Just suppose: An underground radical organization in the United States began murdering Muslims at random. Using the "eye for an eye" measurement of justice, how many Muslims would the American group need to kill before the score was even?
A Muslim once told me that the reason he was sure Islam would win is because they do not have a "turn the other cheek" teaching.
A firing squad for Faisal
They keep coming.
This time it was Faisal Shahzad, who left Pakistan in the '90s, came to New York, studied hard and became a US citizen last year.
Whereupon he declared war on America, dropped off a car bomb in Times Square and was on his way back to his homeland Monday night when federal agents dragged him off an airplane at Kennedy Airport.
Before him it was the Underpants Bomber.
And the Fort Hood assassin.
And before them an assortment of murderous lunatics, including the first World Trade Center bombers and the perpetrators of 9/11.
We see a trend.
Mayor Bloomberg, however, sees a "few bad apples" -- adding he wouldn't abide any "backlash against Pakistani or Muslim New Yorkers."
As if vengeful New Yorkers are even remotely part of the problem.
Dealing with Shahzad should be easy.
An American citizen, he joined forces with a foreign enemy in an effort to kill Americans, and he's admitted as much.
That's treason, pure and simple -- and he needs to be propped up in front of a firing squad and sent to his reward.
That almost certainly wouldn't stop the next homicidal crackpot, but it would serve notice that the United States of America is growing weary of being a bull's-eye for Islamist nihilists.
That America is growing angry.
The repeated plots on US soil -- against the subways, the Brooklyn Bridge, Fort Hood, the airplane over Detroit on Christmas Day, the Riverdale synagogue -- are not "one-offs," as Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano initially speculated about Times Square.
Nor are the attacks the work of "lone wolves," as Sen. Chuck Schumer and Bloomberg suggested. They may not be coordinated, but they are all very much part of radical Islam's all-out war against the United States.
There are no prescriptions here, no easy answers. It's that sort of a war.
But it is a war.
Next time, maybe the bomb explodes. Maybe not. All that's certain is that there will be a next time.
Let's quit pretending otherwise.
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