More truth on Islam from NRO’s resident adult

At The Corner, Andrew McCarthy replies to Michael Ledeen’s belief that democracy is the solution to terrorism:

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to believe that the problem wasn’t a religious doctrine but rather the denial of a great aspiration—freedom—that we just happen to be in a noble position to provide?

But it’s a fiction. The terrorists don’t want to kill us because they have been deprived of freedom. They want to kill us because they believe their religion tells them that is what they are required to do.* It is why they continue to try to kill us even when they live in very comfortable democratic circumstances. Freedom is not a cure for what ails them.

* See my recent entry, “The essence of Islam revealed.”

Posted by Lawrence Auster at July 16, 2006 08:55 AM | Send