By James F. Buckley

During one of his many recent homilies devoid of common sense and facts, Obama labeled the United States one of “largest Muslim communities in the world.” Despite the maddening mathematical absurdity of the statement, it points to a twisted turn of the tide in world affairs, and one that we’d like to ignore but can’t.

If you hadn’t noticed, Islam is in vogue, in style and on the march. History proves that the more it grows, the more chaos we all should expect. Islamic nations, so proud of their self-proclaimed special brotherly bond, hath a lousy track record with getting along with the world, and for that matter getting along with itself.

Remember the Iran-Iraq War? To be fair, this was not religious at all. Iraq was as secular as it gets. Iran, however, had always been a stalwart of the Muslim faith. And it was them who pulled children off the street, sending them as human waves of shields of death on the front lines of many battles. Allah Akbar, God is great, indeed.

This was prognosticated and many moons ago by our one and only Good Book. Upon the birth of the little lad who one day would spawn Arab and Muslim nations and lands, God said he would be a wild hair of a man, his offspring waging war against everyone, and draw blood by the bucketful from his very own (Gen.16:12).

God knows, and history proves, that nations operating under Christian creeds have had fairly major problems of their own. But close examination shows it was a rejection rather than embracement of the faith that brought the problems on, the Civil War and its slavery divide perhaps being the greatest example of all.

– Jim Buckley