Brook, Pipes, Rose: Totalitarian Islam Q1 P1-Ayn Rand Inst.

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Yaron Brook, Daniel Pipes, and Flemming Rose answer questions on Totalitarian Islam.

Yaron Brook is president of the Ayn Rand Institute, Daniel Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum, and Flemming Rose is the cultural editor for the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Postem and publisher of the controversial Muhammad cartoons.

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• Ayn
• Rand
• Institute
• ARI
• Yaron
• Brook
• Daniel
• Pipes
• Flemming
• Rose
• Totalitarian
• Islam
• terrorism
• Iran
• Iraq

[dharmashapta]

This guy should be in the white house.

[g0ssage]

the problem is when mystics try to force their beliefs down your throat. "you can believe in rocks if you want, just don't throw them at me"

[cucucachu0000]

holy crap 2 years ago he said this and he was completely right. 

[unapologeticmind]

...Basically, as far as US foreign policy is concerned radical Muslims can do whatever they want to whomever they want as long as they don't touch their baby Israel. In fact, sometimes USA will themselves attack Christians and non-Muslims just in order to counter potential damage done by their support to Israel (the Balkans is a recent example)...

[unapologeticmind]

Tell me something new... USA has been supporting Muslim radicals (against Christians and secular Muslims) in Afghanistan, Turkey, the Caucasus, the Balkans, Middle East, north Africa... All done by Bible-swearing US presidents... There's a deep continuity in this from George "the Saudi oil-sheik" Bush through Bill "blame it all on the Crusades" Clinton and further back in history. Just ask the Balkan/Palestinian/Arab/Armeni­­an/etc Christians what they think about US foreign policy...

[alfredomafioso]

Fleming Rose refused to post cartoons depicting the Christ (peace be upon him) and after meetinf after Pipe (zionism) posted the muslim caricatures to make the Europeen public to accept sending more troops to Afghganistan

[Wejer3]

The USA should do to Islamic Totalitarian countries just what FDR did Japanese Imperalism and German Nazisim - bomb them into submission, then make them into powerhouse economies and stout allies.

[uttles]

I would agree with you except that you are wrong. Islamic Totalitarianism is out to conquer the world, so it is our right to self defense when appropriate. Fighting Islamic Totalitarian groups is our right.

[whoo689]

Noninterventionism works. The whole Islamic threat wouldn't be around if we weren't so nosy and didn't do stupid shit like overthrow Iran's democracy in 1953. I'm not a blame-america firster or anything, and I don't justify terrorist attacks, but our gov't kind of brought this on themselves, you gotta admit.

We need leaders with the foresight to make better decisions. Foreign policy has to be led by morality, not just convenience.

[whoo689]

Besides, Israel can handle itself. They could easily wipe out the rest of the Arabs if they wanted. They have hundreds of nukes, after all. One of the most powerful and advanced militaries. We have to stop treating Israel like a child. And Israel needs to quit acting like we're their big brother or something.

[whoo689]

I mean, what are we doing there? It's nonsense. We've been trying to ward off these extremists for the last 30 years or so. Just let the Middle East handle itself. We have no need to keep getting involved. There probably never will be peace in the Middle East, esp. in Israel. And stop making Israel our butt-buddy we're willing to go to war with. I don't hate Israel, but I'd never go to war for them, only my own country.