That Other War
Western civilization is in the midst of a war for its very existence and we are losing this war.
No, I’m not talking about the ongoing wars in Afghanistan or Iraq. Nor am I referring to those recent ominous clashes between the Turks and the PKK in Northern Iraq, nor even that increasingly dangerous, but seemingly inevitable confrontation with the terrorist state of Iran.
I’m talking about that other war, that larger, more deadly global conflict that nobody wants to talk about. I’m talking about that increasingly obvious and undeniable Clash of Civilizations, in which these bloody battles in the Middle East merely represent the most visible manifestations.
We have distorted the facts and ignored the evidence in our pathetic efforts to deny the very existence of this greater war, and to hopefully postpone that unavoidable day of reckoning.
While in Iraq itself some promising signs are emerging. In his new counterinsurgency strategy (COIN), General Petraeus has found it expedient to reach out to those “moderate” Muslims in an effort to form working alliances against the insurgents and radicals, and thus far has achieved remarkable success.
But can these successful tactics in the battle of Iraq be translated to that larger and more subtle battleground in that other war, that growing and already formidable Islamic onslaught against the West?
Unfortunately, no. In fact, almost the exact opposite is true.
It is estimated that within twenty years the population of Marseilles will be majority Muslim. Almost all of the liberal Western democracies are being overwhelmed by hordes of Muslim immigrants, mostly from North Africa, immigrants who bring their savage and backward culture (and their alarming birth rate) with them. The liberal Western societies have been attempting to deal with this growing menace with the pitiful weapons of Christian tolerance and understanding. For the sake of embracing some feel-good, why-can’t-we-all-just-get-along-together concepts of multiculturalism and diversity they are in the process of losing their historical and traditional European cultures.
The industrial cities of northern England have become majority Muslim. London is fast becoming Londonistan. The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain — one by one, these European countries are awakening to the deadly peril which they have allowed into their midst. Little Switzerland, in its most recent elections, seems to be determined to fight back against this loss of its cultural identity. But is it too little too late? For some countries, the damage may have already been done.
It is a gross misrepresentation of the facts to refer to this monumental crisis that the West now faces as a War on Terror. For all of the terror that can be generated by some murderous and well-publicized attack, the most deadly threat to our existence comes, not from the terrorists, but from these ubiquitous cultural invasions, which we in the West — precisely because of our liberal and tolerant values — are woefully unprepared to counter.
The Islamic culture which is attempting, and in some cases succeeding in infiltrating and subsuming its welcoming democratic host countries is one of the most brutal cultures in history. It stands in direct opposition to everything our liberal Western culture holds valuable. It is a pitiless totalitarian theocracy which denigrates individuality and scientific progress. It is completely and utterly intolerant of any other point of view. It brutalizes and seeks to subjugate its women to the will of the superior male. It responds to criticism or dissent with a combination of intimidation and violence. Those few heroic journalists, authors and politicians who have dared to question or criticize Islam have either been forced into hiding or been murdered.
These barbaric invasions are being aided and abetted by our own liberal turncoats. Under the dictates of multiculturalism and diversity we have been forbidden to even acknowledge the existence of these threats — let alone deal with them. We have even ceded the moral high ground to these medieval brutes, meekly acquiescing to the delusions of cultural moral equivalancy — as though somehow the beheading of a journalist equates with the embarrassment of a Britney Spears. If we even attempt to redress these issues we are immediately branded as xenophobic racists.
Consider for a moment the utter absurdity of this statement:
We are six years into this so-called War on Terror and we are still unwilling or unable to honestly identify our enemies and confront them for fear of being impolite.
Here is the hard truth and it’s time we faced it. Whether we win in Iraq or not, the war that we have had thrust upon us will continue. For it is not just about Iraq or Afghanistan; it is not just about Al-Qaeda. This war is not about what we have done or not done in the Middle East. This war that we are in is a war against a culture, the hate-driven 15th century, pride/revenge male warrior culture of the Arab world (in which I include Iran). Whether we choose to see it this way or not, the facts remain that we are, indeed, in the midst of a Clash of Civilizations. There is nothing more dangerous in a time of war than underestimating your enemy.
For those amongst us who still wonder “why can’t we all just get along together?” I suggest that you remember once again that awful day in September. I suggest that you take out those pictures of the nineteen hijackers again and look closely at those faces. This is the enemy. They are implaccable in their hatred towards us. They are willing to die to kill us. The civilized West is once again being besieged by savage barbarian hordes, driven by their brutal and uncompromising religion. And we don’t know how to fight back. All that we have learned that makes us civilized now works against us and to our enemy’s advantage.
If anyone seriously believes that we are going to defeat this ruthless, divinely-inspired enemy through gentlemanly dialogue and understanding, I suggest they remember the fate of Theo van Gogh. We will not overcome this fanatical fascist threat by attempting to find some commom theological ground in the Old Testament, or by promoting some delusional multicultural vision of diversity. Our European neighbors have already tried this and failed, and their imperiled societies are suffering the consequences of their bad judgment.
Now this dreaded plague has arrived on our own shores. We can no longer afford the luxury of comforting ourselves with pleasant delusions and well-intentioned obfuscations. We will never defeat them with kindly Christian platitudes or high-minded liberal idealism.
Finally, we must dare to be impolite, we must sacrifice some of our precious civility and have the courage to recognize our enemy for what he is and deal with him accordingly or we will most certainly lose this battle of wills, this unmistakable Clash of Civilizations.
UPDATE: Simmons has posted this in response to this article. Great debate Guys. -pg
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Political Correctness run amok.
Those are fighting words. So far much of the Western world has chosen to sit on the sidelines as extremist Islam has bullied its way into prominence. Recently a group of Muslim leaders wrote a letter beseeching Christians to accept peace, but there was no recognition that Christians today are reacting to Muslim intolerance - they won't recognize that Islam needs to mature from the inside out, as Christianity and Judaism has done. Until moderate Muslims take back their religion from those that claim murder as sanctioned by Allah, the West has good reason to look upon them with suspicion. What is most dispiriting is the left's willingness to ignore the debilitating prejudice of Islam - I assume they believe that any demand for dignity for the Muslim women might somehow be construed as support for the war or support for Bush. This week on university campi across the nation starts "Islamofascism Awareness Week." On every campus the left has come out in full force not to demand more and better of Islam, but to excoriate those who stand against this ancient bigotry. It's sad, but predictable. And that might be the difference between today's leftists and yesterday's classical liberals. Leftists are willing to accept degradation today if it furthers its goal of political power tomorrow. The classical liberal rose with indignant rage at the challenges to mankind's inherent right to live free and unmolested. John F. Kennedy once said "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. " Those days apparently are long gone…
Roger, this is quite possibly your best post ever, and should be kept in a "best of" file. On the theology front, the God of the Bible is a jealous God and in the OT, He got the attention of His people when they started to do their version of being politically correct and worshipped idols or other gods. That wasn't a pretty sight, the same as it will not be a pretty sight if the PC crowd continues to ignore the threat you write about and more importantly our God in Heaven. Again, outstanding article my brother!
"The liberal Western societies have been attempting to deal with this growing menace with the pitiful weapons of Christian tolerance and understanding." Very good, Roger, Well Done. However, in your quote above, I think it is more Liberal Christianity, the left's feel good interpretation of the Word, that is allowing this to be ignored. "Turn the other cheek" does not mean we allow an ungodly interpretation to push God's word aside and allow mistreatment of human's to once again flourish.
Point taken, Lew. Thank you.
Excellent post Roger. You make the points that need to be focused on and people need to start waking up and paying attention. Our enemies are not all we need to fear, we must fear those that refuse to name them.
Roger you have written the truth with passion - a passion I wish most Americans shared. I can't add anything to your fine analysis.
WoW. to the point and enjoys the added benefit of being true. Roger, this post can only be surpassed with a prescription for combatting this invasion and erosian of America. It is most likely you're best post ever. U RoCk
Great expose Roger… As the western Europeans are "waking up" to their Liberla "follies" all done with good intentions and a " lack of spine" we seem to fall in their previously created mindless lunacy….
Can we not go all moveon.org on me and start calling people traitors? '…our own liberal turncoats.'
Hi Simmons, RwG use of the term 'liberal turncoats' could be a reference to the sorry fact that groups like NOW haven't raised pure heck fire about the fact that Egypt leads the world in two things - horrific gender apartheid on their own women and as a recepient of American aid. Or GLAD totally freaking about Iran being totally gay free. Hope this helps.
Yes, Simmons. I was waiting to hear from you. If people here in this country by their actions, or by their lack of actions, or by their outright obstructionism help our common enemies to undermine our attempts to protect ourselves, and therefore make us more vulnerable, they most certainly qualify as turncoats. Who those people are, and what side of the aisle they might come from, I'll leave for you to judge.
Simmons — instead of always looking for new ways to be offended by my choice of language, instead of being so concerned about staking out and defending your personal political position, why don't you just address the issue? In what way have I mischaracterized this Muslim threat to our Western culture and our impotent reaction to it?
Thank you Michelle. You put the whole problem into four words.
Great article and once more it shows the hidden bigotry you neocons use. I got a good laugh about your use of 'civilized' world as if we are really that different from the people we are fighting.
Roger, when you get called a "neocon" that means you have hit a home run with what you have written. Looks like you just rounded the bases bro!
An excellent article Roger. The problem as I see it is our politicians. Very few of them realize the decisions we make today toward Islam, will have dire consequences for the US in the future.
There are moderate Muslims. Not all Muslims are extremists. And the Muslims that are extremists ARE NOT STRATEGIC THREATS TO THE U.S. I think some people are taking this whole thing a little far. Islamic terrorists have launched one successful attack on our soil, and relative, it really was not as horrible as an attack as we would believe. Yes, it was horrible, but compared to any other wars the U.S. has ever fought, it's nothing. 9/11 was significant because it changed the U.S.'s foreign and domestic policy SIGNIFICANTLY. Right now, no terrorist group, I repeat NO TERRORIST GROUP, has the ability to strike at the U.S. with even the force it did on 9/11. They could EASILY carry out attacks that could kill around 5 people EVERY DAY on the scale of the IRA, but they haven't. What's that show? Many American Muslims have assimilated. Foreign terrorists are still trying to kill us, yes, but after invading Afghanistan, it's not really that bad here. Yes, Europe is worse. Muslim populations there are growing rapidly. Hopefully assimilation policies will be enacted. Not forced assimilation like some are proposing. But 'the homeland' is safe.
Anyway, my point is that some are exaggerating the extremist threat. To sum it up :).
"…as if we were really that different than the people we are fighting." There could be no finer example of this complacent and uninformed moral equivalancy than that expressed by the anonymous author of the above comment. In the words of a prominent imam from a major Parisian mosque. "…if a woman cheats on her husband, her husband can beat her…that's part of our religion." There is just not enough space here to list all of the evidence of the horrors that have been brought to Europe and Scandinavia by their Muslim immigrants. However, I will attempt to list some of them in another comment.
This version's better: Anyway, my point is that some are exaggerating the extremist threat and its capabilities to damage our strategic interests. To sum it up :).
Well folks, we can breathe a big sigh of relief now. " The homeland is safe", according to Simmons. I guess we might just as well close down Homeland Security and go back to watching Oprah. It was all just a Republican plot. 9/11 wasn't really that big of a deal. God help us.
Muslim gangs throughout Europe and elsewhere have virtually taken over the projects and the immigrant neighborhoods — which are now known to the local police as "no-go areas", or in PC parlance, SUAs — sensitive urban ares. France is now 10 percent Muslim and rising steadily.
— According to Norwegian journalist Fjordman, there has been an alarming increase in the number of horrific gang rapes by Muslim men of Australian girls in Sydney. These Muslim men joke and brag about it on their internet chatrooms. These actions are largely supported in the immigrant communties. They believe that by their manner of dress and actions, Australian infidel girls are "asking for it". They don't even actually consider it a crime.
— In Oslo, rape charges have risen by 40% since 2000. 65 percent of those charged were non-western (PC for Muslim), while this segment makes up only 14.3 percent of Olso's population. 80 percent of the female victims were Norwegian. While Norwegian women feel less and less safe in their own capitol, in typical PC fashion, the liberal Swedish MPs have responded to this growing crisis by CALLING FOR MORE IMMIGRATION and accusing their own people of racism and prejudice.
— Although these major news stories have gone largely unreported in the American Press, Amsterdam has been the scene of violent ongoing street riots since October 14th, when a Muslim man was shot to death by two Amsterdam policewomen after he attacked them and stabbed them repeatedly with knives. The Muslim neighborhoods erupted in indignation that a Muslim man had been killed BY A WOMAN and called for revenge against all Amsterdam's women.
— We all were witness to those huge three-day Paris riots in the Seine-Saint-Denis immigrant districts in 2005, looting businesses, attacking police and burning cars. It was in direct response to these growing internal threats that the French electorate voted in Mr. Zarkozy.
— I could go on and on. How anyone in their right mind cannot see this threat is just beyond comprehension. And we — contrary to the statements of some delusional deniers — are up next. What are we willing to do to save ourselves from this coming disaster? Are we just going to continue to ignore it?
What Simmons is saying is that until we get attacked again - lighten up! He doesn't think we should take these extremist Muslims seriously because they're just goat herders given box cutters who are angry that we are in Iraq. Don't you get it - America creates terrorists by fighting them. Don't fight them…no terrorists! Problem solved! Next question?
Right. And 9/11 wasn't really that big a deal. Evidently, for some people it really wasn't. How on earth do you respond to something like that?
People like Simmons and the wait before reacting mindset are the reason we got hit to begin with.
Hey gang — I am in an ongoing argument over my latest article at PG about Muslim immigration. One anonymous commenter sees no threat at all. The other not only doesn't see a threat to America, but doesn't think 9/11 was that big a deal. It was basically a Republican plot. Anyone who wants to join in is certainly welcome. This has the making of one of those mile long comment threads. Roger I believe they would call this 'intellectual dishonesty' or in philosophical terms 'appealing to the masses'. But this is just a sign of a weak argument I suppose
Where can we find you, Jose? Give us a link…
Yes, Please Link
While I have certain beliefs, some things are near impossible to prevent. Even with endless prep… Risk Management is key to controlling certain situations. I would rather be prepared and have a greater chance of eliminating such terrible events such as 9/11. There are also several ways to approach every situation.
No Jose, or whatever your name is. This is what's called getting together to fight back against idiots like you. If you read that message again which you stole, you'll see that there's nothing dishonest in it. I invite my friends to join into an argument, but I don't tell them what to say. I am proud to be a member of that fine group of people. You are the only one here who has shown your dishonesty by joining a conservative group under false pretense in the hopes of somehow hurting it. All you have done here is prove how strong my arguments are. And you have blown your cover for a lost cause. Not too bright, Jose.
Roger, you have hit a grand slam home run when a person who uses various nics comes to put you down. Wow, you are really hitting the ball outta the park today!
I'm tired of hearing about "moderate muslims"–where are they and why aren't they speaking out more? That's the main question we keep asking and yet, it's extremely rare we hear from them. Some have speculated it's because they fear being called "apostate" and hunted down through fatwas–but of course, those don't exist and we're making them up, aren't we? Let the moderate muslims defend themselves. And I don't want to hear the MN airport cabbies or Target cashiers or those demanding halal cafeterias, footbaths, and bathrooms at our publicly funded colleges (with our tax dollars, of course) are the moderates. They're not. They're the ones trying to force their beliefs onto this country rather than assimilating.
I love how quickly we can weed out the dishonest creeps. They fall for it, hook, line and sinker, every time. For the record, we all enjoy a good debate so we often let everyone know when one is going on. GREAT PIECE Roger!!! Night everyone. See ya'll tomorrow.
Amen, Miss Beth.
A few additional statistics: 78% of Palestinians supported the 9/11 attacks; 83% of Pakistanis sympathize with bin Laden; 98% of London's Muslims under 45 said they would not fight for Britain; 48% said the would fight for bin Laden; over 30% of European Muslims believe that Europe is evil and decadent and deserves to be overthrown and replaced by Islam. There are currently six to seven million Muslims living in the United States.
There is no moderate Islam. Islam is what Muhammad preached and practiced. The Qur'an is a record of his preaching. Refer to 8:12, 8:39, 8:60,8:67 & 9:29 . The Hadith are records of what he practiced. Read Sahih Bukhari Books 52, 53 & 59, then join me in cursing Islam. Roger is right!
Give you a link to find me? How about looking up your ass?
Once More the Islamo Fascists are proving that once the brain washing sets in .. well there is no hope for Intelligence to be reintroduced in the polluted space between their ears is there??? Wonder If these Used Virgin Seekers would also blame Noah for the great flood!!!!!
Jose, As the administrator of this blog I will act as the moderator… You stated: "I am in an ongoing argument over my latest article at PG about Muslim immigration. " Would it be possible to link to 'your latest article' (Or post it as a comment); this would allow us all to debate the situation properly… Without anything from you it is impossible for the other readers of Political Grind to comprehend a complex debate such as this. Thanks
This is why history is so important to study and learn about. There is a repeating scenario of 'barbarians' taking over 'civilization', leading the 'barbarians' to then become civilized themselves until another 'less-civilized' group comes along and conquers them. I mean civilization and barbarians as in what one group believes they are at the time, not what they actually are: different tribes fighting for land or resources. Someday some group will take down the Muslims.
Chris C — I'm sorry. I have agreed with some of your earlier comments but I cannot agree with you here. In fact, once again, I have to point out that this kind of moral equivalancy is exactly what I'm arguing against. This is not a matter of "different tribes fighting for land or resources". This is a fight of Good versus Evil. If you still have doubts about our enemies, please use the statistics above as a starting point for your own research. Our Muslim enemies , if they could, would quickly do away with everything you hold dear. All of the arts — music, movies, painting, sculpture, dance, internet discussions like this one, and kite-flying. Please do some research and see for yourself.
No - Jose was making public a private email in an attempt to embarrass someone - but he's only embarrassed himself. I'd still like to know who he is, so I can go on his site and leave messages under a false name. You want to argue, Jose? Then say something intelligent (we'll give you some time). Otherwise stick to sucking on the bong at your feet and let the rest of the adults work through the issues of the day.
9/11 was a big deal. It just wasn't a horrific attack that killed millions, that listening to some, you could think it was.
Thanks for misinterpreting my words. I'll say it outright: You, Roger, and I'm sure thousands of other Republicans (and many Democrats) are screaming about the horrible threat the uncivilized Muslims pose to us. They really do NOT pose such a threat. America does NOT always create terrorists by fighting them, if we fight them the right way.
Link?
That's not what I said. At all. In the slightest. Not even one bit. I am sincerely confused. Where did that come from? Typical right-wing tactic: misconstrue one's words.
Oh god - "Good versus Evil". This is getting serious o.O
Thank you. Your comment is genius.
Simmons — Is this supposed to be your thoughtful, well-reasoned response to all of those facts that I laid out in my article and the addittional comments. Is this your response to Ben's Koranic quotations: "This is getting serious o.O" — That's it.?That's your considered opinion? I'm sorry but that's just not good enough, Simmons. Refute the facts. Present your own. Stick to the argument. Don't try to win the debate by making light of the problem or of the author. Answer the questions. Stick to the issues. Prove me wrong with your hard-won facts. I worked hard for mine. Now you work for yours. That's what you call a debate.
The above statistics were drawn from two different sources: "The Sacred Age Of Terror", Benjamin and Simon and "Menace in Europe", Claire Berlinski. I'd suggest that you read both. By the way — where are the links to your facts and statistics and sources? Oh, I forgot. You don't have any.
Don't be sorry, there is nothing wrong with disagreeing. I agree that is it not a good thing for any religion to restrict freedoms. I still stick with my tribal theory because history has shown this to be true, especially when one gets knocked down but still has the power to rise again. The issue is that in the 1500's Islam got crushed by Christianity which also cost them the valuable trade routes to the East. What is happening now is a direct result of that. It is not good vs evil it is one 'tribe' wanting revenge against the rest of the 'tribes' in the world because of what happened in 1000-1500 AD. What we are seeing now is the revenge factor. Good vs evil is not the issue at all, it is history and payback. To claim it is about morals is naive and will only polarize things. No group or tribe is good or evil, they simply have their motives for their behavior which is based on their own ruleset. To not recognize this is being naive about our history.
Twolls. Miss Beth has a fantastic post in regards to trolls, inspired, in part, by the renowned Dennis Prager. Twolls don't "debate". They don't possess the intelligence to do so. Their tactic is to distract and whine when they are incapable of refuting facts presented. They feel offended that others are light years ahead of them in all respects. This why they have lost their grip and their way. In the last two years we, The New Media, have trampled over them, making their ways and means ineffective and have exposed many politicos has the panderers for votes. We discussed this in great detail on my show this evening with Spree and Melanie Morgan. Roger…GREAT article!! Well thought out and presented.
As tired as I am right now, there are some things I just can't let go by unchallenged. I began sudying Western history in 1978, and since that time I have read over 600 books, mostly primary sources. i have made exrensive notes, charts, graphs, and have written several essays and articles. I is subscribe to all the relevant publications and periodicals and receive daily updates from Memri and Site. have been involved in ongoing correspondence with some very well know historians. Since 9//11 I've read 50 books on Islam . Including making an exhaustive statistical study of the Koran. And because you disagree with me you have the nerve to call me naive abour our history. My friend, everything you said in your above comments in exactly backwards. \Of course, that's just my naive opinion.
Well Roger for a minute I thought that you were talking about that " Other WAR".. you know the war of Ignorance waged on the Administration by the Moroniacs from California… Boxer who claimed that If the CA National Guard were not in Iraq there would not have been fires ( until the facts came out and made her look sTUPID to the Whole Nation)).. The Lt Governor of CA who apparently was Vacationing a ta bar also blaming W, and lastly Pelosi bringing to a vote the SCHIP when many who wou;ld have opposed it were in CA unlike her Stupidity who was hiding in DC! Then we had the NIGHTMARE ACT by Daffy Durbin … this without secure borders first along with the latest Schip by the nut Jobs of the Left will only create economic disaster for the future.. and HIGHER TAXES…So who needs Foreign Terrorists to do us harm when we have a whole lot already working in DC to do it????
If anyone wants to better understand what's wrong with the "moral equivalancy" arguments, just read Chris C's comments above. According to this reasoning WWII was just a war between two tribes of equal moral stature. Those who espouse the falsehoods of moral equivalancy have no moral compass. There's no such thing as right or wrong, Good or Evil. I posed this question to both Sir John Keegan and Prof. Gerhard Weinberg: "After all is said and done, would you consider WWI to be a war between Good and Evil?" These two scholars are considered to be the preeminent authorities on WWII, and both answered an unqualified YES: it was a battle between Good and Evil. But, of course, they are probably naive about our history, and you know better.
The question posed was about WWII, not WWI. My typo.
Awesome. Downvote me - without a response.
Once again, downvote me without responding. At least ATTEMPT to respond.
Ouch lol.
I posted my position up there. Maybe I'm misinterpreting your point. If I understand correctly, the theme of this article is that: 1. Islamic culture is inferior and more barbaric compared to Western culture 2. This uncivilized culture is a threat.
I was gonna say…
Precisely. Very well stated.
Congratulations. The only point in you have successfully disputed is my corrected typo.
My response: http://tinyurl.com/2ffmqp This is why this debate is (semi-)pointless. We can list of statistics forever.
No no no, I wasn't trying to dispute you… I was trying (not very successfully obviously) to try to be a little bit more lighthearted. I don't consider WWI a huge battle between good and evil. But that's not what we're discussing.
For the first time in this long comment thread, I'm going to have to agree with you, Simmons. Unfortunately, this debate has ultimately become pointless. I think this is a good time for me to bow out. Have a nice night. Roger G.
hi simmons - i got your friends request but whenver i try to accept the link it tells me i'm invalidated (which is totally incorrect - i'm leo)even though i'm logged in. I may try to start anew one fromscratch. thanks for the invite. friends are like 20 dollar bills - you can never have too many!
I think I tried to say this earlier. This debate is pointless. We'll have to agree to disagree.
I agree that I don't want my freedoms taken either but I will fight on this basis. When you bring morals into it is like you have nothing else to motivate people to fight. That is wrong and manipulative. We are not fighting morals, we are fighting freedoms. Let's call a spade a spade here. It is like Global Warming. I don't need to be told it will save the planet, as long as I can avoid my money going to the governments of Russia and Venezuala that is good enough for me. Why do we need to convince people this is a holy war based on a moral code? Show them what they stand to lose as far as freedoms and you will get them lining up to fight.
As far as the global warming part, I mean my money spent on gas and oil.
lol
This is 100% about good vs. evil. History is one thing, but to think that those who want us dead just because we are American or Friends of the Jews are not evil is just sticking your head in the sand! The Bible teaches that God is good and satan is evil. There is no middle ground. You are either with God or you are against God! Don't get me wrong, please - I don't want those who don't believe in the God of the Bible wiped off the face of the earth, but the bottom line is that evil is evil and the world better wake up to that fact!
I'm not sure how you could have watched those Palestinians jumping up and down for joy on 9/11 and not think that this is a good vs. evil situation. And when you use God's name, it's with a capital "G", unless you were actually taking His name in vain. I don't mean to be "smart" about that, but one of the problems in America today is the lack of respect for God Almighty! Remove God from this, take God from that. It's time to stand up and put God and Good back in all equations!
The bottom line fact: Islam is a state of permanent war. The institution is predatory, by design. Islam does not make war on us because of anything we do or abstain from doing. It makes war on us because we are not part of it. Muslims are enjoined to fight pagans, Jews & Christians by two ayat: 8:39 & 9:29, which are made mandatory by 2:216. Because of those ayat, Islamic law (Sharia) rules that the Caliph must mount at least one expedition against the Kuffar in every year. If someone wants to dispute that fact, I can supply links to my sources.
Hey, I always '+1' you simmons!