I never cease to be amazed when people say to me that mohamedeans do not wish to be free, like you and I are. These people make all kinds of semi-arguments that never add up to the sum they envision. Hundreds or even thousands of homicide bombers count more than millions of purple ink, stained fingered, voters.

Those convinced that the slaves of the "Religion of Peace" wish to remain so, have several arguments which they never even attempt to back up with empirical evidence. The first argument is that these people can not practice "democracy" because they have not done so before now. (We will use the term, self-determination, instead of "democracy" since the Founders rightly feared and opposed a "tyranny of the majority") The second argument is that they lack civil institutions, and that is what makes self-determination possible. The third most common argument I hear is that "they do not wish to be free".

I also hear how if they wish to be free they will have to fight for it, like we did. I always think this is really strange, I have never fought for my freedom, nor have most of the people that I know, but we all enjoy it and hope that it continues. Of the many people I know who have been in the military few have seen actual combat.

When you refute one of these arguments with a historical example, say, mention how the Japanese went from totalitarian government to a quite free one in the space of a generation they switch to one of the other "arguments". Taiwan and Korea have legislatures who occasionally fist fight but do not kill their political opponents.

That people who are not free wish to be free, is, to borrow a phrase from Jefferson, Self-evident. What is also evident is that it is an evil minority that pursues the enslavement of their fellows, under the guise of tribalism or religion. Take the Russians as an example. Do the majority of the Russian people really wish to return to the days of the "USSR"? I can not find a place inside myself that says that this is true. Do evil men, and women, wish to enrich and empower themselves at the expense of others? This too, is self-evident.