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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.    

This is Islam

Murder in Paris: The victims of the latest ISIS attack

French President Francois Hollande has promised to crush the Islamic State (ISIS) after the terror organization committed mass murder in his nation with a series of attacks on Friday (November 13). The attacks killed over 100 people and wounded several hundred more.

Here's what Hollande said: It is an act of war that was committed by a terrorist army, a jihadist army, Daesh (ISIS), against France. It is an act of war that was prepared, organized and planned from abroad, with complicity from the inside, which the investigation will help establish.

France is participating in the war against ISIS going on in Syria. Because of that, ISIS struck the European nation, just as it struck Russia on October 31 by blowing up a Russian passenger jet over Egypt, killing 224 people. ISIS has warned that every nation fighting against the Islamic State will be targeted for attacks.

In response to that threat, Hollande and even the sleepy Barack Obama promised to step up the military campaign in Syria against the Islamic State. That's a typical response to a much bigger problem that isn't confined to Syria and other Islamic enclaves in the Middle East, Asia and Northern Africa.

And that's a predictable response from pansified western leaders who are either too ignorant or unwilling--or both--to recognize that ISIS is merely one of many heads of the Islamic hydra. Getting rid of ISIS may calm things down in the short term. But the monster will just grow another head and start trouble somewhere else. 

Remember Osama Bin Laden? Al Qaeda was supposed to be toast after U.S. Navy Seals caught up to him in Pakistan four years ago and blew him away. Obama, ever the court-jester, even bragged at the time that al Qaeda was dead and General Motors the auto manufacturer (who Obama bailed out) was alive.

Like ISIS, al Qaeda's very much alive and is promising catastrophic attacks against the U.S. and other western targets. If either the Islamic State or al Qaeda successfully pulls that off in the U.S., it will make Obama look like the incompetent fool that he is to the entire world rather than just to his enemies. That's something he dreads worse than an attack on U.S. soil because he possesses a gargantuan ego. In Obama's mind, he's perfect in all of his ways and incapable of mistakes.

However, the western world continues to commit the mistake of believing that Islam is a religion of peace that's been hijacked by a small group of hardcore radicals. Islam isn't a religion of peace and it's never been since its inception in the 7th century. 

It's founding prophet Muhammad was a violent man who commanded his followers to spread his new religion by force, if necessary. Though most Muslims eschew violence because they're cultural Muslims who don't take the Quran literally, the nexus of their religion commands violence and bloodshed as essential proselytizing tools. 

If you doubt that, then here are some examples taken directly from Islam's holy book. Here's a verse that ISIS likely used to justify its attacks on France and Russia: Retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the slain. There is life for you in (the law of) retaliation, O men of understanding, that you may guard yourselves. (Sura 2:178-179)

Here's another 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 are two more: Those who believe fight in the way of Allah, and those who disbelieve fight in the way of Satan. Fight therefore against the friends of Satan; surely the strategy of Satan is weak. (Sura 4:77) 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)

And so, if President Hollande and other western leaders truly want to eliminate terrorism, then they can start by outlawing Islam and cutting out the politically-correct claptrap that Islam is a religion of peace. They can close down mosques, ban the Quran and outlaw all public expressions of that faith. And they can give Muslims the choice of either assimilating into their cultures or emigrating to Islamic nations. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin said it best two years ago when he spoke before the Russian Duma: 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.  

Is it harsh to suggest that Islam must be outlawed and banned from the world? Then go ahead and stick your head back in the sand or wherever else the sun doesn't shine. Wherever Islam exists, there will be trouble. If you're okay with bloody corpses strewn about cafes and blown up buses and young girls brutally raped and child-brides and beheaded children, then you're okay with Islam.

And please don't blame Israel or occupied territories or western imperialism or Crusaders or something the Roman Catholic Church did 1,000 years ago. If you want to understand what the real problem is, then pick up a copy of the Quran and the Hadith and read them. They're available in English.  

And if you still don't see a problem after you've read them, then go stand in front of a mirror. Then you'll see the real problem.

Islam's Doom

The remains of a Russian Airbus A321

Though the official cause has yet to be determined concerning the fate of a Kogalymavia-operated Airbus A321 that crashed in Egypt yesterday, all signs point to terrorism.

And why not? The Russian commercial airliner was judged to be in excellent mechanical condition when it left Sharm el Sheikh for St Petersburg. Immediately after news broke of the tragedy that resulted in the deaths of 224 people (207 adults and 17 children), the terror group ISIS claimed responsibility. 

The plane's pilots mentioned no mechanical problems while it cruised at 31,000 feet before it vanished from the radar screens of air traffic controllers. Though there were rumors that the pilots reported technical problems with the plane before it disappeared, those rumors haven't been confirmed. 

Ask anyone who's familiar with commercial jets and they'll tell you that even in the event of a mechanical emergency, the planes don't just simply fall out of the sky. They're designed to glide for several miles until the pilots can hopefully find a safe area to land them. 

The fact that the Airbus A321 abruptly vanished from the radar screens strongly points to terrorism. Though some terror experts are suggesting that a shoulder-fired missile may have struck the plane, it's more likely that a bomb inside the aircraft brought the plane down. And besides, 31,000 feet is well beyond the range of shoulder-fired missiles. 

Whether mechanical problems or ISIS, al Qaeda or any of the other Islamic terror groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah or Boko Haram were responsible for the tragedy remains to be seen. Time will hopefully tell us. But the tragedy seems very suspicious.

Air plane bombings are nothing new for Islamists. In 2006, Islamists plotted to blow up seven airliners headed from the United Kingdom to the U.S. and Canada before the plot was foiled. On December 22, 2001, a British Muslim named Richard Reid attempted to blow up an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami when explosives he had planted in his shoes failed to detonate. And on Christmas Day in 2009, a Nigerian Muslim named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to blow up a Northwest Airlines jetliner traveling from Amsterdam to Detroit when explosives planted in his underwear failed to detonate.

And of course, in 1988, Libyan Islamists successfully blew up a Pan Am airliner with a suitcase bomb while the plane sat on the ground in Lockerbie, Scotland waiting to take off for New York. That bombing killed 270 people including 259 passengers and 11 crew members. And so, it's a good possibility that the Russian airliner was blown out of the sky by a bomb. 

While Islamists commit terrorism to coerce people into Islam, all these acts do is convince political leaders in Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia that either Islam goes or their cultures and civilizations will go--for good. Unlike the pansified west where weak political leaders such as Angela Merkel, David Cameron and Barack Obama believe that Islamists can be appeased, the leaders in the east such as Russia's President Vladimir Putin and China's President Xi Jinping realize that the world will never realize peace until Islam is gone.

And that means gone completely from the world, not just gone from Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa. How's that going to happen? Consider that both China and Russia are expanding their militaries and nuclear arsenals. While some experts believe the expansion is related to America's hegemony, the expansion is also related to the growing threat of Islamism in those regions and across the world. 

Putin has made no secret of his desire to drive Islam out of Russia and Eastern Europe. That's one of the reasons why he wants to expand Russia's influence in the eastern world into the Middle East and beyond. And one of the reasons why his forces are fighting in Syria is to keep ISIS from taking over that nation and moving toward Russia. 

Prophecy tells us that Russia is indeed going to build a massive military alliance that will dominate the eastern world and beyond. (Ezekiel 38-39) That means Islam is going to be driven out of the eastern world and Northern Africa. And China's going to continue building up its military until it drives Islam out of Asia.

Where will Islam retreat to? Western Europe and North America until Russia's long arm reaches across the Atlantic and drives that religion from those areas. While that could take several years, it's going to happen. Islam has no future in the end time world. It's going away. 

Unfortunately, it will be replaced by something far worse. That will be a counterfeit Christianity that will be combined with a world government. (Revelation 17) But until that happens, Islam will continue to plague the world until it vanishes.

Radical Islam? Or Fundamental Islam?

Is this radical Islam?

Inevitably, after the recent massacre in France that was perpetrated by Islamists, the "voices of reason" appealed yet again for an Islamic reformation, not unlike the Protestant Reformation that occurred five centuries earlier.

The Protestant Reformation began when a Roman Catholic Monk named Martin Luther realized the falsity of the Catholic gospel and began preaching the biblical version. Luther recognized that his church had become corrupt because it had strayed far from the bible.

While the Catholic Church condemned Luther for his audacity, millions of her followers didn't, and they followed him out the door. Without Luther, Christianity would look very different today. And not for the better.

But an Islamic reformation? That's impossible. Those who wage jihad in the name of Islam haven't strayed from the Koran. Rather, by murdering and mutilating "infidels", they're being obedient to its teachings.

And so, in order for Islam to be reformed, its holy book would have to be rewritten. Specifically, how? The Koran's war verses that motivate Muslims to wage war against unbelievers would have to be erased.

Thus, consider the irony. The Protestant Reformation challenged Christians to start reading the bible while an Islamic reformation would implore Muslims to stop reading the Koran until Islam's "reformers" could publish a new and improved edition that eliminates the mandate for bloodshed and violence.

And that will never happen. Why? Because Muslims--and sadly many Christians--actually believe that the Koran is divinely inspired. They're convinced that God commanded Muslims to kill those who reject Islam. As such, many Muslims will persecute and slaughter those who either deface a Koran or openly criticize the Islamic holy book.

Therefore, there will never be an Islamic reformation. And unless the world gathers the courage to do away with this nemesis, Islam will eventually conquer the world by the sword.

Islam spreads the fastest where weakness prevails. And much of the western world has become morally weak and spiritually bankrupt, unwilling to defend its own values or freedoms.

However, a growing number of Islamic immigrants who have come to the west have no qualms about dying for their values. And they have no problem killing those who refuse to embrace Islamic values.

Western elites who control such institutions as the media, education, politics and the entertainment industry have chosen appeasement and its corollary propaganda to pacify Muslims and reassure westerners that Islam is really a religion of peace that's been hijacked by a "few" radicals.

That was President Obama's rhetoric after the recent Charlie Hebdo massacre. And former Democratic Party head Howard Dean, who knows absolutely nothing about Christianity, injected his own ignorant opinion after the Hebdo attack: "I stopped calling these people Muslim terrorists. They're about as Muslim as I am. I mean, they have no respect for anybody else's life, that's not what the Koran says. And, you know Europe has an enormous radical problem. ... I think ISIS is a cult. Not an Islamic cult. I think it's a cult."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/01/08/howard-dean-paris-attackers

Dean has never read the Koran or the Hadith. Because if he did, he'd come across verses such as this one that motivate Muslims to wage jihad: Bukhari 1:35  "The person who participates in (Holy Battles) in Allah’s cause and nothing compels him do so except belief in Allah and His Apostle, will be recompensed by Allah either with a reward, or booty ( if he survives) or will be admitted to Paradise ( if he is killed)." 

Here's another example: Muslim (20:4696) - "The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: 'One who died but did not fight in the way of Allah nor did he express any desire (or determination) for Jihad died the death of a hypocrite.'"

And here's one more: Muslim (1:30) - "The Messenger of Allah said: I have been commanded to fight against people so long as they do not declare that there is no god but Allah."

Yes Howard, the Koran and the Hadith command all Muslims to spread Islam by the sword, and to kill those who resist. That's what motivates these people to do what they do rather than poverty, unemployment or "mental illness."

These folks aren't radicals; they're fundamentalists. They take the Koran literally. There's no such thing as radical Islam. That's a term invented by western pansies such as Howard Dean who are in denial of Islam's true, violent nature.

And unless the western world wakes up from its politically correct coma, it's going to be conquered by Islam. The east has already awoken and is working to rid itself of this violent religion.
http://www.prophecyreviewonline.org/Prophetic-Outlook

Russia, China and India, who are the three biggest powers in the rising eastern world are determined to do away with Islam. In Russia, Czar Putin has declared that Islam has no future in his nation. And when Russia begins to spread her influence throughout Europe, Islam will be forced to find sanctuary in the west.

And when the Bear gets to the west? That's the end of Islam--radical, fundamental, cultural and otherwise.