Muslim Extremism & Radicalization - A threat to America

Shame and Deception - Our Presidential candidates are not so presidential in conduct

Shame and Deception – our political candidates have reached a new low - without exception, all are guilty of these acts.

Looking at the current events and how our world has changed and evolved around politics and religion, I don’t know if there is a point of reversing what and who we have become. I mean, there is something profoundly wrong with America as it stands today, divided, fragmented and changing in so many bitter ways.

All those running for the office of President threaten to make it worse. They have, collectively, managed to increase the hate and fear inside America towards epic and gigantic proportions. They have accomplished nothing but spread hate, lies and religious blasphemy as well as creating deliberate delays of political pandering within their own parties. Every threat they deliver makes it worse for the rest of us to bear such intolerance and hate.

All candidates have been revulsive and tempestuous in character and nature. Each of them have taken the low moral road to sell their souls and name to the public and beg them to casts votes for them. It is indeed, repulsive and un-characteristic of any nobility in name or character.

All are seeking to be accepted by the moderates of society and the extremists of race baiting and religious persecutions. They have no appeal to those who still believe in equality for men under our Constitution. This relationship of dividing ideologies has divided our nation.

This fighting and bickering will get nothing done for the good of America except to destroy it from within. Each and every one of them are solely responsible for the hate, fear and biases they are spreading and making assertions that their action would make America great again.

None have experienced or delivered any real achievements – none with no exceptions. Every one of them have engaged in theology instead of patriotism and basic American ideologies rooted in our communities and homes.

None have expressed specific concerns on creating hope for peace, jobs and unity amongst the people instead of war, hate and fear. America has to push back and find better candidates. Even the least of the evil is the worst for the job. If we are to have a chance to avoid war, hatred and discrimination, we need to find another candidate not on the stage today.

They all deflect the blame and accept none of it for themselves. They have delayed their plans in fear that it would be unpopular or unrealistic under the current climate or political wishes of the country. In other words, every one of them are cowardice in their roles and presentations.

Those who do speak, spoke without the political knowledge how to do such things – they are shooting off the hip and hoping that the spraying of words will hit someone or something strong enough to take hold. Unfortunately, the only thing spewed so far is hate and distrust of government and those who work for it. 

Each are pandering to who they believe to be their favorite audience whether rich or poor, they prefer the rich to raise the money they need to endure the campaign financial stressors. They have yet to appeal to the average citizen, the military veterans and the students who know more than they lead us to believe as they study the left and the right for better ideas or imperfections.

Their speeches give me visions of allusions to radicals and not the average person. None are promoting or developing trust in each other as a nation but rather chose to divide us all based on race and religion. Each candidate has dug deep into their bags of tricks and their words are codes for different meanings.

Whatever it is they say, it has an exactly backwards meaning. None can be trusted and none will rule the country with any soundness or justice for the people and offer sound leadership. It looks like they are imitating each other but use different words.

 

Muslim Math - A minority can inflict mass destruction

Two Poker Player - both "all-in" a high stakes game

Two Poker Players - both are Losers

Showing they are” all–in”

Today, America is at war – we are at war in Iraq, Syria and likely in many other places not yet declared officially by our President or our Congress. It seems to be a pattern of inexcusable misconduct by the administration and Congress. We have allies who are reluctant to participate to the fullest and we have Russia joining the cause to satisfy their own needs and desires on NATO’s side of the world.

Why are we at war? There is no good reason for our men and women to be fighting on foreign soil for foreign oil. That needs to be addressed and a withdrawal should be planned. We have ISIS as an enemy and Israel as an ally – Somehow, I think the two are related in some ways but it’s hard to tell because everybody is lying about the war and how it started and how it is funded.

Which brings us home – where the tension between Muslims and Christians have elevated to epic proportions. Soon, we will be fighting a Christian Crusade on two sides of the world with one inside our country. What caused this mess – our government and their corruptive deals with corporate greed and world lust for power. Maybe if climate change was real, we would have a reason to dispute but not be at war.

President Obama has turned his back on the USA – the USA has turned its back on good old values and the country is now deeply divided. There are choices but nobody wants to make them including the next president elect who will be selected, not elected. The sounds of silence are deafening. The writings are on the walls.

Iraq will never be united as long as the Kurds fight the Sunni – the Sunni will never be in control as long as they can’t compromise and stop fighting century old enemies that include those financing their enemies.

Saudi Arabia is raping the region with their cruel and brutal Sharia laws and other countries shall soon fall. Syria will fall but Iran will be there to catch it. ISIS will be there to take the spoils and make a deal with Russia and Iran while Turkey remains rich, as it keeps dealing oil under the table to keep their politicians in power and riches.

At home, we have a poker game between democrats and republicans. None appear to be winning and all appear to be losing the confidence of the American people. The deck is stacked. One side wants more boots on the ground in Syria and the other opposes it. Mixed motives for all the wrong reasons.

Obama is bluffing and he is stalling to end the poker game – Trump has shown he is no deal maker and a heartbreaker as he destroys basic human values with his words and promises deeds unlike anyone before. High stakes with nothing to win and standing to lose everything we have today.

All are denigrating the office of the President, including the sitting president. America has no Commander in Chief and the world is watching. So while the President does nothing to win this war, and Trump does everything to destroy our abilities to get along with each other, the world keeps turning waiting for the USA to fall and go broke in this high stakes poker game in DC.

California Gun Logic

Terror and the No-Fly list –

Why banning guns can’t stop Radicalized Muslim Attacks

The entire country is in an uproar about the latest failure by Congress to approve the “no-guns” bill based on the FBI’s “no-fly” list that has many ramifications when you look at how it is compiled and put together. Setting aside the fact that Americans are not ready to sign over their constitutional rights to own a gun, this method of identifying gun terrorism is deeply flawed and would not have stopped the San Bernardino mass shooting.

However, California has decided that this is a proposed legislation they can live with and want to pass it into their already strict gun laws. The senators, representatives and the governor all feel safer knowing that if you can’t fly a plane, you can’t own guns.

The logic escapes me by a longshot but I can’t think like a politician. Owning a firearm should not be curtailed by random or arbitrary decisions based by the FBI. This list has approximately 47 K names on it and so far, none of the shooters involved in the past were on that list. The correlation that California lawmakers are referring to is mythical and unreasonable but they will do anything in the name of gun control including blaming Arizona and Nevada for their state laws concerning the ownership and sales of guns.

Thus the ‘can’t fly – can’t buy’ laws are now under consideration by California and I am certain, other states that engage in such limited thinking on gun control. The problem- the list is not accurate and draws fire even from gun control activists throughout the country. It’s that bad.

This collaboration of creating such a list defines ‘secrecy’ and incompetence as a vastly overbroad mechanism that manifests gun bans in its purest form based on rumors, and acts that could not be proven to be true or accurate. This list consists of names of ex-military, publishers of left-wing and right wing extremists, priests and nuns who have expressed resistance on immigration and human rights issues, journalists and Greenpeace and Green party affiliates.

An interesting fact revealed in a 2007 Department of Justice audit revealed half of these people listed on the no fly list were wrongly included and if this can happen to them, it can happen to you and reduce your abilities to travel unrestricted and ban you from owning a firearm for any reasons as this list is created based or applied on no actual basis or aspects of facts and your lifestyle. It is profiling at its best without a justification to do so.

The bigger problem is a more philosophical one: if you apply the no-fly list to guns, to what else can it be applied? Slippery slope arguments are slippery things, but in this case it’s a reasonable question to ask. If the no-fly list can be used to remove constitutional rights, there’s really no limitations on ways it could be used to limit other activities.

Are you ready to give up your Bill of Rights to our government's discretionary decision making? I didn't think so yet, you are willing to let them decide who flies and who can own or purchase guns based on a flawed methodology.

A Coming Constitutianal Conflict ? yes, I think so

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President Obama Punked out American Muslims

How Obama’s Terrorism Speech Has Punked out Muslims in America

One of the main aim of doctrine of rational thinking on gun control is to limit the access of guns by American identified as ‘high risk’ by government officials. Unfortunately, just the opposite event occurred after the weakest intonated and mind-numbing speech came out of the President’s Oval Office directly related to the San Bernardino mass shooting was to focus on more gun control.

It appears now that gun sales are soaring all across the country as many Americans come to believe that Barack Obama and his Democrat cohorts are coming for our guns. Adversely, the President has become the most prolific gun salesman in the country after Sunday evening’s speech.

The mere mention of legislative changes, executive orders and other harder methods to buy guns including the high capacity type of firearms, has set off a firestorm of gun buyers nationwide.

Since Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving Day, gun sales have been soaring. This increased exponentially after the mass shooting in San Bernardino and now still, Americans are shopping for firearms.

In the meantime, American Muslims are at the edge of irritation and disappointment in their leader. He has punked them out by telling them to snitch off those suspected of extremism or radicalization.

In so many words, his request to “root out” and confront extremist in their communities is pitting Muslims against each other with severe mixed feelings and emotions. Some say, this might help but many say this will divide the religious persecution already in place.

One person said, "We would never ask any other faith community to stand up and condemn acts of violence committed by people within their groups," said Palestinian American activist Linda Sarsour, who has worked extensively with the Black Lives Matter movement and other minority groups. "The fact that this is only directed at the Muslim community is something that I personally can't accept."

The president has crossed lines without realizing how his words were perceived or received by the American public, gun buyers and Muslims. Pitting Muslims against each other is morally wrong and puts them at conflict with their own ideologies and trust within their societal circles.

Religious agreements are normally sanctified and confidential and empowering or enabling Muslims to snitch off other Muslims will create conflict and inner confrontations amongst the Muslim followers and leadership.

Any reasonable person can see how this ties into the relationship between law enforcement and the community if the Muslim community is expected to deal with a different relationship with cops than anyone else in the community.

 

Slippery Slope and Watershed moments in American Politics on Muslim Terrorism

Slippery Slope or Watershed Moments on Muslim Refugees coming to America

 

After reading my article on infiltration and radicalization, one has to admit, there is a watershed moment on ISIS coming to America via the refugee programs proposed by our president. Gaining access to such travel visas should allow more terrorists to enter the country and since this political football airs on the slippery slope of American compassion and kindness towards these victims of war, there are dangers lurking in such programs which would allow America to be invaded by the enemy.

Neither the Homeland Security nor all the president’s men can deny the chance or risk of terrorists using American efforts to welcome and house thousands of Syrian homeless refugees into our country. The House Homeland Security Committee Chairman, Michael McCaul said, 

 

 

"I can reveal today that the United States government has information to indicate that individuals tied to terrorist groups in Syria have already attempted to gain access to our country through the U.S. refugee program,"

He added, “That was very courageous for them to come forward with this to tell me about this personally given the political debate on the Hill with the Syrian refugee bill," McCaul stated in reference to a briefing he says he received from intelligence sources.

According to Representative McCaul own words, this “asserts that the threat from ISIS dwarfs previous Islamic terrorist attempts against America, saying the group is "now more dangerous than al Qaida ever was under Osama bin Laden. I believe the state of our homeland is increasingly not secure.”

"I believe 2015 will be seen as a watershed year in this long war — the year when our enemies gained an upper hand and when the spread of terror once again awoke the West." McCaul warned that the war has indeed come to America. From my standpoint and the viewpoint of many others, including law enforcement, the San Bernardino was not an isolated event or a lone wolf situation. There is both guidance and leadership in this inspiration to expire American citizens.  

Today, there are many small groups of terrorists on the offensive, working to deploy operatives or active shooters to all our communities and infiltrate essential government services that would allow them to commit acts of violence. This includes the manufacturing of explosives as well as gunfire into our innocent public areas such as malls, theaters etc. and create high peril for major sports events to be exposed to terrorism.

McCaul, said the FBI is investigating "nearly 1,000 homegrown terror cases" across the nation and that most can be traced to Islamic radicals - "Already, federal authorities have arrested over 70 ISIS supporters in our country," McCaul said.

ISIS-affiliated terrorists have been tied to 19 "terrorist plots or attacks” in our country. Like San Bernardino, these terrorist plans include mass shootings, mass murder and detonation of explosives in major cities and landmarks throughout the United States.

This refugee program, if approved by the mass numbers indicated, will be a cause for great concern as it serves to expose America to a virtual and real opportunity to assault our way of life and give many terrorists an open politically sanctioned portal for many of these violent plans to destroy our way of life and terrorize us day and night.

Reference:

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/mike-mccaul-visa-refugee-terrorism/2015/12/07/id/704884/?ns_mail_uid=41680858&ns_mail_job=1645694_12082015&s=al&dkt_nbr=bkybe4wp

Focus on Infiltration Not Radicalization of Muslims American or Foreign

Focus on Infiltration Not Radicalization

Based on the past history of Muslim terrorists’ cells and knowing that terrorists are being radicalized in places such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria and many other places, our citizens have been worrying about the wrong priorities when it comes to terrorism and the national security of our country.

Most citizens already accept the fact that peaceful Muslims can be radicalized by extremism. What they want are government assurances that there is no possible way for American Muslims as well as foreign Muslims to become an unstable element in our government and society. To carry this threat one step further, the infiltration does not have to be performed by a Muslim, for it can be a spouse or relative or sympathizer to the cause of Islam converted or radicalized.

Mr. Syed R. Farook was a health inspector. He had a government job and access to government buildings as well as public buildings such as colleges and K – 12 schools. In addition, he had access to many restaurants in the San Bernardino County area. His ability to move around unrestricted was basically unlimited in the nature of his scope of work as a health department inspector.

Now that it has been exposed both Tashfeen Malik and Farook were radicalized, America is worried about radicalization when in fact, they should be worried about infiltration. Regardless how the FBI resolves this mass shooting, this couple had access to heartland America through his job. His mission was easily accomplished merely based on his occupation and access to various areas within the county.

Infiltration is easy – all these men and women have to do is acquire a skill, trade or occupation with the military, police or government and gain access to sensitive areas vulnerable to terrorism. Because our laws are designed to such a fact we must not discriminate, this opens up more opportunities in safety sensitive areas including security, law enforcement, transit and airline positions. The list is endless.

The second element of this infiltration is their ability to acquire or gain access to government identification cards to gain access to weapons without any restrictions. The fact is, if someone is on a mission, there are no boundaries for them to overcome under our social and justice systems as designed. This creates an open season on terrorist-endangered Americans.

To reduce infiltration, Muslims or American Muslims must police themselves in order to avoid being radicalized by extremism or individuals who have a “death wish” against America.  This requires an entirely different honor system than the one they are used to as Muslims – they must in fact be taught to snitch off each other if suspected of a crime or extremism.

America must rely on family members, neighbors and co-workers to detect infiltration and covert work to undermine the safety of our communities. This means noticing different behaviors, ideologies, and hints of changed mindsets that focuses on carnage rather than healthy reasons in our societies.

We, as Americans, have to rely on the Muslim community to report their own to avoid terrorism. There are means established for reporting suspicious behaviors or activities but the social cult does not allow free exchange of information without severe consequences by their own as treason towards their own religious members or targeted by law enforcement to cover up potential crimes.

At the moment, such self-reports are the most reliable means to prevent a crime or act of terrorism and is not yet firmly established to be the right thing to do by fellow Muslims who hesitate to report their own as they must live in the Muslim community as a tight knit group due to social pressures and religious demands.

It would be unreasonable to report someone who has become radicalized by another group or extremist who is co-existing within the same culture or ethos group and who has adopted this radicalized ideology in the name of Islam. Yet, the truth is, if this is not done, people will die needlessly and more hate and fear will be propagated in this community. Hate and fear spread causes mistrust and alienation.

The Muslim community cannot risk such fragmentation thus it is likely they would not report anyone of such infiltration or radicalization. It’s a common sense concept we all understand – peer pressure and social contagion of such extremism is silently controlled and not shared outside the mosque or community. That is a fact we have to deal with today.

The answer to domestic and foreign terrorism relies on the Muslim communities, American and refugees, to accept this responsibility to police their own. They must accept this responsibility if there is to be harmony and trust in our communities.

We can work on identifying Islamic terror attacks coming from outside our borders but the greatest threat is the infiltration and destabilization of our infrastructures that keeps our communities safe and orderly.

  

American Muslims Deserve Respect - video

The Vapors of Violence

Vapors of Violence –

On Earth, unlike it is in Heaven, we all feel pain and suffering. Although most experience this suffering and discomfort at different levels, none of us are immune to these vapors of violence and feelings that awakens us to the highest levels of emotions and consciousness.

 We all want to fight this feeling but hardly even know exactly how to do this without inflicting more pain or suffering. Violence is manifested from many various forms of inhumanity, it thrives on mankind to be cruel to each other and so far, has accomplished much of this through decade lasting wars and terrorism. These fumes or war and terrorism surround us daily and feeds the very substance of hate and violence.

 

Once you understand that these vapors, fumes of concentrated sufferings are a direct result of wars and terror driven by hate and fear, then you understand the collective form of anguish and agony which the world is now experiencing – a global pain and suffering that seems to have no end in sight.

 Dead Man’s Justice –

Violence is not merely the act of hate or fear related actions – it has tangible and intangible consequences. One might associate violence with the killing of others, whether innocents or guilty, but violence is more than that – it’s words – sharp, harsh, toxic and cruel worlds.

Words that may make a gesture to destroy someone’s humanity, mere existence or justify the act that triggered the violence. Once we understand what violence really is, the better we can find the truth of why violence occurs.

 Mankind has used violence in words or acts in the name of God, Allah, a prophet or a nation, a society, a group or a state and country and the list goes on forever. Violence is organized butchery and more often than not, a dead man’s justice.

  An Inversion of Suffering and Pain –

There are those who walks amongst us who do not feel the complete consciousness of pain and suffering. They have no longer the ability to feel or be sensitive to the suffering around them. Their callous ways often prompt us to wonder if they are man or robot but the fact is, some can’t measure or define pain or suffering.

 This immunity to human sensitivity is dangerous. It changes characteristics and behaviors drastically and sometimes, without a warning. This inversion of emotions turns into a perversion to inflict pain and suffering.

 Whether this inversion is an awaking concept or an unconscious transition is debatable by law or religious meanings of such behaviors but one is for sure – each aspect of our life is quantified, justified and determined on what your values are. If you live with negative values, your life will be filled with negative conduct, actions and consequences.

 On the other hand, if your values are positive, they fulfill your purpose in life and allow growth of love and understanding rather than the inverted hate and fear causing suffering and pain.

A Breeze of Violence - A Shield of Consciousness –

We have all been there – we have all been tempted to stray away from the inverted effects of pain and suffering. Whether we pretend or deny, those emotions, thoughts or collective forms of conscious awareness are always there and it takes a ruthless and brutal act to diminish those human emotions.

Normally, this is called a breeze of violence pending near us or around us. Thus we trigger another thought of ‘fight or flight’ and deal with the mechanisms of self-defense or some other moral justification that naturally deploys around us as a shield against these negative or hateful influences.

The stronger the shield, the more protection it gives you from evil sources targeting suffering and pain. It may start with annoyance from a friend or family member, a stranger or a group or organization; regardless, one or many can propagate emotions to an extreme to set you off.

This is compounded by disrespect, violation of your human rights, mere insulting or arrogant behaviors and other nuisance activities which escalate into a frenzy of hate, distaste or fear of more malicious related propagation towards your soul, heart or mind.

This is where the mind and heart needs to remain clear and rational – any other mental awareness levels work towards distorting the truth and reality and gives way to extremism or radical thinking. It is this shield to protect you against the propagation from the extreme messages that is instrumental to your own resistance of negative polarity thinking.,

 The propagation of hate is a powerful energy –

The suffering of the masses often translates into fear and violence. Individuals are dealing with deeply rooted social and political emotions that create positive and negative polarities with the chance of the negative infliction being so severe, it triggers more retaliatory or vengeance emotions.

 This is powerful enough to attract masses to a common cause or conflict., it is highly possible this is the trend that creates the trespass of justice and law and order into a space where time has exponentially exasperated the suffering, the pain and requires a reach into the dreadfulness of war, conflict or encounters.

 It is the conscious awareness that needs to track these sufferings and keep it in perspective as much violence today is based on the illusion that life or property (rights) are to be defended with counter violence and death if it need be, as they are now beyond the point of sharing their lives or property with those offending parties. This defeats all manifestations of non-violence and overrides all forms of common sense.

 In fact, it elevates the use of violence to commit the right to do so contrary by law or by societal approvals or norms. It creates a new group that claim to be non-violent but in fact commit violence in order to achieve their goals in life.

 A hypocrisy rarely seen from within, it stands out when you stand outside the circle of passion and notably often ignored or denied. Violence occurs when people start to transform beings into objects and measure other beings’ right to exist according to their own needs or desires. This evolution of thinking has now developed into a though process directly related to the cause and instill an emotion of revolution.

 Every Living Being Experiences Suffering –

hen life is good, ethics are clear, workable and comprehensible – when life is bad, a man’s ethical ways are reversed or turned into such a way that makes them believe these things in life are sacred to him and only to him and unwilling to share this with the masses.

 He purely devotes all energies for himself and a few chosen entities and neglects the needs of others in life. This upsets the balance of mankind, the environment and nature.

 Respect is disregarded and greed takes over. No longer willing to share life with others, they seek to control and dominate those around them, the environment and nature. One must be aware that such an absolute control is nearly impossible to maintain over time, and has negative consequences in the end.

 The high road is the only choice for mankind, yet they choose to ignore it when under the spell or mask of mass pain and suffering, justifying their means to take a low path rather than the higher one.

 There is death involved whenever mankind refuses to share and although we are all conscious of these so-called sacrifices; we chose alternatives that incense the suffering with more suffering.

 A vicious cycle history has repeated taught us. Therefore, instead of lessening the pain and suffering, they add greatly to the collective suffering of our world. It is clearly revealed that when ethics takes a turn to the worse, mankind has lost all compassion in all directions while losing its roots to humanity and disengages himself or themselves from the living around them and limiting their energies to only themselves.

 There is no denial there is human suffering throughout the world today. We cannot overlook the fact that many are people suffering in many diverse ways whether physically, mentally or politically, being persecuted or impoverished or just under the influence of tyranny and oppressive governments.

 The collective mass suffering the pain is the perpetuation of violence in this world. There are so many, there are no faces but ironically, if humanity would take the time to task themselves with resolving this pain and suffering, these faces will have names and end up creating a lesser burden of vapors of violence while reducing the suffering of many.

 Human mistreatments, wars, hate and fear created the need to cure these collective diseases in our lives. In order to end this perpetuation of violence we must address this mass cloud of suffering by wars, disasters, epidemic or other causes. The more we work on the cure, the less suffering and pain in the world. It is true this challenge is global and diverse in content.

 Violence has become the first reaction to pain and suffering as it lashes out to blame someone or something for the pain incurred. Sometimes, it grows so fast and so big it cannot be stopped in time as it influences a whole society or country. It can touch groups of people that know each other or not directly or indirectly.

 Hence the only cure possible is to bring the suffering in closer to where you are, live or exist. It begins with each of us to be more conscious of our choices and to actively participate in the alleviation of the suffering of others.

 

A Muslim Satire - Food for Though

Being pro-Muslim had developed a bit of a favored status these days in American government. It appears the President is hell bent on devoting all his remaining time in office to promote Islam and the influx of Muslim refugees swirling that concept around to inundate our country with such religious people.
He has launched a full blown campaign to promote their wellbeing and bring them over here to the USA to re-settle and give them ample opportunities to re-establish their own culture and practices within the realm of our constitution that would give them equal rights as non-citizens and a voice in government as time goes by.
With a little help from other democrats, he has accomplished a public relations campaign that is now in full swing to bring these refugees over here with shoddy vetting or background checks to expedite the process for the 2016 election year.
No one would be more delighted to see Muslims take root of the USA than Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton. These two are staunch followers of the Muslim culture and embrace their resettlement efforts 100 per cent even if this move has radical overtones or consequences. In the meantime, the President has ordered Loretta Lynch, the US Attorney General to prosecute those who criticize Islam and the Muslim groups coming to America as refugees.
Omitting the Christian refugees and bringing nothing but Muslims is the panacea of the plan. While others think it is bad idea, our commander in chief has already decided this is the way of the future for our country.
The President and all his men are itching to change culture and turn our country towards a new direction that would embrace Muslims over Christians and allow them to all kinds of fulfilment while stifling the Christian growth and restricting their practices. Islam will be the proper religion for mankind in the USA as well as spread out globally by other allies in Europe and Asia,
The president is driven by much more than the usual political compulsions: His has invited all Muslims as his own personal spiritual guests.
Being the custodian of these paradisiacal ideas he has assumed complete control of the process through banning weapons sales, changing immigration procedures and overriding Congress in every turn that opposes his plan through a process known as the liberal imperium to flood our country of foreigners practicing the Islam faith. What survives are the slaves to Islam and a cautionary tale on the perils of religious fanaticism.