A disturbing new report released in Great Britain over the weekend ought to set off alarm bells in the United States, but I worry our politically correct culture isn’t willing to face reality.
An intelligence source at MI5 (the British equivalent to our CIA) believes as many as 1,500 white Britons have converted to Islam “for the purpose of funding, planning and carrying out surprise terror attacks inside the UK.” One government official said that many of the converts had been targeted by radical Muslims while serving prison terms. My good friend Chuck Colson of Prison Fellowship Ministries has been warning for years that Islamic recruitment is going on in our prisons. Is anyone listening?
My friends, we have to get past the growing mantra of liberal and Islamist groups, like CAIR, that insist Islam is not the problem. This report from Great Britain directly challenges that argument. These potential terrorists are not Baptists, Lutherans, Catholics or Jews. They are Islamists. We have got to stop debating this issue as though there were no link between Islam and terrorism. In fact, we must be able to look at the reality and say clearly that there is a causal connection between Islam and violence. That is not the same as saying all Muslims are terrorists, but there is clearly a major problem when 1,500 Britons become potential terrorist suspects after having converted to Islam.
We know who attacked us on 9/11. We know who committed the atrocities in London, Madrid, Beslan and Bali. There is radicalization taking place in mosques throughout Europe; anti-Semitism and honor killings are on the rise; the riots in Paris and Denmark were perpetrated by Muslim youth. It would be utterly foolish to think that radicalization is not going on here. The question few dare to ask, however, is: What are we prepared to do to defend our values? Muslim jihadists have repeatedly told us that th ey love death more than we love life. Are they right? I don’t think so, and I remain optimistic about our nation and its people. Americans cherish freedom. We have overcome great adversities in our history, and I believe we are still capable of achieving new heights of greatness. May our courage rise with the danger; may our strength and resolve to oppose the evil of Islamofascism never fail.
