Scott Roeder's trial for killing Dr. George Tiller began in Kansas this week. Roeder and a small, passionate band of the Army of God, believe that the killing of abortion providers is acceptable and justifiable.

It is not. It is wrong.

Killing someone in the name of being pro-life is logically inconsistent. We do not do evil things to bring about good. The end does not justify the means. How we do something matters as much as the goal we try to attain.

Islamic terror struggles mightily with this idea. Al Qaeda and others justify the use of any means necessary to make their points and force conversions. And so we have a never-ending stream of terror attacks around the world.

Take a look at Romans 3:5-8 to remember that how we act matters as much as what we believe.

But if our unrighteousness brings out God's righteousness more clearly, what shall we say?
That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us?
(I am using a human argument.) Certainly not!
If that were so, how could God judge the world? Someone might argue, "If my falsehood enhances God's truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?"
Why not say—as we are being slanderously reported as saying and as some claim that we say—"Let us do evil that good may result"?
Their condemnation is deserved.


In the same week when we remember and honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., now is a good time to embrace non-violence and the peaceful changing of hearts rather than the violent ending of lives.

Americans do not get the point. President Obama occasionally gives indications that he may get the point, but as soon as you begin to think he gets it, he moves in the wrong direction. What is the point? Al Qaeda is not going away; the terror group has much larger support in the Islamic world than most observers are willing to acknowledge; and we are at war.

Various opinions offered in the mainstream media in the past few weeks reveal that a broad cross-section of Americans remain clueless or intentionally resistant to this obvious truth. For example, in a blog in the Atlanta Constitution, Bob Barr calls criticism of President Obama and the federal national security failures “asinine.” Bob Herbert of the New York Times categorizes attention paid to Umar the Underwear Bomber as “trivial.” Fareed Zakaria of Newsweek and CNN criticizes Washington for its “overreaction” to Al Qaeda's latest efforts to attack American air travel.

To note the seriousness of the threat not only to America but to Western life, take note of just three facts:

By my count, 80 Muslim males between the ages of 20 and 39 were charged, convicted, or sentenced on terror charges in America in 2009 alone. That is some 8 years after September 11. Islam, whose adherents make up just 0.6% of the American population, has a remarkable propensity for producing young terrorist males.

According to thereligionofpeace.com, last week brought the world 45 terror attacks, with 198 persons killed and 712 critically injured in those attacks.

A recent poll found that 40 percent of British Muslims, would like to live under Sharia and that 20 percent sympathize with the Tube bombers. Keep in mind that Great Britain is hardly the capital of Islamic extremism, so finding such high numbers in a Western society should disturb us.

These simple facts beg the question: do Americans really understand that we are in what George W. Bush called a “forever war”? President Obama at least acknowledged as much in his remarks on January 7 as he called for improvements in the intelligence realm. However, his perturbed voice and demeanor in making those remarks, and his behavior in Hawaii after learning of Umar the Underwear Bomber's failed terror assault, raise questions about whether he merely sees Islamic terror as an annoying distraction from his primary desire to overhaul health care. And in the weeks since Ft. Hood, he still fails to reveal any information or insight gained from the investigation he so adamantly requested we review before “jumping to conclusions” regarding the Islamic terror massacre that occurred on our own military base.

Nevertheless, in hopes of aiding our young president in taking a strong stance to vanquish Islamic terror, I offer President Obama a seven step plan for security sanity. Only the federal government can handle national security. And America needs the president to give that security his primary attention.

With that in mind, here are seven steps for security sanity:

Step 1: Get your nose out of health care
Major in the majors. You are the Commander-in-Chief. This IS your job, not merely a part of it. Like a wide receiver who takes his eye off the ball to look at defenders rapidly approaching him, you are dropping the ball.

Step 2: Fire Janet Napolitano at the Department of Homeland Security
There is no one in America who still believes she has any idea what she is doing. She is clearly under-equipped for the scope and gravity of the role. It is time to move on.

Step 3: Privatize airport security. Close TSA
Cameras that do not work, and guards not at their posts in Newark. Failures piling up across the country. Simple question: if you had to get a package somewhere tomorrow, in whom would you choose to trust: UPS or the USPO? If your job and your mortgage depended on it, whom would you choose? You would choose a private firm, UPS, of course. Case closed.

Step 4: Fire Michael Leiter and John Brennan from our Counter-Terror leadership
Leiter does not return to the counter-terror command center for days after Umar's failed attack. Leiter instead chooses to continue skiing. Skiing. John Brennan goes on national television and actually claims that, even though we are trying Umar as a criminal, we can still get valuable information from him by offering a plea deal. We are offering plea deals to terrorists now? Are we at war or not? You have said we are. Ditch these two, and hire leaders with seriousness of purpose and clarity of mission.


Step 5: Give it up on closing Gitmo.
You have never made your case that Gitmo is a recruiting tool for Al Qaeda. You state it as if your saying it means that it is fact. Al Qaeda has an encyclopedia of reasons it hates America. Gitmo makes no difference. Releasing detainees to Yemen does. We released six to Yemen in the week before Christmas alone. Gitmo should not be a personnel supply line for terror. The more we release detainees around the world, the more it becomes just that. Stop the absurd theater, leave Gitmo alone, and fight the war.

Step 6: Meet with Dick Cheney
Jonathan Alter has suggested this, and he is right. In your petty back-and-forthing, Mr.. President, you both are diminishing the country and yourselves, not to mention your leadership capacities. Air it out in private. You are willing to meet with Chavez, Ahmadinejad, and nearly everyone else. Meet with Cheney and reach an armistice of public criticism. It really is unbecoming.


Step 7: End Muslim visitation to America today
This is controversial, but it ratchets up the pressure on the Muslim community to reform itself from within. If Islam is to overcome its violent strains, change must come from within. When we stop allowing non-American Muslims to visit the country for business, pleasure, or education, we will force Islamic leaders to look their religion in the mirror and deal with its violent tendencies. Abdurrahman Wahid, former president of Indonesia, died last week. He cast forth a vision, and worked hard to advance it, for a more moderate, less violent Islam than is at play in much of the world, including our airlines. Let's take bold steps to pressure other Muslim leaders, including some of our own citizens, to do the same.

Lots of good reading and movie time with the family over the holidays.

Actually went to the theater and paid $10 for a movie. Wow - that is expensive.

We saw Sherlock Holmes with Jude Law, Robert Downey, Jr., and Rachel MacAdams.

Very good flick. Cleverly told. Well-acted. Interesting well-written mystery plot with lots of action to hold my attention. And always good to have Rachel MacAdams in a flick.

Even better, it sets up its own sequel while not requiring you to see it to get final resolution.

All in all, a very fine entertainment experience.

AHS Grade: Solid B

No topic generates as much pointed debate as when I discuss Islam's violent roots and their most recent expression in terror.

We get weekly reminders now of Islam's dark side, with the Nigerian Christmas Eve underpants bomber and more than 80 Muslim males charged, convicted or sentenced on terror charges in America just in 2009.

On Sunday's show, I again called for an end to Muslim immigration to the USA. We should not continue adding more hot sauce to our melting pot. Enough is enough.

My stance produced a flurry of emails from every point of view imaginable. Here are two opposing ones:

I stopped listening to your show because you are always bragging about what a good "Christian" you are and how you love GOD but your reactions/points of views on the topics you cover, are usually superficial and hypocritical. How could you love GOD and not love and forgive people when they do something wrong? Not all nationalities or religions are made up of bad people. Instead of saying that most Muslims are not good people you should realize that there are just as many bad "Christians" who are rapist, child molesters, murderers, etc. Would you say that most Christians are bad as well. And to say that there are enough Muslims here in America already and none others should be allowed to come into the U.S.is just wrong and unGODly. I am not a Muslim however, I do not judge all Muslims by what a few bad Muslims have done just as I would not judge all Christians by what 'bad" Christians have done or any person or other religious sects. Your church would definitely not be one that me nor my family and friends would ever attend. Nor would we ever seek you out as a counselor as we all feel your advice and spiritual integrity is extremely unstable.
I am sure you could care less about my thoughts about your show nor would you ever read this letter on the radio but I feel better letting you know what is on my heart. Chandra

Allen,
I fully agree with your four points and would suggest a fifth.
5, any immigrant, no matter his/her status is deported if he/she is convicted of a felony in this country or if they use public assistance ("welfare").
At this point and given our leaders' inability or unwillingness to deal with domestic radical Islamic terrorism, the rest of us who do not have body guards, private planes to fly us around, etc., have to get serious about getting and staying safe. The "diversity" inmates are running the asylum at the expense and at the peril of the rest of us.
Bill