relda,

If you believe in this form of propaganda you must be a greater fool than the American public who might fall for: "Islam is compatible with our western democracy mantra..."

The real embarrassment is to continue to follow a religion that has at its core the destruction of the non-muslem world. i.e. the very country that they now live in.

Islam has many ways of “infiltration” into new territories. Terrorism is but one of them.

To be a Muslem is to support this kind of ideology - don't tell us that when hundreds of American Muslems (and Australian Muslems) cheered and rejoiced when the Twin Towers collapsed other Muslems were a bit embarrassed about their jubilation.

America in the mind of a Muslem is synonymous with Christian and Jewish infidel scum. Israel presence is but a daily reminder of that intolerable hatred that is inoculated in the hearts of all Muslems by Islamic governments through their education systems.

Mohammad had one goal in mind when he stumbled on the idea of a new religion from Allah, and that is to convert the world (as he knew it then) to Islam – the last and perfect religion that was to replace all other religions before it.

Mohammad was in fact establishing a territorial kingdom with no borders for Allah – thinking that he had a mandate from God to do so.

What we see today is the application of his teachings, taken literally or figuratively they still mean one thing: world domination and supremacist intolerant mob mentality against the evil of freedom and democracy.

Islam cannot survive (although it will make us believe that it does) under any other foreign regimes.

Islam IS a political vacuum that operates beautifully in its bubble without the need for any outside influence to prosper and grow. True Muslems will only respond to and have a respect for their own Islamic laws.

So the concept of separation of state and mosque is an anathema in Islam. To retain the control of their flocks, Imams must use the state power to implement their religious laws.

Coach,
Your typifying of all Muslims as believing in, or having sympathy with an ideology of violent Jihad, is dangerously narrow. By your polemic, I’m dangerously naïve - so we’ll just have to survive such as impasse.

I can only state further, there is every reason to believe the fanatics within the ‘House of Islam’ share total contempt for the acculturated Muslim communities within Western communities. The extreme form of this puritanical Islam does not represent all Muslims today – just as Fundamentalist Christianity doesn’t represent Christian diversity.

There are two ways in which contemporary Muslim culture, Arab or non-Arab, inadvertently feeds these extreme trends. First, since the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the onslaught of colonialism, Islamic intellectuals have busied themselves with the task of "defending Islam" by rampant apologetics. This has produced a culture that eschews self-critical and introspective insight and embraces projection of blame and a fantasy-like level of confidence and arrogance. The same ideological parallel exists within rampant forms of Christianity – fortunately ‘moderate’ Christianity abounds, despite this affliction. At least the fundamentalist "puritans" around the world are consistent. Jerry Falwell and Osama bin Laden agree: America deserves to suffer. I imagine these like-minded thinkers singing "God Is Great" and "God Bless America" in harmony.

The voice of these Western Muslim communities must be listened to rather than the voice that is heard most loudly in the world umma. Rather than the enemy within, the Muslims of the West should be seen as the ally within. The following ‘propaganda’, from Muslim pen, spreads also the same ‘propaganda’ a Christian might preach:
“It [Peace] comes into being when human beings honour the divine imperative to live justly, learn to be just to themselves and to others. Constant striving is required to overcome the fragmentation to which most human beings are subjected in the technological age and also to eliminate sexism, racism, classism, and all forms of totalitarianism which lead to the injustices and inequities which characterize the world in which we live. To engage in such striving is the purpose of a Muslim's/ [Christians’] life.” R.Hissan

Lets not give them a righteous title by calling them Terrorists or by stating that one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter.How about we tell it like it is to the families of thier victims.Lets call them MURDERERS instead