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Reader comment on item: Disconnecting the Dots: Blurring the Lines

Submitted by Linda S, Jun 23, 2016 23:28

Why don't we use better terms to describe what is actually happening? Instead of the word "radical" why don't we use "original" or "Mohammedan"? The behavior of Muslims which we deem as threatening is actually exactly what Islam's founder did personally and made the standard for all his followers. When we use the quantifier "radical" it sounds like an aberration, when the jihadists are the most perfect Muslim according to Mohammed. And why isn't he ever mentioned or his text? The Muslims who decide to begin acting out terroristic behavior are only obeying what is written throughout the Qur'an and Hadiths and Sunna. They are not "radicalized" by the Internet. Local Imams are teaching the texts and exhorting young men to get serious and obey Allah. It's really no different than any motivational speaker or preacher trying to get his audience to change and DO something rather than just read/hear about it.

If we had been living in 700 AD in Europe we would have witnessed all sorts of attacks and barbaric acts by hordes of Muslim armies determined to literally use the sword to take over every spot of earth for Allah. They didn't use the word "radical". They simply called the marauders Mohammedans. We're freaking out because we don't know history and its merely repeating itself. Do we have the courage to fight for our lives as at the Battle of Tours in 742 ish and at the Gates of Vienna 1483? The only societies which have survived an Islamic takeover have been those who fought against it. All those which allowed Islam an entrance have been swallowed up and are now Islamic. What a shame. What will history write about America? Or Europe?

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