Buchanan: West at War with Islamic Extremism

Pat Buchanan today posted a column, “The Forever War?,” on the recent Islamic terror attacks in the U.K. and their broader implications.  Some excerpts:

Why, then, did they kill these strangers, and themselves?

A BBC eyewitness suggests a motive: “They shouted, ‘This is for Allah’, as they stabbed indiscriminately.”

Clearly, from the suicide bombings and shootings of civilians in the Middle East, now across the West, there is a belief among some Muslims that what the killers are doing is moral and meritorious — taking the martyr’s path to salvation.

There is an extremist school of Islam that needs to be purged from the West, even as this school of fanatics is seeking to purge Christianity from the East.

Are honor killings of girls and women caught in adultery justified?  Are lashings and executions of Christian converts justified?  Do people who hold such beliefs really belong in the United States or in the West during this long war with Islamist extremism?

Is our commitment to diversity broad enough to embrace people with Islamist beliefs?  Is our First Amendment freedom of speech and of religion extensive enough to cover the sermons of imans who use mosques to preach in favor of expelling Christians from the Middle East and an eventual takeover of the West for an Islam where Sharia replaces constitutional law?

Are such Islamist beliefs not intolerable and perilous for our republic?

Clearly, the West is in a civilizational struggle, with the outcome in some doubt.

Terrorist attacks in the West grow in number and lethality every year.  The new normal.  Now, second-generation Muslims from Europe seem to be converting to a violent version of Islam.

Wars, it is said, are the death of republics.  And we now seem to be caught up in an endless war.

Read more here:  http://buchanan.org/blog/the-forever-war-127150

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