Time to ban Islam?

This is an excellent article. Mr. Huston correctly describes the nature of the threat of Islam and makes a forceful argument for banning certain aspects of Islam on the analogy of what was done here to curb the KKK.

Liberals simply cannot see what is obvious to anyone with common sense. The cartoon controversy has pulled the veil away from the true nature of Islam and how it actually works in this day and hour. If it has redeeming features they are clearly in abeyance for the duration. Those who say there are those features are silent and cowed and, as we have said, out of the fight entirely. No meliorating voice can be raised within Islam for fear of being labeled a blasphemer and attacked. Theo Van Gogh was cut up like a pig on the streets of his own city, a town in civilized Europe. The reach of the killers is that far.

We owe him and the millions of Islam's other victims a defense. No. We owe them a counteroffensive. We have been supine, accommodating, cooperative, reasonable, and understanding for too long.

It is time to think the thinkable.

So, the question becomes are we at that time now? Are we fast approaching a time when Mosques will be closed and banned? Have we come to a time when Islamic literature is turned away from our borders? Have the childish and dangerous reactions of Muslims to this cartoon in a Danish newspaper proven that Islam cannot be trusted to be a vital, peaceful, and law-abiding segment of society?

It is looking like yes is the answer to these queries.

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Muslims routinely destroy property, threaten death and bodily harm to those who speak out against them, and they constantly fund terrorism throughout the world. In Syria they have burnt an embassy, in Europe Muslims have been responsible for murdering people who have written out against Islam or made movies, and other forms of art. These actions are also approved by Islamic teachers (Imams) and religious leaders, not just undertaken by warped loners claiming to represent Islam quite against the will of the majority or authority.

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Islam has become the KKK of the 21st century. The sooner we awake to this truth and take steps to ban the religion, or somehow curtail its pernicious influence the better. . . .

. . . But the creed to which [Muslims] hold is fast becoming the most dangerous one in the world today. It is a fine line that we walk to consider banning Islam, but the safety of society is at risk not to do so.

This is not an easy conclusion at which to arrive. But if we continue to turn a blind eye to the danger that Islam presents to the west, we are signing our own death warrants.

"Making Islam illegal -- is it the West's only choice?" By Warner Todd Huston, Renew America, 2/19/06.