Posted on 09/11/2015 8:47:41 AM PDT by Perseverando
To misunderstand the nature and threat of evil is to risk being blindsided by it.
Fourteen years ago — on September 11, 2001 — America was blindsided by the forces of radical Islam. Pre-9/11, American leaders rightly understood that the vast majority of the world’s Muslims were generally peace-loving people who posed no threat to our homeland. But they failed to adequately comprehend, much less counter, the theology, political ideology, and operational strategy of men like Osama bin Laden.
The results were devastating. The attacks against the World Trade Center, against the Pentagon, and over Shanksville, Pa., killed nearly 3,000 Americans, along with individuals from 93 other nations, in the most devastating sneak attack since we were blindsided by the Imperial Japanese at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Today, President Obama and members of his administration still refuse to use the term “radical Islam,” even as Jordan’s King Abdullah II, a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, candidly admits that the West is engaged in a “third world war” against Islamic terrorism. Abdullah adds that, at its core, “this is a Muslim problem. We need to take ownership of this. We need to stand up and say what is right and what is wrong.”
The king is right. The threat of radical Islam to the U.S. and our allies is serious and ongoing.
That said, there is a dramatic shift underway in the Muslim world. The most serious threat we face in the Middle East and North Africa is no longer radical Islam but apocalyptic Islam.
We face not just one but two regional regimes whose rulers are driven not merely by violent political ideology, or by extremist theology, but by apocalyptic, genocidal eschatology, or End Times theology.
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Read the 13th chapter of Revelation. I believe you will find their Mahdi listed there.
Hear, hear, a message for the times. A hit the nail on the head article.
It is said that only 5% - 10% of Moslems are extremists.
In 1940, only 7% of Germans were Nazis. How’d that work out?
Oh, and now we gave a regime headed by the most extreme, apocalyptic Moslems, a regime that has become the biggest source of funding, training and arms for terrorists world-wide, a glide-path to nukes, no restrictions on developing or buying ICBMs, and somewhere between $100 billion and $150 billion that they otherwise would not have received. How’s THAT going to work out?
Whenever I read about surveys of Muslims in Europe, there is nothing peace loving about their opinions and attitudes.
Good point.
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