Time for Straight Talk about Radical Islam

(Dallas News) Andrew McCarthy - Terrorism is not an enemy. It is a method. You cannot, and you do not, make war on a method. War is made on an identifiable enemy. In the here and now, that enemy is militant Islam - a very particular practice and interpretation of a very particular set of religious, political, and social principles. A rich and worthy tradition of religious tolerance is an enormous part of what makes America great. It led our government, within hours of the 9-11 attacks, to announce to the world that Islam was not and is not our enemy. But we have taken the ostrich routine way too far.


2004-05-25 00:00:00

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