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According to an April 6, 2013 report in Reuters<\/em>, five Egyptians were killed and eight were wounded in a violent confrontation between Christians and Muslims in the town of El Khusus, a majority Christian city of some three million people, north of Cairo.\u00a0 Reuters quoted a Muslim resident, Mahmoud Mahmoud al-Alfi, as saying, \u201cI saw the (Christian) kids drawing on the wall after afternoon prayers so I grabbed them and told them to remove what they\u2019d just written.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThen,\u201d according to Reuters, \u201canother man arrived and started beating the children, drawing a large crowd.\u201d\u00a0 A Reuters<\/em> photograph clearly showed a swastika drawn on the wall.\u00a0 However, Muslims said it offended them because it looked like a cross.\u00a0 In what passes for sanity in the Muslim world, swastikas are okay but crosses are not.<\/p>\n

Four of the five dead were Coptic Christians.\u00a0 But that was not the end of the sectarian violence.\u00a0 On Sunday afternoon, April 7, as Christians gathered to mourn those killed the previous day,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Egyptian police found it necessary to surround the St. Mark\u2019s Coptic Cathedral in Cairo after radical Muslim demonstrators staged a four hour attack with Molotov cocktails, stones, and small arms fire.<\/p>\n

The Muslim rampage in Cairo was apparently in response to the death of a Muslim man who was killed by a Christian while he attempted to rape and\/or kidnap a Christian girl.\u00a0 In the wake of that episode, family members of the rapist\/kidnapper stirred up anger among Muslims.\u00a0 A Baptist church was set on fire and Muslims attacked the homes and businesses of Christians.<\/p>\n

Typical of the Christian turn-the-other-cheek response to such Muslim atrocities, Bishop Rafael of the Saint Mark\u2019s Coptic Cathedral admonished his parishioners, \u201c\u2026 We believe in Heaven\u2019s justice, and the teaching of Jesus Christ reveals to us that the blood of the Martyrs will not be forgotten by God.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

But is it wise for Christians to continue to turn the other cheek?<\/p>\n

In a March 31 article for the New York Post<\/em>, LTC Ralph Peters (USA-Ret,) points out that, in Iraq, in former Christian centers such as Mosul and Tikrit, a Christian population that numbered nearly two million a decade ago, has fallen to less than a million.<\/p>\n

In Syria, now beset by a vicious civil war, with more than 70,000 people killed in the fighting between pro- and anti Assad Muslims, Christians live in fear that Islamic radicals may soon topple the Assad regime and assume power.\u00a0 Hundreds of thousands have fled the country.<\/p>\n

In Libya, the Associated Press reports that eight Christians, including one American, have been arrested in Benghazi.\u00a0 According to a Libyan police spokesman, they were arrested on \u201csuspicion of distributing books about Christianity and proselytizing.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Egypt, with a population of more than 10 million Coptic Christians, the Muslim Brotherhood government of Mohamed Morsi fails to use its police powers to protect Christians from radical Islamists.\u00a0 Nor has it seen fit to protect women from being attacked and raped in public.<\/p>\n

A March 25, 2013 article in the New York Times<\/em> proclaims that the sheer number of women who have been sexually abused and gang raped in Cairo\u2019s Tahrir Square, alone, tells a story.\u00a0 Sexual assault has become so commonplace that Egyptian Muslims are now engaged in an ongoing debating over who is to blame.\u00a0 Radical Islamists say the women are to blame.\u00a0 The Times<\/em> quotes Reda Saleh Al al-Hefnawi, a Muslim Brotherhood lawmaker as saying, \u201cHow do they ask the Ministry of Interior to protect a woman when she stands among men?\u201d<\/p>\n

So, as hardcore Muslims see things, if a woman goes into a public square where Muslim men are present in large numbers, she is asking to be gang-raped?\u00a0 This is the mindset of people that we are now asked to accept as equals in our country, all in the interest of something liberals refer to as \u201cmulticulturalism.\u201d\u00a0 One wonders whether American feminists agree.\u00a0 Given their silence on the issue, it\u2019s impossible to say.<\/p>\n

In Europe, however, where countries such as Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, and The Netherlands appeared on the verge of being overrun and culturally transformed by Muslims, there are now long-overdue signs of hope that multiculturalism may be losing popularity.<\/p>\n

In a March 19, 2013 article for the Gatestone Institute, Soeren Kern describes the situation in Belgium where Muslims now make up one-quarter of the national population, and where half of those Muslims, some 300,000, live in Brussels.\u00a0 Kern reports that, \u201cMembers of the Parliament introduced a bill that would limit the power of Muslim extremists who win elected office at the local or national levels\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

The Belgian legislation is compatible with a February 2003 ruling by the European Court of Human Rights, based in Strasbourg, which states that Islamic Sharia law is \u201cincompatible with the fundamental principles of democracy,\u201d and that any legal system based on Sharia law \u201cwould diverge from the European Convention on Human Rights, particularly with regard to the rules on the status of women, and its intervention in all spheres of private and public life in accordance with religious precepts.\u201d<\/p>\n

But here in America, liberals appear unwilling to confront the Islamic threat.\u00a0 In fact, they appear to be complicit in radical Islam\u2019s effort to conquer and subjugate the American people\u2026 in the apparent hope that Islamic butchers will slaughter them last.<\/p>\n

On Long Island, New York, the Great Neck Synagogue scheduled a speech by Pam Geller, of Atlas Shrugs<\/em> blog fame, for Sunday, April 14.\u00a0 Geller is an anti-Islamic firebrand who has been described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as \u201cthe anti-Muslim movement\u2019s most visible and flamboyant figurehead.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, according to an email from my Internet friend JanSuzanne Krasner, \u201cAfter the weeks of incessant harassment, threats, and bullying, and the recent public announcement of a march on the synagogue by Rabbi Davidson with an alliance of Muslim and Leftist groups, the synagogue made the decision to cancel the event in order to avert the \u2018legal liability and potential security exposure of our institution and its member families.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, the members of a Jewish synagogue in New York, people who are marked for death by Muslims around the world, for no other reason than the fact that they are Jews, were bullied into canceling a speech by a woman who has had the courage to identify Islam for what it is.\u00a0 She has said, \u201cIslam is not a race.\u00a0 This is an ideology.\u00a0 This is an extreme ideology, the most radical and extreme ideology on the face of the earth.<\/p>\n

In our country, liberals have so seriously defiled the basic understanding of the U.S. Constitution that many Americans see Islam as having equal 1st<\/sup> Amendment rights with mainline Christian denominations.\u00a0\u00a0 That simply is not the case.<\/p>\n

To be an American\u2026 in fact, to be a resident alien in the United States\u2026 one must obey the law of the land.\u00a0 To do so, one must subscribe to the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.\u00a0 Radical Islamists do not.\u00a0 Instead, they seek to replace the U.S. Constitution with a primitive 6th<\/sup> century political, economic, military, social, legal, and religious system called Sharia law.<\/p>\n

Liberals believe that the rights granted to Muslims under the 1st<\/sup> Amendment leave us powerless to resist those efforts.\u00a0 Not true.\u00a0 We can and must do whatever is necessary to protect our people and our culture from the grave threat of Muslim insurgency.<\/p>\n

In Federalist Paper No. 2, John Jay wrote, \u201cProvidence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people\u2026 a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the passage of the Immigration Act of 1965, Ted Kennedy and his liberal allies in Congress did their best to bring an end to what Jay described as \u201cone connected country\u201d and \u201cone united people\u2026 descended from the same ancestors.\u201d\u00a0 The multiculturalism that Kennedy sought has not been good for America.\u00a0 It has transformed America in ways that Barack Obama can only dream of.<\/p>\n

Much blood has been spilled in long and bloody wars to establish liberty and independence in this land and we cannot yield those treasures to hordes of fanatical barbarians who continue to live under 6th <\/sup>century ideals.\u00a0 We cannot save ourselves by continuing to \u201cturn the other cheek.\u201d\u00a0 We must push back against the Islamic insurgency with every means at our disposal.<\/p>\n

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