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The Religion of Peace meets a Brussels train station

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) believes that the only way to solve the scourge of Islamic terrorism that's plaguing the world is to simply destroy ISIS in Syria and Iraq.

Two months ago, he introduced legislation that would give President Obama unlimited power to destroy the jihadist group. From the huffingtonpost.com: 

McConnell introduced a sweeping authorization for the use of military force, or AUMF (Authorized Unlimited Military Force), that would give the president new authority to take action against the militant group also known as ISIS or ISIL. It wouldn’t put any limits on the duration, geography or use of U.S. ground combat troops in the war, or on the means by which the U.S. military could act. It also would keep in place a broad AUMF from 2001 that never expired and that allows the president to take military action against anyone, anywhere, connected to the terrorists behind the 9/11 attacks.

 Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who's running for the presidency, echoes McConnell concerning ISIS and terrorism: 

It starts with a commander in chief that sets the objective. And the objective has to be utterly and completely destroying ISIS. (President) Obama hasn’t started with that objective, and everything else flows from there...America has always been reluctant to use military force. It’s the last step we take. But if and when we use it, and when it comes to defeating ISIS, we should use it. We should use overwhelming force, kill the enemy, and then get the heck out. Don’t engage in nation building, but instead allow their soldiers to do their jobs instead of risking their lives with politicians making it impossible to accomplish the objective.

To the average person, McConnell and Cruz's suggestions sound like winning strategies. But they aren't. Rather, they're just political band-aids that will do little to halt the global spread of Islamic terrorism.

Why won't defeating ISIS work? Because ISIS is Islam's latest malignant tumor that's infected the world. You can cut it out, just like the U.S. did with al Qaeda soon after 9/11/2001 when the U.S. and its military coalition invaded Afghanistan, defeating the Taliban, and then later in Iraq, deposing Saddam Hussein.

But the tumor will just materialize somewhere else under a different name. Such as it did with ISIS. Why does the tumor keep metastasizing? Because violence is an essential proselytizing tool of Islam. And the Quran commands Muslims to spread Allah's religion by the sword in order to conquer the world.

For example: Fight in the way of Allah with those who fight with you. And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers. (Sura 2:190-191)

Here's another example: The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His apostle and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned. This shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement. (Sura 5:33)

Islam teaches that Allah's religion can be propagated four ways: by the heart, tongue, hand and sword. It's the fourth way that's become the most popular way to spread the religion:

The fourth way to fulfill one’s duty is to wage war physically against unbelievers and enemies of the Islamic faith. Those who professed belief in a divine revelation—Christians and Jews in particular—were given special consideration. They could either embrace Islam or at least submit themselves to Islamic rule and pay a poll and land tax. If both options were rejected, jihad was declared.

Columnist Pat Buchanan says what too few people in the west are willing to say about Islam because it's the painful truth:

When we call Islam a “religion of peace,” are we projecting our own hopes? Are we deceiving ourselves? Are the Muslims we respect, admire and like, as friends and patriots, assimilated and “Americanized” Muslims who have drifted away from, set aside, or rejected many core beliefs of the Quran and root teachings of their own faith? Are they simply secularized Muslims? 

The term "secular Muslim" is an oxymoron. The term "radical Muslim" is a politically correct phrase invented by the modern west to deny the reality that Islam promotes violence via the Quran. Anyone who claims that Islam is a religion of peace is either lying, or they're delusional.

Islam isn't a peaceful religion. Nor can it be unless it's reformed. And that will never happen because the Quran contains over 100 verses that encourage jihad. Muslims believe that the Quran is God's divine revelation to mankind via Muhammad, Islam's major prophet. Thus, Muslims consider any attempt to change or alter even a single verse in the Quran the worst sort of blasphemy.

What's the solution for the increasing Islamic terror attacks that are plaguing the world? Is it halting immigration? That might slow down the problem. But it won't stop it. Is it appeasement in the form of adopting Islamic customs and Sharia Law? That's tantamount to surrender.

Rather, it's eliminating Islam completely by closing mosques and outlawing the religion. That won't happen in the west, and particularly in America where freedom of religion is guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.

However, it will happen in the emerging eastern world that's realized that Islam is anathema to freedom and peace. Here's what Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a speech before the Russian Duma in 2013: 

We will not tolerate disrespect of our Russian culture. We had better learn from the suicides of America, England, Holland and France, if we are to survive as a nation. The Muslims are taking over those countries and they will not take over Russia. The Russian customs and traditions are not compatible with the lack of culture or the primitive ways of Sharia Law and Muslims. When this honorable legislative body thinks of creating new laws, it should have in mind the Russian national interest first, observing that the Muslim minorities are not Russians.

From a prophetic point of view, Islam has no future in the world. However, until the "Religion of Peace" finally goes away, it's going to cause a lot more carnage across the world. And that's the radical truth.    

See No Evil and Speak No Truth

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney and ISIS Mujahideen Edward Archer (right)

One of the great attributes of leftists is their amazing ability to tell folks what their motives are even when those people disagree with them. Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney demonstrated that axiom recently after a 30-year old ex-con and ISIS protege named Edward Archer was arrested after he shot police officer Jesse Hartnett 13 times.

Fortunately, Hartnett's going to survive, although he could lose partial or complete use of his left arm that took most of Archer's bullets. And unfortunately, the No Islam to See Here excuse is also going to survive because soon after Archer was captured and confessed Islam as his motive for shooting Hartnett, Kenney dismissed Archer's confession.

Here's what Kenney said: In no way, shape or form does anyone in this room believe that Islam or the teaching of Islam has anything to do with what you’ve seen on that screen (displaying the video of the shooting). That is abhorrent, it's just, it's terrible and it does not represent the religion in any way shape or form or any of its teachings. This is a criminal with a stolen gun who tried to kill one of our officers. (It) has nothing to do with being a Muslim or following the Islamic faith.

In fact, Islam had everything to do with Archer's actions. And yet Kenney, who evidently fancies himself as an expert on Islam, denied that Islam promotes jihad and violence against non-Muslims. Kenney sounded as though he was reading from a prepared statement written by one of Barack Obama's speechwriters. It wasn't only factually wrong, it was also insulting to the millions of folks who know what the Quran truly teaches.

However, Kenney knows better because he's a brilliant man and you're just some bigoted, racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic rube who clings to your guns and religion when the times are tough. And so, when Kenney states that Archer's actions had nothing to do with Islam, who are you going to believe? A professed Muslim such as Archer who's been to Saudi Arabia and Egypt? Or Kenney, who claims to know Islam even though he's probably never read the Quran?

Kenney should study these Islamic scriptures before he decides to taste his shoe-leather again in front of the cameras: Those who disbelieve follow falsehood, while those who believe follow the truth from their Lord... So, when you meet (in fight Jihad in Allah's Cause), those who disbelieve smite at their necks till when you have killed and wounded many of them, then bind a bond firmly (on them, i.e. take them as captives)... If it had been Allah's Will, He Himself could certainly have punished them (without you). But (He lets you fight), in order to test you, some with others. But those who are killed in the Way of Allah, He will never let their deeds be lost. (Sura 47:3-4)

He (the Messenger of Allah) did that and said: There is another act which elevates the position of a man in Paradise to a grade one hundred (higher), and the elevation between one grade and the other is equal to the height of the heaven from the earth. He (Abu Sa'id) said: What is that act? He replied: Jihad in the way of Allah! Jihad in the way of Allah! (Muslim 20:4645)

Fight everyone in the way of Allah and kill those who disbelieve in Allah. (Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 992)

Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established until you fight against the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. "O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him." (Bukhari 52:177)

O you who believe! Do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever among you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people. (Sura 5:51)

Allah said, "A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion." (Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 484)

Those are just a few examples taken from the Quran and the Hadith (Teachings of Muhammad) that contain approximately 160 verses that exhort Muslims to spread Islam by the sword. Those are the verses that the mujahideen such as Edward Archer use as their motivation for killing in Allah's name. And as long as Islam exists, there will be more Edward Archers who will believe they are serving God by murdering the infidels.

Two thousand years ago, Jesus Christ issued this caveat: "In fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. They will do such things because they have not known the (Heavenly) Father or me." (John 16:2-3) 

Edward Archer is a prophetic fulfillment of that scripture. If he knew the true God of the universe, he never would have attempted to murder a police officer. But he serves a false god who loves death and destruction.

Jim Kenney is also a prophetic fulfillment of scripture. Which one? This one: "For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear." (2 Timothy 4:3)

Kenney rejects the sound truthful doctrine that reveals the violent theology of Islam. Instead, he seeks out false teachers who sooth his itching ears by telling him that Islam is a religion of peace. Will he still believe that when a mujahideen such as Edward Archer comes looking for him?