Lately,
I’ve been questioning why America seems so apathetic about ISIS. Why don’t my fellow Americans realize how
serious Islamic terrorism has become?
Surely I’m not the only one to recognize that ISIS has expanded under
Obama’s watch.
We
see the horrifying images of prisoners in orange jumpsuits about to be
beheaded, but not much seems to happen in response. These images have worsened into chilling
photos of Christians burned alive, yet nothing changes. Ancient relics are being destroyed by these
barbarians, erasing centuries-old treasured records of Biblical days. Thousands are slaughtered every month by the
30,000-50,000 jihadists now fighting with ISIS, and young boys are recruited
into the army and girls kidnapped and sold into sex slavery.
Meanwhile,
Americans continue to go about their daily lives as if there is no war going
on, focused on their electronic devises and specialized coffee, mostly
oblivious to the increase in the most depraved mass murders taking place during
most of our lifetimes.
We
have a president who deliberately confuses people over 1.5-billion Muslims in
the world with that of Islamic terrorism so that Americans are afraid to
criticize the jihadists … for fear of offending all Muslims or being called Islamophobic. Obama also has everyone believing if they
criticize the terrorists, the terrorists will react and execute more
Westerners. The reality is, the
terrorists are going to continue to execute more Westerners as long as they are
allowed to thrive. They are evil and
cannot be negotiated with … as history has taught us time and time again about
barbarians.
Israel
is the number one target of these savages, geographically located where it
could be a real asset for taking them on.
Yet Obama blew off Prime Minister Netanyahu’s re-election, hoping he
would lose to an opponent who would conduct peace talks with Hamas as Obama had
urged.
Willingly
or naively choosing to ignore the growing threat of ISIS, Obama’s foreign policy
is all over the map, guided by Vice President Biden, who former Defense
Secretary Robert Gates described as “wrong on nearly every major foreign policy
and national security issue over the past four decades.” Obama’s handling of ISIS entails reacting to a
few incidents a little too late and a little too weak. The Arab Spring uprisings, which began in
2010, have not led to democracies, but to more violence and the annihilation of
Christians. Roughly 90% of Iraq’s
Christians have disappeared since the first Gulf War in 1990-91.
Rachel
Alexander of Townhall.com says “Americans’
apathy is akin to a frog in a pot of water that is slowly heating up, not
realizing what is happening until it is too late. ISIS’s jihadist violence is increasing. But the more it increases, the more Americans
seem to tune it out. The terrifying part
about this apathy is ultimately it will lead to ISIS on our doorsteps. The terrorists leading the jihads come from
wealthy, connected backgrounds, and as we saw in the past on 9-11-01, have the
means to attack us undetected if we are not actively rooting them out.”
There
will be no rallying of Americans against ISIS until we have a leader in the
White House. As long as Obama jokes
about ISIS as “junior varsity,” and believes that addressing climate change is
more important than combating terrorism, Americans will continue to naively
think we are safe.
The
WW2 German pastor Martin Niemöller’s famous quote is eerily coming true again:
“First they came for the Jews….” Well,
now they’re coming for the Christians, other Islamic sects, and members of the
media. The rest of us Americans are
next, and we’re like sheep for the slaughter under this president.
Rev.
Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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