With but a few caveats we’re in agreement.

” The only peaceful Muslim, and there are many, at least in the West, is a Muslim that ignores many teachings of his religion.”

There are hundreds of millions of Muslims, indeed arguably a majority, who ignore Islam’s core teachings. BUT… that percentage of ‘moderate’ Muslims is precipitously reduced as the percentage of Muslims in a society increases and a greater percentage of young Muslim Americans are radical than their elders. A Pew poll revealed that 84% of Egyptian Muslims support the death penalty for apostasy.

“For Islam to be truly compatible with liberal, Western democracy, it must become something it is not, and never has been.”

It cannot become something it is not. It is theologically impossible for Islam to reform, either from within or without.

“(albeit it depends on what parts you consider to “abrogate” the other parts)”

There is NO controversy within Islam as to its doctrine of abrogation. Agreement is virtually universal that the later violent passages abrogate the earlier more peaceful passages. EVERY Muslim KNOWS this to be true. This is why the ‘moderate’ Muslims are silent (even anonymously), they KNOW that the jihadists occupy the theological ‘high’ ground.

“people acting in this manner are simply imitating their so-called “perfect Prophet””

That’s not by choice. Muhammad HAS to be declared ‘perfect’ because if his pedophilia and murderous nature is admitted, then him also being deluded or simply a liar as to the Qur’an’s authorship… becomes almost impossible to defend against. And Islam’s theological foundations utterly rest upon Muhammad’s claim that the Qur’an was dictated to him by Allah through the perfect conduit, the Archangel Gabriel.

Islam is a virulently expansionist, totalitarian ideology wrapped in a facade of religious pretense. Comparisons to cancer and speculation as to its satanic origin are entirely plausible.

Either that or he is laying low waiting for a chance to follow Allah’s will.

But the bottom line is that you can’t reform Islam. The bad stuff is baked in at the very foundation. For Islam to be truly compatible with liberal, Western democracy, it must become something it is not, and never has been.

When these kinds of things happen in the name of Christianity, it is trivial to show that they are diametrically opposed to Christianity.

Yeah, there are some dolts who play silly games with the Old Testament, but they are, not to put too fine a point on it, ignorant idiots.

Ditto Judaism, and as far as my limited knowledge goes, Buddhism and Hinduism. But when you’re talking about Islam, it’s pretty straightforward to justify these things with the core teachings of the religion (albeit it depends on what parts you consider to “abrogate” the other parts).

Furthermore, people acting in this manner are simply imitating their so-called “perfect Prophet” who engaged in all sorts of awful behavior by any moral standard that matters.

Muslims aren’t directly the problem, not most of them, but Islam is. It is a memetic cancer that cannot be cured, only excised from the world. If only the West weren’t abandoning the only things that can win over hearts and mind to a greater Good, we would be a lot better able to defend ourselves and our culture.

As most people know, the AR-15 is not an assault rifle, even though it is popularly labeled as such. Strangely, the COP did refer to the weapons as assault rifles, a description that does not fit the definition of legal.

FBI still cannot bring itself to use the term Terror.

We certainly need to destroy ISIS and destroy Iran’s program to achieve nuclear weapons capability. Assad on the other hand is a dictator and our choice in the ME is either a dictator or jihadist regimes. There is NO middle road. As Islam won’t allow it.

BUT… none of those things will get to the root of the problem, because those are ALL symptomatic, NOT causal. The source of Islamic jihadism is Islam, period. It is impossible to reform Islam’s violence. All that can be done is to quarantine it and allow it to destroy itself through continued exposure of its youth to modern cultural influences.

Just to get this straight—so, are you saying that the police chief was lying when he said the weapons were legally-purchased AR15s? Because he made that announcement late last night in his press conference.

There is no such thing as “Lone Wolf” terrorists. They are all united by Islam.

Do your best anticipatory impersonation of our own Dear Leader and Manchurian Candidate, as he might be expected to expatiate on these recent events.

You know something like,

“For too long now we Americans have seen how misunderstood frontier traditions, obsolete attachments, and the celebration of mythical images involving the heroic individual , have contributed to our current and uniquely American epidemic of mass violence.

These instances of workplace and civic violence, perpetrated by alienated and estranged persons who might otherwise seek counseling, are enabled by our archaic obsession with unfettered access to devices meant only for war.

We must make certain that extremist individuals who wish to twist the tenets of our great religious traditions, are forestalled rather than aided when they attempt to act out their murderous rages …”

Yadda yadda yadda, NRA, George Bush, Republicans, Fundamentalists, Racism etc etc etc.