Secondly, there's a difference between Radical Islam vs Islam.  If you want to practice an extremist form of this particular religion where your ultimate goal is to either convert me to your faith or kill me, I'd rather not have you living in my neighborhood.  I'll take a bold step and be very inpolitically correct and say that because it's the truth.  

And before you say it, because I can sense your response , I realize that there are some "radical" Christians who think everyday is a new day to witness to some unbeliever and save them from Hell.  But most Christians I know really don't start a conversation with a stranger with "Do you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ?"   That is really a minority action, but the major difference is that they have no interest in killing someone because their faith is different.  They just want to save someone's soul.  Not behead the stranger because they happen to have a different faith.

I personally would not like to live under a system such as sharia law because it's okay not to educate women (ex/Taliban Afghanistan)  

Women are treated as second-class. (Saudi/Iran)

Honor killings and beating your wife is acceptable practice.  (This even occurs in some Western nations and survivors have set up aid organizations to help their sisters when they decide to leave bad marriages/situations too, but these women live in constant fear for their safety because women are considered property, not people with rights.)

Women in short have no rights - and since I am one, I really do not want to find myself or any female living under a repressive system where modesty is taken way too far.  

I like driving my car.  I like going to the mall with my husband.  I love the fact that when I call 911, the first responders don't check to see if there is a male in the house before they respond to the situation (if there's more than one female involved).  I really don't think that there needs to be separate lines for men/women at the local Starbucks.  Call me radical....

Taxing people because they are of a different faith is considered okay as well-but just seems silly to me.

It's also illegal in most Islamic countries (like Iran/Saudi) to be a Christian - have a bible - wear a cross.  Just showing you have a different faith is a crime.  

So, I really have no particular interest in living "in peace" with a set of people who on a philosophical level "want me to die" because I don't want to be a Muslim convert.

Did I mention freedom of speech doesn't exist in most of those countries either????  

I really don't think it's childish to be concerned when you feel your way of life is being threatened by a culture like this.

I totally understand that everything I've just written probably sounds like total bunk to someone who already has their mind made up about radicals and extremists and conservatism and liberalism.  

However, I have to ask why shouldn't we be afraid of a culture that seeks to lower the status of women, impose itself on western culture and ultimately replace it, and takes away the freedoms that we supposedly enjoy as Americans?

Should we just accept everything because "there is no real truth" and everything's "relative"?

Should all faith be illegal?  Why?

Should American culture be illegal/replaced?  Why?  

Instead of calling us names-you might want to find out what freedoms that you enjoy would disappear if this radical culture becomes dominant in the west.  

Contrary to popular opinion, most radical Islamists don't want to "get along" and "live in peace".  They'll live in peace with you if you think and act just like them, but otherwise - you better watch yourself.  

Or do you really believe that it is okay for men and women to have different rights, but you are scared that all the women you know will come after you if you told them the truth?

Or do you think that is it okay for someone to be killed because they happen to be gay, but you don't want to be accused of a hate crime?  

Or is it that you really think that we should become a country without a faith?  

Or do you think that Western culture isn't all that it's cracked up to be, so you wish we were different somehow?  

What makes you more enlightened than the rest of us?  

Do you believe these threats are overstated?

Do you believe that everyone wants to get along with everyone else because it's the "right" thing to do?

The simple truth is that political correctness is going to kill us all in the name of not hurting someone's feelings.

Most people are just decent people.  They aren't interested in killing in the name of their faith or getting their 40 Virgins or whatever prize you get from your God or Gods by causing someone's death.  They just want to live their lives and let you live yours.  They aren't interested in turning themselves or their children into suicide bombers and going on a jihad.  (At least my neighbors aren't.)  We just go to work, maybe church or a faith service, get the groceries and other stuff and don't bother one another. And life is okay on the block.  They don't try to convert me.  I don't try to convert them.  

Why is it "bad" or "wrong" that I'd prefer it if things didn't change?

Or do you believe that my choices/preferences really don't matter because they are more traditional than the average suicide bomber wannabe?

Strange how people who are tolerant of everyone seem to really hate people who actually like their faith/culture/country-even with the flaws exposed?

"However, I have to ask why shouldn't we be afraid of a culture that seeks to lower the status of women, impose itself on western culture and ultimately replace it, and takes away the freedoms that we supposedly enjoy as Americans?"

Or are you saying that the appearance if Islam "taking over" in England and France just "overblown" by the "obviously Right-Wing" media like CNN and New York Times?

I mean, after being filled with "We gotta tax our way to prosperity" you keep defending (but can't seem to personally admit)... I can completely understand you losing track of reality.

Yes, we have an illegal immigration problem.

Yes, Islam is a cruel medieval religion that can't find its way to the 21st century with a map and both hands.

Now, as a conservative, I didn't find it that hard to keep the two separate.  Maybe if you get off your Oedipus complex with Granholm, you can begin to address some of these things.