A global war on radical Islam
No one wants to say it, but the Global War on Terror has become a holy war. The Global War on Terror could be changed to the global war on radical Islam. This is why the war in Iraq is such a good thing. We are taking on radical Islam on their soil before they get to ours and showing them that we are not going to sit and take it anymore. We must not let political correctness stop us from waging this war. Just because these terrorists are bound by “religious views” does not make them immune from confrontation. There is a misconception that the terrorists are just after the US. WRONG! They are after every culture different from their own. This battle against radical Islamists is occurring on multiple fronts all around the world. In fact, radical Islam is even targeting normal Islam because they don’t share the same hateful ideas. It is my belief that 20 years from now, historians will refer to this worldwide war on radical Islam as World War 3, because that is exactly what it is. Here is a short list of countries targeted by radical Islam.
1) Iraq
2) Israel
3) US
4) Jordan
5) Canada
6) Britain
7) Spain
8) Somalia (Islam targeting normal Islam)
9) India
10) France (radical Islam from within)
11) Russia (Chechnya)
12) Afghanistan
Radical Islamists probably take up maybe 0.01% of all Islam in the world. Luckily I am educated enough to know that it is not right to blame all Islamists. I feel bad for the 99.99% of the Islamic people who do practice Islam peacefully. It is those 99.99% of the Islamic faith that must rise up. They need to publicly reject this radical Islam culture. It is time for Islam to fight for its reputation. A few sour apples are tarnishing an entire religion in the eyes of many. It is time for the radical Islamic Fascists to stop the blasphemy against the religion of Islam.
What should the US do? First of all, we should never play soft with these Islamic Fascists. They are nuts. They believe it is God’s intent that they destroy all nonbelievers and those who do not support their radical Islamic ways (hey… that description fits most of the cultures of the world). There is no soft negotiating with that. It is time that we approach this situation as Ronald Reagan would, from a position of strength. Remember when Ronald Reagan came out and said that Russia was an evil empire? That simple, yet powerful rhetoric needs to return. We need to come out strongly against this radical wing of Islam. We also need to be strategic in doing this. We need to make sure that we make it clear to the Islamic people that we are not only doing this to defeat a threat to us, but we are also trying to clean the public perception of Islam. We need to work with the normal Islamic people to make sure that the religion of Islam is not permanently damaged from a few crazy people.
This problem will not go away from “incentives” and other happy go lucky negotiation strategies. It is time that we negotiate with the Islamic Fascists in terms even they can understand. They must be told that if they don’t cooperate, we will destroy them just as we did in Iraq. It is time to return to a Reaganesque approach to this problem. It is time we ignore the rhetoric from the radical Islamists’ allies on the left side of the aisle in congress. As mentioned earlier, just because the terrorists are bound by “religion” does not grant them immunity. America and 99.99 % of Islamic people around the world will support this war on radical Islam if it is done in the right way because they want the blasphemy of their religion to stop. We must also make it clear that as non-radical Islamic people, they are targets of this evil movement as well. It is just necessary that we clearly articulate to the world that we are trying to protect the religion Islam, not harm it.
Comments
Posted by: Toby
Posted on: July 17, 2006 11:44 AM
Before you make assertions about Iraq being a source of Islamic funadmentalism, perhaps you should check the facts. Iraq was one of very few, if not the only, secular nation in the entire region. They were never a source of radical extremists because Saddam Hussein consistently crushed extremism within his nation. While no one would argue that his government was just, if there was any nation in the region that shared our interest in crushing extremism it would have been his. It was only after his goverment fell that extremists flocked to Iraq in order to take advantage of the chaos.
Posted by: Chad
Posted on: July 17, 2006 12:11 PM
Zarqawi... need I say more?
Posted by: Toby
Posted on: July 17, 2006 12:22 PM
Zarqawi may have lived in Iraq, but I think it would be hard to show that he was anything but completely impotent until we showed up.
Posted by: Chad
Posted on: July 17, 2006 12:51 PM
How about the training 8,000 terrorists in camps in IRAQ between 9/11 and the invasion in 2003?
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