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Apologies - that last quote SHOULD have read: As Orianna Fallaci famously put it: "The difference between a radical Moslem and a MODERATE Moslem is the length of their beards."

As Orianna Fallaci famously put it: "The difference between a radical Moslem and a radical Moslem is the length of their beards."

Part 4: The Grand Mufti also recruited a Moslem SS division in Bosnia to go fight at teh eastern front. Several years ago the plans for the Auschwitz death camp were discovered hidden inside a wall in an old Berlin flat. THE AUTHORITIES REFUSED TO SAY WHO THE FLAT HAD BELONGED TO DURING WW2. Any guesses? As offensive as this may sound, a "Good Moslem" can no more be a "Good American" than a loyal Nazi can be a good American. In both cases their core beliefs are anathema to the American system of government and our Constitutional freedoms. To the extent that secularized Moslems no longer feel this way, they should be encouraged to depart from this totalitarian philosophy penned by a epileptic and arguably psychotic individual.

Part 3: Those who doubt the veracity of that statement should study the history of Mohammedanism, and then quickly review the wars and civil wars in the world today. A vast majority involve Mohammedans fighting their neighbors, or each other. Put another way, Mohammedanism has never been "toilet trained" like Judaism and Christianity has been. Tolerance does not appear to be a virtue that is compatible with the ideology. The most similar recent Western ideology to Mohammedanism was - National Socialism of Nazi Germany. The quest for world-domination, enslavement, and extermination or world Jewry overlapped so neatly that Arafat's uncle the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem spent the war in Berlin paying homage to Hitler.

To continue, in the one Mohammedan empire that came closest to achieving its goals, the Ottoman Turkish empire, the non-Moslems did not have the same legal rights as Moslems. This did induce many Christians to convert, and the fruits of that conversion are still ripening in places like the Balkans where Moslems who are descendants of Christian converts have alternately been taking turns committing outrages on their Christian neighbors (Bosnia and Kosovo in 1945 and again in the last decade in Kosovo), or being the subject of vengeful reprisal outrages (Bosnia in the 1990s.) As one Serb nationalist poet crudely (but accurately) put it: "Wherever there is a mosque, there is gunfire.

The problem is that Mohammedanism (an old-fashioned term that is perhaps more descriptive than today's "Islam") isn't a religion per se from a Western understanding of religion. It is more akin to a totalitarian political philosophy that advocates, and has advocated for 1300 or so years, violence and the sword as a means of achieving its goal of world domination. In a Mohammedan world, Jews would be exterminated unless they converted, and gentiles who did not convert would be relegated to the rank of second-hand citizens with little to no rights vis-a-vis the "believers." this of course, would leave them open to outrages of the sort we have seen happen recently to the Copts in Egypt, with no real recourse in the legal system.

The reason for the Western elites abhorrence of Israel is an old one: Its called Anti-Semitism. Obama is an Islamo-sympathizer and the most anti-semitic president in the history of this country. The sclerotic, morally bankrupt (no capital punishment for murderers, because we are too degene ... err.. ADVANCED!) Western Europe would rather return to its Jew-hating roots than face up to the cancerous Islamic fifth columns rotting their countries from within. If they think that this is the way to placate the Islamonazis multiplying in their midst by the hour, I have to say: Enjoy sharia law ladies and gentlemen - then again, as infidels,you will be subject only to the law of slavery once the Mohammedans have completed their conquest ...

The problem with your thesis is that (as Rush points out), a majority of the self-identified "moderates" are actually delusional or dissembling liberals. Otherwise elections would not be 51-49 pct as they have tended to go. Some of the wildest left-wing loons here in CA swear that they are "not liberals". OK. And Hitler was not a socialist using that logic.

Ladies first.