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You make a good clarifying point that I didn't express in my post. Ideas don't exist outside of people. Individulas who espouse these bad ideas kill and enslave people. Islam is not a monolithic belief system, nor is any other faith or philosophy with wrong ideas. We must always avoid concepts that lump different classes of these people together. That said, many beleivers don't make it easy to distinguish. It's not just Islam, it's all faiths and creeds that promote the destruction of others. Some people have trouble with this, and it's certainly trouble from a logistics standpoint. Not a pleasant situation any way you look at it. Let's not forget that the governemnt is an agent of force and that people of all sorts of faiths and creeds are using it to attack individuals as well. That doesn't make Islamic terrorists any less of a threat. They exist. They must be stamped out. Let's also not focus so hard there that we miss the enemies slipping the knife into our back.
Ethan
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"Over and over the jihadist enemy tells us why he wants to kill us, and over and over we dismiss his words or reduce them to our own categories. Paralyzed by our fear of being “insensitive” to cultural differences, and deluded by our materialist preconceptions that reduce religion to an expression of some more “real” cause, we refuse to name clearly the enemy: an Islamic faith that for centuries has killed, enslaved, plundered, ravaged, and conquered in the service of its arrogant assurance of its spiritual superiority."
