An August 18, 2019 Associated Press report\ndescribes the carnage resulting from the most recent suicide bombing in Kabul, an\natrocity in which 63 guests at a Shiite Muslim wedding were killed and 182 were\nwounded. According to the AP report, an ISIS\nsuicide bomber detonated his suicide vest as he stood near the bandstand,\nwatching the wedding guests dance. The\nbombing took place in a western Kabul neighborhood inhabited by many of\nAfghanistan\u2019s minority Shiite Muslims, and although the wedding guests were a\nmixture of both Shiites and Sunnis, the local ISIS affiliate, a Sunni terror\ngroup, took credit for the mass killing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, what is it about the world of Islam that we\nin the West fail to understand? We know\nof no instances in which Lutheran suicide bombers have blown themselves up at\nRoman Catholic weddings or funerals. Nor have we heard of instances in which Baptist\nterrorists have drowned Methodist captives by enclosing them in steel cages and\nthen lowering them into large tanks of water. \nUnlike Islam, there are simply no commandments in Christianity or\nJudaism that require us to kill others who do not share our religious beliefs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In an August 25 article by Raymond Ibrahim,\ntitled \u201cThere Is No Christian Anymore in This Town\u201d: Persecution of\nChristians, June 2019, <\/em>The Gatestone Institute reports on some of the most\nrecent acts of anti-Christian genocide in majority Muslim nations of Africa and\nAsia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Ibrahim reports that, on June 9, approximately 50\nheavily armed Islamic Fulani gunmen arrived at a Christian village in Mali, a\nwest African nation in which some 90% of the population are Muslims and only 5%\nare Christians. They surrounded the\nvillage and then set it ablaze. Many residents\u2026\nmen, women, and children\u2026 were burned to death. \nNo one escaped. At least 93\nChristians died in the massacre. According\nto Malian security forces, the village was \u201cvirtually wiped out.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n On the same day, June 9, in Burkina Faso,\nlocated on Mali\u2019s southern frontier, 19 residents of the town of Arbinda were\nslaughtered by Muslim terrorists. The\nfollowing day, June 10, ten additional Christians were slaughtered in a nearby\ntown. When peace was restored, one local\nArbinda resident said, \u201cThere is no Christian anymore in this town.\u201d According to a 2006 census, approximately\n60.5% of the Burkina Faso population are Muslims; 25% are Christians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ibrahim reports that, in Nigeria, on June 17,\nMuslim Fulani herdsmen slaughtered at least 24 Christians, three of whom were\nchildren, in three separate raids. The\nterrorists also burned two churches and more than 200 Christian homes, along\nwith crops in the fields. Approximately\n53% of Nigerians are Muslims and 47% are Christians. And while the terror group Boko Haram, famous\nfor kidnapping 276 schoolgirls in April 2014, gets the lion\u2019s share of the\nheadlines in Nigeria, the Global Terrorism Index reports that, \u201cIn 2018 alone,\ndeaths attributed to Fulani extremists are estimated to be six times greater\nthan the number committed by Boko Haram\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, what is it that sets Islam apart from\ncivilized societies? Why is it that\nMuslims stand alone in their indifference to the value of human life? What is it that makes Muslims so angry? And why have they no sense of right or wrong?<\/p>\n\n\n\n First, we must understand that Islam is not<\/em> a religion, as such, subject to\nFirst Amendment protections as we in Western cultures\nunderstand the term. To fully understand\nwhy Muslims worldwide are so intent upon murdering large numbers of innocent\npeople, Muslims and non-Muslims alike, we must begin by imagining the hatred\ngenerated by nearly 1400 years of endless internecine warfare. Add to that a large measure of insoluble political\ndifferences, a laundry list of legal disputes, centuries worth of military\nscores still to be settled, and a long list of social and cultural disparities and\nwe can begin to understand why so many Muslims feel not only superior to the\nrest of us, but also disrespected or marginalized by competing Muslim sects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Wherever we find them, Islamists refuse to\nassimilate into host country cultures, insisting that they be allowed to exist\nas a separate culture within a culture, not subject to the laws of their host\ncountries. In order to accomplish their\nends, they rely on anti-western directives of the Quran to preach the overthrow\nof host governments, by force and violence if necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since the earliest days of the 116th<\/sup>\nCongress, whatever dignity and decorum the House of Representatives still\npossessed has been shattered by the presence of the first two Muslim women ever\nelected to Congress: Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), a Somali refugee, and Rep. Rashida\nTlaib (D-MI), a Palestinian. In the\nnearly eight months since they took office in January 2019, they have been a\nthorn in the side of House Democratic leadership, creating daily headlines with\ntheir radical left criticism of Donald Trump and their unceasing antisemitic\ncriticisms of Israel and American Jewry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Jn recent weeks the two have spurned a junket to\nIsrael with a larger group of congressional fact-finders. Instead, the two freshman members planned to visit Israel and the Palestinian\nterritories on their own. But Trump intervened,\nasking Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to deny them access to Israel \u2013 a\nrequest that Netanyahu readily complied with. \nIn denying the women access, Netanyahu cited their support for Boycott\nDivest Sanction (BDS), a movement that advocates the boycott of Israel and\nIsraeli products until it withdraws from the occupied territories and grants\nfull equality for Arab-Palestinian citizens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n One wonders whether the Muslims who\u2019ve\nsettled in Michigan and Minnesota in such large numbers are naturalized US\ncitizens. If they are, they\u2019ve sworn an oath\nwhich begins: \u201cI hereby declare, on oath,\nthat I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity\nto any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I\nhave heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the\nConstitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies,\nforeign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same<\/em>\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n If the two Muslim congresswomen had been allowed to visit Israel as planned, it appears that a sufficient body of law exists that could have denied them reentry into the United States.\u00a0 Jimmy Carter used that law to deny access to Iranians during the Iranian hostage risis.\u00a0 As a far more courageous man, Donald Trump might easily have done the same in the present case<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other words, a Muslim\nwho takes that oath of citizenship can no longer maintain allegiance to the\ndictates of the Quran because the Quran and the US Constitution are wholly incompatible. It is also interesting to note that Section\n212(a)(28) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (The McCarran-Walter Act), denies access to\nall aliens \u201cwho are anarchists, or who have at any time been members of or\naffiliated with any organization (such as Islam or the Communist Party USA)\nthat advocates or teaches the overthrow of the government of the United States\nby force, violence, or other unconstitutional means.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n To be an American, enjoying all the\nbenefits of a free society, one must be willing and able to assimilate into our\nculture. Clearly, that is not what\nMuslims have in mind. It should be clear\nto all by now that what Muslims want is to replace<\/em> our 21st<\/sup>\ncentury culture with their brutal 7th<\/sup> century culture, and if we resist\nthey will simply force the issue. We\nwill have no choice in the matter. What\nwe in the West must decide, before we reach the point of no return, is whether\nwe want future generations of our families to be forced into a primitive 7th<\/sup>\ncentury culture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If the answer is yes, then the road ahead\nis clear; we only need to do what we\u2019re already doing to reverse the Muslim onslaught\u2026 which is\nnothing. However, if the answer is no,\nwe must begin by identifying Islam for what it is. Abandoning the political correctness of the\npolitical left, it is imperative that we officially define Islam, not as a\nreligious denomination, but as a brutal 7th<\/sup> century culture, totally\nforeign to and incompatible with 21st<\/sup> century Western values. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Many of the great nations of Europe are now spiraling\ndownward into irreversible Islamic chaos. \nAnd unless we undertake to defeat radical Islam in the deserts of the\nMiddle East and in the streets of Europe in the months and years ahead, they\nwill surely confront us in the cities, towns, and villages of America. If that comes to pass, western civilization\nwill cease to exist. We cannot bequeath\nto our children and grandchildren the prospect of fighting a bloody, unwinnable\nbattle that should have been fought and decided in our time. Paul\nR. Hollrah is a retired government relations executive and a two-time member of\nthe U.S. Electoral College. He currently\nlives and writes among the hills and lakes of northeast Oklahoma\u2019s Green\nCountry.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An August 18, 2019 Associated Press report describes the carnage resulting from the most recent suicide bombing in Kabul, an atrocity in which 63 guests at a Shiite Muslim wedding were killed and 182 were wounded. According to the AP … Continue reading
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