America is at war with Islam: It needs to be said; it needs to be
understood; and it needs to be embraced if we are ever going to win the War on
Terror. Does this mean that we need to
invade countries and kill every Muslim in the world? Absolutely not! Wars are not always fought on the battlefield
with armies. Sometimes we need to win
the war through intellect, but in order for us to win our war we need be honest
with ourselves and name our enemy.
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| Radical Muslims want to rule the world |
We were at war with an opposing ideology last century. We called that war the Cold War, and we
fought in on the world stage against the U.S.S.R. and their Communist ideology. The Cold War had a few hot flashes in Korea,
Cuba and Vietnam, but for the most part it was won by the west through financial
and ideological superiority. No American
President ever said that Communism was a reasonable alternative to our
capitalist way of life. The rights of
free people were never compromised in an effort to merge the two systems of
Government.
Presidents from both parties condemned Communism. Ronald Reagan was not alone when he famously
described the Soviet Union as the evil empire.
He was simply building on John F. Kennedy words when JFK said “this [is]
a struggle for supremacy between two conflicting ideologies: freedom under God
versus ruthless, godless tyranny." With the two parties united against an enemy
of America, we were able to work together as a nation to bring down the evil
empire. If we substitute our past enemy (communism) with our current enemy (Islam) our former president Ronald Reagan could provide us quotes like this:
"The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West will not contain Islam, it will transcend Islam. We will not bother to denounce it, we'll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written." -modified Reagan quote
Our current war has failed to define our enemy. Are we fighting the Sunni, the Shi'a, the
Wahhabi, the Taliban, Al Qaida, or any other entity? Our leaders only know one thing for sure; we
are not fighting Islam. At times it evenseems as though we are fighting for Islam rather than against it. In Afghanistan we were fighting the Taliban,
and now Obama is
trying to befriend the Taliban. In
Iraq first the Sunni Muslims were our enemies, and then the Shi’a became our
enemies. Now it is neither, or both, who
knows we are out of there! In Egypt, the
Muslim Brotherhood was a terrorist organization, but then Obama forced Mubarak
to step down to allow the brotherhood to take control. The danger is not only do we not know who we
are fighting, but we are wasting blood and treasure fighting undefined wars
without a clear enemy or objective. What
is victory? What good does it do
Americans to see Middle Easterners with purple fingers from voting for leaders that
are hostile to the United States? Give
me an Arab king that is a friend of America over a democracy that votes for
Taliban style Islamic rule any day of the week.
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| A Group of Islamic women Wearing Burkas while waiting outside a USAID-supported health care clinic. 2003 |
No American President should ever pretend that Islam is our
moral equivalent as a form of religion or government. Islam is not just a religion; Islam is a
political system. Our academics are
telling our leaders that political Islam is
a reasonable option for the Middle East.
They do not think that political Islam is a problem, which might have something to do
with President Obama’s failures in Egypt and Libya. Say
what you will about Christianity, but it is undeniable that Christianity has
built the greatest societies in the world today. Christianity has built nations that allow for
religious freedom and peace among men.
This stems from the golden rule of Christianity which states “thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself”.
Some will claim
that Islam is also a religion of peace, but the reality of the world says
otherwise. Political Islam has
been implemented in countries throughout the Middle East. Its Ideology breeds suicide bombers and
hatred toward other races and religions.
Women are stoned and beaten for trivial offences, children are killed
for the honor of the parents, converts are killed for apostasy, Christians are
killed for spreading the Gospel, and Jews are killed because they are Jews. Islam is not a peaceful religion; Islam is a
religion of death and oppression. The
claim that there is a difference between Bin Ladenism and political Islam is
wishful thinking in my opinion. The risk
of allowing for the unimpeded expansion of political Islam into a Muslim Caliphate
is too great to allow. Who are we going
to believe our own lying eyes or some university and political eggheads when it comes to the threats that we are currently facing? These experts are the same ones that are telling us to watch out for people with Ron Paul bumper stickers, do you really want to put our very existence in jeopardy over their politically correct hunch?
Qur'an (9:29) - "Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued."
Given this fact, America needs to stop giving legitimacy to
this ideology of Islam. We need to
preach against Islam. Whether that means
that we are combating Islam through theology, or condemning the evils of Islam
on the international stage; it means that we are recognizing our enemy and
confronting it whenever possible. When
was the last time America condemned a Muslim nation for executing Christians,
Jews, Hindus, or Buddhists for their religious views? America is supposed to be the beacon of
freedom, yet we are silent on these issues of religious intolerance in the
Muslim world. We hear more on our so
called news when an American threatens to burn a Quran than we hear then a
Christian gets beheaded for his faith.
Our country is more worried
about what Muslims think of us, than supporting what is right. We cower when Muslims riot in outrage over
the acts of our “infidel” soldiers, but where is our outrage? Muslims do not care how we view them, because
they do not respect us as a people. We
are the enemies of Islam from their point of view, and they are fighting us as
their enemies. It is time for us to
engage in this Cold War. The truth is
that Muslim nations are never going to like America. We are the number one hurdle --the great Satan-- that they must overcome for their dreams of an Islamic world system to become a
reality.
The left wants to equate all religions and say that we are
at war with “religious extremists” and many on the secular right agree. This line of thinking is muddying the waters
on our current War on Terror. When we
allow North Africa to fall into the hands of the Muslim radicals it shows the
complete lack of vision from our leaders.
If we secure Iraq now what is going to happen? Now we have the Muslim brotherhood running
Egypt and radicals running Libya. Guess
where terror is going to ferment next.
We will never secure the region as long as Islam is taught unopposed in
the Middle East.
We watched the rebels in Libya brutally murder Kadafi. These are not civilized people, and we
cannot treat them like they are post war Germany ready to rejoin Western
culture. These are third world desert
people trapped by a 7th century ideology. The Egyptian Brotherhood already said that if
we stop bribing them with foreign aid, that they will attack Israel. So we are paying them a Jizyah as
a reminder of our inferior status as per the Quran.
In order to defeat Islam we need to stop its
growth by any and all means possible. We
should start a propaganda war immediately showing the errors in the teachings
of Mohammad. We should schedule debates and
televise them throughout the Muslim world. We
should not stand back and allow this religion to go unopposed. Whenever a Muslim state kills a person for
his religion the leaders of that nation should be held on charges for crimes
against humanity. If America wants to
call itself a beacon for liberty and freedom, then America needs to start
shining the light of truth on this evil religion.
