I agree 100% with this post on HuffPo. But the really interesting thing is reading the comments below it from the Republican Christian fundamentalists. They JUST CAN"T STAND being lumped in with Islamic fundamentalists. It pushes a very raw button with them.
Their biggest fear is that the world finds out there is no difference between Christian and Islamic fundamentalists and that both are the enemies of freedom and democracy. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/the-war-against-fundament_b_5898.html<snip>
We are not fighting a war against terror. Terror is a method of warfare. Fighting against terror is kind of like fighting against rifles. It misses the point. The question is who is behind the terrorism and why?
How can we possibly win a war when we don’t even know who the enemy is?
This is part of the reason we wound up in Iraq. Iraq did not attack us, and in fact, according to the 9/11 Commission, Osama bin Laden worked with anti-Saddam forces inside Iraq at one time because Hussein’s government was the type of secular government they wanted to overthrow. But we are so confused as to who we are fighting and why we are fighting them that we attacked the wrong country under the umbrella of the meaningless “war on terror.”
Perhaps this is what you get when you have a president who doesn’t “do nuance.” But putting aside who is at fault for this misguided war and whether they purposely chose to mislead us with ambiguous titles like the “war on terror,” let’s get to the heart of the issue – what are we really fighting against?
I have a simple answer – fundamentalism. Muslim fundamentalists believe it is their moral duty to fight a jihad against the West. They are guided by their strict, literal reading of the Koran (helped along by hateful imams who select the worst parts of the Koran).
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