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The Slow Boiling Of America By Radical Islam
The Slow Boiling of America by Radical Islam US Army Officer Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s attack at the Fort Hood Army base on November 5, 2009 killed 13 US soldiers and wounded 30 more. Eyewitness reports state before Hasan opened fire, he yelled “Allahu-Akbar,” which translates as “Allah [God] is great,” a phrase uttered by many radical Muslims in recent history just before committing similar acts of violence in the name of Allah (Allahu Akbar). As shocking as this incident is, it is only one manifestation of a dangerous problem facing America and is realized by only a few. While the US military hunts down Osama Bin Laden and the other terrorists in the Middle East, similar terrorists have been sneaking past enemy lines for years into America’s backyard virtually undetected. Instead of attacking America with suicide bombs and improvised explosive devices, they’re using America’s own laws and culture, sabotaging its way of life from within and converting peaceful, moderate Muslims to the hateful, violent version of Islam known as radical Islam. The radical Islam message to the western world, the West, is chilling; Islam will dominate! Radical Islam is a religious ideology that stretches beyond a person practicing his beliefs alongside others of different religious beliefs. It stretches beyond spreading the word to others that will listen in an effort to convey their deep belief in their religion’s truthfulness. It stretches beyond voting for a representative that will politically fight to defend the moral doctrines of their religion. It stretches beyond all forms of co-existence with anyone who is not Muslim and even fellow moderate Muslims that will not adhere to its interpretation of Islam. Radical Islamist Americans will not be content until Islamic law, Shari ‘a, as stated in the Quran replaces the Bible, the Torah, and the Constitution. If violence must be used to achieve this, violence is used, and believed to be condoned by Allah.
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