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August 12, 2007

Reporter's Opinion: 'Danger From Radical Islam Grows'

Topics: Understanding Islam

Just in case you missed seeing it, George Putnam had an interesting piece at NewsMax.com on Friday in which he compared the scourges of communism under Joseph Stalin and the Holocaust of Adolf Hitler to the dangers posed by radical Islam, and he says that the greater threat is that of radical Islam:

I hasten to add that I am referring only to elements of radical Islam, not mainstream Muslims. The majority of Muslims with whom we have been acquainted are decent, honest people -- well educated and knowledgeable in history and current events.

But mainstream Muslims have an issue with which they must deal -- their overall failure to combat the hijacking of their faith by a cadre of murderous ideologues. In today's America you can burn our flag, but you cannot mistreat the Quran.

According to my good friend talk show host Aryeh Spero, burning the flag is freedom of expression but mistreating the Quran is a criminal felony punishable under hate crime legislation.

If you are a radical Muslim, you can wave posters on college campuses calling for "killing the Jews," "destroying Israel," and declaring "Jews are sons of apes."

Many college administrators tell us this is "free speech." Recently a student at Pace University in New York was charged with a felony for stuffing a Koran in a toilet. The Council on American-Islamic Relations or CAIR, the Muslim mouthpiece, filed suit claiming it constituted a hate crime.

Stupid as the young student's act was, let's recall that activists have done such things with the Christian Bible, the Constitution, our flag. But when was the last time we heard of an individual in America going to jail because he flushed pages of a book down the toilet?

Continue reading: One Reporter's Opinion -- The Danger From Radical Islam Grows.

Interestingly, Putnam's assessment of the great threat from radical Islam doesn't apply only to the West. Take for example the Muslim country of Pakistan, which now marks its 60th anniversary by finding itself chafing under military rule with its identity and very existence threatened by a rising tide of Islamic extremism.

However, in spite of the threat to the U.S. from radical Islam, far too many in our country fail to recognize that the threat to our democracy is real, and growing.

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Posted by Richard at August 12, 2007 5:59 PM

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