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Old 05-14-2008, 10:44 AM
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Originally Posted by eleanoraquitaine View Post
If we stopped allowing muslims in our countries until they really do become peaceful, there would be much less need for violence. We wouldn't need to stay on the offensive as we do now in order to protect ourselves. And, we really wouldn't need to build democracies or reform islam at all- just keep them away from us.
That would only work in the short term. Their ideology will not have changed one iota, since they will still be practicing Islam in a community that supports the very practices the West objects to. In time, the West might decline, and Dar al-Islam become more powerful, and, were that the case, war would be at our doorstep regardless of whether we wanted it or not.
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