A.P. Photo'Pablo Martinez
It certainly helps to stress the positive while still trying to isolate Radical Islam. I give President Obama credit for that much.
There is a limit to how much his approach can work. Jihad is part of Islam. Also, when the U.S. fights for Muslims, as in Bosnia and Kosovo, Muslims abroad hardly express solidarity with us. They still accuse us of being anti-Muslim. When we fight some Muslims to protect the rest, most Muslims complain that we are killing Muslims. When Muslims kill Muslims over religious ideology, few Muslims besides those in the war zone complain.
Consider the jihad against Israel. Purpose: conquer Israel for Islam. The motive is religious. Therefore, the Arabs oppose Israel, regardless of what Israel does. This means that all the Obama efforts to change Israeli behavior are futile.
To conceal jihad’s religious motive from the West, Muslim Arabs depict their struggle against Israel in terms of grievances. These grievances either are manufactured or are their own fault and responsibility.
The immediate demand of the jihadists is for Israeli withdrawal from strategic territories. If granted, new demands would follow, until Israel can be conquered. That is the purpose of the demands. That is how Islam operates.
By taking up the jihadists’ initial demands, President Obama is not helping to reconcile the Arabs with Israel. He is helping them to destroy Israel. Therefore, Arabs are less likely to reform and make peace. His policy is misguided, at best.
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Quote [Jihad is part of Islam. Also, when the U.S. fights for Muslims, as in Bosnia and Kosovo, Muslims abroad hardly express solidarity with us. [end quote]
Shame on the Examiner for allowing the Jew to express is Islam-hatred uncontrolled. The West got tangled up with Islam because the European Jews were allowed to stampede to Palestine while America closed its own shored to European Jewry. How did this Jew expect the Muslim world to accept a European people that were shoved down its throats. and who does the Jew mean by [solidary with us]. Is he speaking as a jew or an american.
Calling me "the Jew" sounds to me like hated. When I report that jihad is part of Islam and that U.S. military support for Muslims in Bosnia and Kosovo has not been appreciated by Muslims abroad, what is incorrect about that and why did Sophie call that hatred of Islam? An illegitimate Islamist tactic is to try to cow critics by calling them Islamophobes.
Don't try to make me appear torn between dual loyalty. I write what I think correct, and I believe that jihad threatens civilization, for which the U.S. and Israel should stand together.
The West got tangled up with Islam, because the Muslim world is confused by modernity, it gained strength, the West lets millions of Muslims move in, Saddam tried to corner the oil supply on which the West depends, and Europe colonized.
Sophie, originally, the Arab representative to the WWI peace conference accepted Zionism. It took terrorism by the Grand Mufti Husseini to rally his people behind anti-Zionism. Then dictators found it us
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