Most parents know that when a child gets overly defensive, he is usually guilty of the wrongdoing he is being accused of. The same is certainly true with adults, as well as whole people groups.

Take for instance the Muslim world’s wild overreaction first to the publication of a political cartoon featuring the Prophet Mohammed, then to Pope Benedict XVI’s attempt to emphasize the incompatibility of violence and faith in a university lecture during which he quoted a Byzantine emperor who denounced Mohammed’s calls for jihad.

(Of particular note are the “Palestinians,” who have apparently grown so used to their violent ways being excused that they are openly attacking Christian churches in response to the pope’s remarks.)

If Islam really is tolerant and advocates peace, then why do its practitioners react in such ways over what are in reality very minor provocations? The media and Muslim clerics in this part of the world make a regular habit of denouncing and bad mouthing Jews and Christians, but the result is never widespread Jewish or Christian violence against Muslims.

If you want people to believe that you are tolerant and non-violent, then it is best to not respond to accusations of violence with violence. To do so incidcates that you are in fact guilty.

Excepting the period of Napolean’s reign, French arrogance and naivety regarding their neighbors and the world at large have only brought defeat for that proud nation over the past several hundred years.

And now the French expect the rest of the West to follow their lead when it comes to dealing with global Islamic terror.

Said French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin to the French National Assembly last week:

“Against terrorism, it is not a war that has to be fought, but — as France has done for years — a determined struggle based on constant vigilance and effective cooperation with our partners.”

But those “partners” he speaks of - entities like Syria, Iran, the Palestinian Authority, Saudi Arabia, etc - are the very ones facilitating terrorism! Cooperation with them will only embolden them to continue playing the terror card, even if discreetly.

Villepin went on to absolve the practitioners of terrorism of all guilt by claiming the phenomenon is an alien concept that has attached itself to real crises in order to spur senseless violence.

He then played apologist for Al Qaeda, Hizb’allah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, etc by suggesting those crises were in fact justification for terrorist violence against the party purportedly causing the grievance.

“We will never bring this plague to an end except by also fighting against injustice, violence, against crises.”

But Villepin really took the cake with his concluding statement:

“It is the duty of France and Europe to show that the clash of civilizations is not an inevitability. It is only we — French and Europeans — who bear this wisdom inherited from history.”

Ironically, France, under Emperor Charlemagne, was the first European power to repulse Islam’s long desire to overrun the Christian-dominated continent, in what is and always has been a “clash of civilizations.”

To follow the advice of France’s modern leadership is to play right into the hands of Allah and his followers. In light of the past century of French blunders and defeats, we should know better.

Ultra-leftist Israeli journalist and political figure Yossi Sarid was invited several months ago by the Norwegian foreign ministry to attend and address a conference on religious and cultural tolerance in Bali, Indonesia. However, when the Indonesian co-sponsors and national hosts discovered that an Israeli was on the guest list, Sarid was promptly uninvited.

Kind of defeats the purpose of a conference on tolerance when the invitation stage is marred by intolerance.

(Side note: It is also telling that the weak Norwegian - ie. European - response was not to demand that Indonesia soften its stance, but rather to offer Sarid Norwegian citizenship in order to bypass the boycott. Europe’s fear of and capitulation to Islam is by no means confined to the continent.)

There is much talk lately of what is the “root cause” of the current fighting in Gaza and southern Lebanon, with much of the world pointing an accusatory finger at Hamas and Hizb’allah.

Former IDF chief Moshe Ya’alon took that one step further by pointing out that the Hamas and Hizb’allah aggression and provocations originated from areas Israel had completely vacated, disproving the long-held belief that “Israeli occupation” is the “root cause” of the wider Middle East conflict. Continue reading »

Adherents of the “religion of peace” have struck again - this time in India.

At this time, at least 147 are confirmed dead in a series of bombings on commuter trains in Bombay.

Behold the tolerance of Islam:

“Radical Islamic militia fighters in Somalia shot and killed two people who were watching a banned World Cup soccer broadcast, a radio station reported Wednesday.”

This is a recurring theme that I believe it would be good to highlight so readers in the West can better understand the sinister nature of the religion that has pitted itself not only against Israel, but the entire Judeo-Christian world.

It is no secret the “enlightened” nations of Western Europe are being rapidly overrun by Islam.

Mohammed’s hordes have been trying to conquer the continent militarily since shortly after the religion’s inception and subjugation of the Middle East and Northern Africa. Now they are succeeding demographically by exploiting the loose immigration laws of liberal Europe.

So worrying has this phenomenon become that the US is actually starting to recognize Western Europe as a new front in its global war on Islamic terror.

Said Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Daniel Fried during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing last week:

“While Islamist extremism is a global phenomenon, we find the nature of the problem in Western Europe to be distinct - both in its character and its potential to threaten the United States.”

It is unlikely this wake up call will resonate with most Europeans before it is too late.

But for those who believe in and track the fulfillment of biblical prophecy, that will come as little surprise.