Islam has always worried me because I guess it is a tenet of the faith that in many cases a martyr goes to heaven. And that spreading the faith can include killing infidels (me!). WHile not all Moslems believe this, some do. Christians don’t have that as a tenet of their faith (though that doesn’t stop them from killing). I can’t remember many Christians saying that fellow that murdered the abortion doc would go to heaven.

the Muslim Brotherhood’s ultimate goal may not be simply “to help Muslims be the best citizens they can be,” but rather to extend Islamic law throughout Europe and the United States.

And, in my book, due to the unlikelihood of that happening, the main focus of the discussion should be on what they might do to achieve their goal. Loads of these folks have proclaimed the highly irrational belief that they are on the approaching an age of worldwide Islam and that violence will bring that age sooner. Terrorist attacks or not though, people trying to impose a religious ideal on society worry me enough that I’m not going to scoff.

The point of the Christian vs. Muslim extremists isn’t to say that you should be ignoring the former in favor of the latter. No, it was that it’s kind of absurd to get so red in the face about the former when the latter has been much more committed to murder in the name of God.

Nice use of “drudge” on the Mead quotation by the way. Because, after all, that’s how I feel when the left waves it like a magic banner.

The US is, what, 90% Christian?

On the Muslim Brotherhood, it’s simply nuts to think that they’d succeed in imposing Islamic Law on the United States, no matter how many Margaret Mead quotes you drudge up.

Though maybe that was supposed to be humor. It’s so hard to tell anymore.

I’ve not got time to read the whole essay, but nothing about that last sentence suggests that Islamic law is coming to the U.S. Rather, it says, fairly unambiguously that this may be the Muslim Brotherhood’s goal. It never ceases to amaze me that, broadly speaking of course, left-leaning types wring their hands in fear and consternation over an assertive Christian minority’s (admittedly a significant and powerful one, but still a minority) attempts to shape public life while snorting and guffawing at the news that an Islamic minority – as crazy as it may seem – is committed to bringing the blessings of their religious law to every last boy and girl. And not just committed, but eager to kill and die doing so.

I know blessed little about the Muslim Brotherhood to be quite honest. And I also don’t think there’s much reason to worry about Islamic law coming to these fair shores. But, to abuse the spirit of Margaret Mead’s words:

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.