Terror

Last week a terror plot was thwarted in London. In the past few months two terror plots were uncovered here in the US. Today, UK Anti-Terrorism forces have shut down eleven supermarkets throughout England and Scotland due to a security alert. The leader of the Taliban has told the US that there will be attacks that will dwarf the failed attacks in London. Terrorists around the world are promising attacks to overshadow even 9/11. Iran and Syria are training and supplying terrorists and insurgents that are actively killing our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards calls the War on Terror a bumper sticker slogan. Al Gore and other far lefters tell us that Global Warming is a bigger threat to us than terrorism. The New York Times and other liberal newspapers and web sites refer to our struggle against terrorism as "The So-called War on Terror," while so-called terrorism experts say we have nothing to worry about.

President Bush scoffs at the idea that terrorist organizations could be as strong today as they were before 9/11. Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff has a "gut feeling" that we could be in increased danger of being attacked.

I should be given a high level government job, I've had the very same gut feeling for years now, and I thank God that it has not yet come to pass. There are some things that some of these people seem to miss. For one thing, they don't seem to understand how much these people hate us. They want us all dead. They want the entire world to be a Muslim state, ruled by radical Imams, with no real freedom of any kind. They are offended by our Freedom. They are offended by our forms of government. They are offended by our very existence. They want us all dead. They HATE us. Some also don't seem to understand how many of them there are, or how easy it seems to be for them to recruit more terrorists. They don't seem to understand that this is not a fringe element of the Muslim Faith, this is the mainstream. The so-called moderate Muslims are the exceptions to this rule, and they are just as hated as we are.

Billions of people in this world don't know Jesus. They know that they are missing something. We as humans are born knowing that there is something greater than ourselves. Some ignore it, some refuse to believe it. Some search for God and find Him. Others go searching for "something" and find one of the false religions that offer themselves as an alternative to the truth of God. Islam is one of these false religions that has spread around the world like a plague. The difference between "us" and "them" is that those of us who do belong to Jesus want to see all people come to know Christ, including Muslims, even the terrorist kind, while they just want us to die.

Don't be fooled, the threat of terrorism is very real. The vigilance of our police and intelligence agencies, and much more so, the Grace of Almighty God, have kept us safe from further attacks after 9/11, so far, but the terrorists are not deterred. The hate they feel for us is not diminished. They have not stopped recruiting, they have not stopped plotting to kill us, they have not stopped trying to get cells established in the US (not all that hard with such a wide open southern border). They will kill us if they can. Pray for the Grace of God to stay with us. Stay vigilant, and don't give up on what you believe, if you do, they have already won.