Author: Barbara J. Stock
Publication: Faithfreedom.org
Date: May 9, 2006
URL: http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/BarbaraStock60509.htm
There are people in America who still do not
realize that our country is at war. This is astounding considering all of
the threats that Islamic terrorists and leaders have been issuing lately.
These unenlightened folks consider President Bush the enemy, so Bush is actually
fighting a war on two fronts. One is with Islam, the real enemy, and the other
is with American leftists who are more concerned about regaining their power
than the safety of the country. Sometimes it's difficult to sort out which
is more dangerous.
In the rush to Bush-bash, the liberals in
America are unwittingly handing a victory to Islam. Several retired American
generals have joined the left and have publicly spoken out against a sitting
president during wartime. Islamics instantly picked up on this fact and referred
to this action as a "mutiny" within the American military. Apparently,
Islamics don't realize what "retired" means. Sadly, most of this
"mutiny" is due to old-time military men who want to keep an old-time
military.
The liberal media report that suicides are
up within the military, but they fail to report that the suicide rate within
the military is less than half that of the general population. When the Islamics
parrot the same fact, it was heralded as a great victory for Islam. Their
message was that American soldiers would rather kill themselves than face
the brave Muslim warriors. The truth is actually the reverse. Brave Muslim
warriors would rather dress as women and blow themselves up killing fellow
Muslims praying in a mosque than face an American soldier. Of course, that
is not described as suicide by Muslims. Instead, it has been given the colorful
label of "martyrdom." It is never explained by Islamic leaders how
praying fellow Muslims in a mosque are a threat to Islam.
The American left insists that we must encourage
the "moderate" Muslim clerics to speak out against the terrorists.
Those "moderate" clerics are quietly being killed by the much stronger
and violent Islamic leaders. It should surprise no one that most non-violent
mullahs are afraid to speak out against the slaughter.
Last week in Iraq , the sister of the new
vice-president was gunned down in the street. Her only crime was being related
to a man in the new Iraqi government. Islamics think nothing of killing a
helpless woman to send a message. But if pictures of a Muslim are released
with a bag on his head, Islamics go crazy with rage. Pages from the Bible
are used as toilet paper, but if an infidel accidentally splashes water on
a Quran, riots break out.
Then there is Iran . Iran claims it has never
attacked another country. Technically, Iran committed an act of war when the
American embassy was overrun and the Americans within that embassy were taken
hostage. Every embassy is considered the sovereign soil of the country that
occupies it. Therefore, Iran invaded American soil that day and attacked another
country. Iran has funded terrorists the world over. Those terrorist groups
have blown up embassies, ships, and commercial planes full of innocent people.
Iran 's largest export is not oil, but state-sponsored terrorism.
The Islamic leaders in Iran feel it is their
destiny to start the culture war between Islam and the West. This war will
herald the return of the twelfth Imam and his return will signal victory for
Islam over the world. Iran has just received missiles from North Korea that
can be equipped with nuclear warheads and these missiles can easily reach
the capitals of Europe.
Now, like the school-yard bully, Iran is huffing
and puffing about revenge if it is attacked. Iran can send armies of suicide
bombers and all together those armies could not inflict the damage that American
bombers could do to Iran in a week. Iran has thumbed its nose at the United
Nations. Perhaps some Iranians have short memories.
In the weeks leading up to the liberation
of Kuwait, Iraq was pounded nightly by American bombs. There was a video of
an Iranian man standing on the outskirts of his town many miles from the Iran/Iraq
border. He was watching the night sky being lit up by the bombs and under
his feet he could feel the ground shake. He waved his hands and thanked Allah
for not being under those bombs. He said he had never witnessed such power.
Even though our troops are spread around the
world, America still possesses this power. Iran may soon be under those bombs
and its ground will shake much more than it did when the bombs fell miles
away. All of Iran's clever little weapon systems will not protect it. Designed
for show, these weapons will be of little use to it if American might is unleashed.
Iran's cute little boats with high-speed torpedoes will never make it out
of the harbor.
Unlike Islamics, America will not target women
and children. We will target Iran's nuclear facilities. Iran must not be allowed
to obtain a nuclear weapon. One does not allow a small child to play with
a loaded gun and the world cannot allow the religiously insane Islamic leaders
of Iran to have a weapon that is capable of wiping out millions of people.
Yet, even here in America there are those
who feel that it is Iran's right to have such weapons. More than likely, if
President Bush agreed that it was Iran's right, these same people would jump
to the other side of the argument and demand that Iran be disarmed. These
misguided folks don't care what Iran does. They seem to feel it doesn't concern
them. After all, that is the Middle East's problem, not an American problem.
Leftists don't care what Germany does…sorry, what Iran does. They don't
seem to care that Islamics are slaughtering people all over the world. Leftists
ignore that Islam proclaims it will rule the world.
Islam is killing people. Islam is killing
non-Muslims and Muslims. Islam is killing old and young. Islam is killing
Jews and Christians and Hindus. Islam is moving across the world like a dark,
evil cloud. When will the free world realize that Islam is as Islam does?
