Soap Box

President Obama's unwillingness to use the phrase "radical Islamist terrorists" may seem like superficial semantics to those who defend his every move but, to a lot of us, it has much deeper implications.

In the first place, identifying the rogue element of Islam in no way insults the faith as a whole, in fact, moderate Muslims should want the radical faction pointed out as not being a part of mainstream Islam any more than the Westboro Baptist Church is a part of the mainstream Baptist denomination.

President Obama's refusal to call the radical Islamists combined with Eric Holder and others in the Obama Administration's reluctance to identify the true enemy is disturbing. His rush to defend Islam, his refusal to mention that 125 Egyptian citizens who were slaughtered by ISIS in a mass beheading were all Coptic Christians makes you wonder just how he views this whole struggle.

We all know that President Obama has deep familial connections with Islam through his father, and though he is a self-proclaimed Christian, he seems to have an easy familiarity and an abiding reverence for Islam.

Could this in some way influence his stubborn refusal to even let the words "Islamic terrorists" pass his lips.

There is some reason, some deep-seated, firmly ingrained reason that goes deeper than philosophical and more profound than mere opinion. It takes a solidly held commitment for a president to stand against the majority of his country, and the world for that matter, in admitting that ISIS, al-Qaeda, Boko Haram and practically all the rest of the terror organizations on the planet identify themselves with Islam, with Boko Haram recently pledging allegiance to ISIS.

Whether President Obama is willing to admit it or not ISIS is following what, in their demented way, they consider to be the teachings of Mohammed as revealed in the Koran and the Hadith in an attempt to cause an all out war to usher in their version of the apocalypse, which would herald the arrival of the Islamic messiah, the Mahdi, (or 12th Imam as the Shia Muslims believe).

If President Obama is really concerned with besmirching Islam he should surely come forth and call these sadistic murderers what they are and by simply adding the words "radical� and "terrorist" to the description should provide all the separation it should take to disseminate between the moderates and the radicals.

Ironically the people who suffer the most under these radical groups are Muslims, ISIS draws no line, they kidnap, torture, rape and murder their own as quickly as they do Christians and Jews.
That kind of evil knows no bounds.

I was very young but I vividly remember World War II. Hitler and the Nazis were the most hated people on earth but most of the German people were not Nazis, they were just citizens who were caught in the middle between a sadistic mad man who wanted to conquer the world and an alliance of nations who were determined that it wouldn't happen.

"Nazi" described an evil entity to the world and although they were Germans, that term separated them from the ordinary people of Germany who lived under Hitler's reign of terror.
We knew who we were fighting, the enemy was identified, the battle lines were drawn and when the dust had settled the Nazis were destroyed, but not the German people. As we all know they rose from the ashes to build a great nation, shaking off the dregs and shadows of Nazism unstained by the world having identifying the evil element among them and calling it by name.

The people who have the most to gain by the destruction of these satanic terror groups are the Muslim people themselves. Millions of them are living in the abject fear and clear and present danger this unprecedented kind of evil brings.

They, above all people, realize that these are radical Islamic terrorists.

It will take an all out effort to defeat the forces of evil which stand against the non Islamic world, it will take military force, iron will and a nation United in purpose and resolve.

You say we're not at war with Islam, Mr. President; the least you can do is tell us who we are at war with.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops me the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels