This piece makes several excellent points and observations. Contrary to the moral relativists and multiculturalists, all religions are not equal and deserving of acquiescent respect or passive toleration, especially when it comes to the central doctrinal elements of Islamic sharia law and the duty of individual devout Muslims to abide by and personally enforce its strictures by jihad.

In many ways this pernicious doctrine is the counter-point/mirror image to an “American jihadist faith tradition” behind so much untold damage and mischief in American history. Murray Rothbard provided the Rosetta Stone to understanding the origins of the welfare-warfare state in America: the role of postmillennial Protestant pietistic intellectuals and evangelical activists born in the crucial decade surrounding the events of the Civil War who, because of the seductive influence of the evolutionary naturalism of Darwinism, came of age increasingly secularized, but who did not forsake their faith in statism and elitist social control. From Puritan Founding Fathers to today’s militant neocons and self-righteous progressives, Americans have been unwilling to face up to the sordid and malignant moral imperatives behind much of their past and present.

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