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Just read this excellent summation of where many Americans stand after a 7 year assessment of Islam. Many of us have spent the 7 years since 9/11 trying to play catch-up on a religion we formerly knew very little about.
Check it out
Not pretty.
Makes me wonder two things:
1) How hard must it be to be Muslim in America in 2008? After 7 years of revelations of what the core tenets of Islam are (its remarkable lack of mercy and love as it describes the nature of God, and the fact that Mohammed led 60 military campaigns - 3 of them were defensive - as the founder of this "faith") - how hard it must be to practice this faith in a country that finds it repellent.
I really am fascinated by the human side of this. 2% of Americans are Muslim. How does that feel?

2) Why, given the smorgasbord of faith choices in America, would anyone CHOOSE to practice Islam? What is the appeal?
I honestly do not get it.

Will discuss this on the show tonight. And I plan to LISTEN a lot.

On the show two weeks ago, I shared again why I think the war against al Qaeda and Islamic supremacists is morally justifiable. Too few Americans realize what a very real and serious threat we are facing. Many of the callers reflected the view that we have acted inappropriately.

A new column in Forbes sums it up well. Check it out for yourself at http://www.forbes.com/columnists/forbes/2008/0505/027.html. Paul Johnson says what too few Americans are willing to say. President Bush has been an excellent leader. Plain and simple. Has he been perfect? Of course not. Has the war been flawlessly executed with perfect intelligence? Of course not.

But Bush has been brilliant in switching the battleground from AMerican turf to the "death-dealers' territory." We have suffered no more treachery on our own soil and among our own civilian population. There have been NO more terrorist attacks here while it is clear that such attacks remain a key goal of Islamic supremacists.

This tactic of switching the battleground means that the number of Muslim extremists who have been killed is probably in the hundreds of thousands. They have come from all over the world to fight there, and each of these was capable of inflicting serious damage and destruction on the West (whether in Europe or in America). Bush has saved countless lives and annihilation in the West.

Finally, Bush has stood firm and tall. In the face of withering criticism from many fronts, Bush has been steadfast, putting the long-term needs of freedom ahead of his own well-being or political reputation. That is what excellent, heroic leaders do.

I join Paul Johnson in giving thanks for President Bush's valor and pray that America will be blessed with a successor who is willing to stand with equal courage against the greatest threat we face as a people.

At least two Muslims in the world have common sense. Thank goodness.

The absurd and obscene case of Gillian Gibbons (discussed on our show last weekend) has come to an end. The teacher sentenced to prison, and threatened with death, in the Sudan for allowing her 7 year old students to name a teddy bear "Mohammed" has been freed.

Why? Because two Muslim members of Britain's House of Lords flew to Sudan and begged the President, Omar al-Bashir, to pardon her. I wish I could have overheard that conversation. 2 British Muslims begging a Sudanese Muslim to exercise decency and common sense. To have mercy on a woman whose 7 year old MUSLIM students named a teddy bear for heaven's sake.

Fortunately for Ms. Gibbons, the President relented and pardoned her. She has now been deported, never to return to the Sudan. Reportedly, she is in good spirits and harbors no grudge. Her naivete is trumped by her grace.

One wonders what would have happened if a non-Muslim had gone to the Sudan to intervene on her behalf. I assume that person would have been met with cries of intolerance, of exhibiting failure to appreciate Islam and its nuances, and of needing stones about the face and head.

Surely this phenomenon reveals one culture that is seriously disturbed. We can debate all we want about the cultural gaps between east and west, between Christians, atheists, and Muslims, and between Americans and Middle Easterners. The point remains the same: countries controlled by Islam produce warped world views and cruelty at an astonishing rate. Government-sanctioned, imam-supported cruelty and perversion.

All cultures are not alike. They are not all equal. We do ourselves, and teddy bears, a disservice when we pretend that they are.

Ahmadinejad's appearance and speech at Columbia University are just too much to resist.

First, I applaud Columbia for hosting Ahmadinejad and giving him the opportunity to express his beliefs and convictions. Free speech is free speech. The only way to eradicate hate-filled, benighted ignorance is to expose it. Ahmadinejad has nothing to offer the world but hatred, Islamic supremacy and oppression.

Second, I wish Columbia and other leading American colleges and universities would actually practice free speech in their classrooms, forums, and course offerings. That is the sadness of all this - most American colleges have succumbed to political correctness so deeply that non-Marxist ideas and discussions are virtually verboten. In fact, the American college is the last place that Marxism still finds a foothold. Virtue, values, and moral clarity are usually eschewed for relativism, anything goes, and "if it feels good, do it."

Moreover, the anti-faith bias of most colleges makes it next to impossible to have a reasonable conversation about faith and issues of the heart and spirit. More often than not, Christian speakers are shouted down or not even invited in the first place. Free speech? I think not. What is good for Ahmadinejad is good for any proponent of ideas. That is what true universities do.

Third, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has reminded us again that the internal compass of Islam is flawed, even scary. Nations run by Islamic supremacists are scary places - violent, intolerant and cruel. Not so much because of the rulers but because of the core DNA of Mohammed and the political movement that he started.

I just finished an excellent book, Three Cups of Tea, byu Greg Mortenson and David Relin. Highly recommend it.

Mortenson has spent the past 15 years starting schools for girls in the remotest regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan. One person who has made a huge difference. Quite an inspiration.

His vantage point on Islam, as an American who has earned his stripes in the Middle East in remarkable ways, is helpful. Provides a good balance to my own more radical view. He deals with rural Muslims in undeveloped regions. My view reflects study of the origins of Islam and the life of Mohammed and the Koran.

Mortenson was a mountain climber who went to scale K2, did not make it, and stumbled by happenstance into a rural Muslim village in Pakistan. They took him in with compassion. He repaid their hospitality by returning to build schools to educate girls and counteract the madrassahs that raise terrorists.

All in all, a good read and very inspiring.

You can also visit his site at www.threecupsoftea.com.

Well, yesterday, I filled in for my friend, Stu Epperson, on his show TruthTalk Live, a broadcast primarily on Christian stations around the world. We discussed Islam and the rise of accommodation of Muslim demands in America, the decline of Europe under the weight of Islamic immigration, and the crucial decision points that America faces right now without even realizing it.

Then, today,two interesting occurrences.

First, check out http://www.christianpersecution.info/news/iraq-court-upholds-christian-girls-murder-sentence/
to read the story of a girl facing tremendous persecution for stabbing her uncle in self-defense as he beat her for having converted to Christianity from Islam. Our Christian brothers and sisters around the world stand in great need of our prayers, love and support.

Second, I received an email from a listener, accusing me of hatred for Muslims. She is a Christian dating a Muslim man, whom she thinks treats her better than anyone she has ever known. I hope she is right.

She accuses me of being an "infidel," and assures me that my soul is in eternal peril for my judgmentalism.

Judgmental? Not really. Just trying to get to the truth about Islam. And it is not pretty.