who are we fighting?

In the five years the war on terror has raged, I fear we may have forgotten who our enemy really is. While this is not a war on Islam, it is a war against the ideologies and ethical imperitives of Islam. Islam is a religion of peace. Peace being defined as submission to Allah, by force if necessary. We are battling a particular view of God, and the working out of that theology in the world. We are battling ideas. I am convinced that our weapons do no good against a genuinely held belief. To win a war on terror, we must change the minds of terrorists. But let us not suppose that logic will necessarily win. This is not a battle of wits, but of dogmas, and the only way to stop a dogma is to run over it with someone's karma. I think our liberal democrats have shown us a most effective method. When the secular humanists wished to reduce the power of christianity and it's ideas, they first set about ridiculing it's tenets, and making that ridicule a sign of academic sophistication. Then, they made the most odious practice imaginable a matter of the greatest political concern. Finally, they actively pursued all means to eliminate the right of Christians to practice their faith in the public square. And they largely succeeded in eliminating Christianity as a significant force in american life. That is how we win a war on terror. Ridicule their beliefs, teach them to slaughter their children, and deny them the right to complain about either. This is a war with Islam, we just aren't fighting it.