We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/06/wahabism_delenda_est.html Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:38:48 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Some Muslims are starting to get it - and more importantly, act on it. I would note they manage to do it without suggesting that the Muslim world need adopt westernized ways, or follow western custom - but that they do need to drag themselves out of the 8th Century. Good on 'em. But they probably ought to buy body and neck armor. I hope the message is heard. Wahabism is a problem the Muslims created - it's a problem that only the Muslims can fix, absent the glass craters that some of my more bloodthirsty commenters suggest (and I... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/06/wahabism_delenda_est.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/06/wahabism_delenda_est.html Mon, 28 Jun 2004 11:10:39 -0600 Um, John, how is your statement any different when one word is modified: "Ah yes ... politics. It has made this world such a wonderful place." I'm not sure, but I'm guessing what with the communists and all, secular humanism dressed in Marxist rhetoric may be giving religion a run for it's money, and if you add in fascism (muddier water there)... Nope - not accusing you of being a commonist - just making a point about how the statement works, and suggesting the analogy is, well, lopsided? (/snarky tweak) Perhaps a better wording would be: "Ah yes ... fanaticism. It has made this world such a wonderful place." http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/06/wahabism_delenda_est.html#comment-4998 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/06/wahabism_delenda_est.html#comment-4998 Mon, 28 Jun 2004 18:47:10 -0600 Ah yes ... religion. It has made this world such a wonderful place. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/06/wahabism_delenda_est.html#comment-4996 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/06/wahabism_delenda_est.html#comment-4996 Mon, 28 Jun 2004 18:34:21 -0600 Wahhabism is the superficial symptom. Islam itself is the disease as described and prescribed by the Koran, which spells out the course the disease must take. Therefore, eliminating Wahhabism will only cool the fever; it won't eradicate the infection. The Koran says kill Christian and Jews; as long as that remains unchanged, we can expect more of the same even after Wahhabism is destroyed ... either in this century or some future one. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/06/wahabism_delenda_est.html#comment-4992 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/06/wahabism_delenda_est.html#comment-4992 Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:30:25 -0600 Unfortunately for us in modern times, the jihadists of Islam have access to weapons far more lethal than spears, arrows, and swords. When Christianity was going through its Dark Age the closest thing to WMD was primitive cannon and firearms, or perhaps unintentional bio warfare in the form of disease spread by massed soldiers on the move. These days, a few clever and well-connected jihadists can do tremendous damage, as we saw on 9/11. And 9/11 was just a tiny taste of what is yet to come, assuming the jihadis eventually succeed in obtaining a nuclear warhead and smuggle it onto American soil. New York, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., even my home port of Seattle, are all prime targets. I certainly hope some Muslims are starting to "get it" because if the jihadis want to "push the button" as it were, we've got far more warheads at our disposal, and staring at the radiactive wreckage of one of our great cities, I tend to think Americans will be apoplectic enough to use them! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/06/wahabism_delenda_est.html#comment-4987 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/06/wahabism_delenda_est.html#comment-4987 Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:42:46 -0600