/different versions of the same god/different ways of worshipping either the same god or else different ones. You pays your money and you takes your choice, according to which particular strain of those religions you make your spiritual pilot. Meanwhile, Islamic fundamentalists and Jewish fundamentalists (more in common with each other than either wants to contemplate) are hell-bent (oh, the irony) on precipitating a major, bloody confrontation that will involve everybody. And all the while, Israel and Iran and Pakistan have a serious nuclear capability with a willingness and, indeed, a growing desire to use it if and/or when the situation gives them excuse.
Many countries have governments in power which are inextricably linked to one particular religion – Islam. Saudi Arabia, Islam's homeland in particular. In those instances, power and authority is both dependent on and guided by interpretations of Islam that are rigorously eMy faithnforced. All those countries are wedded to a creed that is inflexibly and vigorously hostile to all our concepts of Western culture. It is our refusal to accept that proposition AND our refusal to adopt appropriately defensive strategies that is our fatal weakness. Our very own self-defined "virtues" of tolerance and willingness to seek compromise are simply opportunities for this hostile, predatory and ultimately lethal creed to live among us and proliferate. Wishful thinking and dreaming of a peaceful solution has led us to this and pretty soon, events will overtake us.
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