The Unfought War on Islamism To stay civilized and free, we cant be ignorant.
By M. Zuhdi Jasser
In 1816, Thomas Jefferson proclaimed in a letter to a friend an adage that we should be heeding today: If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Never was this advice more desperately needed or more consciously avoided than it is today. Americans educational system has seemed unwilling to enlighten our children to the nature, history, and implications of the war that has been declared on us and on free people in general by Islamist theocratic totalitarians. At best, the subject is entirely avoided in Americas classrooms; at worst, it is ascribed to causes that facts prove are untrue such as poverty or American foreign policy.
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