To win the war on terror, are we going to need to start targetting mosques and Imams?

Question

Read the following new article, and see if you agree that the Islamic religious leaders are the source of the problem, and that it is being spread through mosques:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071130/ap_on_re_af/sudan_british_teacher

Rome won their Jewish terror problem using this exact technique by destroying the temple in 70 CE and executing religious leaders. The technique has a proven track record of being effective.

Answer 1

First we need to target the people who leak what the CIA and the military is doing!

Answer 2

Well, we can't win a war at all without funding, and it appears the people who voted for it now want to stop funding it because it has not become popular anymore and they are using the troops for their own political benefits. See, they will cut the budget and stop funding the war, which will force the military to send troops home due to no money. Then the candidate will say "see, I did this, I voted to cut the funding". In the mean time there are not enough parts to repair vehicles and there is no new equipment and the only people that suffer are the Soldiers over there.

As far as the Mosques are concerned, the Iraqi police and Military should be taking care of this issue, not Americans. We already have a bad name as is, we don't want to offend ALL Muslim nations, and Americans going into a Mosque and arresting people will stir a pot that does not need to be stirred.

Answer 3

The only way to win the war on terror is to fight the conditions which allow the terrorist leaders to recruit more fanatics to their cause.

Which means the war on Terrorism can only be won by fighting a Global War on Hunger, A Global War on Pverty and a Global War on Ignorance.

Yes we should be targeting Mosques and Imams....with education, cooperation, and a helping hand! Every child who grows up with a decent education and decetn chance of making a living wage is one more Muslim man with a stake in regional and global stability and thus he is an anti-terrorist!

While we need miliatry action to rid us of the current crop of terrorists, we need Diplomatic, USAID, and Peace Corps type action to prevent there from being a next gneration of terrorists. The two types of actions MUST occur simultnaously, the longer we wait to help our neighbors the more kids are being taught to hate "The Man" who keeps them and their families in poverty.

Many Arab countries already have the means to educate and feed their people, but don't because they are too busy buying black Mercedes limos and being "Royal." This is where the diplomacy part comes in..we must convince these oil-rich countries to spend more on thier people and less on more palaces for the Saud Family.

Answer 4

The problem is the radical Islamic insurgents. I don't claim to know were they get there current and overall violent ideologies, but i would have to assume that there are "sects" of the Islamic religion that teach these men while in there "military" training that instead of discipline and codes of honor and justice, that they are taught "the ends justify the means". So to defeat their enemy (U.S lead coalition) they will use any ways and means to accomplish this goal, even if it is to car bomb a school thats next to a marine check point, there for killing 2 marines but about 15+ students of their own country.

Answer 5

First little troll,

there never was a Jewish Terror problem.

Second by targeting Islamic Religious institutions you will only force more people to join the enemy.

Answer 6

Islam was once a tolerant (relatively speaking) faith. You are also correct that the source of this new disease of rabid fanatics who'll blow up a schoolbus full of children in the name of Allah, is radical mindless imams and clerics in the Mosques.

However, if one targets Mosques, which is a violation of the code of warfare for virtually every society that has ever existed we are as bad as the enemy we fight! The true warrior does not target women, children, the elderly, non-combatants or clergy or places of worship intentionally. If we intentionally targeted Mosques we'd become as evil as the terrorists themselves. Besides, not all Muslim Imams are evil. How do you know that the Imam you just took out when your smart bomb blew up a Mosque wasn't one of the tolerant Muslims who worked for peace between Muslims and those of other faiths?

No warrior who deserves the name-- and the warrior, or defender of the peace, is the highest of all callings, a calling far higher than that of a clergyman--can ever intentionally target a non-combatant. War is the foulest, ugliest business on Earth. The true warrior, always seeks to avoid conflict, not seek to create it. His true path is defender of his people, the poor, the weak, the helpless, not an agent of the rich and the powerful who serves them in the quest for domination and destruction of human rights.

And the highest idea of the warrior, the perfect warrior state, was ancient Sparta. No Spartan would have ever destroyed a temple, even of an enemy god!

We, who oppose fanatical murderous zealots among the Muslims, best serve the cause of peace by supporting the tolerant moderate Muslims. They do exist. No man on this planet was perhaps more peaceful, tolerant and wise than Jelaluddin Rumi, the Sufi from Iran or the man he adored Shams of Tabrizi. When Rumi died, Jews and Christians both vied for the honor of carrying him to rest and standing beside his family and friends at his funeral. Like Jesus of Nazareth, this man was. You'd never have him or any other Sufi strap on a bomb and blow up a synogogue or church or plant a bomb in a subway.

This planting of bombs to take out random civilians is the act of absolute gutless worthless despicable cowards. They are a disgrace to mankind, to Muhammed and Allah. They should be hunted down, rooted out and destroyed completely from all societies, lest they bring down the entire human race in their worship of death and destruction.

This committing of murder-suicide in the name of Allah is actually condemned in the Al-Quran. Both murder and suicide in Islam result in being sent to hell. How do the fanatical clergyman get around this? Martyrdom is dying for your faith, not commiting murder or suicide for your faith.

Answer 7

At what point did Sudan become an objective in the War on Terror?

Answer 8

this story has nothing to do with "war on terror"
this story has to do with the fact that the western world does not understand the mind set of much of the rest of the world.
if you will look up the meaning of terror you will realize we will never win a war against it. it is not possible to eliminate terror.

only p :
"unfortunately all terrorists are Muslims"
did you forget about Oklahoma City?

Answer 9

I think the biggest problem is that in Islam, there is no one central (living) authority, like the Catholics, Anglicans, and Orthodox religions have.

Seemingly, anyone with a following can declare themselves a cleric and "interpret" Islamic law.

In the other religions there is the central authority that can declare those operating outside the religion as heretics, and ban them from the religion.

Answer 10

Give peace a chance. If you want religious war for the next 500 years, a greatly reduced world population, and the USA attacked from all sides, go ahead and be arrogant and get upset over a teddy bear and a short jail sentence for a stupid action of this "teacher".