Like so much else nowadays, the non-word is just a cope, a way to avoid facing up to the REAL issue.

In August, the Daily Signal published an article entitled ‘Sharia Takeover’? What Conservatives Miss in the Debate Over Airport Foot Washing by Tyler O’Neil. The article misapprehends the true nature of Islam and is oblivious to Islamic war doctrine.

‘Islamism’

Islam seeks world domination and imposes a religious duty to wage violent jihad as the means to achieve it. These are standard Islamic doctrines, not flights of fancy tacked on later by ‘fundamentalists’ or ‘extremists’. They come straight from the pages of the Quran. The Quran says 164 times in various ways ‘slay the infidel’. Here are two representative passages:

• Make war on them until idolatry shall cease and God’s religion shall reign supreme. Quran 8:40
• I shall cast terror into the hearts of the infidels. Strike off their heads; strike off the very tips of their fingers. Quran 8:12

Such passages cannot be airbrushed away. Muslims believe the Quran is direct transcription of the words of Allah and, as such, no human being can change them.

As President Erdogan of Turkey put it, “There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.”

Thus, the source of the problem is Islam itself. Those who try to separate ‘political Islam’ from ‘religious Islam’ are on a fool’s errand. Moreover, the legions of observers who join the author of the Daily Signal article in referring to ‘Islamists’ (as opposed to ‘peaceful Muslims’) commit fundamental error.

To underscore the point, the threat is not ‘Islamism’ or ‘radical Islam’. The threat is Islam. The author of the Daily Signal article completely misses the mark in writing: “We should condemn any attacks motivated by radical Islam as we condemn attacks on peaceful Muslims who seek to exercise their faith. Preserving that distinction is not weakness — it’s essential to winning the argument against Islamism.” But the argument cannot be against “Islamism”. The argument has to be against Islam itself.

This is the elephant in the room nobody wants to talk about. But until Islam ceases to exist, the rest of humanity is in mortal danger from self-declared enemies who adhere to Islam’s tenets. All who consider themselves faithful observant Muslims are a threat, whether they’ve ever cracked a Quran or not. The Quran is what they profess to believe, giving license to militant actors to wage war on all nonbelievers. There is no other religion that imposes a doctrinal duty to subjugate and kill nonbelievers.

S’truth. Read every single last word of it. I’m thinking this one is important enough that I’m gonna post it over at Ye Aulde Caulde Fury Muthashippe as well.