What is Islam's Nature?
Reader comment on item: [Alastair Crooke's Conflict Forum and] Sharing Jokes with Hamas

Submitted by Timothy B. Roberts (United States), Apr 21, 2005 at 00:11

Why would I refuse to attend any "polite" function attended by Islamic terrorists? It would be for the same reason why I would reject a banquet sponsored by the Aryan Brotherhood: it is in their nature to kill anyone who refuses to make way for or join their violent, supremacist ideaology. Hope is a wonderful virtue, provided that one is not entertaining false definitions and presuppositions.

Hoping that Jihad Islam will one day accept Jews, Christians, Polytheists, and Disbelievers is a naive fantasy. Hoping that enough non-Muslims will refuse to submit to the Jihadis' hostile theology and culture to resist their aggression and win the War Against Terrorism is a reasonable and noble belief.

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