When the U.S. leaves a power vacuum in the world, evil will fill it

To The Daily Sun,

While the impotent hashtag nation implores Boko Haram to "Bring Back our Girls" after 276 school girls were kidnapped into slavery by a faction of Jihadi terrorists from Nigeria, they responded by breaking into an agricultural college in Nigeria, killing some four dozen students. The students were mostly Muslim and made the mistake of attending a non-Islamic school, reports Mark Steyn.

As amazing folks like Ayaan Hirsi Ali try their best to educate us about the Muslim world, our government, academia and the media choose to ignore the truth. She tells us that the meaning of Boko Haram is "western education is forbidden" or more precisely "non-Muslim teaching is forbidden." The Taliban terrorists, who have been so heartened by the release of five Islamic "killing generals" by Barack Obama, have also slaughtered many women and children for the high crime of "non-Muslim teachings."

Ali, along with others who have escaped that part of the world to live in America, remain perplexed as to why "we Westerners" choose to ignore reality and paint those who try and give us the truth as "Islamophobic." Some of those others include Nonie Darwish, Brigette Gabriel, Whalid Shoebat, Walid Phares, Reza Kahlili and Zuhdi Jasser. They tell us that "nothing is more anathema to the jihadists than equal and educated women."

It is true that the average Muslim rejects the use of violence and does not share the radical belief that western culture must be replaced by an Islamic one. Hirsi Ali believes that all those average Muslims must align with and wake up a Western culture that chooses to ignore the reality that Boko Haram is not an aberration, but rather reflects a new wave of jihadism that extends far beyond Nigeria and poses a moral threat to women and girls throughout the world.

Bill Warner, director of the Center for the Study of Political Islam, reports on the 1,400 year history of jihad. He tells us that every detailed history that comes from the original documents from history, include rape as a constant. Our school history books have erased that portion of the history of Islam. Those books will not reveal that rape is permitted and encouraged by Mohammed and the Koran. Warner wonders just how and why feminist scholars can remain so silent in the face of horrific and heinous crimes that continue to be committed against women.

Raymond Ibrahim, in his book, "Crucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War on Christians," reports that Boko Haram has killed more Christians, many of them women and children, than in the rest of the world combined. Should the Obama administration and academia continue to keep their heads in the sand by implying that these actions have no connection to the "tolerant and noble teachings of Islam," then Islamic terror will continue to proliferate. Should they continue to blame these terrorist actions on poverty and economics, then the "Arab Winter may come to America" as Robert Spencer warns us in his new book of the same name.

I'm willing to bet that our liberal, tenured professors spend more time discussing Procol Harum's, "Whiter Shade of Pale" than they do Boko Haram's hellish, holy grail of jihad. This counterculture song from the 1967 "Summer of Love" is more to the liking of the "professors of terror," Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. The Weather Underground gang sure did like to "turn cartwheels 'cross the floor" as the anarchist crowd "called out for more." "She said there is no reason and the truth is plain to see", yet this administration prefers to just "let it be."

In the case of Boko Haram, the Taliban, al-Qaeda, ISIS, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist terrorist groups, there will be no "vestal virgins leaving for the coast". No, just more of the savagery of kidnappings, rape, slavery, pedophilia, female genital mutilation, homosexual beheadings and mass murders of Christians and other non-believers. Why, oh why does that not make every red-blooded American turn a "whiter shade of pale?" Why does the fact that 250 million people slaughtered by various groups of Islamist terrorists, which leads the world in the killing of other human beings, not make liberals, feminists and other leftists, cringe and wail?

Why does the "give peace a chance" crowd still not understand that when this country leaves a vacuum like it did in Iraq by not putting together a "status of forces agreement" thereby ensuring stability in the region, evil will fill that vacuum? Over 4,000 lives and a trillion dollars lost in Iraq, and now al-Qaeda forces have come over from Syria and taken over whole cities in their march toward Baghdad.

President Obama says he ended the war in Iraq when he actually ended the victory in Iraq, won by General David Patraeus. Al-Qaeda is not on he run Mr. President. Rather, al-Qaeda and its offshoots are overrunning countries in the Middle East and are now poised to become the beast of the east that can't be beat. A new caliphate with which to launch attacks against all infidels, with renewed vigor and hate.

Russ Wiles

Tilton