Soap Box

Ever since the interfaith gathering that took place shortly after 9/11 when President George W. Bush energetically stated and reiterated several times that Islam is a peaceful religion, some of us have been wondering where he got his information.

It certainly was not from ancient nor recent history as both are riddled with accounts of Islam�s violence, and if it is an outlaw faction of Islam that is causing the trouble, they have certainly been around a long time.

Islamic violence, even discounting the slaughter and wars that have gone on since Mohammed's days and just examining the last 50 years, or so, and tracing the steady litany of its violence is mind-boggling.

1968 - Bobby Kennedy murdered.

1972 - Munich Olympics- Israeli athletes kidnapped and murdered.

1973 - Airport attack and hijacking in Rome, 34 people killed.

1979 - U.S. embassy in Teheran, Iran taken over.

1983 - U.S. Marine barracks and U.S. embassy in Beirut bombed.

1985 - MS Achille Lauro boarded and commandeered by members of the Palestinian Liberation Front who murdered a wheel chair-bound 70-year-old American and threw him overboard.

1988 - Pan Am 103 bombed.

1993 - World Trade Towers bombing.

1996 - Bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, 19 U.S. servicemen killed. 498 wounded of varying nationalities.

1998 - US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania bombed.

2000 - Bombing of the USS Cole.

2001 - 9/11, the day nearly 3,000 Americans died in three different locations.

2002 - Reporter Daniel Pearl beheaded.

2012 - 4 Americans, including the U.S. ambassador, killed in attack on the diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.

2013 - Boston Marathon bombing.

2014 - ISIS begins releasing beheading videos and Boko Haram massacres 121 people in Nigeria.

Paris, Spain, London, Fort Hood, Brussels, San Bernardino, Chattanooga, Orlando, the list goes on and on. These and innumerable other bloody incidents all carried out by Muslims. These are just a few of the ones that have grabbed the headlines.

Am I insinuating that all Muslims are terrorists?

I most definitely am NOT.

I've heard it said that Islam has been hijacked by a radical element within the religion, well it's high time for the Islamic wheat to separate itself from the radical Islamic chaff.

As the Southern Baptist denomination would roundly denounce the hate filled shenanigans of the Westboro Baptist Church, so the peace loving Muslims should separate themselves from the radicals who make their faith appear evil, murderous and without pity.

So many times the good guys go to the same mosque as the bad guys and listen to the same radical Imams and associate with those they claim have hijacked Islam.

Islam needs a champion, a man who would stand tall and publicly denounce every terrorist act that has ever been carried out in the name of Islam, someone with the charisma and commitment to take back what Muslims have had stolen from them.

It would take the courage of a grizzly, the heart of a lion and the strength of an elephant.

Do such men even exist anymore?

What do you think?

Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

� Charlie Daniels

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