We are at war with Islam

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Why do WE have to be at war with Islam?

I'm so tired of the death to America
Middle East Islamic bullshite.

Let them have their caliphate. If they don't like it, they can have a revolution and overthrow it. The peaceful muslims need to stand up and fight for themselves.

You want to go to war against 1.5 billion people? I say instead we go to war against the Crimson Tide Nation. Much fewer. Much dumber. And victory will make the world a better place.

As the late Samuel Huntington once said, "Islam has bloody borders." And, he was right.

People blame European Christendom for the Crusades and they prove their historical ignorance. The Crusades were launched after over 300 years of Muslim attack and advance against Europe. If anything, Christian Europe waited a very long time before really striking back. Yes, the Crusades were wrong and a mess and the Church never should have gotten involved, but to act like they were all the fault of Christianity ignores hundreds of years of history. All of North Africa used to be Christian, as did Syria and Asia Minor. Muslims conquered it and then instituted the tax and persecution against Christians and made conversion TO Christianity a punishable offense - often by death. A LOT went on before the Crusades against Christians by Muslims - things that make some beheadings in the desert and 9/11 look like nothing.

Also, the ignorant people claiming that Islam gave us great advances in mathematics and science during the Middle Ages in North Africa, Spain, and the Middle East are also simultaneously full of crap. Those scholars were largely Christian or Christian-influenced (from the previous 500 years when Christianity dominated) and were building off of the advances of the Greek, Egyptian, Hebrew, and Persian civilizations, not to mention the influence of the Byzantine Empire.

By the time that Islam really took control, you have the Ottoman Empire (the last Caliphate) which did not bring much of anything in the way of advancement for hundreds of years. Now, you have this.

Muslim apologists look at a map and a date of 650 or something and they look at where Muslim armies advanced to and they color the map in and then claim that ALL of the area under Muslim control from that date forward as a testimony to the advances and brilliance of Islam. It is horrible history and fails to recognize the massive cultural influence of the people who were already there and those who came before.

Just like it took Europe around 1000 years to really become Christian, it took the Middle East and North Africa hundreds and hundreds of years to really become Muslim. Now, we have the result.

There was no Muslim "Golden Age." It was simply the after-effects of the previous cultures, empires, and religions before Islam could do its work.

I know Jews who haven't set foot in a Synagog in 30 years. And they love bacon.
I know Catholics who think abortion is great (think Nancy Pelosi or Ted Kennedy).

Muslims vary in their degree of adherence to the Koran's more violent instructions on dealing with non believers.

Whether we should go to war with Islam is debatable. The things you said about Islam are right on.

When do we get to start rounding up American Muslims and shipping them to internment camps? You know, since there is no such thing as an innocent Muslim.

You know, the one thing Rumsfeld was right about was when he said our "war on terror" was creating more terrorists than we were killing.

So what happens after you join the military (and I know you will since this is your idea) and we go to war with them in the Middle East and Muslims in Indonesia, Kosovo, Africa, America and Europe turn to terrorism because your great idea of going to war against their religion? Americans being hit all across the globe and within by fellow Americans. How many trillions will this cost? How many lives? What's your estimate Wolfowitz?

ETA: what's Rand Paul's view on going to war against 1.5 billion people?

Let me show you your logic.

Fred Phelps, Jim Jones and Timothy McVeigh: all Christians therefore all Christians are bad.

I'm more concerned about the religious zealots in this country and I believe they would try to pull the same damn shite in this country as those nutjobs are doing over there if they knew they could get away with it.