FROM THE UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE MILLENIUM DEPARTMENT:

Former Conservative Republican Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania says, “Next President Must Understand Challenge of Radical Islam,” according to a CNS News headline:  http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=38453.

No kidding, Rick! 

More to the point, most Americans and one presidential candidate seem unable to fully understand that challenge, or the danger, or the threat posed by Islamic radical fundamentalists. 

That presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama, may become our next president.    

I address those issues, the challenge, the danger, and the threat to America, throughout my book and it is important to realize that they are three separate, although interrelated, issues.

First, the challenge:

We Americans must realize that Islam is no longer that relatively quiescent religion of recent centuries.  Indeed, Islam is at its heart an extremely violent and warlike faith and has been throughout its long history.  It is only because nations which were ruled by Muslims, for the most part, had devolved into backwater, Third World countries over the centuries that we hadn’t heard from them.

Until recently. 

Radical Muslims have now gained a foothold, a financial base in Mid East oil treasures and for the last three decades have been waging war against Western civilization.

The most significant international, and domestic, challenge to America and to our next president will be to comprehend that new reality of geopolitics in the twenty-first century and to come to grips with how the West must deal with it.

Denial, ignoring threats and hoping they will just go away, is best suited to ostriches.  For the West it is suicidal.  Islam has no intention of “just going away” and its greatest advantage in its quest to conquer the West is the refusal of too many Americans to accept the fact that we are at war.  Pretending otherwise is easier, more comfortable, more sleep-inducing– and fraught with serious peril.

Second, the danger:

Islamists do not anticipate losing the Third World War. ...

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