To Al Qaida or Not to Al Qaida... That is the question

In classic Liberal fashion, we keep having the endless discussions (hair splitting extravaganzas) about whether there is an "Al Qaida" connection to every outrage that is committed in Iraq, Europe, the US or whatever (and in the dissection of every plot that is uncovered) in the name of Islam. The chorus is especially loud whenever poor George Bush says we are fighting Al Qaida in Iraq or makes any connection, no matter how peripheral, between the war in Iraq and 9/11. Of course, he is paying for his original dissembling after 9/11 about who, or what, the real enemy is. If he had been forthright and called our enemy by its true name, ISLAM itself, rather some nebulous characterization as a "war on terror", the logic of the current fight in Iraq would be self-evident. That is who the enemy is. The only aim of the Liberal (and sadly, some conservative apologists for the Arabs, too) obfuscation is to divert attention from the real enemy, a group "of color" (i.e., any group that is non-Western and not Jewish/Christian), for whom any blame for anything is unacceptable and antithetical to their world view and ideology.

Whether the plotters and perpetrators are "Al Qaida" or "Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia" or "home grown" British Muslims or visiting doctors and engineering students, the common thread is ISLAM. Nothing more and nothing less.

It was Muslims, in the name of ISLAM, who attacked us on 9/11; 7/7l Madrid; Bali Kenya; USS Cole; whatever. Let's stop the hair-splitting and get on with the job of isolating, expelling and, if necessary, extirpating all Muslims from within our midst. Nothing else will give us security and peace of mind.