Of course, risk management and risk assessment is my business as a Security & Privacy Officer and I suspect this gives me a better grasp of the likelihood of occurrence and level of impact of an attack by someone who is Muslim that involves me vs. the likelihood of occurrence of death or injury by cabbage.

By the way, I had family within just a few blocks of the World Trade Center on 9/11 and didn’t know for more than 12 hours if she was alive or dead. I’ve already been impacted by Islamic terrorism on that day. I also had two friends die in Oklahoma City, one in Khobar Towers and an acquaintance injured in the Marine Barracks in Beirut in 1983. And I was injured during the first Gulf War. And my father happened to not be on an airplane that was hijacked by the PLO in 1971 by sheer fluke. Since he was an Army officer travelling on military orders in civilian clothing, the PLO would almost certainly have decided he was CIA and killed him. In fact, two other officers on that flight were killed by the PLO.

While statistically unlikely, I have been directly impacted by Islam and Islamic terrorism on 6 different occasions. That doesn’t count another friend who was injured during the rescue attempt during the Iranian Hostage Crisis. Islamic terrorists have been attacking, terrorizing and murdering Americans and Jews and anyone else they perceive as their enemy for decades with relative impunity. They have been at war with us for more than 30 years.

Even a hard core capital L libertarian should be able to see that it’s time, and more than time, to take action to prevent further attacks on our life, liberty and property. Of course, they will likely defend the behavior of the terrorists by blaming it on something or other, while continuing to blame anyone but the Islamic “holy warriors” who are so industriously trying to destroy Israel, wipe out the Jewish people and kill as many infidel Americans as they possibly can.

The difference between muslims and christians is that Jesus himself wasn’t a terrorist. Whereas Mohammed was.

The bible cautions one to be wary of false prophets. Being an agnostic hindu, the bible isn’t the basis of my ideology, but also as an agnostic hindu I was taught to seek knowledge wherever it springs from. And mohammed is the very definition of a false prophet. Begin a camel-herder, die the founder of an empire with many female sex slaves.

There are two mohammeds. there was the idealistic mohammed who initially preached a faith that is quite beautiful. He was turned away from the christians and jews who he saw as his abrahamic brothers. He grew bitter and took up arms against them. And he sullied the otherwise beautiful philosophy of Islam with politically-corrupted filth.

Until Islam is able to separate the two Mohammeds–and the two Qurans–Islam will continue to be a threat.

I draw my conclusions not from innate hick prejudice but from having the good fortune to live in a few different countries, in a few different muslim neighborhoods.

Every muslim immigrant population in every part of the world has advocated, condoned or actively participated in terror against non-muslims.

It isn’t Islam against the West. They’ve killed over 2000 women, children, and monks for the audacity to practice Hinduism and Buddhism in traditionally hindu/buddhist parts of the world. They’ve sown the seeds of terror in Africa, in Europe, in Asia, and in North America.

How long will it be until people recognize this?

I really can’t agree with that. Why are the different factions of Islam killing each other in Iraq? Christianity is no different. For how many years did Catholics and Protestants kill each other in Ireland?

And if you want to keep your head in the sand about ‘most Muslims’ please be my guest. But it’s funny what surveys actually show. And what some time in immigrant communities such as Dearborn or various parts of London would reveal

We obviously disagree.

I would rather see radical Islam defeated on a battleground in Arabia than having to worry about fighting on a battleground in Europe.

And I don’t see this as a matter of alliances that entangle us, I see it as a matter of national interest and security.