Posted by
Boris Tiraspolsky on Saturday, May 03, 2008 1:24:56 AM
"The key question for Westerners is: Do we love our freedoms as much as they [Islamic jihadists] hate them? Many free people, alas, have become so accustomed to freedom, and to the comfortable position of not having to stand up for it, that they’re incapable of defending it when it’s imperiled—or even, in many cases, of recognizing that it is imperiled."
An Anatomy of Surrender
By Bruce Bawer
Islam divides the world into two parts. The part governed by sharia, or Islamic law, is called the
Dar al-Islam, or House of Submission. Everything else is the
Dar al-Harb, or House of War, so called because it will take war—holy war, jihad—to bring it into the House of Submission. Over the centuries, this jihad has taken a variety of forms. Two centuries ago, for instance, Muslim pirates from North Africa captured ships and enslaved their crews, leading the U.S. to fight the Barbary Wars of 1801–05 and 1815. In recent decades, the jihadists’ weapon of choice has usually been the terrorist’s bomb; the use of planes as missiles on 9/11 was a variant of this method.
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