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Kuddos to Joel Kasselman for this article written by Robert Locke in 2002 and Ted Sampley in Jan 2007. Sampley explains that America has had to deal with Islam since its inception. There are some groups of people that are reasonable. Islam has demonstrated it is not one of them.

Sampley argues that the idea of appeasement as President Adams tried simply was succumbing to terrorism of the 18th century. Instead of terrorists strapping bombs to themselves, people were being kidnapped and sold into slavery. What do we have today on the Left? Appeasement all over again.

People on the Left side of thinking in this nation need to go back to history and try to understand a religion they are always saying we need to understand. Islam believes Christianity is corrupt and had a false prophet write new scripture (Koran) in order to prop up her false beliefs. Locke is correct when he says that Islam has a "sense of superiority and destiny of domination". Islam by its nature must bring everyone into submission to Allah, either by conversion or sword.

Locke is also correct when continues his sentence, "combined with a curiously inflamed sense of victimhood, for example the ongoing obsession with the crusades as having political relevance to the present day". This is an odd thing. Yet we see it with the almost violent King James Only advocates and the wonderful (sarcasm) Fred Phelps. How they play the persecution (old ladies bumping into them with wheel chairs) bit makes them feel as though they are suffering for God.

In an email conversation I had with a Yugoslavian or Czeckoslavian (I can't remember which and that email is now lost) he attempted to play the persecution bit by the supposed the Christians that were slaughtering masses of people. This persecution may have been real, but it was not being done by Christians. This leads to a crucial misunderstanding by Islam of the West. They simply believe Christendom and Christianity are the same thing. They are not. Can anyone even think of a Christian country in western Europe today? Have not all become atheistic or secular?

The United States is truly running on the fumes of her forefathers. If she falls, the west will fall with her. Islam may claim persecution, but Byron (?email, but could not verify source) is right when he points out that many of the countries that are "occupied" by Islam today were once Christian. How many thousands of Christians were put to the sword in order to conquer these nations? If Western Christendom did not stop the violent advance of Islam, there would be no freedom to even argue about this today.

May God preserve the West by waking her up. May He use whatever it takes to do so!