The conventional wisdom regarding interfaith relations holds that the only meaningful obstacle between a world of wanton violence and one of peaceful understanding is a means of communication.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Communication eases conflict only when the parties involved believe peace to be a worthy goal. When one or more parties in conflict seek only supremacy over the others, then communication ceases to be a path to peace, and instead becomes a tool of espionage and subversion.
This is where Christians, Jews and other non-Muslims find ourselves today; in an alien landscape where brutality long thought to have been banished to history thrives in heart, mind and deed across the globe.
It is not “Islamophobic” to point out that much of the world’s tragedy stems from the efforts of the adherents of Islam to place the rest of creation under their heel. It is at once delusional and dangerous to segregate this fact from any honest appraisal of the threats to freedom we face.
Of course, fair minded peace-loving people everywhere desperately want to believe that deep-down, we all share a common respect for the innate value of human life irrespective of religious doctrine, and when pressed, will ultimately choose the path that leads to the firm ground of mutual respect and acceptance.
When dealing with Islam, this laudable sentiment becomes our Achilles heel.
In Islam, no behavior is beyond the pale of conduct if it serves the establishment of Allah’s kingdom on earth. Lying, violence, theft and rape are all acceptable in service to furthering Islam. It is difficult enough to discern truth from obfuscation in the ordinary course of life, but when the truth is being hidden with a religious zeal – indeed as an obligation of faith – it becomes nearly impossible without employing extraordinary means that under other circumstances would be considered as an unwarranted invasion of privacy.
It is this crucible of our own making, this principled bulwark of respect for religious freedom that now so smoothly exploited by those who seek to establish Islam above all other religions and governments.
Subversion, sabotage, infiltration and propaganda all travel on the magic carpet of “tolerance,” bypassing the usual security checkpoints on an oft-abused First Amendment passport. Soon to follow will be violence in all its forms.
We know this. We’ve seen precisely the same scenario unfolding in real-time throughout Europe. This method, known as “civilizational jihad,” isn’t a myth, or a misunderstanding of demographic trends; it is a structure for overwhelming the West using immigration, high birth rates and demands for cultural and political concessions based on “tolerance.”
The recent push to resettle disturbingly high numbers of refugees from the Syrian theater of war is of tremendous concern, not merely because they are Muslim, but because they are Muslims from a region that holds the ideology of Islamic supremacy to be a religious duty.
These refugees have no frame of reference for our society and culture, and we have no reliable means of screening them. These ingredients, leavened by the yeast of civilizational jihad, will bake a bitter bread indeed.
I recently gave an interview to a local television station regarding a story about a local Methodist Church offering to take a Syrian refugee family under its wing for resettlement.
The essential argument is quite simple – absent a reliable means of vetting these refugees (a means that does not currently exist according to the Director of the FBI, James Comey, in Congressional testimony) it is reckless in the extreme to import refugees from the Syrian war to our land of freedom of movement and “soft targets” for terrorism.
The interview is included below. Please talk to your Church leaders and encourage them to support helping the true refugees in safe zones in their home nations, or nearby. The lure of federal resettlement dollars is great, but perhaps the threat of a wholesale departure of parishioners will be sufficient to convince them to forego participation until our national and local security can be better assured through a functioning and reliable screening process.
https://fox42kptm.com/news/local/churches-agree-to-host-syrian-refugees-religious-leaders-disagree