Frank wrote Yesterday at 1:43pm:
Brian Ross wrote Yesterday at 12:57pm:
Why do you deny the existence of extreme Islamim, Soren when you keep making posts that reinforce that it exists? You have a one track mind and when reality reinforces the counter arguments against what you are claiming you seem to think that is all lies. Your Islamophobe beliefs colour your thinking and dominate your thought processes. Tsk, tsk, tsk...
There is only one, unalterable Koran. All Muslims believe in it fully, literally, without any alteration. Ditto the sunnah.
Every time there is a Muslim atrocity they justify it with reference to Islam. I take them at their word.
In the months after the Afghan campaign, France's foreign minister, M Védrine, was deploring American 'simplisme' on a daily basis, and Saddam understood from the get-go that the French veto was his best shot at torpedoing any meaningful UN action on Iraq. Yet the jihadists still blew up a French oil tanker. If you were to pick only one western nation not to blow up the oil tankers of, the French would surely be it.
But they got blown up anyway.
And afterwards a spokesman for the Islamic Army of Aden said,
'We would have preferred to hit a US frigate, but no problem because they are all infidels.'
No problem. They are all infidels.
When people make certain statements and their acts conform to those statements I tend to take them at their word. As Hussein Massawi, former leader of Hezbollah, neatly put it,
'We are not fighting so that you will offer us something. We are fighting to eliminate you.'"We are fighting to eliminate you": The failure to grasp that core reality has bedevilled western policy for a quarter-century - and ultimately explains why the "war on terror" (granted its misbegotten framing) was lost.
So the "developed world" spent twenty years lobbing the planet's most expensive weaponry and sacrificing its most highly trained soldiery up and down the Hindu Kush, the Sunni Triangle and other worthless bits of sod, while the inbred goatherds of the dar al-Islam quietly got on with annexing London, Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Vienna, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Toronto, Montreal, Minneapolis, Dearborn, Lewiston-Auburn...