Islam, The Non-Politically Correct Version . . .

Friends, I love people who come from Islamic backgrounds. I know of two Bosnian families who fled their homeland with literally nothing in order to escape war against them simply because they were Islamic. This is wrong in any land . . .

But, in spite of knowing and even being friends with people from an Islamic background, sadly, the media is distorting how violent and religiously persecuting many Islamic nations in fact are.

For example, in the Sudan, Christians are a minority in the nation. These fellow Sudanese (black African on black African) have been driven to the point of near starvation.

Yet, our Nation still perpetrates this idea that 'Islam is a religion of peace.'

Just this past Saturday night I went to see the movie The Kingdom, the story about a real-life type terrorist attack against Americans just for being American. Sadly, the final scene of the movie was of Islam on one side and America on the other side with an Islamic boy hearing in his ear, "Kill them all" and with an African American fictitious F.B.I. agent saying "Kill them all."

Friends, "killing them all" is not the answer, nor is a politically correct version of the war between Islam and the West.

The most recent example of this myth is the recent visit of the Armenian Orthodox Patriarch to Pinellas Park, FL (interestingly, the little suburb of St. Petersburg where I lived from 3rd grade through high school graduation!). The Patriarch of the Armenian Orthodox Church was seeking to lift up world attention to the fact that Islamic Turks had attempted genocide against them nearly a century earlier. Part of the U.S. Federal Government joined the Orthodox Patriarch in denouncing this attempted genocide, but sadly, our President George W. Bush (I guess falling into the politically correct newsmedia 'spin' on Islam) said that such a denunciation was not diplomatically prudent.

Friends, this is like saying that denouncing the Nazis who murdered 10 million Jews, Poles, gypsies, et al is not "diplomatically prudent."

Friends, this is like saying that denouncing the former racist white South African government for its brutal war against native Africans is not "diplomatically prudent."

Friends, it is time that we take up the yoke of peace, and with fellow peace activists such as Jimmy Carter, Bono of U2, and Amnesty International, highlight wherever genocide has happened and may be attempted. Stand up for your rights. If we do not expose the terror of Islam as it is persecuting Christians world-wide, then the next land to be put to the sword will be our own.

Blessings in Jesus Christ,
Rob J. King, for Peace, for human rights including religious freedom