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Letter: Americans must 'fiercely fight' Islamic extremists around the globe
Issue date: 10/18/07 Section: Editorial/Opinion
While we need to work with and respect our more moderate Muslim friends who include statesmen, businessmen, professionals and workers, we must fiercely fight and strongly stand against all fundamentalists.
Fundamentalists who read the Koran literally; who believe, for example, to their core, that Islam is the "superior" religion and that all people who are not Muslim or who do not accept conversion to Islam must be, at best, subjugated to near-slave status in society. Or, at worst, be liquidated, are extremely, extremely dangerous people and should be dealt with harshly.
As National Socialist fundamentalists before them, the Islamic fundamentalists, or "Islamo-fascists," are especially harsh to those who live among or near them. For early Islam under the leadership of Mohammed, Islam was a religious dictatorship and military state which fought city to city to expand its territory and eradicate or subjugate Jews and Zoroastrian Persians.
At the time, these were your normal, everyday raid and conquer campaigns with a snazzy religious justification. Many religions have played this game in the past. Later, Islam expanded west across North Africa, north through Turkey and Greece into Europe. In these campaigns, they attacked Christian and non-Christian (godless) Europeans.
But modern Islamic fundamentalists believe the same things as their ancient counterparts. They believe they must eliminate non-Muslims, including, and especially, Jews and Christians, from their society. They believe that their "society" stretches as far as it did in the ancient days of their control of Western Europe ... as far as France and Germany. They will work zealously to accomplish their goals. We must at least recognize this danger.
The other concept that westerners do not grasp is that fundamentalist Islam, as a system of government and state, differs little from Nazi Germany. It indoctrinates, preaches hate against outsiders and seeks to unify and impose uniformity in its territories.
Fundamentalists who read the Koran literally; who believe, for example, to their core, that Islam is the "superior" religion and that all people who are not Muslim or who do not accept conversion to Islam must be, at best, subjugated to near-slave status in society. Or, at worst, be liquidated, are extremely, extremely dangerous people and should be dealt with harshly.
As National Socialist fundamentalists before them, the Islamic fundamentalists, or "Islamo-fascists," are especially harsh to those who live among or near them. For early Islam under the leadership of Mohammed, Islam was a religious dictatorship and military state which fought city to city to expand its territory and eradicate or subjugate Jews and Zoroastrian Persians.
At the time, these were your normal, everyday raid and conquer campaigns with a snazzy religious justification. Many religions have played this game in the past. Later, Islam expanded west across North Africa, north through Turkey and Greece into Europe. In these campaigns, they attacked Christian and non-Christian (godless) Europeans.
But modern Islamic fundamentalists believe the same things as their ancient counterparts. They believe they must eliminate non-Muslims, including, and especially, Jews and Christians, from their society. They believe that their "society" stretches as far as it did in the ancient days of their control of Western Europe ... as far as France and Germany. They will work zealously to accomplish their goals. We must at least recognize this danger.
The other concept that westerners do not grasp is that fundamentalist Islam, as a system of government and state, differs little from Nazi Germany. It indoctrinates, preaches hate against outsiders and seeks to unify and impose uniformity in its territories.
