1 I heard you!

Surprised you didn't mention your blog. Or maybe you did but I missed it.

2 Who the hell is Hugh Hewitt?

3 >>>"Who the hell is Hugh Hewitt?"

You need to get out more dude.

4 Since I didn't get an answer to my earlier comment, I ask again: does anyone advocate bombing the Islamic holy city of Jerusalem? If not, why not?

This would, like bombing Mecca, be a way of paying back the Islamic fundamentalists for their bombs in New York and London, but would it be wise?

I'm not necessarily opposed on moral grounds to threatening, or even bombing, Mecca or any other place. This is war, and people die in war. I just don't see how bombing Mecca would serve any purpose of ours, and I think it would more likely than not serve the purposes of our enemies. If any of you have a solid argument, based on evidence and experience, that this threat is likely to subdue, rather than embolden, the Islamic fundamentalists, I'm all ears.

Further, is there any good reason to believe that bin Laden and Zarqawi wouldn't be thrilled to see Mecca bombed by the Americans?

5 That's because Jerusalem is not a holy city to Muslims in any real meaningful sense. It was not until after the Zionist movement until Muslims started really calling it a holy city on the cultural level. Mecca is much different than any of the other so called 'holy cities' (eg, Karbala) in that not even people of the book are allowed near it. It is an entire city like the Jewish Temple of old. No unholy thing allowed (this means you infidel dog). When Muslims talk of other cities as being 'holy' they don't really mean it in the same sense. More like, "a city which we hold dear to our heart that has some place of ancient interest."

Christians really have nothing to compare it to, for instance, no one thinks of the Vatican as a "holy city".

Of course bin Laden wouldn't love to see us bomb the place he considers so holy that no infidel foot can even touch it. These people take these things pretty seriously.

In some ways, and no offense to my Jewish readers, I see militant Islam in the same light as the fundamentalist Jews who thought that God would send a Savior to rescue the "holy land" and especially the temple from the control of those pesky infidel Romans. The Judaism today in many ways bears little resemblence to the politcal Judaism of 2k years ago precisely because their holy places were destroyed, they were forced to live under a political system that wouldn't allow them to stone people to death for blasphemy, and they realized that all that stuff about it being God's will to murder thousands of innocent women and children in Canaan may have a deeper meaning and that maybe God really didn't approve of all that.

So, Muslims can either learn that lesson on their own--to forget that whole world domination and religious law thing--(which many appear to have already done) or we will have to play the part of Rome, as we are doing today, and show them that Allah is not going to make them a single nation again.

6 When is he on?

7 It's not just the things you advocate on this blog that trouble me, it's the reasoned tone you adopt as you try to justify the truly ridiculous.

8 Peter von nostil: Only thing ridiculous is your ridiculous posts. No one on your blog again. No wonder.