Under Siege

On September 19, we witnessed four bombing incidents in two states – all perpetrated by the same bomber, all in the name of radical Islam. Two improvised explosive devices (IED) were set off in a New York City and two pipe bombs exploded in garbage cans along a route set for a Marine Corps charity race in Seaside Park, New Jersey. The bomber, Ahmad Khan Rahimi was born in Afghanistan in 1988 and first came to the United States in 1995. He traveled to Afghanistan and Pakistan many times.

That same day, another “Soldier of the Islamic State” stabbed 9 people in a crowded Minnesota mall. St. Cloud Police Chief Blair Anderson said that suspect, Somali immigrant Dahir Ahmed Adan, made at least one reference to Allah and asked one person if they were Muslim.

Last June 12, Omar Mateen shot up a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida killing 49 and injuring 53 people. In a 911 call, Mateen voiced his allegiance to ISIS.

In our own backyard last December 12, another devout Muslim couple, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, pulled a Bonnie and Clyde and shot up the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, killing 14, and injuring 17.

I could go on – and the list is long, 78 attacks in this country alone since 1972. There have been 48 attacks since 9-11.

But Islam isn’t just at war with the United States. In August – just one month – jihadists killed 1637 people and injured 1734 in 203 attacks on 33 countries. Alone this month 43 attacks in 14 countries have killed 191 and injured 228.

Many of those murders – women, men, and children – were of the most horrific and brutal type imaginable, slow and agonizing beheadings with a hunting knife, burning victims alive in a cage or with a flame thrower, even tossing victims off tall buildings.

We are told that Islam is a religion of peace, charity, and tolerance. Our own President – raised with Muslims, whose family are Muslims, and whose closest advisers are Muslims – has expounded the contributions made by Muslims over the centuries. This same President cannot bring himself to label these atrocities the acts of Islamic extremists.

We are under attack folks, and it’s not from Quakers, rednecks or doomsday preppers. We are being attacked by a growing doomsday cult of psychotic killers who have hijacked a religion and perverted the words of the holy Quran for their own unholy purposes.

Until our government can at least recognize the cause of this abomination and pronounce the words Islamic Terrorism, they will never be able to effectively combat these attackers and provide a safe, secure environment for its citizens.

They can outlaw and confiscate guns, knives, ammunition, explosives, chemicals, pressure cookers, and pipes until they amass a mountain of items to dwarf the Rockies, but they will never be able to secure this country or any other until they understand that they are fighting an ideology. Radical Islam is a cult. It must be dealt with as one would a cult.

We can kill their leaders, bomb villages, fight armies, and jail individuals, but we cannot win this fight without attacking the root cause of this radicalization.

Our world is under siege not by armies, not by individuals with workplace violence issues, not by people radicalized by an accepted ideology. We are being attacked by a cult of psychotic killers who have subverted and perverted the teachings of Mohammad and the word of God as relayed to him by the Archangel Gabriel (Jibrail). And they attract recruits into their cult by using their perverted dogma.

These people have violated the teachings of hadith and the Quran and will be punished by God. Driving this point home to these jihadists is the only way to combat their atrocities and put an end to this cult.

None of this will happen, though, until our leaders recognize that we are fighting a dogmatic cult and can say the words Radical Islamists.