Angelo Codevilla, in his book No Victory, No Peace, makes an interesting point: "(A)nti-Western terrorism results from a war within Islam that is more serious for Muslims than for the rest of us, because the Wahhabis' ideas imply irreconcilable enmity against other Muslims first, and then against others. Western elites, religiously challenged as they are, don't understand the mixture of threat and temptation that the Wahhabis pose to the Muslim world because they do not know how analogous Christian heresies have rioled Western civilization...Between the eleventh and the seventeen centures, Europe suffered arguably more from heresies than from plagues." (No Victory, No Peace, Angelo Codevilla; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005; p 179; italics in original.)
We have already seen Muslims attacking each other. The fanatics are killing each other. What we need to do is to work so that this internal struggle does not spill over into our society. Let them have their own struggles in their own countries. We cannot stop that. In fact, if we do try to stop them, we get entangled into the mess.
What I find interesting is that probably the most vicious of these Islamic sects, the Wahhabi, is based in Saudi Arabia, one of this country's closest allies in the Middle East. We can live with those countries even though they have elements that we would not tolerate very well in our country. The idea of these fanatics is that utopia will come when they can convince (force?) everyone else to conform to their ideals or else kill every single one of those who will not bend to their will ("infidels").
Isn't it interesting that the liberals seem to act this way also? They are fanatical, i.e. they believe they must convince (force?) every one else to their ideals or at least bend to their will. That is another danger we face in this country.
We have already seen Muslims attacking each other. The fanatics are killing each other. What we need to do is to work so that this internal struggle does not spill over into our society. Let them have their own struggles in their own countries. We cannot stop that. In fact, if we do try to stop them, we get entangled into the mess.
What I find interesting is that probably the most vicious of these Islamic sects, the Wahhabi, is based in Saudi Arabia, one of this country's closest allies in the Middle East. We can live with those countries even though they have elements that we would not tolerate very well in our country. The idea of these fanatics is that utopia will come when they can convince (force?) everyone else to conform to their ideals or else kill every single one of those who will not bend to their will ("infidels").
Isn't it interesting that the liberals seem to act this way also? They are fanatical, i.e. they believe they must convince (force?) every one else to their ideals or at least bend to their will. That is another danger we face in this country.
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