The word “radical” — from the Latin radix, meaning “root” — is generally applied to someone who wishes to change a system down to its very roots. When it comes to what we in the West call “radical” Islam, however, the word would be much better understood to mean precisely the opposite: a system of belief and action that aggressively returns to Islam’s root for its meaning and methods.
Patrick Buchanan’s latest column addresses this with brevity and clarity. Here.
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Many thousands of liberal westerners will have to die before these truths are understood. The final sentence is the clencher for me..”But, then, as James Burnham reminded us, “Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide.”