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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.