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But at the end of it all, when all is said and done and the final second has ticked away, each want his or her team, not the other team,\u00a0to win.\u00a0 And that is Islam.\u00a0 A faith that has been marked by radical expansion from its beginning, and one that shows no signs of giving up.\u00a0 So many Christians have been told that evangelism is a wicked thing, and proselytizing a great evil, that in many traditions, the attempt to convert others and bring them into the Christian fold has all but dried up. <\/p>\n

Islam has no such feeling of intimidation.\u00a0 At the end of the day, there is no God but Allah, Muhammed is His prophet, and the world must submit to the will of Allah, the Creator God.\u00a0 That\u2019s about it. Most no doubt reject the evil done by Muslims, especially when it\u2019s done to other Muslims.\u00a0 But that\u2019s some heavy smack that Muslims are not going to compromise.\u00a0 Those few who are willing to embrace the critical liberalism of the West are so few, and their voices weakly joining a dying culture, that their impact is negligible at best. <\/p>\n

So facing this onslaught from a movement we will not admit to, you have people attempt to stand up to it by this:<\/p>\n

Yeah.\u00a0 It\u2019s that embarrassing.\u00a0 Again, we are Rocky at the beginning of Rocky III<\/a>, darting our eyes about and looking down at the floor in the face of terrifying Mr. T.\u00a0\u00a0 The saddest part of it is, we refuse to admit it\u2019s what we are doing.\u00a0 At least Rocky understood he wasn\u2019t ready to face off with Clubber Lang.\u00a0 I still think we Christians in the Dying West imagine we\u2019re popping off some seriously wonderful, enlightened ideas that will bring that 1.6 billion member religion down to its knees in awe and wonder.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"