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One point I think I made earlier was that our war was not with Islam, but with the adherents of a political movement - call it fundamentalism, Islamism, political Islam, jihadism or Islamofascism (no term is entriely satisfactory) - which embraces terror as a means and subjugation or destruction of all non-Muslims as a end. I noted that from our perspective our war wasn't against Islam, but it was up to Muslims to decide whether from their perspective it was. Muslims had to choose sides, and it appeared that most were not.
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Couple of observations:
1) Since the "political movement" is using the religion as the base for the call and the religious leaders are the political leaders, it would seem to me that it is indeed religious and not political. And can you separate the two in a culture where everything is tied to religion?
2) The "allowing" of the jihad to become the voice of the religion is to me making a choice. They have allowed themselves to be defined by the radical element, which makes them just as guilty.
Not taking the side against them is taking the side for them.
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Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
Still want to quit?
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