Asking the right questions.

I have argued many times that the President's most egregious and damaging lie, the carping of partisans notwithstanding, was the one he told in apparent sincerity: that "Islam is peace." This much, one hopes, is self-evidently untrue, and it need not take a hater of Islam to acknowledge it. . . . From this assertion springs the nonsensical phrase "war on terror," falsely suggesting that America is at much at war with ETA, FARC and the IRA as it is with al Qaeda; and from this comes a number of bad policy decisions affecting things from airport security to public diplomacy to war. Sensible people admit that this nation is, ultimately, at war with Muslim orthodoxy, not in whole, but in large part: the social place of Islam according to its traditional theology, and the impetus to jihad and the imposition of dhimmitude thereof, are the insurmountable obstacles to lasting peace between the Muslim world and the rest of humanity. One of two things will bring about that peace. Either Muslims will embrace something more broadly pluralistic and, yes, private -- or we as a society will capitulate.

Actually, that's not entirely true. There is a third thing that will bring about peace: genocide.

Genocide is an option that must be discussed. . . .

. . . [O]ur enemies do not eschew it, and that is proof enough of their evil.

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. . . There is a qualitative difference between Patrick Moynihan's critique of African-American urban society and David Duke's; and there is a similar difference between a sober analysis of the role of the Koran in abetting an ideology of evil, and the declaration that it -- and inevitably, its admirers -- are evil per se.

Talking about Islam [emphasis added]. By Tacitus, 6/5/05.