I’m sympathetic to that point, but only so far — they’ll keep inventing provocations and slights and coming after us no matter what we do. We’ve learned that lesson at the cost of far too much innocent blood, and we’d do well not to forget it.

In a word, Angela, modernity. We cannot wish it out of existence. In 1787, there were no jetliners departing daily for the U.S. Today there are more Muslims in some neighborhoods of Dearborn, Michigan, there were in the entirety of the United States in 1787.

I hate to disabuse Pickering but a few years back I spent a few weeks using most of my time on the computer to read about Islam and Islamic countries. I devoted a substantial amount of time to Sharia law and how it is implemented in Islamic countries.

I went from opposing Islamic terrorism to well nigh being a, justified IMO, full blown Islamophobe based on what I learned.

There are billions of Muslims and a major tenet of their faith is their imperative to conquer the world in the name of Mohammad by any means necessary. The ultimate goal is to convert the world to Islam by conquest. Once in control anyone who refuses to convert is to simply be executed.

A very big difference between modern Western Judeo-Christian societies and Islamic Theocracies is, simply put, the difference between Medievial societies and modern ones. Islamic countries subscribe to the medieval idea that religion, custom and law are all of one cloth and stand together.

AngelaTC, as a woman you should be doubly, triply concerned with the spread of Islam and Sharia law. Under Sharia a woman has virtually NO rights. In fact, my dog has more rights under law here than women do in any Islamic ruled country.

Can you even begin to imagine being a young woman barely in your teens and married off to a sexual sadist, or a physical brute with no support or help from your family, community, religious leader and your government. There are millions of women living with just that threat in Islamic countries today. Unfortunately it is just those countries who train, finance and deploy the Ilamic terrorists in their effort to spread Islam.

Constantine XI Palaiologos would like to have a word with you about what exactly he was doing that “whacked the hornet’s nest”.

Stop spouting nonsense. Specifically:

+ Muslims have killed more Muslims in the name of Allah than Americans have killed Muslims in the name of freedom.

+ Muslims have invaded and occupied more countries since Mohammed started the religion, than the United States has invaded, occupied, and then liberated since 1776.
+ People will find their own reasons to hate people. This is a human thing. In the case of Islam, it’s been defined for them: You are either Muslim or you are not. If you don’t believe that, try to board a direct flight to Mecca wearing a mini-skirt.

If you’re going to be an apologist for Islamic terrorists, try to do so honestly. Osama’s fatwa against the West was twisted enough, but at least was up front about his hatred.

I live in a neighborhood that has become mostly Muslim. The women are alright but the men are horrible and it’s frigtening seeing the change in the boys when they start going to Islamic school. Cute little five year olds stop smiling and glare at me becasue I’m not covered like their mother’s. Mr. Pickering can go sit on a pin.