The Cross and the Crescent

Incompatible Ideologies

It's not surprising.  It's almost expected, now that we've become so desensitized to it.  I'm referring, of course, to yet another horrendous slaughter by Muslims. On Easter, no less.   By Islam's followers.  By whatever name they call themselves, they are Islam.  On Easter Sunday, a terror group associated with the Pakistani Taliban attacked a group celebrating Easter festivities in Lahore, Pakistan. At least 72 people, mostly women and children, were killed and more than 300 were wounded after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives.  This time, a spokesman for the terror group openly admitted that the target was specifically Christians.  The same group claimed responsibility for last year’s March 15 double suicide attacks on Christian churches in Lahore that killed 17 people. This year's Easter Sunday bombing is the fifth attack by this group since December 2015.  Not being satisfied with the slaughter of Christian women and children, ISIS terrorists kidnapped a Catholic priest in Yemen in early March during a raid on a nursing home run by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity, and killed 16 Christian nuns, nurses and patients.  The message is clear:  Islam is a religion of peace.

The Pope condemned the attacks, yet had harsh words for those who would deny or limit these terror fighters seeking access into civilized countries.  A weapon of love, says the Pope, is needed to combat terror.  With all due respect, I beg to differ.  The longest war in human history has lasted at least 1,400 years, and there seems to be no end in sight.  A lack of willful resolve, and I think, a lack of proper perspective prevents a quick and decisive end to this ongoing impasse.   The West, for whatever its reason or motivation, takes in hundreds of thousands of these wretched Muslim savages, and in every case, the result is the same.  They complain, they take over communities and create no-go zones, they riot, they rape, they stab, they murder and they never, ever assimilate. They come to invade and conquer and transform the native culture, but never to assimilate.

So there it is.  Western leaders welcome them to our shores for any number of misguided reasons; new labor, new voters, to replenish the native gene pool, or whatever.  I've written here before - many times - about the inherent incompatibility of Western ideas of self governance, liberty and freedom of thought, as contrasted with the brutal constraints of sharia law.  So the results of the invasions are always the same.  And the terrorists are forthright as they tell us what their goals are: Islamic domination.  But burdened with political correctness and a naive worldview, our Western leaders are blind to the evil.  So the day of reckoning looms closer as the terrorists acquire more and powerful weapons, not the least of which are nukes from Iran or North Korea.

So while the West fiddles, Rome burns.  The barbarians have breached the city gates.  Islam fights savagely for Christendom's demise.  Yet in the end, there can be only one.

Editor's Note:  Mea Culpa.  It seems I inadvertently deleted the prior post of this same name, and unfortunately there's no mechanism to retrieve it.  Therefore I've reposted the gist of it as a re-edit herewith.  Apologies to my readers who had read the original, and I hope not to screw up like that again!

-LC