Today, you'd probably get called out and accused of intolerance and hate speech by the diversity police if you slapped a bumper sticker on your car that said: "Better Dead than Muslim." But if we don't fight the war now - in the enemy's homeland - we may one day find ourselves facing that choice.

Try it this way:

Those who tolerate everything,
Stand for nothing.
What do YOU stand for?

'Course, now, that tees 'em off, too....

Let's recap the Crusades. Muslims invaded Europe and when they reached sufficient numbers they imposed their intolerant religion upon Westerners by force. Christian monarchs drove them back and took the battle to their homeland.

This is the crux of the article, and it is pretty much wrong. It also leaves out some interesting facts, such as the fact that the so-called "Christians" were every bit as intolerant and every bit as nuts about forcing their religion on everybody under their rule.

Read a bit about Galileo if you don't understand this. He was threatened with torture for such silliness as claiming that the moon isn't a polished sphere.

The difference, and this is a biggy, is that European culture was able to overcome that, mainly I believe because of literacy and the printing press.

That Muslim culture is now where Western culture was 600+ years ago is scary, particularly since they have the modern weaponry (some of it, at least) with the medievil mindset.

Another note is that Western culture and Americans in particular are historically ignorant. To say that we're "forgiving" and that's why the Crusades are no big deal is silly; most Americans don't know anything about the Crusades. The Crusades have fallen from our collective memory while being kept very alive by the Arab/Muslim culture of victimhood. And it's that culture of victimhood that needs to be changed.

Michael,

The Christian West didn't just wake up one morning and decide to launch a 200-year war against the Islamic world. By the time the Christians launched the Crusades, there were Muslim military emplacements within 100 miles of Rome. The Christians had a duty to fight back, just as we do today.

Let's recap the Crusades. Muslims invaded Europe and when they reached sufficient numbers they imposed their intolerant religion upon Westerners by force. Christian monarchs drove them back and took the battle to their homeland. The fight lasted a couple of centuries, and we bottled them up for 1,000 years.

Is this a joke? It would be funny, if it weren't so scary. I hereby commit Phil Lucas to re-take Medieval History. (or take it at all)

Anybody catch Lord of the Rings? You know, the good part, the part that wasn’t fiction, the part that drew us to the books and movies because it was the truest part: the titanic struggle between good and evil, between freedom and enslavement, between the individual and the state, between the celebration of life and the worshipping of death.

That's the fight we are in, and it never ends. It just has peaks and valleys.

You know, I find it hilarious that you can resort to citing this sort of racist, ignorant demagoguery and then act all indignant about any parallels drawn to the rise of Nazism in Europe.

This is truly disturbing stuff.

Your link is bad. Try this instead.

Yes there are parallels between the rise of Nazism in Europe and the rise of Islamism in the Middle East. Both are anti-Semitic fascist tyrannies worthy of eradication.

Yes there are parallels between the rise of Nazism in Europe and the rise of Islamism in the Middle East. Both are anti-Semitic fascist tyrannies worthy of eradication.

Very clever. We're all aware I was referring to your post, not Islam.

In fact, the more I think about it, you could practically write a bullet-point comparison of that piece with several Goebbels' speeches. In fact, I think I might!

Chris Wage = JadeGold?

Chris,

I STRONGLY urge you to read the Koran before you open your mouth about the nature of Islam. And yes, I KNOW that you haven't because you would find it impossible to defend. These people divide the world into Them, and everyone else. Everyone else can surrender or die. Sorry, them first.