Tuesday, June 06, 2017

Hope: the West’s national-security strategy for a quarter-century.

Andy McCarthy writes at National Review,
...If you are an Islamist in the West, you are, by definition, an extremist. An Islamist is a Muslim who believes Islam requires the imposition of sharia, Islam’s ancient, totalitarian societal system and legal code.

...Erdogan describes the Western call for Muslim migrants to assimilate in their new European societies as “a crime against humanity.”

...Mrs. May is half right. We are confronted by an ideology. But it is sharia supremacism, the belief that Islamic law must be imposed on society. To limit our attention to violent jihadists is to remain willfully blind to what inspires the jihadists. That is what has to be confronted, if we have the stomach for it.
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