Submitted by Yoven(United States), Oct 12, 2004 at 16:43
Americans and developed countries do not understand the full mentality and vision of militant Islam, which will take any form or means possible to obtain its goal.
1st , Islamists will try to convert you and take away your own free will. 2nd, they will try to buy you into Islam and, 3rd, put a sword to your neck.
The first two options is what America is internally undergoing right now. I can't predict when, but once fundamentalist Islam attains a considerable amount of followers in the U.S.A., they will threaten and force people into Islam without consent. Imagine 1 million militant Muslims strapped with bombs all across America ready for Jihad at the same time. Would you not fall under the siege of Islam if your life, the life of your child and your love ones depended on it? Militant Islam might present itself as a religion of PEACE but one shall not fall under its regime. .. This is how I view the militant Islamic Jihad; they would hide behind an innocent child so that we can't harm them, yet shoot a bullet through the same child aiming toward us. ...
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