Does anyone else feel as though they are living in two separate but parallel worlds? Like Popeye used to say, “I know what I know!” A recent article by a well respected blogger who conducted a non-scientific personal poll of one hundred people who were asked if they knew what Sharia Law was. Only seven people, seven out of one hundred, had a clue. More than seven years after 9/11 only seven Americans have bothered to learn anything about the religion of those who savaged our nation and our defenseless citizens?             

   Pearl Harbor was famously declared a “day that shall live in infamy” by then President Franklin D. Roosevelt and yet that was one nations military attacking our nations military. That day of infamy resulted in about 2,350 persons killed; all but 68 of them were military. Yet, on 9/11 we lost about 3,000 citizens, the vast majority of which were neither armed nor part of any military or police organizations. In other words these were unarmed, unsuspecting men, women, and children who could never (except in the twisted “religion of peace” known as Islam) be considered any real threat to anyone.

   As despicable as Pearl Harbor certainly was (it should be remembered that the Japanese government had attempted to deliver a formal declaration of war just before the attack) the reality was that the element of surprise, especially by a smaller, weaker opponent has often played a significant part in many wars over the past several millennium. 9/11 was vastly different. Does anyone know why? I sometimes feel that if I were to undertake my own poll on this matter that it would certainly not be surprising to find that only about seven out of every hundred Americans would understand, let alone know, the significance between an important event such as Pearl Harbor, and the tragedy that was 9/11.

   President Ronald Reagan, like so many Republican presidents during the past fifty years or more, was once asked a silly question by a silly liberal reporter as to whether or not he had a “plan” for dealing with the Soviet expansion of the times. In typical Reaganesque, his reply was both short and to the point when he replied, “We win. They lose.” Only a few years later he would be proven right despite the school house chuckles from the liberal journalists of his day.

   I recently saw a video of an interview of Allen Keyes, a conservative Republican who had run against Barak Obama for the congressional seat which Obama would eventually win. Keyes was speaking with another liberal reporter (is there any other kind left today?) and when Keyes indicated his serious doubt as to the status of Obama’s birthplace, an important consideration for anyone running for the highest elected office in the land, the reporter actually, and rudely, laughed out loud at Keyes suggestion that Obama may not meet the constitutional requirement of the office to which he has now been elected. I don’t remember the exact words but Keyes, in my humble opinion, stayed remarkably cool and seemed to challenge the rude reporter to explain to him how a bankrupt nation could print and borrow trillions of dollars it doesn’t have and can’t possibly pay back to buy itself out of bankruptcy without serious consequence to be paid in the not to distant future. I doubt the reporter ever lost the smirk on his face but the point is that I bet Mr. Keyes would understand exactly what I mean about two parallel worlds. It is as though I interact with other apparently normal human beings in my daily life, but when I start talking about the state of our great nation, they suddenly don’t seem to have been living in the same world that I have been.

   When the conversation turns to Obama’s latest “awesome” speech, or his next trillion dollars spending package, and I mention the Iranian nuclear threat, or the ridiculously obvious double standards applied to the tiny besieged state of Israel, all I get are blank stares or hostile comments. When others are griping about the unemployment rate and the cost of a college education and I ask them what they think about the assaults on our first and second amendment rights, they either walk away in disdain or insist that there “is never any reason to offend another human being or to take another humans life.” I can’t help but secretly hope that they meet some predatory criminal type to realize that they might want to seriously rethink their earlier statements. A dose of reality usually works wonders.

   Israel honestly and wrongly, in my opinion, tried to trade land for peace with its homicidal neighbors and completely withdrew from Gaza in 2005. Literally, within days they were being attacked by snipers, suicide bombers, mortars, and rockets that have continued to this day. Israel constructs a tall wall to protect its citizens, especially its children from the snipers; and they are internationally condemned for their inhuman “atrocities” and the violation of the Palestinians “human rights.” They erect check points to control the flow of whom and what enters and exits the Israeli-Gaza border, going to extraordinary lengths to accommodate the many external (and even internal) “human rights” groups. They built a hospital near the Israeli side of the border which was designed to aid Palestinians who are ill or injured, when the hospital was much more needed by Israel’s own citizens in the heavily bombed town of Sedrot, while Hamas is butchering its own citizens but of course Hamas is consistently portrayed as the victim.

   As long as the thousands of rockets and mortars were being launched into Israeli cities by the “peace loving” Palestinians, there was no serious international condemnation of Hamas. Israel finally took the long over due military action to protect its citizens and President Obama then promises another $900 million dollars to the poor victimized Palestinians and their elected terrorist government of Hamas. As if that wasn’t bad enough, President Obama quietly signs a presidential order paving the way for tens of thousands of radical Palestinians to immigrate to the United States! I believe many Israelis would understand the concept of parallel worlds and those who don’t are to shell shocked to think about much of anything.

   Our nation’s government has failed miserably to protect our borders from the millions of unknown and undocumented illegal aliens flooding into our nation along with, it must be assumed; Islamic terrorists bent on the further destruction and death in America and against Americans. Yet we watch as an American rancher is sued for the second time for trying to protect his ranch from the destruction and loss to his livestock, property, and sense of security for his family. Not because he considers himself some kind of Rambo personified but because his government has failed to protect him from the tens of thousands of illegal aliens that have crossed his land over the past fifteen years or so. Think the claim that “tens of thousands” is a bit much? The Border Patrol has confirmed that this lone rancher has captured and detained more than 12,000 illegal aliens which he has single handedly turned over to the Border Patrol. I bet he would understand the concept of parallel worlds.

   Or the case of the Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who has produced a short internet film called Fitna, and who is now charged with violating his countries hate speech laws for simply showing passages from the Islamic Quran, and then showing the violence perpetrated around the world by the so called “fundamentalists” of this joke religion. Shortly afterwards he was invited to Britain to show Fitna to some members of the British parliament but was subsequently banned by the British Home Secretary. Mr. Wilders was then detained at the British airport and unceremoniously placed on the next plane back to Holland several hours later. Mr. Wilders has not called for the death of all Muslims but simply asks that the same so called “hate speech” laws be applied equitably to the supremacist and hate filled passages of this so called “religion of peace” calling for the death of non-believers, those who try to leave the religion of Islam, the imposition of Sharia Law, and the subjugation of all non-Muslims under the barbaric rules of the 7^th century religion that is Islam.

   Mr. Wilders, far from being a racist (Muslims like Christians, or Buddhists, share a common belief in a religious ideology and are not of any particular “race”) or a hate-monger, is bravely trying to highlight the danger of allowing a free peoples most intrinsic right of free speech being subjected to the totalitarian beliefs of intolerant nations and so called religions. Islam after all literally means “submission.” He has worked under the constant threat of death and imprisonment so that the rest of the so called free-world will take notice and start to stand up to this most insidious assault on all freedom loving persons everywhere.

   I am quite certain that Mr. Wilders understands the concept of parallel worlds, don’t you?