What’s the Bigger Threat: Radical Islam or Ourselves?

When will the “religion of peace” stop being so misunderstood and recognized as the noble social justice warriors that they are?

Maybe when stuff like this stops happening. Just last week, a police officer with Washington, D.C.’s Metro Transit was arrested on charges of assisting the (not according to Obama) Islamic State. Federal prosecutors say he had been under government’s surveillance since 2010 and travelled twice to Libya – a land known for its peace and tranquility – twice in 2011.

Hard to know how many American lives were just saved by such an arrest. What is clear, though, according to a recent story in the New York Times, is that there is little time to celebrate in America or elsewhere. One cockroach may have been crushed under the heel of our still feisty-at-times, but seriously limping, remnant of Western Civilization. Yet the broader infestation is relentless, vast, and coordinated to a degree that many remain in denial about.

European intelligence, which has had the unfortunate duty of connecting dots in the aftermath of wave after wave of deadly terrorist attacks in the last few years, has uncovered the existence of an elite intelligence and operations unit within Islamic State called the Emni. It has been recruiting and sending fighters abroad for at least two years under the command of the Islamic State’s most senior Syrian operative, with the assistance of a team of lieutenants spread out across the globe. Charged with sparking a reign of terror whenever and however they can.

So instead of crazy lone wolves inflicting happenstance workplace violence, we likely have a swarm full of jihadis who are holding hands in a human chain of malice extending across the globe. Looking to do the blood-curdling will of Allah.

Oh, and on top of all that, the good little hackers over at Islamic State – what difference do Hillary’s e-mail shenanigans make anyway, right? – has released a list of 700 U.S. Army soldiers it wants its followers to kill. Too bad we don’t have a better jobs program to keep them otherwise occupied.

So these guys are clearly focused and serious as a heart attack. Got it. Now let’s look at our side of the ledger. What kind of culture and leadership stands in the way of this death wish?

Um…Bueller? Bueller?

Let’s just say we aren’t, collectively speaking, led by a bunch of very righteous dudes at the moment.

For starters, an economist from the University of Chicago says his research indicates too many of America’s young men are content to spend their days unemployed, unmarried, living with their parents, and spending as much as 75 percent of their leisure time playing video games. Hence, there’s probably not a lot of guys ready and willing to jump on top of a grenade in that flaccid clan.

But that’s why we’ve got great leaders at the top. The kind of leaders who do the worrying for us so we never have to put the joystick down, and wipe the drool from our chin. Leaders like President Obama, who just this week showed us once again what a ninja he is when it comes to keeping his eye on the ball. Right?

No, he still can’t utter the phrase “radical Islamic terrorist,” but he can say “global warming” so fast that it makes time stand still. Not to mention American infrastructure comes to a screeching halt.

The Obama regime issued standards last week that will make it easier to block a wide range of projects in the name of fake science, including building bridges and expanding highways. So Unicorns 1, Just Trying to Get to a Freaking Job 0.

I guess we are going to have to leave it to the church, then, to clarify the difference between the darkness and the light. No flights of fancy there. Just truth. Pure truth.

Oh no. Pope Francis said what?

The leader of the Catholic Church pulled a full Obama last weekend by rejecting the phrase “Islamic violence.” Timed in the wake of one of his own priests having his throat slit wide open by an Islamic terrorist as he was celebrating Mass in France.

If he has to speak of “Islamic violence,” then Pope Francis said it is also his duty to speak of “Catholic violence.” Sadly, though, Francis had not yet reached peak SJW. He had to throw this politically-correct psychobabble in for good measure: “As long as the god of money is at the center of the global economy and not the human person, man and woman, this is the first terrorism.”

Right, because the son of a wealthy Arab family like Osama bin Laden plotted 9/11 in order to strike a blow for the global proletariat. Come on, man. Pope Francis might as well trade out those Hail Mary’s for a hearty Allahu Akbar and call it a day.

I’m sorry, but I don’t even know why the terrorists bother blowing themselves up anymore. They have clearly already won. The leaders of Western Civilization believe in imaginary creatures more than they do the very real threat at their doorstep, and they do so with a smug smile on their face.

So while that martyred French priest may have died with the words, “Begone, Satan!” on his lips and on his heart, it is clear he has very few wingmen. Islamic State, on the other hand, continues to draw both a crowd and plenty of blood, with nary an end to the carnage in sight.

Which ultimately and sadly begs this final question: whose lies will be more responsible for getting us killed in the end? Islam’s or our own? (For more from the author of “What’s the Bigger Threat: Radical Islam or Ourselves?” please click HERE)

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