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Reader comment on item: Breaking News: Pakistan Reportedly Detains Five D.C.-Area Muslims on Suspicion of Terror

Submitted by Everyday American, Dec 10, 2009 21:01

Overymyhead,

I do not disagree with much of what you say. I completely agree that our police and other investigative agencies have dropped the ball and given in to political correctness. I firmly believe that Muslim organizations must be examined, mosques and mosque sermons surveilled, individual suspects detained and interrogated, illegals deported, and I would prefer that the penalties for terrorism be enhanced.

My point is that even if the innocent Muslims are in the minority, and I have no reason to believe that either way, innocent people must not pay legally for the sins of their coreligionists. We have the tools to root out evildoers, if only we will apply them properly and stringently. Political correctness is what will aid the Islamists in killing us, not living up to what is best in America.

We will win the war against fundamentalist Islam only by being smarter, stronger, and better than it. If we allow them to destroy our ideals, even if we win, it will be a pyrrhic victory.

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