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September 11, 2001 was a day unlike any other day I've ever lived through; a day of bewilderment, confusion, uncertainty, fear and finally, anger.

I remember Pearl Harbor, D-Day, when the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan and many other history changing days that have occurred during my lifetime, but none had the raw impact of 9/11.

There were perhaps a half dozen times in my life when I remember where I was and what I was doing when I got the news about some event which would be so indelibly imprinted on my brain and have such a profound effect on my life, but they all pale in comparison to 9/11.

It woke up a part of me that was unwilling to admit that my country was vulnerable, that in the world of rabid hate and terrorism we were novices, naive and childlike in believing that the greatest nation the world had ever known, with the mightiest military, the best, state of the art technology, the CIA, the DIA, the FBI and all the overt and covert intelligence organizations could fall prey to a gaggle determined religious fanatics who would bring down the very symbol of capitalism and the bastion and center of America's military might with a box cutter, turning our own commercial air fleet into missiles of destruction. 

America, when compared to most of the rest of the planet, has lived a cloistered life, protected and shielded from many of the realities the rest of the world is faced with, separated by continents and oceans from the turmoil that is commonplace in so many places. And though we knew it existed, and suffered a failed attempt to bring down the twin towers of the World Trade Center by a bunch of not so brilliant Islamist fanatics in 1993, the violence was basically confined to television and newspapers.

Our preconceptions, our naivety and our long distance assessment of the evil that abounds in the world came tumbling down on that bright September morning in 2001 when a hand full of radical Muslim jihadists pulled off a stunning event which would strip away the innocence and open America's eyes forever more and force us to accept the fact that we are a much despised target for people who hate us for the simple reason that we don't practice the same religion they do. 

By no means saying that all Muslims are terrorists, or even bad people, but there is a misconception and much disinformation about the vast differences that separate Islam and the Judeo-Christian faith practiced by most Americans.

Many people believe, as I once did, that Jehovah and Allah are one and the same deity, there is no way this could be true. If it were so, the Creator of the Universe would contradict Himself.

The Holy Bible calls Israel God's chosen people.

The other collection of Islam's holy writings - Not the Koran, but the Hadith - calls for Muslims to hunt Jews down and kill them.

The Holy Bible says that God told Abraham, the father of Israel, that whoever blessed him God would bless and whoever cursed him God would curse.

So the schism is wide, deep and irreparable and the only way for both faiths to live together on earth is to agree to disagree and live and let live, which the radical faction of Islam seems unwilling to do. 

Therefore, 9/11, the Boston Marathon bombing, the shoe bomber, the underwear bomber, mass beheadings, suicide bombers, cold-blooded murder and the defection of young Muslims around the world to go abroad and join ISIS or other radical Islamic organizations bent on destroying Western civilization.

As I write this column, President Obama is about to enable Iran, the world's leading exporter of terrorism, to have the funds and latitude to pour billions of dollars into the killing of innocent people around the world, more 9/11s and even worse.

He claims that there is a built in mechanism of inspection that would prevent Iran from building a nuclear device, but anybody with enough gray matter to strike a match knows that you can trust the Iranians about as far as you can toss a 747.

So America, we have problems from without and problems from within; people who want to destroy us, and a president who is either naive enough, or so blinded by his Pollyannaish ideology to enable them.

Stay vigilant and keep your powder dry.

Never forget.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

� Charlie Daniels

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