I learned today from an internal employee newsletter that Jack Hensley, who was beheaded by Islamic terrorists in Iraq this week, had, until February of this year, been an employee of the Austell, GA post office. He had resigned from his job as a rural carrier associate (a substitute carrier) after working there intermittently since 1997. As I thought about that I thought of the many RCA’s in our office and how it could have been any one of them. And I grieved for Jack and his family.

But before learning that, I was horrified as I watched the video of his beheading. I had debated whether or not I would watch it and in the end decided I needed to be reminded again the horrific atrocity inflicted on these victims under the guise of the Muslim religion. This is available on the internet and I would warn any one who might think they wish to see it to steel themselves for the horror.

Yes, I know. These are radical extremist committing these acts of terror, but there is apparent complicity in the Muslim community both abroad and here in the States. While Parvez Ahmed, a board member of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, writes about the condemnation of the Muslims for those committing these acts, they must be doing so in silence.

We do not hear of their horror and condemnation of these acts, while news conferences are held to protest the denial of entry to Yusuf Islam, alias Cat Stevens, aka Stephen Demetre Georgiou. Of course there were no concerns expressed regarding Mr. Georgiou’s alleged connections to radical Islam.

In Mr. Ahmed’s article I found it interesting that he says condemnation of these acts by Muslims is preceded by “bone-chilling hate mail.” My question is, “why wait for the ‘hate mail’ to spew forth before issuing your condemnation?” Perhaps Americans would be more sympathetic to your cause, not to mention your religion, were it not necessary to force a response from you.

And it’s not just the killing of Americans that bothers me. These terrorists, in the name of Allah, are killing nationals from many counties. There have been 140 foreigners kidnapped to date in Iraq. Of that 26 have been murdered. In addition to that hundreds of Iraqi citizens have been kidnapped or killed by terrorist bombings. While it seems the Muslim Council of Great Britian is coming out to call for the release of Kenneth Bigley who was kidnapped along with Jack Hensley and Jack Armstrong.

So what’s wrong with Muslims in America? Are they afraid of taking a stand against terrorism? Or do they agree with them?

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