...Drowning in denial doesn't alter the facts. Either retract what you posted or it stands as is...
Naming an Enemy (as I did in #845) is a far cry from declaring (or advocating for) War.
Your inability to distinguish between the two is your cross (or crescent?) to bear, not mine.
...Merely calling me a liar won't alter the hate that you posted and the call for war against 1.5 billion innocent people...
Naming an Enemy (as I did in #845) is a far cry from declaring (or advocating for) War.
Your inability to distinguish between the two is your cross (or crescent?) to bear, not mine.
...But that is your problem, not mine...
Given that I do not HAVE a problem... given that I did NOT declare nor advocate for war in #845 - either explicitly nor implicitly - it looks like the problem is yours, after all.
...I am a realist and know that Muslims are no different to anyone else...
No, you are not a Realist... you have your head in the sand.
...Yes, they have their fanatics but so do Christians, Jews and Hindus...
Care to count-up the number of acts of large-scale worldwide religiously-driven terrorism committed by Muslims in recent decades, versus the numbers committed by Christians, Jews and Hindus?
Wanna lose?
...Fanatics that commit acts of violence are criminals and will be dealt with as such...
Fanatics that control entire Muslim countries and regions and that command Muslim armies and militias actively engaged in large-scale warfare and terrorism operations are, indeed, criminals, as well as being valid military war-targets.
...Your hate inspired war will never transpire.
I wage no war nor call for war against Islam.
But I DO label Islam as our (The West's) spiritual and cultural and philosophical Enemy.
And I DO label Militant Islam as our actual and mortal Enemy - in a very real military sense.
Militant Islam will end-up dominating mainstream Islam.
When that happens, there may, indeed, be war, although it will not be The West (modern, secularized Christendom) that starts it.
The hate oozing up from the philosophical roots of Islam is the breast-milk of Militant Islam.
And, unless mainstream Islam manages to wean its misbegotten offspring off the teat - and undergo serious modernizing and reform, Islam remains a serious threat.
Your foolhardy faux equivalencies and attempts to portray Islam-at-large as non-threatening, as a spiritual and philosophical baseline, no longer signifies like it once did.
Your arguments are being swept aside by modern history and recent events, and relegated to the back burner as well-intentioned but simplistic, naive and gravely flawed.
Miltant Islam is our mortal Enemy.
Mainstream Islam is our spiritual and philosophical Enemy.
The former deserves our best efforts to kill it.
The latter deserves our most serious and sustained watchfulness and skepticism.
Any other portrayal of what I have said - or my intentions - is in error.
Or the result of outright lying, in an attempt to discredit a position or a colleague.
You have been caught lying, in intentionally and falsely attempting to portray my #845 as a declaration of war against Islam.
When one is caught in a lie, it is valid to label that person as a Liar.
Again... your problem, not mine.