On Burning the Koran

There have now been over 20 deaths, including  those of at least four Americans, following the recent burning of the Koran, and other Muslim literature, by unidentified NATO soldiers, at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan earlier this week. What started as an isolated reprisal against two American soldiers has now spread across the entire nation, as hysterical Muslims display, once again, their deep commitment to the alleged Muslim principle that "there is no compulsion in religion."  No compulsion, perhaps, but unlimited and unapologetic murder, rape, and destruction.

In one of the most craven and disgraceful acts of his Presidency, Barack Obama publicly apologized to .... the families of the murdered soldiers?  No, of course not.  He apologized to the Afghan people for the burned Korans.  He certainly didn't demand that any action should be taken against those who murdered the Americans unfortunate enough to be serving under his command.

I am not a supporter of the candidacy of Newt Gingrich, or any other presidential candidate.  But the former Speaker of the House is a forthright and articulate man, and he had a few well-chosen words for the current President:

Just one correction, Mr. Speaker: we're not dealing with "radical Islamists."  We're dealing with normal "Islamists."  Violence, ignorance, and fanaticism is the true face of Islam; it has no other.  Islam is barbarity on a level that would shame Genghis Khan or Joseph Stalin.  The face of Islam is clear to anyone willing to see it.

 

As for Speaker Gingrich, there is a position waiting for him that is tailor-made for his gifts.  If, by the grace of God, the current President is denied re-election, Gingrich should be made Ambassador to the United Nations.

Muslims are idolaters, and their idols are many.  The Kaaba Stone in Mecca, for example.  And the Koran itself, which most Muslims, on a worldwide basis, cannot even read. They say it themselves: defacing a copy of the Koran is blasphemy: an attack on God.

Someone might say, "What about you Christians?  What if somebody burned your Bibles?"  Well, if someone burned one of my Bibles, I'd be unhappy, because I'd lose the marginal notations I've made in it.  But I'd simply go out and buy another one.  My Bible is not my God; it's leather and paper and ink. 

And if every Bible were burned, or if it were banned, as will probably happen under the reign of someone like the current President?  That would be an inconvenience, but not a catastrophe: like anyone who loves God's word, I have it hidden in my heart (Psalm 119:11).  And if the Muslims succeeded in burning all the Bibles, and killing all the Christians?  No problem: we'd be with the Lord, and the Bible would be there, too:   Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. (That verse is so important that it's recorded in three of the four Gospels: Matthew 5:18, Mark 13:31, Luke 21:33.  God doesn't stutter; when He repeats something, it's because He doesn't want us to miss it.)  Not only that:  For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven (Psalm 119:89).

The enemies of God have been burning Bibles for centuries, but Christians and Jews don't react like Muslims.  They don't need to.  We're not polytheistic heathens who worship Kaaba Stones and green books: we believe in the One true God, and you couldn't burn His words with an nuclear bomb.

Meanwhile, the Muslims continue to demonstrate why their nations (if Afghanistan can be called a nation) deserve not one penny of American aid, and not one drop of American blood.  Or Canadian blood, or European blood.  It's best to leave wild animals to their own devices.