I don't see anyone fighting Islamic extremism because if a pro-Christian agenda. We're fighting them because they want to kill us all.
Exactly, and some of those laws say that you don't kill people.
Exactly, and by chance are you aware that a practicing Muslim is by definition guilty of treason in the United States of America?
Practicing Islam is as treasonous against America as any other religion is if taken to extremes or verbatim interpretation. That's the point.
Another round of violence. Another country (maybe two) that will declare a "war on terrorism". Maybe another decade of the same old ****. Sorry if I've heard all this before. Sorry if I think in another decade we'll be talking about all the same things.
I'm not a liberal. Anything but. But I'm not getting sucked into hate and isolationism.
My steadfast arguments in all these debates has been:
1. We should establish ourselves as against Sharia based on the LAW, not Christianity. We should look at Sharia as a means of governance the same way we look at fascism and communism. Attack it from a legal philosophy as being morally wrong and diplomatically destroy it with economic, political and military power. We can not accept Sharia from our "friends" and condemn it from our "enemies". It has to be a new diplomatic change from our government.
2. Understand that Islam is not going to change overnight and that we cannot wage a winnable war against a religion that affects 1.5 billion people and is growing fast. The key to all religion is to logically defuse the radical parts within. We can not combat radical Islam by ourselves becoming radically Christian. We can not condemn radicalism if we support overly religious politicians and policy makers.
3. Gun regulation is, at it's core, about per capita guns in any environment. The more guns, the more they are used, both for good and bad. Guns are not the culprit, but when they are readily available, they will be used. The ease of which "legal guns" are available is proportional to the ease of which "illegal guns" are available. Once guns enter the environment, it is impossible to regulate their transference. When guns are more readily available, violent events will use them and the efficiency to kill goes up. There is a reason guns are guns. They are designed to be the most perfect and efficient killing tool.
4. The reason I've always wanted to maintain a military presence in the Middle East is to create a military target for extremists. While soldiers will die, it would hopefully prevent civilians from dying in crisis like today in France. I would much rather have militant Muslims attack military targets than have the time/money/resources to attack civilian targets. All this attack today proved to me is that ISIS is so stable in their current environment that they had enough time/energy/resources to help coordinate, fund and plan an attack of this magnitude. Our foreign policy, in the vain attempt to withdrawal all boots on the ground and meet political promises, let a militant group free to do this. I do blame Obama and his policies for what happened today. I do blame many world leaders. And I hope we wake up to the fact the militant islamists aren't going anywhere. Taking the fight to them is part of a long-term plan to prevent terrorist attacks on friendly soil.
There are fundamentals I haven't waivered on much since I starting posting in Gods and Governments. You can call them liberal, conservative, moderate. I don't care. I just think they are correct.