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Back in the 40�s there was a very popular, weekly radio show (and later TV) called Truth or Consequences. The premise was that a contestant was asked some impossible question and when they gave the wrong answer the host of the show would say,

"You didn't tell the truth so you must pay the consequences." And the contestant would be told to perform some silly or potentially embarrassing, but harmless, task.

It was all in good fun, but if you separated the name from the nature of the show it becomes a profound and thought provoking proverb, a truism, a virtual prophecy.

Truth or consequences.

Pontius Pilate asked Jesus "What is truth?� I believe that Pilate knew the truth that day, he as well as admitted that it was the jealously of the Pharisees and not any crime Jesus had committed that had brought Christ before him. But in his attempt to be politically correct and please the Jewish religious leaders who had the power to incite the people, he turned his back on truth and condemned an innocent man.

We'll never know the consequences Pilate paid for his going against his better judgment because the Bible pretty much leaves the story there, but I can't help but believe that Pilate was haunted for the rest of his life.

The real truth is not about spin or plausible deniability, it's not about political expediency or executive sealing of records or the fifth amendment.

Truth is not about innuendo and accusations such as Harry Reid made concerning Mitt Romney's non-payment of taxes on the Senate floor where he hid behind his Congressional immunity and fed statements he knew to be lies to a media frothing at the mouth to hear something harmful on Romney, untrue or not.

And Mr. Reid, there will be consequences for your act, you will more than likely be remembered for this one statement above all the others you ever made during your public service, remembered as an unrepentant liar.

President Obama is an unusually intelligent man, well-studied, well-traveled and privy to information nobody else on the planet can get their hands on.

Yet he absolutely refuses to publicly admit that the overwhelming number of acts of terrorism on the planet are carried out by those of the Islamic faith.

He claims that he is afraid that by even uttering the words "radical Islamic terror" it would incite Americans against Muslims, which don't hold water in my book anymore than condemning the hate mongering of the Westboro Baptist Church would incite Americans against all Baptists.

Or talking about the Mafia would vilify all Italians.

Islamists are currently video taping the mass beheadings of Christians and stating that they are doing it in the name of Allah.

Before I go any further, here is the mandatory �all Muslims are not terrorists� and �there are good decent Muslims in the world� disclaimers, without which the cherry pickers will say that I am condemning all Muslims. 

Now that�s out of the way, Islamists are kidnapping young women to become sex slaves for the soldiers who claim to be followers of Mohammed.

The World Trade Center towers, the Boston Marathon, the shootings at Fort Hood, countless acts of terrorism around the world are proudly claimed to be the work of groups or individuals who identify themselves as Muslims.

Mr. President, Americans have sense enough to separate the good from the bad, we've lived through segregation, and wars with Japan and Germany both of which are no longer our enemies, but we are frustrated by a president who refuses to admit that there is at least a faction of Islam which is dedicated to totally destroying Israel and America.

America needs a focal point and you should daily condemn the rapes, murders, burning of churches, beheading of Christians and the unearthly evil being done in the name of Islam.

By refusing to name America's enemy you deny the truth, Mr. President.

That's a problem for your conscience to deal with, but the fact that in so doing you increase the danger to every family in the free world.

I believe that you know in your heart that by not dealing with Isis in a, whatever it takes, decisive way you are allowing the rapid growth and expansion of one of the most evil entities the world has ever been exposed to.

And that passing the problem on to the next administration exponentially increases the danger to the homeland.

ISIS or ISIL - the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant - flaunt the fact that they are Muslims, whether majority or not, who are following their interpretation of the Koran, the Hadith - the teachings of Mohammed - whether perverted or not, and are doing the inhuman evil to bring about a world under Islamic rule.

In not identifying our enemy you're not telling the truth Mr. President and the free world at large is in line to reap the consequences.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

� Charlie Daniels

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