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There's no doubt muslims are a sick bunch, no wonder leftards bend over backwards to appease them.

Brian Ross wrote on Dec 3^rd, 2017 at 11:59am:


Lying and distorting and smudging and being ignorant like you is not the way either, Bwian.



Jesuit Father Henri Boulad, an Islamic scholar of the Egyptian Greek Melkite rite, held no punches in an interview concerning the motives of Islamic terror and Western responses to it.  “Islam is an open-ended declaration of war against non-Muslims,” declared the priest, and those who carry out acts of violence and intolerance are only doing what their creed requires.  The report continues:

Those who fail to recognize the real threat posed by Islam are naïve and ignorant of history, he said, and unfortunately many in the Church fall into this category.  Citing a letter he wrote last August to Pope Francis, Father Boulad said that “on the pretext of openness, tolerance and Christian charity — the Catholic Church has fallen into the trap of the liberal left ideology which is destroying the West.”  “Anything that does not espouse this ideology is immediately stigmatized in the name of ‘political correctness,’” he said.  The priest went so far as to chastise Pope Francis himself—a fellow Jesuit—suggesting that he has fallen into this trap as well.  “Many think that a certain number of your positions are aligned with this ideology and that, from complacency, you go from concessions to concessions and compromises in compromises at the expense of the truth,” the priest wrote to Francis. Christians in the West and in the East, he wrote the Pope, “are expecting something from you other than vague and harmless declarations that may obscure reality.” “It is high time to emerge from a shameful and embarrassed silence in the face of this Islamism that attacks the West and the rest of the world. A systematically conciliatory attitude is interpreted by the majority of Muslims as a sign of fear and weakness,” he said. “If Jesus said to us: Blessed are the peacemakers, he did not say to us: Blessed are the pacifists. Peace is peace at any cost, at any price. Such an attitude is a pure and simple betrayal of truth,” he said. The priest also stated his belief that the West is in an ethical and moral debacle, and its defense of Islam is a denial of truth. “By defending at all costs Islam and seeking to exonerate it from the horrors committed every day in its name, one ends up betraying the truth,” he wrote.
http://raymondibrahim.com/2017/11/06/going-burn-alive-muslim-persecution-christi...

Brian Ross wrote on Dec 3^rd, 2017 at 2:20pm:


Ad Hom?

freediver wrote on Nov 30^th, 2017 at 9:04am:


Nonsense. Iran would have intervened if there was any possibility that ISIS could overrun Iraq - which they clearly couldn't by the way. Overrunning sunni outposts like Ramadi and Fallujah that were extremely hostile to the Iraqi regime with a threadbare force of foreign fighters stretched thinly across both Syria and Iraq - is one thing. Overrunning overwhelmingly shiite strongholds in the rest of Iraq right next door to the regime's key ally and most important backer - is just pure fantasy.

Also, I daresay a nuke or two to wipe out not only ISIS, but the entire population of the area in question could be all done and dusted in a great deal less than 3 hours. But presuming this is not what you are talking about, would you care to explain how this could have been done? You might have forgotton that the US spent 8 years failing to "wipe out" the Iraqi insurgency, at the cost of over 4000 US soldiers. Yet somehow you think they could magically end the ISIS threat once and for all in just 3 hours. Please, do share with us this magic formula.

Radical Islam has always been in Iraq and Syria. I don't believe it's entirely true that the US is the blame for the creation of ISIS in Syria. Domestic politics played a part in that. The biggest blame I believe is this silly sectarian divide that infests the Islamic world.

Brian Ross wrote on Dec 20^th, 2017 at 2:14pm:

A lot of the ISIS problem came out of the revolution against Assad  in Syria which had nothing to do with the US invasion.

Mr Hammer wrote on Dec 20^th, 2017 at 2:08pm:


Of course its not entirely true - no one is suggesting that.

But you can't deny the link: before Saddam was overthrown, there was no Jihadi/ISIS threat in Iraq. After he was overthrown, there suddenly was.

And understanding why this was the case - and why it wasn't just a freaky coincidence - is not hard at all. The role of an illegal and unprovoked invasion that killed hundreds of thousands and displaced millions - cannot be dismissed. Well, actually it can - if you're a spineless apologist and obfuscator of FD's caliber.