This is very serious. I don't wan't to have to learn Arabic. Hebrew for my bar mitzphh was traumatic enough. Besides, the women in my life would find chadors or burkahs a real nuisance in the Chicago summers.
I therefore add to Thomas proposal the element he left out, in addition to bulldozing schools and mosques, and stripping Muslims who have Bad Ideas of their citizenship: I think we should torture anyone of Muslim faith or Middle Eastern origin, and dorporting them, to, I dunno, Pakistan, until they stop trying to forcibly convert us to Islam by blowing themselves up in our subways and skycrapers.
That'll show 'em how civilized we are. While we are at it, we can torture the mealy-mouths at the ALCU who bitch and moan about the rights of scum like that.
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
<http://jewishworldreview.com/0705/thomas071905.php3>
>
> Jewish World Review - July 19, 2005
>
> What happened to unconditional surrender?
> By Cal Thomas
>
> DOLGELLAU, Wales - Thank goodness for those
> history channels that bring back the generals and
> politicians of the past who, by contrast, make
> many of today's leaders look indecisive.
>
> I saw President Harry Truman on one of them last
> week. In a speech to the nation near the end of
> World War II, Truman rejected suggestions that
> the Allies seek accommodation with Japan, rather
> than victory. Truman would have none of it,
> saying only Japan's "unconditional surrender"
> would be acceptable.
>
> Contrast that with the conciliatory blather of
> today. Prime Minister Tony Blair is inviting
> British and Muslim leaders to a meeting Tuesday
> at 10 Downing Street where it is reported he will
> urge worldwide action to uproot what he has
> called the "evil ideology" and "twisted teaching"
> that lay behind the London bombings.
>
> Here's what Blair should say to the Muslim
> leaders: "The onus is on you guys. You find and
> shut down the terrorists and their network. You
> turn those who incite, plan and encourage
> violence over to the authorities. If you don't
> act, we will by closing and bulldozing the
> mosques and schools that incubate and instruct
> the killers, prosecuting the terrorists we find
> and deporting them and their clerics, and closing
> our borders to anyone from countries that harbor
> and teach terrorists. Those who are British
> citizens will be stripped of their citizenship."
>
> As part of its continuing disinformation campaign
> in America (reminiscent of Nazi, Soviet and
> Japanese propaganda of the not-too-distant past),
> the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
> is providing public service announcements to
> American television stations titled "Not in the
> Name of Islam." A CAIR press release says the
> spots are designed to "highlight the Muslim
> community's condemnation of terrorism and
> rejection of those who carry out terror attacks."
>
> Just who are these spots designed to influence?
> Does CAIR wish us to believe the jihadists in
> America will see them and convert to democratic
> ideals, or is this Tokyo Rose propaganda designed
> to keep our guard down?
>
> It is helpful to quote what two prominent
> senators have said about CAIR: "(CAIR is) unusual
> in its extreme rhetoric and its associations with
> groups that are suspect," said Richard Durbin,
> Illinois Democrat. "We know (CAIR) has ties to
> terrorism," added Charles Schumer, New York
> Democrat.
>
> The problem with the cluttered Western
> contemporary mind is there is little room for
> anyone or any philosophy based on absolutes and
> convictions. The terrorists benefit from Western
> self-indulgence, ignorance about history and
> aversion to war. If we think of depravity at all,
> it is in the Michael Jackson vein and not
> religious fanatics, who kill school children,
> behead "infidels" and seek world domination.
>
> Western secularists cannot comprehend people who
> link their private faith to public actions. Too
> many think terrorists can be dissuaded from their
> bloody goals by using Western logic and trying to
> "understand why they hate us."
>
> I don't want to understand why they hate us,
> anymore than my father's generation sought to
> understand Nazis, or the ideological slaves of
> Hirohito. Like that generation, since the
> jihadists have declared war on us, I want to kill
> them before they kill me.
>
> To make us feel better and allow us to "get on
> with our lives," we make believe the jihadists
> are a tiny minority and not "mainstream Islam."
> But what if they are mainstream ó part of an
> elaborate conspiracy designed to dupe the West
> while the infiltration of Britain, America and
> all of Europe continues unabated?
>
> What if the "moderates" are too intimidated to
> speak out for fear they will be killed? If that
> is the case, it is all the more reason to declare
> total war on the jihadists, because that is what
> they have declared on us.
>
> Would it not be a clever strategy to put
> insurgents among us who dress and speak as
> Westerners, work in our schools and restaurants
> (as one of the bombing suspects did in London),
> but are secretly plotting the death of total
> strangers?
>
> They know they don't have the power of a
> conquering army to defeat us from without, but
> they believe the virus they are spreading can
> weaken us from within until we surrender because
> we favor "peace" over conflict.
>
> Wake up, America and Britain! The jihadists are
> after us and they will stop at nothing until we
> all live under the banner of Islam, either by
> fear or by force.
>
> Where have you gone, Harry Truman and Winston
> Churchill? Our nations turn their lonely eyes to
> you. Boo-hoo-hoo.
>
> ---
>
> JWR contributor Cal Thomas is the author of,
> among others, The Wit and Wisdom of Cal Thomas.
>
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