The Council has spoken and chosen A Questionable Assumption by Shrinkwrapped as the top council post of the week and Muslim Musings on British Muslims by Etaraz as the top non-council post of the week. The former rejects the notion that anything other …

The winning Council post this week was my post on A Questionable Assumption. In second place was Rick Moran’s foreboding post on A HINGE OF HISTORY. The winning non-Council post was by Ali Etaraz, who offered Muslim Musings on British

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When I started my site in September of `05, I was one of the few people referring to what’s going on as a War Against Jihad, and using terms like Islamic fascism. You rarely heard terms like that on talk radio or in the media…everything was the `War on Terror’. Now things have changed considerably, where even President Bush has dropped the `Religion of peace’ schtick.

Read up on the appeasors and isolationists in the 1930’s and you will find that the division you speak of was just as prevalent in the US prior to 1941 as it is now. There’s virtually no difference between what
Michael Moore and Cindy Sheehan are saying today and what Father Coughlin and the Cliveden set were saying then.

The problem, essentially is jihadi Islam and more and more people are aware of it - seen the polls lately in Europe and America on favorable/disfavorable view of Islam?

One of my chief problems with President Bush was that he allowed the country as a whole to fall asleep again after 9/11, because he got caught up in the whole Islamic democracy nonsense.

Now, five years later, people are waking up.

The politicians are simply behind the curve, here and in Europe, but as Muslims in the west become more arrogant and terrorism in the West increases, that will change.

We will be victorious, both here and in most of Europe because the alternative is simply too horrible for most of us to contemplate, and we have something precious to lose. It’s merely a question of how many of us will have to die first.

The quicker we arise, the less the figure will be.

FF

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Because I have to go watch my wife’s ballroom dancing recital.You think I am kidding.I still think this is a psy-op, but the Israeli Cabinet made a decision. 30,000 troops will be used.The security ca …

I admit to not being any sort of expert on the rise of Islamic Fundamentalism, but what I’ve read tends to identify key personae and events going back only a few decades (for the most part) with fewer details of the figures of the “movement” going back to the late 19th century.

My question is: Given the longish history of Islam (actually, among the world’s major religions, it’s still got that new car smell), why now? Since the collapse of the Caliphate, and in general around the world, muslims can be said to be trailing behind western or oriental cultures in many aspects. Why does this movement appear to be gaining such support and sympathy now as opposed to the period 1745-76 or 1932-37 or whatever?

Discuss among yourselves….