Lawrence Auster: Separation Is the Only Solution

Lawrence Auster, at VFR, argues that the only viable answer to the Islamic threat to the West is to separate ourselves from Islam entirely:

"Separationism is shorthand for a strategy that includes Rolling Back, Isolating, Containing, and (from the margins of the Islamic world) Policing the Muslim world. Furthermore, this policy must be permanent. As long as Islam exists, radical Islam or jihadism will always exist, whether in an active or potential state. This is why I disagree with the idea that we should be at war with Islam or radical Islam or whatever we wish to call it. A war, to be a war, must be winnable. Victory in war means the destruction of the enemy’s will and ability to fight. But as long as Islam exists, there will always be the sacred jihadist command to subdue the infidel, whether the command is acted on or not. So, instead of calling for a “war” that we can never win, a war that we could not sustain, a war that would therefore demoralize us, I call for a permanent policy of Isolating, Containing, and Policing the Muslim world."

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