Faced with religious radicals that would take over the government and force everyone to conform to their views, I am ready to resist personally and to ask the government to resist. If fact, I am resistant to Socialism, Communism, Fascism, Nazism and any other compulsive form of government, including government that taxes and inflates its money to suck the individual dry and make him dependent.
A lot of people fear religious radicals. Radicals are willing to bomb and kill and threaten and take hostages. They want their own way. They believe themselves to be right and that there is no other truth but their own. They believe there should be religious indoctrination in schools. They believe that prayer should be required in schools and elsewhere. They believe the god of Abraham, the god of Jesus, is the only god and that anyone who thinks otherwise is going to hell.
What worries me most is that a lot of people in this country fear the mild mannered Christian conservative nuts who would take over government through the ballot box (which will never happen) and ignore or even support Islamic conservative nuts that would take over through slaughter, mayhem, and chaos. The Islamic jihadists have been expanding their territory by the sword right from the beginning of their religion. Mohammed was a warlord. The Christian Crusades were an attempt stop the jihadists and make Jerusalem safe for Christian pilgrims.
Modern jihadists are willing to die while killing non-believers because they have been convinced that they will go bodily straight to heaven to meet with 70 virgins. Of course, virgins are virgins because they say no. That is beside the point. The big lie to the jihadists is that they will go to heaven. God's, Allah's, will is supreme. No one can speak for Allah. Allah is not bound by promises, especially promises made to Mohammed centuries ago. No amount of prayer or study by modern clerics can bind Allah.
Jihadists ignore the lie and kill and die. They fly planes into buildings, bomb trains and subways, and will set off atomic bombs if they can. They have declared war on us, literally. They want to collapse our government and way of life. Part of the plan is to enrage Muslims worldwide by getting us to panic and attack innocent Muslims in the US. How? By making sure Muslims are identified as the perpetrators of outrageous acts of savagery against Americans.
Is there any hope? Sure! Make sure you and/or your kids learn a Middle Eastern language. Jihadists can send out messages without using code because we can't understand their language. Get to know a Muslim. Most are good, honest, hardworking people. They don't support the radicals but can't stop them any more than "normal" Christians can stop Christian radicals. Another reason they are powerless is that all Mosques (buildings) in the US are owned by radicals. It is hard for good people to have a power base when they are homeless. If you think radical Muslims are harmless and "cute," get your head out of your rear end.
