If Muslim nations were able to control the radical elements within their societies, the entire issue would solve itself!
Exactly. Too bad the Muslim nations themselves are RADICAL. Sharia law governs the courts, backward 9th century culture governs the women, and lack of progression governs the schools.
The problem is that many Islamic areas are entirely beyond control - so much so that their radicals and violent extremists pour out into the rest of the world one suicide bomber at a time!
The suicide bombers are the obvious ones. I fear the stealth Muslims, those who go to the west through academic ties and trades. Here in Orange County there was a huge raid in a very wealthy Muslim community, a bunch of documents were seized and I heard the "leader" of the clan was actually a visiting professor at UCI.
According to the Quran, lying in the name of Allah is permitted - since your supposedly serving Allah and not furthering yourself.
The result is a forced Western involvement in the issue - one that you are personally witnessing with your next-door neighbor, Afghanistan.
Exactly - and then the idiot Westernites pout and moan that none of these attacks would be going on if the Western World didn't "meddle", when in fact these battles have been going on since the beginning of Islam.
If you successfully reigned in and controlled the Muslim radicals as effectively as the West controls the Christian fanatics
The thing is, Christian fanatics cannot be compared to Muslim radicals. The Bible belt is nothing but millions of people jumping up and down for Jesus, and maybe running a few purpose driven churches. We consider having God and the Ten commandments as fundamentalist in the states. In Islam, if you don't have God in every spec of society - you get your head chopped off.
We have had 6 Abortion clinic bombings in the last 20 years. In Islamic world, thousands of people have been killed in attacks in the name of Allah (or which ever Muslim sect one belongs to) just in the past year.
I rather have a billion Christian fanatics than a community of Islamic radicals.