Too many in America are suffering from wishful thinking. They wish that Islam was a religion of peace. They wish that if we were more friendly and appeasing in our approach to them that they would lessen in their resolve to hate us and see us destroyed.
They wish that if we closed our eyes to the danger that it would go away. Like a child hiding under the blanket on a stormy night, we have no effect upon the strength of the storm and neither do we affect the results of its rage by ignoring it. Hiding only keeps us from protecting ourselves from imminent peril.
They wish that we could, led by our misguided diversity policy, live side by side with the radical elements of Islam without having to sleep with one eye open. They wish that helping relieve the poverty of third world countries would lead to less violence and a reduction of jihad-like actions when jihad has nothing to do with poverty but a commitment to global domination in the name of Islam.
They wish that there was strength in diversity instead of there being an inherent danger in following such ideology blindly. They wish, in effect, that the world was a fairy tale in which all things work themselves out as if by some effortless plan. They wish the world was a place where we all will live happily-ever-after, no matter whether we are involved in making it a reality or not.
Basically, the wishful thinkers desire to live in a make-believe world. Unfortunately the world is under attack by an enemy that seeks our destruction, has always sought the destruction of opposing cultures and nations and will continue to do so. An enemy we refuse to face is an enemy with an unfair advantage over us.
We are playing into their hands daily by our complacency, our ignorance and willful blindness to the greatest threat the world has ever seen. It is nothing new and we have had 1400 years of warnings. America has had 200 years of warnings and we still, as a nation, refuse to admit to the danger of radical Islam.
Our greatest challenge may be in our differing attitudes. Radical Islamists love the idea of martyrdom more than we love the idea of living life as free people. They will tirelessly pursue their goals while we have become lazy in the pursuit of ours.
We are the most vulnerable when we are asleep. Radical Islam never sleeps. We lock our doors at night and leave our borders open. Such foolishness. Such naiveté.
The time for waking up, for arming ourselves with the knowledge of our enemy and the resolve to defeat him is long overdue. The survival of America is at stake, as is the survival of our lifestyle and the freedom of the world. One day, sooner than we think, our very lives will be at stake.
Radical Islam will cease its advance upon the world only when there is no world left to conquer.
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