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The President says that we are not at war with Islam. In this, as in everything else that he says, he is wrong. As wrong, as he could possibly be.

The Muslim ummah (the community of believers) inhabits the Dar al Islam (the House of Submission -- i.e. to the will of Allah), and they are at all times at war with the non-Muslim world, the Dar al Harb (the House of War, as they have it).

Westerners think that, as Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian general and military theorist, wrote, war is merely the continuation of politics by other means. This understanding is completely alien to Islam. As David P. Goldman, who writes under the nom du blog of Spengler, explains:

"There is no Grace in Islam, no miracle, no expiatory sacrifice, no expression of love for mankind such that each Muslim need not be a sacrifice. On the contrary, the concept of jihad, in which the congregation of Islam is also the army, states that every single Muslim must sacrifice himself personally. Jihad is the precise equivalent of the Lord's Supper in Christianity and the Jewish Sabbath, the defining expression of sacrifice that opens the prospect of eternity to the mortal believer. To ask Islam to become moderate, to reform, to become a peaceful religion of personal conscience is the precise equivalent of asking Catholics to abolish Mass."

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"Revolt against usurpation, the revenge of the pure life of traditional society against the corrupt mores of the metropole, is the heart of Islam. ... Islam summons the tribes to unite against the oppressive empires to its West, to march out together and fight until their enemies, the Dar-al-Harb, exist no more."

"In proud defiance of revealed religion, the destroyer of the tribes, Islam holds to the primal demand of self-sacrifice. The jihadi's self-immolation in war, symbolized by the drawing of blood and the bleeding of nature itself, is the fundamental act of worship. The immortality of the individual, put at risk by the encroachment of the metropole upon the life of the tribe, is regained through the revolt of the endangered tribes against the usurpation of the empire that forms its motivation."

Jihad and Self-Sacrifice in Islam February 16, 2015

How can we end a war that is being waged as a sacrament? Islam is the problem. The world will never be peaceful until Islam has been extirpated.

You might say that there would be peace if the entire world were to join the Dar al Islam. Wouldn't surrender end the war? Don't be foolish. Look at the world around you. A totally Islamic world would be just as violent as the Middle East is now. If they can't fight infidels, they will declare each other to be heretics, and fight among themselves.

There is a canard raised by leftists, that only a tiny percentage Muslims out of the billion and a half (+/-) who plague the world, are violent Jihadis. This statement is true and totally useless.

The vast majority of men are sheep. They will not voluntarily commit acts of violence. Even in the mass conscript armies of the 20th Century, most draftees were part of the tail, not the tooth. Of the ones who wound up as infantry on the front lines, large numbers never fired their weapons. Islam will produce as many Jihadis as it needs to wage its wars, they will not run short.

The world will never be peaceful until Islam has been extirpated.

Link for the Spengler essay:

https://pjmedia.com/spengler/2015/02/16/jihad-and-self-sacrifice-in-islam/