Islamic Clerics:

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Although the radical Islamic terrorist attacks have increased in the last year and I keep hearing and reading that Islam is a peaceful religion, I have seen little in the way of Muslim clerics coming forward to vehemently denounce these acts of murder.

I would like to ask a question of the leaders and practitioners of the Islamic religion. Does it say in the Koran that when a young man dies in the act of killing non believers, even though they are innocent, non combatant women and children, that he will go to a paradise and have seventy or so virgins at his beck and call throughout eternity?

If that is in the Koran it certainly disapproves the theory that Islam is a peaceful religion. If it is not why would it not be your duty to come out and inform these young men that what they are doing is not sanctioned by your writings and there is no male dominated heaven and that only death and eternity await them when they strap explosives on their bodies and kill people who have done nothing to them.

It seems to me that the Muslim faith is trying to have it both ways now, claiming passivity for the religion and failing to denounce those who, if it is peaceful, are defiling it.

Isn’t the fact of the matter that an element within the Islamic world has gone berserk and totally out of control of everyone except the most radical mullahs and leaders like Osama Bin Ladin and the Al Qaida?

Isn’t it true that the Muslim world cringes in fear just as much as the non-Muslim world does when it comes to these murderous loose canons? Haven’t the attacks on Islamic countries and Islamic people proven the fact that these people have no conscience against murdering their own brothers and sister if they think it will further their cause?

Isn’t it true that these radicals are a thorn in the side of mainstream Islam?

There are millions of gainfully employed, tax paying, hard working Muslims living and thriving in America and I find it hard to believe that they would like to see their way of life destroyed.

If that is the case where is the outcry, where is the indignation, where is the patriotism to your chosen country?

Let’s hear some long and loud cries from the Islamic community denouncing, in no uncertain terms, the acts of murder and mayhem being carried out around the globe by the radicals.

It all boils down to this. Either the terrorism is a part of mainstream Islam or it is not.

You either condemn it or condone it.

You either fight it or support it.

There is no middle ground here. There are only two sides to be chosen. You are either with the terrorists who want to destroy everything free people cherish or you’re with the people they are trying to destroy.

I invite every peace loving Muslim to come and join us in our fight.

Choose soon.

Pray for our troops.

What do you think?

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

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But your stereotypical Uppity Eastern, (or Western, for that matter -- we can't forget the left coast, can we?), extremist liberal thinks that Country Music and the good folks therein are just a bunch of hicks, and that George W. Bush invites them to the White House ONLY because he needs to carry more of the South, where the dems have traditionally held a lot of political clout.

God Bless,
Dan'L