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A group calling themselves American Freedom Defense Initiative recently held a cartoon drawing competition in Garland, Texas offering a ten thousand dollar prize for the winning cartoon of Mohammed and were attacked by two Muslim extremists which ISIS declared were their soldiers defending the image of their prophet.

We all know that a guard was injured and both terrorists were killed, but the ramifications of this incident should - and hopefully will - open the eyes of the people in America who can't accept the fact that there are radical Muslims in this country who are willing to die in the Islamic cause, taking as many Americans with them as they can.

I have heard widespread criticism of this group by those who say they knew the event they were holding was likely to provoke an attack.

I do not commend nor condemn them but do feel that putting the focus on them and not on the danger of Islamist terror on the streets of America causes us to miss the point.

Is America to walk on egg shells in practicing our constitutional rights from now on, observing strict rules of political correctness in a fruitless effort to placate the sensibilities of people who hack the heads off Christians and kidnap children for sex slaves?

No other group in the history of America has been granted immunity from criticism or even ridicule for that matter, and one has to look no farther than the TV shows and art exhibits to find mocking of God and belittling of those who follow Him.

Yet, if followers of Christ went and shot up Bill Maher�s show or bombed the exhibition of a photo of a crucifix in a jar of the artist�s urine, I wonder if the critics would be so quick to condemn TV and museums for being the catalyst.

The point being that these radicals don't have to be provoked by some special event or what they perceive as being an insult to their faith to kill innocent American citizens.

People, let's face some cold, hard facts here. Radical Islam hates anybody who disagrees with them and their ultimate goal is to destroy every human who breathes, who will not convert to Islam and it doesn't take a derogatory cartoon or a negative word about their faith to provoke them.

They live in a perpetual state of provocation and it's not incident but opportunity that sets them off and the more solace they can get from the "kill the messenger" crowd and a president who can't even bring himself to call them radical Islamic terrorists the bolder they will become and if every federal agency, local law enforcement, intelligence agency and every other entity charged with protecting America is not focused and fine tuned to root out and destroy the terrorist networks in America, we are in for a mass blood letting on the streets of our nation.

During World War II, a Japanese admiral made the statement that it would be foolish to mount a ground attack on the American mainland because there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass and that could still prove to be America's best defense.

ISIS claims to have sleeper cells in fifteen states, a statement that may or may not be true, but for security purposes we'd best take them at their word and dig deep and punish severely, a move that will be soundly denounced by the Muslim community, but one that, if they are sincere about being good Americans, they should welcome, to rid them of the monsters who give all Islam a bad name.

And after all, more Muslims die at the hands of these fanatics than any other people.

The art exhibit and contest held in Garland, Texas at the Curtis Culwell Center will pass into distant memory in a few weeks, but the clear and present danger that it brought to the attention of America hopefully will not.

America needs a leader who is a staunch defender of all our constitutional rights, 2nd amendment notwithstanding, a leader who will call our enemy by it's proper name and hunt them down anywhere in the world when they are a threat to America, a leader with guts, gonads and the nerve to tell America the whole truth.

Lock and load America, trouble is on the way.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

� Charlie Daniels

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