Who Is To Blame, Our Leaders or His Religion?

It was barely 24 hours after the massacre at Ft. Hood when some extreme members of the so-called mainstream media, which means they were really extreme, if you catch my drift, had completed their investigations of the terrible scene and concluded that the gunman wasn't to blame, the war in Afghanistan was. We should have expected a Muslim solider to go off the deep end when faced with orders to go and fight to liberate other Muslims from the grip of the (Muslim) Taliban. We should have known something like this was going to happen.

I mean, didn't German-American soldiers go berserk in Britain during WWII on the eve of D-day? Doesn't history record dozens of incidents of Japanese American Marines blowing up troop transports full of their comrades as they headed towards Iwo Jima? What could President Roosevelt have been thinking when he sent our troops to fight against the homes of their ancestors? He must have been crazy.

But, if we want to make sure that what happened in Texas last week wasn't the first of more and worse horrors on our military bases, as a "moderate" mainstream magazine warned in the wake of the one-man Jihad that rocked Ft. Hood, our leaders had better call an immediate end to all hostilities everywhere, bring our all our troops home, and strictly order our generals not to even dare to think about ever going and fighting anyone anywhere, it might upset some of our soldiers! Why, there would probably never be any cases of what used to be called "battle fatigue" when soldiers don't have to worry about fighting anymore. Of course, when we decide to eliminate any chance of conflict from ever stressing out anyone in our military we probably might just as well discharge all the troops and mothball all their equipment, they won't serve any real purpose anymore.

I expect, when all the digging into the life of the Muslim Major who decided he would rather wage war against American GIs than fight global terrorism is through, he will say he did it for his religion. Kind of like the folks who blow themselves up in Baghdad. He will say he was about to be forced to go fight against his fellow Islamists, and decided instead to do his fighting right here against Americans, rather than betray his religion. Why didn't he just refuse his orders? Why didn't he risk court-martial and whatever punishment that may have followed a conviction if he was so opposed to fighting? Well, there's nothing particularly terrifying about a court-martial, and not near enough blood to satisfy Islam.

You know, when Jesus died to glorify the Father, he didn't take out anyone with him. And when Christians were served up as snacks for the beasts in the arenas of Rome, the only blood shed for their faith was theirs. I suppose the gunman in Texas last week might have expected to die, but he obviously didn't make certain of it. All he made sure he did was kill unsuspecting and innocent people for the sake of his religion. I hope, whatever happens to him, he is not executed, he doesn't deserve to be a martyr. But, maybe, spending the rest of his life in Leavenworth, he may yet come to know the Lord. In fact I pray Jesus will visit his dreams every night for the rest of his life until he surrenders all his messed-up Muslim hatred to the love of the Lord.