When we observe the fact the war is cruelty, one is always, in a liberal democracy, confronting the question of whether the society is worth saving.
I believe we have not confronted this question. Our enemies ALWAYS confront this issue ..."I was ordered to fight all men until they accept....". But to resist this absolutist 'god authorized' command to make war, to resist against the greater jihad, one will have to, in the end, exercise every cruelty imaginable. To give the opportunity for democracy as an antidote to perpetual war, we will have to be sure of our ground. Many here ASSUME we are better, but when confronted by the deaths as result of resistance to terrorist, national and supra national armed dawa, feel that vague unease about not all bullets magically attracted to bad guys.
Is what we offer a better answer than surrender to the austere spartanism of jihadistanism, and the blank walls of salafist grimness, or the theofascist list of shia najis (Ali al-Sistani states that Jews and the Christians who do not accept the prophethood of Muhammad "are commonly considered najis) of others (such as jews outside in the rain).
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