The Imminent Threat

       On the news daily one constantly hears updates on the status or perhaps progress of gay marriage in the United States as well as the western world. The media often reports about Obama, Congress, and the steady bickering occurring back and forth between the two. The Christian church, it's followers and their struggle for their right to follow the Bible not secularism. And let's not forget the celebrities and their many affairs. But there is one big news topic that the media often mentions but much of America simply nods in response. This news relates to the same major event that occurred more than ten years ago on America soil. The event woke America up from her seemingly endless partying. The event that caused her to fly across the world and decimate once seemingly invisible warriors of terror, bomb to extinction a once powerful dictator, as well as send troops to navigate around hidden bombs. But after more than ten years news of relentless violence, death, and destruction has caused many of her citizen's to tire and some even yawn at the mention of her enemies.
      While reading and perusing online, as well as conversing with strangers I often received the message that the war is over, countries like Iraq and Afghanistan should be able to fight their own wars, US needs to worry and take care of herself. Why can't Iraq, or Afghanistan take care of themselves?, is a popular question mentioned online. Well, looking at the reality of what is going on around the world with ISIS, Boko Haram, Al Qaeda in Yemen, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Taliban, Hamas, Hezbollah, and there is so many more one would need a book to make room for them all. Not only are there so many of them, they are located all over the world. There are of course many Muslim terrorist organizations in the Middle East, northern Africa. Then we also have numerous terror groups in Western Africa, Eastern Africa, Eastern Europe, The Western Indies, France, Germany. Many Americans think that Islamic fanaticism is just a problem for certain parts of the world but don't realize that there are several of the so-called "lone wolves" located all over the country as well as Canada and our buddies in Great Britain. Reluctancy has created a plethora of safe havens in this country and other parts of the world as many Americans as well as nations still don't view these fanatic Islamic groups as serious threats.
       Part of the reluctance deals with the fact that a high majority of the western world are ignorant of the history of Islamic followers' wars against the western world as well as the Middle East and Africa. They believe that these conflicts all began with Desert Storm, popularly known as the first Gulf War. They don't realize that the western world has been fighting wars in the Northern Africa/Arabian Peninsula part of the globe since War World I when countries like Britain, France, United States, and Russia fought against Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire which was partly made up of what is now Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Palestine, and Syria. Germany is not enemies of the US and Britain anymore but the territory making up what once belonged to the Ottoman Empire is the same area where most of the these Islamic groups originated from. ISIS covers Iraq and Syria. Al Quaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is active in Yemen and Saudi Arabia. Al Qaeda in Yemen claimed the attack on France's Charlie Hebdo that slaughtered 17 people. The Ottoman Empire also ruled in places like Somalia and Jordan countries known to have terrorist groups. Somalia is especially known for being occupied by Islamic rebels. It is here where America fought the Battle of Mogadishu, famously nicknamed Black Hawk Down.
      One can even go as far back as the 1842 Afghanistan Massacre when Britain was forced to retreat during a battle in which only one Britain soldier survived. This battle occurred during the First Anglo-Afghan War. A war that would be followed by the Second Anglo-Afghan War as well as invasions from Russia. These wars would superseded much later by the Gulf War, 911, and the War in Afghanistan. In between those wars took place the Biafra War in Nigeria where the Federal Military Government, consisting mostly of Muslims from the northern region of the country, tried to commit genocide against the Igbos, made up mostly of Christians who resided in the southeastern part of the country.
       History teaches us that there is a great feud, much strife between the western world and middle eastern part of the world. And within this feud more importantly is war composed of Islam against Christians, and pretty much anybody who does not want to follow Islam. This feud did not just begin with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. These bloody conflicts occurring for hundreds of years are not going to end by simply training foreign soldiers, sharing military equipment, and intelligence. This war is not going to end by announcing sanctions against various leaders and governments. And if Obama, the US government, as well as her people believe that they can sit this one out while allowing these countries across the world fight their own battle they better tune into history. Look at what occurred in World War I, Mogadishu, and 911. Look at what happened in France with the brutal murders against the Charlie Hebdo artists for drawing cartoons mocking Muhammad.   Just recently a terrorist attack was thwarted in Belgium. The source of the attack stems all the way back to Iraq and Syria. Again the same area of the world where countries from the west have time and again faced countless battles and attacks. No the war is not over America. The battle of Islam against everyone else rages on and on while world leaders refuse to admit that Islamic fanaticism is more than just a bad habit of a few.
       The religion that Islam is more superior than everyone else is more than just a belief held by a minority. Look at the growing Muslim population in France, with conflict after conflict slowly rising to what may become a future civil war. France over the years has allowed people from all over the Middle East to settle their lands while not respecting the country's inherited laws and tradition. Currently the population of true blooded French people is being rivaled by the number of citizens originally from countries like Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. There is nothing wrong with allowing immigrants to reside in one's country but even if a fraction of these people do not respect your country's laws and tradition then even a powerful nation could face a crisis comparable to prolonged takeover. France will need to review her laws of immigration. The two brothers who murdered 12 people at Charlie Hebdo are of Algerian origin (Bora, 2015).
       Citizens of France are in the process of debating how their country should handle the influx of recent Islamic citizens living in their country. Britain is stepping up immigration checks, good idea, in their country (Croft, 2010). The United States and much of the western world is still debating with the terms "terrorism", "equal rights", and "tolerance".The sooner leaders like President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron have the guts to call a duck a duck the quicker this problem can be taken care of once and for all.

Reference

Bora, Kukil. "Charlie Hebdo attack: Funerals for killers held in Pakistan, while victims are honored
       in France, Jerusalem". International Business Times, 21 Jan. 2015.
Croft, Adrian. "Britain raises terror threat level to "severe"." Reuters, 22 Jan. 2010.

It's Freezing 2015

       Yes we are at it again. Another season with frigid weather. Since constantly being drilled by all the global warming hype I have paid close attention to the weather outside, especially around the winter time. Since the theory clearly states "global warming" and it's faithful persistently speak of the earth getting warmer year, I expect to physically feel the earth actually grow warmer. It has not happened yet. Again I have been disappointed by this theory that liberal media has assumed to not only be a fact but pretty much common sense. While discussing the topic on some online forums I have discovered that many of the global warming faithful even view nonbelievers as uneducated or ignorant. Amazing, how anytime one disagrees with liberal media they are often affixed with such labels. But is there anything wrong with one desiring to think for him or herself? Must we all nod our head yes every single time professor so and so graduating from so and so university tells us that blah, blah, blah is fact even when within our minds we know that dude is one hundred percent in error?
       Just like the evolution man evolving from an ape deal I want proof? Not pretty pictures illustrating Iceland resembling Hawaii. I want to actually see Iceland with continuous 80 degree weather during the middle of winter time. I want to see the Upper Peninsula of Michigan feeling toasty in the middle of January or perhaps weather the entire freezing month without snow. I want to experience three straight years of warm winter in Atlanta, Georgia. Imagine a city located in the deep south, a supposedly warm area of the United States having thirteen degree weather with a wind chill advisory. Earlier in December of 2013 the weather dipped down to as low as 27 degrees which is pretty cold for the deep south and this happened twice. 28.5 inches of snow were dumped near Fulton, New York, 23.5 inches near Watertown, New York. . Cars have piled up against each other because of heavy snow covering well travelled roads. Freezing rain and sleet are forecasted for the weekend and next week for parts of the South and the East. Does not sound like global warming to me.
       The consistent response by global warming enthusiasts to questions concerning the constant cold weather America keeps receiving is that the collective data of recent weather temperature is much warmer if looked upon as a whole than what it was hundreds of thousands of years ago.  They say that the earth has been warming since 1880, most occurring since the 1970s. Global warming believers also point to warming oceans, shrinking ice sheets, declining arctic sea ice, glacial retreat, extreme events, ocean acidification (as the result of humans increasing their release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere), and decreased snow cover. These scientists are making big assumptions regarding this big earth from data collected within the past couple of hundred of years. No one knows what the weather was like in 200 BC or 900 AD. For all we know the weather could be have been much warmer then. And looking at the earth being at least 6000 years old 1880 is too recent to be making large predictions regarding current and future weather patterns. There could be many reasons for the shrinking ice sheets, declining sea ice, and glacial retreat that we humans living here on earth simply do not understand. Again we do not know the level of the ice upon the world back in 2000 or 3000 BC. Who was there to tally up such information? Anyone who will  make statements regarding the level of ice was 5000 years ago is simply guessing. They are making a big assumption that their data must be correct. I am not able to believe such assumptions because I don't see how they qualify to equal actual factual data. These scientists cannot clearly prove that their numbers are clearly correct. Their numbers and data are base on faith. Faith that this planet is billions of years old and was much colder than it is now. Again who was there to establish that such information is one hundred percent correct? Where is the actual evidence?
       Unfortunately these scientists don't receive much challenge in the world in regards to their numbers because people who disagree with them are usually discounted immediately. They are assumed to be ignorant, Jesus Freaks. Well looking at the situation clearly since the evidence is not tangible one has to have faith in the Climate Change theory in order to believe that it is correct. And even if it is true that the weather is getting warmer we here on earth do not know whether or not the earth is going through a cyclical pattern. Maybe the planet routinely rotates from periods of cold to hot every so many hundreds or perhaps thousands of years. Remember "the ice age". You don't hear about that theory anymore but I remember the media mentioning it often when I was a child.
       Scientists in America, the US government, media needs to look into this climate change theory and do a thorough, unbiased study into the world's weather pattern. Unfortunately, America is often ruled by a pattern of whether or not its leader(s) is a democrat or republican. Depending on the party the leader(s) must abide through this strict means of thinking and problem solving which as a result deprives the country of much needed independent cogitation. We have a president who will stand behind Global Warming not because of any kind of significant evidence providing us with proof of its actual existence but because he is a Democrat and it is a rule in the US that Democrats must support and encourage Global Warming. Such floundering, follow the blind mice type of thinking can create an atmosphere of arrogance mixed with much gullibility. A bunch of people believing that they hold something of great knowledge who are only fooling themselves. Sometimes intelligence is having the courage to simply admit to what one does not know even if it will appear somewhat embarrassing.