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The Irreconcilable Conflict

3129 Wrote: Sep 18, 2012 4:05 PM

Buchanan's comment about apostasy is right on point. Our president's first years of education were in the madrases. Non-Muslims need not apply. Now our president declares himself to be a Christian while apologizing and appeasing Muslims who claim to be offended to the point of murdering people over the most mundane of statements. Does he not know what they do to apostates? Viva la revolucion.

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The Irreconcilable Conflict

"Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,

"Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat."

Thus did Kipling, the Poet of Empire, caution the British about the Eastern world the Victorians and Edwardians believed to be theirs.

And with that world so inflamed against us, perhaps we should inspect more closely our irreconcilable conflict -- what Harvard's Michael Ignatieff calls "the fatal dialectic between Islamic rage and Western free speech." Consider first American values, as seen from an ACLU point of view.

Our establishment holds that not only is there to...

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