For most of us, saying that Western Civilization cannot coexist with radical Islam deserves an eye roll and a “No, duh.” Look around the internet or your neighborhood today and “Coexist” bumper stickers are all over, as if it’s up to Western Civilization.

The definition of “coexist”, according to Merriam-Webster:

Definition of coexist
intransitive verb
1
: to exist together or at the same time
2
: to live in peace with each other especially as a matter of policy

Do we exist at the same time as Radical Islam? Yes. Radical Islamists’ policy is for us and all who disagree with them, even other Muslims, to convert, live in slavery, pay or die.

From the September, 2015 edition of Jihad Watch:

Zee News begins this story with this assertion: “After massacring hundreds and thousands of Christians, the Islamic State rulers have now decided to allow them the right to live, provided they sign ‘Dhimma’ contract, follow its 11 strict rules, and pay Jizyah tax.”

Jizya is a tax and dhimma is a protected person (allowed to live). That sounds like “coexisting” to me (Please read that with dripping sarcasm).

Our own, soon to be former, President Barack Obama had a Muslim father and Muslim stepfather and lived in a predominantly Muslim country as a child. He studied the Koran in Jakarta and has called the Muslim call to prayer one of the “prettiest sounds on Earth”.

He spent four years as a child in Indonesia and attended schools in the Indonesian language, which he still speaks.

“I was a little Jakarta street kid,” he said in a wide-ranging interview in his office (excerpts are on my blog, www.nytimes.com/ontheground). He once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his elementary school, but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics — and more likely to be aware of their nationalism — if he once studied the Koran with them.

Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”

I don’t believe Obama is a Muslim. I don’t think he is a Christian. I think Obama only worships Obama. I do think that he sees an equivalency between Western Culture and Islam that does not exist. The Coexist folks see all cultures as equal too.

The Coexist types will never understand. They think the world can be perfected on Earth. It cannot. Man is too flawed. The “people of the lie” will always exist. Violent dictators will always exist. Extremist ideologies like Radical Islam will always exist on Earth.

Dr. James Mitchell, is a former CIA contractor. Dr. Mitchell developed the Enhanced Interrogation Techniques for the CIA and wrote a book dispelling the misinformation about the techniques. Here he talks with Sean Hannity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOcvtT3StE8

Dr. Mitchell has described how Khalid Sheikh Mohammed recounted to him beheading Daniel Pearl:

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“KSM then launched into a gory and detailed description of how he beheaded Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl,” Mitchell writes. Up to that moment, the CIA did not know KSM had personally carried out the murder. When asked whether it was “hard to do” (meaning emotionally difficult), KSM misunderstood the question. “Oh, no, no problem,” KSM said, “I had very sharp knives. Just like slaughtering sheep.”

To confirm his story, the CIA had KSM reenact the beheading so that it could compare the features of his hands and forearms to those in the video of Pearl’s murder. “Throughout the reenactment, KSM smiled and mugged for the cameras. Sometimes he preened,” Mitchell writes. When informed that the CIA had confirmed that he was telling the truth, KSM smiled.

“See, I told you,” KSM said. “I cut Daniel’s throat with these blessed hands.”

This is the pure evil Mitchell and his colleagues confronted each day at CIA “black sites.” “I have looked into the eyes of the worst people on the planet,” Mitchell writes. “I have sat with them and felt their passion as they described what they see as their holy duty to destroy our way of life.”

The Coexist types will never understand this clash of civilizations. We cannot declare peace unilaterally. The Radical Islamist believes we must die just because we exist. This we have seen in Ankara, Turkey and Berlin, Germany, just this week.