“Since the Islamists have openly stated that we are their enemy ...”
Not all of them. I wonder how many of them. A tenth? Half? Most? How many are our enemy but would never admit it?
Your post makes some good points.
I’d go so far as to say “all of them”... It is a convert or die “religion”.
While I do not believe that all practitioners of Islam are actively working at killing us, I can’t help notice the remarkable lack of public condemnation coming from those who insist that Islam is a religion of peace, of those who are carrying out these terrorist acts.
Compare this relative silence to the response of Christians to the Westboro Baptists’ actions (which, while vile, do not directly kill anyone).
Don’t get me wrong; I’m not advocating for a crusade, or judging individuals in their faith. I simply cannot comprehend what would cause a person to adhere to a faith that is causing so much bloodshed and suffering and not be doing everything within their limited power to change the public face of that faith; or abandon it for a new one that better suits my idea of Godliness.
I can promise that if a group of “Christians” were blowing up innocents in some misguided political effort, I would be screaming to the top of my voice that they are NOT representing my God. They’d have to blow me up to get me to stop.
Not everyone who claims to be Christian is. I’m sure that Islam has the same problem; but if they allow the jihadi’s to be the face of their faith, support these terrorists financially, and work in support of the political structure that allows this behavior, they are my enemies.