Remembering 9-11
By Melvin E. Barnett
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Like many of our senior citizens who remember where they were and what they were doing when they heard that Pearl Harbor had been attacked by the Imperial Japanese Navy, you and I can go back to our place and activity when our soil was attacked by the Islamic Fundamentalist sect, Al-Qaeda, on September 11, 2001.  Today, we are still at war with a faceless enemy that hides among ordinary people in our cities, suburbs and vast rural areas of the world.  Certainly we have given much focus to Iraq and Afghanistan as major contributors to the training and harboring of such terrorists that seek to destroy western civilization as we know it, but many terrorist experts conclude that our enemy is among us already.

One of the most unfortunate realities of this era we often hear referred to as the “War against Terrorism” is that our enemy are the only ones that have a clear grasp of what and who they are at war with.  How many times do we have to watch the news and read the papers before we as Americans realize that the confusion about the war is clearly our own misunderstanding.  Journalists, politicians, and celebrities have sought to understand the minds of those that seek to harm us through vile terrorist acts.

To understand the mind of these terrorists we must first understand the word “Jihad”.  Daniel Pipes, one of the world’s foremost analysts on the Middle East and Islam, writes, “… jihad is ‘holy war.’ Or, more precisely: It means the legal, compulsory, communal effort to expand the territories ruled by Muslims at the expense of territories ruled by non-Muslims.  The purpose of jihad, in other words, is not directly to spread the Islamic faith but to extend sovereign Muslim power (faith, of course, often follows the flag). Jihad is thus unabashedly offensive in nature, with the eventual goal of achieving Muslim dominion over the entire globe”.

This “War on Terrorism” is actually State sponsored aggression against the evangelistic outreach of radical Islam.  Islamic Fundamentalists have held no peace or minced no words in referring to the United States and others in such derogatory epithets as “The Great Satan”.  Americans as well as many other nations should for once wake out of their slumber and listen to their words, instead of ignoring their theology and searching for diplomatic solutions to a religious crusade.  When will the religiously sensitive politicians and journalists finally realize that this war is between Islamic Extremists and the Jews and Christians?

The hard truth is this: Satan will rise to power, deceive and then war against Israel and her allies. Why? Because Satan hates God’s chosen people.  The only peace between Islam and Jews will be brief and come as a result of diplomacy set forth by the Ant-Christ himself.  The stage for a one world Religion and one world Government may be in its infancy, but the realities are crystal clear if we would just open our eyes.  Our adversary is not just a political or social system, but a religious deity often referred to as the Devil.

 
 
 

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