Will we wake up in time?

The view from my window today is not a very pretty one. In fact, it's one that causes me great concern, and I want to share that concern, because only when we all recognize that there is indeed a problem, will we begin to do something about it.

I subscribe to a Christian news agency, "One News Now". Some of you may be subscribers as well, and if so, then you've already encountered the things that are troubling me today. Here's one article, copied and pasted directly from the ONN website:
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Tyson Foods warms up to Islam

Associated Press - 8/3/2008 6:45:00 AM

SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. - Workers at the Tyson Foods poultry processing plant in Shelbyville will no longer have a paid day off on Labor Day but will instead be given the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr as a holiday.

According to a news release from the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, a new 5-year contract at the plant included the change to accommodate the hundreds of Somali Muslims who work at the plant .

Eid al-Fitr — which falls on Oct. 1 this year — marks the end of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting.

Union leaders say implementing the holiday was important for the nearly 700 Muslims, many of them Somalis, who work at the plant that employs a total of 1,200 people.

The Shelbyville Times-Gazette newspaper quotes union spokesman Randy Hadley as saying the negotiating team felt this change was "extremely crucial, since this holiday is as important to Muslims as Christmas is to Christians."

The newspaper also quotes the union as saying two prayer rooms have been created at the Shelbyville Tyson Foods' plant "to allow Muslim workers to pray twice a day and return to work without leaving the plant."
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So what about the other 500 workers at that plant? Just forget any Labor Day weekend plans with their families, I guess. I'm curious as to the legality of this - last time I looked, Labor Day was a recognized national holiday. It seems to me that a better solution would have been to continue granting Labor Day holidays to the non-Muslims, and have the Muslims come to work. Then on Eid al-Fitr, whatever that is, let the Muslims off while everyone else comes to work. Better yet, instead of picking on Labor Day, let the Muslims off on their holiday, and then have them work on Christmas while the Christians are off. The best solution, of course, would have been to tell them all to return to Somalia, where they can have all the "Fitr" holidays they want. That, however, would not have been very PC, and might have affected Tyson's bottom line, so they would never do that. No, instead, they just knuckled under, and gave the Muslims one more victory.

And now it's time for the Christians among those remaining 500 workers to stand up and demand a prayer room too, as well as breaks to go and avail themselves of the opportunity, and then, please Lord - actually go there and pray. This country needs those prayers, obviously.

Now, as if the first news release wasn't annoying enough, here's another one, and it concerns - guess who? - the Somali Muslims. Here's a charming little story regarding those good people:
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Somali Christian martyred

A Somali Christian has paid the ultimate price for his faith.

Hussein, the 28-year-old victim, had converted from the Muslim faith to Christianity. Jonathan Racho of International Christian Concern says he (Hussein) was confronted by Islamic extremists who demanded to know if he faces Mecca when he prays, which is required of Muslims.

"Hussein says he doesn't face Mecca when he prays because his God is omnipresent and he can face anywhere to pray," Racho recounts the incident. "[T]he extremists were very much enraged by his comments, and they killed him."

Upon learning that her husband had been shot to death, Hussein's wife went into premature labor and delivered a stillborn baby.

Hussein had been working as a teacher and was described as extremely successful in evangelizing the community.

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These are the people to whom Tyson is granting their holiday at the expense of everyone's Labor Day weekend, and for whom their "prayer rooms" have been built. I certainly hope those rooms are facing in the right direction - if not, I guess Allah can't hear them.

Across the world, Muslims are murdering people for being Christians, or for even having a Bible in their possession. They burn churches, sometimes with the congregants trapped inside. They bomb trains. In Indonesia, a favorite practice is to cut a suspected Christian's nose off, so everyone will know. They hack off heads. Several of their cultures, including the Somalis, practice female genital mutilation, all in Allah's name. I've cared for some of those women at my hospital. Here, in this country the Muslims hate so much, we are building prayer rooms for them, accommodating their holidays, allowing them to build their big onion-domed mosques in our cities, and just falling all over ourselves trying to please and appease them. I'm sorry, I simply don't get it.

When are we going to wake up?

And now, I'm going to quit preaching and start meddling, as my childhood pastor used to say.

With all this going on, and the countless other horror stories we've all heard and read and in some cases witnessed, why on earth are we considering electing someone to the Presidency who comes from a Muslim background? Oh, I know, I know, he denies being a Muslim, declares himself to be a Christian, and perhaps he is. I'm not his judge, only God knows the truth of that claim.

What he does not deny, because he knows he could easily be proven a liar, is that he has many family members who are known Muslims. We've all seen the "family picture" on the internet, and any first-year journalist could come up with facts and figures, and many have done so.

I'm old enough to clearly remember the last few years of WWII, and I distinctly remember when President Truman had to make the tragic decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima, and a few days later, on Nagasaki. He was harshly criticized by many for that decision, but the fact is, he ended the war with Japan. The Japanese would not have gone down and surrendered otherwise. The proof of that is in the fact that the bombing of Nagasaki was necessary. Hiroshima wasn't enough! Without those bombings, the war would have ground on for years.

Tragically, multiplied thousands of Japanese civilians were killed or terribly injured in those bombings, and the effects of the radiation lasted for many years, in some cases even until today. It was a hard decision for Truman to make, and I'm sure it haunted him to his grave. However, had he refused to drop those bombs, many, many thousands of American service personnel would have died as the war went on. If the Japanese could have made it to our shores, you can bet they would have bombed our cities. Los Angeles and San Francisco would have been the first to go. They didn't have nuclear power, but they could have caused a lot of death and devastation, and would not have hesitated to do so. And so, President Harry Truman did what he felt he had to do.

Now here's a question. Let's say that his name was Harry Yamamoto, and he was an American of Japanese descent, second-generation probably. Let's say that his dear sweet little grandmother lived in Hiroshima, and he had aunts and uncles and cousins in that city, and in Nagasaki. Could he, would he have ordered the bombing that ended the war? Could you? Would I?

So, here we are at an unthinkable point in the history of our country. We are rapidly being infiltrated by Muslims, and if you think all of them are coming here because they just want the American way of life, sweetie, have I got news for you. Perhaps some are. Many, however, are here as part of a larger plan, make no mistake about it. Like it or not, we are in a war with these people. Have we forgotten 9/11, and the many other attacks that have been leveled against us in the past couple of decades, by none other than Muslims?

In the midst of this, we are actually allowing a man named Barack Hussein Obama to present himself as a candidate for the Presidency of this country of ours. He may not be a Muslim himself, he says he's not. However, he has said he's a Christian, and then turned right around and made statements that would cause me to wonder. However, as I said earlier, I'm not his judge, God knows his heart, and I don't.

I do know this. He has a lot of family, including, yes, a "dear sweet little grandmother" who live in Islamic countries. He has uncles and aunts and cousins living in those countries. Whatever his own conviction may be, he has a lot of family members who are professing, practicing Muslims, and who reside in Muslim-dominated countries. This is well documented, and isn't subject to debate.

So, here's my question. In this time of covert warfare, terrorism, counter-terrorism and grave instability, do we want a man in the Oval Office with ties to Muslim nations? If push comes to shove, could he, would he, give the order to bomb a Muslim country, where he has family living, in order to defend this country?

In my heart of hearts, I sincerely feel that it is going to come to that, and probably sooner than we think. They are becoming more and more bold, and I believe there will be another attack like 9/11, and probably worse. It's a matter of time. We are not dealing with logical, thinking people with any kind of rational thought going on. These people are fanatic zealots, who think they're ensuring their place in paradise by the murdering of Christians and other "infidels". If you're not a Muslim, you're garbage, not fit to live. Oh yes, we're at war with them right now, and it won't be much longer before we find ourselves in an all-out, declared and committed war. When that happens, will our President be able to do what is necessary to end it? Or will he have to wrestle with the guilty knowledge that he's ordering the deaths of some of his own family?

While I consider Mr. Obama to be much too inexperienced for the office of President, I do not consider him to be stupid. He knows, he must know, that a war is coming, and he surely has already settled within his own heart what he will do when it comes. I'm very much afraid that we can all easily figure out what his decision was.

Frankly, that scares me to death.