There are at least 1.5 billion Muslims around the globe, divided into three main groups: Sunnis, Shiites, and Sufis. Sunnis are the vast majority, and they look to Saudi Arabia for leadership. Shiites look to Iran's mullahs, and the peaceful minority Sufis look within themselves.
At least ten percent of these 1.5 billion Muslims think terrorism is a fine idea in the pursuit of Sharia Law, the 7th Century legal code which was largely abandoned by Muslims centuries ago. Another 50% or so sympathize with the terrorists, and won't inform authorities about terrorist acts they know are coming. Sharia Law directly challenges our Western Tradition of human and civil rights, freedom of thought, religion, and speech. Sharia Law openly declares that our Western values are heresy, and that good Muslims have an obligation to jihad, violent acts to annihilate all heresy and heretics. We Westerners - and many Easterners - are in a war not of our own choosing. But we have powerful allies. Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, and Christians outnumber Muslims four-to-one. We have common cause against the Islamists.
A Muslim reformation has occurred in the last forty-five years, and the long-abandoned belief in Sharia Law is surging. Sharia calls for brutal public execution of adulterers, homosexuals, apostates (anyone who won't embrace Sharia), alcoholics, and drug addicts. Thieves have their hands cut off. There are no trials for any of these charges as we think of trials, and there's no presumption of innocence until proven guilty. An accusation by a few people is as good as a guilty verdict in many cases.
We're experiencing a massive, global increase in murderous terrorism. In 2015 alone, the cost of terrorist acts soared to $52.9 billion, and 2016 is on track to be much worse (Link). The human loss measured in lives and suffering is incalculable. Whole families are being destroyed.
Jesus taught the martyr's path of quiet acceptance of death. But Jesus came into this world to be a martyr, as predicted by Isaiah, around 740 B.C.E. He didn't require every Christian to suffer a martyr's fate: Luke 10:25-28. The Apostle Peter converted the first Gentile, Cornelius the Centurion, to Christianity, and approved of the Roman Army as a force to prevent anarchy (Link). Soldiers and policemen put their lives on the line for God, too, if their cause is just. We know that preventing the Nazis, the Japanese Empire, and the Soviet Union from dominating the world was a just cause (Link).
All Western nations have a Judeo-Christian foundation and orientation; or at least they did until recently. In the last fifty years we've witnessed mass abandonment of religious and spiritual values, and jihadist terrorists see this as an invitation to destroy us. It's happening now, and it will become a daily slaughter from now on. Our failure to defend ourselves is suicide, and suicide is a crime against ourselves and God (Link).
What's worse, our global leaders are grossly negligent through their willful ignorance or craven desire for power. They know of, but won't tell us the truth about radical Islam. All advanced nations recognize reckless endangerment, depraved indifference, and implied malice as serious crimes deserving of a prison sentence. The leaders who engage in this evil behavior must be removed and prosecuted.
Our present dilemma is the long-awaited Armageddon, when God's forces finally have it out with Satan's millions. We will win, but you must choose which side you're on.
Jim Caviezel played Jesus in The Passion of the Christ.
At least ten percent of these 1.5 billion Muslims think terrorism is a fine idea in the pursuit of Sharia Law, the 7th Century legal code which was largely abandoned by Muslims centuries ago. Another 50% or so sympathize with the terrorists, and won't inform authorities about terrorist acts they know are coming. Sharia Law directly challenges our Western Tradition of human and civil rights, freedom of thought, religion, and speech. Sharia Law openly declares that our Western values are heresy, and that good Muslims have an obligation to jihad, violent acts to annihilate all heresy and heretics. We Westerners - and many Easterners - are in a war not of our own choosing. But we have powerful allies. Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, and Christians outnumber Muslims four-to-one. We have common cause against the Islamists.
A Muslim reformation has occurred in the last forty-five years, and the long-abandoned belief in Sharia Law is surging. Sharia calls for brutal public execution of adulterers, homosexuals, apostates (anyone who won't embrace Sharia), alcoholics, and drug addicts. Thieves have their hands cut off. There are no trials for any of these charges as we think of trials, and there's no presumption of innocence until proven guilty. An accusation by a few people is as good as a guilty verdict in many cases.
We're experiencing a massive, global increase in murderous terrorism. In 2015 alone, the cost of terrorist acts soared to $52.9 billion, and 2016 is on track to be much worse (Link). The human loss measured in lives and suffering is incalculable. Whole families are being destroyed.
Jesus taught the martyr's path of quiet acceptance of death. But Jesus came into this world to be a martyr, as predicted by Isaiah, around 740 B.C.E. He didn't require every Christian to suffer a martyr's fate: Luke 10:25-28. The Apostle Peter converted the first Gentile, Cornelius the Centurion, to Christianity, and approved of the Roman Army as a force to prevent anarchy (Link). Soldiers and policemen put their lives on the line for God, too, if their cause is just. We know that preventing the Nazis, the Japanese Empire, and the Soviet Union from dominating the world was a just cause (Link).
All Western nations have a Judeo-Christian foundation and orientation; or at least they did until recently. In the last fifty years we've witnessed mass abandonment of religious and spiritual values, and jihadist terrorists see this as an invitation to destroy us. It's happening now, and it will become a daily slaughter from now on. Our failure to defend ourselves is suicide, and suicide is a crime against ourselves and God (Link).
What's worse, our global leaders are grossly negligent through their willful ignorance or craven desire for power. They know of, but won't tell us the truth about radical Islam. All advanced nations recognize reckless endangerment, depraved indifference, and implied malice as serious crimes deserving of a prison sentence. The leaders who engage in this evil behavior must be removed and prosecuted.
Our present dilemma is the long-awaited Armageddon, when God's forces finally have it out with Satan's millions. We will win, but you must choose which side you're on.
Jim Caviezel played Jesus in The Passion of the Christ.
