While free media access has shocked many with the brutal killing and beheading of children. (and their parents and siblings) I would remind us all of the scale of comparison provided in the genocide of Armenia which reached epic proportions around 1915, though massacres of as many as 30K had been going on since the 1890's, of course. When the CUP party in Turkey had eliminated those in leadership, they either marched or trainloaded vast throngs of people into the Syrian desert, leaving them with little to begin with, only to be beset by soldiers, released prisoners etc., who subjected them to rape, murder, plunder and other horrors. Half the Armenian population--1.5 million was killed, but get this: the Euphrates and Tigris rivers were clotted with the bodies of women and children, the aged, and the rest, further killing by pollution. Their crime? Asking for representation and end to unjust taxation! The Ottomans were, indeed islam is no stranger to atrocities against women AND CHILDREN. The Armenian genocide was not perpetrated by terrorists, but first by the Ottoman government under the last sultan, and later (much worse) by the Turkey for Turks movement. Islam, like it or not, is the enemy we face, the enemy which poses the existential threat to Israel daily. Don't even get me started on Isis, Boko Haram and others! This should not under any circumstances be tolerated. It must at the very least be thinned out. Decisions about whether to rebuild for such enemies should be scrutinized--it didn't seen to be profitable in Afghanistan. No amount of politically correct speech or appeasement will solve the problem. Weakness will embolden them, if history is to be believed. If some people want to live in the 7th century, maybe we should make sure they do. If you think people should passively wait for the next attrocity, I think YOUR FAMILY should be the ones to live right next to the border of insecurity....it might influence your thinking. After all, some conservatives are just liberals who got mugged, lol.
