Islam vs. the West
Reader comment on item: The Creeping Homegrown Threat

Submitted by realist, Oct 3, 2009 22:06

I am a new reader of this website, but Mr. Emerson in this piece seems to underestimate the threat of Islam to our Nation, it's values and way of life.

The problem is not just radical Islam, and it's terror-prone avatars: it is Islam as practiced anywhere in the world. Islam is simply incompatible with Western civilization. There there may be moderate Moslems, but there is no moderate Islam. Routinely proscribed or inhibited in Moslem countries is free speech, Christianity and rule of law, without which ingredients you will not create or sustain a society consistent with America's founding principles.

George Orwell wrote of the propensity of people to refuse to see what is in front of their faces. What is is front of our faces it the greatest threat to the existence of our way of life that we have ever been confronted with--and it is not just from bombers and other militants.

Our leadership class continues to refuse to confront (or even name) the problem.

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