Originally posted by Shahram:
Originally posted by Desert_Rat:
[b]There's no such thing as a 'moderate muslim'.
How do you stamp out an ideology? Is it even possible to stem the legislation of culture by counter-legislation? And what would need to be enacted? A series of laws barring muslims from the political process? Renovate existing immigration laws to exclude muslims?
Are we talking about re-vamping laws at all? Or are we talking about Manzanar getting a fresh coat of paint?
What are we talking about?[/b]You can't stamp out an ideology short of complete eradication of the people who hold that ideology, and that would cause many more problems then a our nation could handle.
How can you tell who is who in a religious war? You either have to start eliminating whole races of people because of suspected Islamic affiliation (a la Germany) or continue on the path we are on which is to wage a continuous "war on terror" against an ideology, which will only drain us of our resources as it has been.
Bin Laden's goal was to "bankrupt" the US, and I'd say 9/11 was a good catalyst for reaching that goal. As long as Islam has the resources and funding (Saudi Arabia) to wage this type of warfare, it's going to be a long hard road as what we are doing is akin to a siege, and laying siege to an ideology is in my opinion completely impossible.
Our current crop of politicians and population don't have what it takes to even try and legislate against Islam. They'll just roll over as being politically correct is more important than anything to them and attacking any religion is political suicide in this country. Look how well Scientology has prospered here....
I don't know the answer, and maybe our current course of action is the right course but I don't know how long our economy can take it. I guess time and history will tell.
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