The threat from militant Islam
By Kathryn Jean Lopez
We in the West face a grave threat from militant Islam, and an even graver threat from our propensity to ignore or redefine Islamic fascism. This is especially true when we adopt politically correct terms to refer to our enemy.
Days after the attempted terror attacks in London and Scotland, and just before the anniversary of the July 7, 2005, bombings in the London Underground by Islamic radicals, new British Prime Minister Gordon Brown took the deluded position of prohibiting his administration from using "Muslim" in reference to terrorism. Brown also ordered his government to avoid referring to a "war on terror" or "terrorism."
Delusion as a state policy? What a way to win a war. And Brown's irrational attitude has trickled down to his staff.
BBC reporter Alan Johnston was recently freed after almost four months of being held hostage by the terrorist group Hamas. And so, naturally, Brown's foreign secretary, David Miliband, praised the terrorists for being so kind as to release the journalist: "I'd also like to recognize the priority that has been given to this issue by President (Mahmoud) Abbas and also by the leadership of Hamas, including Ismail Haniya."
This is the same Hamas that strapped Johnston in a vest packed with explosives.
This is not the talk of a West that is ready to confront the existence of Islamic terrorism, let alone win a war against it.
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Right now, Britain is set to pull out of Iraq, and Americans are pining for an end to our own involvement there. Our security -- and the security of our allies in the region -- is at stake, and we need to face facts. We are in a war that was started by militant Islamic terrorists. But if we can't even get the words right, if we can't face fundamental facts, we can't win the war.
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Friday, July 13, 2007
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Bush and his counsels make ridiculous statements about the religion of peace and shuffle on down to the mosque and kiss some musulman a**. Bush and many other elites are corrupted by Muslim $$. It hurts to say it, but many have sold our country out. Bush just refuses to believe it's Islam, not the 'deviants.' Apparently his sycophants fall in line.
America is just a year or two behind the dhimmitude of England and the EU. Actually Australia appears to be the only Western nation that is getting closer to recognizing the truth. I have great hope in Peter Costello after Howard. In the US, I think Romney and Thompson are two viable candidates who get it much better than Bush ever could.
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