The Muslim World

Tom Friedman writes a Muslim problem requires a Muslim solution. Instapundit has some good commentary on this...

Friedman gets a major point right - the West will not allow itself to be terrorized. We will be the targets of attacks, probably many more attacks, in the future - but we will never live in a society that accepts or apologizes for the terrorists or a society that doesn't fight back. Either the Muslim world can reign in the terrorists, or the West will do it for them. And IF we have do the reigning in, it will be cruel, unfair, and at times, brutal.

But in the end of the day, it is simple - we won't live in fear of Islamic extremists. If that means honest folks from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are not welcomed into our society with open arms and even if they are systematically discrimated against - so be it. It will suck and be unfair and "un-American," but I'm frigging sorry, why would we put ourselves in needless danger? We would restrict immigration before allowing ourselves to be consistently terrorized.

And his Salmon Rushdie point is too smart - condemned to death for writing a book by Iran...and no Islamic or Muslim or Arab country has issued a similar fatwa against OBL. That's not cultural difference - that's a misguided and backwards set of priorities.