Fort Dix Yugoslavian Terror Plot Case: Beware Christians

Christians should beware of articles like this regarding the case of eastern European Muslims attempting to act on a fatwa and commit an act of jihad against our soldiers at Fort Dix. Why? Because as stated with the Virginia Tech massacre incident, I am suspicious that this incident will be used to fill people, including Christians, with fear, anger, paranoia, hysteria, etc. Such emotions can easily be used to A) distract us and B) cause us to act in manners not in accordance with the teachings of Jesus Christ.

This statement is going to be offensive to a great many Christians, but I am going to state it anyway: precisely what is the news here? That a certain percentage of Muslims hate Christians, hate America, hate our military, and if given the proper motivation and opportunity will shed blood based on those feelings? I am sorry, but who didn’t know this already? Next. Oh, apparently there is an illegal immigration angle. Again, who didn’t know that terrorists and other criminals weren’t sneaking over our “border”? (And why have we spent the last few DECADES voting AGAINST people who promised to do something about it?) I fear that a lot of people are seizing on this issue because of some forlorn hope that they will be vindicated; that their views will be validated. “See! We told you that the Muslims were out to get us! That their religion and culture promotes violence! That we have an enemy without and within!” Allow me to accept the painful chore of being the one to tell you that the people who deny these things are NEVER going to admit the truth and are NEVER going to change no matter what happens. Why? Because no matter what Muslims do whether in this country or somewhere else, their #1 enemy is STILL going to be Yeshua HaMashiach and those who are called by and call upon His Name. In their eyes, opposing Muslims empowers Bible – believing Christians. And let’s face it: a little (or even a lot) of violence and mayhem committed by Muslims against Americans doesn’t hurt their interests one bit. As a matter of fact, it HELPS them. It weakens America and the west, which for all of our problems remains Judeo – Christian. Further, it gives them an avenue to claim that the solution to the problem is socialist economics (“the root cause of terrorism is poverty, income inequality, and hopelessness”), cultural depravity (see this fellow assert that hip - hop will defeat radical Islam), and of course multiculturalism and diversity. Many make the claim that Islamic terror is somehow provoked by fundamentalist Christianity, or that there is no difference between Al Qaida and the Southern Baptist or Pentecostal church down the street. These people are not only never going to change but rather only get worse AND gain ever bigger UNCONTESTED forums to spread their hatred of Jesus Christ, and the sooner Christians acknowledge that fact the better. 

Yes, I am aware that Muslim terrorists kill people. I am equally aware that street crime, pollution, and mental illness that results from family breakdown kills people. I do not intend to minimize the threat of Muslim terror,  but I wonder why some would minimize street crime, pollution, and family breakdown? Is the life that is lost to a Muslim bomber worse less than the person who gets shot by a robber? You say that the former cannot be countenanced because “it is an attack on America.” So when an American corporation poisons the air and water, sickening and killing other Americans, that makes it better? Shouldn’t it make it worse, since our “American” criminals, whether wielding knives and guns on the street or the white collar variety wielding pens in their executive suites, were likely raised in Christian homes?

Imagine if these guys had succeeded, and managed to kill about 25 – 30 servicemen before they themselves were captured or killed. It would have been an absolute horror.  But you know what IS horror, and one that is a matter of fact of American life rather than the hypothetical carnage that JUST MIGHT cause Rosie O’Donnell to call radical Islam a threat for five minutes? I will tell you: the horror that goes on inside each and every abortion clinic every day. One thing that you will NEVER see (barring a religious conversion) is the rabidly pro – abortion Katie Couric standing outside (or inside) an abortion clinic crying into the camera: “Oh the murder of the innocent! Dozens, even hundreds of future doctors, lawyers, college professors, schoolteachers murdered in the most gruesome fashion each day! Just look around: THERE IS BLOOD EVERYWHERE!” Nope, it just isn’t going to happen. It really does reveal the mindset of so many Christians: what gets us going, what we really care about, and what doesn’t. The reason is that we have been so blinded and brainwashed by the media and the education system that we have lost fact of what is important.

The best case in point is how so many Christians are strongly considering voting for Rudy Giuliani. Why? Because the cross dresser plus two – time adulterer whose policing strategies resulted in innocent people being shot dead on the streets (all black of course!) “will do a great job in the war on terror.” Would Giuliani do a great job in the war against terror against MUSLIMS? If the Muslims are BLACK, maybe (see link). Otherwise, since illegal immigration is a key part of “homeland defense”, well Giuliani was weak on that issue too until recent flip – flopping for political positioning. In any event, what good is a President who will protect the innocent from Muslim terrorists while supporting the massive terrorism being inflicted on the unborn by way of abortion? How could any Bible – believing Christian even THINK of such a thing? And I say this not to pick on Giuliani. I say this regarding Christians who support flip – floppers and those with ambiguous positions on the issue like Mitt Romney and John McCain (you know perfectly well that someone who supported Muslim terror against Americans in the past as Romney did abortion wouldn’t get elected dogcatcher), and all of those Christians who support Democrats.

What is my point? It is that we have such a visceral reaction to Islamic terror while being so passive to things like street crime, family breakdown, pollution, and abortion because we allow the media to cultivate our mindsets. Christians should resist and reject such things in favor of our minds being renewed with the Word of God. Seriously, what sort of a person shows more outrage at soldiers who MIGHT have been killed by Muslim terrorists wielding AK – 47s than innocent babies who ARE killed by American terrorists with medical licenses? A person who has been BRAINWASHED  BY THE MEDIA AND CULTURE, that is what. So brainwashed that the same person that would show great hysterical offense at ANYONE who proposes the notion that America just MIGHT have brought SOME of our Muslim problems on ourselves with our military and intelligence adventures and foreign and economic policies (even if that person is the only surviving member of an innocent family that was taken out by one of our “smart bombs”) is capable of respecting someone’s pro – abortion beliefs as a politically, intellectually, and morally acceptable position.

It really is part of the media’s game, and Christians had better stop playing it. Realize this: things are only going to get worse. The hostility towards Christians by Americans and the world is only going to increase, and the belligerence and violence against Americans and Christians by Muslims (and others) will only increase. The Bible is clear on this: as we get closer and closer to the return of Yeshua HaMashiach, things are going to get WORSE, not BETTER, and then there is going to be the great tribulation when things are going to REALLY GET BAD. Christians ought to be marking these signs and preparing for battle instead of allowing events that are going to be quite commonplace in the future send them to distraction. Read your Bibles: we really are talking about whole nations and a large percentage of the world’s population perishing in a few short years. Remember that tsunami horror? Well that didn’t touch a lot of your lives, because it didn’t happen “over here.” I have news for you: in the time soon to come, we are going to be having earthquakes, Katrinas, floods, droughts, massive disease outbreaks, major social unrest, economic collapses, etc. on a regular basis. Even you “Left Behind” pre – tribulationists have to admit that these things MUST precede the great tribulation, because it is precisely these things that will create the climate for the anti – Christ to take power. What are you doing to prepare yourself for that type of horror, so that when that horror comes you won’t be so given over to fear, panic, and hopelessness that you will follow anyone or anything that promises to take the pain away? I say that watching the news allowing them to feed your frenzy over six (or was it ten, and if so whither the other four?) isn’t going to do it. I say dealing with the true horrors that are going on right now, whether abortion, addiction, and family breakdown in this country or the wars, famines, AIDS epidemics, etc. ravaging other countries through fulfilling the great commission by spreading the gospel, through dedicating yourself to sincere intercessory prayer over these issues, and/or by using the Word of God to become a counselor to people who are going through some severe problems is something that will build up your spiritual armor so that you will be able to stand in the evil time to come. By doing that, you will cease being deceived into submission by the anti – Christ media lies and instead have your eyes opened to and trained upon the reality, which is that our only hope of salvation is in Yeshua HaMashaich, and that all other hopes and considerations are false diversions. If you have not given yourself over to the hope of Yeshua HaMashiach, follow this salvation plan and do so now. If you have already given yourself to Jesus Christ, then please keep your eyes and heart trained on him lest you waver, stray from the path, and fail to endure until the end.