Islam's propaganda targets our children

Recently I wrote of the obvious parallels between World War II and the current war against terrorism.

One of the things that disturbs me the most is how so many Americans could have sat back during the late 1930s and early 1940s and watched passively as Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito spread a wave of tyranny across the globe.

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How could the good and decent people of this nation just sit back and do nothing while the Axis war machine was slaughtering millions of innocent people? We looked the other way, and evil won – for a while at least.

While I'd like to believe that we wouldn't repeat the mistakes of history, an experience in my own house recently reminded me that we are not that far away from Hitler's concentration camps.

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My son, C.J., and I were watching a recent episode of the FX television show "30 Days" that involved a born-again Christian from Charleston, W.V., (named Dave) who is sent to live with a Muslim family in Dearborn, Mich., for 30 days.

Dave is extremely uncomfortable doing this. He believes firmly in Christianity and holds the religion of Islam, and most Muslims, in low regard as a result of the Sept. 11 attacks.

After his "30 Days" immersed in the Muslim community of Dearborn, Dave comes back defending Muslim moderates. During that month, Dave prayed five times a day to Allah – he's extremely conflicted about doing that – but in the end agrees with his host family that they "agree to disagree about the foundation of Islam," but all of them agree that moderate Muslims are getting a raw deal in America.

The leadership of CAIR – the Council on American Islamic Relations – couldn't have scripted the episode any better. By the show's end, my son was feeling terrible that the poor Muslim families were being painted with a broad brush of being terrorist sympathizers.

C.J. viewed Muslims as the victims of a world that had unfairly lumped them together with an isolated handful of violent men who were an aberration to the otherwise peaceful religion of Islam.

And it is certainly true that not all – not even most – practitioners of the Islamic faith are terrorists.

But this ignores the fact that practically every anti-American/anti-Israeli/anti-Western terrorist is a Muslim!

The show never once bothered to point out that it is not Swedish Lutheran women who are blowing planes out of the sky. It didn't point out that it was radical Muslims who strap bombs to their bodies and walk into cafes and restaurants with the intent of killing or maiming as many innocent civilians as possible.

And most revealingly, it did it not show Muslims working feverishly to extinguish the growing militancy within their religion. To the contrary, it showed a clip of the Muslim family explaining how Islamic terrorism had some marginal justification.

It is the acceptance of Islamic terrorism by Muslims, even by those who say they personally would not commit violent acts, that makes so many Muslims complicit with the deaths of so many victims of terrorism today.

What a cool mosque!

This is not the first time my son has been indoctrinated by the "Islam is the religion of peace" crowd.

When he was in the seventh grade, C.J.'s class took a field trip to the Marin County mosque that American Taliban John Walker Lindh attended.

As a mother and a conservative activist, I was obviously none too happy that my child was being subjected to a liberal education system that was once again forcing upon our children a left-wing political agenda. If a school were to take a field trip to a Christian church to better appreciate Christianity, the school would be sued by the ACLU, the principal would be fired and the school board would be recalled.

But today in America you can take a class of children to the mosque that fed a radical Islamic agenda into the mind and soul of John Walker Lindh.

I drilled the imam about the ideology of hate that obviously had consumed Lindh and pointedly noted that he had to have obtained such ugly beliefs from places like this mosque.

This only served to anger the imam and many of the parents who had gone on the field trip. They considered this a rude and hostile gesture toward a man who had invited us to be their guests to learn more about his faith.

I was now the anti-Muslim witch, and my son was humiliated.

In subsequent days C.J. would endure more grief from his classmates, many of whom had been told by their parents that I was launching into racist, anti-Muslim diatribes on the morning radio talk show I co-host in San Francisco.

If only these liberal-minded parents had bothered to listen to what I was actually saying.

John Walker Lindh, like so many others who have gotten caught up in the militant ways of radical Islam, was not someone caught up in the wrong place at the wrong time.

He had left the United States for Pakistan to study Islam and soon after became a jihadist, joining a militant Islamic group that fought for control of the Kashmir region between India and Pakistan. Then he left to join the Taliban's fight against the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan.

The Taliban had seized control of Afghanistan as part of a military campaign to install a radical Islamic regime in the nation. In fact, after seizing control of Kabul, the Taliban renamed the country the Islamic State of Afghanistan.

Lindh didn't just join the Taliban; he knowingly became a foot soldier for al-Qaida, and he swore an allegiance to jihad and to battle all of the enemies of Islam.

This is the "religion of peace" that the Kumbaya crowd is so ignorant about.

A message to my son

As a mother, I now need to figure out how to best get through to my son.

A lot of mothers and fathers need to find a way to make sure that our children understand the need to stand up and fight the threat posed by Islamic terrorism.

Sixty years ago our nation clung stubbornly to our isolationism. We tried to dismiss the potency of the fascist threat and assured ourselves that it was only a small problem.

Our nation didn't want to believe the reports coming out of Europe that a massive campaign of genocide was being waged against the Jews, or that the Japanese were on a murderous rampage through China. So we told ourselves it wasn't true.

Today our news media, political leaders and education system are teaching my son's generation that the threat of Islamic terrorism isn't true.

And my son and so many of his peers want to believe in that fantasy. It's up to us to teach them otherwise.

My son loves me very much. We have a close, loving relationship. But I know in his heart that he believes that Muslims are getting a raw deal.

I plan to share this column with C.J. tonight at dinner. I hope you'll do the same with your children.

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