You'd say that to the UAE? Your beloved president will veto any attempt to keep them from managing our ports, don'tchaknow.

UAE = 96% Islamic
Mitzell | Email | Homepage | 02.28.06 - 11:43 pm | #

While I applaud standing up against Islamfascists, I have big reservations about signing onto secularism, which, from my experience, can also lead to a fundamentalist mindset.

Just as there is a difference between law-abiding, peaceful believers in Islam and Islamists, there is a difference the secular and secularism.

We live in the secular, all of us both religious and non-religious and I support a secular state and religious freedom. Secularism would banish all religion from public with hopes that it will wither away in the closet.

Secularism is responsible for a lot of anti-free speech movements that would boot the Harvard president out, or remove any religious symbolism or practice from the public square.

Secularism can't overcome the huge problem that Europe is facing...and that is the inability to reproduce itself, its demographic suicide.

If I want to stand with Europeans against Islamofascism, these are the people I'm behind.

http://www.perloccidente.it/ doc_...doc_english.php

Deborah

P.S. I love your insights. Great site.
Deborah | Email | Homepage | 03.01.06 - 9:18 am | #

t's swell that these famous Left-leaning intellectuals have taken a universalist/non-relativist stand on human rights, but the REAL issue is: What are they willing to do about it?!

Are they willing to support a proactive, bold, aggressive counter-attack - including sanctions, blockades and even preemptive military strikes?

Will they urge their own nations to do more to help the USA and the UK and the other coalition members assist the emerging Iraqi democracy?

Will they support an end to immigration without assimiliation? Will they support the deportation of radical Muslims who incite violence? Will they demand that nations which don't allow its citizens the universal human rights outlined in the UN Declaration be demoted to "observer status" at the UN?

Will they at least criticize their comrades on the Left who - at best - have been skeptical of Bush, and at worst accused him of being a lying, torturing war criminal who went to war for oil/Halliburton/family revenge?

Or do they just want to sign petitions and send strongly worded, high-minded letters?

I suspect it's the latter, and we don't need them for that - we already got Blix and Baradei and Kofi for that!

I pray they prove me wrong, and that this represents the beginning of a more unified West. If that's the case, we will be more likely to have the resolve necessary to defeat the enemy in this - THE LONG WAR.
reliapundit | Email | Homepage | 03.01.06 - 9:26 am | #