Soap Box

The recent terrorist attack in New York City has once again forced us to face the ugly fact that our War on Terror is ongoing, deadly and that the enemy we�re dealing with is cunning, resourceful and able to adapt to the ever-changing security methods and protocols, changing tactics from major bombings and crashing airplanes into buildings to turning common motor vehicles into juggernauts of death mowing down innocent pedestrians and crashing into busloads of children.

As always, I have to throw in the obligatory disclaimer, �Not all Muslims are terrorists.� We are well aware that is true, but if it isn�t said early enough, the cherry-picking trolls start salivating.

I�m not talking about peaceful law-abiding Muslims, we are talking about the radical Islamists.

These people are basically animals, with no conscience, no remorse, and no morals and their only goal in life is to murder as many non-Muslims as they can in the commission of some supposedly glorious suicide that will ensure them a place in some male-dominated heaven where they will spend eternity eating and drinking gourmet food and having sex with 72 virgins.

The humanity, mercy, pity and all other basic human emotions have been burned out of their consciousness by radical Islamic clerics and replaced with blind hatred for all infidels and the belief that their Koran, Hadiths and the teachings of their prophet, Mohammed, call them forth to this duty and condone the bloody ramifications.

They take advantage of our free and open society, knowing that America will never pay back in kind and they slaughter women and children as readily as they would soldiers on the battlefield.

One of the problems with America�s approach to terrorism is that it was set back eight years by a president who couldn�t even bring himself to utter the words �radical Islamic terrorist�, created ISIS by prematurely pulling out of Iraq, bowing to a Saudi king, signifying weakness to the Muslim world, placing stumbling blocks in the paths of domestic law enforcement charged with locating the terrorists among us and exhibiting a somewhat lackadaisical attitude in admitting the true extent of the danger in America.

And of course, he is not the only one, from what I gather, anyone listening to Mayor De Blasio�s remarks after an avowed ISIS sympathizer killed eight New Yorkers and plowed headlong into a school bus full of handicapped children, could easily get the impression that he was more worried about prematurely identifying the perpetrator as a Muslim terrorist than he was his actions, even though the plan was one reportedly identified in ISIS�s own terrorist guidebooks.

It is also my understanding that the Mayor was responsible for doing away with a policy that would have allowed the NYPD to keep close surveillance on the very mosque Saipov attended.

Saipov came into America because of a liberal program to promote diversity in our immigration policy, an actual lottery, which in my book at least, is a hell of a way to run a railroad, much less an immigration program, picking immigrants by chance rather than merit.

And of course, immediately following the slaughter, many of the left wing leaning politicos and media are more concerned with the safety of the Muslim population than talking about what happened, what fostered it and doing whatever is necessary to prevent it from happening again.

The truth of the matter is that certainly the overwhelming majority of American Muslims are peaceful and just want to live their lives and raise their families and should be afforded every constitutional right as Americans of any other ethnic origins, but what has kept this nation safe and prosperous for over two centuries is that immigrants of all origins have put aside their ethnicity and become Americans first and foremost and stood shoulder to shoulder against whatever enemies we had.

America, including Muslim Americans, have a decision to make.

Do we make an all-out effort to rid ourselves of terrorists like Saipov, those who, without conscience or remorse murder innocent Americans, and become the face of Islam to most people, to relentlessly pursue them wherever the trail leads, whatever neighborhood, mosque or ethnic conclave, or do we put on our politically correct pants and play the �Most of them are good people� card, sit on our hands and watch America be blown apart literally limb by limb?

Nobody wants to throw the baby out with the bath water, what needs to be done here is for Muslim Americans to cooperate and rid themselves and the nation and their faith of the handful of radicals who threaten us all.

Many Muslims serve in our armed forces, hold jobs in industry and many have assimilated into society and become part of America�s mainstream.

But the truth is that many have not and still harbor the radicals, giving them safe haven while they plan their deadly attacks.

So, which fork in the road do we take?

One leads to security for our children and grandchildren.

We don�t even want to think about where the other one leads.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops, our police and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

� Charlie Daniels

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