Soap Box

I only heard the sound bites from President Obama's address at the National Prayer Breakfast and don't know the full extent of his remarks. But what I got from what I did hear seemed to be a call for people to understand that what the evil ISIS is doing is not a part of Islam and that present day Christians should be carrying around the shame from events that happened many centuries ago.

His constant apologies for American greatness, his stubborn reticence about semantics concerning a blood enemy and his insistence that Islam has absolutely no responsibility for the atrocities practiced by its followers, his refusal to escalate the war against ISIS to the point of actually winning it, makes me wonder why this president stands in the gap between Islam and the rest of the world.

Before we go much further, here is the obligatory �most Muslims are good people and are not terrorists� disclaimer. Of course, that is true.

Having said that, is it not some of the most important leaders in the Islamic world who promise a young man that if he'll strap a suicide vest on, walk into a crowd of innocent people and blow it up he'll be instantly transported to a male dominated paradise with his very own harem of virgins to do his bidding throughout eternity.

Is it not the same people, who supposedly know the Koran from cover to cover who tell warriors that if they die in jihad they will enter heaven with no credentials required?

Is it not these same religious leaders who tell their followers that it's perfectly all right to tell any lie to an infidel in the cause of furthering Islam?

If Islamic doctrine is not a part of what ISIS, Boko Haram, the Taliban, al-Qaeda and their ilk are doing, why aren�t more of the Muslims in the world who claim the violence is not part of Islam not raising hell denouncing them?

Why are young men and women recruited in the Mosques of the Western World to join sleeper cells or go off to the Middle East to join one of the murderous groups?

Why have hundreds of Christian churches been destroyed in Muslim countries while Muslims practice their faith in the Western nations practically unimpeded?

Why does an American president continue to apologize for America, bow to a Saudi king, to appoint Muslims to positions of power in our government when these same Muslims refuse to condemn the groups who rape, murder, bury children alive, crucify, kidnap, force young women into sexual slavery, behead innocents and burn a human being alive before the eyes of the world?

These acts are straight out of the deepest pits of hell and are done at the behest of Satan himself and anybody who does not condemn it is standing up for it and anybody who makes excuses and placates it is turning a blind eye to the extent of the evil, including our president.

This is not a bunch of errant misfits who have gotten hold of a few guns and going around shooting up neighborhoods and it is not some rag tag pseudo militia with no command chain and no mission except to terrorize.

This is a concerted attack on every person on the planet - peace loving Muslims included - who is not willing to live under the thumb of Sharia Law as administered by the hand of inhuman fanatics who stone women for the slightest perceived offense and throw homosexuals off a roof.

ISIS is a cancer that is rapidly metastasizing and growing exponentially as young men from around the world continue to swell their ranks.

They are said to number around forty thousand now, but soon, if the world keeps hiding behind platitudes and procrastination, they will be fifty thousand then one hundred thousand, their reach and their intimidating influence expanding in brutality and strength.

What do we do about ISIS?

Actually there is only one answer.

Whatever it takes to totally destroy them.

From Obama's reaction so far I�d say that action will be left to the next president, as Obama is just treading water until he gets out of office leaving his legacy of untied ends, uncrossed T�s and fiscal chaos.

I hope and pray we will elect somebody who is up to the task; goodness knows we've had enough of one who isn't.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels