The Only People Fighting Are People I Don’t Want to Win

By Daniel Miessler on January 10th, 2010: Tagged as Politics | Religion

Why is it that it seems most of those who are smart enough to identify radical Islam as a worldwide threat are likely to be highly Christian neocons who are nearly as dangerous themselves?

You want to support those with the courage to speak out against the dangers of hostile Islamification, but once you see these same people holding Bibles you’re forced to think twice.

We need more progressive thinkers who are willing to take decisive action toward stopping the spread of intolerance, but fewer of those who seek to fill the vacuum left behind with their own brand of malignant superstition.

  • cooperati

    One way to gauge who to go at war with, and who to side with, is the nature of the battle you want to wage first, and which you want to wage least.

    Bible thumpers, though sometimes unweildly in logic and lean in the means of expressing worthwhile substance as they are lacking in being open to superior processes, are not equal to violent Islamo-fascists. The difference should be acknowledged, and appreciable.

    Perhaps a strategy based on priorities is best. One can, and possibly must be an ally against the other. Which would you choose?

    -=T=-

  • CarlM

    EVERYONE identifies RADICAL Islam as a threat. Where have you been?

    I think that your real issue is that you'd prefer that Islam is identified as a threat (or in different terms .. that you have a different definition of RADICAL).

  • http://bensauer.myopenid.com/ RC

    Radical Islam may be a threat of a kind, but it wouldn't be if we didn't try to fuck over their countries so often (see Shah of Iran, countless other attempts to 'create a democracy'). You're simply not tackling the root of the resentment if you only blame Islamic cultural intolerance (which is a problem, no doubt).

  • http://bensauer.myopenid.com/ RC

    Radical Islam may be a threat of a kind, but it wouldn't be if we didn't try to fuck over their countries so often (see Shah of Iran, countless other attempts to 'create a democracy'). You're simply not tackling the root of the resentment if you only blame Islamic cultural intolerance (which is a problem, no doubt).


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