Coach, I'm not arguing that there isn't a large and organized group of fundamental nut-jobs in the world who wish to do harm to people they feel violate their idealistic tenets. I'll even go ahead and call them radical Islamic extremists if it makes you happy.
Unfortunately Islam is a unique and unfortunate concoction of religion and political ideology. They mix the two together, a terrible idea from the start. Sadly, our Constitution strictly demands that we respect the right of every American to follow the religion of his or her choice. So, what would you propose? We can't simply excise parts of the Constitution that we feel have started to "suck a little".
Now, fortunately, the Constitution doesn't say anything about respecting the political and religious ideologies of folks in OTHER countries... Nor does it imply we have to be polite or diplomatic in our dealings with those countries.
Coach, I'm not arguing that there isn't a large and organized group of fundamental nut-jobs in the world who wish to do harm to people they feel violate their idealistic tenets. I'll even go ahead and call them radical Islamic extremists if it makes you happy.
Unfortunately Islam is a unique and unfortunate concoction of religion and political ideology. They mix the two together, a terrible idea from the start. Sadly, our Constitution strictly demands that we respect the right of every American to follow the religion of his or her choice. So, what would you propose? We can't simply excise parts of the Constitution that we feel have started to "suck a little".
Now, fortunately, the Constitution doesn't say anything about respecting the political and religious ideologies of folks in OTHER countries... Nor does it imply we have to be polite or diplomatic in our dealings with those countries.
"Unfortunately, Islam is a unique and unfortunate concoction of religion and political ideology "- Wig
Wig,
No other religion has that problem on the scale the Muslims do.
When your religioun clashes with the freedom and beliefs of others, and has a code to punish, you have a problem. ISIS has clear goals, and anyone who willing pledges to them should be guilty of treason here as their aim is to destroy and kill.
A quick crash course on what Muslim's believe I think is needed.
1 ) You can marry 4 women. Their prophet who out of respect I shall never draw or name here our of respect had 4 wives, one of which he married at age 9, then consummated the marriage at age 11
2 ) Women need 4 men present to qualify as rape. In some nations, their education, and ability to leave the house depend on the men.
3 ) Gay's and Lesbian's their good book says should be killed, and you can stone them to death. The same goes for Adultery.
4 ) There are over 30 references to hate in their book. Do not befriend any Jew or Christian. There is no compromise.
5 ) They cheer when our nation is hit with tragedy, mostly in private.We are the great S*tan to them.
6 ) The Religous people in Iran ( Muslim ) clearly state they want to use nuclear weapons in Isreal.
7 ) They are told to spread their religion, which was done chiefly through the sword.
Are any of the above in tune for the core rights and beliefs of the USA? Essentially Muslims by their very religion are against 95% of the USA.
8 ) Attacks are escalating. They are the almost commonplace. We have a President who not only wants to bring in a group of people who have some radicals or can easily be realized, he won't even call them by name, nor will he fight them where they live beyond a drone attack. He lets them keep their oil, which is how they fund their Jihad like views.
9 ) Once they gain a large enough population, they want their law. And they have Sharia law courts in France and the UK.
10 ) If you don't believe in god, you are an apostate. In their view, you should die.
I could list a lot more...
Red Coats, Nazi's, Jap', Charlie...there was no problem identifying the enemy attacking us in those wars or any group that attack the USA, yet Obama won't say we are at war with Radical Islam. Why is telling and very disturbing.