Anyone do their homework?

No?

I can think of several attacks that made the news. The World Trade Center-twice. Remember, back in 1989, the bombing? I bet you forgot. And of course, the date forever etched in our collective conscious. And there's the Ft Hood "work place violence". And the Boston bombing. And I bet that's about all you can bring to mind, isn't it?

I found a page with summaries of such attacks on American soil, and it will leave you stupefied and wondering why you never heard about most of them.

A two second search via Google returns this result:

 http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/americanattacks.htm

There's even a Wiki page dedicated to the subject, but I also found this:

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001454.html

There are many pages dedicated to tracking this across the web. If you expand your search to worldwide, the numbers jump into the thousands. Many thousands. And many hundreds of people are attempting......with very poor results, mind you...to sound the alarm about Islam and jihad.  Writers, bloggers, even reporters, and so on.

Unfortunately, none of them have political clout, or media gravitas, or a wide, Christian audience. For all the hundreds of Christians killed, tortured, churches burned and sacked-which is happening now, today across the world, there is only silence from our Christians leaders, Catholics, Jews.

Where are the pastors and the priests and the rabbis?  Where are the learned of every religion? Where is the voice raised in protest? Have we traded away our good, for the dangerous ideal of "tolerance"? Because make no mistake about it, this fight has been going on about as long as we have had a history, and America is just another territory to seize.

Of particular concern, is the rapid rise and expansion of ISIS. Do not be fooled by the acronym, the reality of their violence and brutality I will not try to describe on this page-because it sickens, it terrifies me. And their interpretation of Sharia should leave every single woman shaken and fearful. And we don't need to list all the kidnappings and beheadings, do we? I could post video links showing these actual events-sure to turn the stomach of all. Or I could post graphics (attributed to ISIS by reputable sources) showing their planned expansion...and expand it will. When even the hard line Islamists wail (privately) about the atrocities of ISIS, you *know* it's worse than feared, never mind thought.

Think of ISIS as the super extreme arm of Islamic might. Not publicly condoned, but not publicly censured either.  And that is a very important distinction to make.

Will the leaders of the Western world stand up to the coming tide?

Alas, no.