Originally Posted by AZZenny

Every now and then, 82, the gravitational pull of distant galaxies coalesce, and we share a position on something almost exactly. Then a random bit of cosmic grit throws off the alignment and we're diametrically opposed on everything.

You just described the issue we face as well as anyone I've heard - lucid, pragmatic, and not hysterical. And for the skeptics -- this is exactly the plan of action written up by the Muslim Brotherhood in a Philadelphia meeting in 1993. It is exactly the approach described by Shiraz Maher, who is one of the few true extremist insiders to leave the radical fold.
btw -- try as they might to shed or obscure their original tight connection the the Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR doesn't really speak for moderate American Muslims.

Originally Posted by 82CardsGrad

The "threats" from radical Islam are varied of course, but are hardly ever derived from a country itself posing as a threat to the U.S. It is an ideaology... a cancerous form of beliefs, of life-rule... Zenny can speak to this much more intimately than I can for sure, however, as someone who travels the globe - particularly Europe, I can attest to the spread of this cancer and the damage it has caused many European societies...
America has been afflicted with this cancer. It's probably somewhere between Stage 1 and Stage 2 cancer - but we have it nonetheless...
To combat this cancer, it is not about relinquishing complete control of our country and our lives to the government... Quite the contrary actually. We need leadership that can clearly articulate the threat this cancer poses, and then unite our country in a way that delivers chemo to this cancer while it still can be treated. If left unchecked and if our country continues to ineffectively deal with this threat - largely due to horrific leadership in Washington - it will progress as it has in Europe, getting to the point where it becomes impossible to eradicate.
America, like Europe, is largely at a point of appeasement... We've been desensitized to this threat. Kinda like we're numb to it - which is amazing when you think that the USS Cole and 9/11th attacks were not all that long ago... You go to places like Detroit, Atlanta, and many other inner-cities and it's actually quite astonishing to see how many mosques there really are, and how many muslims are walking around. Many of whom are of course decent, law-abiding citizens... But...

The next President needs to be able to grasp this incredibly complex situation, and then present it to America in a way that the Americans can understand it and what it means to us...
It's much easier to continue on and simply say, "Hey, we're America! Radical Islam can never take root here!"
But of course, we only need to look as far as London, Eastern Europe and even to the north in Canada to find real examples of what a lazy and careless approach to this issue leads to...