The world is finally waking up to the realization that the threat Islam poses to the rest of society is real. This article, for example, quotes Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah saying:
Defending the prophet should continue all over the world. Let Condoleezza Rice and Bush and all the tyrants shut up. We are an Islamic nation that cannot tolerate, be silent or be lax when they insult our prophet and sanctities.
We will uphold the messenger of God not only by our voices but also by our blood.
This is true. Islam cannot be tolerant of other religions–or lack of religious belief–and the thing that the West needs to realize is they are serious about the fact they will give their lives for their cause. Muslims aren’t stupid people. They aren’t barbarians. They are human beings, just like we are. The fact that they are wipped into such a frenzy over these cartoons demonstrates the depths to which their beliefs are held. It does not in any way make them inferior or stupid that they believe so strenuously.
What it does do is make it very dangerous. And until the West is going to wake up and realize that Islam is serious about our downfall, there will only be more demonstrations like we’re seeing now. But more importantly, until the Church realizes that she needs to present the Gospel to a group of people who think it’s righteous to die while killing infidels, their culture of death will never change.
The secular world has no answer for Islam. Christians should.
