After 9/11, when thousands of American innocents were killed by Islamic extremists for no reason, the central question is not: "Why do they hate us?".
The central question is not: "What is wrong with American foreign policy?"

The central question is: What is wrong with the Islamic world, and how will it reform?

The basic problem is very clear. It is that millions of people in the Islamic world do not believe in free speech, freedom of religion, democracy, a secular state, free enterprise and human rights. Millions of Muslims also have a hatred for Israel and America that has no rational basis.


Who is our enemy?, by Steven Den Beste, has a hard time defining who exactly is the west's enemy, but correctly points out it is not just a small group of terrorists. Much of the Islamic world - and almost all of the Arab Islamic world - must change.

"This war will continue until the traditional crippled Arab culture is shattered. It won't end until they embrace reform or have it forced on them. Until a year ago, we were willing to be patient and let them embrace it slowly. Now we have no choice: we have to force them to reform because we cannot be safe until they do."

"what we have to do is to take the 14th century culture of our enemies and bring it into the 17th century. Once we've done that, then we can work on bringing them into the 21st century ... But they've got to accept their own failure, personally and nationally and culturally. That is the essential first step. They've got to accept that the cause of their failure is their own culture ... And they've got to accept that the only way to succeed is to change. That will be a difficult fight, and it's going to take decades. Along the way it's going to be necessary to remove many governments which come to power and yet again try to embrace the past"

The war will last decades: "This war will end when they change, but not before."
We (the west) don't want to do this. We would far prefer to let them stay in their own failed societies. Who on earth would volunteer for the job of reforming the Middle East? What a pain that after finally winning the Cold War, and entering what we hoped was a new era of peace and prosperity, the west now has to sign up for this endless exhausting job.
We don't want to do this. We (the west) have to do this. Because they threaten us. Because they will destroy one of our cities with nuclear weapons as soon as they get a chance. So we have to reform them. They have forced us to.
House of War captures how annoying it is that we have to deal with these people (the Islamists). It is almost embarrassing that these medieval savages are the future we have to deal with. He notes that despite having a centuries-out-of-date medieval philosophy, they do know how to fight a 21st century media war against soft democracies: "The future is armed to the teeth and is highly motivated, it is dispersed across an ever wider landscape, and it is not waiting for us to arrive: it has begun its relentless assault regardless, chanting the ancient slogans of religious bigotry and blood for a vengeful god. Unless we step into it and learn to fight the future war more effectively than our enemies, we have already lost."

If you want a 5 minute summary of what is wrong with the Islamic world, here it is.
Freedom House ranks countries' political freedoms and civil liberties as "Free", "Partly Free" and "Not Free".

Here is their 2013 ranking for the main belt of Islamic countries:

Green - "Free".
Yellow - "Partly Free".
Purple - "Not Free".

[size=16pt]"Moderate" Islam - Opinion Polls in the Islamic world
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Apologists for Islam say Islam means "peace" and the fundamentalist killers are a tiny minority. This is not true. Opinion polls show that they represent mainstream opinion in the Islamic world (large minority, and often majority):

Survey of Muslim world, Sept 2009
68 percent of Palestinian Muslims said suicide bombings of civilians were justifiable.
51 percent of Shiite Lebanese Muslims said suicide bombings of civilians were justifiable.
43 percent of Nigerian Muslims said suicide bombings of civilians were justifiable.
38 percent of all Lebanese Muslims said suicide bombings of civilians were justifiable.
54 percent of Nigerian Muslims expressed confidence in bin Laden to do the right thing.
52 percent of Palestinian Muslims expressed confidence in bin Laden to do the right thing.
28 percent of Jordanian Muslims expressed confidence in bin Laden to do the right thing.

Source: http://markhumphrys.com/islamic.world.html

Why must our nigeria prop up in evil discussion always? Abi na Bh

Thats what happens wherever islam exists. #pukes

What's wrong with the devil?

can u ever bleach coal? if no den y are u bordered about d sons of rebellion?? just like peak milk its in dem. it flows in their bloodstream

Hmmmm,Nigeria matter,if God wey dey watch over Nigerian na man,em go dey get high blood pressure 24/7.............em go dey 18yrs get gray hair

#heavybreathe-in-nd-out#