I have always agreed with Harris's stance on terrorism and Islam, although I think the focus on border security is foolish when the threat is an ideology and the perpetrators can get their ideas and influence over the internet. Unfortunately, the most effective way to stop domestic terrorists is to increase surveillance, which is also deemed the work of fascists.
Agreed. The nonsense at the border won't achieve much. Although I do wonder if it was done simply to provoke attacks to justify further action.
Great vid you posted. I believe it's the failure of the left to admit the link between ideologies and action that has brought this upon themselves.
It's not that Islam is historically so special as to be singled out, it's that it is at a point in the timeline where it poses the greatest threat. 300 years ago we'd be having the same discussion about Christianity. It does boggle my mind that religion is not behind us by now, and I do hope humanity will overcome the delusion at some point. In the meantime there's no getting around the fact that there is one religion that stands ahead of the others when it comes to being a threat to logic and reason, human/women's rights and western culture, than the one who has unabashedly declared war on all of the above. Christianity has thankfully lost its power, and sitting around singing kumbaya and proclaiming 'Islamaphobe' when anyone criticizes terrible ideas is how you end up with Trump in power. Would have been so easy for the left to just admit there is a problem, rather than have Obama stand up the day after the Orlando shooting and proclaim "Islamist terrorism has less to do with Islam than any other religion", when it was an Orlando mosque preaching to 'out of compassion, kill the gays now'. Talk about having your head so far up your ass you can't breath.
ISIS was so sick of hearing the rhetoric that it's the west's fault for oppressing those nations, they wanted to set the record straight. Again, democrats just needed to admit what we already knew.
"The fact is, even if you were to stop bombing us, imprisoning us, torturing us, vilifying us, and usurping our lands, we would continue to hate you because our primary reason for hating you will not cease to exist until you embrace Islam. Even if you were to pay jizyah [tax for infidels] and live under the authority of Islam in humiliation, we would continue to hate you."
So, as Frum noted, if you don't take care of what needs taking care of, you'll get some crackpot taking a swing at it. What a shit show this is going to be.