#62 | Posted by rastaninja at 2008-12-08 11:03 AM
Johnson do you realize how many Muslims there are?
Yes. This source islam.about.com shows the number as 1,126,325,000, and also the distribution throughout the world.
To kill this cancer would mean killing the host which is the world. It would mean the end times.
I didn't realize that you were a millennialist? But no, there are other ways to address the matter in addition to killing those who engage in violent acts, and in proactively destroying areas in which they are festering, preparing for onslaughts.
These involve curtailing the privileges extended to them in the West to use mosques and other facilities for promulgating their doctrines and rallying extremists for violent action, the justification of their premises. We should stop accommodation of such activities. We should also put pressure on the Saudis and others funding hostile teachings against the West to desist. There are ways that the chemo and radiation can kill off the malignancy. I believe that we should confront them, and that can triumph over "militant Islam."
But instead we are docile and not responsive to the aggression against us and its genesis. And we have those who among us, who counsel dererence to those who assail us, and view us as provoking what is an incident of Islam. There is in the West som much self-doubt and uncertainty regarding ourselves as if we need to justify our being to anyone.
I don't want to die in order to advance your neocon agenda which would not advance since we would all be dead.
Make peace with the realization that you will die, rasta, and then decide how you want to live. Do you suggest a desire to live life as free people is limited to "the neocon agenda." What a sad commentary. In your view that there are not others in the West, who may also cherish autonomy and freedom.
Are you a member of the "Rather Islamic than dead" crowd? You seem to view those as the alternatives. Possibly rasta, you are an Islamic, and living under that system is congenial to your world view. But it is anathema to the way I would want to live my life, and I'm willing to confront it in any way possible.