It is obvious that our National leaders and diplomats do not understand who the enemy is in the War against terrorism. Recently, both President Bush and Secretary of State Rice stated political correct statements which alluded to the false "peaceful" of Islam.
President Bush stated:
Some call this evil Islamic radicalism; others, militant Jihadism; still others, Islamo-fascism. Whatever it’s called, this ideology is very different from the religion of Islam. This form of radicalism exploits Islam to serve a violent, political vision: the establishment, by terrorism and subversion and insurgency, of a totalitarian empire that denies all political and religious freedom. These extremists distort the idea of jihad into a call for terrorist murder against Christians and Jews and Hindus — and also against Muslims from other traditions, who they regard as heretics. President Discusses War on Terror at National Endowment for Democracy
The Agape Press recently reported that Secretary of State Rice created quite a stir when she recently hosted a state Ramadan dinner and praised Islam as a religion of "peace and love." She has also joined others in criticism of Israel for efforts to secure its borders against Palestinian terrorist attacks.
Is not President Bush and Secretary of State Rice aware of the volatile situation in the Middle East?
The Koran commands all Muslims to make war on Jews and Christians and not tolerance and peace.
Oh Prophet! Strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites and be firm against them. There abode is Hell, an evil refuge indeed. Koran 9:73
When you meet unbelievers in the battlefield, strike off their heads and, when you have laid them low, bind your captives firmly. Koran 47:4
Muhammad taught his followers that there was nothing better or holier than jihad warfare. And these teachings are not marginal doctrines or historical relics. They are still taught in mainstream Islam.
And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter. Koran 2:191
Until there is massive reform with in the Islamic faith, they must be viewed as the world’s enemy to non-Islamic believers. The only recourse non-Muslims are granted are: convert to Islam, pay a "poor-due" payment and then live in subjugation, and death by the sword. Nowhere in the Koran does it allow for peaceful co-existence.
Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. Koran 9:5
May God help us and our country.