Life Matters - March 18, 2026
What do Leftism, Socialism, and Islamism, have in common? Besides all being ‘isms’ and all being in opposition to Christian morality and values; that is? The Left is the driver of LGBTQI+ and DEI ideologies. Islamism hates them all, at least in vehemence. Socialists are inactive Communists whose founder said of religion that it is the ‘opium of the people.’ When Karl Marx said those words he did not specify any particular religion, by which omission we may safely conclude that he was referring to them all, including Islam, which is a religion. Howbeit a religion used as a Trojan Horse by Jihadi Muslims, who employ Leftism and Socialism to get within the walls of western societies, to establish political power, sharia law, and political fear; a religion driven by politics. To spread what Charlie Kirk called ‘Islamism’ and I’ve come to refer to as ‘Jihadi Islam’ by which we both meant and mean the sect of Islam that spreads and expands its territory through fear, oppression, chaos, confusion, and the sword. We do not say that in a vacuum, as the number of former Jihadi Muslims willing to speak out increase, even as terrorism spreads out it’s tentacles across the globe. Those speaking out include, but are not limited to, the son of a Hamas founder of that particular organ of terrorism.
‘’When the axe came into the forest, the trees whispered, ‘the handle is one of us.’” The ‘trees’ continue to whisper. Even as the chopping axe rings through the forest. And the prayer calls of Islam rings through city streets. The five times a day (with some limitations) calls for prayers to Allah are heard in Minneapolis, MN, Hamtramck, NJ, in a handful of Canadian cities, in Spain, France, Germany, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Sweden, in England, and possibly others that I have missed. Mosques have gone from rare to being common in many European and Scandinavian countries. The Americas have become home to many more.
This is not an attempt to demonize the Muslim people, of whom there are approximately 2 billion worldwide as of 2025. Rather it is an honest attempt to face the facts. As one ex-Muslim warns – if only .01% (as claimed) of Muslims are terrorists – that still means the world has 2 million Jihadi Muslims terrorizing ‘infidels’ to ‘convert’ through chaos and ‘the sword’ as per Koranic teachings. Most Muslims, thankfully, are not terrorists. Iran, for one, however, has been a country training terrorism into children from school-age on. They have been successful in many cases. Iran, being oil-rich, has also been a major funder of terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah, Hamas, Al-Shabab, ISIS, Boko Haram, Al-Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood – its organizations, and others. According to Wikipedia, the tactics employed to terrorize, include kidnappings, sexual enslavement, public executions, and suicide bombings, with followers urged to use guns, bombs, vehicles, knives, or a combination of methods to increase casualties.
These tactics were traumatically used on October 7, 2023, when a group of Hamas terrorists breached the border between Palestine territory and the rest of Israel at dawn – first attacking unarmed civilians at a Nova music festival and then numerous kibbutz (farming) communities, killing over 1000 people and taking several hundred hostages. The attack may have had some twisted moral logic in terrorist-twisted minds, but if it did, what followed destroyed all logic, even the twisted.
One survivor of the Nova attack, Tali Briner, testifies to hearing sexual assaults followed by single gunshots while she hid in a small camper on festival grounds. Women being raped and then killed. She heard the blood-curdling screams of women for sometimes what seemed to be 20 minutes accompanied by pleas of no! stop! followed by a gunshot. When Tali finally dared to emerge, naked bodies lay on the ground, young and old, men and women, some with objects inserted into their bodies.
If that traumatizes you, yes, it does me as well. How much more the actual victims. Trauma is the purpose of terrorism. Trama for those upon whom it is perpetrated as well as upon those who hear about it.
My purpose here is not to perpetuate any trauma nor to spread fear and disdain for Muslims, only to help raise awareness. Many Muslims are sincerely in brainwashed circumstances. Many are waking up as one might emerge from a dream. Or a nightmare, whatever the case may be. Many are blinded by comfort, ease, and incredible wealth. Many are hearing Jesus – learning to their amazement that God is relational, relatable, knowable – and through Jesus Christ, forgives their sins! Through a contact in Greece we hear of God revealing Himself to Muslims in miraculous ways. The people sitting in darkness seeing great light. (Matthew 4:16) Spiritually hungry Muslims finding our seeking Shepherd.
Still, Jihadi Muslims, (in other words, those who live closest to the words and deeds of Muhammad) believe that chaos and confusion are more desirable than living in subjection to ‘infidels’. Being intent on overthrowing all things not Muslim they find ready suckers among Leftists and Socialists who seem to want a different outcome but still take advantage to promote their own ungodly agenda with Jihadists doing the dirty work.
War is not pretty. It is ugly. Trauma is also a part of war. But when this war is over and the curtain is pulled back we may see a stage set for the preaching of the Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. In Iran. That is beautiful!
Life Matters!