A bit more about that "totalitarian ideology" the President referred to tonight, from an interview with the imam of the Islamic Center in New York, Dr. Ahmad Dwidar. From MEMRI-TV, with thanks to Carolyn:
Dwidar: In 1995 I heard some sermons, saying that Muslims should march on the White House from some of the mosques.Host: What do you mean by "march on the White House"?
Dwidar: One cleric said in his sermon: "We are going to the White House, so that Islam will be victorious, Allah willing, and the White House will become into the Muslim house."
Host: How? I don't understand.
Dwidar: This is simply a slogan. I'm only saying this to...
Host: Are they going to occupy the White House or what?
Dwidar: No, they say that through the domination of Islam and its ideas, the White House will change.
Host: This will happen one day, but not this way. Islam will be victorious, no doubt, but not this way.
Dwidar: It will not happen unless the Muslims abandon their slogans and become a role model. If a Muslim doctor who invents a cure in the hospital or performs an important operation successfully – all the media will broadcast it live and announce it worldwide. The Muslim who makes do with breaking the wooden podium, with screaming, and with patronizing, condescending rhetoric that "Islam is coming, and it will change the face of the earth," while at the same time he cannot even change the face of the Islamic capitals, which overflow with garbage – this path will lead to no good.
Note that Dwidar doesn't object to the end, only to the means. Presumably if a Muslim stopped being condescending and cleaned up the capitals of Islamic states, he could legitimately set his sights on the Islamization of the United States.
That is not surprising, most Muslims I've known seem decent enough. Most of them have admitted to me that they think Islam will one day rule the world, and make excuses for the jihadis, saying they don't personally support violence.
Keep on doing what you're doing, Robert!
Thunder Pig is correct. Muslims do believe that Islam will indeed rule the world. They truly believe they have earthly rights conferred upon them simply because the Muslim that include the ownership and use of all the world's assets and the right to the use and benefit of the world's human capital if not the outright ownership of some of them.
Their confidence will not be shaken and the fact that they really don't care how some Muslims and enablers achieve this ultimate goal is sobering and frightening. The ends justify any means. The sacrifice of some of their lives and many of ours is irrelevant because world domination is the brass ring that they intend to have at any cost.
Individual Muslims do seem decent enough. However we know what they are thinking about triumphalism and how they hold us in disdain and hate us for our disbelief. Even though they keep such opinions to themselves they are hate mongers and because they refuse to repudiate Jihad and the acts of the jihadists they are terrorists at heart for to hold the sentiment is only a step away from actualizing the activity and all activities whether evil or good begin with the first impulse within the human mind.
I learned this from my Grandfather many, many years ago -- that not everything in life is as complicated as others would have you believe.
So, let me once again just put things into perspective for everyone. There's no real reason to wax eloquent on this subject or try to sort out the "nice" Muslims from the "bad" Muslims:
ISLAM IS THE ENEMY.
This war is already upon the world, whether we want to acknowledge that fact or not.
It's the Muslim's right to believe his religion will win, just as it's the Communist's to believe his will. Both false hopes, though, will perish, and I wouldn't be surprised that the present ferment we see in the Islamic world isn't the beginnin of Islam's death throes. just as Mao's determination to be the most pure Communist proved to be the beginning of Communism's self-destruction.