Shadow of Crisis

Today, I opened an eMail from Senator John McCain. In it he made his pitch for why I should send him money. Since I didn’t watch the State of the Union Address on Tuesday evening something McCain wrote caught my eye. He quoted Obama directly “the shadow of crisis has passed.” Really? These words fall into the same class as “Al Queda is on the run.” Somehow, I do not, nor cannot believe we are out of crisis with Radical Islam. I am one of those people who believe the bad guys will never come to the shores of our great country. Yet, each time I drive by the mosque in my one hundred and sixty-five year old town of Frankfort, Illinois I get the shivers. When I first settled here in 1990, the mosque was a curiosity. I had heard about it, but never saw it because the tiny building hid in the woods along Saint Francis Road. Amazingly, the Muslims decided to build their mosque within a half mile from the Franciscan Retreat Center run by Franciscan Nuns for which the street is named.

Today, the mosque is visible from the road, and sports a golden dome. This new mosque is about five years old and it is thriving. Where did all the muslims come from? My theory is they immigrated here as students in medical schools. Many of them from Pakistan, Iraq, and Egypt. There are thriving medical complexes centered around Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Little Company of Mary Hospital In Evergreen Park, South Suburban Hospital in Hazel Crest, Saint James Hospital in Olympia Fields, and Chicago Heights.  These hospitals demand a huge staff of doctors and technicians. If you have ever been unlucky enough to have been a patient in any of these places, you are aware that there is a large population of Doctors from the Mid-Eastern countries. Many of them are muslim.

One day, as I drove down Aberdeen Road on my way home from work, I passed by the Hussein house. An elderly white-haired, bearded gentleman was walking around the property hands behind his back, and dressed in white Muslim garb. It turns out that Dr. Hussein who lived there brought his parents to America to live with him. His story has repeated thousands of times across the Chicago area, and  has resulted in a significant muslim population. Add to this population the many refugees coming from Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and every other Mid-Eastern country and the muslims grow in numbers exponentially.

So what does all my bloviating have to do with the President’s remark? I fear that one of these many peace-loving muslims will radicalize and cut my head off.

Obama has no clue about how to treat muslims. They have been a warring people from the beginning of recorded history, and they respond only to one kind of governance, War Lords and Dictators. How do War Lords and Dictators rule? By force. He who cuts the most heads off is the guy in charge.

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