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And growing Rapidly both through threat, murder and appealing to the poor, by blaming the West.

Do you honestly think they wouldn’t use them (nukes) against us if we attacked their holiest of shrines?

It will eventually happen anyway left unchecked.

2)How many of the 1.1 to 1.8 billion Muslims are actively engaged in terrorism?

All who are faithful to the teaching of Islam

Will your scorched earth approach create more or fewer radical Islamists?

Did the scorched earth approach produce more Rebs in the civil war? More Nazi’s in Dresden, More Sammari’s in Nagasaki/Tokyo?

3) One of the most hideous tenets of radical Islamic terrorism is that there is no room for tolerance. Non-Muslims must either convert or die; there’s no middle ground.By adopting the same all-or-nothing approach, how are we any better than these monsters?

What if the same had been said during WW2? Are we Nazi’s now? Is Germany?

But to wipe out millions upon millions of Muslims (or force them to “convert by the sword”) simply because some are hell bent on destroying us is economically unfeasible at best and genocide at worst.

It would never come to that. As with the South, Germany twice, and Japan they will at some point capitulate. All will see the supposed superiority of Allah as the lie it is. A defensive war is always a losing war.

One thing is for sure if we don’t do it to them they will do it to us.

The problem I see with your final solution is threefold:

1)The total world population of adherents to Islam ranges somewhere between 1.1 and 1.8 billion. Can you reasonably expect to wipe out all of these people before they retaliate for attacks on “mosques, mecca, medina, all the centers of that evil religion”? Bear in mind also that Pakistan has nuclear weapons. Do you honestly think they wouldn’t use them against us if we attacked their holiest of shrines?

2) How many of the 1.1 to 1.8 billion Muslims are actively engaged in terrorism? Even if that number is 100 million, that’s still only 10 percent, which means that 90 percent of Muslims aren’t a threat to us. Wiping out 100% of Islam because 10% is terrorist is the moral equivalent of leveling a whole city because one out of 10 residents is involved in crime. A major reason that terrorism has declined dramatically in Iraq is because average Iraqi Muslims (both Sunni or Shia) became sick and tired of the violence and decided to support our efforts through the Awakening Movement and Concerned Iraqi Citizen groups. Will your scorched earth approach create more or fewer radical Islamists?

3) One of the most hideous tenets of radical Islamic terrorism is that there is no room for tolerance. Non-Muslims must either convert or die; there’s no middle ground. By adopting the same all-or-nothing approach, how are we any better than these monsters?

To be sure, we need to defend ourselves against the kind of domestic threat that has overtaken the UK. I’m not averse to close scrutiny of what’s being preached in mosques in this country. My father told me that during World War I, U.S. government agents attended our church to monitor the German-language services for possible subversion. And obviously I’m all for the defeat of groups like the Taliban, Al Qaeda, etc. But to wipe out millions upon millions of Muslims (or force them to “convert by the sword”) simply because some are hell bent on destroying us is economically unfeasible at best and genocide at worst.

You might remember the retarted boy the Israilies found and stopped at a crossing point.

It’s as Ive said before, the war in Iraq or Iran or Afganistan is irrelevent. THe war should be on Islam. The logical starting point would be removing all of ISlam from this country. Ban it as the terroists organization it really is.

As a side note, you might have heard about the Canyon high school grad recently killed in Iraq. He was the son of the pastor where my youngest daughter goes to church. I’d never met his son just the father. He’s the Lutheran Pastor here in Canyon. No one has been able to contact him since this happened. I can’t imagine the stuggle that must be happening between this loss and his faith right now. I don’t agree with his religion but he is a good man.

It sickens me to see these deaths in a war that is being fought in a PC fashion. We should be targeting mosques, mecca, medina, all the centers of that evil religion. If we don’t kill the head the body will never die. There will never be democracy in these counties as long as Islam lives